The Final Flight

 

Well I finished the Dessert planet terrain & used it at the 2nd UK Pulp Alley games day at Geek Retreat in Harrogate, arranged by Chris From Sally 4th.

I set the board up for the final flight Scenario from The Perilous Island Campaign. 

I decided that the players heading for the  Major plot point (the large Saucer) needed a better marker to aim for for (if that makes any sense!) so I painted up a Black Cat Bases Alien Grey to use as the Pilot & plot point marker.

I had three great games during the day using the 3rd Doctor & Jo Grant. 

We were using the Sci-Fi rules from the Pulp Genres optional rules

 I completely forgot to take photos, so have pinched a few from Sally 4th & Geek Retreat Harrogates facebook page

Here's a link to the Sally 4th Hobby Blog write up of the day

Woop Woop sound of the Police

 I got some of the Heresy Miniatures Sci-Fi Police for Christmas. 

So I’ve painted them up to guard some of the entrances in the town

They are fantastic figures, but quite slender to mast figures. 

Sci-Fi Civilians

 I’ve done a couple more Civilian’s for the desert town. 

I took a photo with the previous civilian that I chucked some paint at. 

There’s a female figure from Khurasan miniatures, I think she’s a 70’s tv reporter. 

I had one previously & added some greenstuff to extend the skirt & make her look like she was wearing a jacket.

With this one I just painted her as is & will use her as a plot point. 

Next up is a plastic figure from Northstar, from the Stargrave range, I wanted him to have a scanner, but only had a 40k one, but it doesn’t look too bad.  

Sci-Fi Storage Tanks

 I’ve just made a couple of storage tanks for the desert board.

These have been cobbled together from various bits that we had lying around.

These black one's main body is from a Bullet Bill sweet container, 

with the holes filled in & various bits of Plasticard & plastic rod glued on

The other one is from a weird dome bit that I found, part of an old light fitting, with the usual bits of plastic rod etc stuck on

Desert terrain Sci-fi Gubbins

 Well I’ve been messing about making some Sci-fi looking bits (mostly from stuff I’ve found kicking about on site) to use my desert town terrain as a space port for Pulp Alley Doctor Who & Sci-Fi games, a bit more Star Wars than Doctor Who though 🤷‍♂️

I should also say that the idea was not to purchase anything for this project, 

everything had to be either what I already had or what I could scrounge & this goal was achieved.

The Hab Zone showing the pillars one of the comms towers, 

a couple of domes & the larger arched gateway

Landing pad with the weird fuel station and luggage pile, 

the large saucer (this is before I added the landing gear) & the small saucer. 

No  cargo pods yet.

 

The scrap yard with the engine, scrap pile & barrels & another comms tower. 

The arched gateway can be seen on the top right as well.

With the IMC bothering a time travelling busybody.

The whole board

The first thing I made was a large arched gateway for the space dock, 

using the same method I’ve previously posted about when I made the walls

The domes are made from half Christmas bauble glued onto a piece of plastic 

and covered in filler then sanded down.

All of the Comms Tower units for the tops of the buildings are made various electrical bits, 

old kit parts & plastic rod. 

The junk pile is various kit bits from the soars box. 

Engine & Vid screen 

The scratch built engine is cobbled together from an electrical connector & bits from the spares box. The leaking drums for the scrapyard are old 40k ones.

 The pillars, again electrical bits & spares from the bits box & the info screen for the Hab zone is created from some old kit bits on a Flintloque flat metal base, to give it a bit of weight. 

Hab Zone pillar 

Saucer landing gear

Cargo pods & Force field generator thing 🤣

I also made a weird thing that I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be (possibly a force field generator?) out of an electrical coupling, a pipe connector & a plastic mushroom, 

well it looks Sci-fi enough for me! 🤣

I later added some landing gear to the large saucer out of plastic tubing & some caps 

that are used on aircon units.

 I've also made a small saucer from some MDF discs & rings, a pipe collar & a different shaped plastic ‘mushroom’ used for capping steel rods & a few old 40k bits. 

There’s also a pile of luggage from 40k & 1/35 WW2 bits.

Finally some cargo pods out of plastic skirting corners, these are a bit wonky as the glue set a bit quicker than I expected.