Beyond The Sprues
General Category => Market Place => New Model Kit News/Reviews => Topic started by: GTX_Admin on June 14, 2016, 03:39:07 AM
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A company I wasn't aware of. Click logo to go to website.
(http://www.battlegategames.com/skin/frontend/rwd/default/images/logo.gif) (http://www.battlegategames.com/index.php/)
Interesting new release: 1/35 modern weapons:
(http://www.battlegategames.com/media/wysiwyg/BattleGround-June-update.jpg)
And some things coming out later this year:
1/35 PANHARD AML-90 (http://www.battlegategames.com/index.php/battleground/model-kits/panhard-aml-90.html#)
1/35 BISON APC (http://www.battlegategames.com/index.php/battleground/model-kits/bison-apc.html)
And something that could definitely find a place in whiffing:
(http://www.battlegategames.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/1800x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/g/u/gua-8a-avenger-30mm-3.jpg)
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Nice find Greg.
The Steyr AUG and the Avenger gun system could certainly be useful, especially the Avenger ammunition magazine and ammunition feed chutes. :)
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Interesting!
I've bookmarked them. There's a good range of 1/35th weapons & stuff - including the Panhard & Bison on the way (in resin, unfortunately).
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I have ordered one of the Avenger canon sets - will report upon quality etc once I have it.
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The Avenger set is nice, but the A-10 style ammo drum/feed mecanism would be overkill for a
ground vehicle as you wouldn't have the requirement to return the spent casings to the drum,
thus no need for two feed conveyors.
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Received a pair of their GUA-8As yesterday. Came in a metal case - great to protect fine resin during shipment. Quality looks really good.
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1/35 Mech:
(http://www.battlegategames.com/media/wysiwyg/Mesh1.jpg)
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Some new items announced over on Armorama: http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=24429 (http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=24429)
They also seem to be having quite the sale at their webstore: http://www.battlegategames.com/index.php/battleground/new-releases/feb-2017.html (http://www.battlegategames.com/index.php/battleground/new-releases/feb-2017.html)
I may have to get the GAU-8 now.
**Edited to Add:Order Placed!**
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New one of interest:
(http://www.kitmaker.net/photos/news/24573/pantsir-s1-weapon-system.jpg)(http://www.kitmaker.net/photos/news/24573/pantsir-s1-weapon-system2.jpg)
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And something that could definitely find a place in whiffing:
([url]http://www.battlegategames.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/1800x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/g/u/gua-8a-avenger-30mm-3.jpg[/url])
I bought a set of GAU-8s from Battlegategames when I was building my M60A4 Avenger model. I was very excited as I waited and then very disappointed when the pack arrived. Whilst you get two complete gun systems in each pack, the quality of the moulding was so poor, the barrels in particular, as to make them completely unuseable. Hence why I ended up scratch building my own.
I have no idea what the rest of their range is like but if their GAU-8 is anything to go by, I will not be using them again. :(
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I bought a set of GAU-8s from Battlegategames when I was building my M60A4 Avenger model. I was very excited as I waited and then very disappointed when the pack arrived. Whilst you get two complete gun systems in each pack, the quality of the moulding was so poor, the barrels in particular, as to make them completely unuseable. Hence why I ended up scratch building my own.
I have no idea what the rest of their range is like but if their GAU-8 is anything to go by, I will not be using them again. :(
Well, that doesn't bode well. I ordered the GAU-8 set (still pending delivery) a few weeks ago. The only good thing was that I only paid 1/3 of the original price.
Guess we wait and see...
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Well, that doesn't bode well. I ordered the GAU-8 set (still pending delivery) a few weeks ago. The only good thing was that I only paid 1/3 of the original price.
Guess we wait and see...
Sorry to be the harbinger of doom but I was not impressed. I hope that your delivery turns out better but...
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That's odd - the set I got a while back were very well done. I wonder if they are using molds that are getting old?
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That's odd - the set I got a while back were very well done. I wonder if they are using molds that are getting old?
Possibly. The barrel clusters of both guns in my pack had large amounts of excess/overspill resin, air bubbles and were bent and buckled. The bean can affair at the end of the barrels was just a non-descript blob. Completely useless. Given that they took weeks to arrive, I couldn't be bothered with the hassle of sending them back and complaining.
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They have a SeaRam that I want to mount on a C-RAM, but not sure what the quality is like. Seems iffy based on this thread. I wonder if they might be shapeways files, scaled up, and casted?
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That's odd - the set I got a while back were very well done. I wonder if they are using molds that are getting old?
Possibly. The barrel clusters of both guns in my pack had large amounts of excess/overspill resin, air bubbles and were bent and buckled. The bean can affair at the end of the barrels was just a non-descript blob. Completely useless. Given that they took weeks to arrive, I couldn't be bothered with the hassle of sending them back and complaining.
Off topic but at a place I used to work as a test technician the QA tech and I caught the production manager packing raw, unmachined and scrap castings into boxes during lunch break, for dispatch to customers to meet his schedule for a major order. Another time we had a global customer audit us because they had received a pallet of packed and signed as completed scrap, i.e. the items even had spray ink highlighting the defects the items had been scrapped for. The there was the time that a director called the entire workforce together and abused us for letting substandard product through to the UK that we had to send someone over to rework the entire batch, the trouble is, again the defect had been identified, a fix approved (changing the machining profile to remove the defect which was casting flash) and the production manager overruled QA and engineering and pushed them through as is so as not to lose time. Even worse, further investigation into how the issue occurred showed that the die was meant to be removed and refurbished but the production manger over ruled the Foundry production superintendent and left it in production, assuring everyone he would simply machine the defect off in the machine shop.
One lazy incompetent baby boomer c, protected by his big brother who was a director and another lazy incompetent baby boomer c, almost single handedly destroyed a companies reputation.
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They have a SeaRam that I want to mount on a C-RAM, but not sure what the quality is like.
I have ordered an example so I will let you know soon.
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Ever the optimist, I might order another set just to see what happens. Although I suspect the Devil will just fart in my face again!
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They have a SeaRam that I want to mount on a C-RAM, but not sure what the quality is like.
I have ordered an example so I will let you know soon.
Cool beans! Looking forward to it, and good luck.
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Seems like Battlegate is cranking out the new releases:
(http://www.armorama.com/photos/news/24640/forklift-3_1.jpg)
Something for the logisticians among us.
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if resin is not your thing Fujimi did a plastic forklift kit. I see it occasionally on ebay.
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My SeaRAM has turned up - is all one piece of 3D-printed resin. Looks good though. A little sanding maybe before painting but certainly no problems.
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/image.jpg2_zpsk74pbkn2.jpg)
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/image.jpg1_zpstnojesoo.jpg)
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/image.jpg3_zpsmmu6w1yw.jpg)
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Thanks for posting the pics.
That's just a bit too much looking like it was cut from a block of cheese for me though.
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I still need to take/post some photos of my GAU-8's here, but in the meantime, there's a thread over on Armorama with some reviews and photos of BattleGate's products.
http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=SquawkBox&file=index&req=viewtopic&topic_id=257517 (http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=SquawkBox&file=index&req=viewtopic&topic_id=257517)
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Maybe something some could use:
(http://www.kitmaker.net/photos/news/25117/1_zpsjnx78c9z.jpg)
(http://www.kitmaker.net/photos/news/25117/2_zps9zsst6x7.jpg)
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Good modern bike for the MasterBox Zombie Hunter figures set! :)
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Good modern bike for the MasterBox Zombie Hunter figures set! :)
Er! that's a "modern" bike :-\ ;D
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Good modern bike for the MasterBoxZombie Hunter figures set! :)
Er! that's a "modern" bike :-\ ;D
The HD emblem on the side is subtle enough I suppose to keep the lawyers at bay. :)
It has a very strong resemblance to the HD V-Rod.
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I was thinking it looked like a Victory.
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2016 Harley-Davidson V-Rod
(http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/H-D-NightRodSp-2016.jpg)
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Any idea exactly what this is supposed to be:
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/image.jpg2_zps5qsfmarn.jpg)
It looks very much like a Chinese Type 730 CIWS though with fewer barrels and slight difference in sensor arrangement. Either way, it might make for an interesting addition to a tank hull...