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Offline Col.Stone

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Re: Submarines!
« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2009, 10:22:47 AM »
Spooky - i've just sent you a link to this thread....

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Re: Submarines!
« Reply #16 on: November 09, 2009, 10:28:06 AM »
That was a quite fun piece of terrain to make. Extruded polystyrene, carved to appropriate thickness, snaps into very convincing looking ice pieces. The cliff face in the background is a treasured find. It's a display piece for pirate toys.
« Last Edit: November 09, 2009, 11:27:52 AM by Hammers »

Offline Col.Stone

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Re: Submarines!
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2009, 10:31:21 AM »
never underestimate the value of toystores :)

Offline General Roos

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Re: Submarines!
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2009, 11:02:38 AM »
I´m making a crossover game between "The Thing" and "Ice Station Zebra".

Found this picture at a blog. Very inspiring!!!

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Re: Submarines!
« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2009, 11:30:47 AM »
There were some images a couple of years ago of a nazi ice station. Was that Grimm?

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Re: Submarines!
« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2009, 11:36:56 AM »
There were some images a couple of years ago of a nazi ice station. Was that Grimm?

I think you´re referring to Knoxville´s marvellous Antarctica table back for Tactica 2007:

http://www.hamburger-tactica.de/tactica/pages/fotos2007.html (scroll down a bit)


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Re: Submarines!
« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2009, 11:40:30 AM »
I think you´re referring to Knoxville´s marvellous Antarctica table back for Tactica 2007:

http://www.hamburger-tactica.de/tactica/pages/fotos2007.html (scroll down a bit)



That's the one. ... F**k me, that's a lovely line up of games in that there linky...

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Offline dexter

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Re: Submarines!
« Reply #23 on: November 09, 2009, 05:47:58 PM »
I´m making a crossover game between "The Thing" and "Ice Station Zebra".

Found this picture at a blog. Very inspiring!!!



Is that from the West winds demo game?

Offline General Roos

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Re: Submarines!
« Reply #24 on: November 09, 2009, 07:13:23 PM »
Dexter: Yes, it´s from the West Winds demo game!

Offline gamer Mac

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Re: Submarines!
« Reply #25 on: November 17, 2009, 03:50:25 PM »
Check out this link
http://ilovewargameing.21.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=37&sid=bc78af733e8d973b14f288e349753bfc
Sub is about 3/4's down the page.
Sorry for all the other Gorgeous pictures in the link (Well I am not really sorry they are great pictures ;))

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Re: Submarines!
« Reply #26 on: November 17, 2009, 03:53:03 PM »
Is that from the West winds demo game?

Looks like the westwind Weird WW3 game that they have taken around the shows over the last year or so.
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Offline Boggler

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Re: Submarines!
« Reply #27 on: November 28, 2009, 06:09:34 PM »
I had a cunning plan to do a Soviet SSBN in 28mm for a demo game but it got shelved. The hull would have ben in modular sections consisting of the compartments of the sub, from the nuclear reactor to control room to accomodation room to missile room to forward torpedo room. Each would be a basic rectangular box with the curved flanks of the hull made from sections of carved and sanded balsa attached on either side. The whole thing would sit on a sea /arctic base with lots of floating ice all around.

There would be a lift of rectangular lid for each section made up to look like the top of the hull, complete with missile launch hatches etc. The different rooms would be kitted out with Copplestone consoles, furniture etc plus ranks of missiles from deoderant lids. The conning tower would be a seperate section that would sit on top of the hull.

The scenario revolved around a Hunt for Red October / Ice Station Zebra type set up using Eureka special forces frogmen and Copplestone neo-sovs as the baddies.

I got as far as drawing up some semi-scale plans but then got sidelined off...

I did find some cool sub art on the web though like this: http://www.dia.mil/history/art/images/sub_ship.jpg



« Last Edit: November 28, 2009, 06:16:37 PM by Boggler »

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Re: Submarines!
« Reply #28 on: November 28, 2009, 06:33:15 PM »
Sounds similar to what I had in mind!

 :)

Its on my to do list, so one day...maybe the project after next....

Offline Boggler

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Re: Submarines!
« Reply #29 on: November 28, 2009, 06:41:28 PM »
I reckoned on the whole thig being about 6'  / 2m long although the vertical tail bit of the sub would be modelled as a scenic piece at the stern end and the bows section would just be a solid rounded piece at the other end, so in total, the sub sections would be about 5' or so. Not too much to do if you tackled each section in turn and took your time over the detailing, painting and so on. It's really a collaborative type project intended as a show participation game but one person could do it without too much trouble.

Hopefully, it would look something like this, although a bit lower in the water: http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/typhoon/images/typhoon2.jpg

And if you are looking or cool graphics, how about this: http://gunpoint-3d.com/art-aw-typhoon.html
« Last Edit: November 28, 2009, 06:45:40 PM by Boggler »

 

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