Reviresco Ships?

Anyone have any experience with Reviresco's starship minis?

Thanks,

> On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Pat Shepard wrote:

I've only seen a few of them, and they were terrible. They had almost no
detail at all -- they looked like metal wedges with a few bumps on them.
They may have other ships that look better, but I would suggest that you get a
catalog with pictures before ordering them.

I have a couple of them myself and seen all of them painted up on a display
stand. They are not the superdetailed ships that you can find in the Full
Thrust, Traveller, Silent Death or Babylon 5 lines that are currently
available. They harken back to a much simpler era when spaceships were
envisioned as being "smoothskinned". That said, I use them mainly for system
ships or really early FTL designs. I like the ones I have. The castings were
easily cleaned up with very little surface defects (such as pinholes, cracks.
etc.). One thing to note is that they are lead miniatures, not the brittle
pewter stuff that most of the manufacturers are using today.

> > On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Pat Shepard wrote:

You can request a catalog from the address below. They don't have pictures
though just drawings of most of the ships. As someone else mentioned these
ships are from a differant era where spaceships were suspose to be smooth
skinned. Also most of them have wings implying that they can fly through an
atmosphere so they need to be smooth like airplanes. I don't intend to use
them since I feel that most spaceships should not be able to enter the
atmosphere.

Reviresco
c/o John Mc Ewan
1119 San Francisco Ave. NE Olympia, WA 98506

> Tom Granvold wrote:

They would make good additions simply due to the fact that they are very
cheap, like $1.50 - $2.00 a ship!  As Tom stated they look atmosphere
capable, so they could work well as planetary defense ships or landers, etc. I
plan to get some to add to my collection. I think they would fit in well with
the old Star Frontiers ships which had similar designs.