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 Medium of Death wrote:
BTP get previews?

Didn't they become CB partners or something?

 -Loki- wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
BTP get previews?

Didn't they become CB partners or something?

Yeah. They're listed at the bottom of CB's main site under "partners"

That's interesting, I wonder if they are doing painting for CB now as well? I know that one guy's painting of Infinity stuff for Blue Table Painting was pretty awesome (he posts in the 'community' thread in the Infinity section), so I suppose it would fit!

Mini looks nice, quite subtly done - just the pants and face plate helping to show that it's Yu Jing.

Nice, I really love how the photos are getting better and better on the setup!

Great sculpt too.

 Pacific wrote:
That's interesting, I wonder if they are doing painting for CB now as well? I know that one guy's painting of Infinity stuff for Blue Table Painting was pretty awesome (he posts in the 'community' thread in the Infinity section), so I suppose it would fit!

That's a good question - I'm really curious as to what Blue Table Painting is doing and/or providing for CB on INFINITY.

I think it's just that BTP runs that whole "Valhalla" event which a lot of CB's people have gone to over the years.

Impressive. Loving the clean bright blue.

In a jump back to the models that just came out, the models in the Morat starter weigh in at 110g total, rather than the typical 45-50g of the other starters...

Isn't BTP the Sri Lankan company with bad reputation?

 Alkasyn wrote:
Isn't BTP the Sri Lankan company with bad reputation?

I don't think so. 99.99% sure that BTP is all US based.

but you're correct on the reputation thing...

BTP is in Utah, and very much has a 'hit or miss' reputation, along with some other 'issues' in their past.

I believe the company you're thinking of is "Painted Figs", maybe?

Ill join the off topic, but I had the impression BTP has a really good reputation.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
Ill join the off topic, but I had the impression BTP has a really good reputation.

No. Mixed at best.
Always been a little surprised that Corvus has kept them close.

Back on-topic, the Raiden looks great. Unfortunately only the HRL profile is really worth it in the sectorial IMO. I guess given most of the Japanese forces' very short range weaponry the mid-range option from Spitfire plus xvisor is okay, but really it's not playing to the army's strengths.

In vanilla YJ though, the Raiden plus the standard camo forces (Daofei and Guilang) actually make a decent shooty camo force much more possible. Not Nomad or Ariadna sort of possible, but at least there as an option.

I'm going to buy one to convert, I guess. And holy crap is that paintjob good.

 BobbaFett wrote:
Raiden Seibutai

Just because it was at the bottom of the last page.

And now of this one...I did not think this through!

 plastictrees wrote:

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
Ill join the off topic, but I had the impression BTP has a really good reputation.

No. Mixed at best.
Always been a little surprised that Corvus has kept them close.

Likely because their "partners" let them keep their website up at no or almost no cost to CB itself.

Game related, Please be Gecko not Toni (sorry PanO players).

I think most people are hoping for the Gecko, even Pan-O players!

Noir wrote:

 plastictrees wrote:

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
Ill join the off topic, but I had the impression BTP has a really good reputation.

No. Mixed at best.
Always been a little surprised that Corvus has kept them close.

Likely because their "partners" let them keep their website up at no or almost no cost to CB itself.

Game related, Please be Gecko not Toni (sorry PanO players).

They're Geckos.

The bases are flat decking with holes punched into them, which is Nomad.

Well I think the Swiss guard with rocket launcher in the new paint scheme looks awesome! I really hope for a new Pan-O boxset as some of their models are showing their age and not in a good way...

the new scheme looks like it'd be easier to match up than the previous one. It also seems to actually use blue as the base color now, which is nice since now it'll match the fluff about PanO wearing blue armor.

The old paint job:

 Pacific wrote:
I think most people are hoping for the Gecko, even Pan-O players!

Sir, you're very far from the truth.

The qualifier there being 'most' - and you and I both know there's a lot of Nomad lovers out there!

Them damn dirty trick Nomad lovers!

As a Pan-O sectorial player, I assure you that I am in no way hoping for the Gecko. We ASA players want Toni. That's it. No other TAG, just Toni. Unlikely anytime soon though, since we just got "Angry Jesus". But sometime this year... tired of using a Jotums as a proxy :(

Looks like Monday will bring a huge amount of previews.

 Alpharius wrote:
The qualifier there being 'most' - and you and I both know there's a lot of Nomad lovers out there!

Them damn dirty trick Nomad lovers!

Yes !

I didn't mean all Pan-O players, I just meant those other than Knight or Red Harvest..

The fact that the Swiss got repainted is a pretty damn big sign that the NCA Army Box is coming.

I for one, really am hoping the Bolts look awesome. The other box slots are likely to be new sculpts as well.

I'd speculate a new Aquila, new Hexa Combi Rifle, 3 Bolts, and a new something else. Perhaps a fusilier with a heavy weapon.

Is there anything on these Bolts aside from a few mentions of them on a forum? I'm curious. I enjoy NCA, even if it does tend to load on TO Camo for some reason...

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Is there anything on these Bolts aside from a few mentions of them on a forum? I'm curious. I enjoy NCA, even if it does tend to load on TO Camo for some reason...

They're Wildcat equivalents.

What you're looking at is a Linkable unit with a new weapon type, a combi rifle with a "mine launcher", and specialist options.

The NCA starter set seems to be:
3x Bolts
1x Auxilia with Auxbot
1x "Basic" Hexa option.

Angel is now repainting the Aquila Guard with MULTI Rifle to the "new" PanO color scheme.

NCA box--confirmededed.