"cheap tie fighters" Topic

Always on the lookout for cheap or free wargame ideas I hit upon the idea of printing out x wing schematics on card and mounting on foam core for a knock-off home rules version of X-Wing. I have a Millennium Falcon using the same method. The problem: tie fighters. Here is my cheap version. A small wooden bead with a short piece of dowel through it. Panels of card, window printed on paper and glued to the front. Mount on a wire in a base. Total cost about $4. USD

Man … start here:

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Total cost: about the cost of printing one sheet in color, and maybe twenty minutes of labor.

I downloaded those quite some time ago. If I recall, you need tiny fingers to put them together.

For X-Wing's, I wouldn't bother with the dowel. Either glue the card to the round bead, or use a large bead, two smaller beads, and the card.

cool downloads! I'll check them out. These are for a school wargame class so the cheaper and easier the better

Try this, actual mini's for a decent price.
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cool thing about the paper ones you could run a game and smash them as the are destroyed – would be satisfying

For the papermodels – either hemostats or just some needle-nose tweezers will do to replace fat fingers. and the metal tools don't usually pick up so much glue (I've ended up gluing papermodel to finger trying to build without my tweezers)…