Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

pphalen · Novice Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 73 Location: NJ

Shane,

I hope the West Wind "deal" only pertains to them creating miniatures!
Please, PLEASE, PLEASE don't let their "proofreaders" near any of your written work!

Also, will they be "scale compatible" with other lines, or Big 'uns like the GRW line?

Patrick

Balance · Seasoned Joined: 13 May 2003 Posts: 438 Location: Maryland

The GRW minis aren't badly scaled as far as I can tell... Maybe a bit.

Of course, most of my minis are GW, who I believe should now refer to their lines as 'uber-sooper-dooper heroic jumbo scale +3.'
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PEGShane · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 11:32 am Post subject:

West Wind is actually getting *my* help with their games. One of the deals of our arrangement.

Shane

MadTinkerer · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 2:57 pm Post subject:

Hmph. I've always preferred the scale of the GW minis to the old(1990s) D&D/other 25mm scale minis, even before I got into Wargaming. 28mm scale makes for much sturdier and longer-lasting minis. The swords & staves on my old D&D minis would always bend at the slightest touch, but not the GW ones!

The new plastic D&D miniatures intrigue me. The Oldschool Wargamer in me screams "Plastic? PREPAINTED!?!?! RANDOMISED?!?!?!?!?!?!?!", but the GM With Not As Much Time And Money To Prepare Adventures As He'd Like says "W00t! No more messing with undercoats and washes and they're nice and cheap!". If there were plastic Pinnacle-related minis, I'd probably be more likely to buy them, but metal ones are nice for the Oldschool Wargamer in me as well.
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lordthrog · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:34 pm Post subject:

I posted this in the BC (Before Crash) forum in a topic about minis (I think it was concerning the Weird West minis, and if they were sold prepainted). I would LOVE to buy prepainted figures, because when I try to paint, I screw it up and think they would look better just dunked in paint ( I'll be playing the *DUNK* Yellow Army *DUNK*)

Most recently my friends and I have been playing HeroClix, and while most of the paint jobs out of the package are fine, some are not so good. We've been repainting, and also making custom Clix. We've prety much put together Clix of our Blood of Heroes characters, complete with custom dials.

Where was I going with this? I dunno, just wanted to share.
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Marc Hameleers · Veteran Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 750 Location: Amsterdam

What scale will the ships and miniatures be?

Also, can anyone recommend an not to expensive painting serve? perhaps Pinnacle could even make a package dela with one?

I cannot paint a mini if my life or marriage depended on it!

Marc

Conductor · Novice Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 30 Location: Colorado

cdude93 · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 5:47 pm Post subject:

Scale wise, West Wind figures are a bit smaller than most 28mm figs, I've got a pretty big collection of their WWII figs(that I use for wierd wars. now they're official! I love it when a plan comes together!) and they match up well with most figs. Like I said, next to larger scale stuff like GW figs or black tree's WWII's they're a bit small, but on the field it is really not a noticeable difference.

James
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cdude93 · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 6:38 pm Post subject: West Wind Scale

Here's a link to a pic of some of my west wind germans next to a converted 40k sentinel, should give you an idea of the scale.

www.geocities.com/cdude93/pics2

James
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