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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: Pijlie on 12 May 2013, 08:05:14 AM

Title: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: Pijlie on 12 May 2013, 08:05:14 AM
The table viewed from the sky:

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8B3ZypZ5iFE/UY6tVzL4SdI/AAAAAAAABS4/eCLBW-PrW2I/s1600/P1050987.JPG)

Due to some political symbols visible in most pics more pictures can be seen here: http://pijlieblog.blogspot.nl/
Title: Re: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: Poiter50 on 12 May 2013, 08:09:28 AM
Nice looking game.
Title: Re: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: Prof. Dinglebat. Phd. on 12 May 2013, 11:29:19 PM
Magnifico....10\10  :-*
Title: Re: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: cuchulain23 on 13 May 2013, 02:37:38 AM
Looks like it was a great game.
Title: Re: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: Ithaquatini on 13 May 2013, 05:56:20 PM
Great stuff!
I always wondered how they were going to load that huge crate into a small fighter plane in the movie :)
Title: Re: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: joroas on 14 May 2013, 12:52:21 PM
Where did the plane come from?  :o
Title: Re: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: Pijlie on 14 May 2013, 08:07:10 PM
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Where did the plane come from?

The flying wing is a converted Revell 1/72 Arado AR E555 kit.

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I always wondered how they were going to load that huge crate into a small fighter plane in the movie

You place two figures in b2b contact and succeed in a Stunt roll  lol
Title: Re: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: joroas on 14 May 2013, 08:34:09 PM
Thanks.  How difficult was that job?
Title: Re: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: Pijlie on 14 May 2013, 09:33:38 PM
It does require some modelling and scratchbuilding skills. Essentially the next steps were taken:

The cockpit was the hardest part. The original cockpit was discarded. The cockpit base was enlarged by sawing off bits of the fuselage and then the cockpit was replaced with a transparant plasticard new one large enough for 28mm. A pilot's chair was made out of plastic odds and ends. The plastic was then painted to look like metal-bordered plexiglass.

The jet engines were discarded as well. I use the two large bombs from the kit to build two rear tail engines. Propellers were made of plasticard, opaque for the inert ones and transparant circles for the spinning ones. I worked the latter with sand paper and a drill to enhance the spin effect. The props were fitted with magnets to enable easy replacement, a brilliant idea I found on the Web. Jet engine exhausts from the kit itself formed the prop cones.

Finally I used a transparant children's novelty egg for the rear turret. One half formed the base, made to fit on the jet engine mount, the other half was fitted with slits for the MG barrels and painted to look like steel-bordered plexiglass. As the egg parts could rotate on each other, so could the turret. PVC tubing was used to make forward MGs.

The rest of the kit was built as intended and painted. Decals were included in the kit.
Title: Re: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: joroas on 14 May 2013, 09:37:46 PM
Thanks for that, watching a kit on eBay at the moment.....
Title: Re: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: Pijlie on 15 May 2013, 05:10:58 AM
Have fun. My blog shows a few pictures where the cockpit can be seen quite clearly. The way I did it works, but the result could have been better. The older blog post show another rear turret btw that I discarded after I thought up the rotating one (people wanted to get in the turret and shoot things, so it had to be able to turn  :)
Title: Re: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: Dr. The Viking on 15 May 2013, 05:14:16 AM
Looks fantastic!
Title: Re: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: Beast of Bukhara on 16 May 2013, 01:29:13 PM


 :-*

Thank you Mr Pijlie
Looking forward to the next Instalment
of the adventures of Doctor Jones

Title: Re: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: General on 17 May 2013, 11:22:57 PM
Looks great, man.  How did you do the blood stains?  Are they markers?
Title: Re: Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL
Post by: Pijlie on 18 May 2013, 11:36:08 AM
Those bloodspatters cause a lot of commotion  :)

I googled "bloodspatter" and printed the best (and most gory) looking image 50 times on a piece of transparant plastic (an overhead sheet IIRCC), then cut them out and use them for Wound counters in Zombie and Pulp games.

They are immensely popular during my participation games  lol