You're right there dude, if they don't have the greens to show, or the blown up masters, then they can't be producing the miniatures yet, even if they're using the existing models and just assembling and painting them, they'd have some kind of prototype back... I guess it could be done entirly in china, including the sculpting, but Im guessing theres a very good reason why people don't do that!
I've just never understood why Mongoose doesnt think the fans would like to see stuff before its produced. The only greens I remember seeing ever were some very blurry pictures of the skinny slaves (So blurry they almost looked like humans...) and possibly the pilot for the MI spaceships (For some reason painted (Very well) dispite a large indentation on the right thigh....). Even if they can't be bothered to get anything reworked fans could at least demand more work from sculptors they like!
A situation like last time where terrible releases clearly from the same bloke pile up till the game is canceled should never be repeated.
I'm sure alot of people really wanna know whether or not they've got the skinnies right this time round really, but we've been shown absolutly nothing on their front (And it could be argued they were the range that did the most doamage to SST v1), and at present were being asked to believe that SST:Evo has gotten to one month before its release and they havent had anything to show anyone but a couple of pages of fluff written last year?
Alarm bells are ringing precisely because of the lack of information we've been given, and thats sad because I wanna believe its gonna be perfect this time round...