Category: spaceship

Finally.  The Doors.  You may have noticed that half the doors on the spaceship are really, really tall.  Like this: There’s a reason for that.  I wanted doors that open and close.  This week I built the doors that slide up and down.  Here’s a look at the finished...

Happy Boxing Day!  In honor of whatever is those kooky Canucks celebrate today, let’s all point at Warren and laugh at how he still hasn’t learned his lesson.  Remember way back earlier in the year when I spent hours building roads for Car Wars and when they done it...

December 21, 2012.  Time to throw out your old Mayan calendar and get a new one.  Let’s skip all the obvious jokes, okay?  If you want those, just read Twitter for five minutes – you’ll get every single one of them a few dozen times. On the spaceship front...

Here’s a nice open space for a shoot-out.  The ship’s gym comes complete with a futureball court and target, and a sparring/wrestling mat.  I’d hoped to do without the Necromunda style yellow and black striped caution marks, but darn it those patterns just plain work.  The boys at GW...

Tell me this bridge doesn’t evoke a TARDIS feeling.  That’s a basic hex base for a 28mm figure with cereal packet painted with dials, screens, and other controls.  I took the same style syringe cap used for the engines and stuffed it full of green and unpainted toothpicks.  The...

Every little detail added makes the rocket come alive just a little more.  This shot shows some successes in that department.  The engines are starting to look the part with bright green glowy cores surrounded by plastic casements. (Those are the tops of big syringes over a painted bamboo...

Like I said – a little drybrushing and those zip-ties really pop as ladders.  If you don’t think about it too hard. This shot gives you glimpses of other design decisions.  The vents turned out just fine, but they still need numbers on them.  The teal and orange will...

Do as I say, not as I do.  I did as I do, and it was a mistake.  So from here on out, I will do as I should have done and would have done, if I had somebody making these mistakes for me the way I’m making them...

This looks like your normal wargame tree stand.  Art posterboard cut into a circle, a few dollar store plastic trees, some rocks, sand, and paint, and it’s an instant forest.  In my world it becomes a low-cost oxygen generation machine.  This is designed to fit right into the heart...

Various bits and bobs slapped together make a mighty fine med-tank.  This is the first piece of furniture for what my daughter has taken to calling my space-doll-house.  (“But Daddy, it has a kitchen and everything!) It’s not a doll house, it’s miniature wargame terrain, and they aren’t dolls,...