Meanwhile we had to solve another big problem: the number of players ... I would have preferred having dozen, but the standard colors of little tanks were 6, what could I do?
Color it all? ok, but how? Brush ... spray ... uff!!! ...
My mother, trying to help me, told me: "why not use dyestuff for clothes, whitch stand in washing machine?" At the time I just thought: "What kind of mental pairing is the textiles with the plastic little tank" and so dismissed immediatly this idea ... but then I decided to give it a try, so what I could lose? If they do not colored ... peace and love.
I decided to buy one of these dyes and I did the first experiment: 6 plastic little tank, 1 for each color, to boil in the pot with the dye ... I was sure that they would loose or deformed with heat, instead remained intact
The result was interesting, I don't remember that dye used, but the result was more or less the same:
- the little tank nero had remained black
- blue had taken a gradient terrible
- violet was faded, but definitely wasn't pink
- red... don't remember
- yellow had become darker gray, but more gray than orange
- green was darker
Some reactions between color dye and little tank were not, however, as I have taught logic at school, for example yellow + blue = green... probably the plastic reacted differently, so I bought other different dyes and did other experiments, writing all results.
At the end I had a small table with indicated dye to use, combined with plastic color to get at the end a new colour different from 6 major. I prepared "volunteers" little tanks and began to boil down
Only swindle, but I realized too late: I had boxes of Risiko of different vintages (perhaps before 1981 and so on until the last of the 1994 about) so plastic of little tanks ranged widely from box to box, and then many yellow became a horrible color ash, same thing for some green and so on ... in short, a hundred little tanks were not "promoted": cry:.
However, good or bad, I had made
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