Re: Ship minis.... from old movies and TV

>On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:49:05 -0500 Aaron Teske <ateske@HICom.net>
wrote:
>> At 10:07 PM 3/23/99 -0500, Tom wrote:
>
>>> Blake's 7 (British) also had some neat ships IIRC. There were
>actually (Corgi?) toys of them... <<
>
>_It_, actually -- they only made the one model, of the Liberator
>(naturally), in the "Corgi Junior" range. Not too bad, except for all
>the text moulded into the main hull -- "Corgi", copyright info, etc. --
>which is not easily removable. The weapons pylons aren't right -- too
>thick, with heavy reinforcement, but accurate ones probably would have
>bent too easily -- but overall, it looks okay and is a good size for
>gaming, and isn't too hard to drill a stand hole into.

Comet Miniatures also made a gaming-size Liberator, IIRC, in white metal
as
part of their SF Minimetals range - haven't seen one around for a while,
and not sure if they are still available; Comet now have a web site up
at:

www.cometminiatures.co.uk

Which may be worth a check.

Jon (GZG)
>
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>Phil
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