"Size and Cost of Bandai Star Blazer's ships" Topic

Okay, I was checking out Ebay and there is a wide range of prices for the Bandai Star Blazer's ships.

I don't suppose there is a correlation between price and size, right? Are they all to the same "scale" or is it "box scale" once again?

How do you know how big each starship/spaceship is without contacting each seller to measure?

Usually you can click on the image and see the scale on the box.

OK. First of all, go directly to HobbyLink Japan for detailed specs, etc (and probably better price points than "FeeBay!"):

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The Mecha Colle kits are "box scale." The larger kits in the Yamato 2199 series are all being done in either 1/1000 scale or 1/72 scale for the fighters.

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

So, Bandai Space Battleship Yamato, Star Blazers #7 Baruze Ship comes in a box about 15.3 x 8.5 x 3.9 cm and Bandai Space Battleship Yamato, Star Blazers #8 Nasuka Ship is in a 15.3 x 8.5 x 3.9 cm box also.

Roughly 6 1/32 inches 3 11/32 x 1 17/32. So the ship should be about 4.5 inches long? Might work for the fleet scale fighters by Bergstrom Studios?

Mute,

yes indeed, the box scale models are perfect for Full Thrust and the carriers work just fine with fleet scale fighters:

Those are my EDF gashopon and box scale kits repurposed as my Imperial Terran Navy armada for Full Thrust. The bases are the old Geo-hex official Full Thrust 12-point turn clock stands.

Here's one of the new Yamato 2199 mini kits shown with the older generation larger scale EDF cruiser kits and a Silent Death fighter to give you a sense of their relative sizes:

I recently finished two of the new tri-deck box scale Garmillas carrier kits for my Imperial Terran Navy, so I'll see if I can get another blog post up soon covering my various nefarious starship projects of late…

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

Superb stuff, BlackWidowPilot

I don't have any Silent Death fighters so I will wait for my packages to arrive and see how things compare with Studio Bergstrom fighters (both 1" and "Fleet" scale) before I get too involved with these.

HobbyLink Japan is "old school" (no currency choices, only, I assume, Japanese Yen) in format?

The site does 'conversions' to dollars and euros on individual ship displays, which 'I think' is locked in at check out.

Generally, I can look at a few ships and make adjustment when looking at the list. I do admit it'd be better if you could 'set' currency.

Doug

*ahem*

I KNEW it was easier than that; if you hover the price in Yen in the list, it'll show Euros and Dollars. *blush*

Doug

Thanks!

Posted a thread about size issues between carriers and fighters.