| Mardaddy | 22 Nov 2014 2:15 p.m. PST |
Pretty soon, there will be two-three RPG sessions where the PC's are on a quite long river-boat trip with attendant river/marsh encounters. I would LOVE to have a 3d boat to use on the table for them to tactically maneuver about in, instead of a dry-erase marker outline or a cutout. I'm thinking cardstock and self-assembly more than resin, due to budget for this. Any recommendations? Looking for a boat about a foot long or so – just short of a, "ship," not like a Tom Sawyer flat-boat. |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 22 Nov 2014 2:26 p.m. PST |
check out Goodwill and look for a Lego(tm) pirate ship? |
| leidang | 22 Nov 2014 2:31 p.m. PST |
Look at Hobby Lobby and or Michaels for decorative rowboats. They are pretty easy to pop all the scale specific stuff off of and then just put in a new deck and mast(s) on. Sort of a good shortcut to not having to build a hull. I've used this to make everything from steamboats to sailing ships. |
| Early morning writer | 22 Nov 2014 2:44 p.m. PST |
If you a have a power tool or tw,o a simple pine plank with a bow and stern cut in at either end and then sanded at the base to give a bit of a hull shape plus a shorter piece on top to suggest a cabin – with a card stock roof – and then a little paint and, voila, you have a boat. And cheap, too. You can always come back to it later to improve upon it if the mood and the budget strike close enough together. |
| Sigwald | 22 Nov 2014 2:51 p.m. PST |
check ebay. Mega bloks does a bunch of Pirates of the Carib ships that with a little conversion work are suitable for 28mm. I turned their Chinese junk the Empress into a LOTR Corsair ship. auction auction |
 ColCampbell  | 22 Nov 2014 3:25 p.m. PST |
Gary Chalk did a stern wheeler for Wargames Illustrated back in June 1999. The plans were very easy to use. I built two of them, one for my wargaming buddy and one for me. If you'll Google/Bing Gary Chalk paddle steamer you'll get several web sites and a bunch of pictures of it. Even without the plans you should be able to construct one to your specifications from balsa wood and card stock. Jim |
| Mardaddy | 22 Nov 2014 4:41 p.m. PST |
All good input. And it will still be a month or so before it is actually needed, so plenty of time to figure it out or construct. Thanx. |
| Mardaddy | 22 Nov 2014 4:50 p.m. PST |
All good input. And it will still be a month or so before it is actually needed, so plenty of time to figure it out or construct. Than. |
| Crow Bait | 22 Nov 2014 5:30 p.m. PST |
link Check out the Send a Gun Boat section on The Virtual Armchair General wesite. Cardstock models for around 10 dollars each. |
| Cacique Caribe | 22 Nov 2014 10:07 p.m. PST |
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| Black Cavalier | 22 Nov 2014 10:26 p.m. PST |
Check out laser dream works. They do very nice 28mm ships for as little as $30. USD |
| Grelber | 22 Nov 2014 10:32 p.m. PST |
CC,
That is very much like the boat they show bringing Queen Eleanor to the castle at the beginning of the movie "The Lion in Winter." Grelber |
| Cacique Caribe | 22 Nov 2014 10:34 p.m. PST |
Yep! But the one in the movie was much smaller: link
Dan |
| Griefbringer | 23 Nov 2014 4:02 a.m. PST |
That animated GIF is really annoying… As for boats, I just picked a 1:50 scale plastic Viking longboat from Revell. It is approximately a foot long, and looks like it is quite straightforward to assemble. It comes with mast, sails, oars and some other pieces. However, it is not a waterlined model, which might complicate things a bit depending on how you do your water terrain. Maybe you could represent the river with a piece of painted plywood with a boat-shaped hole cut into it? |
| Cacique Caribe | 23 Nov 2014 2:14 p.m. PST |
Making your own longship isn't too difficult, and is a lot of fun:
In fact, longships are the easiest to make. Use the half hull as your template to make an outline on one edge of a sheet of 1/4 " balsa, then flip it over and outline the other half. Use a pencil with a worn tip and a ruler to mark the planks, following the grain. Best to do that part before cutting out the outline of the hull from the sheet of balsa. Then you can add cross pieces, keel (front and back) and start building up the sides with large sections of thin card. Then add strips of card from bottom to top of the outer surface of the hull. Here's a similar method: link I'd still go with a balsa bottom instead of foamboard. Dan
PS. I've just found these other paper/card models, if you want to go that route:
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| Amalric | 24 Nov 2014 6:23 p.m. PST |
Here's a Longboat I converted a playmobil ship for;
TMP link Heres a card and foamcore Chinese junk I made for Pulp and Fantasy;
link You can make a lot out of foam core, matt baord or poster board.
Good luck! CC that medieval river boat is Ace!
I may have to make one.
Thanks again… |
| Mardaddy | 29 Nov 2014 3:43 p.m. PST |
Bought an Egyptian dhow from Laser Dream Works; right size and cost and I've been on an MDF kick the last two weeks anyways assembling buildings and carts and wagons, so I'm into the theme. BUT I really like that medieval riverboat best. |
| Amalric | 03 Dec 2014 2:01 p.m. PST |
Mardaddy I've been looking at the Dhow to and look forward to seeing what you do with one. |
| Cacique Caribe | 19 Dec 2014 6:34 p.m. PST |
Mardaddy, So, how did it turn out? Dan |
scratchbuilds another Victorian flying machine.
