April New Releases: Chargeur and Barnaby Gear Transport

We have two exciting new releases that are up for order now on our online store and will begin shipping on April 27th. The releases for this month include the Chargeur, an engineering design from NuCoal, and the South's Barnaby Gear Transport, a amssive wheeled vehicle designed to carry Heavy Gears from battlefield to battlefield.

The first is the Chargeur, which can be used in Heavy Gear Arena as an engineering Heavy Gear modified for metal-shredding melee combat.

Chargeur Two Pack (DP9- 9245, $20.75)

The Chargeur below is built for arena combat with mauler fist and vibro claws.

The Chargeur can also be assembled in a military-standard configuration  with specializeds manipulators for engineering, ammunition loading, and other tasks.

The Chargeur Two Pack includes two of the special shoulder mounted Light Autocannons as well as one buzz saw, one mauler fist, one set of vibro claws, and teo chain swords as well as the pieces to build two Chargeurs.

Southern Barnaby Gear Transport (DP9-Barnaby, $29.95)

The Barnaby Gear Transport is a common sight in the Allied Southern Territories, especially near military bases and Gear factories. It is commonly used to transport Heavy Gears from place to place tor educe wear on leg actuators and city streets.Transports such as this allow pilots to ride in relative comfort in normal vehicles when combat is not expected, or they can ride in their Gears in the transport to allow for rapid deployment.  

The new Southern Barnaby Gear Transport is currently available as a terrain piece or objective. This kit has several components including an insert with a Gear modeled on it that is 'walking' out of the dark inner hold that can be placed to provide a sense of interior detail.

The Barnaby can also be modeled with the forward ramp raised or with a 'blank' insert for your own details.

The Southern Barnaby Gear Transport and the Chargeur Two Pack are available for pre-order today and will start shipping next Friday, April 27th!

Dream Pod 9's Spring Sale is On Now!

As spring is in full swing, the Dream Pod 9 Online Store is having a sale!

The Spring Sale will run from Friday, April 13th through Tuesday morning May 1st, 2012. For every $50 of products (including books, miniatures, model kits, package deals, etc.) purchased, we are throwing in a free $10 or less gift product of your choice with the order, if you purchase for $100 you can select a $20 or less gift product instead of two $10 gift products, $150 order gets you a $30 gift, and so on. Do not order the gift(s) as if they are lines in the order or they will be charged with the order automatically, just type your requested free gift name(s) and product number(s) in the comments section of the cash out page and they will be added when we pack the order.

Heavy Gear Blitz Master Series Paint Set

Our friends at Reaper Miniatures have released the Heavy Gear Blitz Master Series Paint Set as a great one-stop set of paints for all Heavy Gear miniatures. This set includes 36 Master Series paints, 32 of which are never-before-seen colors created especially for Dream Pod 9. This set includes paint colors for all of the Heavy Gear Blitz factions and we will provide painting suggestions using these color names in the future.

The Paint Set is $119.99 USD from the Reaper Online Store and is available now. Orders from Reaper's online to the United States and Canada include free shipping. Read more about how to win a Heavy Gear Blitz Master Paint Set at the end of this article.

 

 

The Heavy Gear Blitz Master Series Paint Set is shipped in a plastic storage case that also has storage space for brushes and other hobby tools. 

The paints are packaged in dropper-style bottles that are easy to use and prevent paints from drying out to minimize waste. The dropper bottles also allows mixing paints by measuring drops for reproducible custom paint mixes. 

 

The back of the case shows all of the included colors. The included colors are packaged the same as the standard Reaper paints, so if you want additional colors not available in this set, you can swap them out the included bottles for Reaper paints or those from other manufacturers that use dropper-style bottles.

The included paint colors are shown below. Eight colors are Reaper's High Density paints that are formulated to better cover other colors completely. For example, Hazard Yellow is an HD paint designed so it can be used over other colors with more solid coverage with less coats of paint required.

The Southern Fire Dragon Strider, shown below, is painted using the new paint set colors. The carapace is République Red on the upper armor panels with the three included greys and the Black Wash to detail the body. The metallics and other colors were used to add details on the guns and other small details. We did add the illuminated sensor lights in Photoshop.

The Heavy Gear Blitz Master Series Paint Set is available now from Reaper Miniatures, and will be available at the end of April from Dream Pod 9's Online Store.

Win a Free Paint Set

We are giving away one of these new paint sets with our friends at Beasts of War. To enter, all you need to do is 'Like' our Facebook Page. A winner will be randomly selected from everyone who has Liked our Facebook page by May 4th at midnight, Eastern Standard Time. That's all you have to do.

Sidewinder & Tiger Two-Pack Re-Sculpt Released!

Dream Pod 9 is proud to announce that the Sidewinder and Tiger Two-Pack re-sculpts are now available for purchase off our online store.

The brand new re-sculpts features a new ball and socket system, allowing for much more dynamic posing options, new leg poses and new weapon options.

Additionally, the models has been re-engineered to cast better. Even the re-worked MRP now fits on any collar mounting point.

SABERTOOTH TIGER VARIANT LEADING BY EXAMPLE!

Read more: Sidewinder & Tiger Two-Pack Re-Sculpt Released!

March Miniature Releases

We have two new release for March, both reinforcements for your NuCoal armies. Chasseur Paratrooper Two Pack (DP9-9261, $20.75) and Jerboa Paratrooper Two Pack (DP9-9262, $20.75) miniature kits are now available to allow you to add Airborne Squads to your NuCoal army. Airborne squads can also include the Cuirassier released previously.

These designs augment the standard jump jet equipped Chasseur and Jerboa with air brakes, chassis reinforcements, and parachute attachment points to make the designs airdroppable.

Both are available now from the Dream Pod 9 online store.

Read more: March Miniature Releases

Gear Up 5 Released!

Gear UP 5 is here, and it's a monster issue of miniature hobby related articles, from the Golden Gear entries, to Show Me Your Colors, to Terra Nova Terraformer, and introducing Dream Pod 9 Studio Masterclass. And these are just some of the new developments on the hobby side of Heavy Gear Blitz.

We've also got an artist interview with designer and 3D modeller David Tauzia, who contributed to the cover of Perfect Storm and modelled the Lancier, Chargeur, and Hussar. It's also got yet another installment of Prime Solutions by Jason Dickerson and drawn by Mariko Shimamoto.

Gerrit Kitts' MILICIA spotlight article continues in this issue with suggested squad layouts, some stories on life in the AST by Sean Callaway, and some MILICIA uniform studies.

We know Arena players are dying to be able to field NuCoal units in their games, so we've also included rules for that in this issue. But we know what you've really been waiting for since the release of Perfect Storm NuCoal Field Guide, the Field Testing BETA of the revised Field Guide Threat Values for the North, South, PRDF, Leagueless, Black Talon, Caprice, CEF, Utopia, and Eden.

We hope you enjoy this issue!

 

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