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In terms of relative size to a 40k 28mm model, how big is a space hulk? Would it fit on a 4'x6' table? Half the table? How tall is it?

If I understand correctly (and that's a big "if") space hulks are usually the size of planets, or possibly larger, in scale probably a football field and then some. Though I suppose a very small one could fit on a table.

If you want to model one, I say go for it and just make it a convient size.

It veries from hulk to hulk, but I'd say the size of a small planet, from a scale I'd probably take up a whole table.

Space Hulks range anywere from a couple of miles to the size of large moons.
Scaled to 28mm even the smalest Space Hulk would be about 176ft on a side, most likely larger.
Playing on this behemoth would by as Imposible as it would be Epic.

Considering even the smallest capital ships are more than a kilometer long, and a hulk is composed of dozens to hundreds of ships...

You do the math.

A space hulk would have a hard time fitting in your YARD, yet alone on a table.

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But at the same time couldn't a space hulk be relatively small? I thought it was more or less like anything lost in space that once carried things. so small freighters.

or am I thinking of something else

Too big to feasibly do, but you could definitely make a standard-sized board that focuses on just one section of the ship.

But Either way, building a tabled size one and running an epic Space hulk would be sweet. everyone brings 500pts of infantry and try to clear the hulk out and fight each other.

Even the smallest figates are about 1.1Km long, so about room sized, to scale.

Thing is, a standard 40K board isn’t to scale anyway (28mm is about 50:1, so a small arm with a max range of 24” has a range of 100 feet or around 30m, which is ridiculous). If you want to have decently sized models you have to play on a football field or accept the game board isn’t shown as a 1:1 ratio with the models on it.

Instead, if you assume the range of a small arm is something like its modern equivalent of around 300m, you see that every inch is equal to 12.5m. A full battlefield then becomes a 750m by 600m area. This wouldn’t be big enough to represent the Space Hulks described in the fluff, but it isn’t that far off the size of smaller capital ships.

And besides, who really cares? It isn’t like there’s standard sizes for archaic floating wrecks. If GW thought there was money in releasing a Space Hulk board they’d do so and happily rewrite the fluff to make them that size.

If I saw an awesomely designed hulk for a playing board I’d think ‘damn that’s an awesomely designed board’ and I really wouldn’t care that the scale doesn’t exactly match the current fluff.

sebster wrote:Thing is, a standard 40K board isn’t to scale anyway (28mm is about 50:1

Actualy 28mm is closer to 1/60 or 1/64 depending on which modeler you ask.

The Fox Lord wrote:Actualy 28mm is closer to 1/60 or 1/64 depending on which modeler you ask.

Meh. When the scale is as loose as it is in 40K, then 1:50 or 1:60 is really very irrelevant.

sebster wrote:

The Fox Lord wrote:Actualy 28mm is closer to 1/60 or 1/64 depending on which modeler you ask.

Meh. When the scale is as loose as it is in 40K, then 1:50 or 1:60 is really very irrelevant.

True enough, true enough. I've always been a bit of a hardcase when it comes to scale. This is GW we're talking about here, there's no guaranty that two mini's from the same mold will be in scale to one another

The Fox Lord wrote:True enough, true enough. I've always been a bit of a hardcase when it comes to scale. This is GW we're talking about here, there's no guaranty that two mini's from the same mold will be in scale to one another

Fair point. I really wish vehicles would be scaled on something like the scale of infantry, they don't have to be massive, but at least they could look like a trooper could fit inside.

sebster wrote:Fair point. I really wish vehicles would be scaled on something like the scale of infantry, they don't have to be massive, but at least they could look like a trooper could fit inside.

That would be nice

In 5th edition space hulk it says something about the time it'd take to scout out the entirety of "Sin Of Damnation" being centuries. Once again, thinking even the smallest ship is kilometres long, a space hulk is always massive.

EDIT: anything smaller and it wouldn't be safe for aliens and chaos to board, as the Imperium would just blast it to smithereens. Especially when they say that they actually can blast "Sin Of Damnation" into atoms at a moments notice.

The thing is you don't really need to depict the outside of the hulk, only the inside.

What you need is some kind of system of space corridors.

wasn't there a company that made space corridors to intersect with areas of industrial towers?

sorry - I shouldn't start this, but Kilkrazy subconsciously made me do it!

You're looking for Litko Aerosystems.
I hear they make excellent space corridors and Industrial Towers.

As far as scale goes, anything goes: space hulks are the vast drifting shells of inumerable ships that have been pulled together by gravity. Its pretty fertile ground to do pretty much whatever your imagination can come up with.