OT: Scratchbuilding a fleet

[Starhawk]

Yeah mine unfortunately probobly don't look as individually "Detailed" however I also went for a more "artistic" approach where all the ships are slightly unique to one another.

This will fit with the race Fluff for my friend and my game so that isn't a problem for me.

Also one of the things that I am planning on doing is creating a slightly more uniform appearance the larger the ships get representing the fact that bigger ships are obviously harder to make unique and yet the same "class".

The largest ship I plan on making depending on available wood will be 6 inches long and 3 wide with a top deck 5 inches long and 1 1/2 wide though the official max ship size for the models given there is 4 by 2.

I only plan on making one or two of these to represent the flagships of my navy for my campaign with my buddy and if I can get access to his Digital camera I'll show you a pic of my current fleet.

Oh BTW if your wondering the cost so far it has cost me 4 dollars to get the necessary wood and other materials and I ALREADY have 26 frigates, 18 destroyers and 9 merchantmen (though only the frigates and 3 merchies are finished) and I'm only half way through my FIRST block of wood.

My planned fleet will be as big as I have free time and a few spare dollars because so far it's relaxing and entertaining and after I coat my ships they feel just like plastic so they're pretty tough.

[JAFisher44]

Full Thrust rocks. I love that game. I wish I could get involved in it around here. I have really been toying with creating my own fleet, but I don't really have the time. Where do you guys play?

[zircher]

Fun stuff, Starhawk. I had a friend that tried the balsa thing from a different angle. He's pre-fabricate a slew of parts and then build up the ship designs from that. Almost like DoGA CGA done in balsa... :-)

Some of the results were pretty good, but he could not make them economical as large kits of parts to sell to others so he dropped the project. One interesting effect of the process was that ships tended to be more 3d and less naval inspired. Most of his designs were mounted on pins attached to a hex base. I imagine they were significantly more fragile than your design technique.
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[Starhawk]

Hey JaFisher well he and i are both scratchbuilding fleets and if he can convince his brother he'll be scratchbuilding one as well.

Our first game is actually going to be when we all have fleets enough for at least a small battle but we are also in effect creating our own game out of this using some of the FT rules.

We are adding a LOT of stuff to the stock rules plus modifying some of the existing ones.

I've actually never played FT yet as it was discontinued in the area where I live , by time I went to a hobby shop and asked about it they no longer sold it or allowed it on their tables. All they had was BFG which though I love the ship designs cost 35 dollars for a 4 inch battleship.


So anyway after over a year of questing for information I found out about the scratchbuilding site and thought it was awsome and that it would be a great idea for me and my buddy to scratchbuild not only fleets but an entire GAME around this

[JAFisher44]

I actually wanted to write a BFG expansion for FT. {Cause I think BFG is a pretty crappy game but I love the Warhammer 40K universe) I have only played FT once but now I have all the manuals courtesy of the internet I love PDF. I would be interested to discuss your "home rules" and stuff.

I live in a crappy little logging town in western Washington. There just isn't a gaming community around here. Otherwise I'd whip together a FT group and get them building their fleets.

Anyway, I look forward to some stimulating FT convo.