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Post by squirmydad on Aug 20, 2019 16:08:50 GMT -9
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Post by nullpointer on Aug 25, 2019 9:19:24 GMT -9
I still love the classic pulp-sci-fi feel that comes from saying "SKY GALLEONS ... OF MARS!"
It's such a great concept.
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Post by squirmydad on Aug 25, 2019 15:07:01 GMT -9
Did you ever play? In my old game group we had many epic encounters in the Martian skies.
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Post by nullpointer on Aug 25, 2019 16:17:10 GMT -9
I wish I could. I barely have enough time among kid's stuff to get in a weekly D&D game.
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Sept 1, 2019 21:00:46 GMT -9
I've done 3mm/1:600 gaming with WWII aircraft that were made on a friend's 3D printer. I never finished the paper ships to use as objectives.
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Post by shep on Sept 1, 2019 22:45:13 GMT -9
There might be games of John Carter of Mars in my future, and these mini might become very handy, then...
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Post by marcpasquin on Sept 12, 2019 18:10:06 GMT -9
this might come off as an odd question but here goes:
When you are making very small fictional vehicles and bases such as these, how do you gauge the scale they are meant to be ? Do you draw parallels with some real-world vehicle or building and say "the model is [X] cm long and the real world equivalent is [Y] meters long so the scale 1/[z]" ?
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Post by squirmydad on Sept 12, 2019 19:41:02 GMT -9
When I was making the 1/600 scale ironclads I went off real world measurements since they were mostly based off of real historical ships. For the Sky Galleons there were deck plans drawn on a scale grid for boarding actions that I used as a guide. I had to guess a bit on what they looked like in profile view as a flat deckplan doesn't reveal some aspects. I actually built all of them in a 3d program so I could fill in the blanks to get to a final papermodel. Does that help?
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Post by marcpasquin on Sept 12, 2019 23:46:27 GMT -9
When I was making the 1/600 scale ironclads I went off real world measurements since they were mostly based off of real historical ships. For the Sky Galleons there were deck plans drawn on a scale grid for boarding actions that I used as a guide. I had to guess a bit on what they looked like in profile view as a flat deckplan doesn't reveal some aspects. I actually built all of them in a 3d program so I could fill in the blanks to get to a final papermodel. Does that help? yes, cheers for that.
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Post by squirmydad on Sept 13, 2019 7:48:13 GMT -9
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Post by squirmydad on Sept 13, 2019 7:57:38 GMT -9
Images from the game like this one are very helpful, this is a huge model though.
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Post by oldschooldm on Sept 13, 2019 8:42:12 GMT -9
Those are neat! I would have 0 use for them, but COOL!
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Post by alloydog on Sept 13, 2019 22:37:37 GMT -9
On the bases, are the markings VL, L, N, H and VH, height markings? (Very Low, Low, N?, High and Very High)?
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Post by squirmydad on Sept 14, 2019 14:41:13 GMT -9
On the bases, are the markings VL, L, N, H and VH, height markings? (Very Low, Low, N?, High and Very High)? Yes, there is an arrow that goes over the flight pole and rotates around to indicate height. I've also used a short toothpick and poked it into the appropriate heights when using foam core bases. Litko sells clear acrylic hex flight bases and I've used those with the paper base glued to the bottom and showing through, looked nice and was sturdier than the foam core versions.
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Post by creyates on Nov 4, 2019 7:51:30 GMT -9
wow old squirmydad those look amazing! I've been thinking about smaller scales this past year. I'm liking the hex's too
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Post by squirmydad on Nov 4, 2019 10:25:32 GMT -9
Thanks, they were a lot of fun.
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Post by alloydog on Nov 4, 2019 11:04:03 GMT -9
I've done 3mm/1:600 gaming with WWII aircraft that were made on a friend's 3D printer. I never finished the paper ships to use as objectives. This one reminds me of a time, way, way back, when I was a young teen: One summer, I had small booklet (don't know where I got it from), which showed how to make WWII aircraft hangers and other airfield paraphernalia out of things like matchboxes. The planes they had in the pictures were very small, but as far as I can remember, it never said where to get the planes from. Now, I guess, they must have been 1/300th or even 1/600th scale, as even the large matchboxes of the time weren't that big, so to be a hanger that could hold even just one aeroplane, it must be quite a small scale. At the time, I never though about paper models. But I have several other projects on the go. But it took me about twenty minutes to get this far: Must re... sist...
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Post by squirmydad on Nov 4, 2019 12:26:39 GMT -9
Must re... sist... Give in to the small side. A few more minutes to make wings, mirror the fuselage, put it on a toothpick flight stand and your in business! Oh wait, they'll need somebody to fight...and then a reason to fight like being bomber escorts, which means you'll need bombers, and then something to bomb like like factories and bridges and and and and...
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Post by alloydog on Nov 4, 2019 13:11:08 GMT -9
Must re... sist... Give in to the small side. A few more minutes to make wings, mirror the fuselage, put it on a toothpick flight stand and your in business! Oh wait, they'll need somebody to fight...and then a reason to fight like being bomber escorts, which means you'll need bombers, and then something to bomb like like factories and bridges and and and and... I know, I know... sigh
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Post by dafrca on Nov 4, 2019 20:58:08 GMT -9
Must re... sist... Give in to the small side. A few more minutes to make wings, mirror the fuselage, put it on a toothpick flight stand and your in business! Oh wait, they'll need somebody to fight...and then a reason to fight like being bomber escorts, which means you'll need bombers, and then something to bomb like like factories and bridges and and and and... LOL, While I know this is really how I get, I had to laugh at it as well. Poor alloydog does not stand a chance against this "spell" you weave.
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Post by Vermin King on Nov 11, 2019 18:36:40 GMT -9
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Post by squirmydad on Nov 11, 2019 19:49:28 GMT -9
Neat! I like that little Eiffel Tower, the original purpose of the Eiffel tower was to refill Etherships before they left the atmosphere. Actually that model would be just about perfect for playing Sky Galleons at it's original scale of 1/1200.
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