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Orders will start heading out fri-sat.

As I get the orders processed and the labels are printed out you should get an email from paypal with the tracking info.

Excellent, cheers

Images of the Goshawk Beta

Come to poppa.

I've had the honor of being asked to attend as a guest speaker at U-Con in Nov.

I'll be giving a seminar on aspects of game design, sculpting, and general Q&A stuff about being part of the gaming industry.

I'll also be hosting games and demos of Mecha Front in a "game with the designer segment". There'll be plenty of freebies from my Paulson Games bits selection and I'll even arrange to give away a few of my Mecha Front models.

So if you want to throw down for a game, or just want to learn to play mark your calendars now.



Nov 22 - Nov 24 U-Con Gaming Convention

U-Con hosts independent gamemasters running miniatures games, board games, role-playing games, collectible card games, and special events throughout the weekend. They will also be hosting tournaments for Warmachine, Warhammer 40K, Dominion, and Magic: The Gathering.

http://ucon-gaming.org



(If my schedule allows I want to try and get in a couple rounds of Dominion)



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This should hopefully be the last update until this weekend as I need to lock myself away in the casting dungeon.


Goshawk Gamma pics.

 paulson games wrote:
I've had the honor of being asked to attend as a guest speaker at U-Con in Nov.
I'll be giving a seminar on aspects of game design, sculpting, and general Q&A stuff about being part of the gaming industry.

Congrats! Any chance you might record the audio of the seminar, for those of us who can't make it?

Got my shipping notice . Woot!

Me too! You cast like the Flash, Jon.

I'm due for a couple of games of Mecha Front in the next few weeks. One with Ironbovin, and another one with a friend of mine who got me into BTech, 15 years ago. I hope he likes the gridless experience.

Got my beta Goshawk today!



Everything in the baggie. Laid out the pieces:



Flashing fell right off. Here's the worst mold line on the entire mech:



Here she is, put together (weapons magnetized for future weapons releases), primered shiny metal, a crap coat of grey and a base coat of city camo grey (detail and wash to come later):





Sorry for the crap photos, but thought people might like to see the kit!

Looks good

I try not to let out any stuff with heavy flash or mold slip. Minor amounts of flash that flake off with a finger nail (or a toothbrush) is ok but anything heavier goes into my miscast pile. (which is rare) Glad you're happy with the model

Very happy and looking forward to the haevier mechs!

Got my 2 NorAm raptors, so I have all 3 now . Very happy with the casts!

silly question .. where are those flat round bases from? Been seeing em a lot lately, I'd like to get em for some wobbly trees. I was using GW's old flat titan bases for them before when you could get em in a big bag for cheap, but now they only sell them in packs of 3 for like $8,000.

They're made by Proxie Models

Yes, the Proxie models bases are great! I am a big fan

Got my three Goshawks in, but I've been painting my Malifaux up, so I just dry fit a few pieces. They look great so far!

I must have been ahead in the queue, or Canada Post has just opened a Paulson--->Mathieu pipeline, because mine came in today. And the package didn't jam the mailbox like another package did, so yay!

The cockpit section on my Alpha kit had 3 gates, but 0 mold slippage or lines. Smooth as a baby's bum.

Glad that stuff has been showing up quickly and that the sculpt quality is up to what was expected I always push to make the best stuff I can and your feedback helps me determine if I'm hitting that goal or what I may need to make adjustments to.


Next mecha in the works will be the Blackfrost medium. Initially I'd been planning on the NorAm lynx, and the mercs were going to be released only once the main two factions were done. However I realized that by offering the merc mecha earlier I could put out a mech that both factions could use equally. That way the wait for a given faction wouldn't be as awkward. It also lets me get a third visual style out there as everyone has different preferences.

Also I should have weapon packs available within the next two weeks. Depending on interest I might create another set of weapons for each of the light mechs to have a delta configuration. Is there interest in making sets of rare earth magnets available? Or is that something you guys are already properly situated with?

Lastly I tried uploading the rules to the website but I'm not sure if the download feature is working correctly. (it's the same copy as what's available on the yahoo groups page) If you try and download them from the mecha front site and run into any issues please let me know so I can get ahold of tech support. I haven't used any digital products on the site before so I'm not sure if everything is set up correctly yet.

I know most people here must be swimming in magnets, but I always find it a hassle to shop for these on eBay, and I don't like paying 15$ for 10 magnets here locally either. If you were to bump the price up by a buck (or two) to include a set of magnets that will fit, I would pay for the convenience (value added).

That being said, I will enjoy weapon packs... but my finances have to catch up first (long story involving an overzealous accountant).

And I was wondering when Blackfrost would make an appearance. The design for it is top notch, I think it would be great to introduce it as a kit. Plus since we are in playtesting mode, it's not as if we aren't doing plenty of "count as."

I like both the idea of doing the blackfrost medium first, and offering magnets to fit the sockets you've designed.

 RiTides wrote:
I like both the idea of doing the blackfrost medium first, and offering magnets to fit the sockets you've designed.

What he said.

Aww yiss. Blackfrost stuffs.

Aww yiss. Weapon packs.

Aww yiss. easy to use magnet packs.

katfude wrote:
Aww yiss. Blackfrost stuffs.

Aww yiss. Weapon packs.

Aww yiss. easy to use magnet packs.

What he said. >.>

My first Goshawk. I hope you like it.

It rocks, Mathieu!

That looks pretty sweet. I'm trying to avoid spending any money on this before the Kickstarter starts, but you make it look too good...

I bought into this Kickstarter:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/550600.page

for the express purpose of painting up these mecha. Hopefully it will improve my camo-painting technique...

That's pretty sweet the camo came out great. I'm likewise painting up orange cockpits on my bloc mechs which is a departure from the red or blue lenses I typically do.

(also good improvement on your camera quality).

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
That looks pretty sweet. I'm trying to avoid spending any money on this before the Kickstarter starts, but you make it look too good...

For the time being I'm holding off on doing a KS in favor of just doing these models a single release at a time. (I'd posted about it on facebook, but I think I forgot on here) The KS route creates a lot of extra hoops to jump through when it's faster & easier for me to get people the models as I finish them vs piling it up for one big release. So instead of KS I've changed my plan to trickle these out 1-2 mechs at a time.



Josh: Those digital ones are very promising, looks very much like something I'll be backing and a very good excuse for me to finally get an airbrush.

Hmmm... maybe we can convince him to do a pattern for the stripper silhouette camo?

 paulson games wrote:

Josh: Those digital ones are very promising, looks very much like something I'll be backing and a very good excuse for me to finally get an airbrush.

Hmmm... maybe we can convince him to do a pattern for the stripper silhouette camo?

He seems pretty open to suggestions. And, yes, this may inspire me to finally buy an airbrush.

I just wish I'd known that the airbrush I was buying only had 3 tip sizes and none of them are small enough for modelling purposes. Aside from big swathes of paint or undercoating, that is. So I'm still doing everything by hand...

Thank you, the camera is my fiancee's, and her tripod, and our shop's improvised studio. The lighting was directional, unfortunately, because we took out the neon strips and it was night-time.


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If you ever change your mind about a KS... having your molds ready and more than renders is the way to go, I think. For one, you'd look a lot more serious than other companies going into it.

Speaking of which, had another playtest on tuesday, have to do a bit of writing on the newsgroup.