Mikasa Battleship and an Unusual Crosscut

[Giovanni Blasini]

So, I bought a 1/1100 Mikasa model off eBay, and it happens to be close to map scale.  In true map scale, at 131.7 meters, it should be a hair over 4 hexes long, rather than just under four:



Of course, there's not a 4-hex large naval vessel template, so you'd probably have to fudge it as a Class C, 5-hex ship:



That's the assumption I went with when I made up stats for my Mikasa Dai-Ni Patrol Battleship. ;)

Next up, having seen Jhoudsan's wonderful Crosscuts, which inspired me to finish writing my WorkMech Wednesday on it, I dug out one of my own oddball MWDA ForestryMech conversions, holding one of my son's Lego katanas:



And here's an Optimus Prime keychain (with the keychain part removed) for scale:



Note, this is no way implying that Groundwave from my story Exile in Syberia is gonna find a sword-swinging Crosscut, or end up a sword-swinging Crosscut.  But it's not a denial, either.

[Jhousdan]

So, I bought a 1/1100 Mikasa model off eBay, and it happens to be close to map scale.  In true map scale, at 131.7 meters, it should be a hair over 4 hexes long, rather than just under four:



Of course, there's not a 4-hex large naval vessel template, so you'd probably have to fudge it as a Class C, 5-hex ship:



That's the assumption I went with when I made up stats for my Mikasa Dai-Ni Patrol Battleship. ;)

Next up, having seen Jhoudsan's wonderful Crosscuts, which inspired me to finish writing my WorkMech Wednesday on it, I dug out one of my own oddball MWDA ForestryMech conversions, holding one of my son's Lego katanas:



And here's an Optimus Prime keychain (with the keychain part removed) for scale:



Note, this is no way implying that Groundwave from my story Exile in Syberia is gonna find a sword-swinging Crosscut, or end up a sword-swinging Crosscut.  But it's not a denial, either.

I could see a good story about a dishonored Kuritan expatriate with that crosscut holding the katana... i like it!

[jimdigris]

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