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Super awesome. Now I have to think about base design, and how to scale it. 6mm or 15mm for humans?

Would that be usable as a sentinel for 40k? I'm not sure of the base size that those are usually on. Probably taller than a sentinel, but it looks soooooo much better...

 RiTides wrote:
Would that be usable as a sentinel for 40k? I'm not sure of the base size that those are usually on. Probably taller than a sentinel, but it looks soooooo much better...

It's taller than a crisis suit, but I'd say that'd be up to your opponent.

Well, all my units are already oversized, so what's one more (and I agree with you)

 warboss wrote:
Looks good. Can't wait to see the full starting lineup that Mad4Minis funds for me!

Sadly Im fairly poor, and have far more enthusiasm than cash. However, should I happen to win the lottery jackpot...Id gladly fund the whole line.

Well, if we all buy a little bit where appropriate, we can fund it a lot more effectively than any one person alone

I believe that was the original impetus behind kickstarter.

Speaking of lottery, I should really get a ticket. A minimum of 41 winners this friday.

The lottery has always been the back up plan for me as well. Unfortunately my luck is pretty crappy and I never even win a free ticket, let alone giant jackpots.

Doing the pre-orders really helped, 50 models may not seem like much but it helps me manage the printing much easier. All the single model orders add up fast and I really appreciate the support everyone has been able to kick in with. So I wanted to say thank you guys


The molds are finished up and are woking well so I should have casting underway tomorrow and I'll try and sneak out a couple orders on Monday. The orders that were placed the earliest will be mailing first. (the rest I expect to ship on the 5th) Most of the people on here are fairly ealry in line.

I'm just about done with the Neo-Bloc light mech, the 3d printing company is closed for about a week and half so I'll be using that time to finish up the other variants. I likely won't have the prints back until the end of July, but it'll effectively give me a batch of five new models rather than just one.

Really excited to see these coming along. The only problem now is me building 15mm buildings. I guess I can plunge on the set from drop zone commander, but are you planning any designs of your own?

Having the variant options done will be awesome! And likely get me to part with my cash finally . I'll like want 3 of whichever light walker of the two I end up liking best... and weapon options would be very, very sweet.

Theophony, seriously, for a cheap and fast solution the Dropzone Commander city pack is hard to beat. I think there's room for expanding on that in the future, but for now, it's a huge win to get folks to be able to have dense urban terrain very quickly. There's not much that gives it away as 10mm as opposed to 15mm, imo, although as paulson has said the mechs will just look even more imposing using 10mm-type terrain.

I think, if you want to go pricier, there is a line of buildings from Design... something or other. You can get them through the Woodland Scenics website. A bit Americana, for some of the kits, but the urban sets are a no brainer to fit together. They were a bit small for my 1/72 WW2 efforts, but their "3 apartment buildings front" pack was very alluring. I used it to build a city block and with a little bit of work, it works great.


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Maybe you guys can tell me if it is still too big. It looks to be about HO scale. I'll take snapshots with a big stompy mech if you guys are nice.

I'd like to make some sort of terrain available, but I need to finish all the mecha designs first before I can do that type of stuff.



Some pics vs the dropzone commander buildings.

Definitely looks good and relatively to scale with the model. With those being light mechs, I can imagine a pilot to scale with the entries on the buildings fitting in the cockpit. Thanks for the pics!

I'm just dying to know, how big is one of those doors on that dropzone building?

Most of the doors are about 21-22mm tall, but the door framing & entry ways are quite tall. The entry on the grey building is a huge 35mm and the actual first level is 41mm tall while other floors are about 25mm. All the building have very tall first floors which I think it meant to represent the buldings you see in downtown commercial areas as they tend to have very tall and open foyers & lobbies.

They do vary a bit the smaller buildings have a first floor that's about 31mm tall and the other floors are about 18mm.

(I think DZC might be set at 12mm for infantry)


They are a good deal larger than the buildings I was using for playtesting, but overall they work well and are pretty affordable. The card stock buildings I made at home ran me about $50 by the time I bought the ink cartridges and cardstock paper, then there's all the time spent gluing stuff in together. The DZG comes out to about the same price or even less which is why I picked up a set to expand on what I'd have available. It let me skip the assembly and I think they may hold up a bit longer as the lamination is quite nice.

The buildings I came up with for playtesting are basically a 60x60mm footprint with 3 differant heights, the 60mm round bases can fit inside so they can be used as rubble markers as buildings are destroyed. I made larger buildings by lining up groups of buildings next to each other.

I might be able to work out some sort of PDF for buildings, buildings in resin may be possible but costs become a possible issue. Individually it'd be cheaper than GW terrain but the game can be very heavy on terrain so as a group resin buildings would tend to add up quickly. In an ideal world a set of plastic buildings would be perfect.

While they aren't cheap I really like the pre-made stuff that Kato makes for their modern railroad sets, it has a sleek downtown Tokyo look that gives it s slightly near future feel.

 paulson games wrote:
Most of the doors are about 21-22mm tall, but the door framing & entry ways are quite tall. The entry on the grey building is a huge 35mm and the actual first level is 41mm tall while other floors are about 25mm. All the building have very tall first floors which I think it meant to represent the buldings you see in downtown commercial areas as they tend to have very tall and open foyers & lobbies.

They do vary a bit the smaller buildings have a first floor that's about 31mm tall and the other floors are about 18mm.

(I think DZC might be set at 12mm for infantry)


They are a good deal larger than the buildings I was using for playtesting, but overall they work well and are pretty affordable. The card stock buildings I made at home ran me about $50 by the time I bought the ink cartridges and cardstock paper, then there's all the time spent gluing stuff in together. The DZG comes out to about the same price or even less which is why I picked up a set to expand on what I'd have available. It let me skip the assembly and I think they may hold up a bit longer as the lamination is quite nice.

The buildings I came up with for playtesting are basically a 60x60mm footprint with 3 differant heights, the 60mm round bases can fit inside so they can be used as rubble markers as buildings are destroyed. I made larger buildings by lining up groups of buildings next to each other.

I might be able to work out some sort of PDF for buildings, buildings in resin may be possible but costs become a possible issue. Individually it'd be cheaper than GW terrain but the game can be very heavy on terrain so as a group resin buildings would tend to add up quickly. In an ideal world a set of plastic buildings would be perfect.

While they aren't cheap I really like the pre-made stuff that Kato makes for their modern railroad sets, it has a sleek downtown Tokyo look that gives it s slightly near future feel.

Thanks, I'll look into Katowice, and probably pick up the drop zone commander stuff as well. I'll build my own once I have some of those as reference.

Yeah DzC infantry are a bit "oversized" (the creator has explicitly said so), so the buildings work as a decent bridge between 10mm and 15mm, imo

Sooner or later Im going to have to pick up that terrain set, its just too good with the mechs.

Just got my shipping notification . I'll post pics once they arrive, hopefully before Friday (b-day), really excited about these.

 Theophony wrote:
Just got my shipping notification

As did I, quite excited for sure.

Can't wait for pics of them "in the wild"! As well as seeing the new weapon options which will be forthcoming (hopefully offered as an add-on pack too, for folks who ordered before they were available).

Stupid question but, uhh, is it because I'd outside of the US that I don't get tracking info, or because I selected basic shipping?

I took basic shipping as well and go tracking. Must be either because our out of the country, or your batch wasn't done yet. I thought h said hat he would be casting and shipping all week. Also he may have gone by quantity, I ordered two, don't know how many others ordered.

two as well. though my second was later.

Its due to being outside the US. Normally I use paypal to print the domestic stuff, but for international items i need to use a seperate postage program which is supposed to send out emails via outlook. In the past outlook has been a nightmare for me and basically served as a virus entry point so I no longer run it, it's why I use a hotmail account for my primary contact. In order to send out notices for international mail I need to manually email people which I haven't gotten around to doing yet.

International "tracking" for first clas mail doesn't offer much information other than stating that it has been accepted and when it ships from its final point in the US. There's no point by point tracking like there is for US addresses. They make that an option available for priority mail but last time I checked it was over $30 to send by priority class which isn't an option when people already comment on the $10 shipping as being high.

For anyone that would like Priority Mail delivery I can always accomidate but I've yet to have any one express interest in it due to the cost.


I've currently shipped out 32 of the 50 models, the remainer should all be sent by this coming friday.

Just got my present on my doorstep, two days before my birthday, guess I'll have to wait to open it.......nah!!!







Okay so the bad (if it could be considered that) no instruction, or picture, but I have them saved under my gallery for reference.
Slight flash, but easily cleaned, did one whole model in less than five minutes.
The leg attachment point is my only concern. It looks like the tab on the foot is right where it should join the ankle, Paulson do I remove that tab, it's in a very bad spot if its to come off?
The great news, no mold slip.
The flash cam off with a quick flip of a knife blade turned backwards.
Same great casting I've always gotten from Paulsongames.com.
And it arrived before my birthday.

I'm going to poster tack it together quickly as we are going out for dinner, I'll try to get pics up quickly.

Edit:
Looked at the pics a second time and realized do not cut the tab off the leg, good thing I hadn't yet.
The quality is fantastic, easily on par with the dreamforge figures I have.
Far exceeds all the ogre world figures I have for comparison.
Glued he legs to the feet for stability, here's a size comparison next to a dreadnaught and marine.


Will be posting more in my p&m blog as time permits

Yeah, not so interested in the play-by-play of USPS and CP going at it with my precious goodies.

Just wanted to make sure everything was alright.

Nothing here yet...friday hopefully.

Got my tracking this morning, looking forward to getting it in a few days

Thanks for the pics Theophony, looks cool