From: THE CIDER KING <PN013@l...>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 05:20:36 -0500
Subject: Some new minis I saw yesterday
Yesterday I saw some excellent new starship miniatures that would be ideal for using with FT. There were quite a few designs and are supposed (in the background the company uses) to be Pacific league ships, British, American and Sector Seven aliens. In general design terms there were ships (about an inch to two inches in length) reminiscent of the cylon fighters, a sort of Y-wing style fighter (though the cylon-ish one would be the size of a destroyer in FT terms). The alien ships were based on hollowed out asteroids that had had engines and turrets and suchlike added. Detail was good, nice and crisp casting as well - asfar as I could see on the examples that were in front of me there was NO flash, don't think there was any evidence of having had any cut away either. The only slight flaws in them were in the alien designs which were lacking in some surface detail (due to large portions of the hulls being of asteroid component),though i suppose this would allow a complicated paint pattern to be painted on quite easily. Each force had several different ships, ranging in size. Prices for these ships were also good - the aforementioned cylon style thingy (code FN01) being £1 with others being 80p for 2 (about a cm long each), thoughprices are said to start from 70p. I'd recommend these minis. I'm certainly going to get hold of a few. They even have a transport with removable cargo pods (yeh! - more logistical ships!). Further details can be got from