"Troublemaker Miniatures Plastics?" Topic
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| jeeves | 10 Feb 2017 7:01 p.m. PST |
Troublemaker Miniatures' Defeat in Detail plastic sprues were never released for sale were they? |
 Legion 4   | 11 Feb 2017 9:01 a.m. PST |
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| jeeves | 11 Feb 2017 12:22 p.m. PST |
Yeah I saw that but I don't see the plastic sprues. Unless I'm looking right at them and not seeing them. |
| wolfgangbrooks | 11 Feb 2017 2:38 p.m. PST |
They had a large amount of teething problems probably because they were using a Chinese company. They sold out of what they had and probably won't run more due to the number they'd need to make to have it be viable. You could ask Vanguard, who took over the line, if they have any spare. The humans are super thin and probably won't survive much usage. Still the orcs and vehicles are alright for what they are. |
| jeeves | 11 Feb 2017 3:37 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the tip. Was interested in the humans but now won't bother. |
| Legion 4 | 11 Feb 2017 4:03 p.m. PST |
Well they do make some great stuff in metal too though … As you probably saw on the Vanguard site. A good selection of humans, I'd say … |
| wolfgangbrooks | 11 Feb 2017 8:34 p.m. PST |
Yeah, don't discount the metal range because of the plastics. |
| Troublemaker Games | 17 Feb 2017 5:04 a.m. PST |
> They had a large amount of teething problems probably because they were using a Chinese company. Yep. It took several years to sort out the tooling. In comparison, our plastic bases mould took six weeks. > They sold out of what they had and probably won't run more due to the number they'd need to make to have it be viable.
Nope. :-) Set of 7 sprues: auction Set of 8 sprues: auction
> The humans are super thin and probably won't survive much usage. Still the orcs and vehicles are alright for what they are.
The humans are a bit thin – again I'm gonna blame this on the tooling room reducing the leg width by about 30% from the master CAD design, but on the other hand we've used a stronger / more flexible (rather than brittle) plastic for this batch (so the humans will survive slightly rougher usage now), and the sprues aren't a bad deal just for the vehicles alone perhaps, so maybe just view the human & skinner infantry / cannons (big guns?) as free extras?!?! heh. :-) |
| Legion 4 | 17 Feb 2017 7:53 a.m. PST |
Was just going to post this ! We must keep spreading the word about 6mm sci-fi. It is God's scale after all !   |
| Troublemaker Games | 19 Feb 2017 4:26 a.m. PST |
Based on feedback, I've also made sets of 2 sprues, and 20 sprues (with a discount) available now: auction |
| Darkrazor | 22 Feb 2017 2:46 p.m. PST |
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promised pictures!
