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 ====== Spacecraft Designs ======
+One of my long term projects is to build an economic simulation of the **Traveller** universe. This involves modelling planets, their societies, trade requirements and also the movement of the star ships that make interstellar trade possible.
+        <a href="/traveller/resources/spaceships/lowtech/scaled.svg">
+            <img src="/news/images/lego.jpg" width="520" height="75"
+                alt="Scale chart of spacecraft" title="Scale chart of spacecraft"/>
+        </a>
+Whilst procrastinating over the finer points of planetary resource requirements, I've sidetracked myself into fleshing out a few starship designs. After all, if I'm to have an interesting model, then I need lots of interesting ships flying around. Previously I've used starship miniatures (mostly from Ground Zero Games) to           represent what ships look like, but I have only so many of those which are suitable as merchant ships.
+An idea that I've now hit upon is to use //Lego// to model each ship. It's quick and easy to put together an idea, and I can resize the photos as required. They don't look as good as a fully sculptured model, but they help visualisation of scale and appearance a great deal. After I'm done, I can pull them apart and rebuild into something new. Excellent.
+The current set of designs are [[/traveller/resources/spaceships|here]], and more probably to follow soon.