American Expedition to Venus

[Sinewgrab]

Cheers Maties!

I've now turned to doing so more sailors while I await some new stuff... hopefully very soon.

I'm trying to figure out how to put this thing     in the air...

 

Damn you VSFers. Now I find myself trying to design an aeronef that would have two of those pointed downward as a bombardment vehicle - and I have never even played VSF.
Damn this forum and its overwhelming barrage of ideas!

[gamer Mac]

It’s scary. We must think a like. I don’t play VSF (Yet ) but I found myself thinking how to fit such a large gun on to a flying ship as well.
But I thought it was just too big.
Unless you build the ship around the actual gun. Use the gun as a bow chaser and as the super structure.

[Plynkes]

It's not too big, you folks are just trying to squeeze it on to boats that are too small.

In the words of Police Chief Brody,

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

[gamer Mac]

This VSF stuff is addictive.
I have been mucking about on Google sketch up and came up with this idea for your big gun.


What do you think?
I can feel myself sliding further and further down the slippery slope that is VSF

[Ray Rivers]

As Plynkes said...

"You're going to need a bigger boat!"

 

My design will be somewhere around a foot long and 9 1/2 inches wide (30x23cm).  It will feature a protected bow gun and a flying bridge.

Though I want to wait until I get my order from Reviresco (which should be in a week or so) I'm chomping on the bit to get started, as I have pretty much all materials at hand to get construction underway.

Here is a photo of the main hull pieces:



Anybody guess where they came from?

[Argonor]

PC speaker cabinets.

[Ray Rivers]

PC speaker cabinets.

Yep... which reminds us to never throw any plastic "thing" with potential away....

 

[leadfool]

Re Plastic Thingies

I appearenly have a look that both my daughter and wife recognize when I look as some plastic thingy and get a VSF idea.  They just ask "What is it" and then leave me to my ramblings.

Please check out my postings of photos of some plastic things in the Gallery under tanks.

[Argonor]

PC speaker cabinets.

Yep... which reminds us to never throw any plastic "thing" with potential away....

 

Try telling my wife that  - apparently my eldest daughter (5 3/4) has inherited my affinity for things that 'might be useful at some point in the future', and doesn't want to throw anything away, either 

[Argonor]

That steam-elephant is hilarious 

[Ray Rivers]

Just finished the 5 Naval Officers pack from Copplestone.

I painted two of them such that they can also be used as Americans.



My 'nef' needs crew...   

I'll be doing some more infantry next.

[Gluteus Maximus]

Very pristine whites - just as you'd expect from the USN 

The chap in the short jacket looks especially "American" to me, which is a tribute to your painting style.

Are the jungle blooms silk decorative flowers, or did you make them yourself? They have a distinctly different look to the plastic leaves

[Ray Rivers]

Are the jungle blooms silk decorative flowers

Yep... stolen from the wife's collection.  Unfortunately... I got caught. 

[Gluteus Maximus]

Are the jungle blooms silk decorative flowers

Yep... stolen from the wife's collection.  Unfortunately... I got caught. 

 

At least you can console yourself with the thought that you are helping other LAFers by passing on your ideas 

[Gluteus Maximus]

Look forward to the photos.

Don't know... to my eye they seem a bit small.  Perhaps it has to do with the range involved.  The ACW figures from Foundry are very stocky.

Oops, I just remembered that I should have posted the pics of my Empress/Copplestone hybrid 

Here are a couple of pics:





The painted figure is the original Foundry Belgian, the bare metal is the same figure with new head and re-positioned arm. The Empress heads are slightly smaller than the Copplestone, but not enough to look wrong to me. The Foundry ACW figures are slightly smaller than the newer Darkest Africa, so the heads should be an even better match.