Scrappy little airships. offcuts of offcuts of offcuts....

[von Lucky]

Lovely painting and fluff.

And again - but really have to do a double take when I know the scale.

[nic-e]

Cheers lucky! Speaking of scale...what the hell are they?! I guess i've made them about 6mm? but they could be 2mm? they certainly won't fit with the brigade imperial skies models...they really aren't fleet scale .... i've basically cornered myself into making more because I can't buy anything that will fit in!

[von Lucky]

Brigade Models is 1/1200. 6mm is about 1/600. To me they look closer to 1/1200, but I have no idea if you have fat fingers or delicate digits!

[nic-e]

Brigade Models is 1/1200. 6mm is about 1/600. To me they look closer to 1/1200, but I have no idea if you have fat fingers or delicate digits!

Cheers lucky. I worked out based on the height of the door I painted that I'm building at around 1:1000 , a tad larger than brigade.

I started building a larger gunship to accompany the gun runner. I went with a similar design but I think I'll paint this one in Centreal Block navy colours (once i decide what those are.)

[El Grego]

I'm enjoying the progress that you are making on this project - it is making me want to dig up some old, similar projects myself   

[nic-e]

I'm enjoying the progress that you are making on this project - it is making me want to dig up some old, similar projects myself   

Cheers grego!

I have some nice hex flying bases on order from element and look forward to getting these ships up in the air.

In the mean time I've decided I really don't need to buy another rulebook, So.....



DUNDUNDUN! you know a project has gone past the point of no return when you start making rules.

[nic-e]

Made a 4th ship!

A bigger gunship. 3 different deck levels and Armed with 2 large guns.
I also modelled a visible engine onto this one to set it apart as a different size class from the others.

[nic-e]

After building my latest ship I noticed that I had generated smaller offcuts from the offcuts I was using , So i thought "what can i make to go with these ships that can use these offcuts...."
After 20 minutes in which i realised I can't carve 1:700 figures, I deided on something else....

Fighter squadrons! Dropped from Aerial carriers or taking off from hidden bases in the clouds, Swarms of these little buggers pepper the larger warships with machine gun fire and small bombing runs.



DIVE DIVE DIVE!!!

[von Lucky]

Nice one.

[Rich H]

Wow!  Nice!

[Munindk]

I'm very impressed by your creativity, I dont have any offcuts at the moment but I'm definetly not throwing any away in the future!

[nic-e]

Cheers chaps!

Stuck some paint on the plane and now I'm thinking i need at least 5 more of them....

[Andym]

These are cracking wee builds!

[von Lucky]

Lovely.

I know you're tinkering with your own rules - but this is reminding me of Aeronef, where our group all scratch-built or converted Brigades Games' stuff. However, we weren't as skilled in making our own planes!

[nic-e]

Lovely.

I know you're tinkering with your own rules - but this is reminding me of Aeronef, where our group all scratch-built or converted Brigades Games' stuff. However, we weren't as skilled in making our own planes!

It was actually an interest in Imperial skies that got me thinking about airships. I looked at the rules for Aeronef as well. I'm making my own rules based on the core mechanics of Pirates of the cursed seas (but with alot added.) because I realised I may aswell try and keep this project as cheap as possible.