ok, so as the fleet scale idea kind of fizzled away, discovering the rules for Star Wars Silent Death online was at least something and as great a game as X-wing looks, it also looks damned expensive for what you get, so this became X-wing on a budget... free rules was a good start...
(past the following into the address line)
http://replay.web.archive.org/20060913232852/http://www.wizards.com/starwars/downloads/SW_Silent_Death.pdf
of course, me being me, scale is still a problem... so going back to my rough equivalents:
the Falcon is a little under 3 X-wings long and a rebel transport is roughly 3 Falcon's long.
an X-wing is 3/4's the length of a Y-wing
an A-wing is 3/4's the length of an X-wing
not too fussed about the B-wing, it's longer than a Y, but will be in a different plane anyway, so is more easily fudged.
An obvious cheap source for fighters is Studio Bergstrom's 1 inch fighters, nice clean casts that fit together quite nicely, actually cheaper than the bendy Micro Machine stuff on eBay.
Deagostini Falcon, Bergstrom X-wings, Titanium Falcon
first problem, a 3 inch ish Falcon - so far the Titanium is perfect for length
(ignore the absence of key components, had dismantled it to see about
tarting it up), but is a fat one, and is in fact fatter than the larger
Deagostini 3.5 inch Falcon, the raised corridor sections that lead to
the lateral docking rings stand far too high and just look silly - so
high in fact that there is a massive flat area on the end with no
detail, that the docking rings themselves just can't hide. As it's
diecast (both are), that's a pig to try and fix. The Deagostini Falcon
on the other hand is a lovely little model, very trim and looks like it
could outrun just about anything.... but is technically too large for
the Bergstrom rebel fighters...
bizarrely, this has now taken me back to that picture of the Action Fleet Blockade Runner, pity they go for so much nowadays.
Deagostini Falcon, Bergstrom TIE, X-wing, Y-wing, A-wing and TIE bomber,
Mircomachines TIE bomber, Micromachines plastic Falcon (2 inches).
now, in my mind the TIE's look great with the bigger Falcon. The Y-wing
is too small for the X-wing, the A-wing works with the X-wing ok, but just looks better with the much smaller MM Falcon. the MM TIE bomber is a
good match for the Bergstrom TIES and that will become a TIE boarding
craft I think.
now I think I can just about ignore the slightly undersized X-wings,
I've seen online that the Starship Battles Y's are good against the Bergstrom
X's. I'd kind of prefer a slightly larger A-wing against the Falcon (because lets face it, I'm using that one regardless - it's just such a nice model).
The
transport is the ERTL/MPC Hoth base one, 9 inches long and again perfect
for either of the two diecast Falcon's. The Hoth base Falcon is 5 inches and
would probably work really with Micromachine fighters (as everything is
roughly 2 inches long in that range, the X-wing would work really well).
I'd already started tarting that up, but may end up eBaying it.
so, any one got a SSB A-wing that they put a length to?
Down the line, I'm going to need to acquire something for the Empire - Slave 1 is always a fun option, but also need some objectives - shuttles or cargo ships are a good one...
