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  • 19/04/2022 at 16:35 #171682
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    Back in the midst of time, I played a very silly WW2 naval game using marbles erasers, and squirt guns.  Now that the weather is getting better, I am going to play another similar game, of Pearl Harbor 1941.

    What, you say??!!! How can that be fun??? Ah, let me tell you. Hobbylinc. Com has 1/700 USS Arizona’s on sale for just 9.99 and so I bought 10 of them. I’m converting some to the other BB at Pearl Harbor as the correct models run around 45.00.

    So Marbles??? Erasers??? Squirt Guns???!!!!

    See my next post…

    19/04/2022 at 17:35 #171684
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    This sounds fun for a sunny day.

    kyoteblue wrote:

    …So Marbles??? Erasers??? Squirt Guns???!!!! See my next post…

    Simple:

    • Marbles to trip the opponent up when they are moving around the yard.
    • Eraser to ‘adjust’ your score sheet
    • Squirt guns have two ‘target’ keeping your opponent away while adjusting scores or to keep those pesky kids off the lawn / toys.
    19/04/2022 at 19:35 #171689
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    Close, marbles are torpedos erase’s bombs and squirt guns AA fire. I dye the water red with food coloring for the squirt guns and dip the tips of the erasers in it as well. More as I think of it.

    19/04/2022 at 20:56 #171690
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    You do realise you have re-invented the bouncing bomb???

    (I get my hat and leave now)

    19/04/2022 at 23:40 #171691
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    WOOT !!!! I was going to shoot the marbles with my thumb and fingers BUT!!!!

    20/04/2022 at 01:23 #171695
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    AA fire you have a squirt gun filled with water and red food color, They have a 1/72 model airplane they drop marbles as torpedoes or erasers dipped in the red dye to drop on your ship, you get to squirt them and if the dye gets on the model it’s a hit…

    20/04/2022 at 18:36 #171729
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    20/04/2022 at 19:31 #171731
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    I can’t see anything silly here at all… 😁

    More nonsense on my blog: http://battle77.blogspot.com/

    20/04/2022 at 20:32 #171734
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    I think it would be a gateway game for Kids… of all ages.

    20/04/2022 at 20:56 #171737
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    kyoteblue wrote:

    <p style=”font-size: 16px !important; line-height: 20px !important;”>I think it would be a gateway game for Kids… of all ages.

    Damit, I aged out of being ‘kids’ a long time ago but ever since my first scale model I had wanted to play with them.

    20/04/2022 at 21:59 #171741
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    I did say Kids of All Ages….ya know ya want to… All the cool kids are doing it…

     

    21/04/2022 at 05:37 #171747
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    I’m having fun converting the Arazona models into the other Battleships like Oklahoma/Nevada West Virginia Califonia and really converting a Utah as an AA training ship. Green Stuff is involved.

    25/04/2022 at 05:31 #171961
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    By the way, I will be running this game at Twisted-Lords Historical Gaming Convention this July 22-24th at the Sheraton Hotel/Reed Convention Center in Midwest City Oklahoma It’s cheap to get in and we will have dealers including Warlords.

    26/04/2022 at 18:09 #172013
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    Really like to see the various conversions. I can’t imagine how you’d do them aside from Nevada.

    26/04/2022 at 22:18 #172021
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    Most just have clipper bows and the lattice towers so I’m making the bows out of green stuff and just solid towers from the trees cause close enough is good enough for gaming.

    23/06/2022 at 00:11 #174972
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    Still working on this idea, just finished 6 Flush Deck DDs and 2 High-Speed Transports that started life as Fluch Deck DDs.

    23/06/2022 at 10:42 #174983
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    Take a line of Airfix warship kits, tie one end of a clothes line to the clothes pole, fix the other to a cleft wooden clothes peg, push clothes peg into ground beyond the row of ships in line with your chosen target ship, screw cup hook into top of Airfix plane, hook plane onto clothes line and release, AA fire simulated with air rifle, if aircraft survives intact stand at clothes pole, light “banger” firework, toss “banger” at target ship, continue until a) you run out of aircraft b) you run out of ship targets c) one of you loses a finger.

    Fortunately in our case the result was a)

    Your version sounds far more sane and safer!!

    There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

    23/06/2022 at 21:46 #174994
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    That does sound both inventive and dangerous…You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!!!

    24/06/2022 at 00:32 #174997
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    Mike Headden wrote:

    Take a line of Airfix warship kits, tie one end of a clothes line to the clothes pole, fix the other to a cleft wooden clothes peg, push clothes peg into ground beyond the row of ships in line with your chosen target ship, screw cup hook into top of Airfix plane, hook plane onto clothes line and release, AA fire simulated with air rifle, if aircraft survives intact stand at clothes pole, light “banger” firework, toss “banger” at target ship, continue until a) you run out of aircraft b) you run out of ship targets c) one of you loses a finger. Fortunately in our case the result was a) Your version sounds far more sane and safer!!

    Now that sounds an amazing game, one for all the family.

    Tally-Ho! Check out my blog at…..
    http://steelcitywargaming.wordpress.com/

    24/06/2022 at 20:23 #175045
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    Like I said it’s a game for all ages.

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