State of the Hirst

Got a few more Hirst rooms done. It's starting to look a little substantial.

A Couple More Hirst Rooms

It was a long weekend...my son was sick, then my wife and I were sick, I had to go out of town for a house warming, my son had his 5th birthday (January 22, the anniversary of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, how cool is that?) and then, unsurprisingly perhaps, I got sick again. However, I did finish a couple of rooms.

First Hirst

I've got my first Hirst Arts starship room put together and painted.

Made a New Starship Wall Mold

I got my Smooth-On OOMOO 30 RTV Silicone, and made a new Hirst Arts starship walls mold.

Shrinkage

NOT the George Costanza kind, the RTV silicone kind. I was feeling pretty chuffed to have made my own mold of the Hirst starship walls and was cranking them out at an impressive rate. Now I see that my mold shrank quite a bit, and they're about 1/16" too short.

My New Hirst Starship Molds

I got my first Hirst Arts molds, the starship molds, and have been playing with them a lot the last few days. They rock.

Hirst Arts Starship Molds

I got the casts of the Hirst Arts Starship molds I ordered from Castle Kits. They're pretty nice, there's a lot you can do with them. You can see me dry-fitting together a little corridor section to try them out.

Correctly Scaled Corridors

I spent most of my spare time today putting together some correctly scaled Orbital Terrain. It takes time, but I printed out about 35 sheets (not all used) at top quality in my printer with a fairly new color ink jet cartridge, so I felt okay about that. I had visions of having to buy multiple $30 cartridges just to get a decent amount of terrain.

More Corridors

I mounted the Stones Edges Orbital pieces on black foam core, with the rug grip rubber pieces underneath them. It's pretty unobtrusive, and much more playable now. Notice the door that fits snugly into the doorway.
The only issue I have with them (other than the things that naturally come with paper models, such as the time to assemble them) is that they don't seem to be scaled properly. The 1.5" wall is about 1 5/16", so I don't bother to measure the foamcore, I just lay a piece down next to it and try to err on the side of being too short. Update: Looking at it now, I realize the pages are A4, and the "Shrink oversized pages to paper size" is set, shrinking the 11 11/16" A4 paper length to 11". It seems to print okay unscaled, so I'm not sure how I will procede. I'll probably just start over.

Stones Edges Orbital

Ooooo, shiny!! I saw the Stone Edges Orbital starter pack was only $5.00 on RPG Now, and couldn't pass it up.

Corridor System

You can check out the corridor system I'm working on. Not as nice as Ainsty's, but definitely cheaper.