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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1440 on: 08 April 2024, 08:14:35 »
Don't get me wrong, I love metal minis and I've specifically loved IWM metal minis for decades. The metal nu-Classics are mostly great upgrades over the plastics (the Battlemaster is hot trash). Despite them being nice upgrades over the plastics, I do agree with a lot of the sentiment here that they feel like a poor use of resources and limited production slots. I cannot believe that offering singles of mechs from Lance Packs at most of the cost of a box of 4/5 plastics is better for the market than offering things that aren't otherwise available at all. At least things like the Rifleman offer a new variant part, but then the Rifleman is ALSO competing with the stupid CGL Premium mini that has even less reason to exist.

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1441 on: 23 April 2024, 10:02:42 »
How many parts is the new Night Gyr mini?  I'm wondering about pose options.
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1442 on: 24 April 2024, 08:55:06 »
I remember somewhere saying a Warship would come out every year? Are we lucky for a Warship this year??
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1443 on: 24 April 2024, 17:01:16 »
Oh that would be awesome!

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1444 on: 24 April 2024, 17:34:55 »
What is left to come out?
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1445 on: 25 April 2024, 07:57:48 »
What is left to come out?

The Clan Spaniel Collectible Box Set?

Starring the official Minis of Clan Spaniel in metal?

Would be a nice present to introduce them to the world.

You know, options...

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1446 on: 25 April 2024, 09:59:11 »
What is left to come out?

Going off of memory, there's the Stefan Amaris, the Newgrange, the remaining 2765 ships, the Golden Century ships, and it's not a WarShip but I'm going to include the Castrum anyway. Probably missed something.
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1447 on: 25 April 2024, 10:58:48 »
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1448 on: 25 April 2024, 13:15:32 »
That's one of the 2765s, yep. :cool:
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1449 on: 25 April 2024, 16:16:33 »
I'd put money on the Stefan Amaris class.
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1450 on: 25 April 2024, 19:26:36 »
Any warship that would come out would be great. Some of the 2765s would be great to see. I would love the Enterprise IMHO.
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1451 on: 25 April 2024, 20:45:08 »
Did we get the Reunification War warships?
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1452 on: 09 May 2024, 08:07:49 »
How many parts is the new Night Gyr mini?  I'm wondering about pose options.

Body
Upper arms
Lower arms
waist/hip
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1453 on: 09 May 2024, 08:10:15 »
I posted pictures of the new releases to the new releases category. Rifleman just has the 3C variant, I will have the other built and up next week. I just received another copy to build.


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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1454 on: 09 May 2024, 08:11:25 »
I remember somewhere saying a Warship would come out every year? Are we lucky for a Warship this year??

Nothing in the works right now

I'd put money on the Stefan Amaris class.

Would be nice, but the art is not the best to have a model done.

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1455 on: 10 May 2024, 11:23:01 »
I'd love to throw my hat in the ring for the "more metal for designs CGL doesn't make yet" especially mechs that have updated art but no plastic mini.

Pls sell me an updated Jinggau and I will build an entire Capellan force out of IWM minis.

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« Reply #1456 on: 10 May 2024, 16:42:21 »
I'll probably be investing in Capellan metal come the next Black Friday sale, but a renewed Jinggau would be a multiple purchase. Had decided to get 1 and replace the arms already.
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« Reply #1457 on: 10 May 2024, 18:43:17 »
I've been toying with kitbashing a Jinggau using the Mad Cat Mk II as a base.  Some of them have the extended nose that works for the bomber dome. 

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1458 on: 10 May 2024, 18:52:31 »
Was probably going to use a leftover Templar gauss arm, and a four-barrel piece off MWDA for the ER lasers, but modding the legs would be ... hard. The new art is lovely.
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1459 on: 10 May 2024, 19:06:47 »
I'll probably be investing in Capellan metal come the next Black Friday sale, but a renewed Jinggau would be a multiple purchase. Had decided to get 1 and replace the arms already.

It would be especially great if we got extra arms to make at least one variant.
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1460 on: 11 May 2024, 23:34:51 »
I'd love to throw my hat in the ring for the "more metal for designs CGL doesn't make yet" especially mechs that have updated art but no plastic mini.

Pls sell me an updated Jinggau and I will build an entire Capellan force out of IWM minis.

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1461 on: 16 May 2024, 22:12:56 »
Any plans for Archer variants in the near "soon"?

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1462 on: 17 May 2024, 11:53:52 »
Any plans for Archer variants in the near "soon"?

I do have two Archer variants done, just need to work with Mike for release.

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1463 on: 17 May 2024, 11:58:10 »
Goodie gumdrops!

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1464 on: 17 May 2024, 13:13:03 »
I do have two Archer variants done, just need to work with Mike for release.
What ever happened to releasing the Thunderbolt and Commando variants that were mentioned a couple years ago?
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1465 on: 20 May 2024, 10:14:12 »
I do have two Archer variants done, just need to work with Mike for release.

I hope it's something we haven't seen before! ARC-2S or ARC-5CS

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1466 on: 20 May 2024, 22:42:05 »
When do we get a summer/Con release schedule?
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1467 on: 21 May 2024, 19:33:48 »
What ever happened to releasing the Thunderbolt and Commando variants that were mentioned a couple years ago?

They were never completed and most likely not happen unless something changes the situation.

I hope it's something we haven't seen before! ARC-2S or ARC-5CS

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When do we get a summer/Con release schedule?

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1468 on: 22 May 2024, 10:49:30 »
Thanks Speck!  A lot of people are going to be excited about the ARC-5CS with its 4x LRM-15s

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 2: the Wrath of Speck
« Reply #1469 on: 29 May 2024, 13:21:39 »
Hey Speck, I heard a rumor that for all the other mechs that did not get the new kickstarter plastic/art treatment will be rescaled to the new CGLs scale. Is this true? 
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