3D Space Hulk

Remember the guy who cast his own 3D resin board for Space Hulk? He's finished painting enough for the first mission. Pretty impressive:

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Compare to my much more pathetic card board ones :)

Full Map

Marines Entering the Hulk

3D Space Hulk

Here is a guy who casts 3D Space Hulk corridors by himself with resin, using LEGO in the production too. :) That's pretty cool. Looks like you can get quite a bit of detail just from resin. Interesting...

Space Hulk Miniatures

Well, I haven't been totally doing nothing with Space Hulk. I'm actually getting some miniatures painted.

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Here are some partially painted Genestealers.

A regular heavy power armour trooper walking.

A heavy power armour trooper with a machine gun, I suppose standing in for the assault cannon in Space Hulk.

A sergeant.

The space marine miniatures are not from Games Workshop, but are from a different manufacturer. I already had them, and like them rather better than the over-the-top GW miniatures.

Cluedo Crusade

Wow... I don't know what to make of this.
Basically it's a combination of Clue (called Cluedo in the UK) and Space Crusade, a boardgame relative of Space Hulk. As a normal game of Clue goes on, Space Marines show up, with each of the characters (Mrs. White, Col. Mustard, etc.) commanding a faction. The Space Marines shoot each other while the Clue game continues. Brain eating is also involved...

Mini Space Hulk

Now this is so cute... :)

He's using Games Workshop's Epic scale Space Marine and Genestealer miniatures. Epic scale is around 6 mm scale. The miniatures used in normal Space Hulk is 28 mm scale.

Space Hulk SP

I've posted this before, but here it is again: a freeware computer version of the boardgame I found on the web. This is a fairly accurate depiction of the second edition rules, but is pretty much no frills. I'd like to eventually make a version with a 3D board and 3D models.

Space Hulk Doors

There's a bunch of cardboard doors in Space Hulk, and in the original game, they come with plastic stands to hold them upright. The problem is, I don't have any of those stands. So I thought of an idea: metal binder clips are very cheap, around 12 for $1 at dollar stores. The black metal part is perfect for the base.

These are the doors that come with the game.

A typical small black binder clip.
Put the clip on the bottom of the door.
Take the silvery metal hinges off and the binder clip becomes a door stand.

Space Hulk Mission 1

I've finally got all the Space Hulk board pieces made. Just as a test, I built the first mission's map:


The red triangle shows the Space Marine entry area, and the green triangles show the Genestealer entry areas.

I also took a picture of what it looks like for the Space Marines to enter the board.


Now I just have to paint the miniatures...

Space Hulk Board

Here's an example of board pieces assembled together. Full maps from the actual missions use more sections and are quite a bit larger.

Space Hulk

Space Hulk is an old boardgame published by Games Workshop. One player controls space marines in heavy powered armour who board derelict star ships called "space hulks", in order to perform a variety of missions. These usually involve retrieving some kind of data or going to a particular room to access the ship's controls. They are opposed by aliens called "Genestealers" that live on these derelicts and try to kill the boarding space marines. These aliens, of course, are controlled by the other player. The game is played on a board made up of interlocking sections (with jigsaw puzzle like connectors) that can be rearranged to give a variety of different maps. The space marines and Genestealers are represented by nicely detailed Games Workshop miniatures from their Warhammer 40k line. I've played some computer adaptations of the game and found it to be a lot of fun, so I've been trying to get a copy. The problem is, the game is long out of print, and commands very high prices on eBay, if you can find it at all.

Interestingly enough, I found out that Games Workshop has released the rules of the 2nd edition of the game free as a .pdf file, along with .pdf file pictures of the original board sections. So I've started a project to create a set of the game.

The board sections:
The board sections are easy, if tedious, to make. You can simply print them out on regular paper using a colour printer, glue the paper to cardboard, and cut out the sections. The full game has some 54 individual sections, so I'm still in the middle of doing that.

The rulebook:

You just have to print it out. No problem.

The miniatures:

This is the cool part of the game - collecting and painting miniatures is a fun hobby by itself.

For the game, I'm using some heavy powered armour miniatures I already have from a different manufacturer (Ground Zero Games), but at around the same scale. These will stand in as the space marines.

This represents a space marine with a basic ranged weapon, called a "storm bolter" in Space Hulk. I'll use the guy on the far right with the antenna on his back as a Sergeant in Space Hulk. The guys with two boxes on their shoulders will be regular space marines - I'll just say they have searchlights mounted. The guy on the left has a heavy weapon, which I will use to represent a "flamer" (basically a flamethrower) in Space Hulk.

A closer look at the heavy weapon guy.

With the Genestealers, I don't have any models, so I ordered a bunch of them on eBay. These miniatures are fairly common, since they are a common troop type in the table top wargame Warhammer 40k, which uses the same models. I got some painted ones and unpainted ones - I might have to repaint the others anyways.

These ones are already painted by the previous owner, but I might change the colour scheme.

These are freshly assembled out of the box, plastic-coloured.

Well, I'll keep working on these and see how they all turn out.