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griffen127 wrote:
I really like your quads. Can you show a size shot next to a battle tech figure. Thanks

The quads will be a while, here's how the light mechs scale vs BTech stuff. The mechs use a 60mm base, when the quads are finished they will use a 120mm base. (possibly larger)

 RiTides wrote:
Sweet, I'll be ordering a few of them today or tomorrow!

Just one question, I need to check when I get home but I thought you had offered weapon packs for the Raptor on the site, but I don't see them now. Any chance you'll be making an alternately armed Lynx?

I'll be doing additional weapons, not sure how quickly but at the very minimum I'll be making a set of lasers for it and also railguns. They'll all be based on the same mounting point so if you pick up the mechs you'll be able to use them with the later weapons just fine. The joints are going to be on a universal size for each weight class so you can mount weapons on any of the factions. It'll take a bit to fill out but I plan to do option packs for all the available weapons in each weight class.

I held off on starting on the extra weapons ATM as a set of two weapons runs almost as much as printing whole mech. The pricing gets weird when you are dealing with lots of individual pieces, it's largely based on how much prep time it takes to set up as opposed to just material.

Any chance you could answer if weapon packs will be offered for the medium mech, paulson?

Ninja edit

Well, that's two ordered for me then and I'll order the other weapon packs when they become available.

Is the light weapons pack still available, though? In the end I think I'd like to have a quad, a few heavies and mediums, but a bunch of lights. Tempting to order more of them now since they're running low (for the raptor). Any chance you could extend that one to 150 copies, since it's so popular?

And am I just blind, and the weapons pack is still on the site for them and I'm just missing it?

Thanks for the ref picture. I can't wait for a quad. So "a while" like over a year? Thanks

I'll get the light weapon packs up again shortly, I'm in the process of making molds and this super cold weather is stalling things. Silicone & resin are very sensitive to the environment and do not respond well to cold.

Quads I'm hoping to have ready by summer but that's a very loose estimate.

Ah, well no problem about their not being up at the moment, just want to make sure I can get them when the time comes

Hope you keep the raptor available in resin while the others are still (rather than limiting it to 100). It can help fund the other mechs

It would be great if we could eventually see one of the Mecha Front miniatures painted. Other than that, you are doing a great job!

 Sebibreve wrote:
It would be great if we could eventually see one of the Mecha Front miniatures painted. Other than that, you are doing a great job!

There are a whole bunch of painted examples on the Paulson Games Facebook page.

Painted by Tim Williamson (shown with 15mm infantry)








Painted by Darrin Teigen (shown with 10mm infantry)

9 slots left on the pre-orders, at the current rate everything should be filled up by week's end. If that is the case it'll be out for printing on Monday

What resolution are the masters printed at?

Whatever it is, between that and the prep he does to them before casting, the final parts look fantastic.

I think the build layers are under 3-5 microns but I'm not exactly sure what resolution it is, I just tell my print guy do the best you can do, he charges a bunch of cash, and the result is insanely smooth and crisp which is all I need to know about the process. I do a bit of hand clean up on the masters but it's very minimal. Despite all the stuff I use computers for I am not a techy guy, when it comes to the specs I let my printing guy handle it, I just build models and do the casting.


Back on page 25 are some sorts of a raw master that's had no final cleaning done yet, they arrive pretty much good to go the only things I need to touch up are occasional rough spots from the support material or any tiny chips (which is rare).

Raw master print:

That master print is a thing of beauty!

I'm going to have to opt out of the Lynx, unfortunately. I had to bring my geriatric cat to the vet today... let's just say I could have paid for a whole phalanx of those beauties with that money.

Those painted mechs look awesome Jon!


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 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I'm going to have to opt out of the Lynx, unfortunately. I had to bring my geriatric cat to the vet today... let's just say I could have paid for a whole phalanx of those beauties with that money.

Oh, I've been there. My wife once rescued a cat that wound up costing more in medical bills than a mortgage payment!

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I'm going to have to opt out of the Lynx, unfortunately. I had to bring my geriatric cat to the vet today... let's just say I could have paid for a whole phalanx of those beauties with that money.

One of mine had to have 2 teeth out just before Xmas which was a blow (they're totally worth it though)

I totally understand. My dog gets to the doctor more often than I do, when I'm sick I typically tough it out as that's my call but when he's ill he goes to the vet cause I'm a good daddy.

I had an emergency visit to the vet a while back, I'd just got back from GenCon and was just getting ready to take my dog out for a walk when he got attacked on my front steps by my hillbilly neighbor's pit bull who was running loose at 1 in the morning. Which meant a very expensive trip to a 24hr emergency hospital for stitches as my dog got his stomach and groin got tore open pretty badly. (my dog is a beagle mix that's barely 25lbs, the pit is well over 90lbs) The trip ended up costing the better part of $900 and my dog took a couple weeks to recover.

Despite the fact his dog is very aggressive and had previously been used for fighting my neighbor didn't "like" to keep it on a leash and his yard is not fenced in so it'd roam the block whenever it wanted, the police got called and in order to keep himself out of court he had to pay a fine and also agreed to cover the vet bill, but since he's "broke" I had to carry the bill until he paid it back over the next 6 months. (this was also his second incident, one more and he looses the dog) Despite being "broke" he always managed to find money for his beer and hold parties 2-3 nights a week. He'd been dodging more than half the payments until I finally went over to his house with a baseball bat during one of his parties and suddenly he found the remaining $500 that he owed me.

While he's been keeping it on a leash, he now has second pit that's even bigger which just so awesome.

Since then my yard has been fenced in and my neighbor has been warned that if either of his dogs are ever loose on my property again they'll be shot. (I don't want to hurt the dogs but they are dangerous and we have a toddler around a lot)

The world would be a better place if there were more beagles and dachshunds then pits. Although a well loved and trained pit I'm sure is just great too.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
The world would be a better place if there were more beagles and dachshunds then pits. Although a well loved and trained pit I'm sure is just great too.

Its not the breed, its the owner.

The updated 1.4 version of the rules is now available on the website: http://www.mechafront.com/rules.html

(They'll be hosted on there from now on as people were having a lot of difficulty with the yahoo groups page)

Lots of new stuff added to the advanced rules. Infantry, ground vehicles, vtol craft, airstrikes, artillery, advanced ammunition types, advanced mecha systems, pilot skills, it's a lengthy list of new toys.


Also the Lynx is headed out for printing on Tuesday, I still have a couple pre-order slots open but I'm close enough to fund things. The pre-order slots will remain open until they sell out.

Fantastic about the Lynx! That will give me 2 mediums and 3 lights- enough to make a decent playtest of the rules, I think

 paulson games wrote:
The updated 1.4 version of the rules is now available on the website: http://www.mechafront.com/rules.html

(They'll be hosted on there from now on as people were having a lot of difficulty with the yahoo groups page)

Lots of new stuff added to the advanced rules. Infantry, ground vehicles, vtol craft, airstrikes, artillery, advanced ammunition types, advanced mecha systems, pilot skills, it's a lengthy list of new toys.

You should throw them up on WargameVault, then you can just send automated e-mails to everyone that downloads it when you update.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
The world would be a better place if there were more beagles and dachshunds then pits. Although a well loved and trained pit I'm sure is just great too.

my Pit is a rescue...
she thinks she is a Chihuahua...
i call her a Pitwawa...
she was raised right, and sleeps in the bed with us...
she is amazing with people, but i still don't trust her around some other dogs, so i don't let her run wild...

Paulson, man, your Mechs are coming along nicely...
painted up, they look great...
i really hope that your game becomes huge...

keep up the good work...

cheers
jah

weeble1000 wrote:

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
The world would be a better place if there were more beagles and dachshunds then pits. Although a well loved and trained pit I'm sure is just great too.

Its not the breed, its the owner.

It's mostly the owner, but I'd rather live next to a beagle with a bad owner, than a pitbull with a bad owner.

I'm glad your dog pulled through, Paulson.

The Lynx is off at the printers, should be 1-2 weeks before it's done and I'll update with pics as soon as the master arrives.

The 1.4 verison of the rules are available on the mecha front website www.mechafront.com


I'd like to try and keep this thread focused on release info so I've set up a separate thread for discussing anything game or rules related:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/575624.page#6472931

Excellent, can't wait to see it printed!

And people thought the last one was big....

The Lynx parts are in and looking absolutely beautiful. I'll be molding these up ASAP and with luck the first batches may start shipping out as early as next Fri.

More pictures are posted in the Facebook gallery. (www.facebook.com/mechafront)

The cast came out very nicely, I should have the first batch headed out in the mail on Fri-Sat.



I get a lot of questions about scale so here's some pics that might help.


VS battletech models





VS some larger GW models