[GZG] Ninja Magic Magnetic Mounts and Connectors

12 posts · Feb 23 2007 to Mar 12 2007

From: Ken Wang <azuredolfin@y...>

Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:18:16 -0800 (PST)

Subject: [GZG] Ninja Magic Magnetic Mounts and Connectors

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with Todd Boyce at Ninja Magic and he is sending out some samples for me to
review. I will post my review here on this forum.

  Ken Wang

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From: Indy <indy.kochte@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:59:34 -0500
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  On 2/19/07, Mike Stanczyk < stanczyk@pcisys.net> wrote:  Promises,
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table saying "FULL THRUST". No one saw it. *sigh* Next con: flares!

I should claim GZG MHC (Mile High Con) but one game a weekend does not a
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From: "Michael Brown" <mwsaber6@msn.com>
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:01:05 -0700
Subject: RE: [GZG] [ECC] Weather Alert

Hey! I only moved to the area in September 05, and was able to go to 1 day of
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From: VinsFullThrust@a...

Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:08:01 EST

Subject: Re: [GZG] Ninja Magic Magnetic Mounts and Connectors

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In a message dated 2/23/2007 4:22:13 AM Arabic Standard Time,
> azuredolfin@yahoo.com writes:

For those of you at GZG-ECC X who expressed interest in these bases and

connectors, I spoke with Todd Boyce at Ninja Magic and he is sending out some
samples for me to review. I will post my review here on this forum.

Ken Wang

What are these bases and connectors like?

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From: Gregory Wong <sax@s...>

Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:58:45 -0800 (PST)

Subject: Re: [GZG] Ninja Magic Magnetic Mounts and Connectors

Try here:

http://www.rattleheadgames.com/

--Greg

> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, VinsFullThrust@aol.com wrote:

> What are these bases and connectors like?

From: Jaime Tiampo <fugu@s...>

Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:15:52 -0800 (PST)

Subject: Re: [GZG] Ninja Magic Magnetic Mounts and Connectors

Interesting.

I really like the With Hostile Intent starship line too.

Jaime

On Fri, February 23, 2007 4:58 pm, sax@soundingrocket.com said:
> Try here:

From: Roger Books <books@m...>

Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:26:52 -0500

Subject: Re: [GZG] Ninja Magic Magnetic Mounts and Connectors

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degree ones exclusively you could stack ships more closely.

Roger

> On 2/23/07, sax@soundingrocket.com <sax@soundingrocket.com> wrote:

From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>

Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:25:30 -0600

Subject: Re: [GZG] Ninja Magic Magnetic Mounts and Connectors

Mostly if you're pointing them in the same direction. ;->=

Now, the 90 add-ons would REALLY do the trick.

Does it appear that the 'gear teeth' around the edge keep them from spinning
in socket?

Star Ranger's jewelry set up does that, but is a bit fiddly with having to
screw them in. Still, a much cheaper route, a consideration if you have large
fleets.

And Jon REALLY wants you to have much bigger fleets...

The_Beast

Roger wrote on 02/23/2007 09:26:52 PM:

> If you used the 45 degree ones exclusively you could stack ships more

From: John K Lerchey <lerchey@a...>

Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:50:19 -0500 (EST)

Subject: Re: [GZG] Ninja Magic Magnetic Mounts and Connectors

The Ninja Magic bases do prevent spin, but as stated, they're waaaaay too
expensive. They retail at around $1.25 each. My primary fleet has about 90
ships in it. I'm not shelling out over $100 for clasps. I have two more fleets
and a third being planned. I'd rather spend the majority of the money I have
to allocate on ships. Shame that they're so pricey. They're really nice.

I've been using magnetic clasps from the craft store. I have minor
problems with spin, but it's easy enough to re-align the ship with the
base after movement.

My biggest complaint with the ones I've been using is that I have to
make individual bases for individual ships - some sets of clasps have
opposite polarity! I don't like my DDs spontaneously jumping off of their
bases in the middle of battle!;)

John

> Mostly if you're pointing them in the same direction. ;->=

From: Tom McCarthy <tmcarth@f...>

Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:04:26 -0500

Subject: RE: [GZG] Ninja Magic Magnetic Mounts and Connectors

If polarity was consistent and I could buy the ship ends individually, I could
have 20 bases and 200 ships.

From: Magnus Alexandersson <m96maal@m...>

Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:23:27 +0100

Subject: RE: [GZG] Ninja Magic Magnetic Mounts and Connectors

sön 2007-02-25 klockan 12:04 -0500 skrev McCarthy, Tom (xwave):
> If polarity was consistent and I could buy the ship ends individually,

They do sell shipends separately.

/M

From: Tom McCarthy <tmcarth@f...>

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:39:10 -0400

Subject: RE: [GZG] Ninja Magic Magnetic Mounts and Connectors

In fact, I have ordered 20+ ship mounting pairs and another 40+ ship
mount ends separately, so I can try them out.

From: Roger Books <books@m...>

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:43:03 -0400

Subject: Re: [GZG] Ninja Magic Magnetic Mounts and Connectors

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minutes to base a ship as compared to the 20 minutes when I use square tubing.

Roger

> On 3/12/07, McCarthy, Tom (xwave) <Tom.McCarthy@xwave.com> wrote:

From: Sylvester M. W. <xveers@g...>

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:58:52 -0700

Subject: Re: [GZG] Ninja Magic Magnetic Mounts and Connectors

I'm looking at coming up with a hand-done adaptor to connect them with
the barrel clasp method some people (myself) use to mount ships, as well as
have them as an adaptor so I can mount the ships inside the flight boxes that
Ad Astra is making.... (though, if ninja magic comes
up with the 30/60 degree mounts, I may just skip the flight box
concept entirely....)

> On 3/12/07, Roger Books <roger.books@gmail.com> wrote: