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Well, those jacks aren't that amazing. Especially the shield on the Rover, which looks quite, quite strange.

Nicia is pretty nice, sort of a masculine jawline and something's a little funny with her torso, but the pose and expression are very nice.

Boneswarm, well, I'm glad I got one for the Witchfire RPG back when it was half the price. I'm also glad Wrongeye's getting a new friend.

Plastic jacks... uh... I was considering getting one for the Rover, but now I'll probably scratch build it if I consider it worth it on the field: the new bendy shields (cf. Lancer and Sentinel) PP has been doing just look awkward, and I just plain don't like the resculpts: without the angles, they lost a lot of character.

Platuan4th wrote:

Vertrucio wrote:It is, and I've been waiting for it to be turned into a hordes solo.

Then you'll be disappointed as it's a Light Beast and not a Solo.

I'm not.. that means Wrong Eye can run it for Cryx...

I'm a lil torn on the Mercjack, I wish they'd done it as a Nomad Chassis with the Mule's stacks and shoulderpads seperate.. insead of the One Nomad/One Mule shoulders they've done... I also wish they'd included a Mangler option... And I'm a bit worried that it might rule out making a metal Roicante

I'm not a huge fan of the Rover's Shield, even from the art, but I figure it can be replaced with a Vanguard's pretty easily...

And I'm a bit worried that it might rule out making a metal Roicante

As far as i'm aware it was confirmed ( even tough i cant recall where) that Rocinante will be a upgrade kit for the plastic merc kit

Vombaticus wrote:As far as i'm aware it was confirmed ( even tough i cant recall where) that Rocinante will be a upgrade kit for the plastic merc kit

Um, yeah, that was kinda obvious...

My point is that -some- of the upgrades can be built in metal from the metal jack kits.. Erebus = Slayer , Gallant = Ironclad - or with a extra metal part or two... Malice = Reaper + Slayer arm, others can't be, or are harder... Torch, requires a plastijack only weapon, for example.

In the case of Roicante = Nomad, a fiddling small change in the position of the buckler, from the hand on the metal, to the arm on the plastic, means you have to find an correctly sized fist, without shield at the least, if you want to build him on a metal Nomad chassis...

skrulnik wrote:Boneswarm doubled in price since it was an IKRPG model.
Nicea is very nice.

I also like the Nicia and Boneswarm models - but ouch - that kind of price hike is worse than GW!

I think the jacks look awful, but that's just my opinion.

I prefer the original nomad. These look sort of "doughy" and puffy...

scipio.au wrote:

skrulnik wrote:Boneswarm doubled in price since it was an IKRPG model.
Nicea is very nice.

I also like the Nicia and Boneswarm models - but ouch - that kind of price hike is worse than GW!

I think the jacks look awful, but that's just my opinion.

The way they handle price increases is that newly released models cost more
than older models, however, models tend to keep same price for years
and years and years.

The Boneswarm model is an older model, thus when they repackaged it
with new rules they increased the price to make up for the time it was set
at the lower price.

Which is why I immediately bought a IK Boneswarm from Miniaturemarket when I read the rumor!

Lanceradvanced wrote:In the case of Roicante = Nomad, a fiddling small change in the position of the buckler, from the hand on the metal, to the arm on the plastic, means you have to find an correctly sized fist, without shield at the least, if you want to build him on a metal Nomad chassis...

I'm not saying you're wrong (yet), but wouldn't it make sense to wait and see what the components in the Rocinante upgrade kit before declaring this?

Dysartes wrote: I'm not saying you're wrong (yet), but wouldn't it make sense to wait and see what the components in the Rocinante upgrade kit before declaring this?

Not really,- I was responding to someone who blithly respnded that roicante would be an upgrade kit for the plastic merc jack,-when I expressed my worries - that because of the changes to between the Nomad and the Merc Plastic, building an all metal Roicainte from a metal Nomad might be more difficult.

It's pretty clear by comparing the artwork that the Metal Nomad's fist(with it's buckler) isn't going to be used... the question is weather the upgrade kit a) molds the hand into the cannon or b) uses a plastic nomad fist, other problems may be the fit of the sword arm vambrace, and the cannon chains..

AgeOfEgos wrote:Which is why I immediately bought a IK Boneswarm from Miniaturemarket when I read the rumor!

Smart man.

I'll have to check the FLGS to see if they have IKRPG minis.