Re: Question to all, re Mecha kits...

On 4/03/2012 5:07 AM, Ground Zero Games wrote:
> Thanks Eli; just to clarify, I didn't actually mention the size of 
> mini I'm talking about - this isn't a small "infantry walker" type, 
> it's a fairly big mecha - significantly bigger than the old original 
> DP9 1/87 scale Gears..... Jon (GZG)

I have a couple old Macross/Battletech kits that would stand about 
15-20cm high I guess. Those kits only had 12-15 parts and are a little 
too static for my liking, though when they come out for the first time 
there are quite a few "wows". 40 parts on a kit this size would be far 
more useful and still on the small size for detail and posability so no 
that number of parts wouldn't freak me out but then I came into the 
hobby from model building. The problem with something that size is 
weight/balance. A hollow kit will allow more dynamic poses without 
wanting to fall on it's face all the time. A solid resin/metal kit might

allow a lot of different poses on the torso and arms but would have to 
be static lower down to get the thing to balance properly and stand up 
on a game table. Of course when it starts standing on terrain.....

If you are talking that relative scale in 15mm then a 40 part kit is 
probably ok and you'd probably get away with a solid resin kit. I 
haven't been following it closely but Privateer Press is releasing some 
extra miniatures for their Warmachine game later this year and it would 
seem to me that the size that they are looking at might make good mecha 
for 15mm. I take it that they are solid resin kits with some metal 
though I am not sure about the part numbers.

So in summary: Mecha in 15mm, 40 parts OK, solid Resin/metal OK.
			     Mecha in 25mm, 40 parts too few, solid 
metal/resin too heavy.

Tony.