any suggestions on a decent proxy for the Lightning fighter?

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The DRM and EW human fighters might be worth a try:

DRM: http://www.darkrealmminiatures.co.uk/st ... t=4&page=1

EW: http://www.exoduswars.com/6mm-Roc-Multi ... rchSize=12

The wings would be easy to scratchbuild, so i suppose all you really need to do id find a bit to proxy the hull, even if the wings don't match.

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Thanks for the suggestions Apoc. Not sure if the DRM Kronos might be a bit too big? The Lightning looks very dinky, like it shouldn't be much bigger than an MBT.

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Do you need it to match GW SG flyers, or the FW AI ones? the old FW AI lightning presumably had a ~4cm wingspan? (don't have mine to hand to check)

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The lightning is significantly bigger than a MBT. Its about 2/3 the size of a thunderbolt.

it's important to note that afaik there's only a FW sized version ever produced so its important to understand how you may want this used. I should also point out nothing prevents Count-As with any existing flyers you have. I've dug up a few items on shapeways that should fit for a good lightning proxy for truescale flyers. You want me to dig those up?

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Most of my stuff is GW or GW scale so FW scale models will look a bit odd, so I want to avoid them, although the fact that two FW Lightnings are up for more than £70 on eBay is a factor too!

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Please!

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as with all proxies, YMMV

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Wow, that looks great. The size seems large compared to the AI models (I only have eldar). I'm not sure what he means by "80 mm scale"-- I'm assuming different from what we mean when we say 6mm. I'd snap up a 1/270 to 1/300 version.

That's a big hole in the existing 3rd party ranges. I see a lot of star wars-ish and BSGesque stuff, but very little original space fighters. A good approach would be to release in fleetscale (ie for BFG/Full Thrust) and 1/270 (X-wing/aeronautica/FW epic scale).

Certainly at the prices that FW aeronautica models fetch on ebay, there's at least some market. You'll never sell as many fighters as you do tanks, and I suppose the volume issue is the problem, but shapeways seems ideal if someone's a great sculptor and doesn't need big profits to pay the rent. (hint hint hint you know who you are....)

Yeah I was originally going to ping to see about them getting reduced in size to fit in the AI but them instumbled into a whole mess of flyers so never bothered. Probably worth a quick PM to them. There's someone else there that had a whole ton of Wing Commanderesque flyers as well (like 20 different designs). I'll try to find them.

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