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The link is to the Hobby Link Japan page for a series of spaceship kits by a Japanese company. I don't know if they are taken from an anime series or are original designs.

Worth a look for spaceship combat enthusiasts, though.

Very cool, thanks for the link.

They seem pretty cool. Very "ship in space" aesthetic.

I'm sure this was probably the idea, but it reminds me of Space Battleship Yamato. Not sure what game I'd use them in, though.

Any idea about the scale of these things, I didn't notice it anywhere on the product pages but they're all about $20-25 so I'd assume they're a fairly good size, although being mostly single-piece models makes me wonder.

Sidstyler wrote:I'm sure this was probably the idea, but it reminds me of Space Battleship Yamato. Not sure what game I'd use them in, though.

Any idea about the scale of these things, I didn't notice it anywhere on the product pages but they're all about $20-25 so I'd assume they're a fairly good size, although being mostly single-piece models makes me wonder.

They list the size of the package each is in, so that should give a rough guess, also price helps the guestimate too.

As far as game system, Full Thrust is an excellent space ship game, with construction rules allowing you to use any ship you want.

HLJ are very helpful and will often measure the size of a model if you ask them.

I get the impression they are fairly large models, maybe 10 to 15cm long.

There is a useful article on scales in the Starship Combat News web site.

http://www.star-ranger.com/Scale.htm

Unfortunately these Japanese models aren't listed. Perhaps they are too new. However if they are the size I think they would fit with Battlefleet Gothic ships.

The advantage of this set of models is that when building a fleet you want it to have a coherent design aesthetic. These models present a whole range of ships with the same Space Battleship Yamato inspired design.