aeroplanes in different colours/models

I happen to have a list of some types of bits, and aeroplanes are on it...

Aeroplane r, g, bl, y, bk, w, pu, or, gd, si, br, pi Plastics for Games

Aeroplane r, g, bl, y, bk, w, pu, or, gd Dice & Games

Aeroplanes r, g, bl, y, bk, w Game Parts Inc

Plastics for Games http://www.p4g.co.uk/

Dice & Games http://www.dice.co.uk/

Game Parts Inc http://www.gameparts.net/page10.html

Would they bother?

How do you deal with that?

Plastic for Games accepts any order over 80 euros/dollars plus transport. Dice & Games imply they accept smaller orders... but what is small? Best to just send them an email and ask them directly. Tell them you are a game designer looking for prototype parts.

It's is my experience that you can't ever have enough spare bits for prototyping. If you need exactly 50 planes, 10 planes per color, then order some extra. Maybe later during the design you decide you want to add a sixth player to the game, or you come to the conclusion that the game works better with 12 planes per color, and you'll be glad you have some extra's lying around. Or maybe you want to produce an extra prototype, for playtesting purposes.

Well, we went to Hobbycraft and picked up some hollow cylinder things that are supposed to be used for making pictures with by sticking them on peg-boards...

a tenner got us easily a hundred each of a dozen colours.

We're also using money/houses/hotels from two sets of monopoly and we were using some bits from "Age of Mythology" but we're cutting down the number of types of peices.

Design the game, make it work. Playtest it. Playtest some more. Then worry about peices.

Wouldnt it be great if you could buy as many as you wanted, like... 10... 10 planes, and 12 cars, with 3 pyramids... without these chappys moaning lol... might set up a website that does that... specially for us lot :D