Planets for our spaceship combat campaign

[Ploughsharestoswords]

Hi,

Our spaceship combat project (Full thrust rules but our won setting) is starting to take of and I took some pictures of my planets that I felt like sharing with you guys.









As you can see we give all of our planets a day/night side and the dirty one is our major hub world so it has two space elevators also. Durign the weekend I will try to get some pictures of our gas giant, space stations and more ships.

If anyone have a good suggestion on how to make satellites please share them.

Regards,

Anders the elder

p.s more pictures at http://futurewarunendurable.blogspot.se/

[Cosmotiger]

The night sides are awesome.  I've never seen that done before.

[von Lucky]

Beautiful stuff!

[Braz]

Beautiful.  the dark side effect.  the beanstalks.

For satellites/ space mines/etc I suggest bracelet/craft beads which come in all sorts of interesting shapes. Just paint and mount on flight bases. Maybe use a different type of base to denote stationary satellites.
Again with craft beads for a minefield, use a ring template made from clear acetate and glue the beads to it leaving space in-between to place the ships. Just place on the mat around what you wish protected.  Any ship that moves and touches the template is attacked. Maybe mark a safe corridor? I have that on my list of things to make.

Thanks for sharing

[Amalric]

Very nice!
I look forward to seeing battles around them.

[tanktastic43]

Great idea of making a 'dark' side.

Well done.

tt43.

[PatrickWR]

These are really, really cool. Bookmarked to be ripped off someday soon!

[OSHIROmodels]

Interesting idea 

I thought that space lifts had to be on the equator due to the gravitational effect of rotation?

cheers

James

[The_Beast]

Interesting idea 

I thought that space lifts had to be on the equator due to the gravitational effect of rotation?

cheers

James

You could be right, but both could still be on the equator; could be a really weird axis tilt. Interesting weather, I assume. 

Doug

[Elbows]

That is a pretty damn slick trick...definitely stealing that if I ever get into space games. 

[Michka]

That is a pretty damn slick trick...definitely stealing that if I ever get into space games. 

What, you don't have a massive Zentraedi fleet ready for battle already? I'm shocked...