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 paulson games wrote:
Looks good Josh, mind if I repost them on my FB page?

Here's some eye candy for another Mecha Front Monday, enjoy.

NorAm Heavy Mecha - Wolverine

You make my Mondays better paulson

He makes mine worse, everything is work blocked

Yes, I concur that comparison shots would be awesome.

So, in an ideal world, these would run about 40-45$ each?

Here's a rough mock up of the sizes. Since the pieces were all done at various angles it's not exact but it'll give an ok idea of how they stack up against each other. The raptor may seem like a big beefy model next to all of your other toys... but remember it is just a light mech and its the smallest in the Mecha Front game

Erhmagerd I want that Wolverine so bad. That's gonna be a whole lot of resin though. I'm assuming the "shoulderpads" are going to be separate pieces?

Did I sign your praise about casting quality, by the way? Because I should. More.

Can the Neo-bloc have a looted Wolverine? Because that's just damned purty.

 paulson games wrote:
Looks good Josh, mind if I repost them on my FB page?


Here's some eye candy for another Mecha Front Monday, enjoy.

NorAm Heavy Mecha - Wolverine
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VSm43Szq-4w/Ue1-qU6yw8I/AAAAAAAAAvo/HMHdMYvXn8I/s1600/blog-heavy-noram.jpg

But... I wasn't liking NorAm! That's not fair!

 paulson games wrote:
Looks good Josh, mind if I repost them on my FB page?

Please do.

I'm looking forward to the next release so I can try a different paint scheme.

Love that Wolverine.

Too bad we won't see it for a while...

Paulson, are you going to release them in that order? ie Light, then Med, then Heavy, and Quads sometimes down the road?

Got my raptor and I am very happy with it both in design and quality.

 paulson games wrote:
Here's a rough mock up of the sizes. Since the pieces were all done at various angles it's not exact but it'll give an ok idea of how they stack up against each other. The raptor may seem like a big beefy model next to all of your other toys... but remember it is just a light mech and its the smallest in the Mecha Front game

Sweet! Those look awesome!

Would anyone know where I could get some simple, modern or near future 10mm tracked or wheeled vehicles to compliment the Mecha Front *excellent* range of mecha?

I tried Khurasan, they shut their website down for vacation, I found Reiver castings, but they seem a bit pricey, and I don't necessarily want to go the DZC route either. Their look is too... distinctive?

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Would anyone know where I could get some simple, modern or near future 10mm tracked or wheeled vehicles to compliment the Mecha Front *excellent* range of mecha?

I tried Khurasan, they shut their website down for vacation, I found Reiver castings, but they seem a bit pricey, and I don't necessarily want to go the DZC route either. Their look is too... distinctive?

Have a look at skytrex's action200 range they do a modern line including Israel which means the merekava which makes an excellent sci fi tank.

Indeed. I just wish I had 4£ per vehicle to spend at the moment.

Good News though. I will be having a few playtests with Ironbovin next week.

Those mecha look amazing. I love the variety that still keeps a consistent aesthetic; Battletech ended up with some hideous designs where chubby mechanical people had weapons bolted to them. I prefer the chicken-walker legs that increase stability, and lack of arms because these are weapon platforms, not human effigies.

Do you have any photos of a model next to a 25mm miniature for scale comparisons? Apologies if I missed it, I checked your site and didn't see any.

Here ya go

I've just had an idea... Paulson, do you have any miscast legs or torsos that we could buy? I figure they'd make good wreck markers.

 Cyporiean wrote:
Here ya go

Perfect. Thanks!

Can someone email me the Rules document at work? I'm unable to access the yahoo group from there and I'd like to send a copy to my printer.

afficheentete@videotron.ca

Thanks guys.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Would anyone know where I could get some simple, modern or near future 10mm tracked or wheeled vehicles to compliment the Mecha Front *excellent* range of mecha?

I tried Khurasan, they shut their website down for vacation, I found Reiver castings, but they seem a bit pricey, and I don't necessarily want to go the DZC route either. Their look is too... distinctive?

I'd either look through the Mechwarrior clix lines (T&T and other places still have some) or check out 10mm (try 1/144 scale or N Scale search terms) modern military vehicles.

I don't have much in the way of miscasts, out of 80 sets of casts I only had two rejects on the torsos or legs as they were really well vented.

I had a small number of miscasts on the missile launchers but I'm not sure those would be of much help for basing.

Damn you and your effective work methods!!!

You might give tis to other companies on how to cast resin then. *cough* Defiance *cough*

So, Goshawk due for August?

If anyone's interested, I've just recorded a fairly detailed preliminary analysis of the Mecha Front beta rules for Episode 12 of the Precinct Omega BattleCast.

http://bit.ly/1aPiCHB

R.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
So, Goshawk due for August?

Hopefully middle to late Aug.

It currently at the printer, I expect the Alpha variant to come in hopefully this coming week so I can check the size. Provide it coms out as expected the other parts will be done in about another week or so.

Things ran a bit slower than I wanted as the printer was on vacation for two weeks plus I've been on the fence about attending gencon which could add another week of delay, this time of year is always crazy busy. Worst case it'll be out at end of Aug.


Also Thank you Robey for doing the review. I'll get a couple responses together for you.

Well, I'll have pictures of the playtests on tuesday. Hopefully I can get the good camera for that too.

Regarding your contest, do you prefer pictures on a white backdrop, a green screen, or in situ with terrain?

Must avoid looking a Paulson's rules....must avoid.... but your making it hard on me

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Regarding your contest, do you prefer pictures on a white backdrop, a green screen, or in situ with terrain?

There's no requirements, people can submit their pics however they feel best captures the painting.

 NoseGoblin wrote:
Must avoid looking a Paulson's rules....must avoid.... but your making it hard on me

Lol, maybe some reverse psychology will get you to crack... Mark you're not allowed to look at the rules! mwhahaha



Here's a Goshawk variant with some railgun arms. I'm waiting on the first print to come in so I can check to make sure everything comes out as expected and if everything checks out like I hope then this will be fired off right away for print as well.

 precinctomega wrote:
If anyone's interested, I've just recorded a fairly detailed preliminary analysis of the Mecha Front beta rules for Episode 12 of the Precinct Omega BattleCast.

http://bit.ly/1aPiCHB

R.

Just listened to this.

I'd just like to express my strong disagreement with the idea that Mechafront should restrict itself to only having mecha on the battlefield. For all the talk about the range system breaking a suspension of disbelief, why would you accept combat never having infantry or vehicles present? Just because things would be hard to represent and that other rules already exist that cover the same type of game doesn't preclude giving it a try.

Also, crits are under the hit location chart. If you get a crit, you can either pick a location and do standard damage or roll again and do critical "bottom up" damage. I assume you'd reroll further 12s.

The range system definitely needs work though.