Typically for me, I am working on more than one project at a time; and I regularly need motivation - terrain is usually the best medicine for that.
So here are the projects I started this year and which will eat up my modelling time in 2018, the Year of Board - hopefully.
Here's one I've shown in another thread Mother Hydra.
This is now Mother Hydra Sector 1, and is based on a plastic pallet - still tonnes of work to do.
Here is Sector 2 - this is the reverse of a 2' x 2' (or just about) aquarium backdrop - the obverse comes later!
This will be patterned in green and white tiles, and modelling the board are some of the crew, with the sliding grabber which will cross two sections (I have 4) and the docking port which will eventually be part of Sector 1 seen above.
A close up of the Sector 1 docking port in progress:
And this is Corridor 1, also on Mother Hydra but with alien potential....
Speaking of aquarium backing - here is the obverse.
He couldn't resist a portrait photo.
Something unusual for me - Dreadball - I am mimicking the paper Dreadball court.
This isn't actually the surface, but two elements of scenery. Beneath these will be a roll out marsh surface, with stuff including ancient Chinese buildings (Jimbibbly's) all the way to sci fi.
Largest of all single pieces, c. 1m x 0.8m, a board built from discarded architects' models. There will be two of these joining together, the other one is less challenging to build but possibly more fun to use.
The figures are Ro-Jaws and a couple of new mates:
This is one I haven't figured how best to use, it's a set of 6 2' x 2' boards with cobbles and paved roads from a KS which had taken a while to deliver but was well worth the wait. There may be a castle...
I have 8 of these 1' x 1' lasercut boards, nice and lightweight and sturdy enough. So far 4 are assembled (and I can't find two of the unassembled ones!). These two are the more open ones. Those channels have a scope. Here you can see Ti-6Al-4V man (that's a titanium alloy, I studied materials...
) charging a rather large robot.
I designed the stuff on these to allow them to stack. I love that DeLorean, a toy with very little touching up needed.
And last but not least, a fun sort of project slightly larger than 2' x 2', a soft felt-covered box which is a bit too bright a shade of green for anything serious, but this small oriental board with aquarium scenery and Matakashi boulders is probably closest to completion, although lots of paint is still needed on the temples and stuff.