Cardboard Spaceship #2 for #Stargrave

 Unlike the Lana Emirp, this little ship design doesn't have a single piece of cardboard in its construction. It's actually made largely from the sides of a box of clementines. 

The wings were measured out, with my (half painted) Sgt. Forscale handy, and the corner supports of the box placed to serve as the engines.

Because the supports were 1.5" wide, and I only wanted them to be 1" I had to trim them down. Now having any power tools meant a lot of cutting and sawing by hand. It wasn't as exact as I'd have liked, but it got the job done.

And here you can see how bit it is as compared to my first ship.

I used some cast off insulation foam to form the cockpit. I also beveled the edges of the wings. Again, doing it by hand means that it's not as smooth or even as I'd like. Really should buy some sandpaper at least.

I also used foam to make the lower half of the cockpit, and some side supports. Because the ship is so small the underside won't be seen, so I wasn't worried about making some fancy looking landing gear. This'll all probably be black to further hide the fact that it's just foam blocks.

Here I'm cladding the wood and foam with note card paper.

Using one of those fake credit cards that sometimes show up in junk mail to make the grills for the engine exhaust.

I glued a couple pieces together to serve as spacers to try to keep the spacing as even as I could. 

And I added... well... shelves to sit the exhaust ports on.

Then I attached the exhausts... and realized the one on the left is just a tad too big due to the slope of the engine. Ooops. That's what you get when you don't get a clean cut. Ah well.

Onto paneling and greebling. Mostly this is more 3x5 note card, but there's a bit of plastic scrap too. The black bits are the sprue from a GW square base. The circular bits are the tube from a shampoo bottle pump sliced thin.

That little green x is the tip of a broken post from the poop bag dispenser and that silvery bit is a bead that I had kicking around in my bits box.

And here it is, all cladded up. Time to get to painting!