Re: FT: mini purists, "new" weapons

Revell do a great range of a dozen or more 1/1200th scale WWII
battleships
and carriers. They're about 6" to 8" long, waterline models with
separate
gun turrets (and so are very useful for scratchbuilding). Best of all,
they
sell for only £2.99 in the UK. Look out for them in blue boxes, about
8" by
4" by 1". IIRC the range includes the Yamato and Musashi, Tirpitz,
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, Prince of Wales and Duke of York, Missouri
and
an Italian BB whose name I can't remember. For carriers they do the
Yorktown and Shinano (which is the best scratchbuilder's model for
turrets).

Tony

Phillip Atcliffe wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:08:43 -0500 "Mark A. Siefert"
> <cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu> wrote:
>
> > I'll say one good thing about my former FT group (we got a
> brand-spanking-new one put together, and we'll be playing our first
> Fleet Book battle this coming Saturday.), they always had a sense of
> humor about miniatures. I remember one 2000-point game where a player
> took two WWII battleship models and glued airplane wings to them. The
> sad part of it was that these were the only two ships in his fleet. <
>
> What scale were they? I ask as the father of two boys who asked for
> (and got) 1/350 scale battleship kits for Christmas/birthday presents
> so that they could use them in DS2 games (this is called long-range
> fire support! <g>). It's a continuing complaint of at least one of
them
> that they don't have any _scale_ ortillery batteries....
>
> I have steadfastly refused to let the elder boy use his modified
> Musashi as an upgraded Space Cruiser Yamato/Argo in FT -- not if it's
> supposed to be in scale with GZG stuff (or at least until I can get my
> hands on one of those 1/250th vacform Enterprise-A's -- 4 feet long!!)
>
> Phil, glad that GCSEs and SATs have temporarily interrupted the local
> arms race
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> "If you let a smile be your umbrella... you'll get wet teeth!"
>    -- a forgotten comedian, quoted by me: Phil Atcliffe
>				  (Phillip.Atcliffe@uwe.ac.uk)