ACP Games Take Off Soon In Ace Looking 15mm Vanir Dropship!
February 4, 2015 by brennon
We're starting to find out a lot more about the different scales at work in the world of Sci-Fi and one of them is of course 15mm and the world of Gruntz. A lot of companies make miniatures for it and ACP Games is one of them. Soon they will be on Kickstarter and have this Vanir Dropship as a pretty big attraction!
As you can see it looks pretty big for the scale and quite the hulk of a transport too. You can see just how big this is when compared against one of the other miniatures from the coming campaign, the Angel of Death, which is a 74mm tall poseable model...
Above there's also a picture of some of the smaller scale mechanised troops, this being the Valkyrie. This is looking like a pretty cool Kickstarter and if Gruntz is your thing then you should get a lot out of this for your collection.
We'll keep an eye on it!
"...it looks pretty big for the scale and quite the hulk of a transport too"
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"...if Gruntz is your thing then you should get a lot out of this for your collection"
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yes please!!
Looks clunky and unable to fly. Details on the infantry guy are worse than some of my 80s Battletech stuff.
Not much to like here.
I don’t know about details on the guy, but unlike battletech model, it looks like a thing, rather than random assortment of tubes and lego blocks.
That being said, the dropship is actually pretty cool, reminiscent of the Final Fantasy: Spirits within a bit I think.
Some of those Battletech mechs did look pretty good .. like the Vulture or Mad dog i beleive, possibly also the Mad cat?
Please, they looked passable at best. And that’s what, four designs that get brought up every time the game is mentioned? It has a myriad of wierd mechs, and only the cat, catapult and atlas really get brought up….because the rest is just a bizarre joke in mech design probably.
Probably, its just i remember seeing a vulture mini that stuck out in the crowd
I don’t know… I don’t particularly like it myself, but it looks just as able to sly as anything I’ve seen coming from GW or PP… so what’s your point ?
*fly, sorry
I like chunky design of that dropship. I am also pleased with look of those other two.
There is a bit of Avatar going on there as well I believe…
I really like this and some of the other things on their website, The anti-tank Valkyries are especially nice. I just wish the website was more navigable I really dont get how anyone orders from it but hey they do pretty things 🙂
has a hint of Aliens dropship as well I think.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=aliens+film+dropship&go=Submit+Query&qs=bs&form=QBIR#view=detail&id=A64131D869FD7A590C7112E954A983144C85BFF8&selectedIndex=92
looks good I think.
I thought the words “also in 28mm” would accompany this for sure :/ I think this is the one Dwartist has been painting up.. and it’s really nice. People who say it wouldn’t fly: It uses enormous thrusters paired with directional VTOL engines.. meaning it flies by brute force not aerodynamics. IMO most of the time this type of thing would leave orbit, do a suborbital route, then re-enter at the insertion point or otherwise arrive from space.. so the main concern is whether or not it can land. Whatever the case, it’s sci-fi and people have accepted designs similar… Read more »
“I thought the words “also in 28mm” would accompany this for sure”
You and me both. There’s a gaping, unfilled niche market for sci-fi vehicles (either as terrain, objectives, or just looking pretty on shelves). There’s also thousands of talented 3D CGI modelers churning out awesome looking stuff on DeviantArt. You’d think somewhere the two would intersect.
Guess the only real hope is waiting a couple years for 3D printers to come down in price / improve in resolution…
Awesome dropship! Can’t wait to pledge for a couple!
An ugly fat walrus of a dropship. Exactly what a dropship should look like. I actually like them blockier and uglier, but this will work.
“I thought the words “also in 28mm” would accompany this for sure”
Why? In fact, why do 28mm scale exist? I laugh every time I see 2 guys put shoe box sized tanks opposite each other on a table where they are so close almost on top of each other it is really, really awkward. For those insignificant little bar fights that happen along the edges of the real battle (otherwise called skirmishes), 15mm is much better.