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 JoshInJapan wrote:
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...

I'm in on the aibrush stencil campaign, too, and will also be using them on my mecha front models (as well as Dropzone Commander models). Sweet that he made the smaller version of the digi camo and hexo camo for 10-15mm scale vehicles.

 RiTides wrote:
Sweet that he made the smaller version of the digi camo and hexo camo for 10-15mm scale vehicles.

That's what tipped me over the edge into backing this one.

I'm thinking of painting Blackfrost à la Captain Canuck, all white and red with the maple leaf prominently displayed, would it be too conspicuous on the battlefield?

Massive robots clanking around.
And you're worried about the paint job being conspicuous?

Most of us seem to think camouflage is a good thing.

Even though they tower over 3 storey buildings.

Yeah, even as a massive hulk, if the enemy takes an extra few seconds to lock on to you, that's an extra few seconds to take them out first.

The great debate of visual acquisition vs badass sensors continues!

EIther Paulson settles the debate or just paint whatever you want and not worry about it.

Offical models will feature camo or at least standard military drab paint schemes.

People are always welcome to paint their stuff how they wish, but offical game fluff will depict the stuff patterned after modern day paint schemes. I've yet to see any real world nations offerring up their tanks in bright colors or in a set of racing flames.

Real world nations don't have vehicle mounted combat lasers and advanced sensor suites :-)

Real World Nations do have vehicle mounted sensor suites, radar, infrared, ultraviolet, thermal vision, laser scanning, etc.

Modern camouflage techniques and stealth materials can help confuse these targeting systems, aiding in survival, and elimination of targets in turn.

Logically, as has happened in the past, in the future with improvement in sensors, camo and stealth will improve to combat it.

Though Flame-Pattern mechs would be interesting.

mechafront.com is down?

He must be updating it.

If camouflage was good enough for battleships, I think it's fine to put on 5 meter tall robots

 paulson games wrote:

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.

Wait. I thought you were only releasing the limited edition resins currently, with metal models coming out for the the Kickstarter. I may be confused because I kind of blocked out everything but the word Kickstarter. So, what is the release schedule like now?

Having a billing issue with my cc company and until its fixed the site will be down for a few days.



Right now I'd doing resin, once I have the line rounded out a bit more and I shift stuff to general production they'll likely be in metal. (Still exploring final options)

I'm happy I got them in resin, to be honest. They are light, easy to work with, no pinning.

Agreed, they're fantastic in resin! I know it might not be feasible at scale production, but it's awesome for now.

Any ETA on the website coming back up? Makes me nervous because I'm super excited for more mechs.

The sky is not falling.

The Mecha Front site willbe down for a while still, in the meantime I've moved the models to the Paulson Games website. www.paulsongames.com

Any chance we'll be seeing more "Mecha Front Mondays" with news soon?

I don't have much that's newsworthy for mondays atm, but I should have some more stuff soonish.



Painting Contest II

I'm going to hold another painting contest, which will run from now until Nov 15th.

You can enter any of the mecha you wish, with the exception of models that were submitted for the first painting contest. Either email me submissions or post them on the facebook page.

I'll pick the top 3 that I like best and the painters will recieve a free model of their choice.

Weapon Packs are now available on the Paulson Games website.

Man, your stuff has kinda been growing on me. Sort of brings me back to those old days in which I'd watch the Battletech cartoon obsessively!

Do you already have background and such for this stuff? If so, where can I find it?

I have a basic game setting together, it had been posted on the site but it's down ATM. I'll have it reposted on the Paulson Games site along with the 1.4 version of the rules.




(I'm making a few revisions for the combined arms units and will be uploading everything once the cards are done)

Despite being invaded by family for a full week and enduring a computer crash I am still alive...

Things have been moving slowly but progress is happening. Here's where I'm at with the NorAm Lynx (medium mecha) it's about 60% done and I'm hoping to have it finished up by end of the week. Lots of work to do in the meantime. (The lower legs and shoulders are still only blocked out and have no details yet).

Regarding the camo vs. no camo discussion, I think the model suggested by MWO would be a good compromise between "realistic" sci fi sensors available and the need for camo.
Even if you have a target lock that is boxed by the HUD, with direct fire weapons you would still need to aim and such and camo would definitely make it more difficult to target sensitive components, or moving mechs in a busy environment, especially when up against a building or in a forest etc.
Essentially with the sci fi sensors, you know what direction to aim in but no guarantee you would hit.
Missiles not so much though.
About the battleship camo, that was about thwarting range finders and such in initial exchanges buying the targeted ship time to return fire or evade.

Wow...really digging that new mecha! By the way, sorry if this is a rude question, but where do you get your models printed? You do that yourself?

Check out www.moddler.com he has a couple hi-res printing options but they get fairly expensive.

Hmm, I noticed that yeah. Good prints are still pricey.

The stuff you've put out so far is pretty inspiring, you manage to put the right amount of detail in there. I noticed that I sometimes go overkill with it because it's so easy to do in 3d software. The challenge is to keep in mind what remains possible to print, but also what will work visually.

So yeah, keep up the good work!

Awesome to see a medium mecha in the works! NorAm is the faction I like so I'll definitely get at least one of these when it's ready