Some ship models

I'm going to try to get the SAG blog up and running again. I have some more club specific posts planned but here is a post to get things going. Cub members, if you have projects you'd like to highlight here, please let me know. 

I thought I would share pictures of some ships I finished scratch building during the recent furlough.

First, I built the Sea Ghost from U1 The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. I've loved this ship and this module since I first had it as a kid. I started my current tabletop RPG campaign, Awakened Legends, with this module, and the players acquired the ship as their own. The campaign has been all about running classic modules for modern players, and we have moved on to an expedition to X1 The Isle of Dread . The players are using the Sea Ghost to get there. 

So, I wanted a model of the Sea Ghost, but I wanted to be able to handle scenes below decks as well. At first, I tried to find a way to #D print one, but the price was enormous and I couldn't find someone with the right sized printer. Then I had a spark of inspiration, when i came acorss a color set of deckplans for the ship online. Using those deckplans, a printer, and some foamcore & styrofoam, I was able to create my 3d Sea Ghost!

Here are some pictures of the ship in progress and the final version.

For the sides, I found some wooden building side images
and copy/pasted then printed the sheets. Much quicker then painting! 

Finished ship with a couple 28mm figures for scale. 

Showing the breakdown of the decks,
all glued to foam core.
Magnets hold the decks together in play.  

And a couple images of the ship in game play, attacked on the way to the Isle of Dread by sea creatures.

Next, a steam river boat, which is still lacking a name.

Back in 2002 at Gencon I ran a scenario I called “Mucking About the Swamp” using Space:1889 Soldier's Companion rules. It was a lot of fun, basically, a British scientific was trapped on an island in the Venusian swamps where they had been conducting an archaeological dig. The local lizardman tribes considered the stone circle on the island sacred ground and tried to kill the interlopers.

I've run it a few times since, and I've been revamping it ever since, wanting to add some elements to improve the scenario I completed one element during my recent furlough period - river gunboat! In "Mucking About the Swamp" it will be the relief force, coming to save the day. 🙂

It's scratch built around a "sushi take out boat" and I think it came out pretty decent. Far from perfect but pretty good for my skill set.

I worked on it sporadically for two years, so I've included the "during" images as well. The figures in the "finished" images are just some Napoleonic period British sailors I had nearby, included for scale. The various guns are magnetized so i can customize the weapon load out for each scenario. Should work on Venus, Earth (Khartoum?) or fit right in on the canals of Mars.