Re: OU ships and a hunt for some Battlestar Galactica "ish" fighters

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 08:56:23 +0000 Tony Francis <tony@glassghost.com> 
wrote:

> Thomas Barclay of the Clan Barclay wrote:

>> BTW2 - Anyone know where I can find FT scale cylon raider type ships 
and viper type ships (Not Vipers or Not Raiders)? Now they've started
re-running BSG here on Space... I feel a Starbuck moment coming on... <<

> Funny, I built an FT scale (ie about 8mm long) Viper only the other 
day. Haven't done a Cylon raider yet but give me time... <

Great, Tony! Do let us know when they're out! I've wanted not-Vipers 
for a long time. Not-Raiders would be equally welcome, although a 
reasonable first attempt can be made by taking NSL heavy fighters 
(Wespes) and cutting the long neck off; what you get is an oval-shaped 
craft that's a little small by comparison with other FT fighters, but 
still looks quite like a Raider -- and blows up just as well <g>.

And after you've done those, Tony, how about some not-EDD Starfighters 
from Buck Rogers?

>> (After the battle where the 10 battlestars were nuked, they had 67
fighters aboard... I wonder what their normal complement was?) <<

Minor nit-pick: there were only 5 battlestars at Cimtar, IIRC, and 4 
got fragged. The others (from a non-canonical but generally accepted 
total of 12) had been destroyed over the years or were off raiding 
Gammoray <g>.

We have reason to believe that the Galactica can carry 150 fighters, 
but that's including a squadron from another ship. From that, and on 
admittedly skimpy evidence, I've concluded that the standard complement 
of a Battlestar was around 120, in 4 squadrons of thirty -- with a 
large margin of error.

Phil
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