2nd Dynasty Brings HUGE 28mm Beowulf Starship To Kickstarter

October 25, 2022 by brennon

2nd Dynasty's Ben Mowbray is back on Kickstarter with a new campaign looking to fund the production of an awesome 28mm Traveller Starship, the famous Beowulf!

Traveller Free Trader Beowulf Kickstarter // 2nd Dynasty

The Beowulf is a famous miniature from the Traveller roleplaying game and now you're going to be able to bring your own to the tabletop for your campaigns. The core focus of the Kickstarter is to bring the 28mm scale Type A Free Trader Beowulf to life so that you can print it at home on your 3D Printers.

Free Trader Beowulf Starship // 2nd Dynasty

The Beowulf is a pretty amazing piece of engineering and as you can see from the image above, a lot of time has been put into making sure that it is as accurate as possible to the plans from the roleplaying game. It has a fully detailed cockpit, living quarters, cargo bay and more.

Whilst obviously the physical Starship will be fun for use in Traveller, a lot of people could also find this to be a fantastic piece to use when playing games like Stargrave. You could use this on the tabletop as just another piece of terrain or perhaps the tabletop itself. Imagine a Stargrave boarding action game played out inside the Beowulf!

As well as the physical miniature that you can print at home, the team are also releasing deckplans for the Beowulf and more.

Free Trader Beowulf Plans // 2nd Dynasty

You'll also be able to snap up designs for the Type S Scout/Courier and the Type J Seeker so you can have more fun in your games across a variety of starships. The deckplans that can be snapped up to use at the tabletop are also going to be added as Virtual Tabletop items too!

This means that you'll be able to add these deckplans to the likes of Roll 20 complete with...

Images with transparent backgrounds for layering
Neutral lighting so you can set lighting yourself
Modular pieces to customise the interior layout of your ship
A collection of beds, furniture, partitions and machinery for said customisation

Fascinating stuff and you are going to be able to find out more about what they have on offer over on the Kickstarter Page. Make sure to take a peek at the variety of pledge levels available to backers too.

Free Trader Beowulf Pledges // 2nd Dynasty

If you're interested in learning more about the campaign and bringing the Beowulf to life, you can check out our interview with Ben Mowbray here...

Could you be tempted to add this miniature to your collection via the medium of 3D Printing? Perhaps you're more inclined to snap up the deckplans and play in 2D instead?

Drop your thoughts below!