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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: warrenss2 on December 12, 2009, 03:13:41 PM
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For when you want a wooden fence in your zombie town.
http://www.amazon.com/Wood-Coffee-Stirrers-1000-Count/dp/B001FVPAOE (http://www.amazon.com/Wood-Coffee-Stirrers-1000-Count/dp/B001FVPAOE)
I'm going to make a few and will post the pictures when I'm done.
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These are indeed perfect for the purpose of fencing.
They are also excellent internal stressing and formwork for nissen and quonset huts.
With the right set of nippers they can be used to create wooden roofing tiles
Don't order them from Amazon unless you have little choice. Just find a coffee shop that uses that particular type of stirrer. (I know several in Wollongong which is a long way from South Carolina.) Chat up the amazingly beautiful barista who serves you every morning and - hola!- you can get hundreds of them for nothing. You have to pay for the coffee, though. And the service is compensation enough.
Starbucks and Gloria Jean do not make coffee, by the way. They make black drink which is a wholly different substance. Amazingly beautiful baristas are always worth the search.
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I have been getting a lot of the 7 inch coffee stirrers from Starbucks. Whenever I get my 55 gallon Mocha Frappachino (spelling?) I explain that I'm a railroad modeler and use the stirrers for fences, docks, small house, etc...
They give me a fist full every time.
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in this case, I'd rather see hitting on the barrista as the main dish ;)
allthough, mentioning the modelling stuff might not be the best idea in this case...
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In Canada, there's a store called 'Dollarama', you can pick up a fairly big bag for........................$1
:D
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You truly want to make me run to the Great White North!!!! ;)
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You truly want to make me run to the Great White North!!!!
Sure, March is a good time to come up:
http://www.hotlead.ca/
It'll get you away from all that humidity!!
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March is a good time to come up - I just might take you up on that!
These coffee stirrers are also good for piles of lumber laying about my upcoming zombie town business... The Morning Wood Lumber Yard.
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March is a good time to come up - I just might take you up on that!
It's definitely a good weekend, and we'd love to see you. Having been to a few of the major cons I can say that Hot Lead is great gaming. It may not be as big as Fall In but ther games are quality.
These coffee stirrers are also good for piles of lumber laying about my upcoming zombie town business... The Morning Wood Lumber Yard.
Best name ever! :D
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Best name ever!
I wish I could take credit for coming up with the name of my lumber yard, but I cannot. :?
I found it on the web.
http://people.delphiforums.com/flatbushskp/funnybusiness.html (http://people.delphiforums.com/flatbushskp/funnybusiness.html)
http://www.ottiesdesigns.com/funnybusinesstshirts.html (http://www.ottiesdesigns.com/funnybusinesstshirts.html)
I also plan on having a Martial Art's Dojo called "Hu Flung Dung".
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My son gets a MacD's every saturday as a treat and I get a pocketful of those lovely wooden stirrers as payment for having to visit the bloody place lol
I've got enough materials ready to build several feet of fence so far ;)
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Never seen these in the UK, maybe I'm not a seasoned enough wargamer.................. :(
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Party and restaurant supply stores carry them sometimes too! There's a restaurant supply store near my house where I picked up four boxes of them so I can build to my heart's content!
By the way, I purchased the Chopper II (http://lighthousehobbies.com/CatalogDetails.aspx?id=14206), does a great job cutting small wooden and plastic parts, like coffee stirrers, kind of pricey, found a cheaper model here (http://www.micromark.com/CHOP-IT,9547.html), but not sure how well it works.
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I've been looking at those choppers. But for right now my hobby knife is going to have to do the brunt of the work. :?
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Found some in MacDonalds tonight, they must get fedup of modellers. Now off to find those large lolly sticks..................
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Now off to find those large lolly sticks...
What are you up to, Joroas?
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They seem handy for bases for fences.........
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They seem handy for bases for fences.........
Good thinking - now to make the boy eat hundreds of iced lollies lol
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They seem handy for bases for fences.........
Now why in the hell couldn't I think of that?!?!? :?
Consider the idea stolen! ;)
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The wood stirs are good for making spoke wheels and such for wagons. :-)
Grimm
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but You don't need to ruin Your teeth for some spoked wheels ;)
how comes that fencing (the thing about separating open spaces) is the same word used for the swashbuckling sport with the blades?
I could have clearly mistaken the topic title
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Hehe already have a load of these coffee stirrers made up as fences just need to get some balsa for posts.. Got all mine from that hell hole known as IKEA just shoved a load in a handbag... ;)
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just shoved a load in a handbag...
Yours?
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this is a perfect excuse to hit on someone ;)
outside in the parking lot:
"excuse me Miss, I just used Your handbag to steal coffee-stirrers. Can I have them please?
Oh, btw, can I buy You one?" ;)
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Take your wife and then you can dump them in her bag, I did............
I may look in a chemist for tongue depressers, they may be the big lolly sticks I'm looking for.......
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Rymans the Stationers sell the big lollipop sticks/tongue depressers in packs of 50 for £1.49. They also sell the small lolly sticks.
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The dollar stores out here in the northwest USA all seem to carry fairly large bags of wooden sticks in a number of sizes for a dollar.
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Popscicle sticks are 2xs thickness of coffee stir sticks and much wider. To get the stir sticks to a scale width for fence slats or boards, you may have to split them. I used thin styren plastic sheeting cut thin and then assembled my fencing. Long sections, short sections and knocked down sections. Heres a link to a standing section
http://armoredink.blogspot.com/2009/02/here-i-have-grouped-some-more-around.html