This article originally appeared in Pyramid #17
WILD WALLS
Published by Sci-Fi Supply
Sculpted by Dave Hyde, J.P. Hyde
and Jennifer Mayfield
Price: $15.00This is such a simple idea, you'd think someone would have done it before . . . but if they did, it's news to me. What we have here is walls — just walls — made out of vacuum-formed plastic. They're scaled for 25 to 28mm figures, though they don't look bad with 15mm. You paint them up and use them for miniatures layouts. Like I said, simple.
But nice. The design is good, the detail excellent. Cut them out, paint them to suit, mount them on cardboard or foamcore, and bang. You've got yourself a great diorama background. Or, adding a flat or magnetic base, you can build movable wall sections, single or double-sided, to use in actual play!
They're not hard to use. The walls have enough texture that they're easy to quick-paint. You can do just fine with a sprayed-on base coat and a bit of drybrushing. The .20-mil white plastic holds paint well. It also glues well, so you can modify them as much as you want, adding interesting bits of detailing from your Random Box Of Plastic Stuff.
$15.00 seems like a lot to pay for a pack . . . but you get a lot. Each pack contains four sheets of wall material — two each of two different sheets. Each sheet cuts into seven 13⁄4" strips. All told, your 15 bucks gets you more than 25 feet of walls.
There's also a concern with durability when something is vacuum-formed. Yes, the Wild Walls can be dented if they're dropped . . .
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Article publication date: January 1, 1996
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