Kickstarter Update: First Plastic Test Pops of the C.E.F. Sprues!

We received the test plastic pops for all the molds this week at our office in Montreal. The test pops are used by the mold manufacturer find where problems like not enough molten plastic making it in to the mold parts cavities are located. The test plastic sprue pops show them where additional spruing, ejector pins, and/or increased gate sizes to the parts are needed. We took the time this week to look over all the parts and get our comments back to them so they can tweak the molds to get all the plastic parts looking good.

Submitted by Robert Dubois on Fri, 03/25/2016 - 10:53pm

Kickstarter Update: First Plastic Test Pops of the Caprice Sprues!

Dream Pod 9 attended the GAMA Retailer Tradeshow this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. To promote the upcoming official release of the new edition Heavy Gear Blitz - Tabletop Wargaming - Quick Start Rulebook and new Plastic Miniatures that will take place at Gen Con 2016 in Indianapolis the first week of August. After we have shipped out the Kickstarter Backer Reward Packages in late May and June to all our Backers.

Submitted by Robert Dubois on Fri, 03/18/2016 - 9:25pm

DP9 Attending the GAMA Retailer Tradeshow!

We will be out of the office all next week attending the GAMA Retailer Tradeshow in Las Vegas from March 14th to 17th, 2016. Promoting the new edition Heavy Gear Blitz - Tabletop Wargaming - Quick Start Rulebook and the New Plastic Miniatures, made reality by all our Backers of the Heavy Gear Blitz - War for Terra Nova - Kickstarter.

Submitted by Robert Dubois on Sat, 03/12/2016 - 12:44pm

JC Fleet Scale Exo-Armors in Pewter!

Dave made the production molds for the small Jovian Chronicles Fleet Scale Pathfinder, Hector, Wyvern, and Syreen Exo-Armors today. I grabbed a set of the first pewter castings and took parts photos for each of the new two squad packs. After that I primed the exos-armors in grey and painted the 3 pronged poseable flight posts in black and assembled the squads. The image below shows the primed Pathfinder, Hector, Wyvern, and Syreen Exo-Armor squad bases in front of Athena and Hachiman Spaceships with the pewter parts photos below.

Submitted by Robert Dubois on Tue, 03/08/2016 - 9:42pm

Jovian Chronicles Fleet Scale Exo Armors Wave 2 Preview!

Tony finished up a few more exo armor 3d models for Jovian Chronicles Fleet Scale and we just sent them off to rapid prototyping at Shapeways. The image below shows the new 15mm tall Retaliator, Vindicator, Cerberus, and Fury 3d models added the photo of our existing Fleet Scale fighter squads, flight stands, spaceships, and a ruler for scale.

Submitted by Robert Dubois on Wed, 03/02/2016 - 9:22pm

Kickstarter Update: Steel Mold Plates Photos.

This week we have a progress update on the steel mold plates for the plastic injections molds. The company making the molds sent us some early progress photos of some of the steel mold plates. The image below shows the first step in making the molds plates, where they use a Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Machine is used to rough out the mold cavities. There is an photo of the CNC Machine cutting one of the mold plates at the bottom of the image. This removes most of the excess steel, but does not do the fine details in the parts cavities.

Submitted by Robert Dubois on Tue, 02/23/2016 - 8:50pm

Core Starter Set Weapons and Special Parts

Our latest Kickstarter Update included the following images of the all the weapons and special parts included on the various model sprues in the Core Starter Set.

Submitted by Robert Dubois on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 8:13pm

JC Fleet Scale Exo Armors Preview!

A cool treat today, Tony finished up the 3d models of the exo armors he was working on for Jovian Chronicles Fleet Scale. Checkout the image below of the of the small 15mm tall Wyvern, Syreen, Pathfinder, and Hector 3d models added to a photo of the existing Fleet Scale fighter squads, flight stands, spaceships, and a ruler for scale. He even made a commander models for each exo, so each squad base will have a commander and 2 stock models.

Submitted by Robert Dubois on Thu, 02/04/2016 - 7:32pm

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