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

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I'd love to see some 15mm Mechs! Poseability would be nice, but I
agree with Martin that it's better not to have too many parts.
Breaking up the legs into upper, lower and foot parts would allow for
the gretest variety in poses but can be tricky to build.  I remember
some 6mm Mechs that had ball joints for arms and legs with fitting
sockets,I always thought this was a great way of doing it. You could
still pose the arms and legs but assembly was easy as you had
relatively large areas of cotact. I would opt for easy to build models
with fewer parts. Maybe you could have different legs and arms for
posing.  

	No matter which way you chose to do it, I'll buy at least one
;-)  

	Christian Weinhold 

	MECHworld 

	  Von: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
 An: gzg@firedrake.org
 Betreff: Re: Question to all, re Mecha kits...
 Datum: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:34:52 +0100

 >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

 Thanks Martin - as I explained in answer to Eli's first post, I 
 realised I'd forgotten to mention size - this is a BIG model we're 
 talking about, if anyone would buy and build more than two or three 
 at most, I'd be surprised (but very pleased!).

 Jon (GZG)

 >
 >
 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "Ground Zero Games" <jon@gzg.com [1]>
 >To: <gzg@firedrake.org [2]>
 >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)
 >>
 >>

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