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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: Rodenbach on March 15, 2016, 11:52:26 AM

Title: The Nautilus
Post by: Rodenbach on March 15, 2016, 11:52:26 AM
I made this setup a few months ago. It is my version of the Nautilus. The rooms are placed like they are described in the book of Jules Verne. I made it with Dwarven Forge tiles.

(http://p6.storage.canalblog.com/65/07/1179913/101050115.jpg)

(http://p2.storage.canalblog.com/22/42/1179913/101050447.jpg)

(http://p2.storage.canalblog.com/21/76/1179913/101051792.jpg)

(http://p5.storage.canalblog.com/50/55/1179913/101050630.jpg)

(http://p3.storage.canalblog.com/35/13/1179913/101050854.jpg)

(http://p9.storage.canalblog.com/93/28/1179913/101051098.jpg)

(http://p6.storage.canalblog.com/65/14/1179913/101051291.jpg)

(http://p1.storage.canalblog.com/12/74/1179913/101051381.jpg)

(http://p9.storage.canalblog.com/99/15/1179913/101051443.jpg)

(http://p1.storage.canalblog.com/14/23/1179913/101051574.jpg)

(http://p4.storage.canalblog.com/41/52/1179913/101051651.jpg)


Lot more pictures here on my blog : http://aventuresen25mm.canalblog.com/archives/2014/12/21/31180117.html (http://aventuresen25mm.canalblog.com/archives/2014/12/21/31180117.html)

Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Michi on March 15, 2016, 12:02:13 PM
That is one of the most brilliant set ups I´ve seen! A living monument of wargaming actually!
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Malamute on March 15, 2016, 12:04:11 PM
Superb stuff. I can imagine thats just what the Nautilus looked like. Well done. ;D
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: OSHIROmodels on March 15, 2016, 12:23:12 PM
Great stuff  8) 8)

cheers

James
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Ray Rivers on March 15, 2016, 12:28:38 PM
WOW!  :o

That is truly awesome!

Well done!  :-*
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: The_Beast on March 15, 2016, 01:41:24 PM
I knew I'd seen this before, but really did think you'd posted it here before. However, only finding your post on TMP.

Of course, at that time, I printed out the images and posted at the store. Stunningly good work!

That is one of the most brilliant set ups I've seen! A living monument of wargaming actually!

I'd never call the Dwarven Forge sets 'lemons', and yet, definitely doing with what you have, and making the finest lemonade!  ;)

Doug
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Governor General on March 15, 2016, 03:27:34 PM
Just Stunning! A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Treebeard on March 15, 2016, 04:09:41 PM
This is absolutely fabulous.
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Modhail on March 15, 2016, 04:12:54 PM
Pure brilliance!
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: mysteriousbill on March 15, 2016, 04:34:26 PM
Have you gamed with it yet?
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: shandy on March 15, 2016, 08:08:18 PM
Fantastic!  :-*
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Andym on March 16, 2016, 08:04:59 AM
That's a fine looking board! I'd love a shot on that! 8)
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Nonox on March 16, 2016, 08:22:57 AM
Wonderful !!!  :o

A very great job !!!

Cheers

Nonox
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: von Lucky on March 16, 2016, 08:25:00 AM
Beautiful - bits from everywhere.

Nice colours and textures.
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Rodenbach on March 16, 2016, 08:56:29 AM
Have you gamed with it yet?

Well, the idea was that the party have to escape from the Nautilus. They have been captured and put in jail. But the underwater ocean is quite a hostile environment  :D And it is hard to escape from a submarine down under the sea when you don't know where you are cruising...
They went out with the scuba suits but they have to fight a giant crab and comme back to the submarine due to a low level of oxygen... They cannot sabotage the ship or it will sink with the party... I also introduced a naval combat with another ship, and a fight with a giant calamar. The only solution was to integrate Nemo's team, after a few exploration of the ship, find some navigation maps to locate the nearests islands and try to drive the submarine to another shore...
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Rodenbach on March 16, 2016, 08:57:27 AM
I knew I'd seen this before, but really did think you'd posted it here before. However, only finding your post on TMP.

Yes I posted it on TMP but here, I'm quite new  ;)
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Mason on March 16, 2016, 09:41:26 AM
Brilliant!
Love all the little details.
 :-* :-*

Gaming on it must be a treat.
 :D

Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: The_Beast on March 16, 2016, 01:02:47 PM
Yes I posted it on TMP but here, I'm quite new  ;)

Well, here I'm 'quite old,' but you've obviously made the BIG splash.  lol

Are you using both older and newer of the Sci Fi sets? The designs switched, one with walls on the squares, the other outside the squares, and that never looked right to me. If, at it appears to be the case, that you combine both, I'll assume I'm just suffering the bugaboo of a small mind.  ;)

I've some of the Ainsty spacesuits-on-a-rack, but would never have thought of using them as VSF diving gear. You KNOW part of the delight is inspecting each 'bit' and working out the source. Then remarking 'sheer brilliance'.  :-*

Doug
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: War In 15MM on March 16, 2016, 06:32:39 PM
Absolutely wonderful! Richard
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Rodenbach on March 17, 2016, 09:53:17 AM
Well, here I'm 'quite old,' but you've obviously made the BIG splash.  lol

Are you using both older and newer of the Sci Fi sets? The designs switched, one with walls on the squares, the other outside the squares, and that never looked right to me. If, at it appears to be the case, that you combine both, I'll assume I'm just suffering the bugaboo of a small mind.  ;)

I've some of the Ainsty spacesuits-on-a-rack, but would never have thought of using them as VSF diving gear. You KNOW part of the delight is inspecting each 'bit' and working out the source. Then remarking 'sheer brilliance'.  :-*

Doug

Thank you very much :D

For the Dwarven Forge tiles, in fact they are all the same. But sometime you see the back of a piece (with a ground tile) and sometime, the front of the piece. This can explain this impression of having 2 diffrente designs.
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Sterling Moose on March 17, 2016, 11:18:42 AM
Just  :-*

That's all.
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: argsilverson on March 17, 2016, 01:02:12 PM
Fantastic!
and a clever use of various bits

May I remind you the Nemo divers from Reviresco. They might be handy ...
http://www.tin-soldier.com/roleplayfigs.html
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Bullshott on March 17, 2016, 08:53:11 PM
Very nice indeed  :-*
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: SpaceGoblin on March 18, 2016, 01:52:44 AM
Brilliant! Must be a joy to use-I can imagine it really brings the game to life :)

Where did you get the furniture from-particularly the grammar phone? I wouldn't mind one of those for to use in Venusian army in some capacity (either as a prop on a model or as an objective marker in game 'We will lay down our lives to recover Major Valiant's record collection!') Anyway-great work :)
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Sardoo on March 18, 2016, 02:42:28 AM
Absolutely outstanding work!  :o :o :o
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Rodenbach on March 18, 2016, 05:12:23 PM
Brilliant! Must be a joy to use-I can imagine it really brings the game to life :)

Where did you get the furniture from-particularly the grammar phone? I wouldn't mind one of those for to use in Venusian army in some capacity (either as a prop on a model or as an objective marker in game 'We will lay down our lives to recover Major Valiant's record collection!') Anyway-great work :)

You are right, the grammophone is a very nice piece, very well done. It is a piece from Thomarillion
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: MaleGriffin on March 19, 2016, 02:35:30 AM
Superb! I'm so jealous!  :-*

Absolutely amazing!  :o
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Richard on March 19, 2016, 02:54:24 PM
 :-* AMAZZZZZZZZZZZZZING
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Golgotha on March 19, 2016, 04:46:01 PM
That is uber cool and love seeing the clear Perspex sheet I had a similar idea so you can have a ship on the surface and then possibilities for under the sea. Great build.
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: The_Beast on March 22, 2016, 01:23:54 PM
That is uber cool and love seeing the clear Perspex sheet I had a similar idea so you can have a ship on the surface and then possibilities for under the sea. Great build.

Ah, that's a tangent worth a thread of it's own.

One idea never started was having gaming tables as islands, the floor as the floor of the shallow sea, ships-on-stands with water surrounds as on the surface, and Canvas Eagle-style collapsing rods for the subs and beasts 'flying' under the surface.

Another idea, started but not completed, was textured sheets for ceiling lamps, with the lower hull of a ship glued underneath, suspended above the table as an anchored target for Nemo's men in waters too shallow for the Nautilus to safely attack. However, the rocks in the deep beneath the hull weren't 'unoccupied...' Mentioned before, still finding energy to re-attempt.

No, this is a big, beautiful beast that's a table unto itself!

I'd find this heavy and unwieldy trying to 'move', so, like huge airship games I've considered, the action will 'come to it.'

By the by, Rodenbach, I'm going to need more 'spoilers' on the furnishings. The cabinets appear to be real wood; scratch-builds? The stairs? Are the carpets printed paper? The equipment that I can visualize in catalogs, but not company names? Thanks!

Anybody else that recognizes pieces, by all means jump in and shame me.  :D

Doug
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Chairface on March 23, 2016, 01:40:22 PM
This is gorgeous
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Golgotha on March 23, 2016, 11:38:46 PM
Thread of its own... please do start one. Lamps and sheets and all things watery sounds fantastic. Still looking for underwater fantasy rules and nothing much seems to have caught up rules wise to match the imagination.
 
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Rodenbach on March 24, 2016, 08:23:24 AM
By the by, Rodenbach, I'm going to need more 'spoilers' on the furnishings. The cabinets appear to be real wood; scratch-builds? The stairs? Are the carpets printed paper? The equipment that I can visualize in catalogs, but not company names? Thanks!

Anybody else that recognizes pieces, by all means jump in and shame me.  :D

Doug

Hello Doug,

The furnitures are mainly from Psom Miniatures, Thomarillion, Grendel and Fenryl. So nothing in real wood, only resin  ;)
The stairs are from Dwarven Forge.
And for the carpets, they are real carpets, not paper. I found these in doll house sellers. I think you can find those easily on ebay
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: The_Beast on March 24, 2016, 11:49:15 AM
And for the carpets, they are real carpets, not paper. I found these in doll house sellers. I think you can find those easily on ebay

No problem, plenty of such shops in town.

Let's say you're an awesome interior decorator then.  :D

REALLY well set and looking awesome.

Doug
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: War In 15MM on March 25, 2016, 05:25:16 AM
What is the source for the hanging diving suits?  If this has been previously asked and answered I apologize... I missed it in my read through of the Q & A.  Wonderful presentation.  Richard
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: The_Beast on March 27, 2016, 02:44:58 PM
I'd suggested they looked a LOT like Ainsty Spacesuits.

http://ainstycastings.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/628/osCsid/8d4bbfa5cb3fc6c52a933aaedb512cf0

Doug

Edit: But they won't do you much good if you ONLY War in 15mm!  lol

Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: War In 15MM on March 27, 2016, 10:22:22 PM
Beast, thank you.  Truth is, I don't War in any scale.  Richard
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: Marine0846 on March 28, 2016, 06:14:32 AM
Wow, the Nautilus is so cool.
A one of a kind gaming piece.
So well done. :-*
Thank you for sharing such a wonderful,
may I say, "work of art."
Title: Re: The Nautilus
Post by: DivisMal on March 28, 2016, 04:59:17 PM
That is so incredibly beautiful. Made with so much diligence and skill. I highly admire this masterpiece!