It is passable, but far below the quality of the regular plastic vulture, and honestly not worth it, when you can get a better quality vulture with 4 other mechs for like 25 dollars at your flgs

They are multi-part minis, but so far the quality has been more miss than hit.

@@Unicorn_Company on a scale of one to forge world resin, how bad are we talking?

Lets just say, had the model not been gifted to me, I would've only purchased one to review it.

@@Unicorn_Company why.... do I still want one. I love multipart kits. Forbidden froot.

I havent made a tutorial yet, but I would be happy to do so. Hopefully before the end of summer

Im glad that the review was helpful. I think IWM is doing good things, but that they really need to stop doing these premiums with MFC, and go back to premiums being an IWM thing

Buy the Mad Cat TC. Really fun to build. And it paints well. Wolfhound IIC is dun to build as well.

The Eris & Hammerhead were nice as well, with the added bonus that you get a spare Hammerhead torso in the Eris pack, that lets you use the leftover Hammerhead limbs to create a second one if you kitbash a hip section for it 👍

I definitely agree on the Wolfhound, it was probably the best one so far

I agree, and I pointed out that I think they should be doing either the parts to do the prime and the C, said D in video in error. The premiums have been either feast or famine in the amount of parts you get with the mini.

Im hoping that these end up being in the hands of Ironwind, who has done an amazing job in doing the new sculpt minis, sometimes even coming out with stuff before it is in plastic.

@Unicorn_Company It feels strange that wasn't the plan from the beginning. And yes, IWM has nailed some sculpts. I got a Jade Phoenix coming soon, despite much preferring plastic minis in general.

I have both of the variants IWM put out, plan on doing a review on those soon enough. I have the metal Locust and metal Arrow IV Urbie to do first though

Thank you, not only am I a trans supporter, Im a trans person. :-) I plan on doing a series on how to play Alpha Strike, and if I can get a camera instead on just my phone, I plan on doing battle reports and painting videos.

See, now Im thinking of doing another one, this one wearing a pleated skirth

@@Unicorn_Company go, go Sailor scout! :)

Thy are definitely trying to ignore them, the most vocal of the crowd that wants to "gatekeep" the hobby though have a way of not only harassing Catalyst, but also harass people who they don't like that enjoy the game.

Thanks. I felt it was an important distinction to make.

Thank you

Ok, point by point Rem is a community manager for a company, not for a single game, she has to be able to manage, not represent, the community for all of Catalysts properties, licensed or in-house. The head of the Demo Team being let go was a long time coming, there were a number of things which led to her being let go. Catalyst banned people who had been known to violate the community standards, it had nothing to do with "wrongthink". Catalyst is not obligated to platform anyone who is either breakigg the community guidelines in their social media spaces, or who are openly calling for a boycott of the company and trying to get an IP owner to drop them. The person in question was not let go of because of guns, in fact she stated why she carries firearms, in her state, where it is legal to do so, and that reason has a lot to do with people who have been calling people "hobby tourists", "activists", and a number of things that I am not going to say here. I have seen the calls to violence by the people who claim to be gatekeeping, I have seen them call for violence against trans people in the hobby in general, and even seen a chat log where they planned on assaulting me at Southern Assault 3. There is no "one side". There is a side who is simply trying to live their lives, and enjoy the game, and a group of people who threaten violence, bully, intimidate, and attempt to ostracize members of the first group simply because of who they are, or who they love.

Rem has spoken extensively about her long-standing love for Shadowrun. Shadowrun has just as rich of a history as Battletech does, and since both are run by Catalyst, it makes just as much sense for someone with a love for either IP to end up working with CGL. The Tuesday Newsday streams you see her in are about what /Catalyst/ is doing, it isn't a purely Battletech show. Which is why it's an hour long and not 6 minutes long. CGL is a massive company and it is a ridiculous standard to expect anyone at CGL to be just as passionate about every single IP they handle. Just because Battletech is my favorite IP that CGL runs doesn't mean I have the luxury of demanding that CGL only exist to pump out battletech content. Staying in a single lane is how companies die, and demanding that the focus be drawn further away of any so-called "secondary" IP is a disservice to the fans of those IPs, who have just as much of a stake in CGL doing well as we do. Grow up. Other people not like us get to play in the same playground. That's life. As much as I find those who think people like me shouldn't be in this game I've loved since middle school just because of what I think is exhausting, I'm not the one reducing my argument into disrespect into who they are. Calls of "wrong think" and such are just the cries of keyboard warriors on the front lines of a culture war that will leave them in the dust.

I don't think trying to use your pitiful attempt at a hit piece is the best example for you to use.

Exactly. With certain people vilifying the "hobby tourists" they don't seem to realize that those tourists are the ones who eventually find a home in a game they like. Hobby tourists are like bees, they go from game to game, and in he process the money that those games make from them help them grow, and help new games get off the ground.

It truly is that

If you play Alpha Strike, you might be surprised to find out that there is a monster of a fire support version of the Thunderhawk the TDK-7Z that puts the longbow to shame www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Card/9581?skill=4

If you look at the back of the gun, it looks like they integrated a set of vents just below what looks like a joint to allow the gun to swivel or to raise like the old Shadow Hawk stowage position for the autocannon

​@@Unicorn_Companyas far as I was told (i always might be wrong) That is an Hommage to the YF-1S/A Super Valkery from the Macross Series. I personally think that is cool but also bold, because the Macross Designs were the whole entry point for the Harmony Gold desaster. I think Harmony Gold is no longer allowed to file any claims because of that licenses but I personally would be a coward and wouldn't risk it.

Remember the design is taken from Macross, this is the VF-1S Strike Valkyrie from Macross Do You Remember Love. The back packs are part thrusters and part missile pods. The Strike is a Super Valkyrie but they remove one of these missile pods and replace it with a double barreled beam cannon. That is what this phenix hawk is based off. Also note BT turned the missiles into intakes and the reason why Macross doesn’t have intakes is because these are rockets as they are used exclusively in space. The standard Valkyrie which is used in atmosphere is what BT calls the Wasp and in Macross rockets are detachable so a Valkyrie, Super Valk and Strike Valk are the same it’s just what modular components are added on the back. So a phenix hawk and a Wasp in BT are in theory the same mech but the PH has jump jets.

To be fair, it's not the worst I have seen by far

I understand that, looking at the visual language they have been using though, the waters have been pretty muddy when it comes to autocannons, as even in this more standardized system of minis, it seems to be the only thing that keeps changing. Overall though it is more of a personal preference thing over a matter of function.

Im generally not a Phoenix Hawk fan myself, but they did pretty good on this one, especially considering they had to incorporate the side torso gun somehow.

Grinner was good, I am still a firm believer that Ironwind Metals should be making the "premium" sculpts in metal, as MFC hasn't had the best track record so far.

Im glad you liked it

The premium minis are from a company called Monster Fight Club in the US and I think use Siocast (sp?), which is a softer plastic.

@@Unicorn_Company oh, thank u

If Ironwind Metals is there, I'd recommend checking out their modern sculpts of this mech.

Thank you, as far as the quality of the minis, yeah, IWM is doing some of the same, or similar sculpts, and they are knocking it out of the park

Thank you, I generally see it so rarely in play that I dont think it has ever come up

Well, if you pick this up, it would be a good opportunity to get re-play that scenario with something in scale.

@Unicorn_Company it is a really good setup. the mission the players had, was to delay the trains cargo from reaching it's destination for 7 days. there were several missions involved to complete the assignment. both interesting and fun. the players had to solve some interesting problems.

@@Unicorn_Company the video mag-lev is really cool. I may be getting it before the end of the year.

Im sorry that you feel that way, each train car is a little over a hex long. I was filming this in a hotel post con, and so I didn't have all the resources normally available to me. The train scales very well with BattleTech miniatures, and the cars when in the track come up to what would be roughly level 1 in Alpha Strike.

The quality is amazing

Unfortunately there isn't enough room for a Mech to stand on it, but you can definitely put a smaller vehicle or two on it easily

While I think they all went up in size some, I dont know if everything got the same level of enlarging.

I don't know if CGL would consider making Mechs with twistable torsos . I do know that it would make the production process a bit more complicated.

It is the same plastic as the current minis line, I was referring to the fact that they arent 3d printed prototypes, but pre- first run proofs

I hope you have had the time to read it and would like to hear your thoughts.

It is done one by one

@@Unicorn_Company rough. I've been trying to collect or organize data by technical readout and have been doing it one by one by unit type. Taking forever. Hoped there was a better way.