On Wed, 16 May 2001 17:08:45 +0100 Tony Francis <tony.francis@kuju.com>
wrote:
Quoting The Beast:
> I suspect Tony's Jericho is closer, though. I have GOTS to get some
> Well, I'm certainly not stopping you ;-) <
I'll bet... <g> In that case, in the interests of sending some of _my_
money your way, Tony, answer me this: what happened to the "Miscellaneous"
section of your Starship range, which appears to have vanished from your
website. In particular, did those fighters that were definitely, in no way,
not even remotely going to be like Vipers ever see the light of day? 'Cause
I've been waiting for them for at least 6 months!
Phil
--- Phillip Atcliffe <Phillip.Atcliffe@uwe.ac.uk>
wrote:...In particular, did those
> fighters that were
You know, after seeing this,
http://www.homestead.com/star_ranger/Pics.html
I wondered where some of these fighters were too. The one set would make
excellent TIEs and the other, excellent viper (like) fighters.
The Battlestar Galactica game actually had three different kinds of vipers and
three different kinds of cylon fighters with a slightly different shape. Too
bad they didn't make miniatures for the game. Of course finding fighters for
the galactica is nowhere near as difficult as finding the Galactica miniature
(made by Comet Miniatures years ago).
They haven't vanished, they've been withdrawn, for assorted reasons -
mainly a combination of deterioration of the moulds and falling demand which
means that remaking the moulds probably isn't worthwhile.
We still have the existing moulds so we can make stuff to order -
contact me off-list and we can sort something out. The not-Viper,
not-Cylon and not-TIE Gunboat didn't go beyond pre-production, but we
could supply _small_ numbers of them if required.
> Phillip Atcliffe wrote:
If you like the Jericho (aka Victory Destroyer) try this Brigade mini. I
bought some of these too. No particular ship in mind, just thought it went
well with the Jericho.
http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/NoFrames/SFS/Items/SFS-085.html
I'd be interested myself in some small numbers of those three. I have hopes
someday of doing Battlestar Galactica minis in Full Thrust and it would be
nice to have some appropriate fighters.
The not-TIEs could come in handy too. I already
have a bunch of Die cast star destroyers.
> --- Tony Francis <tony.francis@kuju.com> wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2001 10:08:25 -0700 (PDT) David Griffin
> <carbon_dragon@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If you like the Jericho (aka Victory Destroyer) try this Brigade
> http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/NoFrames/SFS/Items/SFS-085.html
I agree; it's no great surprise that there are several models in Tony's
range that match the Jericho nicely. My OUDF fleet includes 2 SFS-061
destroyers as squadron-mates for the Jericho, and there are several
others in the cruiser and escort ranges that show the same sort of design
philosophy, particularly around the bow, that the Jericho does. I deem them to
have come from the same DO, both in reality and in the game universe.
Purely as a thought for your consideration, Tony, what about a larger
(DN-size) Jericho-style ship? I reckon it'd look great!
Phil
> Phillip Atcliffe wrote:
Suitable wings, fins etc added to some of our other models (Peled, Yafo,
Laskov) would make then ideal partners for the Jericho.