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Hi Paul, any progress on this, or has it disappeared into the depths of history?

Very nice! I can almost hear the old Buster Crabbe 'Flash Gordon' and 'Buck Rogers' spaceship sound effects.

...too heavy and you can't air transport it... "The vacc-heads give us a lift to local orbit, then we self-deploy when we're ready." When AG vehicles can cover everything from 'Ground Zero' to exo-atmospheric orbit, the line between "armored ground forces" and "air forces&q...

Scotaidh wrote: ...they're too fiddly, and have all kinds of boringly repetitive things - 27 road wheels spring to mind.

27 road wheels??

I wonder why you have difficulty with OOB models...

Here's a link to the sample art page for GT:Ground Forces - the fourth and fifth pics are the only useful ones for this thread, but there are plenty more pics in the book itself, along with 3rd Ed stats for vehicles (including grav APCs, field artillery and engineering vehicles...) http://sjgames.co...

Wowsers! Nice!

But where are you going to keep it when it's finished?

...and one is run by a guy that has no customer skills at all. He once told me that all County Employees were lazy and overpaid and should be laid off, I guess he didn't notice my County ID badge. Maybe he had noticed it and was trying to make a joke? Many times I've caused offence because someone ...

The tank is inspired by the tanks that fill the armored ranks of a GURPS campaign I plan on inflicting on my friends. Human science has had anti-grav tech for about 100 years, but with only limited real world applications. We can build starships with artificial gravity fields, but currently attempt...

Not ideal by any stretch of the imagination, but I've used an old cardboard box that a PC and CRT monitor came in - about 3' square - as a 'spraybooth'. We'd used it when moving house and one side had got punched open when something shifted, so it was no use keeping it for moving - all I did was rem...

Place some masking tape to the back of the PE fret. Place the fret on a flat, hard surface, face up. A piece of glass works. Using a rounded blade, place the blade next to the attachment stub, and roll the blade over it, applying moderate pressure. The tape will stop the part from going POING acros...

I've found some spiffy sounding automotive masking tapes in wide widths but they'll only sell them in case lots (and @ $13 a roll...). Why not pop down your local auto body shop and ask if they have any left over? You never know, if you can offer them a little financial incentive, you might get som...

As someone who's been into BattleTech since the early days with the folded cardboard standups, only one mapsheet design and twelve "official" 'Mechs (well, 13 if you count the Chameleon training 'mech from the rulebook), it has always amused me how the 'mechs are supposed to be about 10-12...

Most 'art' software is capable of scaling - things like PaintShop Pro etc. You might need to "cut" a section of what you have onscreen, then adjust the properties - with MS Paint you can change the 'paper' size but I haven't yet found a way to change the image with it - unless you count us...