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Is it too much to ask for a single coonskin cap?

Cowboy hats are bad enough, let's leave that for historicals kay?

Looks like a boonie to me.
And that is about half of the silhouettes from the big teaser picture posted this week.

Details on box should be posted tomorrow.

Now I need to find a way to finance this purchase...

 Kanluwen wrote:
Cowboy hats are bad enough, let's leave that for historicals kay?

But it's so...American!

It's really not. I have lived in the South since I was born, and I have yet to see anyone over the age of 6 wearing a coonskin hat or a cowboy hat.

I really hope that's a power armored HI on the bottom of the pic. Looks like there ought to be some neat stuff in this release.

 Kanluwen wrote:
It's really not. I have lived in the South since I was born, and I have yet to see anyone over the age of 6 wearing a coonskin hat or a cowboy hat.

Coonskin hat, of course. But cowboy hats? I see them almost daily in my part of the South. Granted I am in a very rural area.

 Absolutionis wrote:

Looks cool. I wonder if the starters for all the armies (if that is what this is) will be that size instead of the 5 human models.

Whoooooooooo! 'Merica! Fireworks and guns. Beer! Buffets! Muscle cars! More guns!

Coonskin hats went out in the '50's, guys. Baseball caps are much more American than anything else these days. Who doesn't own at least one?

That army pack is made of all new minis. Probably the USAriadna starter, the bike, and the werewolf(ves) When it goes to general sale, it looks as if will be three boxes of stuff. My guess. And it will all be available after GenCon, just delayed by some months.

 Kanluwen wrote:
It's really not. I have lived in the South since I was born, and I have yet to see anyone over the age of 6 wearing a coonskin hat or a cowboy hat.

Clearly you are capable of living in ALL of the south

Kidding aside, I live in Maine, the North Most State in the 48 and my fething neighbors mow their lawns wearing Cowboyhats. They are a thing

I'm still holding out hope for drop troops with propeller beanies, striped t-shirts and short pants.

 Red Corsair wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
It's really not. I have lived in the South since I was born, and I have yet to see anyone over the age of 6 wearing a coonskin hat or a cowboy hat.

Clearly you are capable of living in ALL of the south

Kidding aside, I live in Maine, the North Most State in the 48 and my fething neighbors mow their lawns wearing Cowboyhats. They are a thing

And I've in Southern California, South Carolina and Massachusetts - and I've traveled all over the USA - and I've rarely seen "Cowboy Hats" anywhere outside of horse ranches.

If for some reason anyone feels the need to continue the great "Cowboy Hat Debate" they should probably do it somewhere else, and not in this thread!

Thanks!

Hopefully the new MAS buildings go together better than the old ones. Maybe they'll include proper instructions this time...

Nocturnus wrote:
Hopefully the new MAS buildings go together better than the old ones. Maybe they'll include proper instructions this time...

Yeah I bought 2 similar kits on different occasions. One snapped together no problem.
The second one, none of the slots fit properly. Had to trim so many joints down to get everything to fit and the laser cutting or whatever didn't go through on so many pieces. Had to go back by hand and cut many out of the sprues.

I've had a bit of a mixed bag with MAS, had one kit that seemed to be a lot of work but others that were fine (say this as the owner of four of their apartment buildings and numerous other bits and pieces!)

In quality terms I found them easier to put together than Sarissa, not as good as 4Ground which are absolute quality kits across their range. Haven't got any of the Warmill stuff yet so couldn't comment on that, although heard that their's is very good as well.

4Ground and Warmill share the same level of quality. I do have buildings from both companies. I do not own any MAS, but friends of mine do and quality does not reach the level of aforementioned companies. Sometimes it is good, sometimes not so good.

It took the e.g. quite some time to realize that the Tau-buildings they offer did not fit together, i.e. the hardfoam part and the wood part were of quite different size and no sanding would have solved the problem.

I dunno where I'd find the funds to buy this upcoming Ariadna pack but... dag... getting pretty interested, maybe as a group holiday gift, people never know what to get my eccentric gamer self anyway.

Werewolves, giant wolves, dirt bike/motorcycles... still gotta see the rest but they're interesting me more than a lot of recent releases.

Ok, so... it's already 4th of July.
Where is USARIADNA!!!

It's Beasts of War doing the preview; come back next month.

Well.. hopefully we see it today. If BoW screw up release info on such a big thing... I would think CB would censure them in some way.

You would think--but they screwed up Icestorm's reveal last year.

Plus, they've kept BTP as a partner after all of their idiotic follies so BoW is safe.

 BobbaFett wrote:
Ok, so... it's already 4th of July.
Where is USARIADNA!!!

Snoozing.

 BobbaFett wrote:
Ok, so... it's already 4th of July.
Where is USARIADNA!!!

You time traveling Brits, it's still the 3rd in the US.

 Barzam wrote:

 BobbaFett wrote:
Ok, so... it's already 4th of July.
Where is USARIADNA!!!

You time traveling Brits, it's still the 3rd in the US.

Beasts of War is in the UK, bud.

Yeah, but I'm betting they're waiting until the 4th in the US to reveal USAriadna. Or they're just being incompetent.

Considering they blundered the final reveal of Icestorm, I'd say the latter is most likely.

 Pacific wrote:
I've had a bit of a mixed bag with MAS, had one kit that seemed to be a lot of work but others that were fine (say this as the owner of four of their apartment buildings and numerous other bits and pieces!)

In quality terms I found them easier to put together than Sarissa, not as good as 4Ground which are absolute quality kits across their range. Haven't got any of the Warmill stuff yet so couldn't comment on that, although heard that their's is very good as well.

I was more satisfied with the warsenal buildings. The cum garage, Comanche bunker, and catwalks were much more interesting projects than blocky apartment buildings

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:

 Pacific wrote:
I've had a bit of a mixed bag with MAS, had one kit that seemed to be a lot of work but others that were fine (say this as the owner of four of their apartment buildings and numerous other bits and pieces!)

In quality terms I found them easier to put together than Sarissa, not as good as 4Ground which are absolute quality kits across their range. Haven't got any of the Warmill stuff yet so couldn't comment on that, although heard that their's is very good as well.

I was more satisfied with the warsenal buildings. The cum garage, Comanche bunker, and catwalks were much more interesting projects than blocky apartment buildings

The what garage?