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LionRoars NEW Ship Nameplates
Gunny
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Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 03:23 AM UTC
NEWS and images in from across the pond from LionRoar, a new line of ready made ships name-plates to really dress up your model subjects!

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!
~Gunny
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Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 09:41 AM UTC
Made out of silver !!?? That ain't gonna be cheap !!!
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Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 09:54 AM UTC
Don’t worry Steve its German silver. Its actually a nickel copper mixture.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 11:19 AM UTC
That's really a very clever idea. Personally I think I'd prefer brass, but the silver should look very impressive also.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 06:59 PM UTC
I like the idea of these but if you have a collection and want them to be uniform then you will need Lionroar to produce a lot, lot more.

One thing about the Japanese name plates, I like the japanese writing but they could have done the name in English underneth.

Ciao
Luciano
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Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 06:18 AM UTC
Hopefully they will change their packaging up a bit. I could get pretty good use out of the American BB's as I hae an NC, AZ, MO, and NJ. But only the Yamato, KGV,Hood, and the Bismarck
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Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 02:21 PM UTC

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Hopefully they will change their packaging up a bit. I could get pretty good use out of the American BB's as I hae an NC, AZ, MO, and NJ. But only the Yamato, KGV,Hood, and the Bismarck


Maybe it could get to be like trading cards? "I'll trade you two of my Hoods, for one of your Yamatos."
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Posted: Friday, August 17, 2007 - 04:49 AM UTC

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Maybe it could get to be like trading cards? "I'll trade you two of my Hoods, for one of your Yamatos."

You know, with this crew here, I can see that happening!
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Posted: Friday, August 17, 2007 - 07:21 AM UTC
Sounds like a plan. I do have to agree, they need to make a whole bunch more of them though, otherwise they won't sell to many, which means that they won't go out and create more......kind of a vicious cycle
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Posted: Friday, August 17, 2007 - 07:26 AM UTC
I wonder how cost efficient it would be for them to sell them individual?
Personally I don’t think I’ld get a whole package of the things knowing I wouldn’t use most of them but just one or two that i need could work.
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