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Re: What's in the Pipeline 3: the Search for Speck
« Reply #90 on: 28 September 2024, 20:19:05 »
Has there been any word on the Inferno?

Also, Weirdo, let me know if you end up passing around the hat for the Rondel and Cutless. I recently found an Alpha Strike group that uses ASF, and man does not live by Daggers alone.
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 3: the Search for Speck
« Reply #91 on: 30 September 2024, 00:43:13 »
I came here to check if there was any word on the Doom Courser.  Ah well.
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 3: the Search for Speck
« Reply #92 on: 06 October 2024, 12:11:06 »
In regards to the Wasp or Flea, are there any plans to offer updated sculpts of either of them? I have the special release version of the wasp, which while being a lovely sculpt, has distinctly chunkier proportions than the plastic catalyst one (and was also only available for a limited time)

I also have the newer Ironwind Flea and the new Catalyst Flea, and while they are very similar (outside of a few very minor detailing differences that I think just add character) are also very different in scale-the ironwind one is easily twice as large!

Ironwind hass done a commendable job matching the Catalyst offerings overall, so I'm curious if there are any plans to re-do either of these two mechs to better match the scale of the catalyst miniatures that are coming out?

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 3: the Search for Speck
« Reply #93 on: 06 October 2024, 12:27:47 »
As new as the most recent Flea mini is, I’m going to guess that replacing it is a very low priority.
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 3: the Search for Speck
« Reply #94 on: 06 October 2024, 15:39:58 »
Could always proxy a Gùn for the Flea as well?

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 3: the Search for Speck
« Reply #95 on: 06 October 2024, 15:57:15 »
Could always proxy a Gùn for the Flea as well?
An alternative approach is to mod the Flea, to be smaller.
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 3: the Search for Speck
« Reply #96 on: 18 October 2024, 11:33:36 »
Would it be possible to have Warship and Jumpship parts-sprues added to the Scrapyard? I can't count how many times I've had models end up missing a fin or two. Right now I have ... at least four models in need of bits. (Texas 2750, Kirishima, Mako, Dart...)

Also, would IWM be interested in purchasing 3d sculpts of Warship models? I've worked up one of the League DD and am eyeing the Commonwealth CL for my next project....

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 3: the Search for Speck
« Reply #97 on: 22 October 2024, 09:15:27 »
Re: The Flea.

I did consider taking parts from the Gun, but since I'm already using a Gun (and might buy some more, it's a lovely sculpt) any potential Gun to Flea conversions might stick out a bit more than I'd like in my collection. It's legs and those of the Locust are pretty close in scale though.

For cutting down the metal sculpt to fit the scale of the newer one, I think the old metal sculpt is actually closer scale-wise. (similar height, length of legs) But the 'body' is still rather noticeably larger compared to the new plastic one. I'm not really sure how much I could reasonably cut either the old or new metal sculpt down though and keep a recognizable body section.

Knew it would be a longshot, but I do like the Flea a lot and it would be great to see the modern sculpt more readily available in the current scale. AFAIK there is no plans to release the plastic Flea outside of the Mercenaries box.

On the subject of light mechs, has anyone heard about any plans/talks for any upcoming light mech releases in general? The more recent releases have all been for heavier weight classes from what I have noticed, and there's quite a few light mechs I'd love to see in metal or redone in modern sculpts- Stinger, Wasp, etc.

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 3: the Search for Speck
« Reply #98 on: 30 October 2024, 15:22:45 »
We've only had 7 miniatures teased this year and all of them have been  variants of a plastic CGL sculpt or resculpt of an existing miniature.

I will always love my IWM miniature collection. I love that i can still buy those rare/archived minis that were made in the 1990s. Just wish that we could get more news on what the future holds.

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Re: What's in the Pipeline 3: the Search for Speck
« Reply #99 on: 30 October 2024, 15:30:13 »
It's been a while since we've heard from Speck.  I hope things are okay.
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Re: What's in the Pipeline 3: the Search for Speck
« Reply #100 on: 31 October 2024, 11:36:16 »
It's been a while since we've heard from Speck.  I hope things are okay.

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