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 Zewrath wrote:
The Crabbot?

Ayup.

There's nothing else that makes sense.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Zewrath wrote:
The Crabbot?

Ayup.

There's nothing else that makes sense.

Is that something they've shown art for? Anyone got it on hand so I don't have to search through the old threads, pretty please?

There's been no art at all for the Crabbot. We've seen the TechBee, but meh. We saw that piece of trash with Art Book 1.

Okay that's cool, I like a little surprise now and again!

There. BoLS has the preview, but I won't link to their craptastic site.

Also, CB if you're reading this?

Funny how these previews aren't videos.

I'm not sure if that's alien-looking enough for Combined.

Sure it can't be Ariadne ? Some kind of engineer?

I'm going to be really annoying and say I'm psyched for the Tech-Bee. That arm is ripe for converting other minis and she'd make a pretty cool little civi once it's been replaced on her. If Shae is down with it I'd even split a couple with someone when the time comes.

 Kanluwen wrote:
There. BoLS has the preview, but I won't link to their craptastic site.

Much appreciated.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Also, CB if you're reading this?

Funny how these previews aren't videos.

I'm not sure they even monitor their affiliates a tiny bit. They still have a BTP sub forum, completely dead, on their forum. I do hope they are paying attention.

The arm does look fun, maybe with a bit of creative painting concealing the exposed bits and adding in a smaller servo-pack from Anvil Industry she'd make a fun alternate Enginseer or the like.

The bot also has potential to become a nice alternate servo-automata.

Is this "crabbot" a real thing? I thought it was a meme.

The name and profile were in the new rules that came before the model.

Underwhelming on all levels, I hope the rules for Tech Bee are decent enough. I'm sure I can find substitute for her.

Disappointed the crab bot doesn't have a knife.

 AduroT wrote:
Disappointed the crab bot doesn't have a knife.

The Nomads Spec-Ops has a huge knife in the blister pack. Shouldn't be too hard to make a stab-crab.

Crab Bot isn't too bad. It looks almost like it's made from a Squalo pauldron. The Tech-Bee though. That's a figure that makes me wish I could sculpt, so I could give her some pants.I wish I knew what they were thinking when they decided that was appropriate workplace attire.

 Barzam wrote:
Crab Bot isn't too bad. It looks almost like it's made from a Squalo pauldron. The Tech-Bee though. That's a figure that makes me wish I could sculpt, so I could give her some pants.I wish I knew what they were thinking when they decided that was appropriate workplace attire.

Short answer?

They weren't.

I don't mind fan service, anime style and cheesecake. I will say quite a few of the female poses though coming out lately just have been crappy in my opinion. I can deal with everything else but the female models have either looked like they have to go pee, dancing and skipping in the streets, to weird angle poses. I get they are meant to look dynamic and mid-motion. I can even understand that starting out digitally the pose might look fine, but once you get it on a base and look at it... at some point someone has to say, let's repose this.

I've watched a lot of anime in my time and the Tech-Bee is not anime fanservice. Anime fanservice would have her wearing a French Maid outfit or a school uniform. Both of which, oddly enough would be more dignified than that outfit. Nah, this is just cheesecake for the sake of being cheesecake.

A french maid outfit simply wouldn't make sense. The Tech-Bee basically looks like a more uniformed version of that mechanic from Final Fantasy 15, also a Japanese-influenced Japanese game:


Plus, it's supposed to be a typical pinup mechanic.


Doesn't justify the cringeworthy cheesecake, but justifies it being anime-ish and a literal pinup girl.

Behold the Tech Bee.



“The maintenance and repair battalions are the heroes of the rearguard. These maintenance technicians always keep your systems ready and tuned, no matter how specialized they are. The Tech-Bees are a real morale booster for PanOceanian troops!”

That's some innuendo right there.

Edit it seems I'm too late.

 Barzam wrote:
I've watched a lot of anime in my time and the Tech-Bee is not anime fanservice. Anime fanservice would have her wearing a French Maid outfit or a school uniform. Both of which, oddly enough would be more dignified than that outfit. Nah, this is just cheesecake for the sake of being cheesecake.

Not sure if your comment was in reference to mine but to be fair I said fan service, anime style and cheesecake. Wearing bikini bottoms falls into cheesecake and could be considered fan service. French maid and school uniform by themselves is not considered fan service, unless they are flashing their bikini bottoms, panties, etc. Honestly though really semantics as cheesecake/fan service is a thin border. The outfit though isn't even what bothers me, I could be ok with it.

It is the pose that I hate. It is supposed to be dynamic and action, but it comes across like she is skipping along or dancing. It isn't even a natural walk or run motion. Other examples of where I don't mind the outfit, would like to get the miniature but can't buy it because the pose is just so out of place. The Guijia Pilot (pistol), he pose makes it look like she has to use the bathroom and is holding it, doing the pee pee dance. Miranda Ashcroft looks like she is saying, "look at my butt" or "does this gun go with my shoes or make me look fat".

 Absolutionis wrote:
Snipershot for this week. Looks mechanical and somewhat utilitarian. Too rugged to be PanO or Aleph. Too clean to be Ariadna. Perhaps Combined?

Somewhere on the Official forum is an illustration from some Manga that shows the inspiration for the Tech-Bee. One of the original playtesters, Yasbir, posted it. This was 4 years ago or so, when the Bootleg line started. IIRC, it was a near perfect match to the Tech-Bee concept art. Maybe from Appleseed?

Crabbot is neat. Tech-bee is actually dull. Meh.

I think we've already 'figured it out' now though!

 Barzam wrote:
I've watched a lot of anime in my time and the Tech-Bee is not anime fanservice. Anime fanservice would have her wearing a French Maid outfit or a school uniform. Both of which, oddly enough would be more dignified than that outfit. Nah, this is just cheesecake for the sake of being cheesecake.

Manga is quite different to anime a lot of the time. Well, enough of a difference for me to heavily dislike anime while often delving into manga styled art.

I got into Infinity being fully aware that the universe is pretty outlandish and over the top in a lot of areas, so I have no objections to cheesecake here.

The pose is the problem; some motion poses from CB are great, like the female Ghulam from Red Veil I'm painting, or the male Corregidor Bandit, or even the new Ashcroft to an extent. The Tech Bee just doesn't seem to have any direction.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Somewhere on the Official forum is an illustration from some Manga that shows the inspiration for the Tech-Bee. One of the original playtesters, Yasbir, posted it. This was 4 years ago or so, when the Bootleg line started. IIRC, it was a near perfect match to the Tech-Bee concept art. Maybe from Appleseed?

Crabbot is neat. Tech-bee is actually dull. Meh.

Most likely a Shorow pinup if not actually something from Appleseed.

Cheesecake is a-okay with me and if you knew me personally that would be a big surprise I reckon. To me it's just art and nonsense and fun. I would prefer a little bit more equality(where are all the oiled up buff beefcakes in denim short shorts? ) but to be fair I wouldn't imagine the sales would be very high.

I feel like it's as part of Infinity as skulls are to 40k, it's an artistic choice and as long as that's all it is then that's great. I keep a lot of platonic female company and if I thought any of them would be offended then I'd seriously reconsider my position on cheesecake, so far they all think it's great fun.

I also want to share this because it made my day, heh!

I really love this tiny cute mechanical crab.

 Barzam wrote:
Most likely a Shorow pinup if not actually something from Appleseed.

Masamune Shirow actually, not Shorow. (a typo?)

We've got the Govad HMG pending, and the Moderators Box. Rumor is that the box contains the spitfire, hacker, sniper and combi-rifle+pitcher moderators. CB saving the best for last, and burying the worst in the middle. Clever plan. I can always find a crabbot proxy if I need one. I know what! A mini of the Apparatus of Kwalish would serve nicely.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Cheesecake is a-okay with me and if you knew me personally that would be a big surprise I reckon. To me it's just art and nonsense and fun. I would prefer a little bit more equality(where are all the oiled up buff beefcakes in denim short shorts? ) but to be fair I wouldn't imagine the sales would be very high.

I feel like it's as part of Infinity as skulls are to 40k, it's an artistic choice and as long as that's all it is then that's great. I keep a lot of platonic female company and if I thought any of them would be offended then I'd seriously reconsider my position on cheesecake, so far they all think it's great fun.

I also want to share this because it made my day, heh!

I agree, feel exactly the same way.

Quite like the new mini! It's just a bit of fun really, the Tech-Bee was always going to be the most likely candidate for that style of miniature!

Ok I cannot find a definitive answer on this.

How do we get the O-Yoroi pilot?
If we don't want to participate in the kickstarter, will there be a standard release later? Some details would be appreciated especially since it's a limited edition

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:
Ok I cannot find a definitive answer on this.

How do we get the O-Yoroi pilot?
If we don't want to participate in the kickstarter, will there be a standard release later? Some details would be appreciated especially since it's a limited edition

Long story short?

We don't know. There might be a general release later. But it looks like you're stuck backing on Kickstarter.