Galaxy Command
Missile Base
Making the missile base is similar to the Command section. You will need scissors, either some
Styrofoam or cardboard about 14” x 9”, some Elmer’s Glue or any adhesive that will
stick paper to Styrofoam or the cardboard you are working with, and some way to
cut the Styrofoam. They make commercially available cutters to do this with
that use heat to neatly cut the material. A glue gun will be handy as well. You
will need four wire connectors also.
Down load
and print out the Missile Base section. It should be two pages.
Cut out and
glue the printout together.
There are
two ways to make this terrain base. The styrofoam
base and the cardboard base. Both work equally well.
For Styrofoam:
I recommend
letting it dry before fussing with it on the Styrofoam. Cut along the sides of
the black roadway to the end of it. Do not glue this part down yet. Once it has dried, glue it to the material
and using your cutter, very carefully cut around the blue terrain base. Using
the cutter, and this is tricky, cut an angle under the
roadway so the road will slope down to tabletop level when the job is done. I
had re-enforce under the roadway with cardboard and it
turned out well enough. Once that is done, glue the roadway down.
Using a hot glue gun, put 4 wire connectors on the 4 “burner” like places
on the terrain base. This is so the rockets can be placed there and they wont fall over as easily when jostled. The wire
connectors should fit neatly up into the rockets, holding them in place but not
making it difficult to remove the rocket.
A Tom
Corbett Gravity Chamber goes on the large blue spot, but of course just about
anything cool looking will work quite nicely.
The cardboard version
is easier
to do. Just cut out the print out as before, glue it together, then glue it to the cardboard. Let dry. Cut it out in one
piece. Hot glue the 4 wire connectors to the red “burner” markers,
and you are finished. A lot less work than the Styrofoam
version and just as useful.
Heres my
finished Galaxy Command; the cardboard version is in the foreground, but
doesn’t have the wire connectors glued to it yet.
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