Traveller Minis!

[mike wightman]

I'd like to see vehicle minis before character figures (since I still have all my old Citadel sets ).
Air/raft, G-carrier, grav APC, grav Tank, ATVs, speeder...

but definitely the ships first please.

 

[Jame]

Oh yeah, vehicle minis... Yeah, we gotta have some'a them!

As for character minis, well why not try to get the old Citadel ones that Sigg mentioned?

 

[BetterThanLife]

Originally posted by Jame:
Oh yeah, vehicle minis... Yeah, we gotta have some'a them!

As for character minis, well why not try to get the old Citadel ones that Sigg mentioned?

Citadel give up molds, to a potential business rival? Not likely.

 

[Burocrate]

<Nostalgia kicking in, hard! >

I honestly don't know how much would be too much to pay for The ANNlC NOVA.

<nostalgia fades in face of hopeful greed>

I have always been a “Small Ships” kind of guy, so IMO, to establish a line of Traveller minis I think the standard trade vessels (free/far/fat), trade support (shuttles/cutters/pinnace), trade protection (SDB/Escort/Type T patrol) and opposition (corsair/Vargr raider/Aslan trader) would be a good mix. However, ships the PCs are most likely to encounter (Courier/Seeker/X-Boat/Yacht/X-Boat Tender/above mentioned traders) may be the best initial offering to the market. No doubt, whatever is available will be purchased within this group. I may have to start hoarding cash for this release.

Also, I would really like to see some ideas for the “new” vessels listed, sketches/greens etc. would be nice.

 

[m32210]

like to see more vagar ship

 

[Jame]

How about the Kinunir?

 

[BetterThanLife]

Originally posted by Jame:
How about the Kinunir?

And the Leviathan, and the Shivva Patrol Frigate, and the FASA Adventure Class Ships. (The Lucifer and Zhidts being the two that I would want sooner instead of later.

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[warship]

I like the idea of the Trader ships: Far Trader, freighter, and the like.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

"And the Leviathan"

With or without jump torpedoes?

 

[BetterThanLife]

Originally posted by Andrew Boulton:
"And the Leviathan"

With or without jump torpedoes?

Now how are you going to sho a jump torpedo at that scale?

 

[Lord Iron Wolf]

Just a quick suggestion,

I wanted to buy the RAFM ships years ago but they were too fat. The sleek wedge of the scout courier was a blob and the rest of them looked to be "pigs in space." With the use of pewter there is no reason for a ship to be so fat, that was necessary with lead. Also with the cost of tin going through the roof a slimmer mini will keep the cost down. Just aestetics on my part and economics on yours.

Now to get the Flames started. Are you thinking of using a variant of Clicka bases like they are using for Crimson Skies or something else to keep track of the stats on the mini? I think this would help if you wanted to put the ships out as a game in themselves.

Lord Iron Wolf

 

[Spud]

It seems to me that cardstock minis are the cost effective answer for figures, vehicles, or buildings. YMMV, of course. Don't know why more aren't made available as PDFs. Scale them to suit, most of production is not relevant, just need competent artists (which I'm not. I'm an idea man. !~)

 

[siefertma2]

Originally posted by Lord Iron Wolf:

I wanted to buy the RAFM ships years ago but they were too fat. The sleek wedge of the scout courier was a blob and the rest of them looked to be "pigs in space." With the use of pewter there is no reason for a ship to be so fat, that was necessary with lead. Also with the cost of tin going through the roof a slimmer mini will keep the cost down. Just aestetics on my part and economics on yours.

I didn't much care for the RAFM ships myself. Then again, I much prefer the new ship designs featured in T20 than ones that have been used since the 1970s.

Now to get the Flames started. Are you thinking of using a variant of Clicka bases like they are using for Crimson Skies or something else to keep track of the stats on the mini? I think this would help if you wanted to put the ships out as a game in themselves.

That would have to be one large base.

Money would have to be a consideration in this. If they do go forward with the project, I suspect that they would want to use standard flight bases to save on production costs. Besides, I think that Wiz-Kids actually have a patent on the whole "stats-on-a-dial-built-into-the-base" concept.

However, on Ted Lindsey's Traveller site there are mock ups of the proposed minis from the failed Traveller Miniatures Project that feature a base with a dial and an arrow no doubt to indicated velocity and direction for vector movement.

A great idea, but I don't know how expensive it would be to produce.

 

[siefertma2]

Originally posted by Spud:
It seems to me that cardstock minis are the cost effective answer for figures, vehicles, or buildings. YMMV, of course. Don't know why more aren't made available as PDFs. Scale them to suit, most of production is not relevant, just need competent artists (which I'm not. I'm an idea man. !~)

You're ruining it for us, you know that? :nonono:

I've tried various cardstock minis and terrain kits from online, and I've found that there is no way to print and build them without the final product looking like a pile of paper garbage.

Also despite the claims that cardstock figures would be "cheaper" than traditional miniatures, when you figure in the costs of paper, ink/toner, glue, and time, they're just as "expensive" as metal/plastic figures. I'd rather spend my money on something I just have to paint and look fantastic than something I'd have to print, cut, fold, "edge", glue, etc. that 9.9999999 chances out of ten will look horrible.

 

[G K Zhukov]

Great idea, Hunter! Besides the scale would make them compatible with the RAFM ones!

How about ground and grav vehicles? I'd kill for a 1:285/1:300 Intrepid/Trepida tank or Astrin APC!

 

[jwcarroll60]

Yes, 6mm ground minis for the Striker fans, yesssss!!!!! Seriuosly it would be quite nice to have 6mm/1-300 scale minis for large scale striker/mercenary combats.

 

[Fritz_Brown]

Mark,
The key to cost is that ink, paper, time, etc. are hidden costs that people don't often think about when standing in the store, comparing the two products. (Of course, most people aren't us....)

 

[kaladorn]

Some of us just hate cardboard standups.

 

[Shadowdancer]

I prefer the small ships PCs would be most likely to use and/or encounter: Scout/courier, traders, yacht, safari ship, lab ship, survey cruiser, SDB, Close Escort, corsair, vargr raider, etc.

 

[Spud]

Originally from Mark A. Siefert

"I've tried various cardstock minis and terrain kits from online, and I've found that there is no way to print and build them without the final product looking like a pile of paper garbage."

Okay, I would prefer plastic minis, around 25mm cuz my eyes are gettin' old, but I like cardboards for cost effectiveness and I color'em in MSpaint. Much more use from each figure, scalable, filable (on computer), disposable, no tears if the dog eats it...

Other than that, different strokes for different folks. Let me add, gamers are some of the _most_ different folks I've ever met.