Description

Saturn Syndicate Ascendancy

Hawkings Astronautics HAM-117 Scarab Attack Cutter

Scale: Fleet (very nominally 1:10000th)

Size (Bounding Box): 24.0mm x 9.0mm x 6.49mm

Physical Print: Twelve starships supplied.

Digital Files:

Supports: Not available at this time, sorry.

Mounting: 2mm flat peg (glue to stand or base); flight stand provided.

Scaling Notes: Yellow. Parts potentially affected by scaling: Flight stand hole, wall thickness, thin parts.

Entirely Optional Lore PDF included.

Photo of SLS print (Shapeways).

For Resin/SLS Printing: Use file 1solidM (plus stand)

For FDM Printing: Use files 1solidtop, 1solid bottom (plus stand)

The HAM-117 Scarab Attack Cutter is a common sight in SSA forces, with its distinctive beetle-shape and “ruff” of sensor masts just behind the bridge. The Scarab’s durability is considerable for it’s size, carrying heavy shields with thick diamium hull plating. Combined with its high speed and agility – as much as many much smaller bombers – the Scarab can survive long enough for the cumulative effect of it’s weapons to cause severe damage, even to much larger vessels. The price is that Scarabs carry only a modest weapon load. The primary weapons are two forward astroburster cannons. A rotary tri-barreled particle pellet gun is mounted either side of the bridge in a ball turret, providing anti-fighter and anti-missile protection. These are supplemented by several light hyper-rays blisters to provide coverage in the aft arcs.

Scarabs work in small groups, closing to point-blank range and using wolf-pack tactics to eliminate enemy vessels.