Defiance Games Alien Drones; are they shipping?

[Grimmnar]

I don't have a large gaming group...but I haven't seen anyone with Defiance stuff, let alone ever mentioned.  I haven't seen any at the past four or five cons I've been to.  I don't know if Defiance is even on most American gamers' radars.

Wargames Factory is building quite the following since the split up though.  They're churning out some pretty good stuff and it's a common household name amongst gamers now.

I was just at Historicon. Saw them for sale in the Dealer's Hall when i did a quick walk. Don't recall whom was selling them.
I do recall the Wargames Factory stand and all that they had for sale. Some snazzy stuff i must admit.

And i would have to disagree about not being on "American gamers' radars" though. I do believe that they are seen. Unfortunately just not in a good light and for that they are suffering a lot for it.

Grimm

[Elbows]

Yeah, I'm just speaking from my small gamer group experience.  I am only aware of them because I am a fan of the WF stuff and I heard about them splitting up etc. 

[tnjrp]

Mantic marines are nice, but veeery characteristic

I should think it will help Mantic's case a bit when they get their hard plastic Enforcers out. They decided, a bit belatedly IIRC, to make them in conjunction with Deadzone KS but the Enforcer aesthetics are pretty generic. The current Mantic humans are "restic" of course.

same for the stormtrooper from the other company i don't remember now

Dreamforge? They are indeed rather specific in their aesthetics, but technically the miniatures themselves are likely the neatest plastic you can get.
http://dreamforge-games.com/catalog/

Viridian Inderdicts are somewhat more generic but not a whole lot of people know they are still available.

[Dr Mathias]

Viridian Inderdicts are somewhat more generic but not a whole lot of people know they are still available.

You know, I've always wondered why those don't get more table time. The metal Viridians in the current 'Metropolis' range are great generic sci-fi figures and I hardly ever see them mentioned.

As for Defiance, I don't think they have a big following here in America. I haven't ever seen their figures in person and I go to as many games stores and conventions as I can.

I really was hoping the Chinese would be cast better, can't say I'm ready to risk a Defiance order yet.

[Sangennaru]

Viridian Inderdicts are somewhat more generic but not a whole lot of people know they are still available.

i didn't know! do you have any trusted shop to suggest?

[Ajsalium]

Scotia Grendel, current owners of Void 1.1

Plastic viridians:
http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=217_218_59_61&products_id=2851

Metal viridians:
http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=217_218_59_63&zenid=a6eb48ca66d2a9aa731e31514b534697

[tnjrp]

Scotia Grendel, current owners of Void 1.1

Yep, that's pretty much the only one I can think of for plastics. I suppose there are a couple of shop that carry the current Urban War (metal) Viridians, but in a pinch there's always
http://www.urbanwarthegame.com/store-ecwid.php

[Elwood P Dowd]

I see Scotia Grendal has bought the plastic Junkers back at last ! 

[Cosmotiger]

Defiance's design for the Hardsuits is quite nice.  If a company capable of getting a product to market produced them, I'd buy a set in an instant. That's the irritating thing about Defiance, as far as I'm concerned.

[Ajsalium]

Defiance's design for the Hardsuits is quite nice.  If a company capable of getting a product to market produced them, I'd buy a set in an instant. That's the irritating thing about Defiance, as far as I'm concerned.

The design isn't Defiance's. They just bought the rights to produce it from some sci-fi concept artist whose name I cannot recall at the moment.

As did Antenocitis Workshop. Who have actually released their own "hardsuit":


And the link to actually be able to buy it:
http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/komodo-heavy-infantry.html

[tnjrp]

Antenociti's continuing their "outsourcing" with their forthcoming drop ships too.

But on the subject of Defiance hardsuits, one needs to note that even at its cheapest, the Antenociti suit is much more expensive than they will be if/when they get produced -- probably by about an order of magnitude. I do expect that to show in the quality as well but then I'm a bit of a cynic.

[Elbows]

Oh, agreed...to me that was the possible appeal of the Defiance suit, it'd probably be incredibly affordable...assuming it wasn't a pile of junk.  We'll see if it ever shows up.

[Andrew May]

Antenociti's continuing their "outsourcing" with their forthcoming drop ships too.

What? Because they used an outside concept artist? Or because its a similar design to Defiance?
Just saying because the none of the designs are exactly original, there's nothing new under the sun, remember.....

[tnjrp]

Because they contacted an outside designer and asked (possibly paid) for permission to use the design. No allusions to anything sinister such as ripping something off as such.

[Andrew May]

Sorry, the inverted commas just made it sound weird!