1/100 scale hanger deck part 7 (final for now)

man that thing is too awesome! matchbox eat your heart out! =P

I've seen some very nice dioramas in my time, but this one... I'd be hard pressed to say that it loses anything to even Games Workshop.

I'm big into the Battletech thing, I used to love 40K. I'm working on the layout for a military base in the Battletech universe. I thought, at first, that a 4X8 table would be enough. It isn't even close. I'm currently looking at at 8X12 set up just for the main base area. Add in another 8X8 area for as close to a full scale dropship as I can get, plus an 2X8 strip for an aerospace runway.

I'm talking about roads, parking lots, hangars, motor pools, buildings, rail-head, and lots more. If I can do what I really want to do, I'll be able to show the outskirts of the base as well, with the local town on it.

So far, the layout is looking to be huge at 8X22 feet total table top space. That's crazy big, and, unless I have a very large space to do it with, won't ever happen. So... I'm looking at trying to narrow down, or at least shrink in scale, my list of needs and wants.

Yeah... Well, if my plans work out, I'll have a couple of years in which to settle on the plan. I'm thinking really hard about going back over to Iraq as a civilian. Two years there will pay for some land and a failry nice house while still leaving some left over for fun and investments.

After that... We'll just have to see how things pan out.

Oh my! Iceblue, if only my 3D models could look as detailed and exciting! WOW! Seriously, that is one bad ass hanger deck! Once you placed the VF's in there, it really added to the sense of it all, but I have to ask, "No warhammer?" Come on, you have to put at least one destroid in there, please!

Honestly, joking aside, great project man! Great project!

Probably because 1/100 scale destroids are extremely hard to find, if not outright impossible.

Comparing stuff on my shelf - aren't the 3" Matchbox/Playmates Robotech Destroids, and the semi-posable Tomahawk and Armored VF-1 that I got from (dangit, I forget the term - some set of boxes where you don't know what you have till you open it) 1/100 scale? or are they 1/144?

The set in question has transformable (with piece switching) Skull One and Milia's red VF (at a smaller scale than the posables), a semi-posable Skull One Battloid, an Armored VF-1J and the Tomahawk, complete with opening missile doors on the latter two. IIRC, the boxes said series 2 - no idea which mechs were in series one - or who made them (got them at a con 2-3 years ago). The size of the torso I have for an old transforming model (that got town apart by a nephew or a pet) appears to be the same scale as the torso of the semi-posable VF-1s.

Like I said, those are extremely hard to find, and they might not be in the exact scale. Not to mention the fact that the older Matchbox stuff isn't the most proportionately accurate.

If memory serves correctly, the old Matchbox stuff had an oversized SHolder-mount missile launcher, and the main guns were severely undersized, as well.

I could be wrong, though. I've only recently seen some of the 1/100 (or 1/144) stuff, and that's what I remember about them.

I found out the info for the sets in question - the Tomahawk is in series 2....

http://anymoon.com/blog/2006/12/16/kaiyodomovic-series-001-gashapon/

http://anymoon.com/blog/2007/02/11/kaiyodomovic-series-002-gashapon/

The only items in them worth having are the Regult from Series 1, and the Armored Valk & Tomahawk from Series 2.