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Hi All,
Got my first order of ships, yesterday, from the
very nice Nic at Eureka Miniatures. One of those ESU starter sets.
Hoo-rah!
A question about the FT210 Petrograd Battleship -
the 'wing' seems to fit nicely either way up, one side is fairly plain, the
other has a domish shape moulded on it, and elsewhere, what appear to be fuel
lines or similar in a recess. Is there a 'correct' way up for this
wing?
At www.pantoffelhelden.de, you should find
a German gaming group's homepage which has, in English, a couple of good
articles on modeling space. They recommend slicing polystyrene balls in
half to make planets. At a local fabric wholesalers, in amongst their
hobby and craft supplies (for quilting, teddy bear making, scrapbooking, etc), I
discovered large plastic globes, seemingly designed to make large christmas
tree-type decorations. These globes come apart to form two hemispheres
which are just the berries to make planets out of (and less messy than
polystyrene). The globes appear to come in 8cm and 10cm diametres (that's
about 3.2 and 4 inches, I think).
I coated them with PVA and pasted on tissue
paper. Then painted them with poster paint over a black undercoat. A
light wash with watered down white, dabbed off with a paper towel, gives quite a
nice 'atmosphere haze'. The larger ones are gas giants (one in shades of
red and brown, the other in blues and greens), the smaller are rocky worlds -
one with seas and atmosphere, the other one I rolled in my daughter's sandpit
first after a second coat of watered down PVA, then painted in reds and brown,
added an 'ice-cap' in white but didn't 'atmosphere haze' - it looks quite
Mars-like.
All in all, a very pleasing result for a couple of
evenings work while half-watching the TV. While at the fabric shop, I
picked up a couple of metres of black cloth. Our German friends play on
black boards and suggest an interesting way of creating starfields using
inverted spray cans. I'll have to have a bit of an experiment to see if
this technique will work on fabric. Now to paint the ships!
Regards
David
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