Federation Base

Built some more Federation base. I built a few bits of this a coupe of years ago, and it always looked a bit half-arsed. But I came back to it a couple of weeks ago, and it looks better now it's been filled out a bit.

Spaceships (Part Two)

Finished my spaceships, mostly. I didn't find a decent shape to go on the top of the front bit, but  I need them for the weekend, so went with that.

Jenna looks like she'd be able to fit in them, anyway, with a bit of a squeeze.

Spaceships (Part One)

I decided to build a couple of small crappy spaceships for my crappy Blake's 7 style federation base terrain. I couldn't find any suitable hairdryers, so went with these old mini Dalek remote controllers. These won't be anything like pursuits ships, but there were any number of small planet hoppers and orbital craft used in the show, which these should work well enough for.

I used the same bits and pieces for the ship as I did for the rest of the base to keep a homogenous design aesthetic (but mainly coz they were handy).

I'm happy enough so far. They seem to fit into the Blake's 7 look quite nicely. They're almost finished, but I think I might add some sort of cockpit type bulge at the top of the nose to give the crew somewhere plausible to sit if I can find the right bit.

Door Molds

So, I decided to make a few more bits of my crappy Blake's 7 style federation base terrain. One of the themes is the consistent door pieces, so I needed to cast a few more of these. I've not really done any molding or casting except this door.

I made a bunch of molds of the door using some Japanese plastic clay stuff. You just heat it in boiling water and then you can press a shape into it. So I made this styrene press tool thingy.

I started this a couple of years ago, and so was happy to dig the stuff out of the back of the cupboard to find the resin and molds all seemed to still be in excellent condition.

Simply mix the two-part resin together and...

...pour into the molds. You can get an adult to help you with this, if you like.

It's supposed to take about 24 hrs to dry, but I found it needs a bit longer than this. So, hopefully, in a couple of days I will have a bunch more doors to add to my scenery.

 I believe this is exactly how the BBC did it in 1978, too.

Federation Base

But then I thought I'd make some sort of space/super base complex that might work with 7TV spi-fi style gaming and also with the 7TV Blake's 7 rules. Here's what I have done so far. Bear in mind that in order to achieve proper verisimilitude I've had to make the base out of bits of stuff found on your average British high street.

So far I've done some sort of medical lab/ quarantine area/ psycho-surgery unit, a power plant/ food processing types area and a couple of corridors. They still needs to be kitted out with computer consoles and other bits and pieces which I'll get off the internet, some time.

Blake's 7

Here's the bad guys for In The Supreme Commander's Name.

Blake

Blake (64 pts)

Armour 9 (2)
Pluck 2+ (16)
SV +3 (4)
FV +3 (4)
Leadership 3 (9)
Inspirational (10)
Fanatic (5)

Liberator Gun (14)

SV +3
Range: 24"
Hands 1
Pluck -2

Avon

Avon (50)

Armour 9 (2)
Pluck 3+ (9)
SV +4 (9)
FV +3 (4)
Speed 1 (1)
Leadership 2 (6)
Engineer (5)
Liberator Gun (14)

Jenna

Jenna (28)

Armour 9 (2)
Pluck 4+ (4)
SV +3 (4)
FV +2 (2)
Speed 2 (2)
Liberator Gun (14)

Vila

Vila (40)

Armour 9 (2)
Pluck 4+ (4)
SV +2 (2)
FV +1 (1)
Speed +2 (2)
Eridute Wit (5)
Intuitive (5)
Stealthy (5)
Liberator Gun (14)

Gan

Gan (27)

Armour 9 (2)
Pluck 4+ (4)
FV +5 (16)
Tough (5)

Cally

Cally (23)

Armour 9 (2)
Pluck 4+ (4)
SV +3 (4)
FV +3 (4)
Speed 3* (2)
*Martial Artist (3)
Liberator Gun (14)

Orac

Orac (47)

Armour 12 (16)
Pluck 3+ (9)
Medic (5)

Computational Power
Advise Caution (Harden) (8)
Targeting Advice (Strengthen) (9)


Blake's Seven costs 279 pts.