Burning Chrome -- it is not that it won't ever be funded by IWM, it is just not yet on their list of items to be released. Most of the other designs sculpted have not been erased from the histories of their manufacturing nations. There is only so much money and only so much room on the release schedule -- not everything can be first and there are, to many fans, sexier, more desireable and perhaps better selling mechs and vehicles than the Von Rohrs to be sculpted and released first. I suspect it will be done someday...
You're not really going to get the opportunity to critique the mech in the process of its sculpting -- I appreciate your concern but it is not your job to do that. All efforts are made to get the size right at the beginning, point out the important features, clarify murky areas and then to correct any problems when the sculpt is initially finished -- before final approval by Topps and the master molds are made.
Please read the subject of the fan funding process for your answers re: the compensation.
Rob
Thank you for the information and I understand, but do not agree with not being able to critique a sculpt that I am partially funding. It may not be my job, but it is my investment and believe other fund contributors would be upset if our contribution went towards creating a poorly proportioned, out of scale, incorrectly configured and detailed mini.
I do not think it is unreasonable for those who contributed to the project to receive pics of the sculpt and critique it before it goes into final production. These groups of folks who finance minis do not seem to be too large and would most likely result in a better mini versus something that would suffer "death by committee".
I haven't seen a Dark Crow in person yet nor to scale with other minis, but your preview pics post was very much appreciated. I noted the torso was a bit too tall (most likely others did too) which you acknowledge and stated it was too late to change. IMHO that is a minor issue as the rest of the sculpt was pretty damn near perfect. I only wish the Crossbow, Battleaxe, Warlord, Titan II and a few others could have been saved.
Getting a mini right the first time would prevent resulpts later. How many has the Blood Asp had?
Variants would seem to be a relatively easy way to make IWM cash as well. I'd personally would like to see the OTL-7M, OTL-8M and OTL-9R released. All that is required is a new torso as the legs and arms from the OTL-5D or OTL-6D are already available. Or perhaps just sell the torsos online?
Getting a bit off topic so I'll end this here.