[FT] Miniatures

Finally got around to buying some FT ships--one pack each Trieste,
Suffren, and Milan  class--and I was deeply disappointed.  I'd set out
all my tools and gotten everything ready to clean up the mold lines
and flash--and there wasn't any to speak of.  One Trieste has a little
extra foil in the interior corners, and one other ship had a touch of
something like a sprue at one corner. For the other five, I did work at the
mold llines for a few minutes just to make myself feel better, but it was hard
to justify doing it. They were just too clean, all the way around.

And the ventral hull is just as detailed as the dorsal. I'm going to have to
paint all that, now, instead of just slopping black on it, and I'll be
executing roll maneuvers when I don't have to, just to flip the figure over. I
mean really, Jon, I may have to invent new tactics
to justify this--why didn't you just leave the hull a flat bare plane,
like a wet navy waterline figure?    :- /

Seriously, the only question I have is about the way the mounting holes on the
ship are too big for the plastic stands. I could just epoxy them permanently
onto the bases, but I'm sure someone has a more elegant solution?

Blue Tack... some of the fellows in my club use this method for a variety of
their multi-piece models (cavalry, riders for vehicles, etc), though I
find it a bit fiddely.

> On 29-Dec-99 at 21:21, Laserlight (laserlight@quixnet.net) wrote:

Drill them out a bit more (being careful not to go all the way through as I
did on one), epoxy in a piece of small square brass tubing. Put a piece
slightly larger on the base and epoxy it. Removable bases.:)