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[Salient]

Call up Bandai, have them come up with some sweet 1:100 scale MWO models.

[Strum Wealh]

Kotobukiya (the same company that makes the high-grade Armored Core models, among other things) would also be a good choice for such a project.

[gregsolidus]

Would definitely be nice to see now the mechs aren't painfully ugly anymore.

[Das Wudone]

agreed. would love some mechs lined up on my desk

[Salient]

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[aspect]

Would buy immediately.

[Super Mono]

Should come with a code to use in the game to get the same item as a cockpit decoration.

[Egomane]

Sorry, but production rights for Battletech and Mechwarrior miniatures are with Ral Partha and Catalyst Game Labs.

This proposal needs to be brought up with them and I doubt they would allow someone else to produce them.

[Strum Wealh]

Egomane, on 10 December 2012 - 03:25 PM, said:

Sorry, but production rights for Battletech and Mechwarrior miniatures are with Ral Partha and Catalyst Game Labs.

This proposal needs to be brought up with them and I doubt they would allow someone else to produce them.

Well, of course any physical BT/MW product would have to go through CGL, S&T, and Topps.

Ral Partha's BT minis are on the 54 mm (2 inches) tall scale for gaming, and are cast/sculpted pewter.
What Salient and I have in mind are more-complex, jointed, poseable, buyer-assembled plastic model kits in the style of the Gundam and Armored Core models produced by Bandai and Kotobukiya, and would be on the order of ~8 to ~14 inches (204 to 356 mm) tall (that is, "one inch = 1 meter" scale) - far too large for use in gaming (unless one is using map sheets each have the same footprint as a minivan or SUV ), but ideal for larger and more elaborate dioramas, desk/table and shelf/case displays, and other purposes for which the smaller and less-flexible pewter figurines would be less well-suited.

[xengk]

MOTHER OF BUMP!

[Egomane]

I know what you proposed here.

It is just, that any miniature production rights are with those companies. Scale is of no importance here.

I know a lot of people who would buy some larger miniatures for dioramas or large scale battles. We even had a scenario once, with 30 cm tall paper mechs and tanks, 8 cm tall paper elementals, some toys from the Mechwarrior toys line and some large miniatures of the unseens from various japanese companies, on a small concert hall size terrain. Bigger and more detailed miniatures would be perfect for something like that.

[DivineEvil]

Oppa Gunpla style, op, op op op, oppa gunpla styyyle!

[Salient]

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