One of my bucket list ambitions is to put on a display game at a future show. You will remember that I purchased two fabulous ships from an antique shop some months ago, both which are suitable for 40mm scale. The problem was how to display them at water level without butchering the hull.
So on the advice of Stuart, I have bought some 50mm thick ekoboard and glued two pieces together to give a thickness of 100mm x1200mm x 600 mm or approx 4ftx2ft
I then cut a hole to fit the hull of the ship.
The ship fits in the board, sits on the baseboard, and the ekoboard reaches to the waterline
The next job will be to fix mdf board to the sides to give the ekoboard more strength, then layer the top with polyfilla, and then sculpt to look like sea and waves, ready for painting. I will repeat the process for the other ship, which should give me two baseboards which will represent the sea. I will purchase more 4x2 ft ekoboard which will eventually provide the baseboards to create a 6ft x12 ft display.
Looking good Graham - told you it would work 😊 my eye was drawn to your backdrop - have you made that yourself ?
ReplyDeleteHi Ian. Don't count your chickens yet. The fleet could still be scuttled. More work later today hopefully. The backdrop was a model railway scenic back drop that I bought on ebay. It was basically just a printed strip, but I mounted it on card. Plenty of them out there. About £8 from memory
DeleteExcellent - works perfectly!
ReplyDeleteFingers crossed. More work later today
DeleteWorks well and saves those beautiful ships from a right old butchering!! The French ADC and officers are very nice as well!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Donnie. The ships are a work of art. They would have taken for ever to make by hand, and not too expensive. (Just don't tell my missus !)
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