Bioship

For my design I started with this picture here as a base


I edited it, basically selecting only the main body and cutting away the tentacles and fins.

Then I stretched the image so that it was 4 inches by 8 inches for ease of translating onto cardboard.

The final board is going to 4 feet (at its widest) by 8 feet long. I drew a grid with roughly (I'm using a terrible terrible ruler) 1 inch squares and then made a similar grid with roughly 1 foot squares on the card board.

After that I glued some wooden beams onto the bottom (though its irrelevant as the thing is essentially symmetrical) cardboard for structural support. I initially used some weird rubber cement like thing until I bought a hot glue gun and reinforced everything with that.

I attached legs using screws. I just put them through the wood glued on from the top side of the card board. I also put little "feet" on the legs to help stabilize the thing and keep it from falling over.

Right now I'm in the process of layering paper mache over the metal framework on the body. I still need to make the head, and the eye portions in particular are going to be difficult. I may use balloons or something there...

youve got 2nd post actually,

ONTOPIC: Great project! It would be immense to see it all come together. I am truly looking forward at getting to see the painted result.

Well the plan is to have multiple levels on top of the ship (all the pictures so far are of the underside). There will be interconnected rooms with hallways strung throughout. Sort of like that old game Hive Fleet (I never played it though I did play the other one, Space Hulk). The board is going to serve as the playing area for an 11,000 point apocalypse game with space marines of deathwatch with an inquisitor lord boarding the ship and trying to destroy various objectives (two brains and three hearts or something like that, mayble some optic gangleon).

We'll probably also use the board for later apocalypse games in a similar fashion to what they did in the new Apocalypse Reload book, though thats for a game that will likely take place 3 years from now.

This is a very cool idea, and that squid diagram works great as a base. Looks like a massive project though, hope you've got the energy to see it through.