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 paulson games wrote:
I'm a day behind for holding my planned "Mecha Front Monday" preview so I'll have to make up with it with an extra piece.

Unless you're going to squeak it in this evening looks like we'll be due an extra piece again for our "Mecha Front Monday" preview

Today is off to a very late start. The crappy grey winter weather has me stuck in low gear, I can't wait until it warms up.

I did further work on the 3d mesh for the Quad I should have a new render later this week showing the progress.


Here's your pieces for today

I've put together the images as I think they should go. I left out one of the blank half-size pics but the rest he's posted to date are there. Some of the images needed to be rotated while others needed to be inverted. Let me know if I've got something wrong. The spoiler tags are used in case there are people who don't want the puzzle "solved" for them prematurely, so please be considerate of others and don't quote this pic without the spoiler tags.

That looks like I was thinking - I was just too lazy to put it all together like that.

Thanks Breotan - that is helping me get very excited for the KS launch of this game!

That is fantastic work, Breotan! Thanks from all the rest of us

 Breotan wrote:
Some of the images needed to be rotated while others needed to be inverted.

Getting close, but not 100% There's a bunch of inverted and flipped images as I didn't want to make it too easy


Here's two more


Here's 2 new pieces for today.










Also posted an update in my WIP modelling thread.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/511518.page

 paulson games wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
Some of the images needed to be rotated while others needed to be inverted.

Getting close, but not 100% There's a bunch of inverted and flipped images as I didn't want to make it too easy


Here's two more


Here's 2 new pieces for today.










Also posted an update in my WIP modelling thread.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/511518.page

Great looking stuff in that WIP thread. Any idea of when we will see a kickstarter? Theres a lot of good ones on the table right now, and Id hate to allocate all my funds then have yours pop up.

 paulson games wrote:
Getting close, but not 100% There's a bunch of inverted and flipped images as I didn't want to make it too easy

You got me there. Too bad for you those two pieces let me fit everything together correctly. Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!

Remember, don't repost this outside the spoiler tags in case there are people wanting to solve the puzzle themselves.

That's a thing of beauty, Breotan!

Only 3 big pieces to go...

Saw this, thought it would be perfect for Mecha Front

http://blog.spikeybits.com/2013/03/45-dropzone-commander-cityscape-table.html

 BLACKHAND wrote:
Saw this, thought it would be perfect for Mecha Front

http://blog.spikeybits.com/2013/03/45-dropzone-commander-cityscape-table.html

A nice product to be sure, but the reviewer calls it 15mm when in fact it's actually 10mm in scale. It could probably still be used, but doorways are going to look a bit small.

Still, it's a great deal!

That looks awesome. As the inital stuff will be mehcs only the scale would make the mechs look even larger. While I'm generally scaling it in reference to 15mm figures I'm sure it'd work equally well with 10mm infantry as there's no direct scale translatons for distances or movement.

I've got my own card stock buildings that I made for playtesting, but these look like they'd save a lot of time and printer ink. Between cardstock and ink I probably spent an easy $60-70 so these look every bit as good, require less cutting, and are cheaper. So it looks to be win win purchase.

I'd need to check the building dimensions, but so far it looks to be a total thumbs up to use as a source for Mecha Front scale terrain.




Edit: standard table size for mecha front is 4x4 so one set should be a solid purchase, two would let you get really densely packed tables (which is awesome).

Eilif wrote:

 BLACKHAND wrote:
Saw this, thought it would be perfect for Mecha Front

http://blog.spikeybits.com/2013/03/45-dropzone-commander-cityscape-table.html

A nice product to be sure, but the reviewer calls it 15mm when in fact it's actually 10mm in scale. It could probably still be used, but doorways are going to look a bit small.

Still, it's a great deal!

I love it, and I will be getting one for sure. The slight difference in size is fine for me, as I never use infantry in my mecha/armor games. Its all about the vehicles baby.



Also of note...The warstore has this listed in the preorder section, $35.99

I mentioned this in the DzC thread, but I'll be getting 2 sets of their card buildings. If it's usable for mecha front that is even better

Saw this, thought it would be perfect for Mecha Front

http://blog.spikeybits.com/2013/03/45-dropzone-commander-cityscape-table.html

Good god that's a fantastic Product. We'll be using that for Battletech as soon as its released. And I agree its also perfect for Mecha Front. Unless Paulson makes his own Inf go ahead and use 10mm with his mechs and destroy that city.

Yeah, I don't really mind my mechs looking bigger although I do think they will look towering with that terrain.

However, because it's meant to represent a city full of tall buildings, I believe some of them are as tall as 6" (only the highest). So while the windows and stories may look a little too short/small, the overall size should work, I think!

I showed it to my fiancee and she "tsk, tsked" disapprovingly. She looked at me and said "honey, I thought you were a hobbyist, and loved to spend time building unique pieces."

What's a man to do against such blatant endorsment of my geekiness?

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I showed it to my fiancee and she "tsk, tsked" disapprovingly. She looked at me and said "honey, I thought you were a hobbyist, and loved to spend time building unique pieces."

What's a man to do against such blatant endorsment of my geekiness?

Marry her obviously...

oh you're doing that? Um... Go for the AustonT tried and true suggestion... You'd have to be a DCM to see that though...

Marrying her is definitely the way to go

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I showed it to my fiancee and she "tsk, tsked" disapprovingly. She looked at me and said "honey, I thought you were a hobbyist, and loved to spend time building unique pieces."

What's a man to do against such blatant endorsment of my geekiness?

My wife said "cheap and we dont have to paint it? get one".

Lol that's awesome!


You'd think that a guy in his mid-30s would have better things to do on a friday night then sit around posting up mecha pictures on the internet. Fortunately for you I have no such life so here's the last 3 pieces. I even made them nice and easy.

As a guy in his mid thirties, I can only say that if they were my own mecha pics for my own mecha game, I'd be all up in your grill with them, too, Friday be damned.

Keep it rolling, dude. I'm in on the ground floor.

 paulson games wrote:
You'd think that a guy in his mid-30s would have better things to do on a friday night then sit around posting up mecha pictures on the internet.

Wait till you hit your mid-40s, you'll be on the internet on a Friday night solving other people's picture puzzles.

Once again, please be considerate of others and don't quote this pic without the spoiler tags.

Beautiful work, Breotan!! Thanks for solving it for us . I have a feeling now that you have done so, paulson will be posting the unsegemented version in here pretty soon

Fix wrote:
As a guy in his mid thirties, I can only say that if they were my own mecha pics for my own mecha game, I'd be all up in your grill with them, too, Friday be damned.

Keep it rolling, dude. I'm in on the ground floor.

I'm hitting 30 this year, is this what I have to look forward to!?

Except that I'm already right there with you, Fix

Thank you Breotan!

And seriously, get this game produced - we're all waiting to give you lots of money!

 Alpharius wrote:
Thank you Breotan!

And seriously, get this game produced - we're all waiting to give you lots of money!

After finding and reading the entirety of this and the WIP thread, let me echo Alpharius' comment with the following:

Im mid-30s as well...but I worked friday night, so no mecha fun for me.


On the note of terrain...in addition to the above mentioned DZC terrain set, I just ordered 3 sets of ruined buildings and 2 sets of billboards from Proxy Models. Ive ordered some bases from Proxy in the past, and he makes a good product. The billboards should be neat, as they are just a frame meant to use business cards as the artwork area of the billboard.

Concept look vaguely from a FB game i play (used to) Robo Rising, by any account i also shall keep and eye or two on this thread

 paulson games wrote:

 chris_valera wrote:

Paulson, ever thought about making a 28mm version and pricing it out, just to satisfy the 28mm fans?

28mm versions aren't going to happen. It's very difficult to work in that scale, the cost of making the master is insanely high and the price point for each model done in resin would be entering titan territory which isn't good when there's no supporting game they can be part of. (and I have no intention of doing a 28mm rules set)

In order to go up in scale it requires redesigning the details for entire CAD model and that's not a small task.

Oh well, thanks for the answer, even if it's not what I wanted to hear. Maybe make a 28mm version available over Shapeways?

 Valhallan42nd wrote:
WHY ISN'T THIS WORKING?

LOL, seriously. These mechs look awesome. I can only hope CAV steals these designs and makes mechs that look at least half as awesome.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com