How to Use the Nocturnal:
The top of the nocturnal is where you see a bit of a ring around a spike. This ring can be strung with a chain and makes it possible to wear the nocturnal as a pendant. When reading the nocturnal, this end of the piece should always be up.
Your first step is to set the outermost dial on the date. The months are shown as letters, with January and December at the top, and the progression of the months running *counterclockwise*. Note that the exact position of the letter actually marks the middle of that month. Look closer at the piece and you will see the line that separates the months between the letters.
Now, hold your nocturnal up to the starry night sky, making sure that the date is still properly set. Locate the North Star centred in the hole in the middle of the Nocturnal. Then use the central dial (the one that looks like a pointer) to point to the two stars at the end of the bowl of the *big* dipper.
Once you have this all set. Look closer at the pointer and you will see that within the pointer is an eliptical ring and within this is a smaller pointer. This smaller pointer points to a roman numeral, which shows you the time.
Note again, that the roman numeral is centred on the middle of the hour. So, if the little pointer points in the centre of the numeral, it is in fact half past.
So now you can tell time at night without a powered time piece. This is great for night owls, vampires, and those who appreciate a gothic or steampunk look.
Perfect for the wargamers and collectors.
The Bristol F.2 Fighter was a British two-seat biplane fighter and reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War flown by the Royal Flying Corps. It is often simply called the Bristol Fighter or popularly the "Brisfit" or "Biff". Despite being a two-seater, the F.2B proved to be an agile aircraft that was able to hold its own against opposing single-seat fighters.
Perfect for the wargamers and collectors.
Perfect for the wargamers and collectors.
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The Vickers F.B.5 (Fighting Biplane 5) (known as the "Gunbus") was a British two-seat pusher military biplane of the First World War. Armed with a single .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis Gun operated by the observer in the front of the nacelle, it was the first aircraft purpose-built for air-to-air combat to see service, making it the world's first operational fighter aircraft.
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An improved variant of the O/100, the Handley Page O/400 multi-bay biplane bomber featured more powerful engines, a compressed air starting system and an improved fuel system. To meet Royal Air Force specifications, the wings of the O/400 were designed to fold back against the fuselage so that the aircraft could be stored in standard hangars. In 1918, the O/400 was used to bomb targets in Germany's Rurh and Saar industrial centers. By the end of the war, the RAF had 259 O/400s in service and continued to fly some of them until 1920.
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Developed in late 1916, the Caproni Ca.3 biplane bomber used the same airframe and landing gear as its predecessors, the Ca.1 and Ca.2. With more powerful engines, improved performance and increased bomb capacity, the Ca.3 bomber series was produced in large numbers and remained in service until the end of the war.
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Size bumped up to 60mm per request.
Model reworked some
Cybertanks
The Resistor II is almost as common a configuration of the Cybertanks as the Resistor I, and both are the iconic configurations whose image is conjured up when the Cybertanks are referred to. Resistor IIs have a smaller particle laser than the Is, but this is supplemented by a mass driver gating. The pyramidal structure at the top emits a smaller particle laser, serving both missile defence and anti-infantry. Two turret smoke dischargers are mounted on the turret, one either side.
Like all Cybertanks, the Resistors share their omnicidal nature and staggering racial arrogance; and mercifully for the rest of us, their utter inability to hit anything, despite their advanced targeting systems and use of energy weapons. Because of their abundance, we know more about the Resistors than any other configuration. Internally, their technological phyisology is as different from that found in their starships and buildings (i.e their constructed technolgy) as ours is from our own, and is highly complex, and seems more "grown" than "built". And the re are further mysteries. For example, the Cybertank's particle laser technology found on board their starships seems derived from their own bodily weapons, but are subtly different in a way that a conventional tank and shipboard weapon are not; i.e. they are not quite simply different sized versions of each other.
This all lends credence to the Cybertank's claim they evolved into these vehicular forms naturally. Despite the extreme improbability of these claims, no-one has yet found any evidence to prove otherwise. The truth - if it still exists - lies buried under the surface of the Cybertank's homeworld of Metalyka, where none but Cybertanks have ever stood.
This is a 1/144 scale grav tank, though equally could be used at 15mm or even 25/28mm (or even 1/300 if you want to go nuts!)
Suggested material: SWF
Hawkings Astronautics (Civilian) HAC-124 Nomad Class Freighter
Hawkings Astronautics cut their teeth on civilian vessels like the obiquitous Nomad. The Nomad is a multi-purpose freighter, designed to carry four of the HAC 1200 series cargo module (models 1200-1260E), which enables it to handle most cargo short of passengers, even bio-hazardous or otherwise radioactive materials. By directly handling the modules, rather than relying on smaller containers, the Nomad is able to be much more efficient in terms of volume to benefit, since most of the 1200 modules do require external power or lifesupport. The Nomad takes advantage of SSA miniaturisation even with the oversized Warp-drive and main engines, is capable of a fair turn of speed for a merchant ship. It's engine power and shielding are equivilent to most heavy cruisers, and it mounts no less than thirty particle pellet guns in turrets (though most of these are automated rather than crewed). It also has several hyper-ray blisters for good measure.
Of course, this extra weaponry comes at considerable expense. However, given the slow recharge and jump distance of contemporary warp-drive, it is a requirement for security purposes. Indeed, the formidable armament of the Nomad keeps them safe from all but determined (and well armed) pirates, and even military starships are wary of engaging one unnecessarily.
Suggested material: SWF
The Solar Rage, build around an up-scaled version of the aging Vicious Meteor hull, often leads the chase element, bringing heavy firepower to bear on the enemy vessels.
Suggested material: Strong white flexible
