RE: Eureka 300 Club 15mm Figures

Have you heard anything back about this?  I'd be interested, especially
if
the aliens are still available also.  I have no idea how much this costs
though (not even a ballpark figure.  All I've ever looked at is 25mm,
and
not many of those as it is.)
 
Please let me know what you hear.
 
Thanks.


Mike Hudak
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Murray [mailto:smurray@aecom.yu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:52 AM
To: gzg-l@scotch.csua.berkeley.edu
Cc: nicr@eurekamin.com.au
Subject: Eureka 300 Club 15mm Figures

Dear Listers, 

I was talking to Nic of Eureka at Historicon about his 300 club, he
showed
me some samples and they were superb. As a result I was inspired to get
some
figs cast up. 

The range I am trying to commission are generic US mid-tech Marine
Corps.
They legally CANNOT be Aliens Colonial Marines. Instead, they will have
contemporary/modern looking helmets with cameras on the right, clamshell
armour, shin/calf armour, lights over the left shoulder, standard/light
belt
order (water, respirator pouch, ammo pouch, utility pouch, handgun case,
combat knife etc). The basic side arm will be a compact over/under rifle
with grenade launcher, it will have a retractable stock and general high
tech look. The support weapon will be a long gyromount machine gun fixed
to
a harness. 

I am going to commission four/five poses as a minimum (if more folks get
on
board then we may go for more). The poses will be an officer/NCO,
probably
pointing/waving on, marine firing with rifle braced at the shoulder,
marine
patrol advancing with rifle braced at ready, possibly a marine advancing
with motion tracker and rifle at high porte (to be ready for conversion
to
EW marine by addition of backpack and new helmet) and marine with
gyromount
support weapon advancing at ready (potential head variant without
helmet?).
I am going to suggest to Nic that he packs them in packs of nine
figures:
one NCO, two gyromounts and six rifles (potentially, four regular, two
motion trackers). 

One important note is the SIZE of these figures, from the sample I saw
they
will not be 'true' 15mm at 1:120 (like Quality Castings), instead they
will
be the size of the Peter Pig 1:100 figures, this will mean they will
look
slim compared with the new GZG figures, but they will be in complete
proportion with the old GZG and Peter Pig. 

Nic tells me that the most cost effective way of getting these figs is
to
get 300 cast, that way the figs are the regular Eureka prices. I'm
sending
out this mail to see if any of you chaps want to make a firm commitment
to
any number of these figures. This commitment would entail sending Nic a
credit card number and figure count as a part of this order. In advance
of
this order I am collecting preliminary commitments so that if we do not
breach the 300 mark then we can calculate costs to determine if we still
want to go ahead with the order. 

The info I am looking for is: 

Name, Email, Number of nine fig packs. e.g. 

Stuart Murray, smurray@aecom.yu.edu, 14 packs (126 figs) 

DO NOT send me credit card info. My email address is:
smurray@aecom.yu.edu 

When I have got an idea of how many figs folks want I will contact Nic
(he
is cc'd with this mail) and determine costs. Once I know costs I will
email
folks and then we can decide if we want to go ahead. If we do then we
each
contact Nic. Before he goes ahead with the sculpting I will provide him
with
all pertinent details for the figures, and will be the point person for
decisions on poses, details etc. For those of you that have me at the
GZG
Conn you know that I am careful about my figures, in addition, while
talking
to Nic it appears we have similar views so I'm confident we will get
great
figs in dynamic poses with good detail. 

As an aside, if we do generate enough interest then I plan to talk to
Nic
about a generic airportable 4x4 APC with a turret on rails and forward
cannon. (though at the moment the appropriate Galoob micromachine packs
can
still be picked up reasonably on Ebay). 

Any further questions please drop me an email at the above address as I
am
no longer on the list. 

Stuart. 

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Dr. Stuart Murray 

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Albert Einstein College Of Medicine Fax: (718) 430 8574 

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