| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 23 May 2020 10:17 a.m. PST |
Finally got around to building and priming my (very nice) Brigade aeronefs and found myself wondering about compatible wet navy ships. I know Brigade's models are nominally 1:1200 but I assume I'm not the first to consider this and wondered what other people are actually using? |
| David Manley | 23 May 2020 12:47 p.m. PST |
1/1200s. I wrote a companion set of "wet navy" crossover rules for the original Aeronef rules. |
 ColCampbell  | 23 May 2020 1:04 p.m. PST |
The Wartimes Journal (US manufacturer) 3-D prints 1:1250 ships from the pre-dreadnought, WW1, and WW2 eras. Since they are so small and light (being plastic), postage should not be excessive. But at this scale, these ships may be well too expensive. wtj.com/store/index.html I have some of their 1:2400 scale 3-D printed ships and they are very nice.
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link Jim |
| TheBeast | 23 May 2020 3:10 p.m. PST |
David, I noticed the those rules and your piece for other extension rules including Nef altitudes are missing from the Ragnarok pages. Do you have them posted anywhere else? Of course, if it's something like a new version of the main book to be coming, quite understandable. Doug |
| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 24 May 2020 3:57 a.m. PST |
I had a bit of a web surf and noticed that it seems to be a rather niche naval scale populated more by collectors than wargamers – and as noted a bit pricy! Thanks for link Jim – pre-dreadnought stuff seems particularly thin on the ground. |
| nnascati | 24 May 2020 2:45 p.m. PST |
Houston's Ships are 1/1200th I believe, and I think The Virtual Armchair General carries them. You could also check Shapeways. |
| brass1 | 25 May 2020 10:23 a.m. PST |
Beast, the wet navy rules are in Ragnarok 53, beginning page 9. Haven't looked for the rest yet. HTH LT |
| EnclavedMicrostate | 04 Jun 2020 5:43 p.m. PST |
Committing a bit of an act of thread necromancy here, but given the altitude difference, I imagine you could claim forced perspective to justify using 1/2400-scale for surface vessels. |
| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 06 Jun 2020 7:41 a.m. PST |
I was thinking along those lines myself given the relative scarcity of 1:1200 models and the price. BTW don't think a couple of weeks counts as proper threadromancy! |
| TheBeast | 09 Jun 2020 2:18 p.m. PST |
brass1: Sorry I missed your post earlier. While I was a member-in-the-colonies of SFSFW at the time, that was one of several 'lost in the pond'. The articles (Warlords of the Air, and of the Waves) used to be on the website, but the links have been disabled. That said, I still have paper copies of both somewhere, and was more attempting coaxing intel of out of the inestimable Mr. Manley. Doug |
| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 12 Jun 2020 9:55 a.m. PST |
Blundered across someone doing a small range of ironclads and pre-dreadnought type stuff in resin on eBay, wasn't even looking for this stuff. Prices aren't bad compared to some ranges unfortunately the quality doesn't look to be all that. auction |
| Tango01 | 07 Jun 2021 4:10 p.m. PST |
Those looks good…!
Armand
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goes beyond the straight line.