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Scratch building an Aliens APC
The first thing to say is that I am not a professional model maker, I am principally a gamer who desires good backdrops for my games and likes to dabble..
"The game is the thing"
Main body of foam core board and clad with plasticard.
Turrets and wheels from OLD CROW
Rear view of sliding turret track
Sprayed olive drab
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Making the Alien corridors
WILD WALLS - vacuum formed walls now very hard to find, luckily I found some on Ebay.
Alien walls were then stuck onto a former of polystyrene to keep the whole thing light in weight.
Hot Glue Gun is essential here!
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Making the LV426 Hab-complex
Using alot of rigid foam core board (thanks ebay) scoring the floors to make walkways and adding Urban War platformer bits to give detail to the corridor walls
All the sections were built on same-sized bases for ease of transport and they were planned to be (at least partially) interchangeable to add some variation to future games.
Lots of furniture from Antenociti and Copplestone
Scratch-built face-hugger and chest-burster containers "looks like love at first sight to me..."
Scratch-built containers with uplink
Sentry Guns
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The Cast
Using the old Leading Edge miniatures
The cast on the painting table.