Defiance Games Piece Together Their Mighty Mechs
April 3, 2013 by brennon
Defiance Games have been sweating in the factory and some new Mechs are taking shape for both the Americans and the Germans. Check out the fully assembled UAMC Hardsuit first...
At the top we have the Hardsuit with a Grenade Launcher attachment. It does look practically spot on when it comes to the art we saw previously and despite it having foot-on-rock syndrome it does look very nice indeed. Feels very Ghost In The Shell!
Below that is the German Mech still in pieces but coming together well it seems. We saw the leg for this a week or so, so it appears the foundry has been on over time getting the big burly machines into action.
Will you be picking these up when they become available?
Let me know below!
Would love a defiance games mech… I’m a big fan of anything that has big hydraulic legs instead of tank tracks. + Defiance games = quite affordable minis
Foot pointlessly resting of random bit of White-Tac
Like the Hardsuit, though the magazine for the grenade launcher looks awkward
Wow negative karma for liking the Hardsuit…
harsh! lol
It’s not going to have a rock or have one foot up. All it is is White-Tac keeping the model from falling over for the photo shot. Its not on a base yet so its most likely very off balance with that gun. So give them some slack on that as its not really the finished product or a display shot. It’s good also to see that Defiance is moving ahead much faster as it seemed like they came to close to a stand still with releases. Most mini companies aim for at least a monthly release, even if its… Read more »
Unless that leg is pose-able then it will most likely have it’s foot up on something manpug lol. Not complaining, just seems to be the standard ‘heroic’ pose nowadays.
BoW Ben
If you look closely at the front of the back foot it seems, at least to me, that the front part of the foot is angled slightly up the way, enough so that if the whitetac wasn’t there the leading foot would be flat and the rear foot would be slightly raised at the back.
Similarly I don’t think the front foot is flat either. The back has been pressed into the tac while the front hasn’t. If you were to push on the front of the front foot it would raise up the back foot to a more level height.
I agree with Ben, and think the foot will be raised. This isn’t a problem as it could be in an urban setting stepping up onto a pavement from the road (assuming the scale is not too big) or onto a fallen wall. I can imagine this quite clearly as if it was moving into or out of the cover of a destroyed building. I was only joking inasmuch as the idea of a foot raised onto some piece of terrain is not in itself bad. What really annoys me is when the terrain is a solitary stone or rock… Read more »
Looks very nice. Haven’t seen this game played yet but the mini looks great!
Seems like an awful lot of apparatus just to loft grenades, even if the thing is full auto. Not realistic imo. The M203 fits under a rifle, and even the Mk19 (without the tripod) is smaller. But then again, sentient eggs may have a different design philosophy.
It’s just one of the options for a combined arms squad. The suits are designed to take different weapon configurations depending on the mission parameters. So a typical 4-suit squad might have 2 HMGs, a Grenadier, and a missile guy who hangs back to provide suppressive fire. Or in close quarters it might be 3 with HMGS and a guy with a flame unit.
Hi Guys – the feet are actually flat to the surface but I didn’t want to glue him to a base. The GL arm was making him fall over to that side so to position him for the shot we just blue-tacked him down to the surface. So – yes – flat feet not raised for this leg set. That said if you do want to get that look it shouldn’t take much to clip and adjust and position on a bit of terrain on your base. As you know our goal in making ALIEN WAR miniatures is to create… Read more »
Apologies for getting the leg thing wrong :*)
Although looking again, I see a diorama potential for the chap who has trodden in a giant wodge of chewing gum and is lifting his now gunked up foot.
I think that should definitely be an option. lol
ps don’t you just hate it when that happens?
How about scraping the Bug goo off your feet? 😉
Tony, those prices are just superb. Think i have all the excuse I need to take advantage of your international shipping offer ;).
Dawfydd, I´d wait until they have, you know, actual product in stock and all that. And do not take snipes at companies that are able to bring out stock in superior casting and design quality to theirs and quite on time, too.
Apart from that, the stuff looks interesting and potentially worth a look when the company itself gets its act together.
hear hear.
Even if they didn’t have all the supply/preorder issues that they have had ,i woudnt buy these simply because of their poor customer relations.
plus the market is flooded with Maschinen Krieger suits.
Oh… I really quite like the suits !
I think I’ll be getting some !