Topic: Scratch Building

For those that are also members of Starship Combat News, you will know me, as I use the same screen name there...... I am currently working on a number of scratch built figs, and in the process of designing fleets to go with them.  As soon as I get a digital camera, I will start posting pics of various ships I have designed for everyone to see, along with stats for them. Anyhow, I am always open to images, ideas, or what-have-you, when it comes to starship design. I tend to mix and match, or modify things, and sometimes go off on my own with stuff, but everything has to start with an idea. If anyone here has any ideas, drawings, screen shots from computer games, ect..... I would love to take a look, and see what I can come up with. My eventual goal is to learn to resin cast my designs, and make them available to you guys at cost plus shipping. I am not really looking for profit, this is a hobby that I enjoy.

Thanks
John

Re: Scratch Building

Resin-cast would be cool. I'm not really up to wanting to pay the costs for metal minis. Just to get a decent variety of one fleet style can cost upwards of $100. Thats just a bit too much for me to want to spend on a part time hobby.

How much do you figure (ballpark) resin cast minis would run?

Re: Scratch Building

I don't know yet, as I haven't tried it.... right now, I am experimenting with some turrets. I managed to find one of those Babylon 5 extra turret packs, and when I bought my DP9 ships, and my Babylon 5 Oracle, I didn't glue on the turrets....  if I can make spare turrets, I will start producing batches of them for use in scratch-building.

Most of the resin and mold materials are really inexpensive, so the final cost should be very low......

Finally, if you need some  figs at a dollar or so, per fig, try out Studio Bergstrom. The pics on the site don't do the figs justice, and he got mine to me, from Maryland to Washington, in 4 days.

John