Space Ships from 'bitz'

[Major Weenie]

So a while back the lads at 'The Bengal Club' had a go at some interplanetary space combat.
I'm too cheap to pay for 'real' spacecraft.  So I thought that I'd knock some together from spare parts.

Some kind of transport?


A scary dreadnought, with skeletal face.


A battleship/thing


A heavy cruiser


A fighter (made from a 40K Lasgun)

[petercooman123]

Great stuff! And great use of bits!

[Jonas]

Looks good enough, but it makes me kind of sad to see all those old Epic and Rogue Trader parts cut up 

[baldlea]

That is genius. My favourite part is the heavy flamer!

[Daeothar]

If I'm not mistaken there's even some Imperator Titan in there!

Still; all those antique bitz have been repurposed well; they're good looking ships. 

But the blasphemy of it all... 

[Dr. Zombie]

When you look past the blatant Heresy of cutting up some poor old titans.

Those are really nice spaceships. The paintjob is really nice as well. I have always been a fan of keeping paintjobs of spaceships very basic. In space no one is going to see your fancy paintjob anyway..

[tanktastic43]

Well done.

You've got yourself a 'good eye'.

tt43.

[Archie]

Genius!

[Elbows]

Those are really cool.  Always had a hankerin' for some starship combat but always hated BFG.  Might have to look into some rules eventually.  Thanks for sharing.

[The_Beast]

Please note: I'm a voice in the wilderness constantly decrying the folks who, showing great skill otherwise, not rolling their own for spaceships. I've made many, and while only the face this mother can love, I DO.

I am no GW fanboy; my favorite Full Thrust participation idea had me gathering Ork pistols, sawing off the grips, and running them backwards as some kind of free traders fighting for bounty in a corporate war.

Still, I'm a skin-flint, and the thought of potentially valuable pieces sacrificed causes me to weep... 

Hmm, wrong emoticon.

Anyway, the world is filled with disposable fiddly bits screaming their desire to be useful again, and they can!

Disposable cutlery and razor handles, both stockish bricks and svelte curved beauties, would make awesome hulls. The guts of empty labeller cartridges, and  so many other gears and latches and whatchamacallits for grebbles on those hulls boggle the mind. Well, mine. I boggle easily.

You have skill! Show the world the TRUE meaning of sustainability!

*wheeze* I'll just have a lie down now.

Doug

[Major Weenie]

Dear 'The Beast,'

Back in the olden days, before CG, that's how we used to make space ships etc. for low budget Sci-Fi movies.

It was called "Kit Bashing" and you got extra points for using stuff that wasn't from a model kit.

Stuff like; interiors from old transistor radios, pieces of home movie projectors, pieces from train sets, chassis from corgi cars, styrofoam packing pieces, anything with an odd shape that would take paint and break up a blank area.

So your artistic inclination has a long, and noble history.

MW

[has.been]

The (human) space ship from the first Alien film was 'kit bashed' from mainly Tamia 1/35th tank kits. If you get a close look at the 'rocket' exhausts you might be able to recognise that they are Tiger tank road wheels. Origionally they drew wonderful designed space ships & tried to make them, when they found this difficult they just opened up loads of Tamia kits & started sticking interesting bits together.

[Daeothar]

Yup; plastic bottles etc were also used. Just look up how they built the Nostromo from Alien, and you'll see just how simply (and cheaply!) many movie scifi ships are built.

And kits of refineries and (sea) battleships were also used over and over again. There were (are?) even what those guys call  'universal greeblies'; certain parts from kits that were used over and over again, because they just looked right. I'm guessing they cast up those bits, as there probably were not enough model kits in circulation to provide those bits

I can't recall which site it is, but there is this guy who does nothing else but kitbashing spaceships, sometimes even for (low budget) movies. His site has a wealth of ideas and suggestions regarding useful parts, techniques etc. When I get home, I'll see if I can unearth the link from my favourites...

+++EDIT+++ Found it during my coffee break: http://artships.com/

[The_Beast]

Well, getting back to table top, even old fig manufacturers went the route.

I remember how fun it was getting railroad enthusiasts to play 'guess the model train part' on Valiant space ships. I think Star Ranger has images on SCN.

There was one manufacturer that some star ships with sliced sea shells as hulls, Archive, I think. Lovely, delicately sectioned spiral, and made no sense. 

Doug

[Commander Vyper]

Looks good enough, but it makes me kind of sad to see all those old Epic and Rogue Trader parts cut up  

+1 because who'd ever do such a thing.  


although please don't use RT predator lasguns again.