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This is a conversation that comes up again and again, so I thought we should have a definitive thread we can point to for all the complains and proposed solutions.

First of all, the ships are not in scale. Some of the are really not in scale. This bothers people. What shall we do? The most popular approach is to pick one ship to set the scale and then buy counts-as minis for everything else.


If one picks the Galaxy class as the standard, most of the rest of the minis will need to come from shapeways. Is there yet a seller on shapeways who makes minis to-scale? What would still work with the Galaxy? The Negh'Var, Prometheus, Nebula, and Dominion cruiser, right? And maybe the Excelsior?

What else would you use as your standard?

Personally, I would probably use the AMT basic kits. There are a lot of them and they are not too expensive. The STAW Defiant, BOP and Jem Hadar Fighter are all more-or-less in scale. Larger non Federation ships would probably be harder to find and much more expensive, though.

Matt D made this excellent reference chart for Attack Wing scale. I've been comparing notes with it for some time.




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I myself have a two-pronged attack plan for this.

Firstly, to locate a slightly upscaled D'Deridex, then to begin sourcing smaller ships on shapeways to bring everything down in size for the mid to small ships into a rough mix of 1/9000 - 1/7000... This would be my pickup/OP gaming sets.

And then to build a secondary set, upscaling to 1/5000, using the midrange sized ships such as the Galor, D7 ect from micro machines, the other stuff as marked, from attack wing, and the galaxy sized ships from Furuta and Eaglemoss, mounted on the larger 'borg cube' bases, changing the entire dynamic of the game. I want to see how it will alter the game play when there will be so many 'large target' ships who can move a great deal more and have far larger and scarier frontal shooting arcs...

This second play at home scale should really show a difference between the larger and smaller classes. We will tweek it and potentially remove the large target rules as we go, but it will look a bloody sight better to my OCD and present lots of modelling and painting opportunities.


I have come to the conclusion it's about separating the ships into 3 rough size categories:

Small Stuff: Rom Scout, Defiant, Dom Scarab, Kling B'rel, Baj system ships etc.

Mid Range: Old fed con and mir, Galor, Breen, D7, Intrepid etc.

Large stuff: Galaxy, Negh'var, Nebula, Dom Cruiser, Marauder, Vor'cha, etc

This doesn't include the fighters, which I'm inclined to keep as the Attack wing at the new larger scale, and the real monsters like the D'Deridex and the insanely large Dominion Battleship, both of which I'd separately source from an even larger size model maker, the D'Deridex in the background is just too damned big for a commonly deployed vessel so I'd not look to correctly scale, just make it a bit bigger than the rest of the 'galaxy size' and the battleship... I've sourced a guy making resin ones that are beautiful and a bit pricey, so I'm going to treat Mrs S to one of those, possibly two.


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Happy news! Scored a furuta Warbird from ebay for under $40!

Now to get another 9 or so of them for the fleet!

Take a look at this blog:
http://blacksixredseven.blogspot.com/2014/02/boss-big-attack-wing-project-part-two.html

Looks interesting.