"Do You Use Pipe Cleaners?" Topic

Do you use pipe cleaners in your wargaming?

I make hedgerows for my WW1 air games with em. Work great!

No

I use them in 1/600 aircraft games and with 1/1200 ships to denote smoke trails/screens

Yes …

They make nice figure markers.
They work well for certain terrain bits.
And, let's not forget skunk tails for orcs.

Would that be a Skork or an Unk? Onk?

I use them for cleaning my airbrushes?

No.

Sometimes use them to mark troops dug in.

Yes, to clean my pipes as I enjoy my port.

I'm actually a bit infamous for them.

Stinger coming up to meet a Hind.

V/R,
Jack

Just Jack, I love those missiles!
I used to use pipe cleaners a couple decades ago, different colors and cut up into smaller pieces, as various markers for casualties and morale status. Still have 'em but haven't used 'em for many years.

I use them as damage markers in 1/300 air games, smoke, fire end engine damage. In my Johnny Reb ACW games they are all but mandatory for charge, casualty morale etc.

Terry

I've bought a pack, after seeing those in use.

Haven't "used" them yet though.

Not recently.

Never have.

Made some nice vineyarfs with them!

As mentioned, hedges in small scales, as "toothpicks" to denote casualties and such. I've been looking at getting a range of colors and using them to denote declining strength on single-stand units, but I'm still hoping to find some other way out of that problem.

I have some in my scenery box, to make some pink "elbow root" obstacles for Pinkfluffdoodle IV, but I haven't quite finished yet.

I actually use pipe cleaners to clean my pipes.

I use them to denote artillery zones in 6mm, and also to mark fired ATGW's, although not as elaborate as Jacks nice ones.

Nay.

Only for cleaning

No

Have used them for years to mark stand losses and morale status on units.

Yes, in most of the ways stated up thread – Except
for cleaning pipes…

I started using them last year after seeing how Just Jack uses them.

I use them in naval wargames to mark smoke trails by destroyers.

We used to use them when we played Command Decision to denote states of morale.

No

I use nylon ones to clean some parts of my airbrush, and cotton ones as missile markers:

Occasionally. But the proper name for these is now "craft stems".

I use tapered ones for rockets with smoke trails and as hit markers in air games (cut a section, fold one end, and it will clip over the wing of a 1:300 scale aircraft).

The main use I have for pipe cleaners is cleaning my pipes – I can't imagine using "craft stems" for this!

Casualty and First Fire markers in Age of Reason.

I have just ordered some to make missiles for X-Wing, I plan to recreate the Ventral batteries from a star destroyer, and the batteries on Starkiller base, I had a go at doing the cards for them too…

I intend to use the pipe cleaners on spare bases, and move them like ships – I think this would make an interesting addition to X-Wing games, trying to avoid missiles while fighting the First Order ships too!

I use them as musket smoke markers in ECW games. I would use them as damage markers and missile trails in air combat or space combat games. I have the WW1 aircraft need to finish the rules.