Emerald Knight: Captain Taylor Boat Plane

I have an adventure written in Savage Worlds Battle For Oz (HIGHLY recommend that setting, by the way), where we end up finding Captain Taylor from Flight 19 and he has built this contraption a la Flight of the Phoenix style that will fly the characters over the “Impassable Dessert:” Well I dug up old models, some other spare model parts, used some hot glue, repainted over the old enamel, and this is the progress and final product. Pretty happy with it.

This is a combination of things. The boat itself is the River Boat from the Rambo: First Blood part 2 Monogram “Attack Set” 1:48th scale model that included the helicopter as well.  The chopper was unsalvageable really and I threw it out a long time ago.  I built this back when Rambo 2 was hot, so that gives you  time frame.

The wings came from two WWII light bombers, probably 1:72 scale.  One was a B-25 Mitchell and Douglas A-20 Havoc bomber.  It too was probably 1:72 scale.  They were all painted with my high school painting skills, using Testers enamel paints.  No getting that off.  I just had to hope I would not lose much detail after priming them and repainting them with acrylic.  I ended up spray painting the base coats of blue and grey on the top and bottom wings (respectively).

Considering that RPG minis primarily are 1:60, I knew this was going to be tight.  But it would get the basic idea across and I think it would look cool.  I had some extra parts left over from a B-24 bomber I built and used those to make a chin gun that I custom cut into the boat.  I think that is my favorite part of it all.  I am glad I found those parts.  I used a kit of WW2 weapons I bought at Hobby Lobby that were 1:35 scale and added the 50 cal MG.  So my scaling is all over the place but I still think it gets the point across.

My painted it to look old.  I used a lot of black wash.  And then gray and silver dry brush.  I just wanted it to looked used and worn.  You don’t have to be perfect if you want it it to look old and worn.  Even the mistakes I made with the Dremel tool were easily made into scars.  I tried to use hot glue to show weld points but not sure if I can that point across.  Probably not.