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Miniatures Adventure => The Conflicts that came in from the Cold => Topic started by: uti long smile on June 21, 2012, 10:21:51 PM

Title: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: uti long smile on June 21, 2012, 10:21:51 PM
For all you convertors and lead heads, we bring you this sprue of modern weapons sculpted by Ian Mountain. Out in early July.

You'll also see these on the new Armed Minions - coming soon!

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj278/pez47/Crooked%20Dice/P1090812.jpg)

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj278/pez47/Crooked%20Dice/P1090813.jpg)
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: Raxxus on June 21, 2012, 11:13:56 PM
Cool guns, are they gonna be commisionally available.
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: uti long smile on June 21, 2012, 11:27:29 PM
Cool guns, are they gonna be commisionally available.

Cheers! They'll be available from the Crooked Dice web store sometime in the first week of July.
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: Arlequín on June 21, 2012, 11:37:10 PM
Good call on those! I was looking for 'Grease Guns' a while back and couldn't find any.  :)
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: Raxxus on June 21, 2012, 11:42:16 PM
Cool guns, are they gonna be commisionally available.

with that I meanwill they be castable on different companies figs like hasslefrees guns.
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: Brummie Thug on June 22, 2012, 07:21:45 AM
Love the SMG and the baton
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: Daeothar on June 24, 2012, 10:21:42 PM
Excellent; an FAL in 28mm... 8)
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: carlos marighela on June 24, 2012, 10:51:53 PM
Excellent; an FAL in 28mm... 8)

Another FAL. Still those look nice and depending on price point I might pick a few up. Would be nice if they came as sprues of the same weapon tho'.
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: Conquistador on June 25, 2012, 11:29:42 AM
Another FAL. Still those look nice and depending on price point I might pick a few up. Would be nice if they came as sprues of the same weapon tho'.

From a business view-point the mixed sprues mean more likely sales.

Gracias,

Glenn
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: 6milPhil on June 25, 2012, 11:45:44 AM
Oh like the grease gun.

In my never ending bid to find a source for side by side shottguns I have to ask "Any chance of doing shottys?"
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: uti long smile on June 25, 2012, 01:31:02 PM
They will almost certainly be £1.60 each.

TBH - the initial intention was just to get them mastered for our upcoming Armed Minions, but a few folks on the CD Forum asked for them and we had a spare slot in this month's mould :)
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: Steve F on June 25, 2012, 01:43:35 PM
From a business view-point the mixed sprues mean more likely sales.

Not necessarily.  I am always highly reluctant to buy mixed sprues, because of the waste involved.  But I know that Crooked Dice has a head swap forum, for its head sprues, so maybe a weapon swap forum would be possible too.
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: workerBee on June 25, 2012, 06:51:55 PM
Not necessarily.  I am always highly reluctant to buy mixed sprues, because of the waste involved.  But I know that Crooked Dice has a head swap forum, for its head sprues, so maybe a weapon swap forum would be possible too.

Bits are never a waste.

Gracias,

Glenn
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: carlos marighela on June 25, 2012, 08:21:40 PM
Bits are never a waste.

Gracias,

Glenn


They are if a quarter of them are truncheons.

Let's say I want say 10 FAL's to outfit a squad as a conversion. I have to pay 16 quid? Whilst that may not be the norm it seems like a piss poor deal to me. Not sure I would bother given I could get 10 for £3.60 from TAG.
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: uti long smile on June 26, 2012, 09:11:05 AM
They are if a quarter of them are truncheons.

Let's say I want say 10 FAL's to outfit a squad as a conversion. I have to pay 16 quid? Whilst that may not be the norm it seems like a piss poor deal to me. Not sure I would bother given I could get 10 for £3.60 from TAG.

We're never going to please all of the people, all of the time. Some might say "Hoorah! I've got 40 weapons!" - others might say "Harumph! I only wanted 10 of them!" - and I agree the latter is probably not worthwhile if you aren't going to use them all.

However, 7TV uses small squads often armed with different weapons, so hopefully they might prove useful there.

Like I said, we didn't initially intend them for mass production - otherwise we would have put multiple of the same weapons on a tab. But they are there for those who want the convert. If not then hold on for the armed minion packs (four minis all with the same weapon) in the coming months.
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: 6milPhil on June 26, 2012, 09:48:25 AM
Any chance of shotguns at some point? I know they're probably not really glamourous enough for the 7TV genre but there's quite a few folk after them.
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: uti long smile on June 26, 2012, 01:46:01 PM
Any chance of shotguns at some point? I know they're probably not really glamourous enough for the 7TV genre but there's quite a few folk after them.

There's no reason why we couldn't do more sprues - although no immeadiate plans. We could certainly add a shotgun in there. Don't Hasslefree do one already?
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: Brummie Thug on June 26, 2012, 09:28:27 PM
There's no reason why we couldn't do more sprues - although no immeadiate plans. We could certainly add a shotgun in there. Don't Hasslefree do one already?



Only a sawn off as part of the zombie hunter weapons I think he is after the full length one
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: Raxxus on June 27, 2012, 12:52:38 PM
Pretty sure he's after either a military shotgun or a remington.
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: Big Martin on June 27, 2012, 01:17:04 PM
A nice double-barreled full length shotgun. My unhinged toff's gamekeepers need more. They used them to great effect in the last game, downing most of the soldiers sneaking around the village.
Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Modern Weapons
Post by: 6milPhil on June 28, 2012, 01:25:23 PM
There's no reason why we couldn't do more sprues - although no immeadiate plans. We could certainly add a shotgun in there. Don't Hasslefree do one already?


No, we're after a side by side hunting type shotgun. The devotees of the VBCW cult are desperately trying to get hold of some - total at least one hundred pieces between us. A sprue of just those would be great and I imagine it's not just us after some.