Star Eagles Project [Star Fighter Game]

[eilif]

Yep, the EM4 ones are a better deal.  As for conversions there are some great exaples at boardgame geek of a gamer who make mutiple sizes of spaceships across several factions using just the plastic ships.
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/636657/eclipse-xeno-project-diy-spaceship-customization-d
THey're still going to be pretty too small for 10mm or 15mm, and probably even smaller than 6mm though.

[Lord GreyWolf]

Yep, the EM4 ones are a better deal.  As for conversions there are some great exaples at boardgame geek of a gamer who make mutiple sizes of spaceships across several factions using just the plastic ships.
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/636657/eclipse-xeno-project-diy-spaceship-customization-d
THey're still going to be pretty too small for 10mm or 15mm, and probably even smaller than 6mm though.

DAM THAT IS AWESOME!!!!!

I may have to give this a whirl... but rather than order 12 sprues I'll get 7 and just try and make 3 or 4 races... should be plenty on the sprues to do that.

Edit: Just placed and order for 7 sprues of the plastic ships. should be plenty to convert up at least two factions if not more....

Cheers
LGW

[dijit]

The EM4 are great, and though they're 6mm, they're fine for that scale. I just think the X-Wing minis look a bit too big for 6mm, but thats just me. When you've got them and done some conversions let us know.

[Lord GreyWolf]

The EM4 are great, and though they're 6mm, they're fine for that scale. I just think the X-Wing minis look a bit too big for 6mm, but thats just me. When you've got them and done some conversions let us know.

I'll up date this thread with my progress and how they are turning out.

As long as I can make 3 factions from the spacecrafts I am getting I will be happy. [one faction for me , my son and daughter.]

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[eilif]

Hope your family loves it!

Here's a brief (about 10 posts) project log that you might find inspirational.  My son and I used cheap spaceships to make a game of "Starcrashers", one of the family-friendly rulesets from Ironhands.com (formerly Necromundicon). We played a few times and really enjoyed it. 
https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=128



I used the amazon cheapies, but I've got some of the em4 ships purchased. If he keeps enjoying the game I may add some more ships.

[Lord GreyWolf]

Thx eilif

i enjoyed the battle report.

I'll update this thread as the sprues arrive working out the list at the moment:

Star Eagles list:
3 light fighters
2 Medium Fighters A
2 Medium Fighters B
2 Heavy Fighters
1 Assault Gunboat/Corvette 

Depending on the amount of ships left over I might try and convert up some more variants .Like the Con Star Alpha Strike and Alpha Cobra... maybe even some of the A.I light/medium fighters as well. depending if we find out what type of ships they are before the KS ends.

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[The_Beast]

I have a few of the overside SD vinyl toys. They take paint pretty well and are great for 6mm or possibly 10mm in some cases.

The first of the three URL's, the one for a gross of ships, includes several designs from Message from Space, if anyone's keeping track. ;->=

Doug

[Lord GreyWolf]

My em4 order arrived over the weekend and started to tinker around with options. Will post some pics when I get home from work tonight.

Like the ships and there is plenty to give us options for our games.

Cheers
LGW

[Lord GreyWolf]

Here is my current Fleet one of each type.

2x Light Fighters
2x Medium Fighers
1x Heavy Fighter
1x Gunboat.

These will be used in the Star Eagles game that recently funded via Kickstarter.



not quite done yet need to add in squadron markings of some type.

My total Fleet has the following
1x Gunboat  
2x Heavy Fighters
6x Medium fighters
9x Light fighters.

I am writing up the universe we are going to play in and why there are only fighter type ships and no big cruisers or battleships etc...

my son's fleet 1x Corvet, 1 heavy, 2x medium and 3x light fighters.


his total fleet is:
1x Corvet
2x Heavy Fighters
5x Medium fighters
15x light fighters [he wanted a swarm fleet]

Cheers
LGW

[Lord GreyWolf]

here is a size comparison to a Dropzone commander ship

my light/medium and heavy fighters


My Gunboat


Will hopefully have stats sorted for each of the ships over the coming days. And maybe even a game this weekend as Beta rules are coming to the KS backers.

Cheers
LGW

[Lord GreyWolf]

So was cleaning up my hobby shelves when I found three cubes...

I can not recall where I got them from but these are three plastic Borg cubes.

I think they might work for a Start Eagles AI faction Heavy fighter.



not sure what to use for light and medium fighters or maybe just run them as Gunboats and make them over powered,,

Cheers
LGW