Little Ships

These pirate ships are very nice quick and easy wargame ships.

In 1/72nd scale they are just over 40 feet long.

The Pinta with Columbus and the Discovery at Jamestown were only about 50 feet in length.

They sailed from the Old World to the New World.

They each had a crew of about two dozen.

These ships probably could have made the voyage too, but it would not be a pleasure cruise.

Certainly you would want to be in convoy with a few larger ships in case of trouble.

Cortez Brigantines

USA Toys sells educations toys and party supplies.

Cortes had his men construct 13 brigantine boats to assault Mexico City.

They only had one cannon, and these models have 6, but they are easily removed.

These boats are sold as Pirate Ships.

They cost all of $2 and make nice little wargaming boats.

Thanks Airfix / Hornby

I got this airplane model over 10 years ago and just put it together a few days ago.

It was missing one piece of the canopy so I emailed Airfix / Hornby about it on their website. 

I just filled out the form and within a few days a new part arrived in the mail, for free.

It was very nice of them to do that.

They packed it really well.

In fact, they sent me a whole new canopy section, probably because it's easier then figuring out which one to send.  Thanks Airfix / Hornby for excellent customer service.

Finally Twiki

One of the duties of Twiki and the other ambuquads was to carry around members of the ruling council.

Dr. Theopolis was the member assigned to Twiki. 

The Computer Council were disk like computers that ran New Chicago's government and infrastructure.  They did not come with the models so I used a bit of sprue to make some.  Since I did two gold and two silver Tiwikis, I did gold and silver computers and glued one on the chest of a gold and silver robot.  I also made some that would remain unattached.

It makes a pretty impressive group to have them all together with the other plastic figures.

The plastic figures are largish 1/72nd scale and the Twikis I think are supposed to be 15mm but they look fine together as far as I am concerned.

The uniform used was usually white, and so I am keeping that color for the figures.

This turned out to be a much larger project than I anticipated.

At some point I may try to scratch build the land vehicles and obtain some space fighters too, but not today.