2300AD Starship Miniatures

[Spire]

I was just cruising thru the www, and got to thinking about starship minis for Star Cruiser/2300AD. Any chance we might see some this time around?

 

[mike wightman]

Table-tennis balls, golf tees and black paint not good enough

Seriously though I would like to second your call for T2320 minatures, but I would also like to see CT ship minatures re-issued.

 

[Spire]

Table-tennis balls, golf tees and black paint not good enough

One better, started playing with dowel rod to make minis. Finished a prototype Kennedy-class cruiser in about 20 min. last nite. Just isn't the same though...

2300AD had such great art, especially for the starships. Wood chips just don't cut it.

For scale I think 1/1200 wouldn't be bad.

Kennedy: 70m=~2.25" l, ~.6" d at largest (21m)
Aconit: ~40m=~1.33" l, ~.6" d at largest (21m)
FS-17A: 12m=~.4" l, ~.2" d (6m)

The only real problems would be ships like the Richelieu-class BBs and Kafer BBs. These would most likely be in the range of 5-6" or more. I'd have to crunch some more math to be more accurate than that. Had rough hull sizes for these handy.

 

[siefertma2]

Originally posted by Spire:
I was just cruising thru the www, and got to thinking about starship minis for Star Cruiser/2300AD. Any chance we might see some this time around?

Here here! If I've said it once, I'll say it a million times: What the gaming market needs is a line of "near-future" space craft miniatures. The only thing that really comes close are the ship figures from "Jovian Chronicles."

 

[aramis]

Originally posted by Mark A. Siefert:
The only thing that really comes close are the ship figures from "Jovian Chronicles."

That's because JC is a fairly realistic NSF setting, in both senses (Near as in near future, and Near as in more than 3 breaks, but all minor ones... not even a hyper drive.).

 

[siefertma2]

Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
Table-tennis balls, golf tees and black paint not good enough

Seriously though I would like to second your call for T2320 minatures, but I would also like to see CT ship minatures re-issued.

Actually, I use ping-pong balls mounted on flight stands for boggey markers myself.

We'd all like to see minis for Traveller, and not just starships. I've looked high and low and I can't find anything that could be used for a Aslan or Vargr figure. Nope, not a thing.

 

[GJD]

Near future-ish ships:

http://www.gtns.net/store1/commerce.cgi?product=FT-UNSC&exact_match=on&cart_id=664372.15338
and

http://www.gtns.net/store1/commerce.cgi?product=FT-JAP&exact_match=on&cart_id=664372.15338


and a bunch of angry Vargr:

http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/showpacks.asp?id=COBR&group=Cobalt%2D1

 

[Jame]

GJD, what are the ships? Robotech?

And thanks for the link, they're way cool!

 

[Swordsage]

I think they're for the Full Thrust miniatures game. I could be mistaken though.

The super dreadnoughts towards the bottom of the page are very nice.

 

[GJD]

They are indeed Full Thrust. You can find mor images at www.star-ranger.com in the Full Thrust section.

GZG (Ground Zero Games) also do a nice range of true 25mm and 15mm figures and resin vehicles that work well for 2300ad - take a look at the Kra'vak, a sort of cross between prdeators and Kafers.

G.

 

[aramis]

Originally posted by GJD:
They are indeed Full Thrust. You can find mor images at www.star-ranger.com in the Full Thrust section.

GZG (Ground Zero Games) also do a nice range of true 25mm and 15mm figures and resin vehicles that work well for 2300ad - take a look at the Kra'vak, a sort of cross between prdeators and Kafers.

G.

I happen to play FT using counters, myself, but yeah, GZG does a great line of minis. and there ARE 15mm wolfen minis for modern and fantasy out there.

go check "The Miniatures Page" www.theminiaturespage.com The Miniatures Page

 

[Spire]

Thanks for the links. I've seen some of the FT line, but not those. I especially like the SCN Website.

I'm going to look through them and see if there is anything close to Star Cruiser ships that I like or could easily convert. Then again, I might just keep playing around with my dowel rod creations. I think if I keep at it, I'll get them to look better. My second "sculpture" looks a little better than the first. Not quite in scale, as I'm just playing right now with scraps I had handy. But the more I play...

-MCM