Junktown Scrapyard Crew - Update - Muthaship Supplies

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Nice conversion.

[clanmac]

I've been mulling over a centrepiece for my Junktown settlement for a while now. I wanted something with a bit of scale. I found one of these on Ebay and bought it as a contender a while back, but it's been gathering dust. I then had one of those weeks and the desire to build brought it out of the cupboard. It's 1/48 scale and made of various types of card.




It is, in a word, massive, and once I started thinking about putting it together I realised that its card construction was not going to be tough enough for my clumsiness, so I bought a second so I could essentially double wall everything. So far, that seems to be working.

So, I have a hangar, but what to put in it? Well despite being an old airfield, post apocalyptic Junktown mostly uses it's large assortment of refugee aircraft as a source of shelter and copper wire, so not planes. I decided to make it the home of the Junktown vehicle shop. This would give me a chance to have some fun with various 2nd and 3rd copies of vehicles I have already made and, naturally, use a ton of junk.

So rough cut layout is shown in the pics below. Each area will end up being a mini-project in it's own right. Clearly this is a very clean shot. The final product will be covered in junk, spare parts and perfectly nice models sacrificed on the altar of destruction for sheer entertainment.










A couple of shots of half the roof to give a sense of the scale and feel. The roof will be detachable and the walls will be fairly heavily corroded/dilapidated. I've also still got to work out how to actually do the roof covering so it doesn't look too neat. Not sure the original card roof will fully cut it.






Starting to post this one early because I know it will change a lot as I go and I always welcome ideas and feedback on what works and what doesn't. So, let me know what you think. I may also need a little encouragement to see this one all the way through as it's like three or four of my previous bits rolled into one. Wish me luck!

[DintheDin]

A really huge project!!! I admire your planning and that you materialize your sub-projects with a steady pace!
I wish you good luck!

[OSHIROmodels]

Very promising 

[tomrommel1]

enormous project indeed !!!

[beefcake]

I love forgetting about this thread for a while because when I return there is always so much nice new stuff. Your output is phenomenal.  Can't wait to see the hangar, but I will because I'll forget about the thread again .

[Dr. Zombie]

WOW

Where do you get those piles of junk and the workbenches/shelves? Are they your own casts? Because I have been looking for something similar.

[clanmac]

WOW

Where do you get those piles of junk and the workbenches/shelves? Are they your own casts? Because I have been looking for something similar.

Thanks Dr Z. This is just the tip of the iceberg in junk terms. The junk is from two main sources. The main one is Rusty Rail. Brilliant casts, very reasonable and great service. They are designed for early 20 Century O Scale railroads but they’re perfect for post apoc.

http://www.rustyrail.com/oscaleindex.html

The other is Berkshire Valley. They do some great junkpiles and great extras (wheel braces, oil cans etc).

https://www.berkshirevalleymodels.com/apps/webstore/products/category/1103072.html?page=6

Both are in the US and I’m in the UK so customs charges can be a pain. Rusty rail in particular do some of the most reasonable postage I’ve seen from the US though.

[Jagannath]

These latest updates are amazing, can't wait to see this finish!

Thanks for sharing - Rusty Rail in particular also do HO scale, which is very interesting for me!

[Storm Wolf]

what to put in the hanger a partially dismantled SR-71 Blackbird of course!

[gamer Mac]

Looking forward to seeing the progress
It will be a board all on its own

[GDonk]

Fantastic start and I have no doubt that the finished product will be truly magnificent, as with all your builds 

[has.been]

I wish you well with this, & look forward to the results of your work.
I am having to order more blue & yellow paint, due to the number of
times your work results in...'Colour me GREEN!!!'

[von Lucky]

Very promising - will probably be finished in only a few weeks!

Roof wise - I'd use those corrugated plasticard (e.g. Evergreen) sheets in 2-3 different profiles to show the roof has been repaired once or twice.

[Vladimir Raukov]

Ooh blimey, that's going to be stunning when it's done!