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Classic Battletech is the quintessential American-born giant robot franchise, spanning tabletop games, video games, toys, books, role playing games, a cartoon series, and large-scale models. Armorcast made three battlemech kits in 1/60 (28mm) scale a few years back, the Timber Wolf (Mad Cat), Mad Dog (Vulture), and the Atlas, pretty much the three most iconic Battletech designs. These kits have been out of print for a while, but if you can find them they are quite good. Solid detail, simple construction, and a couple of white metal detail parts on each make them rugged and impressive kits worthy of display.
The Vulture is a solid all around mech, capable of providing long-range fire support with its Long Range Missile racks and Large Pulse Lasers, as well as fighting at mid-range with Large and Medium Pulse Lasers. Its sleek design really stands out among the usual bulky and blocky Battletech fare.
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It’s super last minute, but I managed to squeak a little painting in, and will have the first set of version 2 Escherichia killers with me at NYCC on Saturday! Along with a much cleaner and more consistent mold, E.killer v2 introduces a new feature to the Killer Culture line. Killer Culture is now magnetic! Using rare earth magnets allows for much more durable and consistent articulation, as well as some interesting possibilities down the line.
Reviews of the first E.killer also pointed out that the base was something of a weak spot in the original tooling. I agreed, and made a major revision to the base part, and the figures now have a nice, bold, and simple logo, which I’m really happy with.
Figures will be $35, and I will be carrying them around with me on Saturday. I’ll be around the Onell booth many times during the day, as that’s where some of the coolest artists will be! I got a taste of what Onell is bringing to the show last night, and it is not to be missed.
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Head to the Store because the MFV missiles are ready! Complete those vintage classics and finally get to enjoy their best feature. Every missile is marked for authenticity and indetifiability, and has been test loaded and fired in Getter-1 here. Let me tell you, loading and firing twenty-odd missiles multiple times and at various things to test their loading and durability is pretty darn fun!
There’s a new Page in the Menu bar at the top of the site, and I am proud to announce a new resin product that will soon be available, reproduction Bandai Missile Firing Vinyl missiles! The Bandai MFVs are some of the most iconic vintage Super Robot vinyls, but missiles are in great demand (mostly because these were toys designed for children, and those children probably spent all their time shooting the missiles at their younger siblings and pets until they lost the missiles), but I am pleased to soon be able to offer an affordable reproduction missile! Big thanks to my friend Sanjeev (mastermind behind Brownnoize Productions) for lending me some vintage missiles, no mean feat! I am figuring out pricing and ordering, as well as working on some stock, so check back for details soon!
The Bureaucratic Agency for Killer Culture Tracking, Analysis, Countering, and Killing (BAKCTRACK) received a partially scrambled transmission from a Joint Killer Culture Defense Force (JKCDF) task force in the field. From what was recoverable, the JKCDF team responded to a distress call from a local microbial research laboratory. The following image was received from the recon unit before the signal was scrambled. BAKCTRACK scientists are analyzing the photo to determine the nature of this unknown monster, but it is clearly some new form of macrocellular menace. Unfortunately, when JKCDF reinforcements arrived, the lab was burned to the ground with no survivors. It appears the recon team initiated Class 9 containment protocols, which are only used in the worst contamination events. Something clearly went wrong during the purge, however, and the recon team was overwhelmed. Further investigation into this photo by BAKCTRACK experts will hopefully give us some insight into what new threat we are facing. One thing we do know is that this new creature appears to be wielding something not of biological origin. It appears the Killer Cultures are evolving, which can only be cause for concern.
I was greeted on Facebook with this fantastic surprise, a piece of painted E.killer fan-art by none other than my friend and digi-boss Josh Bernard, owner of CollectionDX. You can check out more of Josh’s art on Quibx Blog. Josh has an awesome metal album-art style with heavy black inking and a dark sensibility, and it really brings the E.killer to life! Click the image for the full-size… it’s unreal.
The Le Studio Plastique exhibit The 100 Greatest Kaiju Battles went live this morning, and it is even cooler than I could have expected. The curator, Olivier, did a fantastic job organizing the various photos by theme, and you should look through all of them.
Le Studio Plastique is a digital photo gallery that specializes in Japanese monster toy photography. There have been a number of themed exhibits so far, and the next one is The 100 Greatest Kaiju Battles, which I contributed to. Look for the full exhibit soon!
This weekend was the East Coast Chogokin Summit, the gathering of CollectionDX and ToyBoxDX members, both local and from afar. Many homegrown efforts were shown alongside vintage and modern toy trades, including Incubot‘s Nekosaursus vinyl, Nekobot USBs, and the unofficial debut of the Voltron Lion Force USB figure; a peak at what Sanjeev’s Brown Noize Productions is working on; and of course, Killer Culture’s first wave of E.killer resin figures. The first wave successfully sold out at the show,so check this spot for news on what’s coming next!
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