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This post ist mostly to inform others and by no means a rant. Mortian produces pretty cool models and the quality of the sculpts is high. Yet unfortunatly there is a problem with the buggies and their intended crew:


I backed the buggy kickstarter and got one each of the big and small one. Both are gorgeous models, but I ran into some troubles when I started dryfitting them with your gunners/drivers.
Here are some pics:

1. As you an see, the pilots feet stand over the "seat" part of the cockpit (white). 2. due to that the "seat" part does not fit anymore where it is intended to go into the buggy 3. the opening in the chassis is also to narrrow to bring the pilot inside with arms attached.

regarding the big buggy:

1. as you can see here on the bottom left (red arrows) there is an angle where there is no room for something standing over. Also (green arrow) the floor of part a fits thight to part b, there is no room for anything standing over 3. part a is obviously intended for two seats, yet both the gasmask as well as drop trooper bodies feet stand over (green box) and their heads are to hight to easily fit part a and b together. 4. You can see again the heads standing over. Also the feet on the right driver are much to far to the right and can't fit at all in the region marked with red arrows in 1.

I'm still really satisfied with the models. The quality is great and they are amazingly detailed. It's just a bit of a bummer that the buggies come without seats, really pushing the customer to buy drivers with seats and then realizing that these fit pretty badly where they are intended to go.

I think your definition of 'great quality' needs some work...

Looking at the pictures though, I'm wondering if the figures should have been stuck into the grey plastic seats before being stuck onto the white bit? It looks like they might fit better if they were stuck directly into the seat-like indents in part 1a...

Edit - that's assuming the seat is a separate part of the figure. Looks like it is to me, but could be wrong.

It is unfortunatly not. The seat+driver come in one part. Only the arms are seperate.

Regarding quality: fair enough. Let's put it another way. I so far ordered vehicles/machines from GW, Forgeworld, Secret Weapons, Victoria miniatures, Models and Minis, Puppetswar, Spellcrow, Anvil, Mortian, Archon Studio and Rubicon. Out of this selection my impression is that Mortians stuff has a rather good quality. The parts had little to no warping or air bubbles, lots of details and the price was okayish. But of course that is my impression. Feel free to disagree.

May just be the photo, but looks like none of it is straight!

Those are my poor photography skills. Apart from the mentioned Problem with the drivers the parts fit nicely and look very good and detailed.

The models have a lot of angles though and little right angles which make it difficult to get a "straight" photo

Little update:
I used a rotary tool to make some room in the "footregion" of the buggies, with... mixed results


More importantly I had to accept that those pilots, at least as long as they are sitting on their seats, won't go in there. Even if I solved the "footproblem", they are also very high. At least in the big buggy this will mean that the head pops up out of the rollcage which looks incredibly dumb.
Therefore I removed the seats from the pilots, together with the toes of the small buggy pilot on the whole feet of the big buggy dude. It's an ugly solution, but it is one that works


Now they fit were they belong:



Sidenote: the tracks of the halftrack version of the big buggy were also weird. They consisted of two parts, the main body and the stretch of tracks on the ground as separate part. But those again did not really fit. The trackpart had guiding teeth, but there was no room for all of those in the body, so I had to shorten/remove some of them. Also the tracklinks had the connectors to go together but no room for the corresponding connector. So the track part was just to long and had also to be shortened.

All in all: as someone who was very satisfied with Mortian Ogres and still is satisfied with the design and details on the buggies I'm a bit disappointed with these little mistakes. More than all I'm curious how those slipped the attention during design/production. It's not even a minor thing, you see it at first glance when dryfitting the parts. And we are not talking about fractures of millimeters but whole milimeters.