I mounted my newest spaceship sculpt on a flight-stand in order to prime and paint it and while doing so realized I have yet to share my basing technique. Like all my techniques, it focuses on being super-cheap yet still functional as well as hopefully looking comparable to commercially available options.
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| Custom flight-stand |
To create the base pictured here I simply press a spherical object of appropriate size into a block of Sculpy. In this case my object was a plastic 1 tablespoon measuring spoon. I set a cylindrical piece of plastic scrap in the bottom of the depression. I then pour water-putty into the depression made by the spoon. I will usually have one or two of these base molds set up and when I'm mixing up water-putty for one of my other projects, I pour the inevitable extra putty into these molds. After half a dozen or so spaceship projects I have plenty of extra bases now. After 100 minutes or so the putty is set enough to remove from the Sculpy mold. Remove the cylindrical plastic scrap with some tweezers; you now have a small impression on the top of the base in which you can insert a flight stand rod. Speaking of which, I simply glue three pieces of thick spaghetti together for the flight rod. The CA glue ensures plenty of strength and will not warp the spaghetti; even better is the height of the flight stand can be different for every ship.
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| Sculpy mold for flight-stand base |
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| Too much camera flash! |
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| Balanced ship design |
I've been including Ship Design Sheets (SDS) for some of my ship sculpts in these posts. The SDS are used in my homebrew game
War In Space. The game is a simple affair that's not even 10 pages of text, made for me by me, but if you're interested in a free rules set please feel free to contact me and I will send you a PDF.
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