Things From the Basement Victorian SciFi Ships Arrive At 4Ground
April 22, 2021 by avernos
Two of our favourite purveyors of lasercut wooden things are once again bridging the gap across the Atlantic and this time the ships aren't sailing but flying! Things from the Basement and 4Ground are giving fans of Victorian Science Fiction the chance to take to the skies like those wonderful men in their flying machines.
Aphid Class Airship // Things from the Basement
The Aphid Class is already available Stateside from Things for all your steampunk or VSF needs and weighs in at a whopping 480mm long and 175mm wide. As you can see the kit itself is lasercut HDF with resin printed guns from Trilaterum and is the ideal small airship for any Victorian Science Fiction, Steampunk or Pulp Fiction setting.
Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee
The Aphid Class Airship is a small armoured gunboat in British Service. Fast, durable and well-armed for its size it is a common sight over the wide plains of the Red Planet. If you fancy picking up a box of Perry's Zulu War British, cracking out the Home Service helmets and heading to mars then this is the ship to do it on.
4Ground just previewed their test build of the files so it won't be long before VSF players in Blighty can take to the skies also.
Aphid Class // 4Ground
Both versions come with the weapons and I think these are fantastic looking vehicles for some pulp gaming, or even scenario based objectives for your games.
What do you think of this Gunboat for the skies?
"giving fans of Victorian Science Fiction the chance to take to the skies like those wonderful men in their flying machines."
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I can fully recommend this kit, I brought the unarmed locust class , which suited me as I intend to maganatize the wpn mounts so it can be changed for various games( including Star Wars legion)by just changing the wpns.
The whole model was a dream to build, everything went together with only very minor cleaning of tabs to get them to fit and only then only a couple needed minor adjustments.
Has the added bonus of no painting apart from the guns.
To sink a ship you blow a hole in it beneath the water line…. so is this one unsinkable then?! XD
Originally the design appeared in the old Sky Galleons of Mars, and was able to fly due to Driftwood found on Mars which had anti grav qualities (or lots of the old Sci fi Handwavium) so basically if you put enough holes in the drift wood panels it would begin to lose lift. One assume you could down it by putting more weight on it than the drift wood could negate.
lesson in Handwavium Science over.
Wood you say…. Burning arrows! HUZZAH!
Ooh reminds me of the la-puta castle in the sky flying ship’s?
Beautiful. Definitely interested in picking up one of these
That deck gun looks great . Wouldn’t look out of place in a WW2 Japanese bunker or a German Atlantic Wall casement for Bolt Action .
I wonder if someone ever plans to do the flying airships from the ‘Planet of Adventure’ series by Jack Vance.