Due to some unanticipated confusion, I'm going to change a couple of names.
First up is the GW (Washington). Imagine TOS Constitution and TMP Enterprise/-A. The latter was a Refit of the former. That's how I'd envisioned the GW and its Refit, but it's caused a little confusion. So, from now on, I'll continue referring to the original version as the Washington aka GW.
The one with the armored bridge, collimated phaser strips, twin impulse domes and advanced nacelles will now be called the MacArthur (it's the lowest registry name on its decal sheet).
The other change is one of scale. When I first started on this little venture it was because I wanted models for tabletop gaming. Gamescience and ADB used 1/3788. IIRC FASA's minis were 1/3900. I settled on 1/3788 because they're still readily available. Then a bunch of people requested my models in 1/2500, which is half-jokingly referred to as "Sacred" scale. So I used that term and called the smaller 1/3788 stuff as "Gaming" scale. The problem is that the 1/2500 guys are already modelers and generally know what scale they want, but I primarily supply to gamers who don't care about scale as much. That left a lot of gamers wondering what the hell I was talking about.
And to make matters even more fun I'll soon be working on 1/7000 versions of everything. To try to limit the sure-to-ensue confusion, I'm going to start referring to everything in a way that I hope implies their respective sizes. Again, this should primarily be of benefit to gamers. Here goes:
1/2500 = Dueling scale (122mm or ~4_3/4" Enterprise-A)
1/3788 = Squadron scale (81mm or ~3_1/4" Enterprise-A) = ADB Star Fleet Battles and FASA Combat Simulator scale
1/7000 = Fleet scale (44mm or ~1_3/4" Enterprise-A)
I'll continue answering questions, but please help me out. All of my kits have names. Links with photos/renders are always available so one can see exactly what kit I'm talking about. I'm trying to make it easy for you tell me which one you want, so please work with me on that.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
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