Shipbucket

Maybe we can have those challenge topics that have been proposed but are a long time ago, such as 'Early Cold War Destroyer', 'Fleet Air defence fighter of 1980' and 'Harrier Carrier' etc.
I believe new members in community will have their ideas on those topics.

Bucket-Wheel Excavator

Introduction:
A mining company in your nation is in need for a large vehicle for excavating massive amounts of coal from the ground.

Design Requirements:
1. Your submission must depict a fictional bucket-wheel excavator/mobile strip mining machine.
2. Your submission must be in FD scale.


Bagger 288

Someone on discord told me to suggest this here but I had the idea of a semi-submersible challenge. I know very little of this topic other than I find them neat and interesting and several people have produced some fun concepts for them, so I'll leave it here as an idea. If this gets taken seriously we can develop a more definitive set of rules/requirements on discord.

RegiaMarina1939 wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 7:13 pm Someone on discord told me to suggest this here but I had the idea of a semi-submersible challenge. I know very little of this topic other than I find them neat and interesting and several people have produced some fun concepts for them, so I'll leave it here as an idea. If this gets taken seriously we can develop a more definitive set of rules/requirements on discord.

for that one, you gonna need to give people a lot of time to drive, if they decide to draw an entire effing oilrig

STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
Or "how did you end up here?"



This challenge is about those weird circumstances that forced ships to end up in strange places. The stranger the better!

Perhaps your ship was interned because a war started and she can't make it back home. The government of the place she's stuck in then offers to buy her and put the hull to good use. (Scharnhorst becomes Shin'yō.)

Perhaps the ship was legitimately bought from a friendly nation, but the friend has suddenly become foe and there's no support available for the ship. So she's been converted somehow using local resources or those from new allies. (Lützow becomes Petropavlosk.)

Perhaps the ship was taken over as a war trophy, and has been adapted by the new navy with their own equipment. (Attilio Regolo becomes Châteaurenault.)

Perhaps the country of origin of the ship doesn't exist anymore! The ship goes through a complicated process to determine who she belongs to now. (SMS Viribus Unitis.)

Charguizard wrote: ↑April 10th, 2024, 2:57 pm STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
Or "how did you end up here?"



This challenge is about those weird circumstances that forced ships to end up in strange places. The stranger the better!

Perhaps your ship was interned because a war started and she can't make it back home. The government of the place she's stuck in then offers to buy her and put the hull to good use. (Scharnhorst becomes Shin'yō.)

Perhaps the ship was legitimately bought from a friendly nation, but the friend has suddenly become foe and there's no support available for the ship. So she's been converted somehow using local resources or those from new allies. (Lützow becomes Petropavlosk.)

Perhaps the ship was taken over as a war trophy, and has been adapted by the new navy with their own equipment. (Attilio Regolo becomes Châteaurenault.)

Perhaps the country of origin of the ship doesn't exist anymore! The ship goes through a complicated process to determine who she belongs to now. (SMS Viribus Unitis.)

I like this a lot!

Will we have Vietnam War Commemorative Challenge next year? After all, next year is the 60th anniversary of the Vietnam War.

Early Cold War Missile Surface Combatant challenge
Commissioned between 1950 and 1970(?)

(SB Scale) Sailors of the Literary Seas


Ink sketch of Nemo's NAUTILUS by Andrew King


The pages of fiction are rife with nautical vessels of all shapes and kind. While some have been given their spot in the limelight and been brought to life through artwork and physical models, many have not. Your challenge is to draw a fictional vessel that features only or primarily in written media, whether a novel or otherwise. Preferably, the vessel you choose should be described through written word only and not have had visual depictions of it included in the media where it originally features. An example would be the Oregon from Clive Cussler's Oregon Files series.

Design Requirements:
1. Your submission should depict a fictional watercraft which originally appeared in written media
2. Your submission should not depict a craft which you yourself initially conceived of
3. Your craft should attempt to follow the spirit of the author's intention for the craft (some artistic interpretation is not only allowed but necessary)

Charguizard wrote: ↑April 10th, 2024, 2:57 pm STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
Or "how did you end up here?"



This challenge is about those weird circumstances that forced ships to end up in strange places. The stranger the better!

Perhaps your ship was interned because a war started and she can't make it back home. The government of the place she's stuck in then offers to buy her and put the hull to good use. (Scharnhorst becomes Shin'yō.)

Perhaps the ship was legitimately bought from a friendly nation, but the friend has suddenly become foe and there's no support available for the ship. So she's been converted somehow using local resources or those from new allies. (Lützow becomes Petropavlosk.)

Perhaps the ship was taken over as a war trophy, and has been adapted by the new navy with their own equipment. (Attilio Regolo becomes Châteaurenault.)

Perhaps the country of origin of the ship doesn't exist anymore! The ship goes through a complicated process to determine who she belongs to now. (SMS Viribus Unitis.)

fil-a-delfia seggspearmint

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Ultimate Weapons™ (FD scale)



A defense contractor/armed forces/private military have been approached by a "historical education" oriented television channel and their host, Marcin Ricardo, who possesses a decade of work experience in the most famous naval special forces unit in the world, for production of a new television show. This show will emphasize the modernity of "new", powerful weapons with a thematic emphasis on their Hegelian end-of-history design elements. Real-world examples of such Ultimate Weapons are the Pzkpfw VIII "Maus", P.1000 Ratte, the Future Combat Systems' tankettes, the F-22 Raptor, the Zumwalt-class destroyer, and whatever the hell this thing is.

Create an Ultimate Weapon™ which will appear on the first episode of the show. Whether it is a Mad Max-style crustpunk contraption or a sterile and soulless robotic automaton, a land battleship propelled on air cushions with anti-orbital cannons or a mobile factory that can build its own army, it has to be a mobile monument to the End of History and the totality of the current apex of civilization. Go wacky, go mental, lose your marbles, etc.

Bonus points for outright anime influences and if the weapon is canceled a month after its appearance on the show.