| SymphonicPoet | 11 Jan 2017 9:47 p.m. PST |
I've had these RAFM Traveler miniatures sitting around forever. (Twenty years, probably.) It's WAY past time to get them painted up.
(Well, and this one scrachbuild that needed a good story to make it useful.)
I used them for a cross-blog project I'm working on with the Governor General of Sector Six. My side of the story begins with The Lighthouse Door. I have ambitions to build some more spaceships sooner or later. (And there are a few more Traveler models.) |
Oberlindes Sol LIC  | 11 Jan 2017 10:32 p.m. PST |
Great work, both painting and photographing. Your spelling leaves something to be desired, however. |
| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 11 Jan 2017 11:38 p.m. PST |
That bottom one, with the triangular cross section. That wasn't a GDW design, that was from a licensed work. I can't remember which one. |
| emckinney | 12 Jan 2017 12:40 a.m. PST |
Nope, that's a Donosev-class survey ship from Supplement 9. See link for a beautiful picture. The third one is a Manta fuel shuttle for a New Era Clipper (because you clip on modules). It's supposed to be part of this: link |
| Mako11 | 12 Jan 2017 3:04 a.m. PST |
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Darkest Star Games  | 12 Jan 2017 8:13 a.m. PST |
Emckinney has it right. Always hated that design, it struck me as designed to be difficult on purpose. I had wondered what that Manta ship was! Thanks! I never got into the New Ear, as our "last" GDW Traveller campaign transitioned from Classic to Mega eras and our characters ended up dead while trying to save a planet at the edge of Corridor and the Rift from bombardment by Dulinor forces. I'm sure the Vamps would have gotten us in that area anyways… |
The G Dog  | 12 Jan 2017 1:16 p.m. PST |
Your scratch build could be a TL10-11 rust bucket serving a belter or gas giant's network of moons. It's converted from an expended drop tank, tt's old, it's beat up, but it still gets the job done and earns a few credits for the captain and crew. Unless it's a pirate! |
| SymphonicPoet | 12 Jan 2017 4:11 p.m. PST |
Actually, it's converted from a plastic Little Boy that came with a Monogram B-29. I'm using it as a large, but rather slow warship for a very remote sector. Perhaps roughly akin to an old warhorse soldiering on into a later era, as HMS Canopus at Port Stanley, or the S. American dreadnoughts in WWII. None would be a match for a frontline unit, but they'd serve adequately as an escort against pirates or light raiders. Of course, that's just for this campaign. No reason it couldn't be a pirate later. ;-) I have that modular clipper. I've yet to figure out how it's supposed to go together and I'd be darned grateful to even see a picture or diagram of one assembled. |
| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 12 Jan 2017 6:59 p.m. PST |
Thank you, emckinney. "Fighting Ships." I have it on my Classic Traveller disc, I will investigate further. For some reason I thought it came from elsewhere. |
| SymphonicPoet | 17 Jan 2017 6:32 p.m. PST |
Hey, Coyotepunc and emckinney, Do either of you have pictures of how that Clipper is supposed to look with modules? Or even what the ship itself looks like? I've got a bunch of modules (tennish, maybe) but I'm not certain if I've even got the body. The thing I thought might have been the body could also be a giant gun module. The other thing would have been that fuel shuttle. There's lists of the miniatures RAFM made for the line available, but darn few pictures. (And I've not seen them painted up anywhere else.) |
