Aces High A Blood Red Skies Plog by CommodoreRob

Well it has been a while since I have updated this project. In fact it has been a while since I have done any BRS stuff. In September I have am planning a club game based around the battle of Midway (which I will detail more in a different post). For this game I need two carriers models one for the USS Yorktown and the other for the IJNS Hiryu.

IT’S A MATTER OF SCALE

The first challenge was going to be what size do i do the carriers in, BRS being a 1/200 scale game that was my first choice. So i went searching for 1/200 scale models for both these ships, unfortunate I could only find Yorktown at a walletr frightening price, so my next option was to drop down a scale to find 1/350 scale models. This I did do, again they are not cheap , but do able.

HIATUS AND INSPIRATION

This idea then got put on hold whilst I renovated my house. As part of that renovation I had oak laminate flooring put in and was left with some extra pieces left over. This gave me an idea… Would these boards be big enough for making some 2.5D carriers? After some calculations i realised yes they were, and better still they were wide enough for doing 1/200 scale ships …result.

PLAN

There are a couple of ways that I could approach this.

1. I could draw the carriers directly onto the boards
2. Or I could create templates using graph paper, which I could then transfer to the boards.

I decided that of these two the second option would give me a better and more accurate look to the models.

DRAFTING

The next stage was to draft up the Carriers, I found a couple of standard scale images on the web, which I proceeded to print out on A4 paper. Then comparing the dimensions of the real carriers to the images on the paper I determined the approximate scales for each drawing.

MEASURING

The next stage was to note some of the key measurements to the prints outs. Once I was happy with the number of measurements I had. There was some more maths involved in figuring out the 1/200 scale measurements.