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Unnnnffff to everything on this page.
I want all of it and I want it all painted. It’d probably cost more than the game itself.
https://www.shapeways.com/shops/pmg?section=High+Frontier&s=0
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darn you to heck Paul Beakley
I’ve kind of been avoiding browsing Shapeways because mostly I don’t have the bandwidth to paint stuff. But High Frontier is so utterly blingless as-is that I feel a strong need to do it up. Somehow.
Aw man I keep clicking through to the “player set” with all the regular markers. $34 per player, damn it. And that’s without the swanky ships. Or aftermarket stands.
The ship set is $25 more. So like $195. Fuuuudge. $7 more for stands. $205! For tiny spaceships! What the actual fudge, Paul?
I went looking on Amazon for tiny “realistic” spaceships and they don’t really exist.
Staahp
I see surprisingly neat spaceships in crappy gift shops from time to time but mostly probes and Apollo stuff.
Yeah, I considered that angle but they’re either too old-fashioned or too sci-fi (teeny X-Wings from Armada or something).
Golf tee’s are your friend. A great crafting project with the kid:
sjgames.com – Pyramid: Golf Tee Spaceships
There are a whole bunch of scratchbuilding techniques that would work well for these simple designs. A hot glue gun is useful.
Also, if your daughter is like mine she has got many self-assemble jewelry kits that would be great to raid for this stuff. Those shapeways designs are mostly very simple.
Rob Brennan you know, that’s a really solid idea. Beads are an excellent resource! Little geodesic domes. Not sure about solar sails but they’re just flat.
Hmhmhm. Yeah. You’ve got me thinking. And I found a couple good Pinterest boards with “realistic” concept art…
Yep for painting I bet you could just spray them white, do a couple of block colours and miracle dip ie varnish with dye in it that seeps into the cracks (also polyurethane varnish is bomb-proof and would add to the structural integrity, although it is gloss so you’d need to over-spray with matt varnish if you wanted) .
You can make stands super cheap with wire that are IMO just as good as those transparent ones (and they won’t break).
And since most modern probes or workhorse vehicles look like foil-spattered car wrecks…anything looks good!
This is one of the boards I’ve been looking at.
pinterest.com – Realistic Spaceships
Also (for my own bookmarking):
pinterest.com – Yay spaceships!
Pretty. The shapeways ones above are much more achievable as quick scratchbuilds though!
Yeah.
Now I’m thinking through how to express all the … uh, wiry-ness. Wires I guess!
I used to kitbash tons of stuff Back In The Day and now it seems very intimidating. Funny! It’s not like I’m going to lose my job or an eye if I eff it up.