Asymetric ships

Unfortunately the Islamic Fed ships aren't lopsided, so I may have to change
the ship designs to fit to mini's. Meanwhile,

I'm having way too much trouble keeping the ships I'm carving symmetric!
;
->=

I seem to recall a Fasa Klingon being offside, but if there was a fig, it'd be
huge bucks.

Have you looked at old GW Space Marine? The earlier Eldar had one or two, I
think the prism cannon was one, that were supposed to be tankish, but might
work for space ships, and were rather asymmetric. I see them fairly oft in
bargain bins.

In the final analysis, many regular ships that have 'wings' or the like would
convert pretty easily, cutting off and polishing one side. I'd think a big box
of Silent Death plastics would be a good place to start.

The_Beast

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I did notice. But I bought a batch of ships in April. Some of them are mostly
painted now, some of them I'm hoping to assemble some time soon.
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Didn't mean to sound like a lecture; you have to forgive my native tendencies.
Given my incredible cheapness, I'm loathe to risk figs for which I've actually
paid money.

Am I correct in assuming the ships you have are GZG IF's? IF so...

I think some of the IF ships would convert (;->=) nicely. Taking a
larger ship, trimming back both wings some, and fixing a smaller hull on one
wing could look VERY impressive. Variations might include leaving one 'wing'
intact, cutting the other in half, and putting the secondary hull between the
two wing halves, or even sticking the smaller hull to the trimmed wing, and
leaving the smaller hull's other wing on.

It depends on how many ships you have left to assemble, and how big a risk
taker you are. The advantage is that these would 'fit' well with the ships you
have.

The_Beast

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> I did notice. But I bought a batch of ships in April. Some of

I think you're right and it would be easier to do with the IF than with
others. My point was that it takes me months just to
assemble minis in the standard config--assymbling them, as it
were, would take much longer.

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> "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

> Unfortunately the Islamic Fed ships aren't lopsided, so I may
Hmm.. the first that springs to mind is the old (discontinued?) NAC Avalon
class BDN and the NAC Ark Royal class fleet supercarrier, to a
lesser extent, many of the FB1 designs have _some_ asymmetry, while most
of the alien designs are largely symmetric. In fact the most symmetrical GZG
designs are the new IF and UNSC designs!

I'd just say keep you old designs, just choose (or invent) a nation/race
to assign them to.

Subject: Re: Asymetric ships
> That would be the Narn Var'nic DD:

My own interpretation of the Narn Var'nic can be found at:

> of the alien designs are largely symmetric. In fact the most

Right. But it would be nice to have miniatures to go along with the designs.

> I seem to recall a Fasa Klingon being offside, but if there was a fig,

> Have you thought about mounting ships sideways ? Many minis have a

That thought had crossed my processors but must not have gotten saved to disk.
Thanks

> --- Laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

Have you thought about mounting ships sideways? Many minis have a definite
up-down asymmetry, and some have a fairly plain bottom and a heaviliy
turreted top - ideal for those asymmetric designs with all weapons on
one side.

Greeetings Kar Heinz

> --- Laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

> [K. Heinz]Have you thought about mounting ships sideways ?

Great idea. I don't do anything special for my assymetric ships (mostly the NI
stealth ships). I just tend to imagine the mini yawed and pitched to expose
all weapons to one side or the other. Actually mounting the mini this way
might be very cool.

I have one mini that has the top of the post bent. This places it at a 45
degree roll.
The ship is a NAC Miyazaki (see Geo-Hex's web site for picture of a
Miyazaki; our HTTP access is down, so I can't provide a direct URL). This is
an asymertirc

miniature, an looks very cool with the wing reaching up.

This was done by accident, but I have thought of doing more of them using
piano wire.

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> -----Original Message-----

> Laserlight wrote:

> Unfortunately the Islamic Fed ships aren't lopsided, so I may

This is a bit late so I don't know if this'll help but the Llort race in B5W
uses asymmetric ship. I don't know if they have any minis done yet. If not,
they will soon.