Moderator Froggy the Great Posted August 16, 2010 Moderator Share Posted August 16, 2010 (This is crossposted from the Lead Adventure Forum - I figured you guys would want to see what I've been doing.) So I got bitten with the make-another-aeronef bug. This time I'm making one for the unvanquished Confederacy, based roughly on the CSS Albemarle, seen here: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h57000/h57266.jpg http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h76000/h76384.jpg Unfortunately, I didn't think to take any pictures until I had most of the deck roughed out. First, I cut the deck section from foamcore, having done some measuring, guestimating, and research/crackpottery online. Having accomplished that, I glued craft sticks to the deck (using superglue this time so as to not warp the foamcore with white glue), trimmed it off, and dremeled the ends down to the outline of the deck. The cabin was made in styrene, and in this picture is not glued on. Some Great Rail Wars figures are shown for scale. This image was taken at the end of the day August 11th. In this next image, the underhull has been made from styrene and glued on. I've put a roof on the upper bit and added a smokestack from part of a pen(?) and a serial port bracket from an old computer or possibly VCR. Another bracket makes the front porthole, and the bit that clips a mouse wheel into a computer mouse makes the hatchway on the back. The cannon and mount are from the melt-bin at Reapercon. I think the mount may have been a GW tank gun, and the cannon had an attached 10mm fist holding it. I think the gearbox is made from half a cable insulator. It's really dense and fairly heavy, and feels like rubber. The propeller shaft casing is from two VCR parts I can't identify, and the shaft itself used to have a large VCR gear/cam thing on it. There's a hex-nut at the end of the tail to mount the large GW flying base I'll use as a propeller, but only after the ship's been painted. The tail struts are the large covers from Zap-a-gap bottles. Yes, I really do go through this much superglue. The tail fins themselves are bits of metal from the bits-bin and I have no idea where they're from. And the spar torpedo is a capacitor off a circuit board. As a friend put it, "Torpedo spars are always appropriate, especially at childrens' events." This image was taken at the end of the day August 12th. From the top of the torpedo spar to the end of the tail, she's about 16" long. I added the port-holes and gunports on the cabin. The cannons are spires from flight bases. I added a wheel to the hatch in back - from a butane lighter. The bits in the back corner are off a Crimson Skies clicky base - not sure if I'm keeping them or not, and the gearbox got some greeblies. I added a bit in the prow to cover where I'd short-measured my styrene cut, and you can't see it but I added some trimwork to the undercarraige as well. The seams on the sides were covered up too. Next up - figure out what I'm doing for railings (I'm out of nails and the sky opened up so I couldn't hit the hardware store) and then adding more rivets than I really ever want to think about again. This image was taken at the end of the day August 13th. End of day photo for August 14th. Got the railings done. The rivets are likely for tomorrow. I believe the construction is completed except for the propeller which will be added once I've painted the ship. I've included detail shots of the ship - you can see the rivets I've added with epoxy and a toothpick. Oh - when applying epoxy via toothpick, make sure it's not going to rain. Water droplets on a project look a lot like epoxy drops. Here's before priming, August 15th: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Wehrmacht Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Man Frog when you do a project you really do a project! I look forward to seeing it progress! -LW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inarah Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 And what was the cream cheese for? Seriously, it looks great. Can't wait to see it painted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty kahn Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 That is freakin sweet! Cant wait to see more of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vejlin Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 one of your coolest projects to date. And that says a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokingwreckage Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Teeheehee! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captenglish Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Steampunk and Civil War now we're talking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimwolf Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Wow, this is crazy cool Froggy! Ill be following this for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castlebuilder Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Oh great, now I'm gonna have to come up with a Yankee version of an AAA battery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Froggy the Great Posted August 17, 2010 Author Moderator Share Posted August 17, 2010 If this devolves into a VSF/Steampunk arms race, this will actually make for a really great Reapercon 2011 convention game... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Froggy the Great Posted August 20, 2010 Author Moderator Share Posted August 20, 2010 She's done and posted: http://www.reapermini.com/forum/index.php?/topic/40665-css-caudell/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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