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The Lunadiver and Nutcracker both came with 1/35 SAFS units, and there are several by Aquamarine (Racoon). I think there were some Fireballs released in 1/35 as well. Wish I had time to follow more of the MaK series...was a fan since the mid-1980s...

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Thanks for the replies. It looks like then in my niche case (something useable in 32mm figure tabletop gaming) that 3d printing would probably be the best bet.


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Did anyone save the Defiance Games hardsuit STLs? Those might work.

   
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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Did anyone save the Defiance Games hardsuit STLs? Those might work.


Did they ever actually share the STLs? That predates affordable desktop resin 3d printing by years IIRC.

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I’m pretty sure they released them for a very brief period of time in some sort of “now we’re even” KS failure uppercut.

   
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I don't think they ever actually released them. I remember them claiming that part of the rules regarding the files was an NDA, which someone supposedly broke immediately.

   
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Oh yeah. I forgot about that.

Defiance Games gave us so, so much hobby douchery . I can’t think of a current company that is so amusing in its petty “can’t help myself” sleaziness.

   
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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Oh yeah. I forgot about that.

Defiance Games gave us so, so much hobby douchery . I can’t think of a current company that is so amusing in its petty “can’t help myself” sleaziness.


I wouldn't look up Palladium Games then.

I got suckered into the Defiance egg suits. I found out what they had done to the Torn Asunder folks and e-mailed them to see if they could help when Defiance went silent. They essentially e-mailed me back to notify that Defiance was being liquidated and the sharks were already nibbling at the corpse. Then Defiance pulled that stunt with the "We'll give you the STLs", "then nuh-uh, someone spilled the beans!" They never did pay the 3D modeler for his work, though.

Been looking for a good egg suit model ever since, and don't have access to a 3D printer to print them myself.

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 warboss wrote:
Thanks for the replies. It looks like then in my niche case (something useable in 32mm figure tabletop gaming) that 3d printing would probably be the best bet.


Where did you find this guy? Might just be the model that pushes me over the ledge into getting a resin printer.
   
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 Stormonu wrote:
 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Oh yeah. I forgot about that.

Defiance Games gave us so, so much hobby douchery . I can’t think of a current company that is so amusing in its petty “can’t help myself” sleaziness.


I wouldn't look up Palladium Games then.

I got suckered into the Defiance egg suits. I found out what they had done to the Torn Asunder folks and e-mailed them to see if they could help when Defiance went silent. They essentially e-mailed me back to notify that Defiance was being liquidated and the sharks were already nibbling at the corpse. Then Defiance pulled that stunt with the "We'll give you the STLs", "then nuh-uh, someone spilled the beans!" They never did pay the 3D modeler for his work, though.

Been looking for a good egg suit model ever since, and don't have access to a 3D printer to print them myself.


I p,edged for both those kickstarters! Kevin got into some pretty deep sleaze, but came across more pathetic and desperate. Anyway, I'm surprised no one has made a "close enough" version of the hard suit in all this time. It seems like it would be right up Impact!'s alley.

   
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PourSpelur wrote:
 warboss wrote:
Thanks for the replies. It looks like then in my niche case (something useable in 32mm figure tabletop gaming) that 3d printing would probably be the best bet.

Spoiler:

Where did you find this guy? Might just be the model that pushes me over the ledge into getting a resin printer.


I found them on cults 3d for purchase and they're what prompted me to ask here about official models. The modeller has some FDM larger scale print samples of various designs but I'm not familiar with the universe to know about them.

https://cults3d.com/en/users/three-triangle/creations


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 Stormonu wrote:


I wouldn't look up Palladium Games then.

I got suckered into the Defiance egg suits. I found out what they had done to the Torn Asunder folks and e-mailed them to see if they could help when Defiance went silent. They essentially e-mailed me back to notify that Defiance was being liquidated and the sharks were already nibbling at the corpse. Then Defiance pulled that stunt with the "We'll give you the STLs", "then nuh-uh, someone spilled the beans!" They never did pay the 3D modeler for his work, though.

Been looking for a good egg suit model ever since, and don't have access to a 3D printer to print them myself.


I second the overall shittiness of Palladium. Sorry to hear you were in on both as well. I followed the Defiance drama peripherally as I liked the egg suit design as well as some of their marines iirc.

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I talked to the guy from Impact miniatures about potentially picking up the license for them. No idea how that is progressing though.

Also, thank you very much for the review, Orlando. It's exactly how I hoped it would be, and will require only a wheel and track addition from myself to get it looking the way I want it to. Cheers!
   
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More for humor but, given my earlier question about Ma.K models, I thought I might post this probably old image that I first came across today. Maschinen Katzen.



https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tinamini.com%2Fview%2F951810%2F8%3Fauth%3D10461e1ae75cd4874370db654b5e35f58f62c7af

From the google translation, it looks like a mod made from several different kits but I thought it was adorable... and I'm a dog person.


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right, first why would you want a kit like this (after all the real thing will last just as well on your shelf)

and second what could you use it for in 40K (Infinity would be easy, it's ideal terrain as a 'themed' noodle shack )?

 
   
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For Infinity, you just have it chilling near Warsenal's Lo Pan Noodle Hut with the Fat Yuan Yuan packaging.

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Do the noodles come prepainted?

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The best part about this kit is that there is a window you can build in the back so you can see the noodles inside the cup.

I cannot imagine every wanting to spend about $25 for a model kit of plastic noodles, but I am glad it exists.

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What is the backstory with Palladium? I used to play Rifts and Beyond the Supernatural back in the late 80's - early 90's but haven't even thought of them in ages.
   
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 Phobos wrote:
What is the backstory with Palladium? I used to play Rifts and Beyond the Supernatural back in the late 80's - early 90's but haven't even thought of them in ages.


I love to kvetch/whinge about Palladium but I don't think this Gundam in 40k thread is the proper place for that. If you start a new one over in the RPG subforum, I guarantee you'll get more than a virtual earful likely from lots of people.

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The Star Trek shuttle is up on Amazon for $56



https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B087KCGL8W/ref=sspa_dk_detail_4

 
   
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Speaking of shuttles, Amazon has the retooled Runabout for $23

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GVJH2LL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Great kit, you can build it in an hour and it comes with a flying stand.



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Cool spider mech thing coming 1/48 scale




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Some new stuff coming down the pike

https://mailchi.mp/000ce3b5d8c5/preorder-deep-space-nine-konga-and-more-at-culttvmans-hobby-shop

The big news is a DS9 model (the actual station) reissue for $50 and a new X Wing from Bandai.




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Oh and has this been mentioned?

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B002P67B0O



Hasegawa MK03 - Lunadiver Stingray ~$70

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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Speaking of shuttles, Amazon has the retooled Runabout for $23

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GVJH2LL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Great kit, you can build it in an hour and it comes with a flying stand.


Thanks for the heads up. Ordered! My son and I watch DS9 and TNG. This will be a great project to do together.

Really tempted to buy two and give one the Eilif treatment....

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A tour of 2021 kits coming from Round 2.




Some prebuilt, prepainted Star Trek ships coming.

A premade TOS Enterprise.

Space 1999 props.

And the big news... THEY GOT THE STAR WARS LICENSE, both reissues of old AMC kits and new kits coming. (No pictures)


PS added the words anime and science fiction to the title since I can never find this thread!






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AND they've been sold to a private equity firm called Praesidian...

https://culttvman.com/main/round-2-news-1-round-2-has-been-sold/?fbclid=IwAR3TJ9HL6oK8Qw4wxhOHsbf8tOuO-SPmWaatF0eGgHY4M9ib4lWdTrqD3eY

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I understand many of you will be skeptical from ordering from the like of aliexpress etc, and additionally, I am totally unaware if this is in fact a re-cast/ripoff of another IP so if it is, please delete.

Anyway, I was browsing yesterday for kits that can be donor walker/mech legs and came across this on aliexpress.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001666985378.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.46314c4doWBxdt



$23 with shipping and a good height. I intend to use it to inform how I am going to build my own legs structures out of other parts, including door hinges, nuts and bolts and wood etc, that I may cast as well then depending on cost of those parts.

Plan is for it to be part of a scrapper servitor mech that was working on salvage operations on a crashed ship. Sort of like a big penitent engine with the servitor pilot strapped to the front and then obviously wrecker style claws/hands/plasma torches etc

What has drawn me to the kit other than the price is the skeleton. I haven't found many other kits that have an internal skeleton for the mech that are cheap.

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I'll be interested in seeing what you think of that kit. I've been eyeing it and other Diaclone clones on Ali for a while.

This service Mech in particular will likely my Mech forces at some point.
https://m.aliexpress.com/item/4000289384127.html



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I watched a youtube video this morning of someone building the kit, I like the look of it from the video, I think for the price it will be outstanding.

Depending on the specific quality of the plastic will dictate whether I splash out on one of the titan fall style mechas from there as well.

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Which have been posted before I think

TBH, the main reason I bought the above kit is because it seems to have a fairly well articulated skeleton to build upon from, not so much interested in the armour as I plan to use my own.

Obviously I could use gundam RG 1/144 of for something larger MG 1/100 for this also, but I don't want to quite spend that much on a donor model, when the main thing I want is the skeleton.

I do have plans for a Zaku Warrior Lunamaria Custom or something of that aesthetic at MG 1/100 at some point which will be a donor model, but I'll use most of the armour plate in a way also. It may be a zulu geara, or geara dogu of some sort after a custom was posted very early in this thread that I adore at 1/144, let alone 1/100.

I'll do a small review of sorts with size comparisons etc when I get the above kit from aliexpress.

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 Eilif wrote:

This service Mech in particular will likely my Mech forces at some point.
https://m.aliexpress.com/item/4000289384127.html





Get away from her, you baka!

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endlesswaltz123 wrote:
I watched a youtube video this morning of someone building the kit, I like the look of it from the video, I think for the price it will be outstanding.

Depending on the specific quality of the plastic will dictate whether I splash out on one of the titan fall style mechas from there as well.
Spoiler:

[spoiler]
Which have been posted before I think

TBH, the main reason I bought the above kit is because it seems to have a fairly well articulated skeleton to build upon from, not so much interested in the armour as I plan to use my own.

Obviously I could use gundam RG 1/144 of for something larger MG 1/100 for this also, but I don't want to quite spend that much on a donor model, when the main thing I want is the skeleton.

I do have plans for a Zaku Warrior Lunamaria Custom or something of that aesthetic at MG 1/100 at some point which will be a donor model, but I'll use most of the armour plate in a way also. It may be a zulu geara, or geara dogu of some sort after a custom was posted very early in this thread that I adore at 1/144, let alone 1/100.[/spoiler]

I'll do a small review of sorts with size comparisons etc when I get the above kit from aliexpress.


Could you share the link to that video.

Seems like a very wise choice if you're just needing the skelleton. The Gundams with interior skelletons seem to start at $30 and up.

My friend got several of the earlier generation 1/100 Zaku when they were being closed out.. They are much simpler models, but they looked great as 25/28mm mecha in our big mech games. I've built a couple of 1/144 Gundam, but it's a bit of a stretch for them to be piloted mech in 28mm so I mostly stick with larger models and toys.

Looking forward to the review.


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AND they've been sold to a private equity firm called Praesidian...

https://culttvman.com/main/round-2-news-1-round-2-has-been-sold/?fbclid=IwAR3TJ9HL6oK8Qw4wxhOHsbf8tOuO-SPmWaatF0eGgHY4M9ib4lWdTrqD3eY


I'm wondering what this will bring. I read elswehere that:

-Round 2 consists mostly of assets that had been discontinued by a private equity group that had bought out the previous company that had them.

Lets hope this time will be different.

-Presidian says the see areas for "consolidation" in the industry.

I realize consolidation can just be buying up companies but it seems that what follows is likely to be the discontinuing of lines that hobbyists like but the new owners consider "redundant".

Here's to hoping the new owners are mostly providing capital for distribution and production and not looking to streamline the selection of kits availble.

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