I had briefly looked at Full Thrust and got to the "WRITE YOUR ORDERS" phase and had visions of Engage thrusters at 50%, Come to a heading of 310 mark 15 etc etc. and because of this I moved away from it and continued down my rules path.
15mm wargaming diverted me to ground combat, and away from the navies of space, but I was recently looking about the Full Thrust group and I decided to read the Full Thrust Light. "Wow, these are SIMPLE" Long story short, probably as simple as what I had developed, for the most part anyhow. FTL would be a SIMPLE game to get people to learn and infact I hear it us often used at conventions.
Ok. So I played a few solo engaements with my Silent Death minis from EM4, but wanted to get back into scratch building ships.
I was directed to Starship Combat news for scale ideas and used it to determine the scale for my scratch buils to be around the same size as GZG spaceships. While I was on SCN I went through their foums and came across their scratch build forum. Some of it is ok, some it basic, but one user stands out as a scratch builder over there. His handle is "Toaster"
SCN FORUM: http://www.star-ranger.com/forum/index.php
OMEGA Class: http://www.star-ranger.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2581
HYPERION: http://www.star-ranger.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2659
SULACO: http://www.star-ranger.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7081
MORE: http://www.star-ranger.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2612
CLONE WARS: http://www.star-ranger.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=6546
NARN: http://www.star-ranger.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=5308
GENERAL: http://www.star-ranger.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2635
MORE IDEAS:
http://www.star-ranger.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=10080
http://www.star-ranger.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=8017
Using his ideas I have begun scratch building my first fleet.
Basic plasticard cutouts |
Gluing into a body |
Initial tests. |
Additional details and a few Silent Death escorts. |
Ships need engines but now a Cruiser and a Frigate. |
Nice work, glad I could give you some inspiration.
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