A Poor Man's A Billion Suns - Clothes Peg fleet complete.

 I have completed my first group of ships. My favourite are the small corvette type ships. I need to have a think about getting any ships in the size area between the big ships and the small ships. 

It is amazing to me, the difference a lick of paint makes. The blue and red dots just give them so much more life. 

These are my favourite and I have a few more on the way. Simple, small, cheap in game terms.

I need to work out how to make sure the card doesn't curl, but otherwise it is all fine. I like how these turned out. I imagine these will be unique ships, or I will have to come up with some in-universe handwavium about how large spacecraft are all built as single units and are all different.

The missile racks are from Brigade Models or GZG. They were meant to be on something, but I can't remember. 

I have already begun working on some more mid-sized ships, and am always on the hunt for medium/different pegs. 

 

 

 

A Poor Man's A Billion Suns - Clothes Peg Fleets.

Over on the Book of Faces I have curated my feed to consist almost entirely of hobby related groups, and a few friends who come out with regularly amusing things. I am a member of the Super Cheap Wargaming group, and over the past month or so there has been an explosion of people making space ships out of clothes pegs. They started out simple and became increasingly intricate and complex as the month has gone on. The entire time I bemoaned not having clothes pegs. I think I have some at work, but am on Easter break. So I went looking for them in shops. Tesco had this set, The Range had nothing normal, but did have a set of 200 mini pegs, useful for corvettes, Amazon has loads, but I wanted to hold off. 

The Tesco pegs are the most boring, vanilla shape you can get, but will be fine to experiment with. 

 Here are my first four attempts. The double purple on top is the size of two other experiments unpictured. I am not sure I like the double purple together. I will paint these over the weekend and see what happens. The flight stands are of course my nails, with magnets on top, but the ships are quite top heavy - I might need to rethink my bases and have longer ones.

Agri-Dome. Let's get started.

 I have been meaning to create this for so long. What kind of dome to use was the maing issue. The Christmas bauble thing with chocolates was the perfect thing. 

Part one: Measuring the inside, and creating a way in and out. 

New terrain features to get going.

Last night I had a session. I worked on my forest stands, all they really need is some flocking, and maybe some different highlights on the trees. 

I also put together two small CD based scenes. One is another backwater landing pad. The other is a colonial administration building, the biggest one that can sit in the centre of town. I wanted it on a larger base than the other Iliada buildings, in order to create more of a vignete with it. 

Soviet ATG for scale.

Barely visible there are cables connecting the buildings together. These are those wires used to keep toys in place in their packaging. I have loads of them and it is nice to get them used.

Iliada Studios buildings and other terrain

Another couple of projects that I managed to finish tonight. I found myself with the opportunity to have two sessions this weekend where I will have something to watch and listen to that doesn't require much attention. This is perfect for hobby time. Tonight has been good, although with my middle deciding to test positive for COVID today, tomorrow's time might be taken up with unfortunate prep-work for covering my job on Monday. 

Something dodgy going on. Cultists? Black market exchange? Unsure. But this ancient stone ring likely had some local significance before humanity found this place.

A few more buildings with which to build a bustling interstellar settlement.

I really like these. I have a couple of other things on the bench that I hope to get finished soon. Easter is in a week and I intend to get plenty of things finished during that two week break.

Tonight I also added clump foliage to my latest batch of tree stands. They look okay but I will leave them overnight to dry. I also based up and textured the bases of another squad of Soviet infantry and a bunch of vehicles.