ShadowLogan wrote:w/re to the sculpts. The question though has to be considered at what level of approval where the sculpts at when those approvals where announced. We know from the RPG proper that once it gets vetted through Palladium it has to go to HG for approval. I can't see why that would be any different, so we may only have seen the "approval" at one level and not the other.
Now, with respect to the readiness and approval status of the "sculpts"... I've been talking to friend of my brother's who works for Privateer Press, and he pointed out something that made good sense here.
Now, I'll admit I don't have a clue which design process Ninja Division is using, but it's possible that all the "sculpts" that Palladium said Harmony Gold had signed off on were the initial, one-piece sculptures used in refinement of the mini's design before they sit down to work out how they're going to break it up for casting as a multi-part plastic model. That would mean all the prototyping they're still doing is dividing up those designs into individual, pose-able parts for a sprue that still assembles and looks natural.