Re: [GZG] Space habitats and scale.

>Probably the best thing is to put them in at a smaller scale than the
ships,
>after all the 'ground scale' is different to the 'model scale', so a
smaller
>representation of space habitat may be more appropriate.
>
>I have done planets/moons using large (20cm radius) foam balls cut in
half,
>and painted up to represent the surface.
>
>Robyn

Agreed - the mini scale isn't really relevant in FT, since if the 
ships were to scale you'd need a microscope over the games table (and 
my sculpting would need to get a lot finer)....  ;-)
As it is, the 1/2400 scale is very, very rough - and the fighters are 
several times larger than they really should be.
So, I'd make colonies, habitats etc. so that they look sufficiently 
impressive on the table, but as long as they are larger than the 
biggest ship you have that should be visually OK. The old plastic 
Bab5 station kit can look very good if you can find one, but takes up 
a lot of table space at around 19" long. There is also a recent (as 
in last few years) Revell (?) kit of the International Space Station 
which yields all sorts of useful parts for building your own habitats.

Jon (GZG)

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>From: "Robert N Bryett" <rbryett@gmail.com>
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>Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:20 PM
>Subject: [GZG] Space habitats and scale.
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>>  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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