Mecha Front

[Ace From Outer Space]

What they all said! These look great, looking forward to seeing this as a Kickstarter.

[paulson]

At this point I do not plan on doing a kickstarter.

I'm releasing models as I get them done.


(I'd originally planned on doing a KS but they are overly complicated and I decided against it)

[molson]

I really like these! Nice clean design and well designed weapons load outs. I can completely see them supporting Akula's Assault Troopers. Or better yet GW's Tau.

[Germy Bugger]

Nice designs, not overtaken by silly sci-fi out of scale weapons.
Would be good additions to those using 15mm Sci-fi. Prefer these over things like the Critical Mass walkers.

I also think if you could scale these down to half size you would pick up a lot of trade from the 6mm crowd as well as maintaining sales with the 15-28mm mob as support drones/mechs are becoming very popular.

Pictures do show what a lump of lead those Cav mechs are though

[paulson]

I like the critical mass walkers, but they are quite a bit smaller and I wanted stuff that was more along the lines of large size mecha from battletech and stuff like front mission and armored core. There weren't any companies filling that size model for 15mm so I made my own. They are a bit more expensive than most 15mm models but they are pretty huge compared to most other 15mm offerings. Its hard to judge the size simply from the pics, they are taller/larger than both GW's dreadnaughts and Privateers Heavy Jacks. (which are more expensive)

I've considered offering smaller scale versions at "command scale" which would fit the 6mm market. People have requested it several times but when I brought up the idea to get a feel for interest level on some of the 6mm battletech forums it was met with dead silence. Not sure why, could be a lack of interest, could be that people feel threatened when they are held up against the typical shoddy sculpts that battletech has to offer. (I love the game but the minis could be much better)

It'd require reworking the models a bit for the smaller scale but it'd be doable.

[DemonEtrigan]

At this point I do not plan on doing a kickstarter.

I'm releasing models as I get them done.


(I'd originally planned on doing a KS but they are overly complicated and I decided against it)

oh bollocks!!! humm i'll have to see how i can budget then.

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At this point I do not plan on doing a kickstarter.

I'm releasing models as I get them done.

Top man - best of luck

[Doremi Fasol Latido]

Like those.

[Germy Bugger]

I like the critical mass walkers, but they are quite a bit smaller and I wanted stuff that was more along the lines of large size mecha from battletech and stuff like front mission and armored core. There weren't any companies filling that size model for 15mm so I made my own.

Interesting you mentioned the likes of Armoured Core, that was one of the driving influences for my own mecha game but I went the other way scalling down rather than up

I've considered offering smaller scale versions at "command scale" which would fit the 6mm market. People have requested it several times but when I brought up the idea to get a feel for interest level on some of the 6mm battletech forums it was met with dead silence. Not sure why, could be a lack of interest, could be that people feel threatened when they are held up against the typical shoddy sculpts that battletech has to offer. (I love the game but the minis could be much better)

It'd require reworking the models a bit for the smaller scale but it'd be doable.

Not wanting to say nasty things about the Battletech crowd but I found them a bit like GW fanboys. If it's not official then they don't want to know. Some of that I agree with as it helps unit recognition in the game if you're 'on message'. But there are lots of gamers mixing up the scales. Lots of people use my 2mm mechs as support robots for 15mm games.
I use 15mm miniatures as big mechs in my 2mm games. Your models do not carry lots of scale references which is why I think they will work for gamers happy to throw armies together by picking and choosing what they like, rather than how they are labelled. When the new Robocop movie comes out gamers will be looking for 15mm/28mm ED209 proxies

[Vyper]

Very nice I deed. Looking forward to these for both 28mm & 15mm projects.

As has already been said an ED209 should be mandatory.