From: Michael Blair <amfortas@h...>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:47:38 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: Landers
A few years back I picked up a cheapish kit of Thunderbird 2 with the intention of using it for a lander. The kit would be about a foot long and came with several much smaller vehicles as cargo. It would be very big for 6mm, but might be fine for 20 or 25mm scale figures. Nothing was done with it and it lurks in the roofspace along with an embarrassing number of unbuilt kits - does anyone else remember the Revell space station kit from the eighties? I bought several of the 1/288th scale SST with SRBs and ET kits to pinch the SRBs and ET for converting 1/48th scale tank kits to missile carriers (first thought was for a GW Chimera conversion but the 1/48th scale Zhengdfu/Kitech tanks are a third of the price and can be used for 'real' wargaming as well) which leaves several SSTs for use as 6mm shuttlecraft. Maybe they need an 'Armageddon' style workover to disguise their origins as an SST is pretty distinctive.