Well, I got some B5 Wars miniatures yesterday. I may be one of the very few in
Ottawa who will get any this week; the local retailer likes the info I've
given him on the game, so he held his whole first shipment until I got there,
and I and Jim bought everything but the Minbari flyers.
The first thing that jumps out at me is these will be fragile compared to my
other miniatures. Ral Partha fantasy swords and rapiers come to mind as
being a bit more durable. Secondly, they'll be hard to mount on stands.
The Narns and Centauri fighters are clearly very thin and I don't think I'll
be drilling deeper mounting holes.
Thanks for the forward. Please forward this.
> Subject: B5 Wars miniatures
The fragility of the minis is an issue we are working on. Unfortunately, in
order to fix the problem we have to resculpt pretty much all of the miniatures
as it is an issue with the masters. The reason they are the way they are is
that we wished to keep them dimensionally correct and many of the fighters are
rather thin. I had hoped that some of the minor changes we made to strenghten
them would be enough but it has become apparent that that is not the case.
Slowly, as we get the time, we will be fixing the delicacy problem as well as
making some other minor changes to them. As customers, you will not notice
these changes except to perhaps note that a fighter looks a little differnt
from what they use to look like. When we do the thicker masters, there will
not be a price increase because we have to use a little extra metal.
BTW: Everyone in Canada should be getting fully stocked within about a week.
There was a mix up on our end on Canadian order as we had thought our
warehouse had shipped them two weeks ago but had not and failed to tell us
this until yesterday.
Hope you like the minis other than the fragility.
Robert
> Hope you like the minis other than the fragility.
I just had to comment that the Minbara War cruiser has to be the best
minature for a space-based fleet game that I have ever seen. Looks damn
good set up in a battle. Very impressive. Now as long as the Narn ships are
just as accurate I'll be very happy indeed.
> Robert