| Jeff W | 18 Oct 2011 12:06 p.m. PST |
sigh… compatibility How well do the various starships of different manufacture look together on the tabletop? which manufacturers in general look the best together (not mixed; I'm thinking opposing fleets). Is there an actual scale 1:1200? that is accepted as standard? I've generally only played ground based games over the last decade and a half, the only starships I own are a Firestorm Armada Sorylian fleet and a handful of 10+ year old GZG NAC ships. |
| Little Big Wars | 18 Oct 2011 12:23 p.m. PST |
Brigade and GZG match-up pretty well, from my experience. The key thing is not having a force made entirely of BFG/Firestorm Armada ships face-off against the likes of those tiny "fleet scale" Star Trek ships. |
| PatrickWR | 18 Oct 2011 12:32 p.m. PST |
I mix and match freely with my fleets, and they all look great (IMHO). I use Firestorm Armada, GZG Full Thrust ships, Starfleet Battles, Silent Death and AeroTech. Here are a couple pics from a recent game:
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Micman  | 18 Oct 2011 1:29 p.m. PST |
Go with what looks good to you. Having different manufactures on the table lets you have totally different tech and weapons if you want. What you do want to avoid is having obvious fighters that are the same size as capital ships. |
| Stealth1000 | 18 Oct 2011 3:05 p.m. PST |
I feel there are two scales. 1/3000th Includes Brigade games GZG and Firestorm Armada, Cold Navy and Zandrisiv. The rest seem to be around the 1/16000th scale.
Ravenstar, Studio Bergstrom, Ironwind metals. Well thats how I do it. I have put my starships in to two scales. I now use GW battlefleet Gothic fighters for my 1/3000th scale ships. They seem spot on for 1/3000th scale. |
| nvdoyle | 18 Oct 2011 7:57 p.m. PST |
PatrickWR, what are those two facing off in the center, one in tiger stripes and the other in gray & blue? And what are the other 'Tigers' in the upper left corner? If it helps, and it probably doesn't, FA is 1/10000. So that 16 cm model is is a mile long, give or take. And I gladly mix manufacturers, as long as it 'works'. FA ships are supposed to be huge beasts, and so are the Battlefleet Gothic ones (if anything, they're even larger!). So I don't mind having some DP9 old-tech next to them. The big thing is making sure that what it is makes 'sense' on the tabletop. The DP9 CEGA Poseidon may be called a battleship, but up against an FA force, it's barely a destroyer, closer to a frigate. So, if I'm playing FA, I stat is as such, and find a use for it. A lot of my independent FA forces have nothing larger than a cruiser! (SuperDreadnought in GZG lingo)  |
Chef Lackey Rich  | 19 Oct 2011 2:56 a.m. PST |
PatrickWR, what are those two facing off in the center, one in tiger stripes and the other in gray & blue? And what are the other 'Tigers' in the upper left corner? Not sure on individual classes, but the tigers look to be Cold Navy Mauridian hulls, currently available from Ravenstar Studios, and the blue & gray is a Battletech ship, specificaly a Mjolnir battlecruiser and apparently the same one used in the catalog photos at Iron Wind: link |
| TheStarRanger | 19 Oct 2011 4:34 a.m. PST |
Here is a web page I put together with actual lengths of miniatures from most ranges so you can compare them to see if they are compatible.
star-ranger.com/Scale.htm Also we had a contest on SCN for pictures of miniaturizes from different ranges to compare them to each other.
link |
| Jeff W | 19 Oct 2011 5:57 a.m. PST |
Thanks! There's a ton of useful info here and in the links provided. |
| TheBeast | 19 Oct 2011 9:06 a.m. PST |
Of course, painting makes a huge difference. My favorite example is the number of Silent Death (fighters) that painted up, without differentiating cockpits, look like fleet scale cruisers or bigger. Doug |
