Re: SGII for Victorian SF?

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>>	  Incidentally, Irregular Miniatures do an "Orc Tank" in 6mm
which
>>they clearly chickened out of putting in their Crimean Miscellany
range, as
>>it's the proposed British 1850s traction-engine based tank (like an
upturned
>>pudding basin with scythes), rejected because it was "too barbaric".	
>>
>>Rob
>>
>>"Rob Paul

At 21:32 02/06/98 +1000, you wrote:
>Dear Rob,
>
>The orc tank is one of the few things designed and crafted by my own
fair
>hands, and it was supposed to be based on Leonardo Da Vincis propsed
tank.
>
>Now we all know why I don't make many master figures, but cast lots of
>other peoples!
>
>Nic
>
>Eureka Miniatures

That's interesting- these are my hazy recollections of the illustrations
in
an old tank book i was given when I was wee- so you see that your orc
tank
(which I rather like) is pretty suitable for the alternative Crimea! 
(my
own fights for my 6mm HOTT Dwarves, though!)

cheers
Rob

a da Vinci machine, as far as I remember, 1500-ish
	      
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The Burrell-Boydell machine, c.1854

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"Rob Paul

Dept of Zoology
Oxford University
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