Re: [SG] New pictures

smaller than you'd suspect actually, the old one was undersized, one of
the
reasons for the scale change, so that making things that big could be
done
in proper scale.

shogakusha

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Burger" <yh728@victoria.tc.ca>
To: <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 1:05 AM
Subject: Re: [SG] New pictures

> On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, John Crimmins wrote:
>
> > At 06:29 PM 10/22/00 -0700, you wrote:
> > >On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Brian Burger wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi everyone,
> > >>
> > >> I've just scanned & posted six new photos - these're all of one
of
Dream
> > >> Pod 9's new Heavy Gear "Mammoth Assault Strider", which is a very
cool
> > >> model - big semi-hard-science walker thing.
> > >>
> > >> I figure these are some of the best minis pics I've ever taken -
I'm
going
> > >> to scan & post more pictures from the same roll later this week.
> > >
> > >Realized I forgot the URL: go direct to
> > ><http://warbard.iwarp.com/sg2gallery.html> & look at the bottom of
the
> > >page.
> >
> > Yeesh.  I shudder to think what he's going to do on an SGII
battlefield....
> >  My one suggestion would be that, because of his height, you use the
DSII
> > rules and treat his as being one range band closer when he's being
shot
at.
>
> A good point - with Armour 3 it'll still be tough, but that is a
fairly
> tall target. It only looks squat becuase it's so *wide*! (The figure
is
> just less than 2" tall at tallest; the shoulder-parts are a bit wider
than
> that.)
>
> > (You know, he could be the centerpoint of a killer FMA scenario,
too.
> > Mammoth and a squad of troops, against a larger enemy force with
plenty
of
> > ruined buildings to hide in.  Could be a lot of fun, especially with
a
ref
> > to implement hidden movement.)
>
> A very excellent idea. Given that I want to play around with hidden
> movement rules anyway, for another evil idea I'm working on, that
sounds
> like a scenario I'm going to work on.
>
> > I have the 1/87th scale version of this figure, and if/when I ever
paint
up
> > my Ral Partha 25mm Battletroops, I'll paint him up to match.  I have
a
> > whole bunsh of the 1/72nd scale models that Revell put out for
Robotech,
> > too -- if I ever *do* get them assembled and painted, it's going to
be
one
> > hell of a battleforce.
>
> The old 1/87th Mammoth? Damn, that thing must be huge! My new one
(1/144?)
> is big enough. I'd really like to see pics of that thing - just how
big is
> it?
>
> > I strongly advise that no one holds their breath waiting for this to
happen.
>
> Fair enough... I've seen some of the old 1/72 Robotech stuff, too, and
it
> looked good. Didn't there used to be Battletech larger plastic models
as
> well, at some point?
>
> Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
> - http://warbard.iwarp.com/games.html -
>
>
>
>