Lieutenant Rasczak
Mongoose
Mage said:What about mushy peas?
Thats what I call MP's (Movement Points) when we play VOR LMAO!
It winds 40k Steve up summat rotten!
Mage said:What about mushy peas?
So true, and it business it seems people have lost the drive that was associated with 6 Sigma and Total Quality Management. I always remember the anecdote about an American businessman who placed an order with a Japanese firm and specified a limit of 0.4% defective parts. He was shocked when he received the order with a small box of defective parts and the note: 'Here are the 0.4% defective parts you ordered, we don't know why you wanted them though.'In these days of dumbing-down and pandering to the lowest common denominator,
Business actually isn't that hard.
CudaHP said:Scipio, your background is industry, but as you know ten years in any technology can be an eternity.
What was not possible ten years may very well be possible now.
In lead alloys I have cast bullets without mold lines for years. the tolerances are in the mold manufacturing end of the business (die cutting).
Not only were there no mold lines but I segregated my bullets by weight, my normal tolerance was 1/10th of a grain, @ 7,000 grains per pound that is 1/70,000th pound. The bullets would be segregated in .2 grain groups at a max, including lubricant etc. I sized my bullets using through swaging to arrive at specific bullet diameters to the 1/1000th of an inch to fit the bullet to the exact bore diameter of the specific firearm in question.
All of this was an aid in increasing accuracy, of the firearm.
This in a home environment, not a high-tech environment.
If I had desired tighter tolerance I would have gone to swaging operations, which are capable of producing these tighter tolerances with very little training.
Personally I think the whole issue of possible quality is a waste of breathe until we actually see the production figures, paintjobs, sculpt qualities at first hand.
It has been discussed to death with no real results,either good or bad as it is all conjecture.
Mage said:I totally agree with you on msprange's somewhat contradicting statement about quality and the market.
It still does boggle the mind if they were not up to standard and they went ahead and made hundreds, if not thousands of miniatures regardless.
Good to see you dude!
rico's roughnecks said:I support MGP's new movement with shy quiet support, and don't want to get in between anything
:lol: :lol:
derek said:G'Day
While my reaction may not be as extreme as say Scipio's (hey I paid money for those miniatures, I'm keeping them ) I have to say I am dissapointed.
It's not the prepainted miniatures, it's not the 8 month wait for the release of SST:Evo, It's not turning up at the LGS to answer the question "Is Mongoose quitting on SST?" (something the guy running store shouldn't have to ask me). It's not even the Skinnie debacle (hey I was concentrating on the MI and the Bugs so I avoided that) nor was it the dropships dissappearing into the never never.
What dissapointed me was that when the decision was made to re-do SST into SST:Evo we weren't told from the get go. Had I been told that within Twelve months there would be a new rule book and new army book(s) I would have spent my money differently. Instead of spending money on army books with a 'life expectancy' that now makes a WH40K codex look long lived. I would have brought the other two tanker bugs and hopper bugs my son wants to slaughter me with and made do with the lists in the back of the rulebook.
I don't mind spending money on new rules but I do mind spending money on something that's already out of date.
Cheers
Derek
They've probably been flooded with emails, its happened many a time before in many companiesScipioAmericanus said:Well...all I can say is this:
My original questions to MGP seem to be ignored.
Does that bother anyone else besides me?
ScipioAmericanus said:derek said:G'Day
While my reaction may not be as extreme as say Scipio's (hey I paid money for those miniatures, I'm keeping them ) I have to say I am dissapointed.
It's not the prepainted miniatures, it's not the 8 month wait for the release of SST:Evo, It's not turning up at the LGS to answer the question "Is Mongoose quitting on SST?" (something the guy running store shouldn't have to ask me). It's not even the Skinnie debacle (hey I was concentrating on the MI and the Bugs so I avoided that) nor was it the dropships dissappearing into the never never.
What dissapointed me was that when the decision was made to re-do SST into SST:Evo we weren't told from the get go. Had I been told that within Twelve months there would be a new rule book and new army book(s) I would have spent my money differently. Instead of spending money on army books with a 'life expectancy' that now makes a WH40K codex look long lived. I would have brought the other two tanker bugs and hopper bugs my son wants to slaughter me with and made do with the lists in the back of the rulebook.
I don't mind spending money on new rules but I do mind spending money on something that's already out of date.
Cheers
Derek
Hi Derek!
In a word (or phrase): Flames of War.
ScipioAmericanus said:Well...all I can say is this:
My original questions to MGP seem to be ignored.
Does that bother anyone else besides me?
The Old Soldier said:Would you guys like some cheeze with that whine?
It is so easy to be negative.....
ScipioAmericanus said:Well...all I can say is this:
My original questions to MGP seem to be ignored.
Does that bother anyone else besides me?