Post by wilmanric on Aug 24, 2014 14:49:07 GMT
The PCs in my new Hulks and Horrors campaign have "liberated" a Beowulf-class scout cruiser from the docking bay inside the ISS Oubliette (a prison ship.)
In the sci-fi genre, often the ship is a character unto itself -- Serenity, Millenium Falcon, Enterprise -- so I felt I needed to make some specific tiles to represent the ship. There will eventually be a third deck - where the cabins, mess and lab/medical are - but I haven't built it yet. Here are some pics from start to finish on the cargo bay (deck 1) and bridge (deck 2).
Here's the plan I started with. Found it on the interwebs. I wanted the ship to be a Beowulf class -- an homage to Traveller...
I made some gross measurements using boxes and a yardstick. Just wanted to frame it out.
I cut a bunch of strips on my machine and then I started gluing them down.
I made a mold from a Warhammer 40k Rhino hatch so that I could mass produce them for the Jailbreak. They are relatively shallow, so they don't protrude too much higher than the cardboard walls.
The spots where the corrugation are showing are "hatches." I wanted a way to represent them that didn't just look like a gap in the wall.
The thin cardboard is a cargo elevator. This is deck 2. The area to the left is where the maneuver drive/engineering area is located. Between the two engines is an airlock.
This is deck 1 - cargo bay, FTL drive. The two big rectangular sections are cargo airlocks. This sits below the other level. Some of the hatches match up.
This is the front of the Jailbreak. Bridge to the left; cabins; secure storage; low passage bunk area in lower right.
Here it is before I painted it. No. I didn't spraypaint it on the hood of my wife's car...
Here is Deck 1 painted. The FTL drive has three "domes" with fluids and lightning in them. The hatchways are color coded. Green means they go up - Red down and Red/Green means they go up/down. All the hatches have ladders. The yellow represents lighting panels.
This area is an "office" where the shipping records are kept. There's a computer terminal here too.
FTL drive and related engineering area.
Deck 2. Maneuver drive. Runs on nano-bio-fuel. The purple stuff represents the fuel tanks.
Crew cabins. The up/down hatch runs top to bottom of the ship. The hall it's in is an airlock.
In the sci-fi genre, often the ship is a character unto itself -- Serenity, Millenium Falcon, Enterprise -- so I felt I needed to make some specific tiles to represent the ship. There will eventually be a third deck - where the cabins, mess and lab/medical are - but I haven't built it yet. Here are some pics from start to finish on the cargo bay (deck 1) and bridge (deck 2).
Here's the plan I started with. Found it on the interwebs. I wanted the ship to be a Beowulf class -- an homage to Traveller...
I made some gross measurements using boxes and a yardstick. Just wanted to frame it out.
I cut a bunch of strips on my machine and then I started gluing them down.
I made a mold from a Warhammer 40k Rhino hatch so that I could mass produce them for the Jailbreak. They are relatively shallow, so they don't protrude too much higher than the cardboard walls.
The spots where the corrugation are showing are "hatches." I wanted a way to represent them that didn't just look like a gap in the wall.
The thin cardboard is a cargo elevator. This is deck 2. The area to the left is where the maneuver drive/engineering area is located. Between the two engines is an airlock.
This is deck 1 - cargo bay, FTL drive. The two big rectangular sections are cargo airlocks. This sits below the other level. Some of the hatches match up.
This is the front of the Jailbreak. Bridge to the left; cabins; secure storage; low passage bunk area in lower right.
Here it is before I painted it. No. I didn't spraypaint it on the hood of my wife's car...
Here is Deck 1 painted. The FTL drive has three "domes" with fluids and lightning in them. The hatchways are color coded. Green means they go up - Red down and Red/Green means they go up/down. All the hatches have ladders. The yellow represents lighting panels.
This area is an "office" where the shipping records are kept. There's a computer terminal here too.
FTL drive and related engineering area.
Deck 2. Maneuver drive. Runs on nano-bio-fuel. The purple stuff represents the fuel tanks.
Crew cabins. The up/down hatch runs top to bottom of the ship. The hall it's in is an airlock.