Star Wars ships in a vaguely compatible scale

[anevilgiraffe]

sorry for the threadomancy, but anyone got an idea of the scale of the various fighters that are available? Starship battles, X-wing, Micromachines? how about the 1 inch fighters from Studio Bergstrom?

EDIT: X-Wing miniatures are 1/270 it seems (fighters at any rate)

[anevilgiraffe]

(sorry again, but figure this may all be of interest at some future point for someone)

found this scale pic for the Bergstrom 1inch fighters, which is useful



http://miniaturereview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/studio-bergstrom-spaceship-combat.html

[Commander Roj]

(sorry again, but figure this may all be of interest at some future point for someone)

found this scale pic for the Bergstrom 1inch fighters, which is useful



http://miniaturereview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/studio-bergstrom-spaceship-combat.html

That is a very handy picture. Thanks.

[Argonor]

I think the ships for the X-Wing game are supposed to be scaled correctly to each other?

Nothing bigger than the Falcon, Slave 1, and the shuttle, though.

[anevilgiraffe]

they have some big ships coming out next year apparently, but they are underscaled in relation to the fighters

[OSHIROmodels]

I've heard that they are the same scale and looking at the picture with an X-wing being 12 odd metres long and the transport being 90 they look pretty close.

cheers

James

[anevilgiraffe]

bit under I thought, the bubble on the rear top of the transport is the bridge.

EDIT: and aren't there Blockade Runner conversions with flight decks? admittedly only two fighters or so, but pretty sure that happened...

and found this:

[OSHIROmodels]

I always thought that the bubble was the shield generator 

It's getting like Star Trek where none of the sources match with the info 

cheers

James

[anevilgiraffe]

well command pod is a bit ambiguous regarding it's size, but you'd expect a bit of space up there if it's a freighter, bunk(s) and so on... plus the deflector gear 

[Commander Vyper]

I always thought that the bubble was the shield generator  

It's getting like Star Trek where none of the sources match with the info  

cheers

James

On the Star Destroyer, yup they are. Two on the top and one by the belly hanger. (You could blow them up in xwing on the pc to lower the shields, I spent two hours once destroying the entire compliment of TIEs then took out the destroyer, on hundreds of strafing runs. funny as, one little snub nose and a lot of time ).

[OSHIROmodels]

Ah yes, I've obviously only read the bit in brackets and forgot the important bit before hand 

It's still not far off though 

cheers

James

[anevilgiraffe]

ok, at it again, sorry...

ok, so fleet scale is on a back burner, but I picked up the Silent Death Star Wars rules and can at least scratch that itch... of course, me being me, scale is still a problem...

Falcon 34.4m
X-wing 12.5m
Y-wing 16m
A-wing 9.6m
B-wing 16.9m
Rebel Transport 90m

so going back to my rough equivalents:
an X-wing is just over a third the length of the Falcon
and the Falcon is just over a third of a rebel transport
an X-wing is 3/4's the length of a Y-wing
an A-wing is 3/4's the length of an X-wing
not too fussed about the B-wing, it's longer than a Y, but will be in a different plane anyway, so is more easily fudged.


Deagostini Falcon, Bergstrom X-wings, Titanium Falcon

first problem, a 3 inch ish Falcon - so far the Titanium is perfect for length (ignore the absence of key components, had dismantled it to see about tarting it up), but is a fat one, and is in fact fatter than the larger Deagostini 3.5 inch Falcon, the raised corridor sections that lead to the lateral docking rings stand far too high and just look silly - so high in fact that there is a massive flat area on the end with no detail, that the docking rings themselves just can't hide. As it's diecast (both are), that's a pig to try and fix. The Deagostini Falcon on the other hand is a lovely little model, very trim and looks like it could outrun just about anything.... but is technically too large for the Bergstrom rebel fighters...


Deagostini Falcon, Bergstrom TIE, X-wing, Y-wing, A-wing and TIE bomber, Mircomachines TIE bomber, Micromachines Falcon (2 inches).

now, in my mind the TIE's look great with the bigger Falcon. The Y-wing is too small for the X-wing, the A-wing works with the X-wing ok, but works better with the much smaller MM Falcon. the MM TIE bomber is a good match for the Bergstrom TIES and that will become a TIE boarding craft I think.



now I think I can just about ignore the slightly undersized X-wings, I've seen online that the SSB Y-wings are good against the Bergstrom X's. I'd kind of like a slightly larger A-wing against the Falcon (that lets face it, I'm using regardless, it's such a nice model). the transport is the ERTL/MPC Hoth base one, 9 inches long and again perfect for the two diecast Falcon's. The Hoth base Falcon is 5 inches and would probably work really with Micromachine fighters (as everything is roughly 2 inches long in that range, the X-wing would work really well). I'd already started tarting that up, but may end up eBaying it.

so, any one got a SSB A-wing that give a length?

[OSHIROmodels]

What you need is for someone to make everything at the right scale...

I'd certainly buy them 

Under the table of course, you don't want that IP coming down on you 

What scale do the majority of these fit into? Is it 1:285 or something similar?

cheers

James

[Damas]

What you need is for someone to make everything at the right scale...

I'd certainly buy them 

Under the table of course, you don't want that IP coming down on you 

Oi, stop expanding your job list and get on with the 1:1000 stuff! 

[anevilgiraffe]

What scale do the majority of these fit into? Is it 1:285 or something similar?

if my working out is right (no promises)

1 inch = .0254m
X-wing is 12.5m long, so 12.5/0.0254 = 1:492ish

so assuming I know what I just did there for the deagostini Falcon 1:389, the Titanium one 1:454