Some new minis I saw yesterday

1 posts · Jan 15 1997

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!).
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