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maceria wrote:
"Good afternoon sir, do you have any commercial merchandise to declare?"

"Yep, here's the invoices, the associated paperwork, and the associated requests for pre-approval."

For several years, they've been heading down to GenCon with a booth full of merchandise. One imagines that they've figure out how to fill out customs forms, and gotten any necessary advance rulings by now. Believe it or not, things like NAFTA are actually helpful.

 Firebreak wrote:
GHISLAIN'S BACK FOR COVER ART.

That's great!
OTOH, unfortunately seems to only be the cover, as he did for the original Blitz and supplements.

 Firebreak wrote:
GHISLAIN'S BACK FOR COVER ART.

What can I say besides "that's gonna be a cool cover" and "don't judge a book by its cover" ?

 solkan wrote:

maceria wrote:
"Good afternoon sir, do you have any commercial merchandise to declare?"

"Yep, here's the invoices, the associated paperwork, and the associated requests for pre-approval."

For several years, they've been heading down to GenCon with a booth full of merchandise. One imagines that they've figure out how to fill out customs forms, and gotten any necessary advance rulings by now. Believe it or not, things like NAFTA are actually helpful.

Heh. Well, that's really not the first thing I think about when I hear the word "nafta" (bear in mind that in spanish it is one term to refer to gasoline) XD

Albertorius wrote:

 Firebreak wrote:
GHISLAIN'S BACK FOR COVER ART.

That's great!
OTOH, unfortunately seems to only be the cover, as he did for the original Blitz and supplements.

HudsonD wrote:

 Firebreak wrote:
GHISLAIN'S BACK FOR COVER ART.

What can I say besides "that's gonna be a cool cover" and "don't judge a book by its cover" ?

Yeah, but on the other other hand, we can ignore everything behind the cover if we have to. XD

I'm just surprised - and pleased - that he's involved at all. That was one of the biggest things I remember people talking about when the kickstarter was being put together and starting out. Would I prefer if he was art director or something? Of course. But anything's better than nothing. Barbe is to DP9 as Blanche is to GW. Maybe even more so. And I'm glad to see the Pod saw that at least enough to get him for a prominent piece of art.

I'm also a shameless Barbe fanboy so.

I'm glad too. In a thread a few years ago here on dakka, he surprisingly got alot of hate for his style whereas for me he was iconic for HG and a large part of the reason I initially was interested.

So does Blanche, for Warhammer. But both of them, more Barbe, I think, just because there's less art and less artists involved, completely set the visual tones of their respective worlds (or at least massively influenced them). And not having him involved in at least SOME way in the 20th year edition would be criminal.

Well, in Blanche's case, I think criticism is deserved. It's all style and no functionality or substance and I'm not a fan of that. When I posted Barbe's art, people thought it lacked detail and didn't like the cartoony colors... which is odd given the anime inspired (or copied dependning on who you talk to) universe. But I can't stand Blanche's art and I really do rank it as the worst in post rogue trader 40k art personally. Jes Goodwin for me is the goto guy when I want retro/classic 40k art to drool over. He's by no means perfect but his stuff for me keeps the gothic and decaying tech feel of the universe without leaping over the absurdity line that Blanche can't see anymore in his rear view mirror. I do really like the guy who does the 40k covers for the past few years though among the crop of new artists. I can't say the same for most post-Ghislain HG artists though. There are a few nice full page pics in TPS and FIF that likely come from the same artist (the Chasseurs racing, the paradropping Jaegers, and the execution stealth team being some that come to mind) but the character art was pretty bad in HG since he left IMO.

In the end, both are just opinions so YMMV.

 warboss wrote:
I can't say the same for most post-Ghislain HG artists though.

I think that's the other big difference between their respective positions of "defined the look". Heavy Gear has never had anyone else make such an impact or even stick to a style.

Yup, Ghislain defined the look of HG for me. I love the art books. I missed this announcement... is it the new HG Blitz! Rulebook, or Arkrite's upcoming RPG release?

I would assume the Blitz! book, since it was on the Pod's forum/fb, and also since Arkrite appears to have gone dark.

Though frankly, I hope he does one for the RPG, too.

That's some good news on the cover art!

 HudsonD wrote:
[..] How he deals with the customs, I don't know.

maceria wrote:
"Good afternoon sir, do you have any commercial merchandise to declare?"

The conversation should prove interesting for the driver(s) if that continues to be Pod SOP during shipping for the KS packages at the planned 'wave per week' rate.

I think the Pod is the only company I've ever ordered anything from outside of the US that actively tries to circumvent their own national postal system.

bobloblah wrote:
In all seriousness, this whole thing has gone better than I expected, but that's really just because DP9 actually appears to be listening to some small amount of feedback. Still, the only renders that look decent to me are the Caprice Mounts, and I wouldn't say they look good, just okay. Most of the others look like a combination of poor modeling and attempts to cut corners/costs (which I think is a function of not raising enough money for what they said they would deliver). But again, at least they're listening to feedback and making some positive changes. As ever, we'll see.

Too bad though for the non-vocal backers and any future customers that those few attempts at improvements are already considered "good enough", especially for the models that are clearly not ready to be molded:

DP9 in the July 23rd Update wrote:The 3d model parts have been given to the plastic injection mold company to get the parts sprued and molds made, which will should take about 2 months.
We hope to have the first plastic samples in late September.

At that point we'll be able to calculate all the shipping weights for our International Backer reward packages and as them to pay the exact shipping cost via the Pledge Manager or PayPal. Canadian and US Backers have already paid their basic $15 shipping cost.

The US company doing all our plastics should be able to get all the plastic sprues produced and shipped to us in October.
As soon as we receive them, we plan on shipping at least one shipping wave per week and get all the Backer reward packages shipped out by the end of November.

So then, prototypes to check actual physical parts and assembly for appearance or any problems - pretty unlikely to ever happen and far too late once any molds get cut in the immediate future.
It was still a good suggestion though, right, and so what if the plastic models end up looking like things everybody could use to play Rivet Wars.



What is the takeaway from all of this supposed to be, that "We at the Pod promise to do better next time we do a KS as these are only less played core models for core factions that we 'promise' to continue producing as metal models."?

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 Smilodon_UP wrote:

I think the Pod is the only company I've ever ordered anything from outside of the US that actively tries to circumvent their own national postal system.

In fairness, as a Canadian, holy Canada Post is terrible.

I've never had a problem with Canada Post, and I've gotten really luck with export/import taxes.

Interesting... it's a common perception that everything is better in Canada except for the weather and milk. Seriously, you sell it in bags?!?!

What, you don't like milk-bags?

If you want milk from that shape container, go straight to the udder!

 warboss wrote:
If you want milk from that shape container, go straight to the udder!

It's actually quite practical if you need enough milk for 3 children and 2 adults and live about 10 km from the nearest store. Much simpler that straight from the udder, which, IIRC, would requires more than 6 goats. Don't know how many cows that would be.

Only 1 with excess to spare. Even a small Jersey can produce 2-3 gallons a day, with the record being 4.6 gallons a day.

Sure, but who only owns one milk-cow?

Lots of people.

In Soviet Canukistan, government give you two milk-cow!

But they still come in bag.

Why would I own a cow? I can just get the milk for free from the farmers daughter.


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Or something like that, I'm not good with parables.

Why are we talking about milk and cows? Thought this was a thread about the Heavy Gear Kickstarter!

Time to get this thread back on track! What was the latest news? 3D rendering done, but we don't like it as the gears don't look like apes, but like more like robots or something? And of course, more delays... but Dave assures us we should see something by 2017...

You know, looking at the renders (this is all semi-educated guessery until we see models) I got to thinking: would it make more sense, from a hobbiest perspective, to cast armor skirt pieces separate, and attach them to the waist line? It would certainly make the hips easier to cast I imagine, and absolutely make them easier to re-pose.

Wasn't one of the reasons mentioned about why they couldn't properly fix the Kodiak shoulder armor plate to be a separate piece instead of a depressed inset detail because of limited space on the sprue? If I am remembering that detail correctly, that is probably why. Another might be that they're trying to keep the parts count down for ease as this is mostly a kickstarter for a starter set which by definition is aimed at new players.

Dave, any news on the HG front? Did all of the minis unlocked go to tool moulding or are some still being tweaked? You guys have been pretty good with updates so figured I'd ping here to see if progress had been made during this month since it's been 3 weeks since the last update.

Last update I saw on their forum was there is still some model tweaking, and they have started packing non-model incidentals, bases, dice, tapes, etc.

You are correct, sprue space has been cited as a cause for making as low piece count as possible. Luckily I have plenty of practice snipping/pinning/gluing those stupid XV-8 arms. I can definitely see how simpler models would be more beginner friendly, just look at Warmahoards success in bringing gamers into the hobby.

I think it's gone to print, so to speak. Dave put up a blog post about how many bases he's going to pre-pack so that they're ready for the sprues when they come back from the factory.

Look on the bright side, keeping piece count low is good considering what happened with the RTT models.

Here's a forum post from Robert: http://dp9forum.com/index.php?showtopic=17085