Making More Out Of SEIV

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
Wouldn't you love to have a model of a Phong Battleship on your desk?

Of course I would. That's why I would download this:

Pepakura Designer

[General Woundwort]

Hmm, perhaps a tabletop miniatures/cardboard counter starship cobmat game, approximating the SEIV ship design and combat rules? (Yeah, I know it's based on the old Starfire rules, but it's also different enough to stand on its own.)

[gregebowman]

Count me in for the comics, graphic novels and novels. I've been collecting comics off and on for about 35 years. I used to collect cards, but now with packs costing anywhere from $2-$5 bucks apiece, that's a little too much for me. Unless you do like Atrocities mentioned and sell a complete set for like $20. That I could live with. I look forward to this, if it ever happens.

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by SpaceBadger:

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
Wouldn't you love to have a model of a Phong Battleship on your desk?

That's weird, I was just thinking about this today! My Dad's business is making vacuform aircraft model kits, and I was helping pack some for shipment this afternoon. One was a Curtiss XP-55 "Ascender", an odd-looking craft with a single pusher prop, backswept wings, and no tail assembly to speak of, that kinda looks like it ought to be dogfighting with X-wings and TIE-fighters out in an asteroid belt somewhere. I started musing then about how it might be fun to make some molds for SEIV ships! (Not for long, however; it is quite a bit of work to make a new mold for something we can't even sell.)

SpaceBadger

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With the old-style manufacturing, yes it was a lot of work to create a new mold for a model because every mold had to be individually made for that particular model. There are new processes in the works that will basically dispose of the molding process. Thanks to the modern marvel of computer controlled manufacturing processes, "generic" machinery will be able to turn out whatever model you want without refitting. It will then be much cheaper to order up a series of SE shipsets as pLastic or even metallic miniatures. Heck, we might be able to just send them our .X files and request a set like we currently send a Pagemaker file to the printshop and request a book printing.

[ October 23, 2003, 16:49: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Erax]

Hey, I'll write the Space Empires Roleplaying Game, with tie-ins to the boardgame and the SE novels. Be a Fazrah starfighter pilot or a Xiati techie. Visit the Phong's Head Cantina. Fight the invading Ukra-Tal. Meet Admiral Sakazawa or Detective Othaglot from the SE stories. If there was something like this out there, I know I'd buy it.

[PvK]

GURPS Space Empires? It could be a pretty simple set of details to add to GURPS Space, except the work of developing the alien species details.

There were already fan-made T-shirts ("Space Vikings - Beer planets are the best!" etc - vanished?) and Shrapnel has offered mouse mats, posters (and maybe mugs? or am I making that up?). The mouse mats are still on sale at http://www.gamersfront.com/cgi-bin/s...?Category=9800

PvK

[Renegade]

I for one would love a model kid based upon SEIV races. Hell I would even love a model kit based off of some of the ships sets made for SEIV by others. (Troop, Atrociites, Andres, Rambi)