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 Alpharius wrote:
Just got my FedEx notification - a 19.2 lb. box is allegedly shipping out to me on Dec. 2nd!

Wow. I thought mine was impressive at 10.8. The weird thing is that according to fedex, the info was received today, the package ships tomorrow and estimated delivery is Tuesday. Umm. 1 Day to go from Nottingham to the US West Coast? Daaamn. No wonder shipping is so much of their costs.

I bought a LOT of scenery - I plan on multipurposing it for Infinity as well as...any other SF game I eventually might get into to!

I also didn't pay for 'courier' shipping - but maybe my pledge total got it for me for 'free'?

Oh my, the shipment I'll be getting said 32ish lbs. I think I'm in trouble here

 pretre wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Just got my FedEx notification - a 19.2 lb. box is allegedly shipping out to me on Dec. 2nd!

Wow. I thought mine was impressive at 10.8. The weird thing is that according to fedex, the info was received today, the package ships tomorrow and estimated delivery is Tuesday. Umm. 1 Day to go from Nottingham to the US West Coast? Daaamn. No wonder shipping is so much of their costs.

I had FedEx take 2-Days to go from Tokyo, Japan to Daytona beach, FL which always impressed me.

 GrimDork wrote:
Oh my, the shipment I'll be getting said 32ish lbs. I think I'm in trouble here

Ah...just how much did you spend here?!?

Close to...a grand?!?

Not...quite? Double strike with all if the booster and lots of terrain. Assuming the terrain is doing the crazy weight bonus tho extra strike probably adds close to 10 pounds.

I can't even remember what I bought. Not even close to you guys though.

 GrimDork wrote:
Not...quite? Double strike with all if the booster and lots of terrain. Assuming the terrain is doing the crazy weight bonus tho extra strike probably adds close to 10 pounds.

Good guess. My Strike weighed 9.5 lbs including the extra shipping box.

So then 19 pounds for strike and the other 13 comes from boosters extra mats and battle zones. Lots of goodies... probably too many. Pictures forthcoming asap.

Yeah, I definitely want to see a pic of what you're getting in the mail from Mantic!

Oh yeah, a full unboxing has always been in the wings... just gotta get it. Will probably get dropped off when I'm at work so I'll have to take it from the fedex place in town instead. Hope it all fits in the car But nah, I've seen the boxes, I can surely get at least a couple in the trunk and one in the back seat... If its more than that we'll just see

I anxiously await my shipping notice. It is worse waiting now that it is near than it was the rest of the time.

Hrm... I'm actually feeling pretty good about it. I know I'll get my stuff soon, not which day yet, but within a week or two (I did get a notice so that may be why). The worst stretch for me was somewhere in the middle. A month or two ago when I finished my pre-deadzone project too early.

I'm just glad I don't live with parents or a significant other. Nobody (except roommates) to see the stuff coming in.

My wife is already prewarned. I'll probably have to reiterate and stress when I find out how heavy the package is. But honestly, she is pretty understanding.

Wife knows what I spent, its not like I missed paying any bills or buying any necessities because of it. Still she's a clutterphobe so I'll have to keep things packed away nicely or I'm a goner!

All you guys with your massive pledges and theres me with the bog standard strike team.

 Alpharius wrote:
Yeah, I definitely want to see a pic of what you're getting in the mail from Mantic!

Possibly a special Mantic truck being driven personally by Ronnie Renton?

 carlos13th wrote:
All you guys with your massive pledges and theres me with the bog standard strike team.

No kidding. I kinda feel like a dork "only" ordering a strike force with enough to pick up a big mech later.

It's true we can just throw more money at them on the second survey if we find we want more, right?

 Stunami wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
All you guys with your massive pledges and theres me with the bog standard strike team.

No kidding. I kinda feel like a dork "only" ordering a strike force with enough to pick up a big mech later.

It's true we can just throw more money at them on the second survey if we find we want more, right?

Of course it is true!

Who knows - I might order even more terrain on that second survey!

 Alpharius wrote:

 Stunami wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
All you guys with your massive pledges and theres me with the bog standard strike team.

No kidding. I kinda feel like a dork "only" ordering a strike force with enough to pick up a big mech later.

It's true we can just throw more money at them on the second survey if we find we want more, right?

Of course it is true!

Who knows - I might order even more terrain on that second survey!

Nice! Better start saving now!

 Stunami wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
All you guys with your massive pledges and theres me with the bog standard strike team.

No kidding. I kinda feel like a dork "only" ordering a strike force with enough to pick up a big mech later.

It's true we can just throw more money at them on the second survey if we find we want more, right?

Turns it it requires cash to do that.

 Alpharius wrote:
Who knows - I might order even more terrain on that second survey!

Yes... "might".

 carlos13th wrote:
All you guys with your massive pledges and theres me with the bog standard strike team.

All you guys with your single strike team and there's me eating rice and drinking water for months ; p

Dunno about just eating rice, but switching to water usually doesn't hurt

Don't get me wrong, I like rice, just hope you've got some other bits for your diet

I didn't end up going on a restrictive diet/walk/bike to work, I just didn't upgrade/replace my PC (probably due) and don't have much in the way of other hobbies to feed.

Gah, I need my Enforcers from Miniatures Market so I can at least sort of participate in this DZ frenzy!

I'm first and foremost a PC Gamer, have been my entire life since my amiga at age ~6. Tabletop has to come second to that... but food and health comes a distant third ; p

I moved my Dreadball stuff to the top of my project list. Have cleaned my Nameless, Zees, Asterians, Teraton and Void Siren teams in the last few days, ready for priming. Will finish painting my Trontek team since they're very simple.... man I love Dreadball. Highly recommend it to anyone interested in mantic, even if you don't think you're interested in sports games - I wasn't, but Dreadball is amazing.

I may pick up a DB set someday. I just have so much coming between Deadzone, Mars Attacks, and Bones 2. At least my battle systems pledge will come and be ready to set up
*spoiler for off topic*

I should *hopefully* have some WP enforcers arriving tomorrow so I can start cranking out my initial enforcer strike team. If I happen to click on a color scheme and miraculously get them done before DZ arrives, I'll have 5/6 of a playable initial team. Looking at doing some conversions early to get them out of the way and ensure I have things to play with now that we won't be getting for awhile so I'm doing:
Converted Enforcer Sarge with energy fist
Converted Enforcer with Fusion gun
rifle enforcer
rifle enforcer
burst laser enforcer
DZ box: Assault enforcer.

Then I'll branch out to the sniper since I think I may end up favoring him as a a leader.

You and your already having Warpath minis /jealous. Would like to see your conversions as I'm still fairly new to tabletop and not that good at conversions (or painting) yet, though I'm really trying hard to improve.

I bought the corporation army set back in the first half of the year and have been putting that together up till a month or two ago, I just ordered some warpath enforcers from Miniature Market's excellent black friday sale so I could get a jump start (since some lucky folks are already getting paint down on their Deadzone!) .

My hobby blog (in sig) has all of my work on that. The first half doesn't involve a lot of conversions except for special weapon conversions for the marine teams. Then it gets a bit more interesting (IMO) when I take the rest of the marines and mix them with the mantic zombie/ghoul sprues in my own tribute to their Zombie Apokalypse kitbash set. Hmm that reminds me, now I just need to paint the First gen, second gen, grenade guy, and a dog... add in 5 zombie marines and my initial plague roster is done too Will have to paint the actual 3rd gens.. but that'll get me started early woot.

I've got a piece to finish for Skalk's junk pile contest, but just as soon as that is secured I'll be throwing up my converted enforcers.

Ahh nice, yeah I checked your blog a while ago, I'll paw through it again.

I really need to go through and update the first post with links to all of the meaningful pages. My gallery is probably just as good or better if all you want are pics of the converted stuff too.