Sci Fi Project - "Aliens" Inspired

[Si Tyler]

Next 10mm project is some Sci Fi skirmish type get up.  I am looking at a "travel" type game to keep the kids from being bored on holiday (lie, its for me really, I can always play solo )

Currently building the terrain, the figures are on order but sat in the Pendraken waiting to ship pile so I can get ahead of the game.

http://anyonenotfinished.pbworks.com/w/page/52138374/Sci%20Fi%20-%20Terrain

No photos up yet, but gathering ideas and bits of plastic to stick together.  I am using what is at home in the bits box (which turns out to be quite a lot of styrene).  Walls are going to be 20mm high on the rooms and corridors.  Elevations can be accessed by either ladders or ramps.  I am toying with a 3d reverse pyramid.  Ground level with most of the criss crossing and interconnections in the middle of a square with the upper levels on the outer perimeters each time you go up a level.  This might completely crash and end up being a single level but aspiration as everything is there

As this is only going to be 50 or so figures I didn't think a painting diary would be necessary but will see how the terrain building goes.

Si

[Maenoferren]

Sounds interesting - keep us psoted

[Techno]

Looking forward to seeing this Si !
Cheers - Phil.

[Arsenus]

Interesting!

[capthugeca]

Yes, sounds good.
Looking forward to seeing the terrain and figures.

[Leon]

Sounds cool, keep us updated on the scratchbuilding, I'm always interested in what can be knocked up.

[Si Tyler]

First mock ups and lessons identified.

Overview.  The Lego in the background is to make sure the angles are 90 degrees.  I haven't quite got that right yet though as some of the corridors have ended up a shade narrower.  Either need to sand these down or go for 15mm round bases  rather than 20mm   both of which I think I have on order


Medium Straight with pipe.  I might drop the pipe and replace with panels.


Medium Room with no detail


90 Degree corner with a WW1 Figure proxy


These will be sprayed black later this morning as while White is my preference it doesn't set the mood.

Si

[Squirrel]

You've made a good start there Si, I'll be interested to see how you progress!

Cheers,

Kev

[Techno]

Looking extremely promising Si.
We all expect to see it finished this afternoon !
Cheers - Phil.

[Si Tyler]

We all expect to see it finished this afternoon !

I lack the speed of Nik I am afraid and real work gets in the way



Ran out of the important internal support piece, I thought I had two packs but turned out to be one pack 3/4 full 

Saturday will see a trip to the model shop

[Leon]

These look excellent, and there's some nice idea's there for the ones I'm working on myself.  I'm looking forward to seeing how you progress with this.

[sixsideddice]

Very cool altogether...  looking forward to seeing more.

[nikharwood]

Looking good Si, looking good 

[Si Tyler]

Real world takes over for a while.

I have set myself a task of making one room or corridor section per day for the next two weeks (might be two corridors if they are simple sections).  It won't be a lot of stuff but I am hoping to add some "specials" such as the meeting lab or the crew room from the Nostromo. As with all my projects I make it up as I go along so hadn't done any planning.  I have had a morning of cutting out "standard" components and fixing some of the earlier ideas that didn't work out.  I have undercoated all the original set.  Kids have been playing Frag on the game board today and want to know when the real one is going to be finished so I have some pressure on to keep this going along with all the other stuff.

Si

[Nosher]

Really admire your balls (and modelling skills too!)

For me this is a trip too far, given that out of 10 my modelling skills skills come in somewhere in the -8 region hence jobs like this are off limits to me.

It might be my imagination (and probably IS given my brain is quite small, smooth and food/alcohol obesessed) but there was talk at some point of PD doing a Sci-fi/Aliens-esque dungeon. I've never been a dungeoneer, but Space Hulk was and still is a fabulous game (which although I own a copy of the recent re-hash, I really dont game enough of).

I might just have to see if the way in which I based my PD aliens and Coloinial Marines might fit on Space Hulk Tiles as there might just be a game there looking to be hashed!

Looking forward to seeing how your efforts turn out