Saturday, February 24, 2007
Purty deckplans
I'm working on a space station-based adventure for an upcoming local convention, and I went looking for some deckplans among the various PDF vendors and ran across this…
[[http://home.insightbb.com/~ryan.wolfe/Future_Armada.htm|Future Armada]] by Ryan Wolfe of Ki Ryn Studios. This is the guy that did the Serenity deckplans for the official RPG.
The Future Armada deckplans line currently contains eight ships and one small space station. Each existing set is five bucks and contains multiple computer-rendered views of the ship's exterior, full deckplans in Ryan's beautiful color 3D style, B&W line-drawing versions, descriptions of the areas of the ship and NPC crew, copies of the deckplans in 35mm scale, and often various extras like smaller shuttle or scout craft and variant configurations with deckplans. Much of the rendered art and the 35mm deckplans are also included as JPG files.
Even if you don't do the miniatures thing, these deckplans really make the ship "come to life" for me… they're just darn cool, and you're getting quite a lot for your money. It's obvious that a lot of thought and attention have gone into the development of the ships.
You can see a sample from every set here.
Check 'em out.

