Model showcase Mk.II
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Yeah, the forum system doesn’t like links to other host websites, so let’s try this again
Here are some ship pics, looking forward to seeing you guy’s paintjobs!
Also, some scenery – an IJN DD and some IJN planes engaging the enemy near Wake
I love Warlord ships, but I really do not like the planes – especially the Zeroes have this weird selector of role in their base that rubs against the base itself and chips away the paint and I hate it as a concept.
So I printed planes on sheet styrene, cut them out, and encapsulated them in clear resin, with nameplates for each plane type. The end result is quite nice, if I say so myself, and the diameter of the mould is exactly 1″, so you can use them as they are and be game-safe.
I also started work on some terrain. Based on the implicit map scale of Warlord that we can deduce from gun ranges (1″ = 1kyard), I started working on some actual-scale important islands for my Pacific campaign. This Wake Island is just under 9″ across at its longest point. It’s interesting to note that the terrain piece in the beta scenario is 12″ across, so not map-scale accurate.
EDIT: Goddammit attachment system!
And another, well-known atoll…
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Good stuff, Enioch. 🙂
If I may add to the showcase, these are my first VaS models, painted to run a small demo at my LGS. Hoping I can get enough interest to get others to buy in. I don’t want to have to buy all the fleets. 😀
Oh, those are lovely. I like your ‘clean’ hulls, much smoother and slicker than my liberally-applied-wash-hulls that look more weathered, but…dirty.
I’m working on a terrain system now. Cardboard hexes, layered with a gloss membrane and then cardboard terrain bases. You can set them up in a modular way, and create coastlines as you see fit. The membrane is there to prepare water-blending painting technique to get a good sea look later; the cardboard bases will serve as the groundwork for terrain relief / flocking etc.
Each side of a hexagon is 2″, so 2kyards in VaS terrain scale.
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Whatever you’re doing, it’s working 🙂
Yeah, transportability is important to me as well, but mostly I’m concerned about the modularity and the re-arrangeability. I am running a VaS campaign for friends via Discord, and we need a way to simulate various coastlines. Some scenarios you can do with individual atolls, and those are small enough to be custom-made every time, but when you need a 6-foot map edge for a coastal invasion, that’s another matter entirely -.-
So I figured out that with 30 hexes or so, we can have enough to re-arrange them so as to reproduce any coastline we need…
Started work on some reliefs, to make sure it’s a viable concept. Cardboard, toilet paper, white glue and superglue were used to shape the hills; texture is simple aquarium sand, will receive extra flocking later.
Y’know, I rather like it!
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Yes, I definitely like it! 😀
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Also, (and apologies for the triple post, but I think the content is different enough to warrant it): I’ve been working on a display cabinet for my darlings.
Top right, you will also note my kitbashed / scratch-modded latewar Mogami model, with her aft catapult deck!
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Mostly finished my cabinet.
Still working on some of my fleets. Got my second Kongo and Shokaku on the way, and I’ve finished my Prince of Wales and Eagle too…
First trial of my terrain pieces. The Furutaka and two Fubuki-class destroyers faced off against the HMS Orion, the HMS Dido and three allied destroyers in a desperate bid to escape the Hong Kong waters.
Pictured above: Dangan Island (or the nearest thing to it my terrain pieces can make). Overall, very happy with the end result, working on more hexes!
Edit: and on a better playing surface. Guys @ Warlord, I love you all, but the paper mats are probably the worse thing in the starter set after the paper health sliders 😀
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