Building Martian skyships and Pijlie's Skyship rules: Action pictures!!!!!!!!

[The_Beast]

Alas, you're on/near the right coast, correct?

Sinewgrab and his lovely ships on the left, and me in the middle with my still-in-progress Martian kite. 

 

Of course, there's my friend Sir Randall's mini-Aphids, tiny digs, and my other friend's flying trireme.

The imagined awesomeness would be too great for one room to hold. Good thing it's a large continent! 

Doug

[Pijlie]

And even better that I am in Europe then 

[The_Beast]

Just, be careful... of a Warlords' resurgence! 

 

Doug

[Pijlie]

Work in progress on HMS Gnat, the Scarab's sister ship.

[finbikkifin]

I must be blind - I only just noticed how the stand works, where the rod goes, and how well-supported it can be.

That's genius.

Perhaps a ring above the ship with some smoke drifting off to mask any unused upper portion of the stand would look good? Not that much could improve HMS Scarab.

[Pijlie]

Hahaha! Thank you, but the idea is not mine, but AFAIK invented by LAFfer Ironclad Paul. See http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=9801.240. The stand can double as a chimney or a mast or be simply be intgrated into the hull and ignored.

There will indeed be a whisp of steam in the final models. The second Aphid is nearing completion and the next one will be a Martian screw galley  

[fastolfrus]

Looking forward to the screw galley.

Don't suppose you have a PDF of your blueprints that I can unleash on the school club?

[The_Beast]

Fast, ole bean, did you see the link on the top of the blog page? It gets you to an old Pinnacle forum, with a fellow doing images that Pijlie used. You actually have to go the the fifth page of the discussion, and carefully scroll down.

Scarecrow's drawings in two links

I'm pretty sure that's what our inestimable friend used, except he had to come up with his own boiler, right?

Doug

[Pijlie]

Yes, I had to make the boiler and deck house myself. But on my blog you will see in this image



the shapes I used to make those. They are laid out on a cm grid so you can tell the sizes. The half round ones left top are the boiler and the trapezoid ones right and bottom are the bridge house and the roof. They are easy to make.

[Pijlie]

Some testing of the ship rules has taken place. The results were very satisfying. Some rules for crashing have been changed and some weapon rules added.

http://pijlieblog.blogspot.nl/2015/03/the-barsoom-project-sky-ship-rules.html

Some pictures of the gunboat in action:




and a glimpse of the Martian ships WIP:

[Furt]

Impressive!!  

There is something about these skyships that keep alluring me too, but the sensible part of me keeps telling me that no good could come of this and I haven't the room to put on a decent game.

Your latest Martian ships look cool. I think if I was to get into this I would do an all Martian game.

Have you seen what this guy is doing? Some interesting ships that may be a good source of inspiration https://www.tregames.com/

[YPU]

Poldercon is a must go this time round for this one alone!

[Pijlie]

That was, among others, a source of inspiration.

You should really curb your sensible part. Nothing will come out of giving in to that 😃
And yes, Poldercon really is mandatory  

[Metternich]

Your skyships are truly impressive.

[MaleGriffin]

 
 
 

More wallet emptying sky ships!