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Vote for Archive Return

Black Lanner
15 (15.3%)
Nighstar
27 (27.6%)
Firestarter
23 (23.5%)
Fury Tank
14 (14.3%)
Gunslinger
19 (19.4%)

Total Members Voted: 98

Voting closed: 31 March 2011, 18:03:56

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Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« 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.

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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« 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.
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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #2 on: 22 March 2011, 18:53:13 »
Got to keep the Firestarter hot ;)
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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #3 on: 22 March 2011, 18:54:05 »
voted firestarter since i don't have one, and i think it looks cool.
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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #4 on: 22 March 2011, 19:26:31 »
Firestarter.  More useful than ever these days.

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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #5 on: 22 March 2011, 19:29:11 »
Are you guys talking the original  firestarter or that ugly DA one or the omni?
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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #6 on: 22 March 2011, 19:33:04 »
I voted for the Gunslinger.....tis a cool mech

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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #7 on: 22 March 2011, 19:36:04 »
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
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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« 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

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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« 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.

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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #10 on: 22 March 2011, 21:27:57 »
I went firestarter, for some reason I do not possess one of these classics.

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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #11 on: 22 March 2011, 21:36:00 »
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,

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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #12 on: 22 March 2011, 21:40:08 »
Voted Nightstar  awesome looking mech.

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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #13 on: 22 March 2011, 21:52:57 »
Voted Nightstar  awesome looking mech.

Indeed.  I also need one for making a Marauder kitbash.
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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« 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
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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #15 on: 22 March 2011, 22:20:43 »
Nighstar. I'm assuming its a cheap Capellan knock-off of the original. :)
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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #16 on: 23 March 2011, 06:55:17 »
Hd to vote for the Fury, mainly because I don't have any yet
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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #17 on: 23 March 2011, 10:59:50 »
Voted for the Black Lanner last time, same again.
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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #18 on: 23 March 2011, 12:28:50 »
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.

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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« 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!

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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #20 on: 23 March 2011, 15:37:35 »
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.

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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« 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.
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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« 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!

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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #23 on: 24 March 2011, 21:15:01 »
Firestarter closes the gap

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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« 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.

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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« 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.
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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« 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.
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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #27 on: 29 March 2011, 14:41:45 »
Nightstar = Munch

Firestarter = Lunch



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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #28 on: 29 March 2011, 15:11:05 »
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
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Re: Special Archive Return March 2011 Poll
« Reply #29 on: 30 March 2011, 20:48:37 »
One more day to vote!!!