Free building materials from Ikea

[Hammers]

Sweden, Sweden, Sweden...!

[6milPhil]

Apologies about the long rambling thread, but I thought some of you might want to find free materials.

We'll have none of that young fella m'lad, namely because it's interesting and some of those shapes would drive you mad if you decided to cut them out en masse.

Can you be more specific, and no doubt repeat yourself, about which items this style packaging comes with please?

Mrs Me is a keen IKEA shopper - typically it's our mutual bribe for each other, I spend on gaming -she spends at IKEA. BUT I've yet to see any packaging like this, it's all been styrofoam and plastic bags... but then it's typically been lumps of furniture... 

[fastolfrus]

No worries Phil.

You need to go into the pictures & picture frame department.
Look for the (large-ish) pictures and frames that are generally stood in big cardboard boxes becaise there are too many to fit on the shelf above.

Look in the bottom of the boxes.
The plastic bits aren't in all of them, some have carboard spacers, some have nothing at all, but pictures and frames that are about 3/4 inch thick tend to have a better chance.
They are easiest to see if the box has had some pictures taken out, and they don't cover the entire bottom of the box, just down the edges so that they act as spacers.

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The shapes would be almost impossible to cut manually, but they are really useful for mass producing fast terrain - we made a dozen 15mm WWII ruined buildings yesterday afternoon, including piles of rubble, texturing the base and painting, if we were manually cutting doors and windows it would have taken far longer (and cost more) although might have looked better, but our Stalingrad project needs another 56 generic ruins and 19 wrecked industrial buildings, so speed is of the essence.

We might have found another source today - will try to confirm tomorrow.

[fastolfrus]

I love that sort of ambitious project! Love it!

Are you any relation to Lionel Tarr who back in the 60's gamed Stalingrad? His WW2 rules appear in one of the early Featherstone books (with photos).

I think Lionel Tarr appeared in Wargames campaigns.
No relation, if I was I'd ask him if we could borrow his terrain.

As for ambitious projects. There are 188 terrain items needed for the game (although that includes a 20 foot run of rail track, and the grain elevator)

[fastolfrus]

Current plan is a big layout roughly 20 feet by 12 feet shaped like a gigantic E (so there are gaps to walk in).

When we did Arnhem last year it was a layout 4 feet wide at one end, 8 feet wide at the other, but 32 feet long.

[fastolfrus]

Fastolfrus
Jeezus H Christ!  You have koohanas of titanium! I cannot conceive of the effort it took.....respect!!

Luckily we don't use terrain boards at present, so moderately generic terrain isn't too bad. Although we try to keep urban and rural terrain "different".

There's a bit of info about the Arnhem game here :

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=11923.0

[fastolfrus]

We might have found another source today - will try to confirm tomorrow.

Found some similar, but much smaller frames in Poundland (and satarted new thread)