RE: APDs, LSD's and LPAs

I'm talking 2 different scales.
The big, winged dropship from GZG:
For Stargrunt (25mm scale) I use it as a (DS/SG) size class 7 (CS:35)
ship
(about the same size as the Slammers gravtank which GZG produces).
For Dirtside (1/300 scale) it would be about (FT) mass 70 (cs according
to
cargo - design as FT starship).

You have to be careful when mixing the scales.	GZG do make a 1/300
scale
version of the big dropship; it's only about 35mm long as compared to 13
inches for the resin version.
I usually only use the resin ships for Stargrunt, as they're too big for
regular battlefield use in DS.

'Neath Southern Skies

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan M Gill [SMTP:monty@arcadia.turner.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 2:10 PM
> 
> > The resin models that GZG sell are variable as to the size.
> > In SG, I use the small resin as a size 4 dropship & the large one as
a
> size
> > 7 dropship.
> 
> ??!!?
> 
> > For DS, the small one (pictured in the DS/FT conversion section)
would
> be
> > about mass 40-50 & the large one about mass 70-80.	It comes down to
> what
> > scale you want to actually use yourself & which game you play.
> 
> I can't see how the one that is bigger than 2 building blocks is a
size 
> 7. Surely thats much larger than size 7 ( modular craft if I ever saw 
> one) Oger Figures are dwarfed by it. The ship they show in that
section is
> 
> huge. Have you seen the model first hand? Surely thats a 25 
> mass craft. Or are we mixing terms? You say mass 70-80. Thats the size
of 
> a cruiser. Do you mean CS 70-80?
> 
> Because looking at the smaller platoon sized Landers, it looks as if 4

> size 3 tracks could be fit inside given some transporter type handling

> gear (like a car carrier). 
> 
> Its about 3.2 times as long as the triton IV tanks that I use for size
3 
> vehicles. Size 5 tracks come out as the larger tanks in Battle tech.