Impressions of my Indiana Jones game at Ducosim, NL

[Pijlie]

The table viewed from the sky:



Due to some political symbols visible in most pics more pictures can be seen here: http://pijlieblog.blogspot.nl/

[Poiter50]

Nice looking game.

[Prof. Dinglebat. Phd.]

Magnifico....10\10 

[cuchulain23]

Looks like it was a great game.

[Ithaquatini]

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

[joroas]

Where did the plane come from? 

[Pijlie]

Where did the plane come from?

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

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 

[joroas]

Thanks.  How difficult was that job?

[Pijlie]

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.

[joroas]

Thanks for that, watching a kit on eBay at the moment.....

[Pijlie]

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 

[Dr. The Viking]

Looks fantastic!

[Beast of Bukhara]

 

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

[General]

Looks great, man.  How did you do the blood stains?  Are they markers?

[Pijlie]

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