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Re: [GZG] [OFFICIAL] GZG 15mm SF VEHICLES!!!! :-)



Ok.  Page is up.

<http://okapi.andrew.cmu.edu/lerchey/www/gzg>

It ain't fancy, but you can see the new 15mm vehicles!

J

John K. Lerchey
Assistant Director for Incident Response
Information Security Office
Carnegie Mellon University


Thanks for getting these up so quickly, John!

For everyone's info, a few notes to explain the pics might be in order:

I had to do the pics in a great rush, without being able to properly set anything up, and the couple of desk lamps I used to light the minis have played havoc with the colours - the sand-sprayed ones look bright orange, and the ones that look brown are actually a greenish khaki (the new GW spray "Ogre Flesh", which is an excellent olive drab colour - grab a couple of tins while their stores still have it)!

Please note also that these are shots of PRE-PRODUCTION castings, and there may be some minor cleaning up and modification before production moulds are made, so usual disclaimers apply!

A few notes:

V15-01 Main Battle Tank: The orange-looking one (actually desert sand!) uses the Mass Driver (MDC) gun barrel and one of the two alternative sensor units (the other, a spherical radome, is shown in the parts pic).
The brown/khaki one has the HKP barrel and the point-defence tribarrel fitted. All optional parts are included in all kits.


V15-02 Light Tank: The desert/orange one has the RF Cannon barrel, and the khaki one the Fusion Gun.

V15-03 Guncrab: This shows the RF Cannon, the same Fusion Gun barrel as shown on the light tank is also supplied.

Note also that the commander figures are NOT shown in the parts pics for V15-01 and 02, but these will be included in the production kits.

All comments/requests are being noted, watch out for more new 15mm soon. There will certainly be more variants to the guncrab, and probably some more walkers using the same leg assembly - I've got ideas for a scorpion-shaped vehicle with lots of legs and a raised "tail" weapons platform....
Some grav vehicles are in the planning stage too, and probably some hover ones.


As to the requests for scaled-down versions of the 25mm vehicles, I may do some of these in the future, but the main reason I didn't start with them is that the sculpting techniques for resins in 25mm and metals in 15mm are very different, and some of the 25mm designs will be a real pain to do in 15mm! I'm not saying that I won't do them, but I may get some of the new ideas out first. Much the same argument goes for the 6mm upscaling, but again I might do some eventually!

Best,

Jon (GZG)
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