Re: [GZG] Space habitats and scale.

Two more good stations. The space station from DLD Productions is
pretty nice. I also sometimes use the explorer ship from B5Wars as a
station rather than a ship. It works well either way, and I'd imagine
that many stations would actually be mobile in the strategic (though
not tactical) sense. Since you need station-keeping drives, you might
as well unless you're tied to a particular location.

Also, a station need not be a logically laid out structure unless
you're rotating for gravity. A tightly-bound, thrown-together cluster
of habitats, some inflatable, is perfect for a boom town, pirate base,
or fringe enclave. I've found that electrical components from radio
shack are perfect-- capacitors for modules, with resistors as storage
tanks and wire for structure.

Rob

Robert Mayberry
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Samuel Penn <sam@glendale.org.uk>
wrote:
>
> On Fri, June 27, 2008 05:57, Robyn Stott wrote:
>> 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.
>
> GZG did do a space station, I'm assuming they still do.
>
>> I have done planets/moons using large (20cm radius) foam balls cut in
>> half, and painted up to represent the surface.
>
> I've done something similar with polystyrene balls, though the
> largest I have currently are 10cm diameter:
>
> http://www.glendale.org.uk/ft/planets.html
>
> I do need some larger ones for larger planets, and have
> actually found somewhere which does them. The larger ones
> even come in two halves, which is perfect.
>
> http://www.grahamsweet.com/balls/polystyrene-balls.php
>
> Doing anything around gas giants at the scales I use is
> probably impractical unless I can find a really big floor.
>
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