<Off/Long>LEG was Re: Halcyon Aliens Dropship

I saw the Chessex booth, but I think they ended up raising prices by
end-of-show. I recall thinking I'd missed out.

I just picked up some more boxes of marines and a queen on a net
auction/sale; $15 apiece, which was hard after $7 and less in cut-out
bins.
;->= So, they are still out there, though fewer and fewer.

With the right paint job, I'd think these would also fit well with the
Future Warriors/Kryomek(the figs that overlap, stylistically).
Interestingly enough, the marines I run for my board game are mainly
FW's
with some  conversions.  Vasquez ended up a great deal more *ahem*
endowed
than I would have thought appropriate but I didn't do the work.

I once saw a LEG dropship, assembled, but unpainted. If you thought the
Sharlin's were hard to put together, this was an obvious nightmare.
However, it actually had room for the APC in its belly.

I have an APC kit; never tried to put together; not a lot of pieces, but
getting to stay square while waiting for the epoxy to set looked
awkward.

While I have some Living Steel figs just because I'm an
obsessive/compulsive collector, and inherited a bunch of the game stuff,
the only other LEG lead that interested me was a) the Dracula set with
bodies on pikes, for making my yet-to-be-completed Undead army look
hideous, and b) some of the Deadites from the Army  of Darkness figs for
the same. Some of the Deadite blisters were of skeletal warriors pushing
a
large wooden shield-on-wheels(wish I could remember the right term). PA
freaks should take a look at the Living Steel if they run across it,
though.

Never knew there were Phoenix Command figs. I'll have to look in some of
the rulesets to see if there are flyers for them.

Ok, I admit it: if I ever came across a LEG dropship...

And, yes, as far as LEG goes, 'he's dead, Jim'.

The_Beast, stream-of-conscious'ing all the way

Rick Rutherford <rickr@ss1.digex.net> on 03/19/98 12:52:30 PM

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Subject:  Re: Halcyon Aliens Dropship

On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Stuart Murray wrote:
> >What ever happened to Leading Edge?
>
> Occasionally you can still find them, however, the dropship is REALLY
> expensive.   To find the figs, however,  is a whole other kettle of
fish,
> I've been looking for years and I seldom see them.
Two GenCons ago, Chessex (the distributor) was selling Leading Edge
figures at a pretty good discount (around 50%), trying to liquidate
their
stock. I picked up 3 or 4 of the Aliens boxed sets, and ignored the
Dracula, Lawnmower Man and Phoenix Command figures. Since then, I
haven't
seen Leading Edge figures around at all.
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