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

>Ok.  Page is up.
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><http://okapi.andrew.cmu.edu/lerchey/www/gzg>
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>It ain't fancy, but you can see the new 15mm vehicles!
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>J
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>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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