"Scratchbuilt Dropships?" Topic

Hey all,

Looking for inspiration today. I have accumulated a rather large box of this and that and am wanting to build some stuff.

I was wondering if anyone had any cool ideas/pics of any dropships they've built from scratch. I prefer 15mm but 28mm will do too.

Thanks all,

-Eli

Brandlin's excellent dropship: link

And here is an excellent thread that deals with the same question that I have referenced: TMP link

I used a toy Thunderbird 2 for one:

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The miniature in the pic is a Grymn (Space Dwarf) in 28mm scale (approximately22mm tall).

Ack, that's a bit out my league but most excellent!

-Eli

@Insomniac – Hmmmm..that would make a most excellent landed spaceship in 15mm.

An old Final-Fantasy-Movie toy formed mine…

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Since the figs with the toy were around 10mm, it may convert to 15 easier than the 28 I tried…

These are all really cool. Anybody have any that they have made out of junk, bits, household items, etc? That's really more what I was looking for.

-Eli

IIRC, BlackWidowPilot does some really nice stuff with odds and ends…try an author search, maybe?

found his website…
metal-express.net/news.php

Yes! BlackWidowPilot does excellent spacecraft and futuristic vehicles using only leftover soap dispensers, bottletops ect. He his a real wargaming McGuyver if I have ever seen one.

I know you are wanting left overstuff BUT if cardstock is ok here are a couple of links.

Ebble's older dropship and GyroFalcon both really nice worth the money and has eight different color options.Also has some really nice scenery – browse around.
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Toposolitario's free Chicken Hawk – check out some of his other stuff.
toposolitario.com/workshop

A gallery of the Chicken Hawks and Drop ship that I built with some 28mm figs to give you a sense of scale.
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Neil Nowatzki's Hercules:
mil-net.net/hercules.cfm

Enjoy!

here's one of mine:

doodlebot.net/redoubt/?p=173

These are all really awesome. I am currently working on turning a couple of deoderant containers into 15mm dropships. The biggest problem is trying to find a suitable cockpit piece to add to them. I am considering trying to use a 1/144 or 1/72 helo cockpit or even a truck cab with a little sci-fi drag to hide the grill.

Landing gear is also vexing.

-Eli

Almost 10 years ago (gah, have I been doing this stuff that long?) I built a really simple large dropship for 15mm; it could hold a platoon of four armoured vehicles, or an entire company (!) of leg infantry. It got used in several games, featured as scenery in several more, and then wrecked in a move – it was very lightly built and fragile.

warbard.ca/sg2gallery.html
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I don't have photos of the whole thing, though. The back was a one large ramp, and there was a remote weapon mount – a pair of light cannon – mounted on the ceiling of the cargo bay which was exposed when the ramp was down.

The whole thing was just sheet styrene, with some details built up with putty.

Mr. Burger,

I remember playing with a few of your minis at a NorWes Con some ten years back! I didn't get to see that awesome heavy dropship though.

-Eli

Sean Patten did a dropship for 40K that the old Land Raider APC model could fit in.

Thunderhawk Dropship: ironhands.com/thawk.htm

Towards the bottom he links to 2 other scratch-built Thunderhawks by other modelers.

Sean's main site: ironhands.com

Neil Nowatzki's Hercules looks great!

Now i feel cheap looking at all of these amazing models, but I just use some deodorant containers with spoons for cockpits…. painted up and with some little bits added on they make nice, well, not really dropships, but more like apcs for a squad. Shuttle might be a better word.

@RTjebadia – That's a good idea though. And really I'm getting a lot of ideas here. Not sure I'm going to go for a full scratch build but definitely have some ideas.

-Eli