Niðavellir Shipyard: October 2012

Niðavellir Shipyard

The Nidavellir Shipyard is a large UCM Shipyard hidden far away from any planetary system.
After the scattering of humans after the first Scourge attack many ships used their ftl drives and made an random Foldspace jump just to get away. Many of this ships found themselves alone in the dark, to close to a star or a black hole and perished but some made it to an empty place in space. And that’s how the Nidavellir belt was discovered. A collection of large rocks, asteroids in different sizes and collection of dust and sand. Exactly how this place come to be, far from any sun, placed in between systems is not known. It is believed it was created after an extremely unlikely collision of two larger celestial body, with no stronger gravity pull in the vicinity this collection of minerals and rocks have held together by their own combined pull of each other. The scatter of large rocks and the natural background radioactivity have created a hiding place. After the survivors made contact with the now formed UCM the area have been put to good use.

Named after the Norse mythology Nidavellir, the world of the dwarves, for its rich mineral and metal resources. Perfectly for foundries and a large shipyard complex.

This is the place to produce ships...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Dropzone Commander paper building

Some friends at the gaming club have just started to test out Dropzone Commander from Hawk wargames. http://www.hawkwargames.com/

The little I’ve seen of it so far is promising. Look like some interesting gameplay.

I have just ordered an army but in the meantime I thought I could build some terrain. And as this game is in 10mm it mean terrain building will be both quick and easy.

These are paper building that you can freely download from their site.
http://www.hawkwargames.com/blogs/downloadable-buildings

I printed them on regular paper and glued them on thicker paper that I had at home laying around since my art classes in school. The joints are reinforced from the inside with masking tape to better survive the gaming club…

And some comparison pictures with some 28 and 15mm miniatures. As you see they are clearly too small for other scales.

Niðavellir Shipyard