Re: Old Sathar (Star Frontiers) box sets

First, let me apologize to those who've asked me if I had any for sale;
I
have traded one in the past for painting services, but right now I'm
holding on to the ones I have.

Likewise, I don't have a picture, though I might attempt to scan some
box
art. Can anybody point out a web site with pics?

I think I pointed this out before, but, the 'Battlers' from the Buck
Rogers
box game are dead ringers for the Sather 'Fighters', which, in the game,
are larger than the Fed Scout ships. Not sure how much they fit the
fleet
look, but something to consider. Did you get any blisters? I think there
was one in a blister not in the box(flat with two engines).

The SFB Gorn fleet has some real possibilities, especially if you use
the
old Enterprise engines! I rather like keeping my SFB fleets the way they
are, so I might add the Sather to the Gorns; thanks for the idea!!!
Hell,
in the 'fluff' the Gorn could have built ships using Fed engines under a
lend/lease arraingement.

For extensions to the Fed fleet, 1) do you have enough boxes to try
using
just the fore part of the big ship? Very little work, maybe adding less
than the full eight engines, and you have a 'different' ship. Given that
I
see the designs as having a 'Victorian iron' look to them, you might try
any GDW Space 1889 gunboats you can find. I have some, but, here again,
I'm
speaking from looking, and not from trying myself.

Concerning lead rot, it was very spotty in these boxes, some being
terrible, most looking clean. Made you want to buy more, just to make
certain you had a good set for sure. ;->=

The_Beast

jon@gzero.dungeon.com (Ground Zero Games) on 12/22/97 04:29:32 AM

Please respond to FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk

To:   FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
cc:    (bcc: Doug Evans/CSN/UNEBR)
Subject:  Re: Old Sathar (Star Frontiers) box sets

>On Sat, 20 Dec 1997 17:34:15 -0500 (EST), Aaron P Teske
><Mithramuse+@CMU.EDU> wrote:
>
>>For the record, the UPF Battleships are *quite* impressive.  Nearly 5"
>>long once you attach the engines.  Very hefty piece of lead.
>>
>>(And yes, there *was* a UPF box at the store... but that's mine. ^_^ )
>
>Yup, pretty hefty. I had painted up a fleet of Sathar and a fleet of
>UPF ships for the GenCon mailing list game. The UPF ships paint up
>nicely (even after I hacked part of the heavy cruiser due to lead
>rot). They take a while, though, because they are just so darned big.
>
>I REALLY lucked out at GenCon in 1995. A place was liquidating a tonne
>(metric tonne, that is) of old TSR lead. I picked up 6 Sathar boxes
>and 6 UPF boxes, as well as a bunch of blister packs. A dozen boxed
>sets cost a total of US$20...
>
>As a side note, does anyone have any suggestions for conversions or
>different figure lines to add to the UPF and Sathar fleets? There are
>four types of Sathar ships (the boxed sets have 3 but there were some
>"cutters" as well) and about as many UPF ships. I've painted the ships
>in a couple of different colours so I can say, "That blue heavy
>cruiser is actually a dreadnought, but the red cruiser is a carrier."
>However, I'd like to get some additional ships to add to the fleet.
>The ships should look like they belong to the same fleet, if at all
>possible.
What about some of the SFB (Task Force/Harlequin) Gorns to go with the
Sathar ships?  IIRC, similar flattened spheroids for the main hull
sections, so they may look OK together.
Jon (GZG)
>