Good News, Bad News: Update

I got home today and there is a huge box on the front porch from Mana Studios.  There is only one thing that can be...DAISHI!!!!!

But then, I opened the box....5 of the torso units are damaged beyond repair.

As I continued going through them, I noticed that many of the torsos just looked...wrong. As you can see in the pic below, most of the remaining torso units look almost...smooshed...as you can see with the torso on the right.

So, I have e-mailed the caster and will let you know when I hear something back.  Sorry for the wait, everyone.

Update:  These are heading back to the caster so we will have to wait a while longer.  One option is to make these solid cast rather than hollow cast, but that would increase the cost.  Please post your thoughts in the comments sections.

Current Commission

Hi All.  I am working on a Victor that I was commissioned to build and posted a pic over at MWOMercs.com and have gotten a couple of e-mails about kitting it.  I would have to get the permission of the client to kit it though.  Anyone have interest in the Victor?

The inspiration...Dave White's redesign for MW4 Mercenaries....

Cool stuff post

Hi all. Posted a review of the Gurkha Ghost over on my personal blog.

Enjoy!

Daishi Update...and other stuff

I heard from the caster and it will be a little longer on the Daishi.  It is really taking time to hollow-cast the main body of the beastie.

On a few other notes, I still cannot get this thing to upload photos through IE9.  I am getting so frustrated I may just switch to FireFox permanently. 

I want to post some photos later of the latest commission build I am doing.  This one is a 1/60 scale Victor.  I really need to reconsider my pricing as (once again) I seriously undercharged for the time it is taking.  I may make the equivalent of about $5.50 an hour labor...less than minimum wage at McDonalds, but way more fun!  But here is the thing...when someone wants a scratch-built mech, I have a real hard time telling them it would be $500 or so. Most people would shy away from that...I know I would. I don't know...

The Poll results seem to have been split down the middle, so what I may do is Publish the main articles on my personal blog (with one follower...not even my wife at that) and link to it from here.  Cool things might include cigar reviews (as I do love a good cigar), recipes, interesting news articles and the like. Who knows, I may even use it as a place to bitch every now and again.

More later once I have a chance to play with FireFox.

Tim

Blogger/IE issues

Anyone having issues with IE 9 and Blogger?  When I click to add photos from my PC, it does not display the "Choose Files" button (although it did 3 days ago).  I can upload from within the blog or from another site but not from my PC.  However, when I tried with Firefox, it worked fine.  Also, I cannot properly access the MWO site from IE9...only through FireFox or my old PC with IE7.

I tried doing a system restore, but that did not help anything.  Fricking Microsoft.....

Also, check out the new Poll that has been clarified.

Thanks!

Battletech Mech Sizes

Mech sizes have been a sticky point for us builders for a long time.  All the games seem to have different sizes...and I have never seen any definitive sizes stated.  We builders (Scott, Simon, and myself) tend to use the Armorcast Atlas as our reference point.  However, I was recently cruising the contents of an old computer and I found the following image...with sizes.

Jenner TRO style

Okay, okay.  Enough pestering.  Here is one...and only one...pic of the Jenner I just completed. It is a scratchbuild based on the TRO illustrations done without the use of paper model plans.  I took on-line pics and had to draw out the blueprints.  The customer is happy...but I HATE the TRO Jenner.  Yes, hate!  This pic was taken right before I did some final touch-ups.  Enjoy.