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Title: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: Smart Max Cedric on 13 March 2009, 12:40:17 PM: Hello Lead Adventurers,

My name is Cedric Lemitre and I am the boss of a new miniatures company named Smart Max.

We are pleased to introduce you to our 1/35 "retro-SF" Characters at www.smartmaxblog.com (http://www.smartmaxblog.com)

We are currently working on two ranges of Characters :

Mauser Earth : the dystopian chronicles of a weird Great War involving super heroes, magic and robots.

Smog : a steampunk fantasy set in the Victorian London.

Our first miniatures will be released later on this month at www.smartmaxstore.com (http://www.smartmaxstore.com)

Until then, new Characters will appear on the blog at leat twice a week.

Best Regards,

Smart Max Cedric
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: Dewbakuk on 13 March 2009, 02:53:56 PM: Very nice sculpts. Unfortunately not a scale I'm interested in but good luck nonetheless.
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: BaronVonJ on 13 March 2009, 03:02:29 PM: Yeah if these were 28mm, I'd be all over 'em.
-J
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: myincubliss on 13 March 2009, 06:03:22 PM: Not wanting to sound like a broken record, but I'd have to agree with everyon else - absolutely beautiful minis, but I can't be doing with starting a new scale at my age...
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: Admiral Benbow on 13 March 2009, 07:59:43 PM: Fantastic miniatures from some of my favourite sculptors, and what superb subjects, but that scale ... :?

Anyway, I will continue to check what's coming up in this range and let the sculpts inspire me! :)
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: Chairface on 13 March 2009, 08:07:32 PM: Quote from: myincubliss on 13 March 2009, 06:03:22 PM
Not wanting to sound like a broken record, but I'd have to agree with everyon else - absolutely beautiful minis, but I can't be doing with starting a new scale at my age...

Agreed. Sorry :'(
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: Sterling Moose on 13 March 2009, 09:10:33 PM: Shame about the scale :(
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: Doc Twilight on 13 March 2009, 09:12:44 PM: Very original concepts and some very nice sculpts. Unfortunately, I must agree with my comrades here in that they are too large for my tastes, but they're still beautiful pieces, and I wish you all the luck in the world!

-Doc
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: Trencher on 13 March 2009, 09:50:16 PM: These are excellent sculpts. ;D
Your Mauser Earth project sounds promising as well. :-*

But why that 1/35 scale?
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: jet on 13 March 2009, 10:08:00 PM: My lord, those are just great! If only they were 28mm! Can I ask why the choice in scale? Just curious. Does the scale add something to this game in particular?

J
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: Christian on 13 March 2009, 11:12:29 PM: There's a lot of plastic available in 1/35... I guess for some small skirmish action it wouldn't be too much of an investment to get into. But then there's terrain... hmmm. Looking forward to seeing more, but the 1/35 thing has me a bit boggled too :)

Best of luck!
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: Mainly28s on 13 March 2009, 11:46:41 PM: I'll add another "nice, but in a totally useless scale" comment.
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: Stu on 14 March 2009, 03:06:59 AM: I dabble my toes in The Nile in 1/32 scale so maybe I could get some use out of some of them.
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: twrchtrwyth on 14 March 2009, 11:16:23 AM: Lovely miniatures, I like your ideas. Unfortunate choice of scale though. If only they were 28mm.
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: Christian on 14 March 2009, 11:42:05 AM: This is why you do Market Research before product releases I guess.

Still, I think it's an interesting area to develop into. Again, looking forward to seeing where this is going.
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: dadlamassu on 14 March 2009, 12:11:20 PM: To echo the others - Really nice models but I'll not be buying any unless they shrink to 28mm.
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: capthugeca on 14 March 2009, 10:13:30 PM: Ditto! :(
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: dandiggler on 15 March 2009, 01:55:54 AM: I won't be gaming with them, but I tend to buy miniatures of excellent quality regardless of scale. I game with 28's but I have various 40mm and 54mm figures that I've painted up just to display. These are very nice.
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: Bako on 16 March 2009, 01:32:32 AM: Quite nice, and best of wishes! I agree with dandiggler. Just cause we all game with 28mm doesn't mean we don't wanna paint up beautiful miniatures. ;)
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: Bullshott on 16 March 2009, 12:40:03 PM: From a wargaming perspective, I would have preferred to see these in 30mm/'heroic 28mm' to go with a project I'm doing in slow time. However, I tend to agree with bako and dangiggler in that just because these ate a different scale ite doesn't meen I'm not interested in them - some of these would make great painting projects and I expect some of the monsters would be useable in 28mm too.
Title: Re: Introducing a New Company : Smart Max
Post by: Dewbakuk on 16 March 2009, 05:08:58 PM: As I said, they are nice, but not being 28mm counts them out for me. I don't have the time (and struggle to get the inclination) to paint the figs I game with. While I have in the past bought nicely sculpted figs so that I can paint them, it's never happened, and I again stick to 28mm so that I can use them if I want to.

I really wish I enjoyed painting and was good enough at it to do showcase pieces (I suspect the two go together, if you enjoy it, you get good at it) but I just can't.