To build my cloudship, I must first disassemble the skiff

 

I figure the best way to convert this will be to take it down to it base frame.

At long last I have one of these (actually 2 er, uhm make that 3 possibly 4) Okay, 5, but that's it, no more...

 

Almost like the holy grail, to me, I have been hoping to find one of these in a yard sale, or geek store. On a whim, I decided to search online again, finding some on Ebay. Shipping to Canada would be costly, and the asking price after conversion meant they would run $100 or more. 

Then I noticed the Amazon add in the corner, I had low expectations, but decided to check them out, what could be the harm. Well amazingly they had some, and with free shipping it came to $45.00 more or less. Some how I did not realize that these had been re-released last year, more fool me!

Some more, but not as old, Dystopian War pictures

I am looking to get inspired to work on this collection of miniatures. Last time I looked, I had every faction well covered, maybe not every miniature, but disturbingly close... My local brick and mortar did a 50% off deal (maybe even 60%) so I wound up getting a pretty good deal on a lot of this stuff. Not fooling myself, I did spend a ton of funds on these figures, but they appealed to me, as did/do the rules.

Blast from the past, first ever game of Dystopian Wars sometime around 2010-2011

 

Very primitive in every respect. Yes, newly carved coastline, but apparently quickly flocked, no foliage etc. The ships look to have received only a base colour, and oh my that green on the Prussian forces!

Micro flying ship games

Read through this rule set today, it had been a long time coming. One thing about this whole isolation thing, is that I have had the chance to read a lot of rules. Not having to prep for any specific game has meant that I can work on whichever project that I want to, and read any rules that I want to.

I was surprised by this rule set. I had anticipated, given it's size, a more detailed complex game. What I found was a straightforward fun game.

Plans for September

It will, hopefully be a month of conversions, and maybe I will see the completion of fortress walls.

Dystopian Wars a brief overview

                            For me, this was the game of grand scale Victorian Science run amok!   

Update to pages; pretty much all of them

Updates to almost all pages.

Shows list of planned units, and current status, and how many completed.

Some pictures added, more to follow.

The game that started me on this weird journey

So, my VSF journey started with this book. To be clear, I had read most every Edgar Rice Burroughs book, but they were romantic adventure books to me, nothing more. Space 1889 introduced me to the idea of Victorian science fiction, a place of fantastic inventions, journeys to exciting exotic locations, interplanetary travel in preposterous mechanical conveyances. All this of course with a military slant!