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

OK, none of the other posts had come in when I replied.

Bigger is certailny a consideration. But as someone pointed out, if it's
big 
and it's metal, it gets very heavy. Heavy means hard to transport an
hard to 
ship. Heavy also means they tend to return to kit form of their own
accord. 
Anything much bigger than a Warmachine heavy or a GW Space marine 
dreadnought gets to be a problem. If you are going back into resin,
that's a 
whole nother story!

Martin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ground Zero Games" <jon@gzg.com>
To: <gzg@firedrake.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 1:34 PM
Subject: 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
>
>
> 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>
>>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)
>>>
>>>
>
>
>