"What are folks using for 15mm landing pads?" Topic

Hey all,

I've been on a terrain kick again and there is one piece of terrain that continues to get back burnered because I just cannot seem to find the right stuff to make it

A LANDING PAD

I need a variety of pads for smaller craft like dropships and VTOLs as well as larger pads for larger dropships, transorbital transports, cargo haulers, etc..

Stand along or capable of being mounted as part of another building would work.

Help a brother out?

Thanks,

-Eli

I don't have a link handy, but I seem to remember that there are a few options in paper terrain freely downloadable from the Internet.

scotiagrendel.com do something that may be of use for a small landing pad

It's meant to be 25mm but is small for that task and might suit 15mm quite well.

x42

Well I was going to send you to S6 Engineering in the UK but they are closed.. (Where have I been?)

It's too bad to since I picked up one of their 15mm Runways which comes with three nice Landing pads like you are seeking.

2'x2' square of MDF board. It's not exactly rocket science.

Another cool idea is a large area of Pressed Steel Planking. I've seen resin aircraft display bases for sale with that pattern, and I think you can even find that pattern in textured styrene.

@Lion in the Stars – I was thinking of something a bit more visually impressive than a slab of hard ground.

-Eli

The guy who wrote Gruntz uses these Platformers from Pegasus for his. You can build all sorts of things in all different sizes using them. Easy and reasonably priced! link

Use a CD. Paint it black and then draw yellow lines.

Hi Eli

I have used these rope reels in the past when i was playing Necromunda back in the mid 90's turn them on end (no rope as got them from work FOC) and they look good once painted.

I'm on the lookout for things like this at work to make a few landing platforms for a space ship based boarding action! well hopefully as I have a few packs of GZG spacemen with and with out guns :)

link

Cheers Matt

I have a landing pad that I bought as part of a set called, I think, Mars Station from Worldworks paper terrain. Unfortunately, I no longer see that set in their catalog.

It's a printed card-stock landing pad that looks like worn concrete slabs with a big giant yellow letter to mark it. I fixed it to a solid base and added a few terrain doodads around it, and it doesn't look like a piece of paper terrain at all. Mine's in 28mm but you could easily scale it down for 15mm. I should take some photos of it.

Dirt, or a simulation of it.

To those who have offered up some useful options, thank you.

I would like to say that though it is possible and likely that a ship will land on the ground, or a wide area of concrete, a landing strip, etc.., I am not looking for that sort of landing pad.

What I am looking for are built-up landing pads and platforms – the sorts that you often see in science fiction movies. I enjoy building miniatures structures and terrain, and needed a little help in finding parts that could be converted into landing pads/platforms.

Thank you,

-Eli

There is nothing "out of the box" like that. I've picked up a 40k landing pad and also picked up a shed load of platformer/hexagon kits.

Here's a pic of the 40k pad

I'm going to be trying to get rid of all the 40k bits, but the is covered in them! But this is the main landing pad in my 15mm star port. The smaller pads are coming from the hexagon kits, as used here -

From site doodlebot.net/redoubt/?p=351

What I'd love to see are these in 15mm as they are 6mm only right now:

Got to say though bud, a simple Google images search will show you dozens of options.

I had done a search. I've done it a dozen it times, in fact.

I guess I was looking more for input from other gamers.

-Eli

This is the basis for the idea I've been kicking around, sorry for the half-ass proof of concept photo.

I have a couple of these 40k templates I'm going to use as force field or hard light pads. If you neatly line the edge of the template with aluminum foil and shine an LED into it, you can illuminate the whole surface. I was thinking of using a couple of those cheap electronic tea light candles for the light circuit.

Another cool idea is a large area of Pressed Steel Planking. I've seen resin aircraft display bases for sale with that pattern, and I think you can even find that pattern in textured styrene

Exactly what I used – PSP for the taxiway, tiles (heat resistent) for the pad itself. Ground based, but could equally easily be put on a building, platform etc.

For large structures, look for styrofoam packing used for boxed electronics and the like. You'll have to pretty it up, of course…. ;-)

pretzel jar lid

Pretzel jar lid. It's big, its round, and its somewhat elevated. Just stick on a loading ramp and paint.

I'd use a pottery base. I got this for like a buck at WalMart a few years ago.

Edit – That is granny grating in the center.

If you dont mind the dimples lego do a landing pad tile which i think is 12x12 that you can pick up pretty cheap on E-Bay. It could be the starting block for something more impressive…

I use an external fan designed to slide under a laptop computer to prevent it overheating. It has nicely shaped legs and a grille surface. Should look gerat when I finally get around to painting it.

Well at work I managed to pick up an empty real :)

With a Cylon Ship!

And with my Brigade Athena Flyer :)

Now I have got to add detail and paint!

Cheers Matt

This was posted over on the Gruntz forum :)

link

Cheers Matt

Here's one I Sketchup'ed last night:

And now with some 15mm-scale models:

Oh, hey! I just remembered about these. These are rebar caps (for protecting workmen from being impaled if they fall on exposed rebar) and run about $3 or so each. You find a dowel for the center and add sci-fi-ish details. I think the top surface is about 3" square. You can find them in the cement and concrete aisle of Home Depot or Lowes.

A landing pad on a pillar like that could be cool. I'd leave the access tower as a separate part. This would allow folks to use other methods of access if they chose.

-Eli

javelin98, great idea on those rebar cap things! I'll be grabbing a few next time I hit the Home Depot!

flipped over they will make good industrial jack stands for raised structures.

emu2020 – hmm, another interesting thought. Shock-spreading base mounts for all your sci-fi deep-sand water drilling rigs? I might have to do something with that idea in the new year…

Heck, they might even work as landing gear for a larger vessel.

-Eli

Hmmm… a lot cheaper to go with a household object for the stem. Kind of like this:

Now yer talkin!

There is another company that did some tower conversion parts that work with Pringle cans.

-Eli

@Altius:
link
Ebbles may rerelease his old pad too… perhaps…
germy.co.uk/paper25mm.html
the landing pad is about the size of my hand anyway.

Hmmm… a lot cheaper to go with a household object for the stem. Kind of like this

Andreas,

This would work especially well if you left the brackets separate from the platform so they could be fitted to another of household items of different diameters.

-Eli