Defiance Games USMC Marines!

[tnjrp]

If this is all about stiring people up

...which, incidentally, might soon be illegal in some parts of U.S. of A:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57409617-93/arizona-pushes-law-to-make-annoying-comments-illegal

Or perhaps not.

[Andrew May]

IMHO that paint job tells you everything that you need to know about DG's attitude to quality and their way of doing business. Half-assed, as just barely competent as you can get away with and that's just what the minis are too. I cant understand the posts about "well, they'd look ok if you replaced the arms and weapons" so basically they're shoddy "dollies", if I knew there was a market for scifi body blanks then I'd have sculpted them myself! The bottom line is that they're cheap and that's why you need to justify their existence but in reality that's all they are- cheap.
I'd think long and hard about giving whatever frugal amount of $$ to a company with a track record of holding onto those $$ for months and months without any return.
In fact if their clients had put their pre-order money into a savings account for this long they'd have built up enough interest to buy decent minis.

[CptJake]

How do the logistics of this work out?  Does the winner have to post his address (or just PM it to everyone)? and we all send him what we promised?  I know some folks don't like posting private info like that... 

Who gets to travel around with a bat to 'encourage' any reneggers?

[tnjrp]

I guess we can work that out once the competition finishes, but obviously if the winner wants to get his stuff he will need to reveal some sort of an address. Perhaps the winnings can be delivered poste restante.

As for encouragement, I think public humiliation here on the forum will work

[matakishi]

I'm happy for people to have my address, it's on my website anyway, so I'm happy to collate the winnings here and then post them on to the actual winner at my expense. I'll stick my address up here once (if) we have a winner.

[tnjrp]

U da man!

[aecurtis]

Production is ongoing.... 

I feel sorry for Howard.  That pained expression...

Allen

[CptJake]

I feel sorry for Howard.  That pained expression...

Allen

I thought the same thing when I first watched it.

[aecurtis]

The eye movements, the swallowing: all indicate stress.  As if someone had just said, "Say something nice, Howard, or you go back in the little room with Otto and the electrodes."

Allen

[tnjrp]

Now now, don't...

Oops sorry.

[AKULA]

most telling piece of that video is 40 seconds in - ie where most of the sprues will end up....the bin.

[James Holloway]

If they are completed, I'm very glad. I'll be especially glad if they ship soon. Not too soon, you understand. Not over Easter or anything crazy like that. Maybe in about ... a week or so.

Yes, that seems like a fine time for them to ship.

 

[Dr.Falkenhayn]

March 28th-Scurv
April 1st-Doctor Pete
April 15th-James Holloway
May 4th-Commander Vyper
May 14th-Old Goat
May 22th-Dr.Falkenhayn
June 3th-Cadet 13
June 4th-Aliensurfer
July 4th-Silversixx

[tnjrp]

Hmm, I thought it was "who gets closest" kinda game? If so, Doc P still has all the days until April 7 covered and James only takes over on April 9. April 8 is sort of a tie since I don't know if we can find out if the boxes shipped to a trusted arbitrator before or after noon... So let's hope they don't ship then shall we

As for now, all indeed does seem a little quiet on the real issue, namely the actual "in stock" date of the DG Marines. But maybe there'll be news on Tuesday - Happy Easter and see you then folks!

[n815e]

And that's not "sprue," it's "Box": as in a box of 24 Defiance Games USMC to whoever wins the pool, or comes closest, courtesy of me, complete with nice note.

How about throwing in enough torsos that the winner won't get stuck with a box full of extra arms, legs and heads?