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Shimmering Sword did a good job on those mechs. Good choice in artist.

I demand that you individually number the kits under the bases! With an autograph too!

Kidding. I'll move it up to the front of my painting queue as soon as it comes in, though.

 5deadly wrote:
Shimmering Sword did a good job on those mechs. Good choice in artist.

I was under the impression these are Paulsons designs...


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 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I'll move it up to the front of my painting queue as soon as it comes in, though.

Same here. Ill get mine built and painted ASAP, then pics posted.

Maybe his designs but i think is all hired concepts? shimmer did the 3ds...
Mr. Paulson could tell us...

But he's working with good artist.
Even though they do "Battletech POS" lol.
Mr. Paulson knows what I mean. ; )

Anthony (shimmering_sword) was contracted to do the concept art and color illustration. He creates a very rough 3d image which he takes a screen shot of and then paints on top of the screenshot to produce the colored art. That basic image is devoid of any surface details and looks pretty much like a bunch of blocks or cylinders.

This is the basic frame he did:



Using that basic frame and his color art as a reference I then created my own 3d model on which I did all the surface detailing work. It's an entirely seperate model as it needs to be "watertight" and that's easiest to do working from scratch. I build my model along side the basic frame (using a reference model helps it go quicker) My final model is the one used for creating the rapid prototyped print and the print serves as the master model for mold creation.

The basic frame I transformed into this:





Once I had everything done I had Anthony do a final render of my model, I'm working on an older program and my rendering program isn't all that hot. So it's a combined effort to make these; Anthony handles the early visuals and I take care of the 3d work and make it print worthy. It's a fairly intertwined process and we are in constant communication giving each other feedback and exchanging ideas about the designs. Most of the time we use streaming video while creating the early mecha concepts so it speeds up the process considerably as we're able to brain storm real time with no email lag.

Here's is the final render, it's the same exact model as the one posted immediately above, but it's rendered in a newer version of Maya with a surface texture applied to it.

Interesting process, thanks for the insight.


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Something occurred to me..once you get to casting the mech, can you post a picture of it with some of the resin parts you make? Im toying around customizing mine, and Id love to see how your parts scale up to it. Im sure others would be interested as well.

Working on one of the variants armed with a light railgun and missiles.












And the "overkill" version with twin railguns

There's no such thing as overkill.
Just more fun annoying your supply guy for more ammo.

Highly prefer the "overkill" version . That is sweet!

Looks great. Can't wait to see the Canuckbots.

Honestly, I like the assymetrical one.

I'd like to see the asymmetrical one with some kind of coolant tank or sensor pod on the other side.

I too like the version with the single railgun.

 Mad4Minis wrote:
I too like the version with the single railgun.

I feel the same.

 JOHIRA wrote:
I'd like to see the asymmetrical one with some kind of coolant tank or sensor pod on the other side.

Nice idea

Nevermind....just checked the scale. Looked so good!

 JOHIRA wrote:
I'd like to see the asymmetrical one with some kind of coolant tank or sensor pod on the other side.

A small machine gun or grenade launcher would do to. Theres no infantry in game, but one would figure they are still around, and anti-infantry weapons on mechs, especially smaller ones, wouldnt be an uncommon thing Id think.

Heres an idea for a stretch goal for the KS...an accessory pack for each size of mech. Might be stuff that doesnt actually have any game effect, but fills empty space in custom load-outs, and gives a bit of flavor as well.

That, too, is a fantastic idea! I would love an accessory pack . Might have to be a separate item at retail, but as M4M said, it'd be a great possible KS include / stretch.

First time seeing this and I have to say as a fan of BTech I prefer your mechs. Very cool.

Paulson site still shows some in stock. Im throwing all kinds of stuff on Ebay trying to get funds for a couple more. Later this morning Ill be listing my 1/200 Robotech/Macross Battle Pods & officers Battle Pod (aka Battletech Marauder) perfect size for N scale Battletech or 15mm mech games.


EDIT: Listed on ebay and swap shop. If you want a large scale unseen Marauder get in on it fast.

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Any news on the Kickstarter? Or just news in general?

Working on the Bloc Light mecha. I'll hopefullyhave it finished up and headed out for printing this weekend.

(This is still in the early WIP stage).

Is there going to be an update on the rules soon? I was going to post my thoughts on the yahoo group email, then I saw here you were re-working some things and I thought I'd wait until then and take a crack at the new version... Do we have an eta for the newest version of the rules?

 paulson games wrote:
Working on the Bloc Light mecha. I'll hopefullyhave it finished up and headed out for printing this weekend.

(This is still in the early WIP stage).

I like it, any chance you will be doing a pre kickstarter sale for this one as well?

Looks great! I love the consistency.

 Mad4Minis wrote:
I like it, any chance you will be doing a pre kickstarter sale for this one as well?

Yes I'll do a pre-order on these as well.




(Also updated the pic link to show today progress).

 Mad4Minis wrote:

 JOHIRA wrote:
I'd like to see the asymmetrical one with some kind of coolant tank or sensor pod on the other side.

A small machine gun or grenade launcher would do to. Theres no infantry in game, but one would figure they are still around, and anti-infantry weapons on mechs, especially smaller ones, wouldnt be an uncommon thing Id think.

Heres an idea for a stretch goal for the KS...an accessory pack for each size of mech. Might be stuff that doesnt actually have any game effect, but fills empty space in custom load-outs, and gives a bit of flavor as well.

I like the way you think!




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 paulson games wrote:
Working on the Bloc Light mecha. I'll hopefullyhave it finished up and headed out for printing this weekend.

(This is still in the early WIP stage).

Love it so far.

Will both pre-orders ship together? If so, then I'll have one as well! I can finally force someone to play a test game with me!

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Will both pre-orders ship together? If so, then I'll have one as well! I can finally force someone to play a test game with me!

I would doubt it. The first one is supposed to ship early July, this new one hasnt even been 3d printed yet.

They are likely going to be several weeks apart. It wasn't the best of planning but I didn't have the ability (and money) to tackle printing more than one at a time. If anyone wants me to hold their raptors to ship at the same time as these I can (which can save on shipping), however I'm not sure exactly how soon that is going to be. I'll try and keep you guys in the loop as get more info on the Neo-Bloc mech.