i never said its great, infact ive stated its not perfect, and ive been at the front line in complaining about the product, and from the start of the project i displayed my doubts that the product would be as people exspected it to be.
im not in supprise, infact this was the sorta quality i thought would probably end up comming out.
but the tanks like challenger and abrahms are small on a games table, as its about focal point of view.
look at a pic i put up a few pages ago and in an old post the hull comes to bellow shoulder hieght, tanks need a low profile and need to be no wider than a lorry so they can traverse urban enviroments, russian tanks are designed to fit into their underground system for example.
thing is these minis can be used from the day you buy them, unless you can swear blind you can get the minis painted in the time it takes you to get them home better than they come id be supprised, im a speedpainter and i paint for money and many people on the forum know my work, and i have to say from a painters perspective, their OK, and if i whant them to look better then i can add a bit of paint here and there, if im incapable of doing that then these minis must be better painted than i could achieve.
at the moment we are judging pictures of minis that have been taken digitly and displayed on a screen with the DPI being blown out, the pics are larger than the minis in some cases ! so anything bad is magnified (well on my screen any way)
if you wish to flame and judge a product shouldnt you first own it and be able to hold it ?
ive sold many things on ebay, and ive had peopel email me back saying the pics didnt do the minis no where near enough justice, or the pics were misleading !!! look at this symbol on the screen
is it perfectly round or has the screen and dpi gone a bit pixilated so loss of detail ?
one thing with new pics ive noticed is their more pixel grainy, and evan the origianal pics wernt perfect in that department.
im going to judge them for these reasons when i have a boxset in my hand and a fig up to my eye, ive seen the camera mongoose use (next version up from mine) and the light box they use (could be set up a bit better in my opinion) and thats how im judging the pics as well with this glimour of knowledge.
the minis arnt what Mongoose hoped for, yes, mongoose feel their better than others currently on the market ? thats for them to choose not us unless we have them in out mitts, theu have stated that improvments will be made ? isnt that good enough for you ?
if you have had all these recieved and you looked at the modles (not pics) and felt they were ok,and you where asured buy 3rd parties the product was good to go, and you felt confident the product did its job, would you launch them or would you delay due to some comments by people who have seen some dodgy pics of a bad batch of figs that possably are not a good representation of the overal product ?
id launch them and watch the nay sayers backtrack later on and giggle
