Battletech, Robogear and Mechwarrior. 28mm Comparisons.

[eilif]

Just traded for a huge collection of Robogear, Battletech and Mechwarrior toys, potentially to feed my obsession for 28mm mech gaming. Inspried by some recent threads on similar topics, I've done up a blog post comparing the sizes of the various mechs and some others, along with some commentary regarding their suitability for gaming, quality and sourcing.
seen Here: http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2014/07/robotech-battletech-and-mechwarrior.html
A sample of what's there.

[Predatorpt]

Thank for that review!  And congratulations on getting all those mechs!

[Elbows]

Good pics, and nice collection of toys.  I've had most of those.  Some scale well, others...not so much!

[eilif]

Thanks folks,
      It is a bit of a bummer that they aren't all going to scale well together, but it's nice to have a chance to examine the ones that don't in person and lay the matter to rest, and the silver lining is that I've got a Mad Cat now!

[Elbows]

On the plus side, you can find a pretty reasonable match for the officer's battle pod (Glaug) in 1/100 or 1/72 model kits I believe.  So you only lose a couple of them.

[eilif]

On the plus side, you can find a pretty reasonable match for the officer's battle pod (Glaug) in 1/100 or 1/72 model kits I believe.  So you only lose a couple of them.

That's true. I've actually got that kit (the 1/100 I think) in a box waiting,
Along with a 1/200 scale "Monster" that will get a bit of modification, but should also be an excellent addition to my forces.

[Elbows]

Yeah, even the Monster Mk2 at 1/200 will be quite small compared to the others you've got there.  It's big compared to its Bandai brethren but you can probably use it for something.

[eilif]

Yeah, it's smaller than the larger mechs I just bought, but it should scale up well with what I've currently got painted. Either as big-as or slightly smaller than my other destroid toys.

Not my pic. Mine will have the top cannons and maybe the arm cannons modified. 

[Elbows]

I think the body itself could look really cool with different arms, and even replacing the top cannons.  It's such a great looking mecha.  The more I look at it, I wonder if I should have kept the six that I had at one point...the body would make a great little space shuttle.  The arms and cannons can always be used on other stuff too.

It almost looks great for use as an industrial mech - replace arms with large lifters/claws...remove the cannons.  Place a deployable bulldozer blade.  Hmmm.  Interested to see what you use it as.

[eilif]

I think I'm going to cut off the  4 cannons and turn them into missile or sensor pods.  As for the arms, it depends on how easy it would be to cut them down to size or attach a different weapon altotether. My preference would just be to keep them but shorten them.