How do you indicate the various types of fighters on your fighter stands?
Using the MT fighter types (heavy fighters, interceptors, torpedo fighters,
etc.), it's not hard for one side to have two or three different types of
fighters in their mix. I'm currently painting my FT fighters and I'm curious
as to how others indicate the type of fighter pertaining to a stand.
One way is to paint up stands to match the type of fighter, but that seems
either, A) inflexible, or B) requires a lot of painted fighter stands.
I thought of marking my fighter stands with a letter or number, and then
having a "type roster sheet", but this seems cumbersome.
Another option is to colour code the dice used for endurance and the number of
ships.
How do you indicate the various types of fighters? How do you indicate Ace and
Turkey squadrons?
After fiddling with Epoxy, tubing and various things I think I am going to:
Resin cast fighter bases. Should hold 3 wires.
1 wire will have a mini. 1 wire will have beads for endurance, these will be
blue 1 wire will have beads for fighter number, these beads will be colored to
represent different types of fighters.
The question is how small can I make it while not having to pick it up to
remover beads.
My opponents don't want to tell me what kind of fighter is which until they
get into combat. As far as I can tell, I can't make them.
For my UN forces, I have actually different fighter miniatures (EA
thunderbolts vs. EA starfuries). For the rest it's just impossible to tell
until you see them in action.
> --- Allan Goodall <awg@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> At 4:25 PM -0400 6/6/01, Allan Goodall wrote:
I ended up having three types of fighter models. One is typically used as an
attack or torpedo. One is flexible in use as a heavy attack or std heavy, one
is useful as std or as interceptors. They look different than each on the
stands. I also have each stand numbered and some of the stands are a low viz
grey (navy) and others are a dark dark green (marines). This allows further
differentiation. One or two groups even have some special paint schemes added
as further differentiation (a flight with an Ace say).
All stands are numbered. I note CEF burns on the orders sheet for ships, that
way I can cross check myself for each unit if I forget (ie I can look back and
double check to be sure I accounted for a combat burn in the right turn...)
Group strength is indicated by a die on the stand.
> One way is to paint up stands to match the type of fighter, but that
Not if you do one fighter model per stand and use a die. I've got something
like 20 fighter groups.
> I thought of marking my fighter stands with a letter or number, and
Its not bad. It also allows you to allocate them to their ship. But then I go
as far as naming ships based on class types (Black Prince, Iron Duke, etc for
one BC class that I run) and sometimes name the fighter groups...
> Another option is to colour code the dice used for endurance and the
Usually they get a nice red die for the ACEs...
I've just used circular 25mm bases (i.e. GW slottabases) and cut a square out
of them for a small die to represent # of fighters. Then I glue a washer to
the bottom to weigh it down and prevent the die from slipping through. Glue
one fighter to the base (I don't bother with wires because of the way that I
store the fighter bases) and give it a colored stripe to allow me to
differentiate between types if necessary. I also don't worry about CEF, since
I tend to group my fighters together it's rather easy for me to remember what
their endurance is, and if I'm having difficulty I simply mark it on the
"mothership" record sheet, although what usually happens is that the fighters
are either killed off before their six turns are up, or there's nothing left
for them to wax. I used the colored bead approach for awhile, but it just
became too cumbersome with large numbers of fighters, not to mention that it
was a pain in the ass if someone accidentally caught one or more of the wires
and knocked the bases over and the beads off. I haven't had the problem with
the new-type bases because of their low profile.
Mark
> Roger Books wrote:
> (may be forged)) by scotch.csua.berkeley.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with
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I've just used circular 25mm bases (i.e. GW slottabases) and cut a square out
of them for a small die to represent # of fighters. Then I glue a washer to
the bottom to weigh it down and prevent the die from slipping through. Glue
one fighter to the base (I don't bother with wires because of the way that I
store the fighter bases) and give it a colored stripe to allow me to
differentiate between types if necessary.
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And since the bases are black anyway, I assume the fighters visually 'float',
especially on a black table, unless their Omega Black themselves.
What I was figuring would be the case with my cast-pillar fighter
stands, but I've never gotten any painted just yet to see how they'd look.
Yeah, in the basement...
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 13:50:10 -0700 (PDT), David Griffin
> <carbon_dragon@yahoo.com> wrote:
> For my UN forces, I have actually different fighter
How do you tell, though, once they are in action? Do you letter the bases and
write it down ahead of time? Or is it on the honour system? How do you keep
track of multiple types, such as interceptors and heavy fighters from the same
carrier?
Hello all, thought I'd pass on my latest attempts at bases. I mostly use the
B5W FA scale fighters- I use the black plastic bases they come with and
cut a rectangular hole (pair of square dice shaped holes) into the center of
the base between the fighters, then just glue a small piece of card to the
underside of the hole- this lets the thickness of the plastic act as the
lip to hold dice. Then I can just mark the endurance with a dice. Some of my
bases just have the fighters sitting in the holes loose, but for those I glue
in I use a second dice to mark numbers. Both ways seem to work well, and it
looks good actually seeing the proper # of fighters in each flight, so haven't
picked a set way yet, but the dice always sit fairly secure.
Later, Alex Kettle,
> > After fiddling with Epoxy, tubing and various things I
> --- Allan Goodall <awg@sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> How do you tell, though, once they are in action? Do
The wings are painted different colors.
In message <p05100e08b7445404eb03@[157.166.130.123]>
> Ryan M Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
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> I ended up having three types of fighter models. One is typically
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Hmm... now if someone did a nice set of 'Not UFO interceptors' of the
right scale - they'd make nice torpedo fighters :-)