Gary--
And I forgot to say, "Hey, Gary," after having gone to all that trouble.
AND I forgot to respond to the Clipper thing.
Hey, Gary.
The RAFM metal clippers were nice, but done in metal, so it was hard to
get them to "snap together" temporarily because of the weight of the
metal, so plastic would have been better to accomplish the reconfigurable
point behind the Clippers.
My first year or two at GDW was at the height of our powers in terms of
cash in pocket, staff, etc., and there as a lot of talk about a Star
Vikings boardgame, plastic miniatures, etc. But many man-years of design,
development, marketing, and production effort got ultimately flushed down
the DJ effort which ended in court (or to be precise, "out of court
settlement") and trucks carting it all off to TSR where it was probably
all burned. And I say "flushed" because of the way it ended, not because
of the quality of the material, had it been allowed to exist.
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if you plan to get up tomorrow.
Dave
>> I've wanted to get that AHL for awhile. Plankwell doesn't interest me,
> though wish they had a Tigress.
>
>> I've always wanted a die-cast and plastic maggart clipper toy with
> removable modules. I bought a couple copies of the miniature to assemble
> with enough spare modules but I'm thinking larger scale
>
> Plankwell didn't interest me either, but from looking at the AA discussion
> boards, Tigress is the most common request. Me, I hate spherical ships.
> Spheres may be the most efficient way of enclosing volume, but they are
> the least efficient way of doing anything useful with the volume once you
> have it. When I was in college I had some friends who lived in a geodesic
> dome, which had a lot of wasted space, because when you put in a dresser
> or bookcase, its height would determine how far you could push it toward
> the wall, and so much of the single large room was crawlspace behind the
> furniture pushed in toward the center by where its tops intersected with
> the arc of the wall. All you can do in a ship is put your useable area as
> close to the center as possible and push your fuel tankage out to the
> sides to fill in all of the curve. The Merc Cruiser is a mess for that
> reason, and the Tigress would be the same way.
>
> In my opinion. Your mileage my vary. Tax and other fees applicable. May
> cause warts and sudden death. Consult your physician.
>
> Dave