The Kickstarter: Unintended effects

[Bedwyr]

Oh yeah, but those minis are 10+ years old?  They are closer in time to the aforementioned painful TRO3060/PP minis than the current crop.  I understand what you were saying, like the ones I bagged back in '04 or '05 I paid someone else who is better at it to assemble them for me.  Current crop are way better, and I will attribute that to tech since they are computer modeled which makes them easier to build IMO.  I want to say the Juliano was 10+ parts, the primitive Thunder also had a lot of parts as do a few others but I will consider them . . . old Project Phoenix models?  No thanks, I need 5 or less parts to buy one from that time frame that I will try to put together myself.

But yeah, I like the plastic b/c I can do more with it- I have only changed 1 metal mini that I can recall.  I took a Quasimodo's arm and cut the elbow to make it extended to point at forward.

Because I'm going to have a mix of plastic and metal and because I have a bit of OCD about uniformity, I plan to create custom bases for the plastics and insert fishing weights in the bases (made of clay) so that they have a bit of heft similar to the metals. :)

[Punishermark]

Just in case you are not already aware there is a Battletech group that plays in North Olmstead every Monday night at a store called Recess at 7PM.

He is correct. We have been playing for 6+ years. See our Cleveland Battletech League facebook page.

Battletech needs these plastics. People do not want metal.

[Colt Ward]

Battletech needs these plastics. People do not want metal.

Eh, I am not starting that flame war.  I understand people have preferences, I do not get the adamant stances between the materials but cest la vie.  I am happy that we have more materials on the market appealing to a broader player base which will hopefully translate to more BT stuff.

[Bedwyr]

Eh, I am not starting that flame war.  I understand people have preferences, I do not get the adamant stances between the materials but cest la vie.  I am happy that we have more materials on the market appealing to a broader player base which will hopefully translate to more BT stuff.

I am all for selling what people want to buy is, I think, where I come down in all this.

[Insaniac99]

Eh, I am not starting that flame war.  I understand people have preferences, I do not get the adamant stances between the materials but cest la vie.  I am happy that we have more materials on the market appealing to a broader player base which will hopefully translate to more BT stuff.

I am all for selling what people want to buy is, I think, where I come down in all this.

I agree with both of these here, but from a slightly neutral perspective, I understand the desire to have All of the models available in your preferred medium.  The storage requirements to efficiently store a lot of minis are different based on whether you are plastic or metal.

[Asgo]

Because I'm going to have a mix of plastic and metal and because I have a bit of OCD about uniformity, I plan to create custom bases for the plastics and insert fishing weights in the bases (made of clay) so that they have a bit of heft similar to the metals. :)

the bases of the new models work really well with magnets - another way to give the model more weight and well magnets. ;)

[Bedwyr]

the bases of the new models work really well with magnets - another way to give the model more weight and well magnets. ;)

An interesting possibility. I'll probably stick with clay, though, because I discovered an algorithm that works really well for my collection. I sculpt the base to create some kind of interesting diorama like city, mountain slope, seaside, or what-have-you and then cut the sides using a thin blade or flat sheet of some kind (currently a metal ruler). That creates a nice, sharp hex shape sized to a cardboard template I use. Then I bake the clay.

[Insaniac99]

An interesting possibility. I'll probably stick with clay, though, because I discovered an algorithm that works really well for my collection. I sculpt the base to create some kind of interesting diorama like city, mountain slope, seaside, or what-have-you and then cut the sides using a thin blade or flat sheet of some kind (currently a metal ruler). That creates a nice, sharp hex shape sized to a cardboard template I use. Then I bake the clay.

That's pretty cool, I don't have that kind of artistic talent (or time and materials!) and I bet it looks good on tabletop.  I do agree with Asgo that Magnets give a nice little heft.  Even better, you can then use ferrous material inside storage or the inside of a Mech Scale Drop ship and have terrain that also carries your mechs.

[Jester006]

Unintended effects?  Having "old man moments" when I run some BT demo games and the new players ask me "What's Robotech?" when I mention where some of the old school mech designs came from.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

That was that show about the aliens that invaded Earth to destroy the mullets, right?

[Daryk]

Now I'm feeling old because I get that joke...  :-\ ;D

[Colt Ward]

That was that show about the aliens that invaded Earth to destroy the mullets, right?

Oh dear God, I saw a pre-teen boy with one Saturday . . . and he WANTED it that way b/c he was getting up out of the barber's chair.

[Crimson Dawn]

I was there last night.  It's honestly a great group.

Nice sadly I was out of town but I should be there next week.

[Mendrugo]

One side effect for me was that I went back and made a major order from IWM, filling in my collection with the various TRO:3026 and TRO:2750 vehicles and TRO:2750 WarShips that never got a Ral Partha release back in the day.  If you've got oodles of Clanners incoming, you need ComStar's combined arms Level IIs to meet them on Tukayyid.

[Corpboy]

Count me in as one of the people who haven't seen/played BT in many, many years that the Kickstarter brought back to the universe.  I don't even remember how I found the KS but when I did I knew I had to back it.

Bought in at the Star Captain level, and just doubled-down my investment to a Bloodnamed level with a side order of the Legendary mechwarrior pack.