Off to Millennium Con

I'm headed up to Round Rock for MillCon 12+1 to run my first ever convention game, my Galactic Knights planetary assault scenario, this evening.  Tomorrow morning, I'll be playing in the Texas Hordes of the Things championship.  The resto of Saturday I will participate in some other games as well. 

I'm taking my camera, so I will have pictures and writeups of my various activities (but probably not until next week sometime, as I'm going to be very busy Friday, Saturday, and Sunday).  I'm looking forward to gaming this weekend, and I hope I'll see some of you there.

Quick paint jobs

Following my playtesters' advice, I decided to add some escort ships to the defending forces for my Millennium Con game.  Unfortunately, that meant painting them.  As I was running out of time and black spray paint, the ships got just one coat of primer, and just on the upper surface of the minis.  The craft in the center above is an Avarian Hawk-class Destroyer.

Above are three Armored Pursuit Ships (recognition name: Kitten class) for the Carnivorans.  Not sure what they'll be proxying for just yet.



Here we have two Louse-class Armored Pursuit Ships and a Wasp-class Destroyer for the Entomolians.  They'll probably be subbing for a Terran breakaway faction.


P.S.  To all my fellow gamers who served in the military, thank you for your service!

Sizing things up

Dean over at Starship Combat News mentioned in this thread that he has put together a page devoted to the size of starship miniatures.  I noticed he had a few Galactic Knights/Starfleet Wars ships listed, but only from a couple of factions. 

Back in January, someone on the GK Yahoo Group asked about the size of the minis, so I whipped out the ruler and measured all the starships in my collection.  I have a few more measurements that Dean is welcome to use for his page, which spurred me to repost my measurements for anyone who's interested.  So here are measurements for all the Galactic Knights ship types in my collection:

Fighters

• up to 3/4 of an inch (20mm)

Aquarians 

• Destroyer: 1 & 5/8 inches (40mm) by 13/16 of an inch (20mm)
• Cruiser: 2 & 5/16 inches (57mm) by 1 & 1/16 inches (28mm)
• Battlecruiser: 3 & 7/16 inches (88mm) by 1 & 3/8 inches (34mm)
• Carrier: 3 & 5/8 inches (93mm) by 2 inches (50mm)

  

Avarians

• Destroyer: 1 & 3/4 inches (44mm) by 15/16 of an inch (24mm)
• Destroyer Leader: 1 & 7/8 inches (48mm) by 1 & 1/8 inches (27mm)
• Cruiser: 2 & 5/8 inches (60mm) by 1 & 1/8 (28mm)
• Battlecruiser: 2 & 3/4 inches (69mm) by 1 & 15/16 inches (48mm)
• Carrier: 4 & 1/8 inches (104mm) by 2 & 1/16 inches (51mm)
• Dreadnought: 3 & 7/8 inches (98mm) by 1 & 3/4 inches (44mm)
• Super Galactic Dreadnought: 5 & 5/8 inches (142mm) by 2 & 11/16 inches (70mm)

Carnivorans

• Destroyer: 1 & 13/16 inches (46mm) by 1 & 1/2 inches (38mm)
• Cruiser: 2 & 3/16 inches (55mm) by 1 & 5/8 inches (42mm)
• Battlecruiser: 3 & 1/4 inches (82mm) by 2 & 1/16 inches (52mm)
• Carrier: 4 inches (103mm) by 2 & 1/16 inches (52mm)
• Super Galactic Dreadnought: 5 & 3/8 inches (137mm) by 2 & 13/16 inches (70mm)

Entomolians

• Destroyer: 1 & 11/16 inches (45mm) by 1 & 5/8 inches (42mm)
• Cruiser: 2 & 3/16 inches (57mm) by 1 & 7/8 inches (47mm)
• Battlecruiser: 3 & 5/16 inches (85mm) by 1 & 15/16 inches (49mm)
• Carrier: 3 & 7/7 inches (97mm) by 2 & 1/16 inches (51mm)
• Super Galactic Dreadnought: 5 & 9/16 inches (141mm) by 2 & 15/16 inches (73mm)

Terrans

• Destroyer: 2 & 1/16 inches (50mm) by 1 inch (25mm)
• Destroyer Leader: 2 & 3/4 inches (70mm) by by 1 inch (25mm)
• Cruiser: 2 & 9/16 inches (66mm) by 1 & 5/8 inches (40mm)
• Battlecruiser: 3 & 5/8 inches (92mm) by 2 inches (50mm)
• Carrier: 3 & 3/4 inches (98mm) by 2 & 5/16 inches (58mm)
• Dreadnought: 4 & 1/16 inches (102mm) by 2 & 7/16 inches (63mm)
• Galactic Dreadnought: 4 & 1/8 inches (104mm) by 2 & 1/2 inches (64mm)
• Super Galactic Dreadnought: 6 inches (152mm)! by 2 & 1/2 inches (64mm)