Author Topic: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll (Read 11668 times)

speck · « **on:** 22 March 2011, 18:02:57 »

Here is the new poll to be vote on five different Archive products, I got a week delayed on this due to coming back from a convention and leaving last weekend for family visit. The top two at the end of the poll will be available on the website as Online Exclusives for purchase without the Archive fee. So this poll will expire around the end of March 2011 and the top two Archive Products will return for sale without the Archive fee for April 2011.

Col.Hengist · « **Reply #1 on:** 22 March 2011, 18:50:39 »

As much as i like the black lanner as a mech,i think it needs a resculpt. I vote nightstar.

worktroll · « **Reply #2 on:** 22 March 2011, 18:53:13 »

Got to keep the Firestarter hot ;)

Daishi411 · « **Reply #3 on:** 22 March 2011, 18:54:05 »

voted firestarter since i don't have one, and i think it looks cool.

Ian Sharpe · « **Reply #4 on:** 22 March 2011, 19:26:31 »

Firestarter. More useful than ever these days.

Col.Hengist · « **Reply #5 on:** 22 March 2011, 19:29:11 »

Are you guys talking the original firestarter or that ugly DA one or the omni?

Snake Eyes · « **Reply #6 on:** 22 March 2011, 19:33:04 »

I voted for the Gunslinger.....tis a cool mech

Daishi411 · « **Reply #7 on:** 22 March 2011, 19:36:04 »

Quote from: Col.Hengist on 22 March 2011, 19:29:11

Are you guys talking the original firestarter or that ugly DA one or the omni?

i want to assume the regular one, cause the name for the DA one actually says DA, this one doesn't. if i screwed that up, i might be unhappy

pintotheevil · « **Reply #8 on:** 22 March 2011, 20:16:37 »

Firestarter here... would like to get a few, and would hate to pay the archive fee

tapdancingbeavers · « **Reply #9 on:** 22 March 2011, 20:34:32 »

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i want to assume the regular one, cause the name for the DA one actually says DA, this one doesn't. if i screwed that up, i might be unhappy

Just looked on the IWM website and the dark age one doesn't seem to be archived so it is the original version that the poll is about.

ShockaTime · « **Reply #10 on:** 22 March 2011, 21:27:57 »

I went firestarter, for some reason I do not possess one of these classics.

speck · « **Reply #11 on:** 22 March 2011, 21:36:00 »

Quote from: tapdancingbeavers on 22 March 2011, 20:34:32

Just looked on the IWM website and the dark age one doesn't seem to be archived so it is the original version that the poll is about.

The DA Firestarter is not Archived,

http://ironwindmetals.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=3789

avon1985 · « **Reply #12 on:** 22 March 2011, 21:40:08 »

Voted Nightstar awesome looking mech.

Mattlov · « **Reply #13 on:** 22 March 2011, 21:52:57 »

Quote from: avon1985 on 22 March 2011, 21:40:08

Voted Nightstar awesome looking mech.

Indeed. I also need one for making a Marauder kitbash.

JPArbiter · « **Reply #14 on:** 22 March 2011, 22:11:59 »

Voted Fury Tank, it is something of a newfound favorite and I would love to order a half dozen of em

greatsarcasmo · « **Reply #15 on:** 22 March 2011, 22:20:43 »

Nighstar. I'm assuming its a cheap Capellan knock-off of the original. :)

wemic9 · « **Reply #16 on:** 23 March 2011, 06:55:17 »

Hd to vote for the Fury, mainly because I don't have any yet

phlop · « **Reply #17 on:** 23 March 2011, 10:59:50 »

Voted for the Black Lanner last time, same again.

Psycho · « **Reply #18 on:** 23 March 2011, 12:28:50 »

Quote from: JPArbiter on 22 March 2011, 22:11:59

Voted Fury Tank, it is something of a newfound favorite and I would love to order a half dozen of em

Wouldn't that be a time when the archive fee isn't so much of a problem? Sure, it's still about an extra $1.25 per mini, but that's far less than if you wanted only one or two of an archived mini.

Alex Keller · « **Reply #19 on:** 23 March 2011, 15:06:31 »

Hmmm.. already have a Black Lanner, Nigh*star and Firestarter. Don't much care for the Gunslinger. Fury it is!

JPArbiter · « **Reply #20 on:** 23 March 2011, 15:37:35 »

Quote from: Psycho on 23 March 2011, 12:28:50

Wouldn't that be a time when the archive fee isn't so much of a problem? Sure, it's still about an extra $1.25 per mini, but that's far less than if you wanted only one or two of an archived mini.

nominally yes, but now I have a chance of not paying ANY extra

Stormlion1 · « **Reply #21 on:** 23 March 2011, 21:57:27 »

I'll go with the Firestarter, I only have one right now and I have at least one Nightstar I haven't painted. Plus the Nightstar was in the Archives for the longest time at the original price so if someone didn't get it they weren't looking for one.

Jal Phoenix · « **Reply #22 on:** 24 March 2011, 00:02:09 »

aince I own every mini, all of my voting in these polls will be based on which of the represented minis I feel is the better made. The Firestarter is easily the best sculpted of these minis, having been done at a time when all of the minis were richly detailed and in scale with each other. The other three 'Mechs are in need (in the Lanner's case DIRE need) of a resculpt, and the Fury tank can be subbed out with a random square chunk of metal and with a nail on top and no one would no the difference. Go FlamethrowerMech!

Cyc · « **Reply #23 on:** 24 March 2011, 21:15:01 »

Firestarter closes the gap

Tslammer · « **Reply #24 on:** 28 March 2011, 12:34:03 »

Wow what a lacking list of choices. The Lanner just needs help and the Slinger's art makes it look like an over inflated michelin man. While the Night star on paper is one of my favorites the figure is sadly in need of a resculpt. Its so far out of scale with what its supposed to be. The new crop of marauders all dwarf it. Luckily I found a great proxy which I shall not name here.

Col.Hengist · « **Reply #25 on:** 28 March 2011, 13:41:21 »

The nightstar looks exactly like the tro. My problem with it is the legs. They are just too scrawny. I swapped them out with a mad IIc legs and it looks great...Atleast to me it does lol.

F T C · « **Reply #26 on:** 29 March 2011, 14:35:59 »

As much as I want a Firestarter I NEED a Nightstar or two. Hopefully firestarter will be number two and I can get both.

Alex Keller · « **Reply #27 on:** 29 March 2011, 14:41:45 »

Nightstar = Munch

Firestarter = Lunch

Fury..... Yes please!

Col.Hengist · « **Reply #28 on:** 29 March 2011, 15:11:05 »

Quote from: F T C on 29 March 2011, 14:35:59

As much as I want a Firestarter I NEED a Nightstar or two. Hopefully firestarter will be number two and I can get both.

It looks like they will be unless there is a big run on one of the others. I also could use a few of each

speck · « **Reply #29 on:** 30 March 2011, 20:48:37 »

One more day to vote!!!

speck · « **Reply #30 on:** 31 March 2011, 19:30:31 »

Looks like the Night Star and Firestarter Mechs have won. I will put them up on the site tomorrow evening.

speck · « **Reply #31 on:** 03 April 2011, 09:47:15 »

Both the Firestarter and Nightstar have been added to the Archive Special Return Folder for sale without the Archive Fee.

Col.Hengist · « **Reply #32 on:** 03 April 2011, 09:55:51 »

Stormlion1 · « **Reply #33 on:** 04 April 2011, 00:15:40 »

Next couple of weeks I plan on getting the Firestarter, need more light mechs.

Col.Hengist · « **Reply #34 on:** 04 April 2011, 01:39:35 »

Get a nightstar or 2 Hanse, you'll like the lb version...i guarantee.

Stormlion1 · « **Reply #35 on:** 05 April 2011, 21:50:02 »

I got a few Nightstars, like I said before, for the longest time they were in the Archives still under the original price so I picked some up a few months back. I think I got 3 at the moment. One in SLDF colors, 1st FedSuns Lancers colors, and 1 in a urban camo scheme.

Wraithcannon · « **Reply #36 on:** 05 April 2011, 23:55:03 »

I would have voted Gunslinger except the sculpt is so bad.

Jal Phoenix · « **Reply #37 on:** 06 April 2011, 10:02:12 »

Quote from: Wraithcannon on 05 April 2011, 23:55:03

I would have voted Gunslinger except the sculpt is so bad.

I explained my voting logic in the last poll. I'll always vote for the best existing sculpt, even if it's not the 'Mech with the best game stats. Of all the minis on the last poll, the Firestarter was the best sculpted. The Nightstar, Gunslinger and Black Lanner will all benefit from a resculpt, so I'd rather see that done for them than a return of a sculpt that isn't that great.

Wraithcannon · « **Reply #38 on:** 07 April 2011, 21:35:51 »

I agree about the Nightstar, I held off buying one because of the poor sculpt but ever since it went archived I was sad not to have picked one up.

I still don't like it but it's too useful a mech to pass up.

The same could be said of the Gunslinger but I just CANNOT get past it's little twiggy chicken arms.

Col.Hengist · « **Reply #39 on:** 07 April 2011, 21:40:37 »

So I'm just wondering what's wrong with the nightstar? Other than it's small for it's tonage?

Wraithcannon · « **Reply #40 on:** 07 April 2011, 21:48:04 »

Where should I begin?

Jal Phoenix · « **Reply #41 on:** 07 April 2011, 21:50:45 »

Quote from: Col.Hengist on 07 April 2011, 21:40:37

So I'm just wondering what's wrong with the nightstar? Other than it's small for it's tonage?

It's only a two-piece mini that can't be posed. It's arm joints are very weak and tend to break, sometimes even while it's still in the blister. It has very little detail, even less than the art would suggest. Of course, the art is not exactly up to 7th grade levels, either.

Col.Hengist · « **Reply #42 on:** 08 April 2011, 12:10:09 »

So its a problem with the art mainly? The thing looks exactly like the art in the tro. Or is it more that it isn't poseable and the arms are weak? I can agree with the last part alto I've never had broken arms on one yet.

F T C · « **Reply #43 on:** 08 April 2011, 14:04:28 »

I mainly don't like the angle and positioning of the arms, but like Wraithcannon said I missed out on it once so I made sure to get it this time.

jimdigris · « **Reply #44 on:** 08 April 2011, 15:30:57 »

The forearms are too big. It was a perspective problem with the art.

Jal Phoenix · « **Reply #45 on:** 10 April 2011, 16:56:23 »

Speck,

Let me suggest that you put the Tundra Wolf in your next poll. It's a great mini with incredible game stats, and now that it's finally gotten TRO treatment, it's bound to be more popular.

DarkISI · « **Reply #46 on:** 10 April 2011, 16:58:50 »

Actually, I would suggest to put some TRO 3085 (Supplemental) units in there more often. The TRO treatment should be good for all of them.

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