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Post by Vermin King on Sept 24, 2018 4:46:19 GMT -9
The theme for this month's HOARD is  To the Moon! This can be any sort of miniature figure or model on the above theme or feel free to submit miniatures off theme. If you submit a figure, they must include both front and rear art, have a proper trimming outline, and include instructions for multi-part models. Recolors and figure mods are encouraged, and even uncolored designs are welcome. No nudity or sexuality, but bloody gory and horrifying is encouraged. If you have questions about how to design your entries, like formats, resolution, and stuff like that, see the HOARD GUIDELINES in this forum category. Entries for the Hoard will be accepted until the last day of October, 2018. 's suggestion based on the Apollo 7 anniversary, really resonated. In the spirit of escaping this rock and seeing what is out there, we have 'To the Moon'. This could be anything space-related. Moon colonies, asteroid mining, visits from aliens. Should be a lot of fun |
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Post by cowboyleland on Sept 24, 2018 6:04:27 GMT -9
Also a good opportunity to whip up the Jackie Gleason figure we never knew we needed. I really hope someone at least makes a rocket named Alice.  (kids are like:"What is he talking about??") |
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Post by okumarts on Sept 24, 2018 6:14:33 GMT -9
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Sept 24, 2018 8:49:47 GMT -9
OK, I got some stuff in progress that is at least sci-fi themed, if not moon-specific. Possibly pink.
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Post by shep on Sept 25, 2018 0:54:19 GMT -9
Well well well... So, I get an opportunity to finish the LMT in the near future rather than postponing it...  Perhaps, I will find the time to do some more Luna Base interiors, too. |
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Post by wyvern on Sept 25, 2018 9:03:32 GMT -9
OK, I got some stuff in progress that is at least sci-fi themed, if not moon-specific. Possibly pink. So Planet Claire, then? |
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Sept 25, 2018 12:14:52 GMT -9
OK, I got some stuff in progress that is at least sci-fi themed, if not moon-specific. Possibly pink. So Planet Claire, then? More like Planet Pinkfluffdoodle IV  |
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Post by shep on Sept 26, 2018 3:41:07 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 29, 2018 5:22:59 GMT -9
I had thought of doing a lunar lander, but I think I am sitting this Hoard out. I do need to do something for the Christmas Hoard, and my Procrastination pile keeps getting taller
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Post by okumarts on Sept 29, 2018 8:44:51 GMT -9
I may try to get those 1999 figs together.
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Post by shep on Sept 29, 2018 10:56:11 GMT -9
Is there a page limit for hoard entries?
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Post by wyvern on Sept 29, 2018 11:22:28 GMT -9
A quick search found four main free paper models of Apollo LEMs (Lunar Excursion Modules or "real" lunar landers). The Japanese U-Don's Factory 1/48-scale model has 13 separate PDF model pages to download (don't panic; the largest is only 1.1 MB), plus another 14 individual PDF pages of instructions. It is a well-detailed model. Another Japanese site, UHU 02, has a particularly impressive, but equally impressively complex, 1/48 scale model of the Apollo 13 LEM. This comes in 21 pages of model parts, plus 13 HTML - not PDF - pages of instructions. I'm not sure how feasible this would be to construct in its full form for most papercraft modellers though, as it is exceptionally detailed (with many of the internal and external craft features - fuel and oxygen tanks, etc., plus a detailed interior cabin, for instance). Possibly worth considering for a super-detailed interior cutaway though, or even for adding details to one of the plastic kits in other scales, such as those models by Airfix or Revell, say. The other two models are versions of one originally printed onto die-cut thick card, part of a Gulf Oil promotion. Both can be downloaded from this page of The Lower Hudson Valley Paper Model E-Gift Shop site (scroll down about 1/6th of the page). One is 1/48 scale, the other 1/44. The first comes as a set of zipped images, including hi-res versions of parts the model sheet, so will need a lot of work to reconstruct, but the second is a straightforward single PDF file, based on the same model, but completely re-edited and amended to fit onto four printable pages (hence the minor rescaling). This is a much more basic rendition of the LEM, but from the made images, it also looks fine for all that, and of the four, is probably the one most practical to actually build. Incidentally, as it's not been mentioned here since 2014, I thought it would be worthwhile to remind people to take a more detailed look through the free paper space and science-fiction models available on that Lower Hudson Valley E-Gift Shop site too. The previous links to the latter site were in Rhannon 's Some retro sci-fi rockets paper models 2012 topic among the Links to FREE figures & models section of the CWF, and WackyAnne 's 2014 June 12 posting on page 14 of the Where No Man Has Gone Before topic (look for the original series' Star Trek bridge model image). |
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 29, 2018 14:25:06 GMT -9
I was going to shoot for something in the Canon Kids/JLeslie level.
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 10, 2018 10:17:03 GMT -9
I just had an interesting idea for this. We'll see
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Post by squirmydad on Oct 10, 2018 11:31:48 GMT -9
Moon hab unit under construction. |
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 10, 2018 13:04:00 GMT -9
It's possible our ideas might mesh. My idea was a Research Dome  I picture that sitting on a square footprint block building. Textures by TommyGun17 |
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 11, 2018 15:30:46 GMT -9
I added the windows tonight.  I had originally planned on adding ground level doors and windows, but with all the bulging hexagons on the bottom level, I wouldn't know where to start. So it is going to sit on a square building. Probably should sit on a five-sided building, but that could be obnoxious |
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Post by gloriousbattle on Oct 13, 2018 4:35:28 GMT -9
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Post by Toman on Oct 13, 2018 5:51:48 GMT -9
Yesterday I was thinking the same thing. I was thinking if I could find some good images of the characters and aliens I would try doing some figures. |
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Post by cowboyleland on Oct 13, 2018 6:55:24 GMT -9
The aliens could be re-scaled and re-coloured from the Space 1889 figures that are around here somewhere. I am sure there are some Victorian or Wild West figures that could be modded for the crew. I think I have a Victorian submarine that could be chopped up and mashed into the "capsule."
I might do the capsule if real life doesn't get in the way in the next few weeks.
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 13, 2018 6:59:18 GMT -9
I'd actually hoped for something along those lines during one of the Victorian Sci Fi hoards. I wonder if Mike Hungerford would mind anyone doing a repaint of his Cavorite Sphere, www.chthulhu.com/models/cavsphere.html. For those that don't want to have to pull up a youtube video to see what the discussion is about, they are referring to First Men in the Moon I thought I'd seen some VSF Astronauts somewhere, but I don't see them. scarecrow has the Space 1889 minis, and cowboyleland did backs for them |
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Post by cowboyleland on Oct 13, 2018 7:22:47 GMT -9
This is what Mike says about re-use:
*** COPYRIGHT ***
I, Mike Hungerford, hold the sole copyright to each of my model designs and any images thereof on this site, but hereby grant permission for their free use for any legitimate non-profit purpose, so long as the copyright and attribution included in each model's file(s) remains intact and unmodified.
If you wish to make any of my models available from your own Web site, please do so by linking to my models page rather than by hosting copies of the models' files. This ensures that visitors will always find the most current version of any given model.
I would appreciate receiving copies of any modifications made to my designs, simply for my own enjoyment
Hoards are non-profit. I feel we are "legitimate." He says the scale is about 1/24 so for us it should be reduced to about 50% which will probably require some simplification. Maybe modding the sub will be easier and still satisfying. I really need to bet my wife's birthday present finished by Monday. Then we will see.
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 13, 2018 10:31:04 GMT -9
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Post by cowboyleland on Oct 13, 2018 12:34:38 GMT -9
The guys on the bottom right of the German movie poster look good to me. Are they too catoony? Great texture reference on the capsule in that first picture.
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 13, 2018 13:11:59 GMT -9
I think the ones at the bottom look good, but they are cut off Going back to the Research Dome, the US and Soviets seem to have gotten us thinking white for lunar  I think I'd build this with joiner strips on the inside, but would folks prefer tabs? |
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Post by wyvern on Oct 14, 2018 4:53:42 GMT -9
Of course, such First Men in the Moon minis would also work as deep-sea divers.
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 14, 2018 5:43:16 GMT -9
The suits would probably be better for deep sea diving, but not too deep. Notice in the first photo how the sleeves are scrunched up to the elbow. Not good in space or at extreme depths
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Post by gloriousbattle on Oct 14, 2018 10:44:56 GMT -9
The aliens could be re-scaled and re-coloured from the Space 1889 figures that are around here somewhere. That would be great, but if the aliens were redone, it would be great to have the British to fight them! |
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Post by gloriousbattle on Oct 14, 2018 10:48:27 GMT -9
The suits would probably be better for deep sea diving, but not too deep. Notice in the first photo how the sleeves are scrunched up to the elbow. Not good in space or at extreme depths True, but it is VSF, which has stuff like... well... Cavorite. Also people flying to the moon in cannonballs, which kind of plays Merry Hell with physics. I'm always okay with Wonky physics, or physics as it was understood prior to 1899,for this purpose, so diving suits are just great, IMHO. Speaking of which, my hero Patrick Crusiau does have a nice steam era set (as I'm sure everyone is well aware) which includes guys in diving suits to fight his Atlanteans. It also has blue jackets, which were just about the universal shore party / naval infantry uniform for the period, and which were generally the troops first called on in colonial battles, as they were generally the first ones on the seen, for the British, French, Germans, and just about every other major power. So there are troops out there, but it would be nice to have some redcoats. |
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Post by wyvern on Oct 14, 2018 12:31:08 GMT -9
The suits would probably be better for deep sea diving, but not too deep. Notice in the first photo how the sleeves are scrunched up to the elbow. Not good in space or at extreme depths The real killer though would be the bare hands |
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To the Moon! 
