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Yup last time mike posted on the Studio McVey forums

the house move was still not sorted (well they'd moved but I think they are still settling in),

the new factory was not done,

internet was still not easy/available

and their car had just died complelty on the way to a convention so they had to be towed home and miss it

so things are not going smoothly for them at the moment (I do hope they get sorted soon)


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Exciting news fresh from the studio McVey forums (http://studiomcvey.com/forums/)

"Posted Today, 11:09 AM

Just shooting the unboxing video today - sorry for the delay on that. Everything we do seems to take twice as long as we plan for at the moment...

We're slowly getting more organised though.

Hopefully it will be posted before the end of the day.

cheers!

mike"

so with luck (and the favour of the internet gods) we might see what's 'in the box' by the end of the day!


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What a busy day, Mike also posted about the 'sorry for the delay' free figure

"Hi guys.

Just a quick post on this.

The bonus figure isn't going to be another homage character - but someone squarely part of the SW narrative. A little preview of the Firebrand faction really.

cheers!

mike"

I'm not sure whether to hope for a plastic one of the cool Firebrand figures out in metal already, or something new and cool for the faction

Link to the video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ou7w4sA4g&feature=player_embedded

yeah,
for the lazy...




Nice...

Panic..

Wow. That looks great. I love the tiles.

I wonder though - I bought a second set of tiles, so do I get two more sets of counters and tokens? I hope so, as I'd love to have 4 rail cars!

yeah,
360p ...



Panic...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Wow. That looks great. I love the tiles.

I wonder though - I bought a second set of tiles, so do I get two more sets of counters and tokens? I hope so, as I'd love to have 4 rail cars!

I remember this coming up, so yes you do get a the rail cars with the extra tile sets (and I presume more counters too), so extra rail cars all round!

Fantastic! That's great news.

From Facebook, a painted figure to Studio McVey's version of what they call "gaming standard" which they reportedly "put some paint" on.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=519520811411285&set=a.194154957281207.52502.107948829235154&type=1&relevant_count=1

I think they "dipped " and dry brushed it! lol

Ooh, looking good! I don't know why, but I was sort of expecting a vacuformed plastic 'shell' which individual models could lie in, but I'm probably mistaken
Doesn't really matter, wasn't exactly planning to carry this around in the box anyway! those tiles took lovely too, I'm glad I got "we've got movement!" in the end; this'll fill up a DH or so session nicely several times

Bolognesus wrote:
Ooh, looking good! I don't know why, but I was sort of expecting a vacuformed plastic 'shell' which individual models could lie in, but I'm probably mistaken
Doesn't really matter, wasn't exactly planning to carry this around in the box anyway! those tiles took lovely too, I'm glad I got "we've got movement!" in the end; this'll fill up a DH or so session nicely several times

The miniatures come unassembled, so a vacformed tray wouldn't really work that well
It's nice to see some movement on this; the video makes it all look great!

Would have been nice to see some of the actual miniatures assembled. I'm kind of surprised they pulled them off the sprue and bagged them, seams like an expensive and unnecessary process.

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Bolognesus wrote:
Ooh, looking good! I don't know why, but I was sort of expecting a vacuformed plastic 'shell' which individual models could lie in, but I'm probably mistaken
Doesn't really matter, wasn't exactly planning to carry this around in the box anyway! those tiles took lovely too, I'm glad I got "we've got movement!" in the end; this'll fill up a DH or so session nicely several times

The miniatures come unassembled, so a vacformed tray wouldn't really work that well
It's nice to see some movement on this; the video makes it all look great!

as I said, mistake is mine will probably be ordering the foam sometime soon, just to be able to take a single set somewhere for some basic games

 Andrew1975 wrote:
Would have been nice to see some of the actual miniatures assembled. I'm kind of surprised they pulled them off the sprue and bagged them, seams like an expensive and unnecessary process.

The moulds they have will produce single figures will no sprue to remove, they'll just drop into a bin.

Many will be single part so just need to be popped onto the bases. Only a few of them are multipart like the grendler

one of the moulds for a samaritan trooper is shown below, the picture was taken while it was being fine tuned, hence the red gunk use to show where it's meeting etc

Nicole little video there! The guy had a painfully slow way of turning the pages but the actual product looks great, now show me the minis already! Interested to see how the plastics look in comparison to the resin masters, I am expecting them to e quite a bit softer looking but I can live with that.

Is that "gaming standard" model a few post up plastic? If so it looks like it retained more detail than I first thought.


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Never mind, answered my own question, yes, yes it is plastic!

Yes that's one of the Plastic minis in the post above - Mike said in the video the detail isn't quite as good as the resins but better than the metal versions - I've painted a resin version of that same mini above and I don't see to much difference in the detail. Ali was planning to paint up up a plastic and resin the exact same at some stage to see if people could spot which is which

Do we know what sort of plastic?

Is it the stuff you use regular plastic glue with, or the hard plastic that requires super glue?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Do we know what sort of plastic?

Is it the stuff you use regular plastic glue with, or the hard plastic that requires super glue?

I believe at some point they stated it's the harder style like PP uses. I think it was in one of the KS updates(maybe the comments as opposed to the actual update), but I'm too lazy to find it for everyone.

Yep Plastiresin you will need superglue to glue them together plastic glue will not work on these.

Ok so they’re like the SDE minis. That makes sense.

As long as they’re not as soul-crushingly difficult to fit together like the SDE minis we should be ok.

Well, a lot of them were supposed to be either single-piece or two-part models (just a separate gun, or something).
that grendlr at 7 or so pieces could just be a boatload of fun though, in this material (not that it's bad but it can warp a little, I believe. should be quite similar to mantic's restic which can turn modelling n00bies to tears in some models ). make sure to have some liquid green stuff standing by

Wow. I thought these were going to be sprues, too. Oh, well.

 Breotan wrote:
Wow. I thought these were going to be sprues, too. Oh, well.

Why does that matter?

well, most sprues are plastic cement compatible - I seem to remember these models aren't your bog standard polystyrene.
many people associate PS with sprues and vice versa, so I think that's it.

I could be mistaken on the material, though

Ah - good catch there!

Yes, if we can't use regular plastic cement, that is a bummer.

Still, I expect we'll all be able to soldier on!

Mike McVey wrote:
The plastics will be somewhere in between - not quite as hard as styrene, but close. The same as Privateer Press plastics. The detail is really good and they paint up very well.

CMON wrote:
[The miniatures are made from the] exact same stuff as Warmachine, Super Dungeon Explore etc; i.e. plastic, just not polystyrene. The only resin miniature in the box will be the special edition Kara that ships with Biohazard level pledges.

from the BGG "what we know so far" page/thread/thingy.
so no plastic cement but CA, and be prepared to do some heating and bending here and there on the multiparts

TBH the minis do look uncomplicated. I doubt we’re going to have an “SDE Dragon” level problems.

Funny, that dragon doesn't look all that complicated in the assembly instruction sheet. 11 parts incl. base, and they're all slotted it seems. Did it just not fit together?

Exactly.

The SDE models are rife with problems, including pieces that are tiny and have miniscule contact points as well as parts that don’t line up or fit together properly. The Dragon is the best example as it has multiple different pieces that must go together in a set order otherwise it doesn’t quite work – kind’ve like a 3d jigsaw puzzle that has to be put together simultaneously otherwise the whole thing falls apart. The instructions on the website helped make an unbearable situation slightly less torturous, but it wasn’t good. This is why the minis in the SDE expansions come pre-built.

Gabe from Penny Arcade put it best when he said that after building the SDE models the last thing he wanted to do was actually play SDE. I had much the same view, as did a lot of people. Thankfully the game is awesome, so once you get over the maddening frustrating of constructing the models you’re left with a great party game.

I do not foresee the same problems with the Sedition Wars minis, despite the materiel they’re made from.

ah, I see. well, we'll have to see how much grief those grendlrs will cause, but going by the parts picture I seem to remember from the mcvey forum a while ago we'll probably just be GSing a rather nasty gap or two, but no complex fit issues luckily