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15 February 2011

Is it Junk or is it Gold

As gamers we are notorious for saving every and any interesting little bit we find with plans on using them at a later date either as bits of scenery or additions to a miniature. Some perfect examples are Pringles cans for use as storage tanks or towers, electrical bits and bobs from broken VCRs/DVD Players to help fill out Sci-Fi scenery, etc... In the picture in my last post you will see some of the clutter from my many WIP projects. If you look close you will also see a prescription pill bottle. That is the primary reason for this post. While most people might look at it as a possible storage tank or similar terrain piece I have found a different use for it. I use them to hold old blades from my x-acto style hobby knives, brush cleaning tanks (I keep one in my Army Transport case along with a couple brushes that have had the handles cut down and some paint pots of basic colors such as Black, White, Gray, Brown, Red, Blue, etc... and some brush on sealer for quick on the go paint job repairs), mixing pots for paints (the lids of the bottles), and spare bits (Heads and Arms for the Wargames Factory Zombies, weapons, etc...) that can be used for quick figure repairs (granted they may not be painted until later, but if you say drop the figure and the head that you had to attach breaks off you have some extras that you can quickly glue on as a quick fix).

I have found using the prescription bottles for the old x-acto blades works real well, especially since you don't have to worry about them laying around on the desk where you can accidentally stab a finger or cut yourself when cleaning up. They also allow you to throw the blades away without worrying about them being lose in the trash where they could slice the bag open or work their way to the sides and cut someone who handles the trash bag.

I am sure theres other uses for the prescription bottles that I havent listed.

4 comments:

  1. I concur! We gamers really have a lot of sh... erm stuff that we often never get round to use. But this is mainly because we are that creative through the hobby. We see different uses for things. I think there is nothing wrong with being a packrat like this. Often when me and mates get together, one of us will spot a thing one of the others have saved and get an idea, which will be used!

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  2. If you want to clear out your bits box, build one really big thing. I had a lot of...stuff, then I scratch built an Ork Stompa! (I copied my GW one, execpt it ended up a bit bigger) I don't have anywhere near so much stuff now :)

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  3. I actually don't have a lot of bits per say, since most my minis are all cast as one piece metal, the few that are cast in multiple parts are either different head options (Reaper Chronoscope Frank Russo), different hand options (Reaper Chronoscope Mira, Post Apocalyptic Heroine), or multiple parts with now extra options (the two Infinity figures I have). The only other multiple part figures I have are the Wargames Factory Plastic Zombies, I do have a couple of loose weapons but these are a couple of Space Marine Bolters which look way out of place with my Modern Day figures.

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  4. Ever since I started zombie gaming a massive bits of shit box has started but it comes in useful.

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