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Me and two others. I threw out a line to a friend of mine. Like I said, the more the merrier.

Hi Atropos any update on this project? Specifically the flat-bed cargo carrier, very keen to get my mitts on a few of those!

(And the train of course! )

I concur. After spending almost a month looking for suitably sized models to convert, buying it ready made would probably ease my pain.

This would be great. I'm having a hard time finding scifi civilian vehicles of appropriate size. All I have found is the one on antenocitis workshop.

Hey guys
1. I am waiting till i have confidence in the methods of production. I have a spin caster making some masters to proove these can be replicated for the smaller ones. Issues with the resin casters proofs have me trying again to proove the larger ones are viable.
2. The pickup has not been mastered and probably wont be untill after the issues with general production are ironed out.
3. Genghis con is comming up and all efforts have shifted to geting my UFO invasion game ironed out for this new map seen about ten posts ago, which means casting and painting more traffic hazards so i donthave to have the corney random boxes dropped on the main roads or streets full of baracades just to block LOS.also.... Im playing with junk.. i mean recycled materials to make futuristic buildings that fit my strange but hopefully fun view of the future. For example the xbox 360 seen in the aformentioned set of images which is now a parking magazine. Yes that means vehicles supposidly park on the various platforms and then get loaded underground if they are small. Here i a wip of a tree of life temple. Itll have a big tree in the middle=)

However this means more painted vehicles for supposid future kickstarter pictures. I even have two of the krab? Hover cargo haulers getting painted!

Thanks for the update. Good luck at the con too.

A picture of the cargo haulers.
The yellow is the collapsed version landing to collect a load, the blue is the expanded version for carrying a heavy load.

Those look awesome! What are they made of?

 Pacific wrote:
Those look awesome! What are they made of?

The cargo haulers are resin casts in 3 parts. The collapsed version requires cutting the nacell booms

I will do individual pictures of the vehicles soon

I just got some masters back from a caster and they look good with only two problems to iron out.

For any who may be interested, My UFO invasion game (the reason I did these vehicles in the first place) went great at genghis con.
see the thread in this blog for details on the battle report with pictures (many cars in the pictures) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/270/265995.page#5310034

Also,
Im contemplating, a smaller kickstarter for sellign the map I generated for this game. I clean futuristic sci-fi map shown a few posts back

Atropos,

I am glad I got to see the cargo haulers in person this past Saturday, They looked great. I am still interested in at least 1 of each with or without a kickstarter. Please let me know how things progress.

Dan
DagScrilla

Those, and the table itself, look absolutely great! Really looking forward to getting my filthy paws on some of them.

Finally took some pictures of these. I included a recent batch of Proof castings I just recieved for the larger models.
Now Im just waiting on the proofs of the smaller vehicles.

The figures are effigy miniature for scale
Here is a second set
Lets see if Dakka lets it submit properly this time

Last set

Absolutely wonderful stuff mate! My board is waiting for these guys to turn up.

Also kudos for that train - I know I mentioned it before, but have you thought about contacting CB about it? I wouldn't be surprised at all if you could get some kind of official nod for it, at the very least.

Any news on the release dates, prices etc.?

 Pacific wrote:


Also kudos for that train - I know I mentioned it before, but have you thought about contacting CB about it?

You mean he should try and CB 'on board'? I'll get my coat!

Pricing for the kickstarter (includes shipping to the US)
Mustang Performance Hover-- 16 --amended for shipping and calc error 20
PodCar --14 --amended for shipping 17
FUV --24 --amended for shipping 26
Utility Truck --32 --amended for shipping and wheel-hoverpads 35
Cargo Hover Transport --37 --amended for shipping 39
Armored Trainsport/Train --65 --amended for shipping and packaging67

Executive Hover --18? had a problem in production, need to redo
The rest are still too uncertain

Im also considering adding the map, but license fees on the stock artwork are a bit pricey
I think with shipping I can offer the poster for 144 at 4ft by 8ft

While the above prices are for singles, Im planning on doing sets, of say 3x or 5x of a particular model since shipping costs wont add linearly.
Example 1 pod car for about 17, 5 podcars for 57

I love the cargo hover.

Are you going to make extra cargo pods available?

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:

Are you going to make extra cargo pods available?

The cargo pods are just papercraft. While I could up the price a buck or so and include printouts of the cargo pods, the necessary increase in shipping box size wouldn't be worth it unless someone was buying enough models to warrant a box you could fit cardstock 8x5 by 11 into.

It makes more sense to
1. Point out the cargo pods there are designed by tommygun and you can download them for free!
2. offer my own versions of cargo pods that look more futuristic.. which Ive already designed, I just havent printed and assembled any yet.

I just haven't figured out what role my cardstock file will play. Possibly a lowest tier pledge and included in any purchase that includes the cargo haulers.
Possibly printouts added to the map or to larger pledges since the box will allow it. of course the weight of say 50 cardstocks is not inconsiderable to shipping charges..and thus I might as well say you print out the ones you want yourself at fedex/kinkos or a local shop.

Yes, if they are papercraft, it would make more sense to sell a file of it ratehr than print it and send it. Darn, I really thought they were plastic or resin...

Atropos907, just to confirm the obvious, those prices are in US$? I'm sure you might get interest from these from outside the US (from me at least! ) so if you could work out some kind of postage at some point that would be awesome.

I would probably be interested in ordering a collection of a couple of cars, bikes, cargo handlers and eventually the train when available (yes maybe a bit extravagant for just the 1 mission in Paradiso, but I'm envisaging some kind of 'high speed mission' level where you have guys on bikes - including that lovely new Aleph model, + Aragatos - trying to pull off a Fast & the Furious style train robbery while a few defenders on the train try and stop them )

@Mathieu, with something that simple thought I think it's possible to get some really great results from papercraft!

Or, there are a couple of companies (Warmill & Sarissa off the top of my head) that are make containers that aren't too expensive. I mean, in comparison to the old AT-43 ones that used to sell for crazy money on ebay.

 bantha_beast wrote:

 Pacific wrote:


Also kudos for that train - I know I mentioned it before, but have you thought about contacting CB about it?

You mean he should try and CB 'on board'? I'll get my coat!

And thankyou ladies and gentlemen, I'll be here all night! Very good mate

Im planning on doing international options. but possibly only for the big sets. Intl shipping is flipping pricey.
For example, the train weighs 1.1 lbs roughly and is 10" long. By itself intl shipping added about 40-50% cost. So I may only do that option for sets that cost over 100USD so its not as big of a percentage. But if there is more demand Ill add the necessary fees , I just need to fully investigate the smallest box each model or set can fit into to get it priced out. Ooh fun.

Looks awesome and fits a need in the hobby, hope you get this off the ground

I love the shapes but not the painting style. They don't look like vehicles anymore with so many colors and textures. I'd like to see some that are a little more "Normal" looking.

Also please change the font on the bottom of the pictures! It breaks many basic graphic design rules. Chiefly readability! A font like that is great BIG but for that size it's not good at all.

 atropos907 wrote:
Im planning on doing international options. but possibly only for the big sets. Intl shipping is flipping pricey.
For example, the train weighs 1.1 lbs roughly and is 10" long. By itself intl shipping added about 40-50% cost. So I may only do that option for sets that cost over 100USD so its not as big of a percentage. But if there is more demand Ill add the necessary fees , I just need to fully investigate the smallest box each model or set can fit into to get it priced out. Ooh fun.

I'm sure I don't need to tell you this but, just in case, make double x sure about your costs for shipping and whatnots - they can make or break you in the end!

If it doesn't 'make sense' to do the "free" shipping to anyone, then don't!

Or, just cleverly work it all into the price of the models anyway...

REALLY looking forward to this one!

Unfortunately, I think KS doesn't allow you to charge domestic shipping. So yeah, double make sure you factored it into your costs.

Any plans for a flat bed style "trailer" or "train car" to go between a pair of those armored transports?

I want to make a train, but I want some train "cars" to go with some engines.

 valthonis wrote:
Any plans for a flat bed style "trailer" or "train car" to go between a pair of those armored transports?

I want to make a train, but I want some train "cars" to go with some engines.

I like the idea, Though I suspect to be reasonable it would have to be a stretch goal . I had contemplated already making train modules that would take in vehicles as an overland long range ferry. I suppose a flatbed would also serve this purpose for non-specific vehicles. It would also allow a platform for a large mobile weapons platform.

Ill play with the idea and probably add renders of such ideas as a stretch goal.

Kickstarter imminent!

By the first of april 1st (no joke) I plan to have this thing started, FINALLY!

I recently recieved a set of master proofs, and approval from KS to launch. I spent the past few days filming the video showcase and dotting the "I"s and crossing the "T"s
My last tasks I have scheduled before launch are to do a final check on shipping costs, or default to flatrate shipping for anything questionable. If by some miracle it makes it to the stretch goal phase I have several lined up with a few vehicles that have been partially mastered with some minor problems that are easy fixes, or a couple models that have not been mastered yet but i am comfortable with their projected costs now that Ive gone through a couple Small rounds of proofs with the casting houses.

Looking around I will advertise with Dakka since this community has shown the most support, and I assume there are more lurking or who aren't aware yet. And ask all of you to get the word out.

And if this fails, well at least I have an awesome array of "terrain" for my games!