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Question, are those lines in scale? RL traffic lanes are 10' wide, sometimes 11-12' wide.

I did almost the same pose you used for the second Battloid, but I had the GU-11 latched onto the right arm as the mech skimmed the ground. It's a good way to use up one of those knee bent legs that are kind of obnoxious in large quantities (as we already knew).

A base is supposed to be 40mm, which means it's about 37 feet in scale (40 x 285 = 11,400mm, which converts to 449 inches, or ~37.4 feet).

There seems to be 2 lanes (and change) per side of the yellow divider, so probably a bit thin to be in perfect scale, but closer than I'd expect anyone but the most anal retentive.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Question, are those lines in scale? RL traffic lanes are 10' wide, sometimes 11-12' wide.

I based the lines on the little cars (1:285 scale or 1:300 scale ?) that I have, as can be seen in my battlepod pics.

Edit: heres a pic of one of the cars on the street scene:

 Forar wrote:
I did almost the same pose you used for the second Battloid, but I had the GU-11 latched onto the right arm as the mech skimmed the ground. It's a good way to use up one of those knee bent legs that are kind of obnoxious in large quantities (as we already knew).

yeah its not so easy coming up with poses using the bent knee in them, have done flying, jumping might as well try sliding.

Ah, OK. More parking lot than roadway.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Ah, OK. More parking lot than roadway.

streets around here not so big, especially with the city reducing them to make way for another lane these days. also i'm in California our freeways are Parking lots

SoCal, so yeah, I hear you!

hey, does anybody of you own the Miriya in Queadluun Rau Armor? I just checked a video of a guy painting one who said the cast was HORRID, so he spent quite a lot of time preparing the model just to assemble it.

Is it so or not so much?

IIRC, the problem was that the wahoos at PB made the mould for her using the direct 3d printing, without even bothering to sand down the printing layers, so those layers are present in the metal mini.

Thanks for the info. Now... metal? Aren't the Miriya in QR casted in resin now?
Does it have the same problem?

 Nesbet wrote:
Thanks for the info. Now... metal? Aren't the Miriya in QR casted in resin now?
Does it have the same problem?

same mold.

Dayumn. So PB basically changed the casting material to earn more bucks but didn't mind changing the mold to avoid this problem? Unbelivable! Specially considering that they charge almost as much as GW for a special character blister...
Well, at least the QR they sell at cons are resin-made, right? Better sand and file resin than metal... -.-

 Nesbet wrote:
Dayumn. So PB basically changed the casting material to earn more bucks but didn't mind changing the mold to avoid this problem? Unbelivable! Specially considering that they charge almost as much as GW for a special character blister...
Well, at least the QR they sell at cons are resin-made, right? Better sand and file resin than metal... -.-

hard to say, they may be using metal or resin but not sure the Miriya pods changed material, some of the earlier items did me thinks, as to PB making new molds, hah they are not spending any more money on this gakthey made the mold out of the 3D print, made a 3D print and popped it into a mold to make, which is also why we didn't get the Cat's Eye it would have cost money to make a mold so they are selling GHQ' mini vehicles in a RRT packaging for more then it costs from GHQ.

Are selling? NO. I think that tanked since PB has no business sense.

 Nesbet wrote:
hey, does anybody of you own the Miriya in Queadluun Rau Armor? I just checked a video of a guy painting one who said the cast was HORRID, so he spent quite a lot of time preparing the model just to assemble it.

Is it so or not so much?

I have three resin ones that I got to make a squad. Two are/were still in the box and one was assembled (but broke at both elbows). The resin ones have some very thin pieces as do the identical metal ones. The metals (which I used to have... I traded two metal miriyas and a metal max for two resin miriyas to go with my original resin) are quite heavy and will require pinning... and will crush nearby models when they invariably get knocked over. I haven't actually assembled any of them myself so I can't comment on the "ease" of assembly. Yeah, the youtube video assembly/painting video commentary (Dr. Faust iirc) is pretty entertaining.

If you log in as a backer, they still have the A-10, Apache, T-55, and others (not an exhaustive list but if someone really wants one I can list off the others) listed for pre-order, and the LE figures available.

That said, I have no idea how many of the LE figures they actually have, or if they're actually still selling the conventional minis (as a 'pre-order' I wouldn't think so, but I seem to recall people managing to buy some of the conventional stuff before).

I didn't see a quantity in stock number, and the system is happy to let me order 5,000 Miriya QR's, so it doesn't seem to be fact checking (or they had a hell of a lot more made than I'd have thought for a "LE" figure).

Seems I'll be having a rough time doing units (yeah, plural) of QR and Nosjaedul-Gers... =S

Anyways, I'll move forward!

This forum has been a lot more fun lately with people posting all these cool photos and stuff!

It's sad. GHQ seemed very interested in supporting RRT and PB just let that slip by. We might have seen a lot of additional stuff (including that Cat's Eye and Comanche) if they could have been bothered to do a little bit of work.

 n815e wrote:
It's sad. GHQ seemed very interested in supporting RRT and PB just let that slip by. We might have seen a lot of additional stuff (including that Cat's Eye and Comanche) if they could have been bothered to do a little bit of work.

I repeat PB did not want to spend the money the Units PB did get from GHQ cost them nothing up front which a new vehicle mold would have.

This is my first attempt at actually using the bent VF obnoxious leg:







(Note: Actually a Wasp).

I had to basically cut away the whole back knee joint and resculpt it to make a semi decent running pose >_>

It would be interesting to see normal earth defense troops on the table. A mix match of Flames of War and Robotech? I would be totally in. Specially considering the scale, it could be massive earth defense armies of small (compared with mechas) tanks, regular airplanes, jets, choppers, soldiers etc...
Sad that PB screwed it again :(

EDIT: that's some nice posing Albertorius! Looks cool!

@Albertorius: Are you using the model for Battletech as an unseen? I'm curious why you chose a hex base.

 warboss wrote:
@Albertorius: Are you using the model for Battletech as an unseen? I'm curious why you chose a hex base.

Maybe he has them left over from Heavy Gear models?

 warboss wrote:
@Albertorius: Are you using the model for Battletech as an unseen? I'm curious why you chose a hex base.

he did say "Note: wasp", and the GU-11 replaces the hand...

 Stormonu wrote:

 warboss wrote:
@Albertorius: Are you using the model for Battletech as an unseen? I'm curious why you chose a hex base.

he did say "Note: wasp", and the GU-11 replaces the hand...

It will be a mighty big wasp, but cool looking all the same.
Can I "up-ton" a "Marauder"? that Glaug is taunting me.

 Talizvar wrote:

 Stormonu wrote:

 warboss wrote:
@Albertorius: Are you using the model for Battletech as an unseen? I'm curious why you chose a hex base.

he did say "Note: wasp", and the GU-11 replaces the hand...

It will be a mighty big wasp, but cool looking all the same.
Can I "up-ton" a "Marauder"? that Glaug is taunting me.

hasn't stopped others.

warboss wrote:@Albertorius: Are you using the model for Battletech as an unseen? I'm curious why you chose a hex base.

JohnHwangDD wrote:Maybe he has them left over from Heavy Gear models?

Yes and yes, actually ^_^. I'm putting the Spacy stuff on hex bases for the moment, as I want them to be able to play well with Btech maps. zents are too big for that, so...

Talizvar wrote:t will be a mighty big wasp, but cool looking all the same.
Can I "up-ton" a "Marauder"? that Glaug is taunting me.

It's not like Btech is consistent with scale, so... I'll just say that my 20-tonners have long bones

As to the Marauder, the 100-ton Marauder II has existed since forever

Albertorius wrote:

warboss wrote:@Albertorius: Are you using the model for Battletech as an unseen? I'm curious why you chose a hex base.

JohnHwangDD wrote:Maybe he has them left over from Heavy Gear models?

Yes and yes, actually ^_^. I'm putting the Spacy stuff on hex bases for the moment, as I want them to be able to play well with Btech maps. zents are too big for that, so...

Thanks for the clarification. Looks cool and you might actually get some use out of it!

Stormonu wrote:

 warboss wrote:
@Albertorius: Are you using the model for Battletech as an unseen? I'm curious why you chose a hex base.

he did say "Note: wasp", and the GU-11 replaces the hand...

I indeed missed that part after all the pics on my phone browser. Oops!

Latest PBWU is up.

I'd comment on it, but it'd be easier to cut and paste my comment from last week, cause that's all PB have done.

Meh. It feels like they're getting lazier. And I previously thought that wasn't possible.

PBWU are so depressing... worst thing is that I wait for it ervery thursday with hopes of wave 2 info...

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