Re: Fw: new miniatures sources

> I am curious as to why the 1/3000 is for the club members 
> exclusively?
Making the FT / DSII stuff an SFSFW exclusive serves two 
purposes : 1) it provides the SFSFW with another hook to draw in 
potential new members, and 2) it effectively limits our customer base 
and thus reduces (yes, reduces) our potential turnover (strange as it 
may seem, to us this is a Good Thing). My two colleagues and I run 
Brigade as a strictly part-time operation, we all have full-time jobs 
and families that limit the time we can devote to the business. We 
simply couldn't cope with the increase in business we'd get if we 
made the models freely available.

> I'd be interested in picking some up, but have had some difficulty
> joining in the past, and currently, their web page(your re-direct
> required some tweaking) doesn't seem to have any info on joining at
> all.
The chap to contact is Simon Evans, 73, Avonleigh Road, Bedminster, 
Bristol, England, BS3 3JA. I'm not sure what the current overseas
subscription 
rates are. The SFSFW web page did seem to be quite out of date the 
last time I looked at it (admittedly some time ago).

> I've tried, even though I'm in the US, because of the apparently
impressive
> FT support in Ragnarok, but it seems some folks are involved in a
subtle
> form of revenge against the wayward colonials. 
Nothing personal, I assure you. I know the SFSFW has a fair number of 
overseas (ie non-UK) members - we get orders from the US and other 
places fairly frequently.

Tony Francis