Aeronef Suggestions, Please

[warrenss2]

I have just recently gotten Wessex Games' Aeronef rules and The Aeronef Captain's Handbook in PDF.

I plan on scratch building many of my craft. I'd like to ask the advice of gamers that have played the game for the relative size I should use? No 25-28mm stuff! I'm going with the 1/1200th scale!

What I"m looking for is information on about how long (lengthwise) would you make each hull/ship type in mm, cm , or inches. I want my scratch built vessels for be field able with the 1/1200th vessel ranges.

Class 1 = Lumbering Leviathans/Dreadnoughts
Class 2 = Cruisers
Class 3 = Destroyers
Class 4 = Frigates
Class 5 = Yachts & light Patrol Craft

I like the Vessel Classes... They remind me of the "Rates" of the old sailing ship ages.

I also have liked what I've read in the rules! Being a fan of Full Thrust I know the game will run easy, smoothly, and quickly.

I'm looking forward to getting started on my ships and playing a game.

[Haarken]

I've just purchased the British-French starter pack from Brigade Models (unfortunately it hasn't arrived yet or I'd give you more definitive answers) and I noticed that most of the ships available on their site give at least some indication of their dimensions. Otherwise it's 0.254mm to the foot. I took the dimensions of a few pre-dreadnoughts off wikipedia and they ended up between 80-90mm long. Hope that helps.

I can't wait to see you're scratchbuilt ships, i've a real urge to have a go at building some myself, now I just need to wait for my order to arrive.

Haarken

[Thunderchicken]

dampfpanzerwagon could be your man for this scale, I'm sure he'll be along shortly. In the meantime his blog might help:

http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/search/label/Aeronef

[Fjodin]

I know that Irregulars have some Pre-Dreadnaught fleets -





http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/

[dampfpanzerwagon]

Thunderchicken has included the link.  I'm not sure I can add anything as most of the information and links are detailed under either Aeronef of Space1889/Aeronef on my Blog.

My preferred scales are 1/300th and 1/600th, see posts.

Tony
http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/

[OSHIROmodels]

Those Irregular ones are rather nice, I had no idea that they made them.

cheers

James