[zircher]

Fun stuff, Starhawk. I had a friend that tried the balsa thing from a different angle. He's pre-fabricate a slew of parts and then build up the ship designs from that. Almost like DoGA CGA done in balsa... :-)

Some of the results were pretty good, but he could not make them economical as large kits of parts to sell to others so he dropped the project. One interesting effect of the process was that ships tended to be more 3d and less naval inspired. Most of his designs were mounted on pins attached to a hex base. I imagine they were significantly more fragile than your design technique.
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