Super cheap VOTOMS and its gone again.

[eilif]

Whew, I dodged that bullet.  Almost ordered more!

[Hat Guy]

Got mine!

Enough for two units in Warpath or 40K now!

[eilif]

Got mine!

Enough for two units in Warpath or 40K now!

How many did you get and what are you using them for?

I bought 20 and have given away 2.  I'll probably make 2 units of 3-5 as battle armor for my 28mm Mech Attack games, but I'm not sure what I'll do after that.  I thought about putting 2 in my FLGS auction at $10 each just to see what happens...

[Pijlie]

There was an utterly bizarre sequel to this. I went to the site through the link in this thread to check my shopping cart and look around for a bit. There was still 1 VOTOM in my cart for 190 yen. So I just, for the heck of it, increased the number. And it worked! So eventually I had 6 Fatties in my cart for 190 yen apiece and have just ordered and paid them. 20 euros for six Fatties including shipping. This site is so weird....

[YPU]

 

I can't explain why any of that would have happened, but I'm glad somebody more could join our VOTOM fatty squad owner club.

[Hat Guy]

How many did you get and what are you using them for?

Now I will have six, which enables me to field two squads of Sentinels in 40K or two squads of Striders in Warpath (or just six loose in Firefight).

[Daeothar]

Too bad I just missed out there; I really could have used a couple of those as a basis for some more mechs in my 15mm Battletech project...

[Pijlie]

I can't explain why any of that would have happened, but I'm glad somebody more could join our VOTOM fatty squad owner club.

And they have been shipped. 😃

[eilif]

Too bad I just missed out there; I really could have used a couple of those as a basis for some more mechs in my 15mm Battletech project...

They might be a bit big for 15mm.  Instead, have you seen the semi poseable 3" robotech toys?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ExoSquad-Robotech-Raidar-X-Battloid-Civil-Defense-Unit-Mecha-1994-/272278598303?hash=item3f6511b29f:g:b1UAAOSwM4xXZcR3
I've got a few and they're pretty nice. They were released by Matchbox and later by Playmates for ExoSquad. I think they came in all 4 destroid types...
SpartanTM
GladiatorTM
Excaliber Mk VITM
RaidarXTM
...though I only have the ones BT calls Rifleman and Warhammer.

OOP now but worth hunting down and usually affordable.

[Daeothar]

You may be thinking of N-scale, which is 1/160. I'm working on stuff in 15mm, which is about 1/100.

In that scale, most mechs are around 10cm (10m in-universe). See; that's not only very easily calculated, but I already have most, if not all, the unseen mechs, in 1/100 (mostly Robotech ones, obviously).

I used the Warhammer (Excalibur) as my baseline, and have scoured the entire series of novels for references to mech sizes (and also www.sarna.net), with most mechs ending up in an 8m to 13m range. It's one of my goals to be as scale consistent as possible (although I fully understand that most of those references are shaky at best and I often have to go with the trusty TLAR* system instead).

So one of those Votoms, at 8cm, would be a perfect basis for one conversion or the other...


* That Looks About Right

[Pijlie]

And the next game is scheduled when......?

 

[YPU]

Yea I picked up a destroid phalanx and monster to go with my votoms, I think we need to talk dutch 15mm mech game some time.

[eilif]

You may be thinking of N-scale, which is 1/160. I'm working on stuff in 15mm, which is about 1/100.

In that scale, most mechs are around 10cm (10m in-universe). See; that's not only very easily calculated, but I already have most, if not all, the unseen mechs, in 1/100 (mostly Robotech ones, obviously).

I used the Warhammer (Excalibur) as my baseline, and have scoured the entire series of novels for references to mech sizes (and also www.sarna.net), with most mechs ending up in an 8m to 13m range. It's one of my goals to be as scale consistent as possible (although I fully understand that most of those references are shaky at best and I often have to go with the trusty TLAR* system instead).

So one of those Votoms, at 8cm, would be a perfect basis for one conversion or the other...


* That Looks About Right

I could be wrong. I'm actually not sure of the size of the Votoms. I was thinking of the matchbox/playmates robotech figures because the ones I have are cool but noticably too big to play well with my 10mm'ish Mechwarrior clix, so I thought they'd do well for BT in 15mm.  As for the scale of macross mech kits, I don't pay much attention since the sizes are different in the Macross and BT universes.

At some point I should probably do some comparisons of the various small mecha I've collected.  I've already done so for my big 28mm'ish mechs here:
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2014/07/robotech-battletech-and-mechwarrior.html

[Daeothar]

... I think we need to talk dutch 15mm mech game some time.

I think something along those lines might eventually be in order, yes. So far though, I only have a handful of mechs built, but not painted and several lances worth of unbuilt ones as well.

At least this might give me a reason to pick up where I left off and start churning these bad boys out...

As for the scale of macross mech kits, I don't pay much attention since the sizes are different in the Macross and BT universes.

That's so true. You can't imagine the effort it took to find the right size RT Valkyries for use as BT Wasp/Stingers in the right scale. In the end I had to source very old 1/170 scale kits in Japan for them to be correctly sized for use in a 1/100 BT environment...

[YPU]

I think something along those lines might eventually be in order, yes. So far though, I only have a handful of mechs built, but not painted and several lances worth of unbuilt ones as well.

At least this might give me a reason to pick up where I left off and start churning these bad boys out...

I haven't the foggiest when it comes to battletech rules, though I think mech attack might work here. (their infantry even is roughly 15mm if you use the paper models)

If  you've come to the conclusion one of these fatties really fits a design you were planning to do I might be conviced to part with one or two. I've had them for half a year and hardly done anything, besides trying to figure out a better looking gun.