[GZG] Space habitats and scale.

My young admirals have been talking about including space habitats in  
FT games, and being the lads they are, this has led to discussions  
about building suitable models. More power to them, but it brings up  
the question of scale and suitable materials.

After all, at the 1:2400 GZG ship-mini scale, an Island-3 style  
O'Neil Cylinder would be roughly 2.5m in diameter, and some 8m long!  
Clearly impractical (though it does make you think...). An Island-1  
type Bernal Sphere would be much more reasonable, at around 200mm  
diameter. A Stanford Torus would be stretching it at roughly 750mm  
diameter.

We've made do with painting up 3l PET grapefruit-juice bottles with  
suitable bits and pieces stuck on, but they do look a bit small next  
to our ship minis. Has anyone on the list done any modelling of this  
sort of thing?

Best regards, Robert Bryett

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