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Author:  Matus [ Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:26 am ]
Post subject:  Shipping container question,
Anyone know how big a shipping container would be in epic scale?
Author:  Spectrar Ghost [ Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shipping container question,
Full length? Likely around 50mm in length, 8mm wide, and 8-10mm tall.

Remember 6mm scale is for all intents and purposes 1mm:1ft.
Author:  madd0ct0r [ Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shipping container question,
or 3mm is about a meter, depending on which side of the 'really stupid units of measurements*' you come down on.

*Sorry, but i sometimes have to use American Standards. You don't even have the same gravity over there!
Author:  Matus [ Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Shipping container question,
Cheers guys. You can't watch more than a few episodes of Strike Back or NCIS:LA without coming to the conclusion that storage containers are great for a shoot up!

As to which unit, I'm That confused generation of 80s English kids who have grown up using metric for half our measurements and imperial for the other half.
Author:  Legion 4 [ Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shipping container question,
Old Crows got'm ... scroll down - http://www.oldcrowmodels.co.uk/6waterside.htm
Author:  jimmyzimms [ Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shipping container question,
madd0ct0r wrote:
*Sorry, but i sometimes have to use American Standards. You don't even have the same gravity over there!

Don't even get me started on temperature scales here either >:(
Author:  Matus [ Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Shipping container question,
jimmyzimms wrote:
madd0ct0r wrote:
*Sorry, but i sometimes have to use American Standards. You don't even have the same gravity over there!

Don't even get me started on temperature scales here either >:(


I follow the good simple English way of doing things. When it's hot I say "oh it's over 90 degrees (F), but when it's cold I say oh it's nearly zero (C). I measure the length of things in cm but my height in feet and inches. I weigh myself in stone and pounds, but food in grams. In a pub I buy drinks in pints but in shops in ml... Simple eh?
Author:  mattthemuppet [ Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shipping container question,
Matus wrote:
jimmyzimms wrote:
madd0ct0r wrote:
*Sorry, but i sometimes have to use American Standards. You don't even have the same gravity over there!

Don't even get me started on temperature scales here either >:(


I follow the good simple English way of doing things. When it's hot I say "oh it's over 90 degrees (F), but when it's cold I say oh it's nearly zero (C). I measure the length of things in cm but my height in feet and inches. I weigh myself in stone and pounds, but food in grams. In a pub I buy drinks in pints but in shops in ml... Simple eh?


that made me laugh :) At least the pound was decimalised before I could count, having my Dad recount what was what makes my head hurt.
Author:  semajnollissor [ Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shipping container question,
Standard containers are nominally 8ft x 40ft x 8.5ft

For ease of creation and for best fit with existing epic models I would just use the 12mm x 40mm infantry bases as the sides of the containers.

That gives containers that are too wide and too tall, but that can be hand waved as not important for a game set in the far future.
Author:  angelbarracks [ Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shipping container question,
Exactly!

In the future they will be Hoooooooooooooooooooooge, like the tanks are!
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