The Beowulf spaceship from the classic sci-fi RPG, Traveller, comes to life as a 3D model

[garethb2]

Originally published at: The Beowulf spaceship from the classic sci-fi RPG, Traveller, comes to life as a 3D model | Boing Boing

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[gracchus]

you are intimately familiar with the Free Trader class Beowulf starship.

Right from the dramatic blurb on the cover of the original box.

[Kilkrazy]

I’ve still got it somewhere, the UK edition published by Games Workshop, plus the 15mm figures they did, and a load of supplements.

I had so much fun with Traveller back in the days of my long-lost youth

[angusm]

My Traveller-playing inner-fourteen-year-old just woke up and stared open-mouthed at the screen for a full minute.

Now do a full-sized “Kinunir”-class battlecruiser.

[jeddak]

Nah, man, 15mm is the way to go. Especially for sci-fi.

[jerwin]

Oddly enough, the deckplans wern’t in the Traders and Gunboats supplement.

[Kilkrazy]

Waders and Gumboots

Does anyone make 15mm SF figures any more, especially character style, non-military, if that makes sense?

There’s a lot of 28mm available

[L0ki]

Yes, there’re quite a few doing 15mm sci-fi. Slightly less non-shooty types but still quite a few. You can even get Laserburn minis still.

[simonize]

Yeah, Traveller is associated with 15mm figures. Fortunately, it should be easy enough to re-scale it.