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

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:01:37 -0500 Thomas Barclay 
<Thomas.Barclay@sofkin.ca> wrote:

> Phillip spake thusly upon matters weighty: 
 
>> _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. <<
 
> Is it white, with three legs (weapons struts?) and a bulbous green 
dome or semi sphere at one end? If so, I actually have one of these 
somewhere. <

Yep. that's the one. Can you guess which end is the front? <g>

>> Yeah, you can make a reasonable-looking not-Raider from NSL heavy 
fighters by cutting off the nose, leaving the elliptical section. Not 
perfect, but comparable to, say, using Star Tigers as StarFuries <g>. 
Add me to the list of people who want Jon, or Nic, or _someone_ to do 
not-Vipers, and I wouldn't mind some proper not-Raiders either. <<
 
> I'm getting out my pounds and shillings too.... 

'Struth, if you've got any _shillings_ (as opposed to schillings <g>), 
don't _spend_ them, sell them. Coin collectors are likely to give you 
more than "face value" (5p) for them. Then, with current money, you can 
get more minis.
  
>> I can't help thinking that matching fighter scale is not all that 
important -- the darn things are so small, anyway! <<
 
> Um. If you saw the viper vs. the raider I've seen, the raider is 
probably 1.5"-2" across, and the viper is about 3-3.5" long. Not in 
scale. The raider is a fairly large disk relatively in the shows. It is 
after all a 2-3 man ship. <

No argument. I was really referring to fighters the size of the GZG 
ones. I don't think that there's much point in expecting not-Vipers to 
be exactly in scale with not-Raiders at that size, particularly if the 
Raiders are converted from Wespes; the good guys would be almost 
impossibly small -- hard enough to _see_, let alone paint!

The Comet ones... well, that is a problem. Either the Vipers or the 
Raiders can be used with, say, the Monogram Battlestar and/or Base Star 
kits (if you have a big enough table/room, but together... no. And the 
Monogram models have the same problem; the Viper is around 1/32, but 
the Raider is more like 1/48.
  
Phil, wishing that manufacturers would get over the 
size-it-to-fit-the-box mentality....
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