But is it *actually* in scale?

35 minutes ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

But is it *actually* in scale?

It adheres to FFG’s Huge ship sliding scale. It’s 19-1/2 inches long. The larger the ship, the more the scale slides. Mel broke it down:

But, no, it’s not 1/270, if that’s what you’re getting at. That would be unplayable on a 6x3 mat.

30 minutes ago, weisguy119 said:

It adheres to FFG’s Huge ship sliding scale. It’s 19-1/2 inches long. The larger the ship, the more the scale slides. Mel broke it down:

But, no, it’s not 1/270, if that’s what you’re getting at. That would be unplayable on a 6x3 mat.

Bah! It would be playable AS the mat... besides, the arrgh kittens! is easily beaten by a single b-wing with a heavy laser cannon. ?

By my math, 19.5 inches puts it at about 1/658 scale, which is not thaaat far off the 1/500 scale of the raider and cr-90.

Do you have a raider or corvette you can post a picture of it next to so we can get a better idea of size?

Where'd you get it? Shapeways?

15 minutes ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

Bah! It would be playable AS the mat... besides, the arrgh kittens! is easily beaten by a single b-wing with a heavy laser cannon. ?

LOL! But I needed a suitable counterbalance to my Nebulon-B:

That ship is impressive.

Thrawn? Not so much.

Dude got beat by space whales.

Space.

Whales.

32 minutes ago, Forgottenlore said:

By my math, 19.5 inches puts it at about 1/658 scale, which is not thaaat far off the 1/500 scale of the raider and cr-90.

Do you have a raider or corvette you can post a picture of it next to so we can get a better idea of size?

Where'd you get it? Shapeways?

It’s a scratch build commission. This weekend, if I have time, I plan to set up some pics for size reference. It’ll be an attack by an Imperial Patrol Fleet on a Rebel resupply convoy. The pics will include:

IMPERIAL OUTER RIM PATROL FLEET:

Arquitens

- 2 Defenders

2 Raiders

- 4 TIEs (one destroyed)

2 Gozantis

- 8 TIEs

2 Decimators

2 Gunboats

REBEL RESUPPLY CONVOY:

Nebulon-B Frigate

DP-20 Frigate

CR-90

CR-12 Hammerhead Corvette

3 GR-75s (one destroyed)

6 X-wings (one destroyed)

2 B-wings

2 Y-wings

2 A-wings

3 minutes ago, theBitterFig said:

That ship is impressive.

Thrawn? Not so much.

Dude got beat by space whales.

Space.

Whales.

It’s not Thrawn’s fault his superior intellect is always bested by Rebel plot armor.

Or that the mouse abused him.

6 minutes ago, Cr0aker said:

Or that the mouse abused him.

I’m currently reading Thrawn: Alliances and it’s starting off pretty good. Rukh is getting some love, which makes this fan of the original Thrawn trilogy very happy. I’m not that far into it yet, though. Hopefully, Padme doesn’t steal half the book like Governor Pryce did the last one.

Look in the off topic thread. ?

25 minutes ago, weisguy119 said:

I’m currently reading Thrawn: Alliances and it’s starting off pretty good. Rukh is getting some love, which makes this fan of the original Thrawn trilogy very happy. I’m not that far into it yet, though. Hopefully, Padme doesn’t steal half the book like Governor Pryce did the last one.

47 minutes ago, theBitterFig said:

That ship is impressive.

Thrawn? Not so much.

Dude got beat by space whales.

Space.

Whales.

And how many space whales have YOU beaten, huh?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Okay, it's not a spoiler so I'll post this here. This could be taken on many many many levels.

The afterword reads...

"For all those who've ever wondered if they were teamed up with the wrong person..."

(Or franchise owner...?)

Just finished reading the book. Took about 5 hours for me but I read quick.

1 hour ago, Herowannabe said:

And how many space whales have YOU beaten, huh?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Just one, and he was blind in one eye.

2 hours ago, weisguy119 said:

It’s a scratch build commission. This weekend, if I have time, I plan to set up some pics for size reference. It’ll be an attack by an Imperial Patrol Fleet on a Rebel resupply convoy. The pics will include

SWEET! Can’t wait to see the pics.

How do you find Thrawn? I've been farming Veers for my Imperial Trooper squad.

39 minutes ago, Commander Kaine said:

How do you find Thrawn? I've been farming Veers for my Imperial Trooper squad.

Right now, he can only be obtained through an extremely rare event which has just a few hours remaining at the moment. You need a Phoenix Squadron team just to gain access to the event. To beat Thrawn on tier 7 (to get a 7* Thrawn), you need a fairly powerful 7* squad. I had Kanan and Chopper at gear level 9 and the rest were at 8. I had all their Omega abilities but no Zetas, so they don't have to be uber or anything. Tier 7 can be tricky. You have to take out the Deathtroopers first, then the Stormtrooper Commanders, then the Stormtrooper and Thrawn last. I beat tier 7 in 2 tries. I had to scramble to get Hera and Chopper to 7* to play tier 7. I was afraid I wouldn't get them there in time before the event ended. Just squeaked in the win at the wire. Who knows when the event will come up again?

59 minutes ago, Commander Kaine said:

How do you find Thrawn? I've been farming Veers for my Imperial Trooper squad.

A little like that 6 year art/psychology student who borrows $180,000 for a 4 year degree. Except confident, able to use it for something worthwhile, and not an indentured servant to student loans.

Oh, and eventually he sends Veers off on a project results in him being brain washed/dead.

9 hours ago, weisguy119 said:

Right now, he can only be obtained through an extremely rare event which has just a few hours remaining at the moment. You need a Phoenix Squadron team just to gain access to the event. To beat Thrawn on tier 7 (to get a 7* Thrawn), you need a fairly powerful 7* squad. I had Kanan and Chopper at gear level 9 and the rest were at 8. I had all their Omega abilities but no Zetas, so they don't have to be uber or anything. Tier 7 can be tricky. You have to take out the Deathtroopers first, then the Stormtrooper Commanders, then the Stormtrooper and Thrawn last. I beat tier 7 in 2 tries. I had to scramble to get Hera and Chopper to 7* to play tier 7. I was afraid I wouldn't get them there in time before the event ended. Just squeaked in the win at the wire. Who knows when the event will come up again?

Apparently the legendary and Hero's Journey events will be recurring every 3 months; so your next shot at Thrawn would have been in 3 months Mines up to G11 now and he's a beast. Now I need to do some work on Ackbar so I can go for 7* Chimera next time it pops up. Keeping on the top 5 of my fleet shard has drained all my ship resources though so I couldn't unlock it this time around.

On 7/25/2018 at 6:08 PM, Forgottenlore said:

By my math, 19.5 inches puts it at about 1/658 scale, which is not thaaat far off the 1/500 scale of the raider and cr-90.

Do you have a raider or corvette you can post a picture of it next to so we can get a better idea of size?

Where'd you get it? Shapeways?

Pics are up - 43 of them, in fact. Should be enough to judge her by her size.