 June 18, 2013 - 4:07am | I was just checking out the blog known as Frank Chadwick's Space 1889 and saw this: http://space1889.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-incredible-model-zeppelin.html I've seen scale models of the British sky ships for 28mm gaming but this is just off the hook cool. (I love miniatures so sue me) talk about a great location for a game. con game local group Table top game whatever. sort of gives me an itch to think about maping out a ring space station. (lets face it maps roll up and store nicely) full thread on the building here: http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=23406.0 I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 June 18, 2013 - 4:22pm | Looks great Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
June 18, 2013 - 6:15pm | I want one but I know I dont have space to store it. I was thinking about what model to do a SF version of this but sf ships are vertical not horizontal. Asteroid base? ring station? I kind of like the idea of a station with a prominade running down the center. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 June 18, 2013 - 9:27pm | Zeppelin Vertical just means you get to make a closed model with doors that open to view the inside. (How awesome is that?) Though that could also be done horizontally if you build it like a tackle box to pull the floors out on hinges. (That's even more awesome.) View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
June 19, 2013 - 1:46am | Think of the project like the 3D chess game in Star Trek. Levels connected by moving through certain passages. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
June 19, 2013 - 1:46am | Think of the project like the 3D chess game in Star Trek. Levels connected by moving through certain passages. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 June 19, 2013 - 8:16pm | That is an awesome Zepplin. And to rattraveller's point, it would be pretty easy I would think to build a ship vertically. Be like a dollhouse. Verticle ship and have stairs or elevators to move up and down. Have it hinge out so you could have the whole ship and not just half. |
June 19, 2013 - 8:42pm | I started thinking about how to make a Star Frontiers ship for miniatures after I commented and my wife's china hutch popped in my head. It has three sides of glass and a mirror. So what about a cylinder shape, whatever height needed for decks, open framed. Use 4 verticle posts for the frame of the ship with a cyclinder in the middle for the elevator. All the side would be open for access to each room. Leave room at the top of each level to be able to reach inside and move the figures. It would be limited as to havig lots of rooms for each level, but it could make for an interesting gaming format. It would also take up less space as you would be verticle, just don't replace the wife's china hutch with it.  |
June 19, 2013 - 9:43pm | You could use a round display tower. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
 June 19, 2013 - 10:38pm | Hirstarts blocks have been used to build stacking towers that are the same concept as the SF starship stacking. See a good stacking tower model here: http://www.hirstarts.com/fieldoct/fieldoct.html They have sci fi blocks as well: http://www.hirstarts.com/scifi/scifimain.html This could also be designed to have one side come off like a doll house. -iggy |
June 20, 2013 - 1:46am | I like the ideas, for a small table top game but a con game will be 6-8 players at a long table and the vertical arrangement wont work so well from the point of view of crowding in all those people to move their miniatures. I cant help but think that to do this in sf you'd have to do a big ship in horizontal and use "Artificial gravity". Ascents cupcake towers hold potential though. I like the tackle box idea but I think the hinge mechanism would stand out as just that and detract from the aesthetic of the model. It looks to me from the photos on the zeplin that these guys built it in section for storatge and transport and the little touch with making "period" crates was nice. And from comments on the forum thread it seems this was not a club project but just two brothers in a garage. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
