The Fleet of Starport 69. 28mm space ships for various sci-fi games.

[Ironworker]

I've been collecting various space ship toys and models over the past several years in order to build a small fleet of spacecraft for various sci-fi games. 



Here are some of the ships I have collected including the one I put up here a couple weeks ago.  I'm trying to convert and re-paint the rest of them for a new spaceport project.  They will all get a crew as well for my "Starport 69" Savage Worlds setting. 

One of the main stumbling blocks I've had is comming up with cheap and sturdy landing gear.  Any ideas along those lines would be most helpful.   

[Grimmnar]

I've been collecting various space ship toys and models over the past several years in order to build a small fleet of spacecraft for various sci-fi games. 



Here are some of the ships I have collected including the one I put up here a couple weeks ago.  I'm trying to convert and re-paint the rest of them for a new spaceport project.  They will all get a crew as well for my "Starport 69" Savage Worlds setting. 

One of the main stumbling blocks I've had is coming up with cheap and sturdy landing gear.  Any ideas along those lines would be most helpful.

WOOT wicked kool there IW,

A few i recognize.
The back right is the one you posted here a few weeks back.
The back left is a Start Trek Marqui fighter.
The front right is a Batman water craft fighter of some kind i think.
The others just elude me. All the rest generic craft?

Any chances of getting a better look at the building in the background?
Is it up on your blog and i have missed it?

As for landing gear. I am thinking plastic tubing with rare earth magnetics on one end to attach to the planes themselves and the other end ending in skiff type part reminiscent to a ski. If i find a pic i will post to what i am trying to describe or sketch something out.  :-)

Grimm

[Froggy the Great]

I've been using CAV legs for mine.

[Bako]

That's quite a haul.

[Ironworker]

I've been using CAV legs for mine.

I've thought of doing that but I'm not sure I can afford it.  I've got basically no budget at the moment for game stuff.  I picked up 3 cans of spray paint tonight and I could barely afford that.  I may try them on some future projects but at the moment I need something dirt cheap. 

I did have a thought today about plastic cloths pins.

Taken apart they do have a kind of skid feel to them.  They are pretty good size thought compaired to some of my smaller ships.  I suppose I might be able to cut them down. 

I did manage to get one of my ships ready for painting. 


So it actually took me over a year to get around to putting that strip of white plastic on the canopy. Talk about gamer ADD  Just like on the last ship I did I'm only painting a small section of the canopy so as to change the scale of the ship and make it look more appropriate for 28mm minis. 

[Hitman]

Wow...some really nice ships...can`t wait to see the conversions and pictures of the final finished product!!

[joroas]

I use a relabelled DS9 runabout as my Inquisitor transport in 40K.  Note that GW are releasing a landing stage next month.

[dijit]

What you really want to build is a space port/dock table now, with all these on and loading gantres/cranes, control centres, etc. Then you could have games of space priates raiding, smugglers trying to get away before the space cops come, revival bands duking it out between the ships, that would be a cool table.

[Hauptgefreiter]

This here was crossing my mind:
http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/109100209_82ac45b634.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsnowdon/109100209/&usg=__4lf8GF0CogPPz2GUxgScZjisnDE=&h=500&w=374&sz=181&hl=de&start=3&um=1&tbnid=FX72P1NhDc-87M:&tbnh=130&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dstar%2Bbird%2Bcommand%26hl%3Dde%26um%3D1

[dijit]

I was thinking more along the lines of the entire table top being the space port, a little like the dock on the Death Star where the Millenium Falcon lands.

[Dr. The Viking]

Now why didn't I think of this!? Really cool idea!

[Argonor]

Nice collection. I must remember to look at toys as potential gaming stuff....

[dijit]

For the landing gear...whenever I visit a pub (that's a bar in America) by the time I leave there isn't a swizzle stick to be found anywhere in the place. And I do normally ask if I can have a few.

I've been in my share of pubs and I've no idea what you're talking about, but it sounds interesting.

[Grimmnar]

Yeppers. You call em swizzle sticks and i call em "all mine" when i see ones i like. LOL
I snagged some a few years ago where the tops are the Fleur de Lis" At the time i was putting a Sisters of Battle army together and they would have made great icons for vehicles.
At the moment i am trying to get a few of the small flexable wooden ones, like used for coffee. Saw a tutorial on making wagonish wheels using them. Kind of eager to try em out.  :-)

Grimm

[dijit]

ok, I call 'em drinks stirers, but swizzle sticks has a better ring to it!. I've been thinking and this thread is the cuprite - how about making a Mos Eisley style space port, that would offer tons of possibilities. Using cork board to build with cardboard tubes to get the circlular building and polystrene balls to get the domes, there's loads of junk you could use to build something like that...