I am wanting to do a Chess set of all the Historic HSF vehicles vs all the now/near future HSF vehicles. This is what I have ATMHistoric:VostokShuguang MercuryGeminiApolloShuttleNow/NearSoyuzShenzhouCST-100OrionDragonDream Chaser (Lifting body, but I need 6 and it is soon coming up (hopefully)I am willing to give a set to anyone who wants one of them as long as your willing to replace my plastic (I am an Administrator with RepRap.org so I have 4 3d Printers at my house and between my friends we have 6 others so I can likely keep up with you guys). A few questions:Has a set like this ever been made?Did I miss one that should be added (Remember I only have 6 on each side)?What pieces should be what piece? I was Thinking Shuttle and Soyuz should be the pawns because they have the most flights.Should the pieces be just the capsules or the whole spacecraft?This work will be open source, so if I butcher your favorite spacecraft everything will be done in sketchup and posted to thingiverse so you can fix it and make me apologize
Why not make the pieces and let each group of players decide which one fulfills which role? Seems like it would be better than coming up with one and only one space-chess piece equivalence scheme.
The Rook is also know as the Castle. The obvious space Castle is the ISS.
Quote from: A_M_Swallow on 04/01/2012 04:18 amThe Rook is also know as the Castle. The obvious space Castle is the ISS.Skylab!
Well, Almaz did have a turret...
Quote from: kevin-rf on 04/03/2012 03:54 pmWell, Almaz did have a turret...A turret??? Wasn't that Dr Who's Darlik?
Quote from: clongton on 04/03/2012 11:48 pmQuote from: kevin-rf on 04/03/2012 03:54 pmWell, Almaz did have a turret...A turret??? Wasn't that Dr Who's Darlik?Argh, ouch, oof. You pain the inner nerd in me, sir.Dalek.It's written "Dalek."