Stat this miniature, if you like.

[Bishop Odo]

I’m a miniature collector, whom can’t draw, so I’m forced to hunt for miniatures and adapt them to my Traveller game. I found a few drawings and miniatures from the Battletech space game, that could be used with some success in a Traveller game. So I thought I get some feed back on this ship miniature with the accompanying technical read out, stat sheet, and artwork from what was FASA. I know using the original length and stats from the technical readout is useless for Traveller, but I thought you all might like to see the artwork.

It looks to me to be about 200 meters long, maybe 6 decks, I figure its about 3000 tons. I thought it would make a good frontier trader, long range explorer class ship?

link for PDF stats http://www.classicbattletech.com/downloads/3057r_Baron_Destroyer_200-201.pdf

 

[shanksow]

Sounds like a great idea that ought to be expanded to other BT spaceship minis that could do double duty for Traveller. I have that Soyuz class cruiser that looks like it could be a Destroyer or Destroyer Escort for Traveller.

 

[sgbrown]

If the forward section is seen as a bridge, you could also reinterpret the size to get to about 100 dtons and make a good scout varient out of it.

 

[GypsyComet]

The BT original, at over half a kilometer long, is probably outside the Traveller range.

The mini could be just about any size, though.

 

[Bishop Odo]

Found some more miniatures, new Cav ships from Reaper in there new true scale, they look really interesting and more practical, scale wise. I have this modeling obsession from years of playing 40k, so I see some interesting possibilities with a little plastic card and green stuff.

http://www.reapermini.com/gallery/TrueScaleVehicles

 

[Blue Ghost]

Looks like the Minerva from Crusher Joe.

 

[Icosahedron]

Yeah, Newbee, I figured that front part looked like a cockpit window and estimated the length at around 20 metres. Sorry, Bishop Odo, this isn't really getting you your stats, is it?

 

[Bishop Odo]

No biggie, Icosahedron, after all getting the scale is kind of the first step, then working back wards so to speak, also I need to get a few more pics of the nose and tail.

 

[mw_shipping]

If I am remembering my Battletech correctly, that is a mini for a dropship. With that being said the scale of the ship would be about 300 - 500dT max. If this is the dropship I am thinking of (the name escapes me right now) it is used to transport aerospace fighters (small craft) from a jump point to the battlefield.

 

[mike wightman]

Nope, it's a Baron class destroyer.

The clue was in the pdf link

http://www.classicbattletech.com/downloads/3057r_Baron_Destroyer_200-201.pdf

Are you thinking of the Leopard class dropship?

 

[Blue Ghost]

Uh-huh.

http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/MINERVA%20MAIN.jpg

 

[marvo]

Here's a thinking out loud idea.

With no visual references you could not tell how big a ship was at first glance. So what looks like a 100 tons scout might be a 2000 ton destroyer with the bridge painted 3 decks high on the outside. The paintjob could give the optical illusion of a different sized ship. Of course instruments would tell the real story but there might be situations where it could fool you.

 

[atpollard]

Originally posted by GypsyComet:
The BT original, at over half a kilometer long, is probably outside the Traveller range.

The mini could be just about any size, though.

A ballpark figure for the displacement (based on a length of 500 meters) is 125 m x 125 m x 500 m = about 500,000 dTons.

But I agree that it would probably be better to just scale it down.

 

[GypsyComet]

No, not the Minerva. There WAS dropship or two based on the Minerva, but that was a LOT smaller and much closer in appearance. The Minnie *might* get to 8 ktons or so, given the amount of stuff carried, but could be as small as 1000 tons once you lose the need for BT-style mechs and go back to the two fighters and a tank or three. I might argue that the Minnie needs to be a bit bigger just based on the missile bay it pops, but a frugal PC could just assume a turret cluster...

The Baron works quite well as a hull form for a 1 to 5 kton ship, which keeps it in the deckplans range as well.