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Javin wrote:
Sigh,

Now I am going to have to buy some of those to test out. Thanks Steve for making me spend more money .

I do what I can

Hey guys, my order arrived and I thought I'd share my thoughts. I've tried to include pictures, but only when I actually post will I find out if they worked! The details were crisp and while I have not yet completed a 100% inspection, thus far there have not been any miscasts or issues with any of the pieces. They arrives in Aust within a week and I am absurdly happy with my choice to put the order in.

Round 3 now at trying to figure out how to work links, this time with some directions from Alpharius

Don't know if it is just me but your pics aint working mate

Nope, it's not just you. I'm honestly useless at linking, I'm messaged Alpharius begging and pleading him to show me how to do them correctly. The pics, should you wish to see them in the mean time, are on pg 2 of the link in my sig. This is not a plug! Just a stop-gap until I get the image embedding sorted haha

There is no sig either...

 Treadheadz wrote:

There is no sig either...

Oh, that's weird, it's showing up for me. It's on page 2 of this link: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/584193.page#6766513

I didn't realize you were linking from the Dakka Gallery!

When you're on the image page in your gallery, just copy the link that is for 'FORUMS' and paste it in a thread:



Hope that helps - good luck!

Love the helmet! Figure looks great, but the scope looks oversized :(

Wooooooooooooooooooooo! Thanks to the advice from Alpharius, I got the links to work! They're in the spoiler a few posts up, this is an exciting moment for me. Thanks Alph!

General Hobbs wrote:
Love the helmet! Figure looks great, but the scope looks oversized :(

I agree entirely, glad you like the helmet! I actually decided to GS a scope (or check out a suggestion made by LDD) to rectify that, it looked good on a lasgun, but MRM's bits are more streamlined and the scope is just too bulky.

If looking for great alternate scopes, give Anvil Industries a try: http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/The-Armoury/Ammo

@Akh: I could probably do a few and they won't look like they're made of oatmeal, referring to those massive pictures posted above.

Was there ever a sprue with just autopistol hands, similar to the laser pistol sprue?

(just curious, someone was asking about autopistols)

They are coming, along with hand flamers.



Super proud to be an official part of Adepticon this year. Here's a great thing we put together for the Charity Raffle, from the press release:

Mad Robot Miniatures is a proud sponsor of the AdeptiCon 2015 Charity Raffle and truly excited to offer a unique hobby opportunity to a lucky winner. That person will receive a custom made set of heads, in 28mm heroic scale, based on their face and the faces of up to 4 of their friends. That's right! A full custom set of heads that look like you and up to 4 of your buds! Mad Robot will consult with the winner, create digital sculpts, and cast them up for you to use on your favorite models. This process will take some time...trust us, it will be worth it!

You can buy your charity raffle tickets to support Wounded Warrior Project and Hospice of Michigan at cart.adepticon.org. 100% of the proceeds generated from this raffle are split between both charitable organizations. So help out two great causes and give yourself a chance to win some cool prizes.


-Steve

BrookM wrote:If looking for great alternate scopes, give Anvil Industries a try

Thanks heaps for the link BrookM, actually the third person I've had direct me that way! I really like the sci-fi and square aesthetics of their Republic range, and ordered a few of their legs for ODST conversions. The poses are dynamic and great, but I'm not sure how they cast their minis, but the texture of the legs are really quite grainy - particularly on flat armour surfaces, their fatigues seem fine. It's certainly only noticeable on closer inspection, and can be managed with some persistent scraping and filing, but I don't know how well I could smooth something so small and delicate. That said, I'll pick up a set and see what can be done with them, hopefully they won't be too hard to clean.
I've included pics of an Anvil Industry set of Republic Grenadier legs and a Mad Robot Mini's set of CDF legs - both are how they came out of the pack. The smoothness of the MRM legs is a big boon to me, as I'll be using repetitive glazing to paint them, I really need to spend considerable time addressing the graininess of the AI legs or else that will really show up in my painted mini.

mad robot wrote:@Akh: I could probably do a few and they won't look like they're made of oatmeal, referring to those massive pictures posted above.

MRM's scopes? I'm sold! Haha. I'll pick up a set in my next order, though I might have to wait till I've painted a few pieces from my current order, or I'll actually have to face the fact I have far more toy soldiers than I'm ever likely to finish painting

Pretty sure I know the answer but is there any chance the Harook bird-men (who I have a goodly force for in 15mm) will ever make it to this scale?

privateer4hire wrote:
Pretty sure I know the answer but is there any chance the Harook bird-men (who I have a goodly force for in 15mm) will ever make it to this scale?

At some point, I would like to do some some alien figures. When then does happen, the Harook will probably be first on the list.

It will be at least another year before I will consider it.

<sighs> Do you need to be at Adepticon to enter/win the raffle? lol.

General Hobbs wrote:


<sighs> Do you need to be at Adepticon to enter/win the raffle? lol.

I'm fairly certain you do, lol.

 mad robot wrote:

privateer4hire wrote:
Pretty sure I know the answer but is there any chance the Harook bird-men (who I have a goodly force for in 15mm) will ever make it to this scale?

At some point, I would like to do some some alien figures. When then does happen, the Harook will probably be first on the list.

It will be at least another year before I will consider it.

Good to know it's at least a possibility some time in the future.

any news on when the 5-man squad/fireteam options will be available...?

Building off the idea of our Custom Squad Builder, we now give you the chance to customize a 5-man team. You get to mix and match any of the parts from our massive catalog of conversion bits to make the perfect fire team. We also throw in your choice of a special weapon and officer arms as well.

Check it out in our WEBSTORE

Sweeeeeeeeet! Can't wait for the chance to make a interesting fire, er, rescue team, special commando team, etc.

Now to wait for the command squad/team parts.

Those are being worked on currently.

For those who want to directly participate in how these projects come together, head over to our Facebook and offer your comment.


-Steve

is there something wrong with the postage calculator on your site?

added the 10man cdf squad to my cart - postage is £5.97

but try to buy the 5man squad/fireteam and postage shoots up to £7.73...?

would have thought the postage should be less on the 5man squad as there is less than half the stuff...?
(no shoulder pads or heavy weapon upgrade)

eg

There was a misplaced decimal in the CDF squad. It has been fixed.

 mad robot wrote:
Those are being worked on currently.

For those who want to directly participate in how these projects come together, head over to our Facebook and offer your comment.


-Steve

March shall be interesting! Woot!

Glad to see you're still making miniatures that people want to buy. My facebook is glitched..again.. preventing me from posting on non-friend's timelines so I thought I would post here.
Post-apoc skirmish - Yeah.. I have the Dark Age rulebook.. and find it interesting, additional models for that could be neat.

Sci-Fi mounts - Blightwheel has some cool birds and maxmini has a lizardy type thing.. someone else has a taun taun type critter but I can't remember who and the old Void minis that are available through Scotia Grendle has some neat dino looking mounts. Perhaps something ram-like or a giant cat type creature.. possibly with additional front legs.. or maybe some kind of amphibious creature like a newt or maybe something mechanical like a Star Wars AT-RT?

Tanks with sponsons or without.. I am almost to the point of hating gothic sci-fi and over-use of WWII type vehicles is a staple of that.. most modern tanks don't have sponsons. Most concept art of sci-fi tanks don't even have other hull-mounted weapons past the main gun and maybe a cupola mounted support weapon or two.

The upcoming heavy weapon kits, you might consider also selling the tripod separately for people who have one or two gw kits and just really need that... btw those lascannons are nice. I like that they have more of a hard-sci-fi look.

On another note - Dropships.. nobody will go near them in 28mm.. Antenociti keeps teasing (for years now) and all these awesome 15mm and 10mm dropships are coming out but for 28mm we're stuck with ancient kits from Old Crow etc or GW. That's unsat.

Mad Robot has typically been all about the Geedub proxies for the last.. I dunno.. forever.. perhaps consider doing some 28mm content for rules that don't have official ranges in 28mm scale. For instance: Tomorrow's War, 5150, Stargrunt 2, Fast and Dirty, and Cleared to Engage.
I know a lot of people are currently exploring 40k alternatives for gaming. It'd be nice to have more options..

It's probably just me, but I'd like giant wolves for mounts. Not GW style cyborg wolves, either. Just large, normsl looking wolves with riding gear on them. Just imagine your IG Rough Riders charging into battle on giant wolves. Who wouldn't want that?

something else I personally wouldn't mind seeing would be some true-scale sized heads. I'd like to convert Infinity figures, but the only company I can think of that makes heads in the right scale is Statuesque.

I would personally love some robotic mounts/horses - have just started reading 'Prospero Burns' and there is mention of a IG unit that have robotic steeds (edit: these guys: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tupelov_Lancers), and would love to model something based on that...

 Nicky J wrote:
I would personally love some robotic mounts/horses - have just started reading 'Prospero Burns' and there is mention of a IG unit that have robotic steeds (edit: these guys: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tupelov_Lancers), and would love to model something based on that...

If only I have been waiting for someone to produce cybernetic steeds for years fingers crossed