Scratchbuild Spaceships: Space Trucks Complete

Complete!

Very happy with the results on these, even if the pics don't do them justice.

The camera on this iPhone is incredible: it's too good.  The miniatures look great on my little phone screen, just like my eye sees them.  Then I transfer the pics to this computer and on the big screen I can see every gory detail, every errant brush-stroke and glue blob.

Tried to do a checkerboard pattern on the antenna... tough!

iPhone generates a moire pattern on the hex mat... not perceptible to the naked eye thankfully.

Scratchbuild Spaceships (WIP): 7 Jan 20

I'm lucky enough to have enough time recently to do what I love: making little spaceships.

I made the "glamor" pieces, the top hulls of four different designs and duplicated them using the techniques previously discussed here (three copies each).  The first design was shown last post; I already have those three bad boys on the game table, testing out some new rules.

I'm currently working on the second set of ships, shown here.  They're about 85% complete on construction; the bottoms still need one or two details.  The exhaust nozzles will get filled in with putty and details sculpted in.

Painting follows of course and I hope to have them done in the next few days.

Not sure how I feel about this design.  It's kind of pedestrian, like a space truck.  The scanner antenna on each ship makes the design pop a little.

mmmmm... medium cylinders

The second pic shows my spare parts bucket which keeps all my pasta building materials organized.

Early stage of construction

 

Flight stands make detailing the bottoms easier

New Year Scratchbuild Spaceships: Complete

I'm complete with my newest scratchbuild spaceship miniatures and very happy with the results.

My plans to pit these ships against some foes in a game of Greater Space Battles ran into a new wrinkle, literally.  Unfortunately, when I stored my vinyl gaming mat in the attic, I sloppily folded it instead of rolling it back into its storage tube.  The previous summer's temperatures means my beautiful space mat now features deep creases, making it currently unusable for gaming.  I'll spend the rest of the afternoon stretching the mat out and heating with a hair dryer; hopefully that will straighten it right out.

Scratchbuild Spaceships: 1 Jan 20 (WIP)

Three ships ready for paint

Happy New Year all!

I'm not going to promise to post a lot more this year (as I did on 1 Jan 19): keep the bar low and you'll never disappoint is my motto.

I have actually been working on some gaming stuff for a change.

Here's some WIP pics of three scratchbuild squadrons of three new ships each.

Components for 12 new ships