Scratchbuilt Fleets

Scratchbuilt Fleets
1. Turrets and surface features.
Shotgun pellets are incredibly useful. Drill out a shallow hole in the 
ship, add a drop of thick superglue and drooping a pellet. That's it. 
One cartridge supplies enough for a whole fleet.

2. Hulls
Shaped styrene is readily available (I use the Evergreen brand) and is 
easily shaped and glued. The most useful tools are a razor saw and a 
mitre box to ensure neat cuts at 45 or 90 degrees.
	Sketch out your ideas then go on a spending spree for the
styrene 
sections. The trick is to get sections that fit together easily, say 
1/4" square, 1/4" by 1/8", 1/8" square and so on. The can then be cut 
and glued to together in a selection of useful but rather angular 
shapes. Tubes and rods can be added to taste.
	Short sections of tube can make drive exhausts and plasticard
can be 
used for fins and almost anything else. Liquid styrene cement holds 
everything together though superglue is required for the pellets and 
other metal parts.
	My best creation is based on the old Traveller Azhanti High
Lightning 
cruiser. With a pair of carriers suspiciously similar to those from 
Space, Above and Beyond in support. The carriers are roughly 1 x 4", 
they dominate my table (which is a pity as I hate fighters almost as 
much as I hate missiles).
	One difficulty is cutting small circles of plasticard, while a
circle 
cuter is fine for larger circles small ones are virtually impossible. I 
am not willing to buy a punch to do the job and a paper punch makes a 
mess. Any suggestions?

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