This was a much more involved process than making the other ship. I’m glad I bought the simple ship model to learn how to get these sorts of kits to work without breaking things. It’s actually sort of nerve-wracking making these things. Still, came out OK. Not sure if I’m going to stain and/or paint or not.
Here are the two ships side-by-side:
Yeah, it’s a cheap kit, it listed for $5 as I recall and I had a coupon for a full purchase discount, so it was probably $4 or so. And it came out like this with only half-hearted effort on my part.
Here is a slightly improved version of the dice tray. I put some foam underneath the felt, and put felt on the inner sides. That greatly reduces the noise, and makes it look sort of Vegasy. 🙂
I still have the ropes, sails and beams to put on this thing, but it’s coming along pretty nicely for an investment of around $4. Bought this a Michaels. The kit is normally $5.99 but we used some coupon to get the price even lower. It’s actually pretty easy to put together. I think it would make a decent game aid, but it’s not really designed for game play. The lower decks are not accessible, for one thing. And once the ropes and sails are installed, it probably won’t be playable at all. Still, pretty cool. I might stain it too.
I found this wooden tray at Hobby Lobby. It was unfinished so I sanded it down, stained it with shoe polish and then put some mink oil on it to give it a finish. I also glued in some felt for the inside bottom. I need to do something to conceal the edge of the felt since I didn’t cut it perfectly, but it seems to be OK.
Here are the five boxes. They are pretty tightly packed. Based on this it appears that I have about as many of these as I do of either of my Hirst Arts dungeon sets.
Here’s a small cave I threw together from about 1/5 to 1/4 of the pieces.
Still need to be painted, obviously. And I need to figure out how/where to store them. For right now my goal is to cram them back into their boxes somehow.
Here’s another beholder, just a lark really, but I wanted to see how it would work:
The purchase:
Trimmed: (I ended up also trimming the arms and horns)
Assembled:
Painted:
Yeah, he’s still a little too happy looking. But for a buck? And I could try to do something about that grin on my next one.
I am really, really disappointed in this. But here it is.
the materials:
Half assembled:
Assembled
Loaded
OK, so I spent most of this weekend and a good chunk of today’s holiday to continue to work on my game/office/craft/library room. I also knocked together a prototype of a paint caddy out of foam core posterboard. Here’s some photos:
And the paint caddy. Took me about half an hour to throw this together with a craft knife and a hot glue gun:
I still have a lot to do, but I could actually get back to some crafting or painting now. I’ve still got a bunch of plastic containers full of random stuff, and I still have boxes and containers full of crafting things all jumbled up. Now I need to start figuring out how to ORGANIZE the room:
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