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Anyone who uses plastic display cases eg. Imex or the ones available from Daiso Japan, is there a polish you can get to arrest the formation of the matt finish on top? The slightest dust and that patch of matt seems to be there forever.

:) Good point but no matter what power source is used it will run out sooner or later,the thought of radioactive materials and other volatile fuel sources on a tank concerns me so i decided having boiling water spray all over the crew would be more exceptible :D Managing water in a steam engine is ...

I still haven't decided, but i can't seem to get away from a steampunk design probably steam driven which ultimately drives a power generator to power the electric fans. Iam visualising fans for upward lift that possibly could tilt or 2 separate sets of fans that propel the tank forward and backwar...

Ridiculous as a steam powered hovercraft sounds, there is a gaming miniatures range where the humans have steam tanks and the kits are released in both wheeled or hover versions... I also thought a steampowered hovertank wouldn't really work but when the steam power is generating tubines that produ...

:D I'm in for this one,I have got a steampunk hover tank idea ive been looking at and this comp is built for it.Now where's that box of bits? Ridiculous as a steam powered hovercraft sounds, there is a gaming miniatures range where the humans have steam tanks and the kits are released in both wheel...

On TMP there are people who make hovertanks out of peripherals (eg. the Mark 1 and 2 Mouse Tanks!)
If I do any they will be really small.

I used to collect the tubs out of VCRs which contain the deck and boards. My employer at the time called them Milk crate technology. I wanted to use them for buildings as they were so well shaped for the purpose. I had to downsize the load recently though, anyway I can't store that much scenery in m...