Can kickstarter revive Car Wars minis

[Chris Goodwin]

There's a huge community of people (Thingiverse) who create and share 3d files as open source, just for the joy of creating and sharing.

3d printers are also not really ideal for mass producing items, though they're quite usable for prototypes, one-offs, etc. They'd be great for creating a handful of minis for personal use.

[Kenigma]

Originally Posted by KWScott

...sell them for profit using someone else's intellectual property.

I think there's a lot of legal wranglings before selling and distributing 3D design files.

Who said anything about selling them? I'd just want to be able to fab my own as needed.

of course....

There other sites doing similar things, though with paper models. But that would be like me buying the paper outlines and then printing and assembling them... then selling them.... You could do that and I'm sure there would be a market... but I can't imagine it would be large.

In the case of the models if I have a 3D printer I suppose I could try to undersell someone, but unless I had a proper production house I doubt it would be profitable.

[Kenigma]

Originally Posted by Chris Goodwin

There's a huge community of people (Thingiverse) who create and share 3d files as open source, just for the joy of creating and sharing.

3d printers are also not really ideal for mass producing items, though they're quite usable for prototypes, one-offs, etc. They'd be great for creating a handful of minis for personal use.

What he said.... =)

[Aahz.]

I'm betting if the promise of reviving Ogre Minis comes through that would certainly give inroads into making Car Wars minis when the time came.

Personally I want several car bodies with wheel and weapon sprues to customize them. I could happily fill my office with hundreds of pounds of something that flexible.

[terryocarroll]

I'd be happy with gunz and bitz that I could glue onto Matchbox cars.

[Jeffr0]

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[The Gonk]

Speaking as a primarily miniatures gamer-- it seems to me that the majority of people playing these sorts of games want to hack up Hot Wheels and play with them.

I think the best bet for SJG would to do 1/100 scale miniatures, as 15mm in general is probably the most popular non-GW game scale right now-- especially for Sci-Fi-- and it's also small enough for Car Wars games, being about 1.5-2x the counter scale.

So, do a full line of 15mm cars for play at ~2x, and a few packs of 1/60 accessories for Hot Wheels conversions at ~3x. Both of these would appeal to miniature wargamers in general.

[Aahz.]

Originally Posted by The Gonk

I think the best bet for SJG would to do 1/100 scale miniatures, as 15mm in general is probably the most popular non-GW game scale right now-- especially for Sci-Fi-- and it's also small enough for Car Wars games, being about 1.5-2x the counter scale.

So, do a full line of 15mm cars for play at ~2x, and a few packs of 1/60 accessories for Hot Wheels conversions at ~3x. Both of these would appeal to miniature wargamers in general.

I'd buy that but I wonder if two scales in the same line would just confuse people.

[Buzzardo]

Originally Posted by Aahz.

I wonder if two scales in the same line would just confuse people.

That's definitely a concern. They'd have to be clearly marked as belong to go with one set or another. I think it would be better to go with one scale, though I like the idea of having options.

[kjamma4]

Originally Posted by The Gonk

So, do a full line of 15mm cars for play at ~2x, and a few packs of 1/60 accessories for Hot Wheels conversions at ~3x. Both of these would appeal to miniature wargamers in general.

Still too big for the kitchen table. At best, the smallest official scale probably shouldn't be larger than 1.5X.