[Games] Slipstream Rocketship Work in Progress
Slipstream Rocketship Terrain Work in Progress: Cockpit
I'm working on a rocketship table piece for Necronomicon 2011 in St. Petersburg, for my "Monkey Men From Mars" scenario. The main body is made from a piece of plastic drainage pipe, with a support piece from a broken Hot Wheels set (from a local thrift store) serving as the main central walkway (and structural support for the half-tube), and a clear plastic nose cone (from an Easter chocolate gift set from a while back - I thought a clear plastic nose cone might come in handy some day). The body rests on a foam base I made, so it doesn't rock around on the table.
Most of the interior flooring is made from Pegasus Hobbies "Hexagon" and "Platform" boxed sets; these are great for assembling "tech" scenery, except that the joining pieces are fairly brittle and break easily when assembling or disassembling. One nice thing about the Platform sets is that the panels slide together on tracks, and I've exploited that for the bulkhead doors; I've glued down the support frames, but left the central panels un-glued, so they can be pulled out.
Slipstream Rocketship Terrain Work in Progress: Engine Room
The piping in the floor area is from Hirst Arts Castlemolds "pipe" castings. The grating is from some plastic "cross-stitch" grid, cut to fit. The workstations/computer controls running along the sides are pieces from a scrapped Micro Machines Star Wars "Death Star" toy from a thrift store, and the semi-cylindrical "main computer terminal" is from a 40K drop-pod bit I picked up at the last Armadillo Bazaar. (I'm tempted to a reel-to-reel somewhere on the ship, for a little more of a retro feel. ;) )
I've chosen pieces to indicate "ladders" running along the length of the ship, on the floor, since this is supposed to be one of those retro rockets that somehow manages to land on its tail fins and blast off again - so if it's landed, it'll be nose-up, making ladders a necessity for getting around inside.
Slipstream Rocketship Terrain Work in Progress: Outer Hull Fitting
I still have a bit to go on decorating the interior and painting everything up, but here's a demonstration of the fitting for the next step: Another section of plastic drainage pipe is to serve as the ship's exterior hull, for table display and for transport/storage (to protect the relatively delicate interior scenery bits from being knocked off in transit). For the exterior hull, I'll be adding port holes, hatches, fins, rocket exhaust, and some sort of retro-raygun-type weaponry, but I figure that'll wait until I've figured out where all the interior features will go (so things can line up properly).