Re: [FT] Progress report - sourcing "Centauri compatible" ships

At 09:13 PM 1/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Three miniatures that you may wish to consider for your fleets are from
>ICE in the Silent Death Line.	The Revenge,

	no pic on RAFM site - Tom's site is currently "unavailable" :( 

>Bloodhawk 

	too 'clunky' for my taste - rejected

>and Eagle are all

	no pic on RAFM site :( 

>winged ships in the Sentry and Vorchan style. The Bloodhawk is similar
>in size to the AoG Sentry but with more weight, but the wings sweep in
>the opposite direction. The Eagle in just a much bigger version of the
>Bloodhawk with a wingspan close to a Vorchan. The Revenge is similar in
>shape to the Vorchan body without the vertical wing.
[snip]
>Other ships you may wish to look at are the Storm, 

	no pic on RAFM site :( 

>Praying Mantis, 

	has potential

>Black Widow 

	no pic on RAFM site :( 

>and Seraph. 

	no pic on RAFM site :( 

>All these would likely work with the ships you
>selected to this point. If you really want a light carrier you could
>look at the Aosho which for Silent Death is referred to as a Warhound.

	no pic on RAFM site :( 

>The miniature is about 2.5" long and a little more than a 1" wide at
the
>widest point.
>
>The other thing you could use for a gunboat or as fighters would be the
>GF series Kantauri fighters. Two versions of these fighters exist and
>they are basically very small Sentry fighters. A friend of mine refers
>to them as finger nail clippings. 

Already have them <g>.	I bought 12 groups of the regular and 6 groups
of
the "Heavy" Kantauri fighters.	In addition, I'm using the fake-Narn
"P'Taah" as Attack/Torpedo Fighters and the fake-SAAB "Hammer" as Long
Range (Patrol) Fighters

>I don't know whether this helps but these are all miniatures that I
have
>in my collection. I also have most of the ships you have listed below
so
>I thing [think?] it should would [work?] together.

Do you have any pics available of the Silent Death parts you suggested? 
It
would be nice to be able to see them before making any buying decisions.

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