Re: Bases for your fleets

On the note regarding Hallmarks 1:1200 WWII aircraft they are available
from Eureka Miniatures in Australia and both Regal Miniatures and
Emporers
HQ in the States, I actually envisaged using them as the 'missing'
flight
from the Bermuda Triangle, would be very diturbing turning up in the
middle
of your FT fleet!

Nic

At 04:49 AM 3/19/98 PST, you wrote:
>Bases
>I have just purchased a pack of large flying bases from Games Workshop 
>at 1.50 pounds for four. The bases are round, clear and 60mm (2.4") in 
>diameter and strangely come with four posts, each of a different
length.
>For capital ships these are ideal. It would be simple to paint or mark 
>the new 12 course points on them.
>
>As suggested by someone on the list I now have four sizes of brass tube

>5/32. 1/8, 3/32 and 1/16" which will fit one inside another. My 
>starships all have pins mounted in them that fit the 3/32" tubing. The 
>smallest size fits the fighters and aircraft. Another innovation in the

>course of construction is a jig to hold the brass uprights vertical in 
>the bases while the glue is setting. It is a simple wooden bridge with 
>appropriately sized holes drilled in it to sit over the bases.
Something 
>like the ASCII drawing below:
>
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>==	 ||	 ==
>==	 ||	 ==
>==    __||__	 ==
>==   |      |	 ==
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>
>With the largest 5/32 glued into the base by adding pieces I can either

>have a ship mounted about 1" of the base or aircraft miniatures at any 
>height desired. They should also be perfect for 1/300 aircraft.
>I was trying one out with 1 1/200th Catalina from Hallmark (Very nice) 
>and with the 6cm base the base could be used to represent its search 
>radius in a map based game!
>
>The only problem is that even the micro pipe cutter I have cannot cut 
>the smallest two brass tubes so they must be done the old fashioned way

>with a razor saw.
>
>While on the topic of brass tubing a 1/300 H&R Karl with a long barrel 
>from various sizes of brass tubing makes a wonderful super-heavy 
>artillery piece for Dirtside. Incidentally I have unbuilt 1/72 kits of
a 
>Karl and a 28cm K-5e Leopold that would make wonderful centre pieces
for 
>a Stargrunt game. "You must disable the mass drivers for our troops to 
>land safely."
>
>Fighters
>At least two British companies, Hallmark and Model Figures & Hobbies 
>make 1/1200 (well 1/1200 and 1/1250) scale aircraft. Hallmark is mainly

>WW I with some WW I and interwar designs while MF&H have a more 
>extensive range, including the Convair B-36,  Boeing 747 and a Blimp, 
>the latter two are the dearest in the range at 40p each; the cheapest
is 
>a KA-25 Hormone at 5p and most fighters are 10p.
>
>Though obviously intended mostly for naval wargamng they have an
obvious 
>potential for space warfare, A Delta Dart would make a useful fighter 
>and an SR-71 a very scary one.( I wonder if they could be persuaded to 
>make a space shuttle?)
>
>I am afraid I have no knowledge about US suppliers but someone is bound

>to.
>
>Now I really regret junking my old Airfix 1/600th ship models. The 
>turrets, aircraft and other bits would have been wonderful. The Sea 
>Vixens (?) from the Victorious would have made useful fighters, in fact

>with the tailbooms amputated that might have made useable B5 Raiders.
>
>Michael Blair
>
>Nothing concentrates the mind like a carrier battle group sitting off 
>your coast.
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