FT miniatures

In a message dated 2/9/00 2:02:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> owner-gzg-digest@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU writes:

> From: "Robin Paul" <Robin.Paul@tesco.net>

I'm interested in acquring those.    How are they in terms of detail and

finish? Where can a person from the USA get them? Is there a website
available? Doing a search turned up a lot of irregular things, but not them.:)

Glen

> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 08:05:39AM -0500, GBailey@aol.com wrote:

        Silver Eagle Wargame Supplies --

http://members.aol.com/eaglewars/private/sews.html

I've placed a couple of orders with them, and they've always been good. In
fact, if you want to see some of the other figures in this series, go to:

> From: "Robin Paul" <Robin.Paul@tesco.net>

I'm interested in acquring those.    How are they in terms of detail and
finish? SNIPGlen

DYO16 (Fireball XL5) is a one piece casting, quite clean but with fairly
minimal detail; the hull is cylindrical for almost its whole length. The
proportions of the wings, fins etc are good, although the main fin is a bit
big. The cockpit blister on the upper hull is rendered as a small smooth
hemisphere. There is a faint line denoting the transparent part of the nose
section (Fireball Junior) and another marking the join between XL5 and Junior.
The main rocket nozzle is present, as are the small engines around the dtern
and on the endplate fins, albeit in very simple form. Judging from
the 4-view of XL5 at
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/fireball-specs.html
 the Irregular model appears to be 1/3000 scale near as dammit.  Will I
buy another? Yes.

Phil Atcliffes's comments on the DYC8, "Confederation..Guardian Class
Enforcer" are exactly right; after looking at the plans on
http://www.monumental.com/mnjs/ships/ I now think of her as a "near
galactica". Major differences include: 1) the 3 main regions of the hull are a
bow which is a truncated triangle 20mm x 17 x 5; a rectangular mid section,
36mm x 10 x 5; a rectangular (in plan) engine section, 20mm x 19 x 8. 2)
Hangar pods 34mm x 5.5 x 3, are on 2 thin beams across the underside of the
midsection. 3) In profile, she lacks the nose down, tail up look of BG; she
can be seen in the Irreg. Confed. fleet on the Ainsty pages. The mini has lots
of raised panels and domes, crisper than usual from Irregular. I'll buy more.

While I'm at it- DY0-1 is a Trek (TOS) style shuttle,  DY0-6 Attack
fighter
is triangular, DY0-7 Interceptor is a disk, DY0-8 torp. fighter is boxy;
allFT fighter size. DYB-8 is a near-Lexx (body 32mm, 51mm tail)

In case anyone thinks I do nothing but praise Irreg., those wanting
cybertanks should leave their 6mm Land Dreadnaught SFEQ3 well alone-
it's basically the casemate of an ACW river ironclad (eg USS Benton) with 3
small
turrets and carted around on 4 T-72 hulls;  (their 2mm equivalent is a
6mm
LVTP-5 with gubbins on top, mine is now a command vehicle for DS2).

Sorry for the length.