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Wow, working hydraulics sound cool!

But like plastictrees, I revel in my nerd hipster cred of backing you before it was cool with my ten 5.5" resin walkers. I actually have a friend who wants a few due to the in between height, but I won't let them go

Can't wait for my plastic troopers, support weapons and APCs, though

That is indeed a huge kit! Must be nice seeing all your hard work paying off in the form of boxes upon boxes of leviathans.

Dat Slide-core tooling.

*drools*

Your casting quality knocks 7 shades of s*** out of what GW is currently capable of producing, even without considering the awesomeness that is posable screw joints.

Thanks for pushing the bar on this! The plastics industry for wargaming has been stuck with 1970's pantograph tech for too long, and no-one has bothered to keep up with the advances seen in other areas (japanese gundam kits etc).

What you're doing with this is beyond ambitious, even little touches like the name pad show an excellent attention to detail and polish that most manufacturers would never bother with.

Is there an idea for the price of the Leviathan in UK £?

 NoseGoblin wrote:

Theophony wrote:
What are the screws and screwdriver for?

The screw are used on ball joints and other components that need tension to work properly. You can quite literally leave this kit poseable for months or years of play if you choose, the tension created by the ball joints is more than enough to have the kit retain its pose. At any point a drop or two of model cement will lock everything into a fixed pose, but until you decide exactly what pose you would like… you are free to play. Watching the legs and torso move with working hydraulics is a pretty fun experience

That is insane. The only thing Ive seen even close to that in the model world is the Gundam series. The packing is amazing as well. This kit is going to set all kinds of standards when it hits the market.

Just as during the KickStarter Mark's designs exhausted my wallet, his efforts with WGF's engineering seem to be exhausting my ability to lavish praise upon them. Absolutely amazing all around, as others have said more eloquently than me.

While I'm obviously thrilled at getting 2 of these soon and a third in March, I'm also excited by what Mark's raising the bar will accomplish for the market as a whole. It's also great that the community helped make this become a reality, even if all we did was look at Mark's work and say "Yes this is a thing that needs to exist."

Working hydraulics in a plastic mini......

Looks at dark angel minis that were just shown early......

Laughs hysterically....

And begins saving for when the next kickstarter comes up.

Just when I think my Dreamforge-Awesome-Meter has reached the limit, Mark blows it up. Any chance we can get a video of these hydraulics in motion?

I cry each time I think back and remember that I didnt get any Leviathans. This is a face rub like none other. Thanks .

Yup, I'm not buying a single freaking model from GW again. (Short a Valkyrie maybe... and that's a serious maybe) Ada looks great, and my god I can't say enough nice things about the Leviathans.

This is neck and neck for "most anticipated package of the new year" and considering it's competition is an M1 Garand...

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Yup, I'm not buying a single freaking model from GW again. (Short a Valkyrie maybe... and that's a serious maybe) Ada looks great, and my god I can't say enough nice things about the Leviathans.

This is neck and neck for "most anticipated package of the new year" and considering it's competition is an M1 Garand...

Oh I am jealous, I would love an M1 Garand

I'm miffed I didn't put money down on this. The things are turning out to be really really sexy.

At least Ada seems like a one-off for now, so it's not like I really missed out... maybe next kickstarter we'll see more of her ^.^ She's a real pleasing figure given how normal her pose and how normal she looks.

edit: i did put money down, i know, but not my own order......

I wish I hadn't missed this; those stormtroopers would make some awesome troops for my Armoured Company.

I'm really curious to see what we might see in terms of tanks and other goodies.

I'll be sure to stalk, err, I mean watch for any developments.

So, how much is the Lev gonna cost in store, a C-note? Still bummed i couldn't afford to get at least one during the KS. Stupid friend and his stupid destination wedding...whatever...pffft...
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Is a C-note $100? That's around where I think it will be, although it will be interesting to see if he offers it through any discounters as well.

I'm hoping my FLGS will be able to stock them as it's a perfect fit for their shelves (they also stock a lot of independent company's products).

I believe he said above that these would be disributed by WGF. If that's the case, then you can be sure you'll see these in places like Warstore (who carries WGF and Defiance Games) and likely at a 20% discount.

Assuming all this is true, at those places, I'm not sure that it will be much more than the KS prices.

That'd be great! Although I'll still get them locally of possible

sparkywtf wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Yup, I'm not buying a single freaking model from GW again. (Short a Valkyrie maybe... and that's a serious maybe) Ada looks great, and my god I can't say enough nice things about the Leviathans.

This is neck and neck for "most anticipated package of the new year" and considering it's competition is an M1 Garand...

Oh I am jealous, I would love an M1 Garand

http://www.odcmp.com/sales.htm

The greatest deal in firearms. Seriously. This is not spam.

All this talk of Leviathans is inspiring me... hoping to go home and assemble 4 of my resin ones right after the holidays, so I can run 2000 points (40k counts-as).

Poda: I might have, maybe, an extra Ada. If so, do you want me to keep it Aside for you? It's Xmas, so I might as well spread the love.


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I'm not so excited about these models, what I am excited for is the potential for this line; The Alien races in particular.

Has DFG stated a release schedule for their other factions?

I think the next is the race he previewed with the KS exclusive model, but nothing firm on dates. I think he's rightfully getting stages 1-3 of the KS done first (and hopefully start selling them and generating income, too, which they certainly will once generally released).

I would like to know more about the rules of the game (which appear to be nonexsistant atm) before contributing to the game. I love the look and concept of the models and understand its going to be primarily a vehicle based combat game, but I would rather see or playtest a rough draft of the game before making financial commitments.

Well, the period to contribute is long past but if you mean buying these models off the shelf, they're not yet available for that, so it's in a bit of an in-between stage!

They should be available shortly, in which case most folks I know who are interested them are using them for other game systems.

I think it could be a good idea for Mark to include bringing someone in to help get a solid set of rules down as a part of any future campaign he would run... i.e., instead of just introducing a new faction, introduce a rulebook as a part of it, too.

Those who already committed would probably be really interested in another use for their models, but it seems to me that a lot of these companies coming up with alternate models are having a harder time coming up with rules. It's hard to be CEO / designer / rules writer all at once, so outsourcing that or bringing someone on to help with it could be a good idea at some point.

No chance of adding to our pledges anymore is there? Even if we flutter our eyelashes and show some leg?

The only reason I'm not kicking myself over owning GW guard is that they're heavily converted Tanith and renegade (beastmen) guard. The stormtroopers blow the cadians, catachans etc. out of the water. The Valkir do the same for marines - thankfully I don't have an SM army yet, but only ordered 15 assault and 15 support valkir so not a complete army yet.

I believe Mark said when he was done shipping all of the waves of the Kickstarter he would start working on the rules. and that all of the Kickstarter contributors would be asked to give feedback while they were being developed.

I sincerely hope they do in action reaction system rather than an I go you go system.

Mark, please start planning for next wave you have hit the market just at the right time you could capture a greater market share with an opposing force to fight. I know I dropped alot on the ks and have not been disappointed only amazed on how close your stuff looks to the 3d renders. I can only imagine how tanks or the flyers might look.

Paitryn wrote:
I would like to know more about the rules of the game (which appear to be nonexsistant atm) before contributing to the game. I love the look and concept of the models and understand its going to be primarily a vehicle based combat game, but I would rather see or playtest a rough draft of the game before making financial commitments.

I'm personally not too concerned with the rules for Mark's game. The figures I've got on order will slot right into my existing game(s), Something about a Hammer, I think...

I've been learning about Infinity, and I think I can convert a lot of different PanO units from the different types of minis I'll be getting from this KS.

Mark, Happy Holidays!

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I've been learning about Infinity, and I think I can convert a lot of different PanO units from the different types of minis I'll be getting from this KS.

Mark, Happy Holidays!

I thought Infinity models were really Anime-esque? No offense to the stormtroopers, but wouldn't they look REALLY out of place there?

Don't know much about infinity though to be honest, only enough to know that I hated the look of the models and that really turned me off from it.

Heard it's a lot of fun though.