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I was wondering if perhaps anyone had any ideas on how I could go about starting a project like that? I saw a video a friend of mine posted with a massive battle barge as an apocalypse table and I was hoping someone could guide me in the right direction on how to start making one.

I work in a furniture warehouse, so I was thinking cardboard and perhaps some foam could work? Other than that, I'd probably need ship schematics.

The video I saw is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxaMMh98Xus

Imperial capital ships are kilometres in length, so even as an Apocalypse table, a full battle barge wouldn't fit. so what type of ship are you after? Warship, cargo ship, hospital ship or some weird xeno ship?

Some questions that might help you formulate a plan for the ship:

What kind of ship? A cargo transport with lots of small cargo bays? A huge mega-tranporter with large bays? Stacked cargo containers, or some kind of racking system? These things will determine the density of scenery and how much space is left for troops and vehicles.

Do you want a shuttle bay or flight operations deck? some kind of control room? living quarters? individual cabins for passengers or troopship type bunks?

Do you want the ship landed and disabled (and therefore relatively intact), or totally mashed up due to impact with different levels and broken decks merging into each other?

I do remember some GW store staff cutting up a bin for foundation to a crashed space hulk table.

 Flinty wrote:
Imperial capital ships are kilometres in length, so even as an Apocalypse table, a full battle barge wouldn't fit. so what type of ship are you after? Warship, cargo ship, hospital ship or some weird xeno ship?

Some questions that might help you formulate a plan for the ship:

What kind of ship? A cargo transport with lots of small cargo bays? A huge mega-tranporter with large bays? Stacked cargo containers, or some kind of racking system? These things will determine the density of scenery and how much space is left for troops and vehicles.

Do you want a shuttle bay or flight operations deck? some kind of control room? living quarters? individual cabins for passengers or troopship type bunks?

Do you want the ship landed and disabled (and therefore relatively intact), or totally mashed up due to impact with different levels and broken decks merging into each other?

More than likely something along the lines of a cargo or hospital ship. A cargo ship would work if the players were going to use vehicles of any kind.

A shuttle bay or a flight deck would be superb, as well as control and living quarters.

And a damaged ship might be more/less work depending on the severity of the damage itself, so I may be going more for an intact ship (it could also double as a Space Battle style table as well)!

Since nobody has mentioned it: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Warhammer_40,000_Terrain/REALM_OF_BATTLE_CRASHED_THUNDERHAWK.html

Pretty awesome and the price really isn't that bad

The only problem with the FW tile is that it's only 2'x2' so if looking for something he can actually use to play on it's too small.

I can make that for you if you like, unpainted saves time and money. Shipping would be out of this world but i can have it done in like two weeks.

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
The only problem with the FW tile is that it's only 2'x2' so if looking for something he can actually use to play on it's too small.

It would be a great centrepoint for a knackered old shuttle bay though.

If you don't mind the cost, you could try converting a zone mortalis board into a space ship interior.

planet surface or moon with a downed fleet cruiser would be cool!