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

I would fall in the middle. I want a unit of mecha (let's say 10 max for
the 
sake of arguement) to have a good variety of poses. I also want a
limited 
number of parts, let's say 10 parts as well. 40 parts will be too time 
consuming to use more than one or two in a game.

I do not care about looking like someone elses figure, I care about a hi

level of duplication on the table.

And your right, I'll look at a 40 part kit and it will probably keep
going 
back into the "to do" bin. Someone mentions 40 parts, and I start
thinking 
modeling rather than a figure for gaming. I would start to treat it like
a 
shelf model and it that would take me weeks to build.

That's me anyway.

Regards,
martin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ground Zero Games" <jon@gzg.com>
To: <gzg@firedrake.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 12:42 PM
Subject: Question to all, re Mecha kits...

>A quick hypothetical question to all out there in list-land -
> especially those of you who like Mecha-style units with your ground
> forces....
>
> When you get a kit of a gaming mecha (something for use on the table,
> as opposed to a Gundam-type plastic kit for display), how important
> is "poseability" to you? By that I mean the flexibility to choose
> exactly how you pose your particular model when you build it, as
> opposed to having to assemble it in one fixed pose determined by the
> manufacturer.
>
> If you were faced with a white-metal Mecha kit with LOTS of parts -
> let's say anything up to 40 separate components - which effectively
> had almost every joint poseable, would you panic and never build it?
> Would you prefer to see it made up in a much smaller number of
> solid-cast subassemblies that were much quicker to glue together, but
> would result in a model that looked just like the next guy's one?
>
> Obviously most of you will by now have guessed that there is
> something in the GZG pipeline, and if I get a good number of
> responses to this it may well influence the way a particular project
> goes.....  ;-)
>
> Comment away!
>
> Best,
>
> Jon (GZG)
>
>