B5 White Star kit
Dan Salamone
Don,
Check out this website:
http://www.baltech.com/onezero/starship/starship.htm
The company is Anubis. They are going to discontinue the kit, I think it
goes for well over $100. Search through the whole site, you will find a
lot on B5 ships as well as others, like Star Trek and Star Wars.
Good luck!
Dan
Cpnavatar
Hi All,
I was paging through a figure collector magazine today and saw a blurb about
some trade show held recently in New Jersey. What caught my eye was that some
Garage kit company, I think the name was Aubin or something, was offering a
resin kit of an "Advanced Space Cruiser" that is a dead on match for a Mimbari
"White Star" ship. there was no mention of a price, but evidently these people
have the blessings of the guy who designed the ship for the show. Anyone out
there have further info?
Don Brynelsen
"Go back to bed lady, everyone knows this ship is unsinkable!"
JMChladek
The kit is already discontinued and the last eight or so were for sale at
Wonderfest last weekend. The kit sold for $200.00 and it was one of the best
resin kits ever made (too bad I couldn't swing the funding for one, but there
were other priorities). It was authorized by Ron Thorton and liscensed by
Foundation Imaging (who did the B5 effects for the first three seasons) but it
could not be called White Star due to that being a name trademarked by Warner.
It is possible that there may be one or two models left at Anubis, but it is
highly doubtful that they will make any more because the production run is over
(you never know though). As for future Anubis releases, there may be something
with an organic feel available from them soon but I can't really say for sure
as to what it is.
Jay Chladek
Robert Vancel
Hi Don,
Since the ship is called an "Advanced Space Cruiser" I doubt it's a
licensed item. I saw the ad as well (I think there's even an article
about painting it) in the latest Amazing Figure Modeler magazine.
IIRC, its also from England.
Me, I'm curious about the Earth Forces "Advanced Destroyer", you know,
the regular one with Shadow stuff sticking out of it.
Robert
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Dominique Durocher
In article <355ede8b....@news1.lig.bellsouth.net>,
thunde...@juno.com wrote:
I think it may have been licensed (not sure), but from Foundation rather
than WB. Foundation does have rights on the designs from the first 3
seasons, those they worked on. What they can't do is use the Babylon 5
name. After all, wasn't it actually called "Ron Thornton's Advanced Space
Cruiser"?
Dom
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john t. c. lester
Thanks for the plug Dan - but we've moved to our own sector:
http://www.starshipmodeler.com
The Anubis not-whitestar is an exquisite kit ... sadly, now
discontinued. Warp in the UK makes a smaller one (12-15" long, IIRC) -
glancing at Amazing Figure Models' article, it appears to be the one
they used.
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john t. c. lester
Cpnavatar wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I was paging through a figure collector magazine today and saw a blurb about
> some trade show held recently in New Jersey. What caught my eye was that some
> Garage kit company, I think the name was Aubin or something, was offering a
> resin kit of an "Advanced Space Cruiser" that is a dead on match for a Mimbari
> "White Star" ship. there was no mention of a price, but evidently these people
> have the blessings of the guy who designed the ship for the show. Anyone out
> there have further info?
>
> Don Brynelsen
> "Go back to bed lady, everyone knows this ship is unsinkable!"
Don-
Anubis made an exquisite kit of an 'Advanced Technology Cruiser' - a
dead ringer for the Whitestar. $210, but big (over 24" long IIRC) and
very high quality. It was made with the cooperation of the designer,
Ron Thornton as I understand the story.
It was not licensed by Warner Bros/Babylonian tho, and when it appeared
on various shelves with 'as seen on Babylon 5' on the box art,
WB/Babylonian legal folks got involved. End result - the kit is
discontinued. It will not be remade, at least that's what the folks at
Anubis told me.
Warp, a company in England, makes a smaller version of the kit. Not
spot-on, accuracy-wise, but not bad (at least not in the build ups I've
seen). Spacemam, another UK garage kitter (affiliated with comet
models? does anyone know?) made one as well. My experience with their
kits is pretty negative ... mostly because their resin is poorly cast
and their molds appear to be made from junk.
Stratosphere models, an outfit in Canada (Montreal, I think) also make
one (and a Vorlon fighter) that I've heard good things about.
Hope some of that helps -