"Working on Galactic a little again" Topic

Resolute Frigate

Exceed Strike Cruiser


Contention Light Battler


Audacious Battler

These are interesting. I like the constancy of design themes across the ships. What size do you contemplate the miniatures being?

Dig!

Thanks. The new reworks and the current minis are 1:20000. The Audacious is 1.4" if I remember correctly.
Will also have 1:10000 scale on my Shapeways store.

My preference on the designs is towards a modular approach for certain things, engines, fuel pods, weapons, etc…

Nice I like them, sensible and hard scifi looks. Do keep us informed of progress.

Have been tossing around ideas for star & system charts. Finished up the overall basic galaxy map…

Would love to make each "dot" on the map linked to a single star system chart with names. Have a really good way to make the specs for each, but doing that will/would take quite a while to do. So if I can work out the linkage I will do individual capital systems first. Something like this…

Cool stuff. Nice detail to what you have so far. Hard to imagine the amount of work involved.

Playing around PowerPoint some more, importing different texture maps onto generic shapes to see what could be done. A G class star link

Some more tweaks to the system map link

I've always like the aesthetic of your designs.
Really like the galactic map.

Masters are in. Given the revised scale, might have to thicken them up a little.

Will be finishing up the Native and Central American based basic ships this week. I will be releasing only one groups ship at first, there are 3 sub-factions.
Because of their design, they will be in multiple pieces

What resin did you use to make those?

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Those are done in the hi definition acrylate. Very curious to see how they mold up. Sending off some of these to the molder to see how they do before I print any more

Sardorian Alliance proto renders
Catequil Strike Frigate

Yanaba Frigate

Tama Assault Cruiser

Macha Heavy Battler

And a revamp for the Deutches-Sternin Reich, Tir Heavy Battler

The Sardorian ships shown will be in two pieces, fwd hull and engine/weapons ring section.
The Tir and its upcoming fleetmates, will be pretty much the same.

Cool stuff. Nice detail to what you have so far. Hard to imagine the amount of work involved.

Have finally finished the tables with the average distances from the different star types that worm-hole bridge entrances and exits would reside. Given that there isnt FTL or hyperdrives it makes it difficult sometimes to get from point A to B. All depends on the star. The more umph the star has, the further you can go. The sticky part is that you might be get from Star 15(F-type) to Star 31(M-type dwarf) in a single jump. But going back the other way, you might have to take the long way around because of less powerful stars.

More !
Different render of the Tir

Thunor Light Battler

Agil Strike Cruiser

Ships of the Hargonne Assembly
Sogna Battler

Sogze Assault Cruiser

Updates for United Worlds Protectorate
Constitution Battler

Constellation Light Battler

Bison Heavy Frigate

Kirk, is the intent for these to be added to Iron Wind Metals?

Did I see Audacious Battler has been added already?

Doug

Morning Doug, the Audacious that's on IWM's site, is the original.
The plan was to replace the originals with their 2.0 versions and then add another faction into the mix. Because of the horrible sales on the line as a whole, I am going to to figure out a way to do these.
Toyed with the kickstarter idea, but if I go that route there needs to be a not "more" to them.

"…route there needs to be a LOT "more" to them."

Yeah, we pretty much understood… ;->=

…the Audacious that's on IWM's site, is the original.

Whoops, it was in the 'New' part of the page, and we all know about what happens when we assume.

As for the slow sales, they just had an uptick. ;->=

Doug

Thanks :)

Last of the Sardorian ships for a while;

Gaho Class Light Cruiser

Have been experimenting with one piece fighter stands. Have a single fighter with a holder for a single micro-die.

A three fighter stand

And a six fighter stand

The plan on doing these is because I hadnt intended to have new molds with fighters done.

Well I have managed to finish all the new design work for the re-intro of the game, five factions this time instead of four. Now there are some shuttles/drop ships to do and then the reworks of the aero-fighters/drones. Will get the art posted up this evening.

I like the look of your galactic map, and some of your ship designs.

I like the look of your galactic map, and some of your ship designs

Thank you sir

Superb stuff as always and good to hear you are proceeding along well with it all :)

Into the final stretch with the new design work for the faction spec book. Working up the different common shuttles. For this one, the initial sketches were done 20 years ago and have some more small details to add. So far I havent added landing gear but am including the doors or retractable panels for them. The ground vees shown are the 3mm models for the ground combat game that we are working on too.

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Some updates on the spec portions of the manual. Going with a more generic call-out for weapons and systems. Might do something more later on to detail backgrounds out more. First off, a revision on the Audacious Battler link

Some updates to the Spitfire and Mustang Aero-Fighter

more to come…

Not 100% on the Corsair rework. Thought about a more streamlined design to match the direction of the shuttles, but…maybe will redo later. Next on the list are the Sardorian Gunships.