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Miniatures Adventure => Railway Wargaming => Topic started by: almostsilentbob on December 25, 2012, 07:37:13 AM
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Just a concept rattling around in my head right now but has anyone done/seen a sci fi board using a train? I've been thinking of constructing a few bits in 28mm to run skirmish and rp style games on but I'm looking for inspiration. (maybe maglev or monorail might look more scifi?)
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As a matter of fact...
(http://www.ironhands.com/train_f.jpg)
And here's the page: http://www.ironhands.com/train.htm
Good luck with your project :)
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If you do a search for train ghosts of mars that one looks quite good.
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/82/226271673_95b95533ea.jpg)
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And a whole page of links...
http://www.fantasytrains.net/index.htm
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As soon as I saw this thread I thought of the train from Ghosts of Mars, glad I'm not the only one! Best of luck with your project, dude. I'll be watching with interest.
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I've been toying around with this idea for a while as well. The Disney Monorail model train is about O scale which roughly correlates.....also there was this guy http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1628235004/sci-fi-traffic-hazards-28mm-vehicles-for-the-futur One of the vehicles he did was a hoverbus/train, too bad he never got the funding. Now if only I had the time...and money...and space....and proper equipment...and no kids at home...etc
:'(
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You might like this:
https://www.facebook.com/terrakami
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Another good source of inspiration for this (I was reminded by ghosts of mars) is Ian Mcdonalds books Desolation Road and Ares Express. Ares Express in particular is heavily set on the Martian Railroad. The lead character was born, lives and works on a freight train.
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You might like this:
https://www.facebook.com/terrakami
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Nice find; I really rather like that Maglev train.
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The "Today, Tomorrow" listing at the end is screaming insanity from another dimension.
Poe's Law in action if I've ever seen it.
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hilarious timetravel
THX for sharing!
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I seem to remember a rather nice train being featured in the film 'Priest' (2011). If you want to go Old school, there's Dan O'Bannon's concept for a Metro/Monorail in Verhoeven's 'Total Recall'.
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Awesome Video. I remember some of the shows advertised. I'm impressed that Supertrain has an onboard Disco. Groovy. And 6 whole Million Dollars to build!
On a sad note we spend Billions a year on real trains no one ride.
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Supertrain... I remember the show being on cable when I was a kid, but I never actually saw an episode (we didn't have cable).
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Planet Story by Harry Harrison is a great story about a SF train, but it's very retro.
Big Picture so I linked to it rather than inline it.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XOeuKFF9B2Y/TIY4ViO-8VI/AAAAAAAAFkk/KXbrHCnyWYo/s1600/03%2BLIGHTSHIP%2B-%2BBIG%2BBOY%2BLOCO.jpg
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I have been following this thread with interest and have a question -anyone have ideas for alternate track? I could always use conventional rail, but I want something more "futuristic" while retaining a hard sci fi feel.
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We are at the CAD stage of developing our own train model. Here is the test render of the engine.
It is early days but the idea is to have it as a monorail so that it will sit above the table and not be too intrusive.
We'll see how it goes... should have a test cut next week.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1/923468_676355525741622_191776694_n.jpg)
I'll post updates here and on the FB site https://www.facebook.com/LaserCutCard (https://www.facebook.com/LaserCutCard)
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You could try modifying the old blue plastic battery operated Lego rails into monorails...?
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The "razor train" of Half Life 2: (http://combineoverwiki.net/images/5/51/Razor_train1.jpg) (http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Razor_Train)
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There's a free PDF of a sci fi train on the infinity forums, its more floor plans but does also have some nice containers for some 3d terrain
http://www.infinitythegame.com/infinity/downloads/markers/Maglev.pdf
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you could look up snowpiercer, and of course the train job episode of firefly.