That's right - not map scale, 'Mech scale!
Picked this up for $7 at a local budget supermarket (Aldi, if that means anything). Imported from China; no Chinese manufacturer's name, but a P/O box interstate which I will be contacting. It's "papercraft" - more accurately thin sheets of foam with strong, well-printed coloured paper on both sides and superbly cut. At over a meter long it's about 1:300 scale - near enough to Z scale to work excellently as a magnificent piece of terrain. And the 1970s CAG (Phantoms, Corsairs, Prowlers and Intruders) is kinda 2-dimensional, but they'd make superb proxies for conventional forces if I ever set up another big game.
Here it is:
Yup, that's two 'Mechs on the bow ramp.
Looking down the flight deck.
View from port. Alas, my phone camera just isn't coping with the size of the beast.
Potential scenario: three Smoke Jaguar 'Mechs and two points of Elementals were dropped from low altitude to take this Lyran nuisance out. Alas, not everyone landed on the target successfully. The remaining two 'Mechs and point of Elementals move out to take control of the bridge - or failing that, destroy the fighting capacity of the carrier.
Onboard Lyran sailors deploy in a hasty defence around the bridge, their mission to last long enough to let more marine Battle Armor squads deploy via the port elevator.
All in all, I'm in love with this, and it's probably enough to make me run a terrain game sometime (the boys don't need the ping-pong table for a month or so, do they?) And I'll be contacting the company who imported this - imagine a Missouri, or Yamato, in the same scale! And all for $7.
Cheers,
W.
