Papercraft Deep Space Freighter build - part 2

(29/11/15 ) Papercraft Deep Space Freighter build - part 2 : the initial post was getting a bit lengthy so a new post started here and with an up-to-date plan:

Having two separate sections for the middle/bulk of the ship was proving too unwieldy and problematic to tie in the maze of adjoining walls so have decided to go with one (too) big middle section and thus joined the second quarter section on to the new third section:

but it's starting to get too big for my little camera to take it all in so might have to get the SLR out next time!

Ok these are troops straight out of the Nam but couldn't resist a few shots:

Have also started churning out bits and pieces to fill the rooms and corridors so that the finished ship will not look so empty:

(04/12/15) One of the trickiest parts of the build completed, converting the standard Bridge module into a double sized, wrap around windowed, bridge area with space to manoeuvre:
The original.....

 The conversion.....

(13/12/15) Not many opportunities to work on the old tub this week so the only unit I managed to complete was the escape pods corridor:

(30/12/15) Not too much to show for the lead up to the Xmas period for obvious reasons, except for printing, cutting, folding and organising the remaining parts for the last section of the ship:

The Nursing Dead

Bought these four little 'beauties' at the Bristol show Blast-Tastic last month. I've already got a fair shambling horde of Zeds but you can never have too many and couldn't resist these - not sure what Freud would say being as my wife is a Midwife but hey-ho!

As a break from the Aliens project thought I would paint them up:

Alien Eggs

(13/11/15) The Alien Eggs packs arrived today from Dark Art Miniatures and they are fantastic. Very detailed, three different styles, closed, ajar and open, but with different bases also. They stand about 20mm tall with a large detailed base. Will try to get some paint on them over the weekend.

 

 

(14/11/15) First couple of eggs painted to experiment with colour schemes:

 

 



 

 (15/11/15) One dozen alien eggs ready to hatch - "But each one of these things comes from an egg, right? So who's laying these eggs? "

 

 

 

 

 



Archive of some of my previous Papercraft builds for wargames

My first big build, a castle. Initially used for a medieval game but here seen with LOTR game run for my son.

 Cityscape which has been out a few times, mainly for zombie games as seen here.

 Mixture of sci-fi fort and industrial/mining area for a Starship Troopers game.

 Another LOTR game but a fortified harbour area.

 More Zeds and bugs in the cityscape..

 Large shopping mall for a zombie shopping trip!

 A new fort for my (papercraft) Arachnids to fight over.

Papercraft Deep Space Freighter build for Aliens game

My build from the base pack Firstlight from Workworks Games

With big builds I've always found it best to pre-plan rather than make it up as I go along otherwise things never work out as I'd envisioned.

Using an Excel spreadsheet, this is my basic ship layout plan:

Each room or corridor or piece of equipment starts off as printed sheets on 210gsm card. These are the prints (2) to start off building a reactor unit:

then cut out, folded and glued into place:

add another two units making the three required:

Next up a double cargo bay:

and tacking on two rooms:

Two room prints merging into one large room to add to the reactor units:

 The three reactor units are joined into one unit using wall and corridor parts and the new large room added:

The cargo bay unit is added and an airlock unit leading off from the reactor room, with a long corridor soon to follow:

Next up, prints laid out for the four-room cargo bay for the opposite side, trying to keep in mind where I want the multiple doors placed:

The large cargo bay completed and added

Due to a rookie mistake in scaling when printing off the first double cargo bay some fudging required to bring the lot together with corridors and sliding doors but got there in the end:

(11/11/15) Phase 1 complete, that's about 25% of the total build. Photos with a few 28mm figures for scale:

(13/11/15) Three more cargo bays complete, including an 'infested' or "....but secreted by what?" section mod using Photoshop and sampling graphics from another Worldworks pack called Shadowcore Prime:

(20/11/15) The build is looking a bit chaotic at the moment but with some time over the weekend it will all come together I hope:

(22/11/15) Not as much free time as I'd hoped for over the weekend but still managed to bring together sections to complete (almost) another quarter of the ship build:

...and this is what it looks like tagged onto the first quarter section:

New post started see papercraft-deep-space-freighter-build part 2