Kit Bash 15mm 1/100 Scale Cargo Ship - TT Combat - Team Yankee

The ship goes together quite well. It suffers a little from the usual MDF issues of parts just not fitting quite as nicely as you might like, but for this exercise, it will do very nicely.

The entire bridge section I built inside out, this was to hide all the laser etching that would give away the scale difference on the inside of the ship.

There is an opportunity here to keep roof sections separate to allow for models to go inside the two levels of the bridge. I glued them for speed’s sake but when I do it again I’m pretty sure I will try to keep the levels separate.

I then set to work on an old fashioned Kit Bash! Yes I could have gone down the road of 3D printing panels and conversion parts, and it’s almost certainly either something I might add to this model or do on the next version of it, but to get a model down on a table for testing quickly, the old fashioned methods are still the best – and let’s be honest a lot of fun too!

Retaining a bits box for historical and modern gaming can feel a little redundant some times, A tank hull is a tank hull, and kitbashing stuff together is more of a sci-fi exercise as historical and moderns components are often very recognizable to fans of the genre and can break the immersion a little.

But I’m a hobby hoarder by nature so I do indeed maintain a Team Yankee bits box… because you never know!

So I raided the bits box of team yankee for various parts and started to glue them into place. I also had some sci-fi accessory sprues from Dungeons and Lasers https://www.dungeonsandlasers.com/ that also came in very handy for some seaworthy boxes and life raft containers.

I used cut up pieces of card to roughly hide where the 28mm doors are on the bridge and was generally pleased enough with the outcome.