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Personal logo Grelber Supporting Member of TMP25 May 2021 7:59 p.m. PST

In my little corner of the USA, the cashier stands at stores have plexiglass sheets up to protect customers from staff with Covid-19 and vice versa. However, I've been told at several shops that they think the plexiglass will come down this summer. Now the guy at the tire shop is a model railroader, and he already has devious plans to latch onto the plexiglass shields at his store to put around his layout to protect it from little fingers. Even so, there will probably be a lot of unwanted plexiglass this summer.

This raises the question of what we could do with it for wargames. I already have some I made into cannister cones, more or less like the wire ones you see in The Wargame. Anybody have other suggestions?

Yes, I will probably want to spray the plexiglass down with Lysol or a similar disinfectant before using it.

Grelber

d88mm194025 May 2021 9:05 p.m. PST

Whack the guy across from you when you catch him cheating at your next game.
Disinfect afterwards…

Personal logo Old Contemptible Supporting Member of TMP25 May 2021 10:33 p.m. PST

You can put over a board game to protect the map and play on top of the plexi. That's what we did back in the 70s. We played AH's Luftwaffe and we would mark the cities that were bomb with a marker and the end of the game you just wipe them off. Don't know what you would use them for with miniatures.

Personal logo Parzival Supporting Member of TMP25 May 2021 10:50 p.m. PST

1.) Build a three-dimensional chess set. link

2.) Use it to create a "flight layer" for a game involving both ground units and air units. You'll need to make support posts, and will probably need a smaller tabletop size, put it could be an interesting game set-up.

4.) Cut it into bases, markers, etc..

5.) Make futuristic "glass" buildings or terrain.

6.) Go hog wild and buy a Glowforge, then laser-cut the plexiglass to your heart's content to do any of the above.

Personal logo etotheipi Sponsoring Member of TMP26 May 2021 12:54 a.m. PST

Buy them cheap/dumpster dive. Wait for the backlash spike. Sell for a profit.

Bob the Temple Builder26 May 2021 1:56 a.m. PST

Is COVID-19 winding down?

Where?

It isn't in India, and we are having spikes in parts of the UK of the so-called Indian Variant. It looks as if the rollback of the restrictions on 21st June might be delayed.

Winding down? It certainly doesn't look like it from where I am.

pzivh43 Supporting Member of TMP26 May 2021 4:47 a.m. PST

Well, it is here in US. Positivity rates are down, hospitalizations are down, deaths are down. Sorry it's not the same in your neck of the woods.

Choctaw26 May 2021 8:37 a.m. PST

Texas is 100% open and COVID has crashed.

Personal logo Herkybird Supporting Member of TMP26 May 2021 9:58 a.m. PST

Well, it is here in US. Positivity rates are down, hospitalizations are down, deaths are down.

Ah, just wait…..!!!

Woolshed Wargamer26 May 2021 1:03 p.m. PST

It will never wind down. Governments have discovered the perfect way to manipulate and control their people for the foreseeable future. I don't see them giving up any of the power they have now. What governments have ever done that?

Oberlindes Sol LIC Supporting Member of TMP26 May 2021 7:01 p.m. PST

I'm with Old Contemptible and Etotheipi. Two great ideas.

von Schwartz ver 228 May 2021 3:04 p.m. PST

Lets not try to compare India and the remainder of the world as regards health care, I mean this is country that still contends with Cholera, tuberculosis, and probably several other diseases that most of the the rest of us eliminated several decades ago.

von Schwartz ver 228 May 2021 3:05 p.m. PST

I'm with Brian Smaller

The disease was real, the remainder was largely a hoax. Some one referred to it as a "plandemic" which is an acurate description.

Personal logo etotheipi Sponsoring Member of TMP29 May 2021 1:23 p.m. PST

Actually, for a minis game, I have an idea that I haven't executed because of … money, time, lazy, etc.

Playing 28mm or 15mm on a 3'x3' or 3'x4' board, have a plexi overlay on above it somewhere between 18"-2'. Draw a 1/3 size box in the center of the plexi (1'x1' or 1'x1.3'). Play a 1:144 air engagement on top of the plexi in support of the 28mm/15mm game beneath. The small center box is "overflight of the battlefield", the only place where the two games can affect each other – CAS and AA engagements.

Oberlindes Sol LIC Supporting Member of TMP30 May 2021 8:31 p.m. PST

Great idea!

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