Starships and Space Vikings

[email removed] (Mark Urbin) writes:
>
>   The back page lists products for T:TNE.
> ...Add to this 25mm miniatures from RAFM, `detailed
> Traveller starships' as well....

The miniatures of both types would be welcome, as long as they don't try
to make the people look like refugees from Warhammer:40K, with "chain swords"
and guns as big as their heads, in all sorts of spiky bits of armor.

Regarding starships:  I have been nursing the germ of a project for a couple
of months.  Has anyone else seen the SpaceMat decorated felt sheets with
hexagons sold by GeoHex?  How about the "Silent Death" miniatures?  Dis-
regarding the intended scale, several of the Silent Death ships struck me
as having "traveller-esque" lines to them, and if I can find a pictorial
catalog and a mail order supplier (help?), I've been considering putting
together a Mayday miniatures game, for conventions or whatever.  I figure
I'd use 3 castings to represent each ship--one decorated, for current
position, one painted white for future position, and one painted black for
previous position...

>   4. A Different Game for a Different Era
>
>         A bit of copy that reads like H. Beam Piper describing a Space
> Viking raid on a planet of the old Terran Federation.  Right down to
> mentioning chicken stealing.

That's not surprising.  At Origins in '91, the GDW team was happy to
tell everyone who wanted to know that Piper is/was a primary influence
on Traveller.  Remember back that far?  Space Vikings (Or was it Star
Vikings?) was going to be a set of miniatures rules for planetary looting
raids, which was going to come with (plastic?) miniatures in the box.
Oh well...it's hard to keep track of all the projects that have fallen
through the cracks at GDW.

Rob Dean