Chef Lackey Rich  | 20 Sep 2013 11:20 a.m. PST |
New on the blog, a showcase article with pictures and Full Thrust stats for a couple of scratchbuilt starship minis: link
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| elsyrsyn | 20 Sep 2013 11:48 a.m. PST |
Nice ships. Made from hunks of styrene rod of various shapes? Doug |
| Chef Lackey Rich | 20 Sep 2013 12:11 p.m. PST |
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| Angel Barracks | 20 Sep 2013 12:19 p.m. PST |
Very good, as good if not better than some stuff available from wargames companies! x2 goodness. |
| Mr Canuck | 20 Sep 2013 12:35 p.m. PST |
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| gameorpaint | 20 Sep 2013 12:57 p.m. PST |
Great job. Nice to see how far you can go with nothing much more than basic shapes. |
| Chef Lackey Rich | 20 Sep 2013 1:05 p.m. PST |
Yeah, they were pretty simple to build. I think the hardest thing was keeping the engine nacelles the same size and layout – wanted something as a unifying look, although it retrospect going totally unique with each ship might have worked just as well. If I ever resume the project I may go that route. |
| Louie N | 20 Sep 2013 1:50 p.m. PST |
Those are excellent. They very much have a "Gunboat" feel to them. |
| Rodrick Campbell | 20 Sep 2013 3:53 p.m. PST |
All right. I have to say it… those are really cool! |
| justBill | 20 Sep 2013 5:02 p.m. PST |
Fantastic work as always! |
| elsyrsyn | 20 Sep 2013 6:33 p.m. PST |
Thought of making some molds and casting up some more? Doug |
| Chef Lackey Rich | 21 Sep 2013 8:40 a.m. PST |
Not with those two. If I ever find the time to do more sculpts I might see if I can pitch them as masters to one of the existing starship casters – I'm on decent terms with several companies who might be willing to take them on. Don't really care to spend the money for molds myself. |
| Who asked this joker | 21 Sep 2013 11:19 a.m. PST |
Rich you have a good eye for putting shapes together to form something useful! I'll echo Angel Barracks above. Good or better than stuff on the market now. |
TheBeast  | 22 Sep 2013 11:36 a.m. PST |
Yepper, just the way I imagine my things coming together. Never do. I suppose you use something other than 'put in a box, add a few drops of cement, and shake' method. Always thought it might work better if I cut the pieces up, first. Doug |
| Chef Lackey Rich | 22 Sep 2013 12:07 p.m. PST |
Ah, I see your problem. It has to be a vigorous shake. :) Seriously, these (and the old Startown Slums terrain pieces that MKP makes these days) weren't hard to make, just time-consuming and a little fiddly. A good pair of tweezers and an optivisor help a lot. I suspect a competent CG artist could easily crank out similar designs faster – they're mostly agglomerations of cylinders or sections of cylinders – and sell them through Shapeways. Don't have the skills for it myself, unfortunately. |
