Hauler

This is the final merchant ship that I built, and I decided to push myself compared to the others. I built a recessed cargo area then added a bunch of salt to represent some stuff that is being carried. I dropped on superglue and they eventually held themselves in.

I had a ton of fun building these ships, and i still have a few of those hulls left over. I'll see what else strikes me...

Thanks for looking!

Refinery Ship

Ok pushing on with the merchant ships, i decided to build a refinery ship. The main superstructure is part of an old micromachine toy from back in the day. The refinery piece is from a box of monopoly 3D pieces that I got off ebay. Defo some interesting pieces in there.

Thanks for looking!

Merchant Tanker

Cracking on with the merchant fleet, here is my take on a tanker. Again recessing the pieces beneath the top plate of the hull is the trick!

Quite like this guy!

Merchant Ships

So I also bought some bits and pieces from the spartan bits and pieces part of their store with a view to build some of my own merchant ships.

So I've had the bits of one of those ancient pontoon bridge army sets from when I was a nipper in my bits box for as long as I can remember, and these were the hulls of the ship.

So here is the first one..

This guy is a simple flat bed cargo hauler type ship. I also made some interesting looking cargo but then decided not to photograph those pieces. The textured plasticard fits the scale really nicely. The pieces fore and aft (how nautical am I?) are what I think are folded up cranes that are from the merchant fleet box.

I also discovered that the resin pieces look many times better if they are recessed into the top hull plate rather than plonked on top.

Thanks for looking!

Dystopic Islands

I had a minor brain wave to use some old dvds for bases for various islands and things. I was looking at the oil rigs and thinking that they looked a bit delicate...

In general I have used cur up sheets of cork and then cork pieces for the rock outcrops. The silver pieces are waves that I made from since foil and then glued down with pva. I'm going to add layer of some resin or other too, Then result looked ok on my larger board so we'll have to see whether they transfer over well to these smaller islands.

A simple island with some waves.

A slightly bigger rocky outcropping

Look carefully and you can see the oil rig legs there. I used waves to hide the hole in the middle of the disc

Slightly blurry oil rig legs straddling and island

Same again. legs and rocks

A simple lighthouse. Man I struggled attaching the central tower piece.

A blurry lighthouse built out on  a rocky outrcop

Dystopic Adventures

Right. A bit of a change in direction. In order to do more Dystopian Wars stuff I decided, rather than to work on what I already have, I should get some more stuff and use that as a catalyst for injecting interest for myself in this games system. I've had some models for ages, and they featured in my haul of shame post from some time ago. So I decided to get the new rules and some new bits and to crack on with some building..

I bought the merchant fleet box and a couple of lighthouses and trays for the tiny fliers. Here they are unpacked and cleaned and ready to roll.

Haul of Shame

One of the main reasons for doing this blogging stuff is to try and refocus my hobby efforts and actually get shit done. Hence this, my Haul of Shame. Here are some of examples of long term projects and other hobby related stuff that I want to get done.