For those of you who remember the Spelljammer campaign products, you'll remember fondly the cut-out and fold-up ship models. These were great to use when doing ship-to-ship combat, using a sort of modified miniatures battle rules set, and came in two products. The first batch of ships came with the Spelljammer DM Screen, and included the Damselfly, Deathspider, Dragonfly, Dragonship, Elven Man-O-War, Flitter, Galleon, Hammership, Mindspider, Nautiloid, Scorpion, Shrikeship, Sidewheeler, Squidship, Tradesman, Wasp, and 3 different Beholder Tyrants. The second batch was included in the War Captain Companion's boxed set, and contained Angelship, Battle Wagon, Bat Ship, Cog, Deathspider, Dolphin and Dolphin Shuttle, Dromond, Eel Ship, Great Bombard, Lamprey, Leech, Mantis, Octopus, Smalljammer, Triop, Vipership, and Yawl. Below you'll see a photo of the entire collection of ships, minus the duplicates.

While the collection includes most of the common spelljammer ships, and several of the more interesting rare ships, I had always hoped that more would be forthcoming. The cancellation of the Spelljammer Campaign line of products put an end to that hope.  Recently, I had been thinking about those (and still use them, as there is still a Spelljammer component to my long-running Greyhawk campaign) and decided that if you want something done, you gotta do it yourself! So I've begun to do up my own fold-up ships to supplement these. It may take me a while, with all the other projects (gaming and non-gaming) that I  have, but here's the first installment. Check back periodically for more in the future. In this first installment, I've done modified coloring of the existing Hammership and Squidship because I needed them for my campaign (and you can never have enough of those popular ships), and created all-new fold-ups for the Ogre Mammoth and Mosquito. To maintain the proper scale with the earlier ship models, the image should be printed out at 8.2 inches by 10.2 inches (sorry, thats the way it came out). Click here or on the image below to get a higher resolution image for printing (1 mb file).

This is what the two new ships, the Mosquito and the Ogre Mammoth look like when they are put together. Tips: On the Mammoth, cut the slot on the vertical piece (attached to the base) from the front, and the horizontal piece from the back, to preserve the center ram. Also, when you fold the ships, match the top of the black base (closest to the ship) and not the bottom (farthest part from the ship), making sure that the opposite ship images line up perfectly.

 

Here is the second installment of my new Spelljammer ship models. The Whaleship, Porcupine Ship and Skeleton Ship. To maintain the proper scale with the earlier ship models, the image should be printed out at 8.2 inches by 10.4 inches. Click here or on the image to get the high resolution image for printing (1 mb file).

And below is a photo of what the assembled Whaleship, Skeleton Ship and Porcupine Ship look like.

The third installment consists of a Bloatfly, a Barge of Ptah, and two Dwarven Citadels (I still can't believe that the latter were never included in any of the original products... I guess they assumed people would use real rocks). The Barge is my most complicated model to date. To maintain the proper scale with the earlier ship models, the image should be printed out at 8.0 inches by 10.0 inches. Click here or on the image to get the high resolution image for printing (800 kb file).

Here is what the Dwarven Citadels, Bloatfly, and Barge of Ptah look like assembled.

By popular demand, my fourth installment is none other then the Vodoni fleet. Consisting of the Nightwolf scout ship, the Werewolf, and the Hunter-Killer, these were by far the most difficult to do, and involved the most work because of the nature of the original artwork in SJA4 Under the Dark Fist (look at the color fold-out and you will see the only image that I had to work with). Now you too can create a fleet of ships and stage battles in the War Between the Spheres. To maintain the proper scale with the earlier ship models, the image should be printed out at 8.0 inches by 10.0 inches. When you cut the wing for the Hunter-Killer, be sure to leave a tab between the split in the front so that you can curve the tips and glue them together. It helps if you cut a few thin wedges out so that the cardboard is easier to bend in a smooth curve. Click here or on the image to get the high resolution image for printing (650 kb file).

Here is how the Vodoni Werewolf, Nightwolf, and Hunter-Killer look assembled. I have to admit that they are now my favorites. I think all the hard work in Photoshop was worth it.

If anybody else out there has put together new Spelljammer ship models, I'd like to hear about it (my email is at the bottom of my main page).

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