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Apr 17, 2018 18:34:19 GMT -7
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Post by rabid on Apr 17, 2018 18:34:19 GMT -7
Gorn I just ordered 10 hex flight bases and pegs. I cost me like 10$ before shipping from litko. Didn't risk much with that, just need a solution for the bigger and off-scale ships.
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Post by Gorn on Apr 18, 2018 10:13:29 GMT -7
There are better stands than the litco flat ones, I obtained them some years ago, Identical to the clear one in shiftdel's 1st picture. They were also available in black. I was hoping to get some identical to the original design, like the green one under the MA-12 in my sig pic. I'd need Fed blue, Kling red, Orion smoke, Rom purple, Gorn green, Orion orange, a few clear, and a few yellow for aliens.
Does anyone know who made the resin models? I have a resin Nova, and I think I'd like the other 3 battleships in resin; they're alot lighter...
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Apr 18, 2018 16:33:48 GMT -7
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Post by rabid on Apr 18, 2018 16:33:48 GMT -7
@trynda posted some links to the more traditional ones, the only problem is the sizes weren't clearly listed. I made an inquiry with the store though.
Litko were cheap enough it didn't bother me, the acrylic is the same quality for example as x-wing/attack wing and those have held up pretty well.
What I would like would be some pegs on the hex base to put status markers (I.e "shields") or even a peg for an attack wing captain's portrait.
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Post by Gorn on Apr 18, 2018 18:28:18 GMT -7
Yes, those are the ones I found from someone in West Canada, got them in black. I would certainly like what I mentioned above - the original types of ST3 marketing; just like the green hex stand in my sig pic! Can anyone make a production run in hard acrylic like those originals? I'd like 6 of each color!
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Post by shiftdel on Apr 19, 2018 3:08:23 GMT -7
Body of ship appears ~ 7 cm. Sorry, calipers are at the museum. But I'd like one 50% this size. Thanks, 7 cm would be 273 m for the real thing, although any 0.1 cm would make difference (corresponds to almost 4 m in real size!). But it is now clear the correct size is in the 200-300 m length, not 406 m, as I initially thought.
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Post by shiftdel on Apr 19, 2018 3:11:48 GMT -7
My BH-2 (and my L-24) came with a metal stand, shiftdel. Did you want the size of that? I actually need the size of the BH-2 ship, from the tip of the guns to the end of the nacelles. I was using the size of the base as a reference to try to measure the size of the ship on the pics I found on web, but it is imprecise, due to pic distortion or perspective.
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Post by Gorn on Apr 19, 2018 4:59:32 GMT -7
Depends on where you glue the nacelles. On the original model, there's only one way to fit them in, but using Chandley as an example, I was never going to install nacelles bent. So I carved off the metal studs on the nacelle pylons, and installed them straight. You could do the same things with this. Looks like total length is about 73-74mm.
But I'd like a copy at 50% size, and I'd like a Baker at 50% size, too!
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Post by starcruiser on Apr 19, 2018 6:57:32 GMT -7
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Post by rabid on Apr 19, 2018 7:18:02 GMT -7
Yeah I'm ordering one of those just to see what it looks like.
It's the nacelles and the bridge that throws them off, makes ships on the same scale look like they are just really far away from each other. I know the baker has the vaunted "double hull" But I've always been with the site owner on this one. It shouldn't be that big! I guess they looked at the Spruance/aegis class of the day and did it that way.
Maybe I'll stick some 1/3900 nacelles on it, see if that changes anything.
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Post by Gorn on Apr 19, 2018 18:04:50 GMT -7
I've seen it before, starcruiser - not what I'd want. Thanx!
But I'm sure I saw a much smaller Baker in resin several years ago; before shapeways.
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Post by shiftdel on Apr 20, 2018 17:34:36 GMT -7
Depends on where you glue the nacelles. On the original model, there's only one way to fit them in, but using Chandley as an example, I was never going to install nacelles bent. So I carved off the metal studs on the nacelle pylons, and installed them straight. You could do the same things with this. Looks like total length is about 73-74mm. But I'd like a copy at 50% size, and I'd like a Baker at 50% size, too! Hi Gorn, thank you for the measurement, but considering that there is a significant difference between 73 mm and 74 mm, when converted to 1:1 scale, I will use the average between the 2, that is 73.5 = 286.65 m. I can do an smaller ship, it would around 1/7000ish (1/7800, actually) scale, if considering the 286.65 m length figure, or a ship with 143.32 m in length in 1/3900.
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Post by JAFisher44 on Apr 20, 2018 17:46:57 GMT -7
But I'd like a copy at 50% size, and I'd like a Baker at 50% size, too! I need to clean up my sketchup models and put them on shapeways. Lots of work though.
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Post by rabid on Apr 20, 2018 18:59:23 GMT -7
Geez man if you do that in the right scale I might as well just hand you my wallet. I'm hooked on shapeways ships now that I have some and am getting around to painting them. Finding the whole FASA catalogue in the right scale? Heck yeah. Besides I know there's a market for these ships!
Go for it you might end up with a few extra $$.
Oh yeah Gorn *facepalm* Here ya go: studiobergstrom.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=54&product_id=85
Probably will get these next.
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Post by rabid on Apr 25, 2018 13:39:03 GMT -7
Bump:
All set to try painting these up, I have the Larson in a bit too small of a size so I'm trying one in enamel first to see how I like it. Having used it before I think it will fill in the smaller bumps in the low res models.
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Post by shiftdel on Jul 1, 2018 11:09:29 GMT -7
Hi all, finally I could release my Gorn BH2 in 1/3900 scale. Other game scales will be available (1/3125 and others under request), as well as my sacred scale standard, although for this it would take a little bit more time, as I will need to make the walls even more thinner, to save more material. There are 2 versions: FUD (currently Smooth Fine Detail): www.shapeways.com/product/88MEE4D2G/1-3900-gorn-bh2-battleship-fudWSF (White Versatile Plastic): www.shapeways.com/product/R78FM9KAP/1-3900-gorn-bh2-battleship-wsfThe model is hollow, and to make it happen, I had to disassemble it in 5 parts: Top of the main hull, 2 nacelles, and the bottom of the main hull in 2 parts. Follows some preview pics: And the model as it is on Shapeways:
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Nov 8, 2018 18:46:00 GMT -7
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Post by rabid on Nov 8, 2018 18:46:00 GMT -7
Shiftdel your ship is in my cart I'm making a massive purchase for Christmas.
Do you have anything new?
I have the ship's, what I don't have is time. I have like the whole project ready to go but no time to paint them. Hate being responsible sometimes.
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Post by rabid on Nov 9, 2018 22:45:44 GMT -7
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Post by trynda1701 on Nov 10, 2018 8:42:20 GMT -7
Here's hoping that the Shapeways price increase in the New Year won't bump these up too much!
For the record, the WSF material, or whatever it's called now, is £12.20 today for most of his 1/3788 scale minis.
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Post by brickwall on Nov 10, 2018 14:14:14 GMT -7
I'd love this guy to 3d Print a Kephan Gryphon-class CA if possible. That would be so cool.
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Shapeways
Nov 10, 2018 17:31:14 GMT -7
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Post by rabid on Nov 10, 2018 17:31:14 GMT -7
Message him, he was very responsive as were Pulsfired and Shiftdel. He made a thufir in 1/3900 when I asked.
Amarillo design bureau has some great models but they don't seem to want to do them in smaller scales.
I think someone needs to make a 3d printed D-2, k-23 and a Knox Class frigate in 1/3900 or 1/3125. Honestly apart from support ships and tenders, I'd probably buy the whole recognition manual if that was an option.
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Post by trynda1701 on Nov 10, 2018 17:51:24 GMT -7
Message him, he was very responsive as were Pulsfired and Shiftdel. He made a thufir in 1/3900 when I asked. Amarillo design bureau has some great models but they don't seem to want to do them in smaller scales. I think someone needs to make a 3d printed D-2, k-23 and a Knox Class frigate in 1/3900 or 1/3125. Honestly apart from support ships and tenders, I'd probably buy the whole recognition manual if that was an option. ADB ships should have a majority of their Shapeways models in both 1/3788 which will be close to FASA scale of 1/3900, and the larger 1/3125 to match the original more detailed Montrose scale metal minis.
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Shapeways
Nov 10, 2018 17:55:39 GMT -7
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Post by rabid on Nov 10, 2018 17:55:39 GMT -7
Link? Ok found it. Now I can finally have a Romulan condor next to a federation dreadnought and L-13 fat man in 1/3125!!!
Also crazy eddie's on shapeways, lots of FASA ships but no zmall scales.
It's really hard to discern a difference between different ship classes at those scales from 1/3788-1/3900. If you're ok with that then you can build a great fleet.
I have some 1/3125 feds but they are game breakers on the 1" hex. But all my Klingons are 1/3125 and they don't seem too large next to the micro machine/1/3800 fed ship.
On the table anything around 3" for bigger ships seems to work fine. But it's cool, pretty soon we can be picky about precision scale.
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Shapeways
Dec 1, 2018 18:39:24 GMT -7
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Post by rabid on Dec 1, 2018 18:39:24 GMT -7
shiftdel just ordered the BH2 and some k'teremny class ships!
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Post by trynda1701 on Dec 1, 2018 19:14:54 GMT -7
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Post by brickwall on Dec 1, 2018 22:59:42 GMT -7
Indeed, Trynda. The Gryphon should be arriving in the next couple of days. I think I got the first one. I'll stand corrected if I'm wrong.
And for everyone else, if the spirit moves you, get your own. Who knows what gaming scenarios you'll cook up with it.
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