Welcome to Od’Adlos ship yards, you can buy the ship that will last you till the day you die……
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About the Project
...Because she's a death trap..... Edit, I have renamed the project and am editing the description because the originals are no longer really relevant. So this project started out because the very hot summer of 2018 would let me paint anything and most of my hobby stuff had to be packed away for a house move. Whats it become now? well the weathers cooled and the house move is done, but im enjoying building small shuttles... so welcome to the Od'Adlos ship yard!
Related Game: Pulp Alley
Related Genre: Science Fiction
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Trying to break the blockade
Well I gotta say this has been a mental block and a half, I got so far and bam nothing!
I’ve sat and stared at this thing and verged on binning it a number of times, but!
I have progressed, a little……
Here we see the cockpit and port lift engine mounting point (big box on the right) and the smaller forward starboard lift engine mount point.
A mockup with the cockpit segment blu tacked (badly) into placeWell its progress of a sorts right? Right?
Some like beautiful, perfect and pretty
but I see the good in the bad and the ugly....
So the "Wild at heart!" racing pinnace is finished no back story as yet, she came together to quickly.She's fast, fast and clean.....
so while prevarication and mental blocks (also that annoying real life thing) get in the way of the other ships. inspiration struck after the wife cleared some crud off her desk, meet the “Wild at Heart” a racing skiff now used for more nefarious purposes…
Full frontal...
obligatory top down view from behind...So the Wild At Heart consists of the following
Deodarant roller, pritt stikk tubes, kids stick on jems, super glue lids and paper clips. Oh and the usual copius amounts of super glue to hold it all together 😀
The mini for scale is from Mantics Star Saga.
The red ship and the blue ship had a race.......
So Dreaming of Daisy is finished, here we see her offloading illicit cargo but it looks like the security goons didnt get payed off enough to look the other way? 
And a shot from the side...Under the weather....
After being busy with other things for a while, I have got going again on Daisy, here she is with some weathering going on.Make it so!...
An evening creating cones of various diameters results in the above, a bit wonky but that describes all of these ships so far.spacers... the final straw...
This weeks been a bit manic so very little progress on either ship so far, I have manged to add some banding to he bracing struts and add the spacers so that I can move onto adding the crew areas, without the need of the tubes being in place.I'm lovin' it
The four bracing struts are made, time to start thinking out the rest of it.Golden Arches - bulk foodstuffs hauler.
The Golden Arches is a medium/ bulk foodstuffs hauler, she carries processed carbs and protein supplements to whichever moon wants it.
There are those who say she doesnt seem to carry quite so much as she could given the size of her holds……
so this is just me messing around in the first stages after inspiration whacked me around the head and said "look, see that pringles tube, you can use that you can!" It didnt help that this occurred at silly o'clock and kept me up for way longer than it should have.Why are pringles tubes not an easy to measure diameter? 7 point bloomin 5 cm! yeah that bits easy, but then to draw the circle with a compass, yep the radius is 3.75 &*%”&^^&^%”%**!&^*!& (insert swear words of choice at this point)
the living spaces will be off set, im thinking that they’ll be running down the port side of the top most tube…. but thats a bit of a way off as yet, I still need to finish Daisy.
Thoughts?
I'm blue! da ba dee da ba da!
not much progress but I have managed to base coat her.... and go on, get that song out of your head now :Done small ship for me, one huge amount of cardboard and glue for.... uh me as well
Well the Dreaming of Daisy build is complete. Here she is next to the Cicada, next up is the painting phase I'm thinking Blue and Grey, any thoughts?Light speed is to slow, we need to go to ludicrous speed!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scuppers are in, so that the underneath detailed
4 engines, currently blu-tacked in place, discovered shes reallllllllly rear heavy, I migh need to cut into her to put some weight up front. I shouldnt have done the ruddy scuppers We have lift off!!! For a given value of lift and an unexplored fraction of off....
so engine no1 is sort of there, sheesh these are a pain to do....The darker colour to the card is because I used a quick drying wood varnish to harden the card so it became sandable (is that a word? well it is now). worked a treat I think.
Scratching the back...
As I updated the Project heading image, it puts the project back to the head of updated ones, so heres a little update as to what I got done last night. I added the curve to the "wings" and added the sun rays.So my missus, when I showed her what I was doing asked if it was a dog, so it is now..
The Stardog class shuttle, Registration mark W.I.7.5, Currently named “Dreaming of Daisy”, current owner Jacarinth Yeau.
Like Captain, like ship. Battered, scarred, patched up and parts replaced. She’s been all over, carried everything, lost vital fluids in all the star systems from Brizzle to Gasglow. But she keeps flying, ticking along looking for the next big score. Funny though, there ain’t that many stardogs left flying and rumours are going around about assassinations and disappearances and stardogs feature in more than a few, like when Antos Leeva and his entire crew were taken down hard, a stardog was seen taking off just before the lock-down orders arrived. Coincidence, maybe, I think I’ll just find a docking berth somewhere where there ain’t no stardogs..
An update..of sorts
So if you read(did I even say?) previously I’ve been moving house. Well the main part is done, however chaos reins, I cant find very much so am reduced to fairly simplistic project parts at the moment.
I dont even have a decent sized working area currently so have even had to stop work on the Tangerine Dream.
Soooo instead heres another little shuttle craft 😀
Basic box form completed, a bit more square/ true than the last attempt.
Cockpit shape changed and banding added to strengthen the box.
Hull expanded and cockpit and hull details started.
Leg struts and engine forms in place (albeit temporarily) Deadzone minis for scale.
Well i hope you like it, I’ll add more as it gets done.
Its here, Where? Somewhere!
The shuttle has landed... Specifically on the shuttle dock on the Port forward quarter of the Tangerine Dream.
Here's the dock without the shuttle, the throne looking bit is the mating collar that matches the shuttle ramp the rest will just form bulkheads.Once I start detailing I’ll be adding a bucky cable that would guide a shuttle into place without the shuttle having to use its engines to close to the hull.
Sarge,it's allgonea bit ... metaphysical, like
A bit larger than I was imagining, this is where you realise that what youve been thinking of in your head is a whole lot bigger than you realised
here it is with a couple of 28mm figures for scaleBish bash, splish splosh....
So a fairly cool (but Oh so Early :( ) morning meant I was able to spray and start applying some paint to the Cicada Shuttle.. A very limited pallette so farA small history of this paticular craft…..
The JetBug(TM) class shuttle “Cicada” registration mark “RP-142” was an executive surface to orbital shuttle belonging to the Rolande Pilowsky Corporation for the personal use of Rolande himself. Despite being fairy new, it was disposed of by the corporation board after the shuttle was found in a decaying orbit, the chairman, advisors and crew were all found dead inside. Bearing marks of extreme violence but no sign of the attacker was found or of their entry or exit point.
Although sent for full material recycling, the disposal company quietly sold the craft on as she was still fairly new, after passing through various hands “Cicada” ended up in the hands of a trader captain of slighty dubious rep Calvin Swift, Captain of the “Tangerine Dream”…..
More neck than a herd of giraffes!!
Basic bridge section form done and access corridor started.Size matters...
tonights efforts produce a cockpit window for a slightly bigger craft....
