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I'll have different pics in the morning, I glued most together already, just leaving top separate from bottom. Also missiles got magnetized on for later swap out. Until then I'm taking a much needed break.

The tab is meant to be left there. When mounting the foot the thick part of the cylinder goes towards the front. The deeper part of the groove should fit against the face of the ankle and the slope angles up towards the rear of the foot. (the spure connection points are on the rear portion of the fooot)

 paulson games wrote:
The tab is meant to be left there. When mounting the foot the thick part of the cylinder goes towards the front. The deeper part of the groove should fit against the face of the ankle and the slope angles up towards the rear of the foot. (the spure connection points are on the rear portion of the fooot)

Realized after I started assembling that I had the leg misaligned, good thing I poster tacked it together first.

Great job on this guy Paulson can't wait for he bigger guys.

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

I got my tracking Monday...it shows zero movement on the package...

Just got mine in the mail today, and I'll say this about the quality of the cast: the foot I dry fit on the leg stayed on, with no glue. Very well engineered, and I look forward to the Bloc mechs.

Got mine primed, hopefully will have time tomorrow and toss some paint at it. Need to look through the rules again to see if there's any fluff about color schemes.



Forgot if I mentioned, but magnetizing the shoulder missiles was easy, and left the torso loose from the waist for safety transporting it around.

Stop taunting us. You are a bad, bad man!

Looking fantastic, Theophony!

Looks over at his 6mm scale battletech minis...

Woo-hoo! My mech has shipped!

Mine came friday...looking great, cant wait to build.

Seems we have 2 postal people, one who does mail in the mornings, one who does packages in the afternoons.

No sign of mine yet :/

 Mad4Minis wrote:
Mine came friday...looking great, cant wait to build.

Seems we have 2 postal people, one who does mail in the mornings, one who does packages in the afternoons.

And they wonder why they have problems with finances .

Theophony: that is a whole other debate, which strongly involves politics.

Canada Post also has two delivery people, because not everyone gets packages and can you imagine carrying that truckload in your little trolley?

I've had a bunch of questions regarding the "tab" on the front of the shin piece. It's meant to be there so don't cut it off.

The foot is a bit tricky at first glance so hopefully this will help.






I was going to hold new art until tomorrow but figured meh... as long as I'm on here I may as well post it up

Also www.mechafront.com is up and running, that will be the homepage for the game from here on. Not much there yet as it's still under construction but more will be added soon.

Pray tell, when can we buy those?

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Pray tell, when can we buy those?

^^ This x 100!

The Neo-Bloc light mech (the green mech) should be available next month. I'm hoping to follow up with the NorAm medium mech in sept.

When does the subscription service open up?

Is there art for the Neo-Bloc that I have missed due to work block shenanigans? I enjoy the look of that mini, and would like to see more of it

I think I'm shaping up to be more of a NorAm kinda guy.


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Ugh, just remembered, since oil seems to be such a big thing in the game, there was an important train crash that almost wiped a small town of the map last weekend. Only 4 of the 73 train cars exploded, all containing crude oil.

Hmmmm available September eh? seems I have a birthday in September, may have to drop some hints...... :-)

I'm holding a painting contest for the Raptor model. It'll run until Aug 15th, send me pictures of your mech when it's all painted up and I will chose the top 3 submisisons that I Iike. If your mech is picked you will recieve a free copy from the upcoming mechs slated for the Aug release. (Raptor & Goshawk).

There's no modifcations or converting required, stock mechs are fine. You can submit converted mechs if you like but the focus will be on the painting.

Please PM me with your entry or post them up on my facebook page.

I've also placed a small number of the mechs back in stock, so if you didn't get them on pre-order there are a few currently available.




I had some fun with converting one of the mechs with some spare parts, most of my older parts are a bit too larger to fit well with the Mecha Front models but the udnerslung beamers and lasers aren't too bad for giving the models a beefy uograde to their firepower. Rare earth magnets are awesome for doing stuff like this as it'll allow for the wepaons to be swapped out for whatever load out you want.

That gives it a real high tech look. While the parts are large, I think they still work.

Looks pretty sweet, paulson

Holy gak! Holy gak! Holy gak! I got my two Raptors in the mail today! Can you assume I finished my essay on the double to play with it?

I only got the legs sorted out before I had to go to work, but it's going to be super fun to paint. They clean up super well.

I tried to use 1/72 parts on the base to give it a little bit of flavour... and it's indeed to big. The "dead guy" I twisted to fit on the base was almost 20mm high, so he looked huge compared to the cockpit.


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I'm done with superlatives for the month, I swear.

Awesome, Mathieu! And I'm guessing you weren't actually typing "gak"

Edit: Upon quoting your post, I do believe I stand corrected! How Dakka indoctrinates us

I'm a good boy. And as a teacher, any word you can use to replace "swearing" you tend to latch onto.

I'm thinking a fairly standard camo pattern for one, but I'd like to convert my second one with one of Paulson's longer guns and paint it black with hot rod flames. Give it a real "mecha ace" feeling.

I just finished building my first one with magnetized weapons, including two of Paulson's guns, even a light mech looks suitably bad-esh in that configuration (especially as I built it assymetrical... something about it just screams "you're dead.")

I'll prime and basecoat tonight, let you guys see what it looks like.

My Raptor arrived today, and I have to say I am extremely impressed by how clean the model is. The mold lines are minimal, and located in the absolutely easiest locations to clean. The details are so crisp that I actually wasn't sure if that even the air vents from the mold were razor sharp, to the extent that I'm still not certain I wasn't supposed to leave them on.

Also, the vending machines will look beautiful on my eventual Deadzone board.