Re: [SG] Ship building

Imperium Games had a nice ship design book for Traveller, "Naval
Architect's Manual" which had lots and lots of floor plans for commonly
encountered ship spaces.  Quarters, sickbays, tactical action centers,
gunnery spaces, etc.

http://www.stl-online.net/vanya/products/naval_architects_manual.html

I have absolutely no idea if Imperium Games is still solvent or not, but
the books can still be found in game stores, and a search for the name
turned up a few online merchants who claim to have copies for sale
(there's also a "Naval Architects Manual" for GDW 2300 game floating
around, but it has no deck plans, only design rules for Star Cruiser).

--
Ray Forsythe
erf2@gte.net

Laserlight wrote:
> 
> I'm thinking to build sections of a Jerez for 15mm boarding actions at
> 1" = 3m.  Has anyone seen suggestions for modular hull designs?  If
> not, are there ship interiors (in addition to the Traveller Web Ring
> stuff) that anyone can point me to?
> 
> (for the curious: a Jerez is 56mm long, 34mm wide and mostly about 3mm
> thick.  If it's 1/2400, that's 134.4 x 81.6 x 7.2m = 39481m^3 (I
> divided by two since it's basically triangular, and I figure the extra
> thickness of the rear wings and the bridge should make up for the gaps
> amidships--if anyone has a graduated cylinder, feel free to provide
> more exact volume).  If a Jerez is 8800 tons, that's roughly
> 4.5m^3/ton--a surfaced submarine has a displacement of about 2m^3 per
> ton).
>