Today during lunch I was in a local hobby shop, D&J Hobbies for those in the
Silicon Valley, talking about the Superior Starfleet Wars miniatures that I
recently bought. The clerk in the store brought out two unusual space ships
that I've never seen before. These are the USA Star Carrier, and USA Behemoth
from the Galaktik Taktik line by PewterCraft.
I started thinking that it would be nice to have a list of spaceship
miniatures that are currently and have been producded. So I'm going to put
together just such a list. In addition, I'll compile information about
boardgames and miniatures rules for spaceship battles. Once I have enough
information, I'll make the list available by email for any interested, and
also put up a web site with this list. In addition, for the web site I'd like
to get pictures of as many of the spaceships as possible.
I can get the information about the Full Thurst ships available from GZG from
their web site, and information about most of the Superior Starfleet Wars
ships from the Game Masters web site.
But, I'll need help to get more information. I'm asking you all for any of the
following information and pictures for any spaceship miniatures and games,
whether or not they are currently in production. I'd like to
have the name of the ship, model number, manufacture's name/address/
phone-number/email-address/web-site, model length, date first produced,
date last produced, approximate number made, and a picture if possible. I'd
also like simular information for spaceship combat games, along with an
estimate of their complexity, i.e. simple, medium, or complex.
Any and all help will be appreciated. All people providing information will be
credited in the list and on the web page (unless you ask not to
be).
Particulary helpful will be catalogs listing spaceships and games. I'll keep
you informed as the list grows.
Enjoy,
This does remind me.... Fortress Figures Inc. Fortress is good. Very good.
They produced lead minis in the past, but now seem to be concentrating on
plastic figures of a pretty high quality. They just put
out two packs of Spaceships, the Freighter (ES-002), and the Patrol Ship
(ES001). Both packs are $10.00, and contain three identical ships each. The
ships are of nice quality, and about 3 inches in length. The Freighter looks a
lot like a backwards NSL ship, and could probably be easily modified to be
used as such. Mine will be....
Fortress also has nice 1/300 scale armor, for good prices--10
large tanks, or 20 small ones, for $10.00. So far only one 25mm SF pack (Lots
of fantasy, 'tho) "Bogeys", which are basically a smaller, slimmer version of
GW Space Orks. 15 very nice figures for, again, $10.00. One warning, though:
these figures need to be washed, and scrubbed, VERY thoroughly, and be sure to
Soray Prime them before
painting--acrylics
do NOT want to stick to the bare plastic. Just my opinions, of course, but
keep an eye out for Fortress. They do good work.
> On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, John Crimmins wrote:
They
> do good work.
I haven't seen these yet, but I've seen the plastic fantasy figures that
they make -- these are licensed copies of old Ral Partha figures done in
plastic. I wonder if the spaceships are copies of someone's old designs?
> Tom Granvold wrote:
<snip>
> But, I'll need help to get more information. I'm asking you all
I was speaking with a friend at the mail order desk with that other company
based in the UK which most people love to hate, I won't say the name. I was
getting a large number of flight stands for mounting ships. The end result of
the discussion was a company name 'Pendraken Figures' and a line of spaceship
miniatures 'Space Dreadnought 3000'.
The company as I understand it is based in North Yorkshire in the UK. Only
problem is that I don't have any other information. Has anyone seen any of the
spaceships? I was told the line was quite extensive but no indication of the
sizes or detail levels.
Thats all the info I have but maybe our UK list members can give Tom so more
information about the product line.
> I was speaking with a friend at the mail order desk with that other
Jim -
Don't have an address for Pendraken to hand, but have seen them plenty of
times at the shows. Their ship range consists of 5 or 6 fleets, with about
5 classes in each - around FT size, from destroyers up to big stuff.
Prices
are fairly cheap, but the models vary widely in design and quality - a
couple of the fleets are very nice, others much less so. They don't do
anything in the way of rules, and the ships are obviously designed to sell
to FT players. Detail level is low/moderate - some of the designs are
quite plain, but they are attractive in their own way; nice if well painted.
Question: do you still need Space Fleet ship info? I've got the Space
Fleet web page (http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~at2u/sfleet.html) that you
can look at (and grab pictures from), but I've held off on this so long that
someone might've already sent in info on the ships. So, if you still need
lengths, etc for the Games Workshop Space Fleet vessels,
and/or a game review, please drop me a line and I'll see what I can do.
Later,
<sigh> Sorry 'bout that.... that was supposed to go to Tom, not the list.
In article <33A9E370.1E7C@istar.ca>, Jim Bell & Christine Hartig
<jnbell@istar.ca> writes
> I was speaking with a friend at the mail order desk with that other
They can be found at
1 Easby Grove Eston Middlesbrough Cleveland TS6 9DL
Tel No - 01642 460638
according to their June 96 price list.
They have 6 different fleets, each with six different models ranging from 1:40
Sterling for two patrol ships, to 2:00 for a Super Dreadnaught.
They also do fleet packs at 9:50 for eight ships, and have a merchant pack
listed.
Also of interest are a 10mm Science Fiction range with Marines/"Aliens"
type figures plus civilians and a few vehicles. I saw them at Claymore in
Edinburgh last year and they looked quite good, but I did't buy any. Mabey
this year?