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Post by Soap on Feb 15, 2011 14:44:37 GMT -5
www.ironhands.com/daunt.htmIts the DAUNTLESS Class ship wreck iv found in a google. So the big question is how would you go about making something like this? Sh*t loads of plasticard followed by decoration? Or do you think they would be another way to do it? Sexeh piece of terrain!
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Post by dcrabb on Feb 15, 2011 15:03:37 GMT -5
That is an awesome piece of terrain, obviously someone spent months on it. From the photos you can see some pieces from the GW Manufactorum Cities of Death kit.
Also you would need a bits box the size of a room and tons of plasiticard. No to mention more skill than most mere mortals possess.
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Post by adastra84 on Feb 15, 2011 15:28:28 GMT -5
some of it looks like lego, and from some of the other project notes the maker uses kids toys for scavenging parts.
Awesome tho.
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Post by Soap on Feb 15, 2011 15:42:09 GMT -5
Well I dont have a shy bits box, but this is way out of my league. Still want it though!
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Post by emptyhat on Feb 15, 2011 16:58:48 GMT -5
An amazing idea. I'd make sure that you plan out a framework that is solid and durable. Maybe take a look at nautical ship frames for inspiration.
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Post by Adam Selene on Feb 15, 2011 19:54:49 GMT -5
Is the name "DAUNTLESS" or is that the class because I think that a Dauntless class would be much larger when compared to the thunderbolts and Maurader Bombers that are given scale in both BFG and apoc/normal, so this makes me think that its a cutter not a dauntless class light cruiser That being said it is AMAZING, the person responsible should be given a honorific imperial and a blank cheque for anything of forge world.
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Post by Trickstick on Feb 15, 2011 20:29:16 GMT -5
It is not a dauntless class, it is simply a cutter that is named dauntless. If it was a dauntless class it would take up several tables.
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Post by emptyhat on Feb 16, 2011 9:23:05 GMT -5
Do you think a Cobra destroyer would be doable for 40k scale?
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Post by Trickstick on Feb 16, 2011 10:28:53 GMT -5
I don't think any ship they have will work, they are all much better suited to being the battlefield itself. However, the strike craft would work well and are much bigger than you would think. Even the fighters are huge.
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Post by emptyhat on Feb 16, 2011 10:57:45 GMT -5
A marine is about 40mm tall in game and about 3 meters tall in fluff so a meter is about 13.3mm. The Cobra destroyer is around 800 meters on the ship scale so that’s 106.40cm (10640mm). The ship would have broken up and some of it would have burnt up when it crashed (not to mention damage from battle in space).
So maybe if you made multiple pieces of the cobra for several terrain bits, and had them scattered around a large table you could make the what’s left of the ship the whole battlefield along with the crater (or trail of burnt earth) that the ship made when it crashed rather than any other terrain?
(I used a marine and not a guardsman for scale because that was what was in front of me at the time)
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Post by Trickstick on Feb 16, 2011 11:20:21 GMT -5
Sorry emptyhat, scale is too weird to do that in 40k. It seems that they use different scales for models as they do for distances.
I would just invent my own class of ship and us that instead, maybe some kind of patrol craft or a cutter. You can make it look like a smaller version of a cobra though, as most imperial tech looks similar anyway. Call it the "het gwag" class or something.
Having it broken up into several pieces is a good idea. I remember seeing a WD article in the first one i got about making a crashed spaceship. They had a burnt out main hull, along with a few other sections and a crashed escape pod.
The trail of burnt earth sounds good.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Feb 16, 2011 11:22:51 GMT -5
Hmmm, there's an error on the ship chart that Twitch posted. It's not a Dauntless class frigate, it's a Firestorm/Sword class frigate. To the best of my BFG knowledge, the Dauntless class are light cruisers only.
I agree that the smallest ship (Cobra destroyer) would still be too big to serve as a terrain piece on a single table (unless it was a huge table), but could work if broken up over several tables...
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Post by emptyhat on Feb 16, 2011 11:42:12 GMT -5
Oh well empty hat, empty head.
Trooper I like your idea, if you had several tables that could be a nice unifying factor, maybe a city ruin on one table with a thruster part sticking out, a main crash site table and a forest table with a couple of ship pieces that scattered of the main breaking up the woodland.
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Post by Soap on Feb 16, 2011 15:05:55 GMT -5
The title says its a 'Cutter' Class, not a destoryer. Dont know if that makes much difference like!
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Post by Trickstick on Feb 16, 2011 18:57:09 GMT -5
Aw, no one spotted that "het gwag" is welsh for empty hat...
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Post by emptyhat on Feb 16, 2011 23:00:53 GMT -5
Nope. Missed that by a mile. But from now on I'll keep it close to me: Not in my hat of course because that would be a paradox.
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Post by Trickstick on Feb 16, 2011 23:03:16 GMT -5
Surely your hat is quite close to you anyway? But hang on, it's empty? So where is your hat?
WHEREISHISHAT?!?!?
*Disappears in a puff of logic*
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Post by chromepip on Feb 16, 2011 23:18:38 GMT -5
Strangely enough a project not unlike this one was made for the old terrain book. the main engine compartment was made from a pop can and the cargo bay was made from an old starwars toy. ah '96, back when GW didn't make terrain for you. how i miss those days.
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Post by emptyhat on Feb 17, 2011 1:14:22 GMT -5
Hey at least you got a galactic best seller out of it Trickstick! By the way if you want to save yourself three characters then you can just refer to me as Empty chromepip I wouldn't mind it so much if white dwarf wasn't so crazy full of GW terrain. Afterall the OP image had a light sprinkling of GW terrain in it and that rocked.
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Post by Machine Gun Kelly on Feb 17, 2011 13:02:55 GMT -5
chromepip: Heh, I remember that, I think it was a small article about it in WD too.
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Post by Trickstick on Feb 17, 2011 13:23:15 GMT -5
Yeah it was in WD, that is the article that I mentioned earlier.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Feb 17, 2011 14:13:33 GMT -5
Strangely enough a project not unlike this one was made for the old terrain book. the main engine compartment was made from a pop can and the cargo bay was made from an old starwars toy. ah '96, back when GW didn't make terrain for you. how i miss those days. Wasn't that the terrain that was used in the battle report between Andy C. and Jervis J. where Tycho (in the guise of an old BA captain mini) got his brain fried by the Weirdboy, which gave rise to today's modern Tycho, with the half face mask and the deep abiding hatred of Orks?
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Post by Soap on Feb 17, 2011 14:38:45 GMT -5
I am always impressed by the fluff people know about the 40k universe lol
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Post by emptyhat on Feb 17, 2011 21:02:32 GMT -5
Is that fluff or lore?
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Post by jerbat123 on Feb 18, 2011 12:23:36 GMT -5
That is late 1980's early 1990's my friend,the tyco stuff is lore that's what I read in the 1st ed. BA/DA codex that was way back in the day. It's amazing what you find in your closet with 2" of dust on it,That terrain piece was in the how to book and this guy used a toilet float as an escape pod,Sadly the WD/GW has drifted away from this stuff,it was truly inspirational terrain,showing what ordinary material can be used.I feel really old now.
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