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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Ironworker on 05 June 2009, 06:14:16 PM
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I've been collecting various space ship toys and models over the past several years in order to build a small fleet of spacecraft for various sci-fi games.
(http://pinphoto.tripod.com/natesmiscpics/2009/fleet_wip_DSC_2037.jpg)
Here are some of the ships I have collected including the one I put up here a couple weeks ago. I'm trying to convert and re-paint the rest of them for a new spaceport project. They will all get a crew as well for my "Starport 69" Savage Worlds setting.
One of the main stumbling blocks I've had is comming up with cheap and sturdy landing gear. Any ideas along those lines would be most helpful.
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I've been collecting various space ship toys and models over the past several years in order to build a small fleet of spacecraft for various sci-fi games.
(http://pinphoto.tripod.com/natesmiscpics/2009/fleet_wip_DSC_2037.jpg)
Here are some of the ships I have collected including the one I put up here a couple weeks ago. I'm trying to convert and re-paint the rest of them for a new spaceport project. They will all get a crew as well for my "Starport 69" Savage Worlds setting.
One of the main stumbling blocks I've had is coming up with cheap and sturdy landing gear. Any ideas along those lines would be most helpful.
WOOT wicked kool there IW,
A few i recognize.
The back right is the one you posted here a few weeks back.
The back left is a Start Trek Marqui fighter.
The front right is a Batman water craft fighter of some kind i think.
The others just elude me. All the rest generic craft?
Any chances of getting a better look at the building in the background?
Is it up on your blog and i have missed it?
As for landing gear. I am thinking plastic tubing with rare earth magnetics on one end to attach to the planes themselves and the other end ending in skiff type part reminiscent to a ski. If i find a pic i will post to what i am trying to describe or sketch something out. :-)
Grimm
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I've been using CAV legs for mine.
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That's quite a haul.
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I've been using CAV legs for mine.
I've thought of doing that but I'm not sure I can afford it. I've got basically no budget at the moment for game stuff. I picked up 3 cans of spray paint tonight and I could barely afford that. I may try them on some future projects but at the moment I need something dirt cheap.
I did have a thought today about plastic cloths pins.
(http://pinphoto.tripod.com/natesmiscpics/2009/fleet_wip_DSC_2039.jpg)
Taken apart they do have a kind of skid feel to them. They are pretty good size thought compaired to some of my smaller ships. I suppose I might be able to cut them down.
I did manage to get one of my ships ready for painting.
(http://pinphoto.tripod.com/natesmiscpics/2009/fleet_wip_DSC_2041.jpg)
(http://pinphoto.tripod.com/natesmiscpics/2009/fleet_wip_DSC_2042.jpg)
So it actually took me over a year to get around to putting that strip of white plastic on the canopy. Talk about gamer ADD Just like on the last ship I did I'm only painting a small section of the canopy so as to change the scale of the ship and make it look more appropriate for 28mm minis.
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Wow...some really nice ships...can`t wait to see the conversions and pictures of the final finished product!!
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I use a relabelled DS9 runabout as my Inquisitor transport in 40K. Note that GW are releasing a landing stage next month.
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What you really want to build is a space port/dock table now, with all these on and loading gantres/cranes, control centres, etc. Then you could have games of space priates raiding, smugglers trying to get away before the space cops come, revival bands duking it out between the ships, that would be a cool table.
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This here was crossing my mind:
http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/109100209_82ac45b634.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsnowdon/109100209/&usg=__4lf8GF0CogPPz2GUxgScZjisnDE=&h=500&w=374&sz=181&hl=de&start=3&um=1&tbnid=FX72P1NhDc-87M:&tbnh=130&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dstar%2Bbird%2Bcommand%26hl%3Dde%26um%3D1 (http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/109100209_82ac45b634.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsnowdon/109100209/&usg=__4lf8GF0CogPPz2GUxgScZjisnDE=&h=500&w=374&sz=181&hl=de&start=3&um=1&tbnid=FX72P1NhDc-87M:&tbnh=130&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dstar%2Bbird%2Bcommand%26hl%3Dde%26um%3D1)
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I was thinking more along the lines of the entire table top being the space port, a little like the dock on the Death Star where the Millenium Falcon lands.
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Now why didn't I think of this!? Really cool idea!
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Nice collection. I must remember to look at toys as potential gaming stuff....
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For the landing gear...whenever I visit a pub (that's a bar in America) by the time I leave there isn't a swizzle stick to be found anywhere in the place. And I do normally ask if I can have a few.
I've been in my share of pubs and I've no idea what you're talking about, but it sounds interesting.
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Yeppers. You call em swizzle sticks and i call em "all mine" when i see ones i like. LOL
I snagged some a few years ago where the tops are the Fleur de Lis" At the time i was putting a Sisters of Battle army together and they would have made great icons for vehicles.
At the moment i am trying to get a few of the small flexable wooden ones, like used for coffee. Saw a tutorial on making wagonish wheels using them. Kind of eager to try em out. :-)
Grimm
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ok, I call 'em drinks stirers, but swizzle sticks has a better ring to it!. I've been thinking and this thread is the cuprite - how about making a Mos Eisley style space port, that would offer tons of possibilities. Using cork board to build with cardboard tubes to get the circlular building and polystrene balls to get the domes, there's loads of junk you could use to build something like that...
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I am planning on building a spaceport.
Here is another ship mostly done.
(http://pinphoto.tripod.com/natesmiscpics/2009/skiptracker_DSC_2059.jpg)
More pics on my blog.
http://ironworkersminiatures.blogspot.com/2009/06/skip-tracker.html (http://ironworkersminiatures.blogspot.com/2009/06/skip-tracker.html)
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That's a fantastic ship and a vast improvement on the original :-*
It's great to see such stuff done on a tight budget!
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Yeap, that looks pretty cool. It's a great idea to mask the windscreen and paint it smaller, it makes the ship much better proportioned and more useful. I've been a searched one of the local toy shops today for anything so I could mercilessly steal your idea, but to no avail, still there's 2 more in town.
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I am planning on building a spaceport.
Here is another ship mostly done.
(http://pinphoto.tripod.com/natesmiscpics/2009/skiptracker_DSC_2059.jpg)
More pics on my blog.
http://ironworkersminiatures.blogspot.com/2009/06/skip-tracker.html (http://ironworkersminiatures.blogspot.com/2009/06/skip-tracker.html)
One of my sons has a few of those same planes for his action figures. I've often looked at them as potentials but the huge cockpit put me off. They are only $5 at Wal-mart IIRC so might get some after seeing your PJ. Nice One!
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missed this thread the first time... whats the long grey one on the front right?
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Can you please tell me where you got and the manufactuer of the Ship on the far left of your picture. Very cool I must have one Thanks. :)
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@ anevilgiraffe that's from a JLA action figure line. Haven't seen any in stores for years but I have seen them on e-bay now and again. You might try searching JLA spaceship or JLA plane.
@ wolf8564 the ship you are asking about is one if found in a Dollar General store several years ago. I've neve seen one for sale since then.
Unfortunately finding good spaceships is completely hit or miss. Good toys usually don't stay on the market all that long for some reason. I really need to take an updated pic of my fleet with details about every ship but most of them are already off the shelves.
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(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u5bGwDHRPI8/TUhXkJOjTtI/AAAAAAAABnA/3kUaiup4k-M/s1600/spaceport_ships-8703.jpg)
I just thought I would post an updated shot of my fleet. As you can see it has almost doubled in size. Unfortunately my pace at gettting ships finished has not.
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While I have a pretty respectable motorpool for our local pulp games, your starship-pool puts it shame. The visual impact is amazing and they look great. Nice work.
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... it has almost doubled in size. Unfortunately my pace at gettting ships finished has not.
o_o send your ships to the rest of us for painting... nothing can go wrong with that idea... our address is 'Fellow Gamers, 2b The Internets, Everywhere, 5318008 ... o_o
This is such a great collection of ships, I don't like to look at this thread too often because it makes me too envious. But then I have to give in (about, once a month or so, even for the whole of 2010 when no-one posted) and just gaze at all the pretty, chunky, finned, nacelled, radar-dished sci-fi glory. Really a stunning collection.
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Thanks guy! Here's one I finished yesterday. Just a little pirate starfighter. This is the cheapest starship toy I have. I piced up a few of these years ago at a $1.00 shop for a dollar each.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_u5bGwDHRPI8/TUnweVhbj3I/AAAAAAAABnY/ftQk8NSDvBI/s1600/pirate_starfighter-8729.jpg)
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Pretty and Cheap, thats the way I like em :D
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Pretty and Cheap, thats the way I like em :D
That's no way to speak of the lady!
What? He didn't? The fighter PLANE? And, anyway, she isn't ?
*ahem* Never mind.
I'm seeing at least a couple of GI Joe items; have you tried any of the bigger planes?
Also, Ironworker, you aren't too far from Lee's Summit; do you ever get to Recruits?
Doug
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I just got three more ships off Amazon all G.I. Joe vehicles.
@Doug: I've been to Recruits a few times but I've missed the last couple.
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Oooh. That white one is a GI joe Shark flying sub. I used to have that one when I was little.
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Oooh. That white one is a GI joe Shark flying sub. I used to have that one when I was little.
Yeah I think it will make a really nice little shuttle. I'm pretty sure I'm going to do minimal work on it. It already has a ridge on the canopy that is in a good spot to re-scale it. The landing gear basically consit of little pegs to keep it upright but that's good enough for this ship and my purposes for it. I'm pretty sure I'm just going to glue down the canopy and then paint it.
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Yeah I think it will make a really nice little shuttle. I'm pretty sure I'm going to do minimal work on it. It already has a ridge on the canopy that is in a good spot to re-scale it. The landing gear basically consit of little pegs to keep it upright but that's good enough for this ship and my purposes for it. I'm pretty sure I'm just going to glue down the canopy and then paint it.
Everything is looking good so far. Incidentally you are just North of my parents in Springfield, MO. I was there just 2 weekends ago during the snow storm.
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nice... liking that shuttle... any chance of a shot with a mini...
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I think I have some of these in my own collection. Since I missed the start of the LPL5, I can do some projects other than figures. Already painted a native village for Venus. Should work on some toys that are just collecting dust. BTW those ships look great. :o
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nice... liking that shuttle... any chance of a shot with a mini...
I'm in the process of painting it at the moment but I'll see what I can do.