Author Topic: 28mm Scale Steam Powered Landship #2 - Painted & Assembled 19/4/15 (Read 7266 times)

Captain Darling · « **on:** April 12, 2015, 09:03:14 AM »

Hi All,

My first 28mm scale Steam Powered Landship worked out so well I decided I needed a second one so they could engage in majestic dreadnought style engagements!

Anyway this one will be roughly the same overall size as the last one but a bit more ship like giving me a bigger deck space to 'play with'! I ordered 8 more wagon wheels from EBay and drew up some plans based on 1870s battleships and yesterday afternoon hit the work bench.

First step was to turn seven bits of flat styrene into a boat shaped hull...

Then start adding some hull embellishments...

and a couple of turrets...

More Soon!

Cheers
Darling!

von Lucky · « **Reply #1 on:** April 12, 2015, 09:12:47 AM »

A promising start.

Genghis · « **Reply #2 on:** April 13, 2015, 03:23:03 PM »

Looking good, I'm most jealous of your scratch building skills.

Traveler Man · « **Reply #3 on:** April 13, 2015, 03:53:30 PM »

Off to a good start.

Captain Darling · « **Reply #4 on:** April 14, 2015, 12:07:48 AM »

Thanks Gentlemen!

An update:

Wagon wheel units built and rivets added to the hull:

Secondary gun turrets made and lower superstructure to cover them and carry the conning tower built, also added a few details like hatch, rear flagpole support, coal bunker, front tow point and lights:

I'll be digging out the FUBAR VSF rules pretty soon and see how they handle these!

Cheers!

XCIV · « **Reply #5 on:** April 14, 2015, 12:43:07 AM »

Looking good. I like the secondary turret clusters.

warburton · « **Reply #6 on:** April 14, 2015, 07:54:13 AM »

Excellent!

Captain Darling · « **Reply #7 on:** April 15, 2015, 10:59:34 PM »

Hi All,

Well the main construction is done, just need to decide on what the main armament will be and then drill out the turrets for the barrels.

The last major part was the conning tower with mast and that’s complete, the funnel/smokestack is sorted too…

Here’s the conning tower and funnel resting on the hull…

I should be able to paint this landship on the weekend and then I can hang up my landship making tools for a while as I have some other irons in the fire that need to be looked at!

This is the blog link to the post on the first landships construction with full details of the build:
http://captaindarlingsminiaturesemporium.blogspot.com.au/

Cheers!

Colonel O Truth · « **Reply #8 on:** April 16, 2015, 11:30:59 AM »

That is awesome! Love it!

Kings Curse · « **Reply #9 on:** April 16, 2015, 02:11:43 PM »

Very impressive build. Looking forward to see some paint on it

von Lucky · « **Reply #10 on:** April 17, 2015, 09:02:56 AM »

Come along nicely.

Captain Darling · « **Reply #11 on:** April 19, 2015, 10:07:06 AM »

Hi All,

Okay the second (British) Landship is painted and assembled, it still needs a bit of detailing and then weathering once everything has had a good week to dry thoroughly (I'll weather the first Landship at the same time

).

Here's some pictures: