"Resilient Class DropShip" Topic

Remember this…

…from five years ago. It was always meant to be a prototype. I always wanted to be able to make a version that would hold my Old Crow Vehicles and be able to be posed and deployed on the table top.

So following mt experiences making lasercut styrene terrain link I decided to redesign the ship to have a lasercut skeleton wrapped in styrene and 3d printed and resin molded extras.

This is as far as I have got…

ou can follow the full story on my blog. link
Or on the Lead Adventure Forum where there has been quite a lot of interest. link

Comments and suggestions welcome…

Sweet , I remember this being a grymn vehicle .

Been following on LAF and yep remember it from years ago. It's looking a lot better now, I've got a couple of suggestions, if you mount the engines horizontaly to the hull with the forward engines lower the the rear, you avoid the engines venting into each other and provide a very small lifting wing.

Secondly I know it's been suggested to use a Listerne bottle, well if you recess the cabin to take the whole cap then while the cap is screwed to the body, glue the cabin to the cap, rather than trying to cast a thread inside the cabin. Overall though it looks brutish and functional just right for marines.

Yes Ming31 – its a DropShip for my Hasslefree Grymn and their Old crow vehicles.

Lardie the Great – thanks for the feedback. The front engines extend further out from the hull to avoid their exhaust ejecting directly into the Rear engines. Also, the engines 'vector' (rotate) to one of 12 separate positions to allow for VTOL and other maneuvers, so its only in direct horizontal thrust that the engines may interfere.

I Think you mean to rotate the engines so that the two intakes are horizontal rather than vertical as they are now?

I'm unwilling to do this as the space i have to store and display the ships in is limited. On a more model related issue,I deliberately didn't want to give the ship aerofoil sections for a number of reasons. I like the whole plumet like a brick squat nature of the thing, also most of this ships journies will be through space with only a small element in an atmosphere. Those atmospheres would be different pressures, elements and temperatures so the aerofoil would need to be very different for each trip to make any significant difference.

The "make me one so i can just glue bits to a listerine bottle" brigade underestimate how many components are in the structure of the ship that penetrate the 'skin', and also how weak that skin is. While its possible for me to make a variant that just glues engines and cockpit etc to a bottle, this is a secondary concern to me at the moment. However I think you are right – as i said on the LAf, just gluing the cap to the bottle and then into the cockpit would be ideal – very rigid and secure.

Thank you both for your interest and comments :-)

Hi Brandlin, yep you understood what I was trying to describe, fair enough on the short and stocky theme. Agreed, the bottle idea while good for keeping prices down and recycling it would also be very limiting, I did like your pringle kits and always hoped you'd do some sci-fi terain.
Just thought, I know you were planning on carrying Jez's excellent Old Crow vehicles, howabout designing your own and ask Jez nicely? may be do-able…

I like it, and want one.

Excellent work.

No need for a hollow one for me (although that would be nice as well).

I just want one for the local spaceport.

The front engines extend further out from the hull to avoid their exhaust ejecting directly into the Rear engines.

Sorry, I think that was my fault. Just can't keep my big yap…

By the way, have you ever seen Combat Wombat's Bullfrog? I saw a piccie again recently and realized it was giving me a slight deja vu with yours, especially the 'big shoulders'.

Doug

Lardie – not sure what you mean about a deal with jed?

Mako – thanks for the support.

The beast – the front engines wider than the rear is a feature do the prototype from 5+ years ago. Just googled the bullfrog… That's a kind of pod delivery stystem… Not my cuppa.

Brandlin, what I meant was getting a vehicle purpose built to be carried in the hold, just like in real life, not that it is real and I never talk to my figs…. or have to complete a conversion rather than leave a wounded fig on the table… that would be silly.