If someone were to collect all my posts on LAF and condense them, the main themes would be:
Building bits of scenery
Not finishing models
Adequate storage problems (especially as the cellar I use for storage is damp and rots a box in 24 hours)
Ages ago I had started a thread on using part of a plastic shipping pallet, which I had found somewhere, as a Space Hulk setting. I had undercoated it (spray), and then abandoned it in the cellar.
The dust and mould and stuff which live there do not seem to get too attached to the plastic of the pallet. It has lain there over two years now, so I guess it should survive until I am too feeble to go down the steps to the cellar, and that will do
I'll put a dust sheet over it to provide some additional protection.
So I decided to resurrect it, and try to complete it as a small setting for sci-fi (mainly), including 40K, Star Wars, Dr Who, Retro-rocketship stuff and just about anything; it could also be useful for superheroes, Weird World War II and post-apocalyptic settings as well, but I opened the thread here as my main current interest is sci-fi. I will try not to make it setting specific (e.g. I will not infest it with skulls), which is not too much of a problem as the pallet itself will have flooring and structures which are detachable.
It could be part of a spaceship, or even a component or bit of wreckage from one; or a section of an underground or surface base.
I also want it to be open-plan, but possibly with an option for bulkheads which can be removed. And I also have a few ideas for removable stuff which can go inside the base - including the whole of my Ad Mech scenery for Necromunda. Open plan is interesting because it is large enough for vehicles or walkers which are not too tall to fit in, or who can stick out of the middle after somehow getting in there. And I have a nice, big, low spaceship which should also fit in nicely.
This morning I dusted off a couple of cobwebs, covered a couple of moulded symbols; resprayed some of it so that it is now predominantly grey and primer red, with some shades of green or blue from the previous scheme visible in areas; and dragged it back down in the cellar. The name Katabazi is Maltese for catabasis, but bazi is also a base (as in base of operations), so I am feeling all smug about it
It's having an interesting effect as I found bits from old projects which were partly finished or in a sorrier state and which will now contribute to the parts I will use on it (most if not all just placed on it, and thus removable). The photos show the beastie adorned with a selection of landing platforms, some of them sporting battle damage.
The last pic shows some of the flooring I will be using on top, still being painted and shown incomplete. The flooring on the lower level will mainly be thick plasticard, to minimize loss of height in the corridor.
This will be a slow, ongoing project, hopefully with regular updates. The convergence of at least six or seven old projects into this is at a result of sorts, as it has reduced the number of unfinished projects.
Next: I need to work on the upper and lower level floors, and also perhaps introduce some neutral-looking pipes and stuff.
20 May 2007, 09:33:22 AM