"These are the ships you've been waiting for!" Topic

I have a new line of starships in my catalog, please welcome Shadow Weaver Designs!

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These look quite nice but I have my fleet needs filled. I'll bear them in mind if I wish a future expiation.

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Nice and unique! Great to see a whole new line out. Great job as usual!

Very nice indeed!

Nice!

Always great to see a complete line come out.

I like them! Are they cast in resin?

Very tempting. I'm thinking ….

All of this line are cast in no lead #92 "Brittania" Pewter.

Those are pretty neat!

Nice 'alien' design feel about them…an apparently different design philosophy…..still got NSL/Scanfed/Rim Pirate fleets and a merchant convoy in the paint queue tho'…..(not that it will stop me buying more!)

Echoing what the others have posted, those are very nice designs.

Nice as usual. Any possibility that they could be done in a fleet action scale (approx. 1/2 the current size?)

These are very nice, but THIS is the ship I've been waiting for (and still am!):

Now, any chance you'll make some 1-inch sized versions of those new fighters? The Skate is rather nice looking…

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

@Allen, these are already pretty small (if you look at the sizes listed on each of the kits) if not Fleetscale.

Leland, Why haven't you already made a Rchelieu yet..? There is every possibility of my offering 1" versions of the new fighters, but the demand needs to be more than a single excellent customer.

Wow! Those are some nice designs. Have to shine upmy credit card for a nice workout.

Maybe these are "not from some sci-fi franchise" but as far as I can discern these are the most original starships to come out in some time…

Hi Drew,

I basically subscribe to the SCN definition of fleet scale which defines them as smaller miniatures with none being larger than about 3 inches (75mm) with the most common ships in the 1-2 inch (25-50mm) range. This scale is usually associated with the out of production Fleet Action Babylon 5 miniatures or the Star Blazers miniatures.

Your new line is a bit too large for this definition. They would need to be 30-50% smaller to be "Fleet Action".

Al

Ah, sorry about that, they are already at the thin end in places, to just rescaling isn't likely to work in producing them.

Drew,

Rescaling is not what is needed. I misspoke when I said they need to be 30-50% smaller. Many of the ship lines out there have a few smaller (shorter) minis, which allow us fleet scale gamers to assemble a fleet. If Shadow Weaver had some ships that were 1-1 1/2 inches long in the same scale as the current miniatures a fleet action style fleet could be assembled. The current cruisers would be used as dreadnoughts and destroyers used as cruisers. GZG's Full Thrust line as an example of a line where you can do this.

Leland,

Don't want to hijack this thread but have you looked at the Star Blazers miniatures? link

Leland, Why haven't you already made a Rchelieu yet..? There is every possibility of my offering 1" versions of the new fighters, but the demand needs to be more than a single excellent customer. wink thumbs up

Hey, I'm good, but not *that* good! That's why I rely upon indy makers like you, Drew! Now, about those 1-inch Skates…

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

Don't want to hijack this thread but have you looked at the Star Blazers miniatures?

Allen,

yes, I do, as I have owned a small contingent of 'em since the line first launched years ago. Nice as they are, I prefer my anime space battlewagons a bit larger, as in these beasties:

BTW, have you seen the latest iterations of these kits starting to com win from Bandai…?

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

Hello, I am ShadowWeaver the designer of this new fleet that Stumer has presented to everyone.

This is my first ever post on this forum as I did not know about it until just recently. I sincerely appreciate the comments about it being unique and not a Genre related fleet.

While I love just about any starship created from, Star Trek to StarBlazers I have always wanted to create my own that was not directly tied back to any of the afore mentioned genre's.

My goal in creating this fleet was to make a customizable set of ships that could be tailored to a multitude of personal styles.

Now that Stumer has this fleet up and ready on his site for purchase you can go there and take a look at just how customizeable this fleet really is.

I have been spending the last two weeks playing with the kits to find my own set of additions to the initial designs just by playing with the pieces because as you all know having something in your hands is so much more fun than trying to create it in a 3d environment. That freedom of being able to take superglue and place a piece at whim completely changes perspective when comparing it to a 3d model.

So with that all said I would like to hear any ideas or thoughts on the fleet as you see it could benifit your gaming environment. Everything from your likes to your dislikes, like the one comparing the fleets capability to be played in fleet scale.

Just so you know this is a learning curve for me. While I have been designing and building furniture for the past 20years actually designing and having a fleet of my own miniatures is a dream come true for me.

I never thought that in 1985, almost 30 years later, I would actually be designing and producing game pieces for table top games. I learned to play table top Sci-Fi games from an ole' Buck Sergeant when I started in the Army and I have been playing them off and on ever since.

So I hope you enjoy the fleet and would love to hear more feedback.

Sincerely, ShadowWeaver

SW, your ships rock. If I can get some of them to work on a two-hex stand, I'll break down and order some examples for an article on alternate escort vessel models for Silent Death: The Next Millennium.

Further, I personally have spent the past several years advocating for a set of hard plastic modular starship models. You, sir, have come the closest to making that heartfelt wish of mine become reality albeit in metal.

If you produce 1-inch sized fighters, I will indeed be looking at them with keen interest. Seriously.

Welcome to the Dark Side, SW. We have pizza, beer, and cookies.

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

Leland, currently I am working on a seperate project at the moment, to include painting the mini's I currently have on hand. I will take this idea of 1" fighters and put it on my list of ideas for upgrades to the fleet. Any other ideas would greatly be appreciated from all.

Sincerely Shadow

Here's five of them you don't need to wait for any longer:

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Scale shots with some NSL ships from GZG:

As you can see, they're pretty big models, class for class. More images at the auction link.

Cheif, excelent paint job, very similar to the one I put on the first kitbash I did of this fleet. I like how you flipped the fins to the rear as suggested on Stumer's site.

And that was fast these have only been for purchase not even a week now. Great Job.

And there's the dreadnought done:

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More photos with various ships to give an idea of relative sizes:

Plenty big enough to work with Firestorm Armada, Wolf Shipyards, or Galactic Knights figures.