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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: tin shed gamer on April 22, 2018, 08:49:50 PM
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After encouragement from' Andy in Germany ' and reading James renewed vigour for tackling his Martian project.Plus a little stint in Hospital.I decided I'd take the weekend to myself and start throwing some paint at this as it's been sat for nearly a year Mocking me every time I open the workshop door.
Here's a couple of pictures from last year plus the progress made this weekend.
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Good to see progress on this fantastic beast! I remember being impressed just by the solar boiler, much less the rest of this monstrosity.
Lon
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That is an impressive beast!
The colour scheme works very well too.
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WOW, that's impressive.
Tony
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Most excellent :)
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Great looking ship! Have you named her yet?
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looking great!
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Luverly.
What's that thing on the boom meant to be opposite the radar dish?
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Oh, I like this! Well started!
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Fantastic - colour scheme very impressive
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Great to see this brought out of the closet! And a big closet it must be! Great colour scheme! :-*
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Very nice indeed :-*
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:o Very impressive well done.
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That's come out as a bit of alright.
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very nice indeed :-*
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Cheers Gents, :)
The colour scheme is borrowed from this period warship(almost tempted to build a compressed version.)
Right now I'm trying to find the box of furniture for the ship.
The bit in front of the dish is the boiler part of the solar boiler.
As for a name I'd not really given it any thought . (God help me) I'll open it up to the hive mind.
Mark.
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Great work thanks for the updates.
The pictured ironclad is a good looking vessel!
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Luverly.
What's that thing on the boom meant to be opposite the radar dish?
And, the 'radar dish' should be a focusing solar mirror for the boiler.
Of course, if you were sporting a 6mm crew, I'd suggest 'Duke of York' from Space 1889, as I assume part of the inspiration, but it's a thing to make me breath funny, no matter the origin. OR scale! :-*
Excellent!
And, big thanks to me mate, VSFGamer, for pointing this out.
Doug
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I've just caught up with this. I'm glad you're restarting it, and very pleased that I was able to help you get back to the project. It's looking beautiful, and I really like the solar boiler. As others have also said, the colour scheme is fantastic.
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Wonderful - the weathering is highly effective and makes it look real.
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Very nice indeed
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The good weather this weekend has been perfect for a little top up painting between a sea of family barbeques.
Still a shed load to do but I'm getting there.
Mark.
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Absolutely wonderful! :-*
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Lovely colours and weathering - a real beauty.
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bloody marvellous!
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Interior?!?
I don't remember anything about an interior! :o
I was ready to have figs fighting on the deck when clad in grey. Just better and better! :-*
Doug
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I absolutely love this build! :o :-*
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The external colour scheme is fantastic, I especially like the green/red (Presumably port/starboard) on the propeller housing, but the interior is lovely, a little and rather opulent bit of home for the martian nobility.
Why is the Union jack on the red ensign get cut off half way?
And one question from my son: where does the loo flush?
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Beast,
Sorry some how I forgot to reply to your earlier question. It was originally intended for Space 1889. It's a hybrid of original art in the rules and the ship building rules. Which work fine in 2D. But once you try to make them 3D, you get a real nagging feeling that the whole thing was written by someone with absolutely no mechanical sense.
Andy,
Port and starboard coloured engines were always on the cards,admittedly a moment of doubt once I'd paint the first engine green.
As for the Union flags.
It's the result of trial and error. No flag and the whole side looks disjointed as the grey of the panel is a much larger block of colour than the previous smaller panels . The flag breaks up the panel and makes the transition from the sides to the 'Head/bow' of the ship seem less clumsy.
A full union flag looks lost when proportional to the panel. So I opted to use half a union flag. As the full union flag on top is pretty much visible all the time it reminds you of the full flag when you look at the half flags. Because they're of a similar size. The bonus of making them all of a similar size . Is I only had to cut out one flag.
As for the toilet. I'm working on the concept that the grey water,is recycled through the hydroponics of the greenhouse.
It'll seem more plausible once the interior is completed.
If you include the connecting corridor,there's eleven playable areas inside the ship.
And for a sense of scale (whilst I'm fitting the interior) the connecting corridor comfortably holds six 25mm round figure bases(round because that's what's on the figures I plonked in the corridor.)
Thanks for the comments gents ,as its quite a paint to organise time to finish it.they're greatly appreciated.
Mark
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Love it!
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1) You have NOTHING for which to apologize to me, aside from inducing incredible feelings of inadequacy. ;D
2) Wasn't really a question; I'd pretty much figured that out, but would have been interesting as 6mm DoY...
3) "...you get a real nagging feeling that the whole thing was written by someone with absolutely no mechanical sense." Really? Oh, I've NEVER had that experience... ;)
Oh, wait, there have been a few drawings seemingly inspired by MC Escher now that I recall.
Now I DO have a question. What other goodness is on the way? lol
Doug
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I would be happy with (just) the ship, but to have all that detail inside....
Sir I doff my cap to you.
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Hb,
I did get bit carried away with it.
Somewhere in my workshop there's a box with all the interior bits and bobs.As it's looking way way too subdued for a Victorian layout . (For now ;)).
Beast ,
I've just sent off a pair of 20mm scale steam launches,across the pond. So I'm tempted to make a launch for myself.
But before that I've cunning plan for a quick card interpretation of something I posted a picture of in the pulp plane thread that'll tweak quite nicely into a VSF build.... :D
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Since I've managed to find a little time today to plod on with interior,and you chaps seemed quite surprised there's an interior I thought a couple of update photographs wouldn't go amiss.
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:o Er... wow!
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Lovely detailing 8)
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Wonderful - love the “VSF” carpet :-*
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Spectacular interior.
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That is amazing! :o :-*
My brother and myself tried to build a wee zeppelin years ago, but it never reached this quality! :o The details like the flowers and the carpets are a great touch!