"Starship/Spaceship size comparison" Topic

How do the Star Wars fighters compare to Ground Zero Games ships?

I have GZG NAC ships, used to have McEwan's ships, and might still have one or two StarBlazer (?) ships. Studio Bergstrom (1" and fleetscale) just arrived in mail.

Looking to run some 5150 – Fighter Command, Carrier Command, and Star Navy solo games to learn the rules

Which Star Wars Fighters?

And have you checked star-ranger.com/Scale.htm

Robert

X-Wing, A-Wing, B-Wing, Y-Wing, Tie fighters…

The usual suspects…

Starship Battles one.

What the heck – ordered some off Ebay…

No, we were wondering which source of Star Wars, as the assumption was an issue of scale. The GZG fighters are tiny compared to most other fighters, but close-to-in-scale with the ships.

Micro Machine or X-Wing (the Fantasy Flight Game) would be ridiculously large compared to GZG ships.

Now, some of the fighter DESIGNS show definite SW influence, and vice versa, because some of the older GZG designs pre-date some of the similar SW designs, I believe.

I'll just call it convergent evolution. ;->=

Was one of those the kind of comparison? We are easily confused need simple, concrete explanations.

That said, please share how it works out; I'm one of Ed's disappointments. He really tried to explain how good these were.

Doug

The McEwan Miniatures ships from Star War 2250 AD are still in production, just FYI:

tin-soldier.com

If you haven't seen the line since it originated in the 1970s, you'll see that there are many more starship minis than before, including space fighters and civilian traffic.

Hope this helps!

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

Not really interested with the McEwan ones for multiple reasons – that is why I sold them off years ago.

I am hoping to find "large" and "small" copies of the same craft so I can use the larger models for 5150:Fighter Command [5150FC] and the smaller ones of the same craft with 5150:Carrier Command [5150CC] and5150:Star Navy [5150SN] battles.

I just received some Ebay ships like – auction and auction and auction which I was comparing to Studio Bergstrom 1" Fighters and Fleet Scale Fighters. Close but not exactly what I was hoping for. I believe these are Star Wars Starship Battles (are there two different sizes?)

I also have a lot of GZG NAC Scouts, Corvettes, Frigates, Heavy Frigates, Light Cruisers, and Escort Cruiser to Heavy Cruiser plus two FSE light Carriers (original ones) that I will try and use for 5150:SN as needed for "the other side(s)" ships.

I didn't see anything new to me at Reviresco,

The "Aliens Starships" page comes up with things that are not starships and the others (Federation, rep-Com, etc.,) are the same ships I sold off before.

Edit: the paper starships are 1/72nd scale so while some of those are new to me they really won't work.

Of course, Starship Battles didn't follow a constant scale, but, for the fighters, tended to be smaller or the same as Micro Machines, while FFG's X-Wings tend to be larger.

Not the difference between Fleet Scale and Fighter Battle Scale that I'd want, assuming that is the duality you seek.

Very interesting; has been queried before, but worth another think.

Doug

TheBeast said:

"…Of course, Starship Battles didn't follow a constant scale, but, for the fighters, tended to be smaller or the same as Micro Machines, while FFG's X-Wings tend to be larger.

Not the difference between Fleet Scale and Fighter Battle Scale that I'd want, assuming that is the duality you seek.

Very interesting; has been queried before, but worth another think…"

Sigh. Of course not, CMGs seem to like not being consistent in size/scale aspects. Intentional, poor quality/size control, or consistency not being a factor considered depending on one's viewpoint/paranoia/cynicism level I suppose.

Yes, I now have some Ebay Buys of the star war starship battles figures and both scales equivalents from Studio Bergstrom ships. Not at all compatible but makes an interesting triad of scaled ships. Might use the larger ones for 5150:Fighter Command, the Middle sizes for 5150:Carrier Command (with appropriate sized "CapShips" if I can find them) and then the smallest sized fighters with my current GZG "CapShips." Hmm.

BTW, translation of my shorthand: CapShips = Capital Ships (aka non-fighters.)

Try this for starships in the game EVE:

YouTube link

138SquadronRAF,

Wait, isn't EVE an online video game?

Not sure how this helps in any way with the miniatures relative size question in the OP.

What exactly are you trying to say?