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BlackWidowPilot Fezian writes:

Er, Bill…with all due respect, where have you been?!! LOL!!! We space warfare gamers have been using these for planets for as long as I can remember! But it *is* a cool quick and painless *Ice Planet* indeed!

Styrofoam balls of various sizes make super-easy-to-create planets, asteroids, moons, Death Stars(tm), and so on….packed away somewhere (probably next to your wayward Predator Mk. IV!!) is a *hyperspace gate* I've been building off and on from a styrofoam wreath foundation and wooden pre-cut shapes. Really the imagination is the limit here – as in all things miniature and spacefaring IMHO! ;D

Now what we really need is a $2 USD *convoy* or *cruiser squadron* and I think I have just the ticket…>;D

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net


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