Ryan, my advice to you is to tap the brakes for a bit--there are some things that Ares needs to sort out like the "mid-course scale change." (It's turned out that everything before SGN109 is a bit oversize; I'm trying to find pass-fors to repurpose the old tooling just in case we can get them to retool, and while I think I have maybes on most, I want to get as close as I can to sweeping the board before saying much more.)
--Diamondback
PMH, SME, TLA, BBB
Historical Consultant to Ares, Wings and Sails - Unless otherwise noted, all comments are strictly Personal Opinion ONLY and not to be taken as official Company Policy.
Well...that's sort of interesting! I had most of my ships and my pretty extensive book collection boxed up for two years (relocation to California, corporate housing, an apartment, then finally moved into my actual home). I unpacked everything a few weeks back (my wife quickly said, it looks like a game store exploded in here). So now that I have my stuff available again, I'm itching to do more with it!
I guess I'll have to wait and see what comes of this then. I know you're a fair bit picky about your ships, scales, and "passes for" (absolutely nothing wrong with that, I can appreciate it), but how much smaller would things really get? Seems there is just enough difference between say the 1/1200 lines and the ships I have (which are all oversized). Shrinking them a bit seems like it would nearly put them in line with the 1/1200 models.
Strange, I just did a test download from http://sailsofglory.org/downloads.php?do=file&id=199 and it came out same as my local copy. It's an Acrobat PDF.
--Diamondback
PMH, SME, TLA, BBB
Historical Consultant to Ares, Wings and Sails - Unless otherwise noted, all comments are strictly Personal Opinion ONLY and not to be taken as official Company Policy.
Ryan, when you see an SGN112 Spanish 74, then SGN104 should have been just slightly larger than that. (SGN112 is better for Bahama and the later Ildefonsos than the Nepomuceno group, which were around Temeraire size.)
I'll see if I still have your email and if I do I'll send you a PDF with the four major variations of the 1744 Invincible family-tree. (Two sets of drawings, 1/500 for more detail examination, 1/1000 for comparison to game miniatures.) If you've downloaded my Line Chart document that I just corrected and re-uploaded, all the drawings in that are 1/1000.
--Diamondback
PMH, SME, TLA, BBB
Historical Consultant to Ares, Wings and Sails - Unless otherwise noted, all comments are strictly Personal Opinion ONLY and not to be taken as official Company Policy.
I did try to download the line chart, but it just takes me to a blank page for some reason? Have to try pulling it up in another browser or something!
Definitely appreciate all the work you do on this, it's actually quite fun and fascinating to dig into this stuff....although when it comes to playing, I just want some good looking ships, even if they are slightly bigger or smaller than they should be!
Still on Gmail? I'll just send it to you direct--this won't work as a workaround large-scale, but at least it'll get you into the game while we try to debug the problem and see if anyone else is having it.
--Diamondback
PMH, SME, TLA, BBB
Historical Consultant to Ares, Wings and Sails - Unless otherwise noted, all comments are strictly Personal Opinion ONLY and not to be taken as official Company Policy.
Yep, if you've still got my email, it's still the same.
Torpedo away!
--Diamondback
PMH, SME, TLA, BBB
Historical Consultant to Ares, Wings and Sails - Unless otherwise noted, all comments are strictly Personal Opinion ONLY and not to be taken as official Company Policy.
When I try in Safari, the link you show just opens a blank page. When I do it in Firefox, I get to a page, but when I click download, it just says Failed - Sails of Glory.org.
Thanks, this is great work. Should I assume that if I print this out, the printed ship is scaled to 1/1000?
I'll have to look and see if there's a discussion on the topic of scale somewhere to join, I'm most interested to hear more on this topic and see what Ares plans are around this.
If I've worked it right, on 8.5x11 sheet they should be either 1/1000 or within a few hairs (literal hairs) of it.
--Diamondback
PMH, SME, TLA, BBB
Historical Consultant to Ares, Wings and Sails - Unless otherwise noted, all comments are strictly Personal Opinion ONLY and not to be taken as official Company Policy.
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