Battletech Premium Rifleman

Join me as I look at the (supposedly) premium mech line from Catalyst Game Labs in cooperation with Monster Fight Club
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[@seanuh60]

I guess this one exists so you can just aim both arms at the same target. I wish it came with a different weapon arm set.

[@Gold_Bug]

Man I thought the plastics werent great until I saw this.

[@Bolththrower]

That's not a premium model. Yikes, they still haven't been able to fix these issues with the printing. That's a really bad sign... Their partner company on this has had now about 2 years time to fix the issues and they still keep having these same basic issues.

[@tawesssoabbox]

I think the second pair of legs is for the braced position... But i am glad more people find out the hassle filled minutia that is resin/fine cast figures... There is always a lot of jank weirdness involved.

[@klortikterra4423]

Warhammer addict here. your words could not be wiser.

[@languin12]

1 min and im hearing groaning lol To be fair there are times i clip parts in my designs when i want a certain pose.

[@h.a.9880]

I dunno, I'm quite happy with the plastic minis given their pricepoint in lance packs and the likes. Having to clean up some stuff doesn't bother me that much either, but that underside of the radar-thingy is pretty ridiculous in how messed up it is. To me, selling these under the name "premium" at 15€ a pop is the biggest issue. If they sold them cheaper on the gimmick of being individually packaged, I'd really appreciate it. After all, when I want another Marauder, I don't really want to buy a whole pack with 3 other mechs, but please don't call them "premium", when the only thing premium about them is the price. 15€ for a single mech, when a Lance of 4 costs me like 25? That's nonsense.

[@gamerhalim4717]

I hope they release in Indonesia 🇮🇩

[@monostripezebras]

It is just not as nice as the old Ral Partha led mini Rifleman.

[@danwehmeier9717]

Other than the fact it doesn’t look ridiculous.

[@skazkatzroy3444]

Wow, that seems like an awful mini, at least once it's based and painted you can say you're entirely responsible for it looking good.

[@MikeKnell2884]

I have to disagree with you on the question of why have these miniatures multi part and unassembled if the poses are limited. It is easier to clean mold lines and correct mold slips or errors on individual parts, then doing that on an assembled miniature. It allows you to reach all the mold lines. And it's easier to mod unassembled parts, and change a pose, no matter how limited the change is. It is simply easier to do all of these things without risking damage to other parts of the miniature that you don't want.

[@wyattarthur5275]

I really hope these die and they just give us metal, Like what was the point? This is seriously a release of they did absolutely nothing other than Gate Keep another model as a CGL Store exclusive instead of putting it in the IWM range. I squinted at it, had hoped they changed some thing but no its just a regular Rifle Man but worse. You know the day this was released I pulled an all nighter and I made an entire 3D Model of a Locust by morning. I did all that in one night but this is the best they can give me as a release. You got to be kidding me nobody worked on this or put any effort in.

[@tawesssoabbox]

"metal" is very expensive. Resin is a cheaper material to make it in but not even Games Workshop could figure out a good way to mass produce resin models. It always comes with some jank built in.