Ship Board: Part 1

Every so often we decide to go big with our terrain projects and when that happens, something strange happens, we decide to plan stuff out!

This project and series of articles will make it look like we are only building one ship, when in reality we are building two of them at the same time.  We are going big, because we can, and we like the idea of having a board that has some flexibility.  A couple of examples of setups would be as the diagram shows above, as a single ship with a dock attached to a beach, and as two ships with a pier in between the two and a beach on one side (for a larger scenario).

One of the major components to construction of these ships was the fact that we decided to use a different type of adhesive from what we’ve used in the past.  We’ve decided to use liquid nails in combination with a couple of toothpicks to help hold these large beasts together.

The Trick to the “freehand” is to do one really well with a pen and then after cutting off the scrap, use that scrap to draw the other curve so it’s symmetrical.

The reason we decided to make a hollow captains quarters is because we weren’t going to model the inside, and we will be putting steps that will accommodate large models rather than look accurate to scale.  We also where making a bit of a consideration of the amount of foam used to build this, and we were running short at the time!

In the next article we will be showing off a few more of the building aspects of the ships.  We will be showing how we achieve the armor plating on the outside of the ship, the steps to get above the captains quarters, and possibly the beginning of the wood planking.

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