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Offline Dr. The Viking

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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #30 on: January 03, 2010, 06:09:08 PM »
MØhøhøhøhø... Jens now has ONE less for sale!

I beat you all to it!

So long suckers!  lol lol lol
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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #31 on: January 03, 2010, 06:10:45 PM »
That's just what YOU think ...  lol
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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #32 on: January 03, 2010, 06:27:21 PM »
I'm just gonna keep waiting for the copter version  :D
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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #33 on: January 03, 2010, 07:29:32 PM »
Ordered two myself... :)

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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #34 on: January 03, 2010, 07:37:32 PM »
 :D

Ordered my three. Hope my wife does not find out too soon...
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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #35 on: January 03, 2010, 07:55:05 PM »
:D

Ordered my three. Hope my wife does not find out too soon...

So when are the rules for "The Pardulon VTOL Game" due?

(or in other words! what on earth will we be using all these VTOL's for?!)

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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #36 on: January 03, 2010, 07:55:26 PM »
:D

Ordered my three. Hope my wife does not find out too soon...

I'll give them to her personally, so she can clip you around the ears with them lol
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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #37 on: January 03, 2010, 07:59:58 PM »
(or in other words! what on earth will we be using all these VTOL's for?!)

I´ll be doing a "Terran Corporate Conglomerate mining for Superconductor Materials" project with them.

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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #38 on: January 03, 2010, 08:00:40 PM »
I'll give them to her personally, so she can clip you around the ears with them lol

lol

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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #39 on: January 03, 2010, 08:27:48 PM »
So when are the rules for "The Pardulon VTOL Game" due?
(or in other words! what on earth will we be using all these VTOL's for?!)

adding some blue painted "indians" and reenact Avatar?

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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #40 on: January 03, 2010, 08:46:46 PM »
adding some blue painted "indians" and reenact Avatar?

No shit, Sherlock! ;)  lol

But I´ll probably not use Indians. Have to choose proper RDA mercenaries first, then work from there to create suitable Na'Vi. Maybe Preiser 54mm "academy figures" with sculpted detail. Or I´ll use the Bronze Age six-armed Martians to amend the only real problem I had with this otherwise very nifty movie.

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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #41 on: January 03, 2010, 09:43:59 PM »
why don't You just wait until the merchandise is released and play helicopter and indians until then ??
new variation of WWW (weird wild west)

or maybethere are some 32 mm indians? Reaper?
or at least naked ... don't know! - won't be much work to convert the clothing

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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #42 on: January 03, 2010, 10:33:20 PM »
why don't You just wait until the merchandise is released and play helicopter and indians until then ??
new variation of WWW (weird wild west)

First, the toys are absolutely unsuitable. Far too big and not nice enough for my taste. And given recent experiences with film merchandise makes me seriously doubt that there`ll be toys in a more appropriate scale. As for model kits proper, I´m not convinced Revell, Fine Molds or others will purchase the rights for that given the current state of the plastic scifi kit market, and even if they do, it`ll probably be a stupid scale like 1/72nd, or worse, box scale like with the Star Wars kits.

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or maybethere are some 32 mm indians? Reaper?
or at least naked ... don't know! - won't be much work to convert the clothing

32mm is way too small. IMHO, 60mm would be best, 54mm is acceptable for Na'Vi in 28mm scale. Apart from the fact that there are almost no Indians in that scale (disregarding toy figures), most decent model figures have too much clothes and stuff modelled on (either Woodlands or Plains Indians) to be usable. :( I´m still looking for 54mm Neanderthals which don´t cost an arm and a leg to use for my Perry Rhodan project... :(

So I´ll best get "academy figures" and work from there, or go for a totally different approach like using Kroot warriors for a more feral, nonhuman alien species with smallish 25/28mm human figures. But I tend towards using either Void 1.1 Viridians or Copplestone Castings, so I can also use them with my existing cyberpunk stuff.

And finally, if after all my years on the Fanworld and here people haven´t yet realised that I´m far to impatient to "wait" for anything rather than scratchbuilding something to game it with...

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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #43 on: January 03, 2010, 11:06:19 PM »
I agree that converting from what exists now is a lot of work.
But - I remember how in the beginning Revell were very reluctant to release Starwars models od the 2nd trilogy and now the market is flooded
plus - Avatar will cause such an Avalanche (already the sequel is announced!) that I expect all kinds of scales and quality, if not 28mm figures...

patience indeed could be a problem.  ;)

I use the Void Viridians myself, and I think You'll still be able to get enough - they are great, a pity they scrapped the range.
Kroot could be a good choice - I converted them myself with saurian heads, and maybe some good elven heads could make proper conversions, or even GW wardancers ? after all there is the danger that "true scale" Na'vi could look odd...

I am a bit pissed, because one of the concepts I was toying with to paint my lizardmen VSF army would make the people say - "Right, poor man's Na'vi, haha", so I'm still considering.
After all, the Na'vi concept is pretty generic for "primitive, nature loving society" for everyone to identify with the "noble savages"

so, good luck to us, Watson  :D 8)

But I still can't imagine the rule system to suit bone arrowheads vs helicopter gunships - how about T&T 2011 "Pandora"  ?? ;)

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Re: Dragonfly VTOL (now released)
« Reply #44 on: January 04, 2010, 12:12:21 AM »
With a little bit of modification that could make an excellent Orca fighter to go with my GDI light infantry man I have floating around somewhere.
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