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The Traveller Fleet Boxes were very good sellers for us, but we let them go out of print because we're planning on re-releasing them with additional ships and a different mix to match the upcoming space combat game.
The fleet-scale miniatures are as close to being in scale to each other as it was possible to be. The models and their sizes were approved by Marc Miller before they went into production, so they're either canon or as close to canon as it's possible to be. As others have noted, there's shrinkage in the mastering and production process that's unavoidable and is inconsistent from model to model.
The Plankwell is actually an amazingly chunky design. That rear section is very wide and quite deep. By contrast, the AHL is really very narrow. You can't actually weigh the Plankwell to compare it to the AHL because the Plankwell miniature is hollow (so that it won't break plastic stands, can still use the Ninja Magic magnetic adapters, etc. If you fill the Plankwell with putty or whatever, you can just drop them into water and mark the relative water level rises to compare their volumes (Archimedes discovered this a few thousand years ago and it's still the simplest, and often the best, method for measuring volume).
"A dTon is always a volume of 1,000 Kg of liquid hydrogen. Nothing else." There's a one-word typo here. The correct sentence is: "A dTon is always the volume of 1,000 Kg of liquid hydrogen. Nothing else." Traveller dTons are only about volume, they have never, ever been about mass. Some versions of Traveller measure mass independently of dTon volume, but don't mix the two. Not sure why Yatima is so confused by this, but that's why you can use Archimedian measurement to see if the displacements of the models are correct. (Incidentally, this is why it's called "displacement"--the material displaces a certain amount of water in the glass. Or liquid hydrogen or whatever liquid you're using.)
The Traveller Fleet Boxes were very good sellers for us, but we let them go out of print because we're planning on re-releasing them with additional ships and a different mix to match the upcoming space combat game.
The fleet-scale miniatures are as close to being in scale to each other as it was possible to be. The models and their sizes were approved by Marc Miller before they went into production, so they're either canon or as close to canon as it's possible to be. As others have noted, there's shrinkage in the mastering and production process that's unavoidable and is inconsistent from model to model.
The Plankwell is actually an amazingly chunky design. That rear section is very wide and quite deep. By contrast, the AHL is really very narrow. You can't actually weigh the Plankwell to compare it to the AHL because the Plankwell miniature is hollow (so that it won't break plastic stands, can still use the Ninja Magic magnetic adapters, etc. If you fill the Plankwell with putty or whatever, you can just drop them into water and mark the relative water level rises to compare their volumes (Archimedes discovered this a few thousand years ago and it's still the simplest, and often the best, method for measuring volume).
"A dTon is always a volume of 1,000 Kg of liquid hydrogen. Nothing else." There's a one-word typo here. The correct sentence is: "A dTon is always the volume of 1,000 Kg of liquid hydrogen. Nothing else." Traveller dTons are only about volume, they have never, ever been about mass. Some versions of Traveller measure mass independently of dTon volume, but don't mix the two. Not sure why Yatima is so confused by this, but that's why you can use Archimedian measurement to see if the displacements of the models are correct. (Incidentally, this is why it's called "displacement"--the material displaces a certain amount of water in the glass. Or liquid hydrogen or whatever liquid you're using.)
