Hey guys

So to avoid clogging up the valkyrie thread with tons of base pics, we decided to start a dedicated thread, and also to hopefully draw people in who aren't interested in the lowly footsloggers of the Guard. If we get round to doing other bits like armour plates and stuff they'll go in here as well.

The other day I found an old Grey Knight terminator I painted about 6 or 7 years ago I think, whenever the Daemonhunters codex originally came out, minus the end of his spear. Luckily I found an unpainted arm with the same weapon, so a quick bit of pinning later and he's ready to get smiting again. I'm not the best painter but I was happy with these guys. Once he's done I'm going to slap a custom base on him.

One of the things we're working on is nice display bases for command squads and whatnot, these are very much work in progress, but the pics give an idea of where we're going with it. I've also got to take some pics of the wolf bases we CNCed the other night, I'll try and get some up before the end of the weekend. To save me reposting all the pics of our other bases, anyone who hasn't seen them can check them out on http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/358792.page

Cheers guys
Harry - Warmill

Hi all

Been a busy day today, me and the girlfriend went out on our bikes and just happened to visit Hobbycraft, who just happened to have a few AOBR boxes in. Well, how could I refuse... Also spent a couple of hours tonight modelling up a dread-sized thunder hammer for my work-mate's GK dread. I've tried to keep it so that I only have to cut it from 2 sides on a simple sprue, so fingers crossed I can cut it tomorrow, or at least get the roughing done. From some angles the hammer head looks a bit big, but then it's a dread not some skinny little wraithlord.

Coolio!

Hi all

So the weekend was gorgeous down here, did a fair bit of cycling with my girlfriend but still managed to find a bit of time to do some bits. I ran off some prototypes for some 3D bases, including some designs with cut-outs that we could drop laser-engraved panels into. We're trying to work out the best way to combine lasering and CNCing, because the laser has really good resolution and speed, but you can only sort of bodge 3D-ness by altering power settings, while the CNC is limited by the size of the tool and can be slow but gives the best finish of all the prototyping techniques and gives you total control of the 3D-ness (there has got to be a better term) of the model. I'm trying to find a good combination for my own AOBR marines.


I also got the hammer cutting, the roughing pass finished today while I was at work and I've just got the finishing pass going. The head of the hammer is a leetle bit big but I split the shaft from the head (sounds painful) so I may model up a spear head as an alternative.

Cheers all, here's some pics! Sorry for the dodgy lighting Ed's got the good camera, the swine.

Harry - Warmill


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Nice work Haz, the images show up fine so stop apologizing! Will have to be careful or people might start steeling your ideas!

Whats with buying models?! We're supposed to be making them!

See you in a week or so!

Ed

Have you got any pics of a figure attached to one of the see-through bases?. I would love to see how that looks

Hi all

just a quick precursor to a proper update... I got some prototypes for my own marines' bases cut, and got a mould poured today, so will be casting up a few today ready for the weekend woohoo! Also got the first draft of the GK dread hammer done, though there was a bit of an accident and some stuff needs changing. Pics and words tomorrow when I get a chance to take some proper pictures in the workshop!

@Asylum_Inmate

I will get some pics of a mini on some clear bases this weekend. My workmate's got some to put some GKs so I will get some nice pics off him when he's done.

Harry - Warmill

Very Nice! When GW see this it'll be comming to a store near you!

Hi all

It's been a few days since an update, it's been quite a busy week finishing everything up at work (a pair of legs for a spanish girl, who wanted the same feet as the last pair of legs I made. I love doing the same job twice ) ready for my holiday but I got a fair bit of modelling done.

I spent the first part of the week cutting out the custom hammer for my mate's dread, the lesson here is double check measurements before wasting a big chunk of chemiwood as it turned out to be the comically oversized hammer of ultimate doom. The shaft is ok though so I've started reproportioning the head ready for the next go. I didn't finish the cutting as the material came off the CNC bed and took a whole lot of damage as the tool carried on cutting, until it eventually snapped. Since I was running out of 0.5mm bits I figured it was probably best to cut my losses on that one. It should look pretty sweet with the new head on the next go.

The other project I worked on was some sexy personalised bases for my AoBR marines and terminators. The terminator bases didn't work at first but I've since sussed out why and now I'm cutting a new set of masters for moulding, with bases for assault, devastator and tactical marines (regular and AoBR), plus a 40mm terminator base and a couple of plates to put on tanks and stuff. I've cast up some of the tactical bases off the first set and actually started painting my first minis in over 4 years woohoo! I've painted a tester that I made up as I went along, I reckon I might change the black areas to bone as I'm not too keen on the black highlighting. I'll never win any Golden Daemons but I'm pretty pleased with how the first guy turned out. The photo set-up and camera I used are absolutely merciless, I like to think it looks a bit better in the flesh, especially if you're as blind as I am

Cheers all, I hope to get some more updates on the Valkyrie project in the next few weeks once I've got some good chemiwood in.

Harry - Warmill

Pics of my colour scheme test.

Some pics of the lasered bases left clear.

Hi all

Just a quick update to show off a design we've been doing as a commission for a fellow dakkaite. The brown is a wash of devlan mud to bring out the detail for the sake of the photos.

Harry - Warmill

I really love your bases, keep it up

nice work,the bases are cool and i really like the purple colour scheme on the marine.

Those clear bases/displays look pretty cool. Certainly would be fun to mount an important unit on one like it

Really cool work!

Where do you source the larger acrylic display bases from (assuming it's acrylic)?

Do you pour those yourself?

I'm looking to make something similar for use as movement trays for my Orks.

Thanks for the comments guys!

@More Dakka
The large bases are our own designs that we laser cut straight out of a sheet of acrylic. The WarMill base on the purple marine is a resin pour. I've just poured enough to base all the AoBR marines on, and I'm currently CNCing a new set to do terminators and ones with assault and devastator engraved on the scrolls.

@SilverMK2
Once I get round to buying, begging or making a command squad we'll get some pics up of them on a big display base. One of our problems is having too many ideas for things to work on, so everything's kind of getting developed at the same time, and these still need a bit of tweaking. If only the evenings were about 12 hours longer we'd be sorted

Harry - Warmill

Those bases would be really nice for display models.

OK this is a little freaky, those acrylic scythe bases you are doing for that commission are almost exactly what I have been sketching for my own custom marine chapter. Seems like my idea may not be as unique as I had originally thought.... damn

Thanks so much for the bases guys.

Can't wait for my army to all be mounted on them.

Personally i loved the etched glass look on the base.

Dont paint or ink them >.< i would love to have a set of bases like that

Hey!

We had a request for some less than ordinary movement trays from a fellow Dakkerite - as he was fed up moving 60 boys in his first turn of movement!

So the brief was to replicate something that looks like a 5 on the face of a D6 - whilst keeping all units within coherency! As an Ork player, we felt something Orkish would be most appropriate!

The image below is more a taster of whats to come really, until we get some more cut, designs finalised, and some sexy pictures taken!



What you can see in this pic - a base big enough for 5 guys on 25mm bases! wither troops or perhaps a command squad!

Eldar, Ork and Marines - the bottom plate has a small recess which is apace enough for a small washer - so magnets on the underside of our bases can be inserted and keep the models in place!

Please give us your thoughts and suggestions - as they are still in their prototype stages!!

Ed - WarMill

Haha! Those are great.

The x shaped design would be good for moving large units as you can interlace them to get models closer together, or keep them all spread out. Very nice indeed.

Perhaps you might consider a design similar to... oh, I don't know... 3 small circles formed in the shape of a triangle?

Also would be good if they were "pre-drilled" with a recess or hole in the middle for adding a magnet/pin to to secure models in place.

@SilverMK2:

I guess you cannot see depth very well here, the bases are in two levels, so the circles are where you would put your slotta bases and would be flush with the surface of the base (as its 3mm acrylic )

Thanks for the overall niceness in your reply

What race would have the triangles? or would that be a generic shape - i guess it helps to group[ them together

Ed

edit - also, the space for the washer is recessed, but i think i would drill into the material as it gives a cleaner cut - and is quicker

Making them flush with the surface would help and I suppose you can then simply glue a magnet to the centre of the depression to secure your models

The magnet would just add extra security (especially if you are using top heavy or metal models) so they don't fall off when you move the "movement tray".

And as for what race... it could actually be several.

*coughcoughcough*

Oh dear, don't know where that came from

ok ok i'll make you one! but i;'m no where near a cutter untill tuesday due to the long weekend!

Haha! You don't have to make one up for me - just wanted to give you some ideas for your consideration if you wanted to expand your range.

well without a request things don't tend to get done!

makes sense to have a generic one that can be used individually or bunched together for larger squads...

Hello!

We had some concern over the layout and blast markers - what would your thoughts / concerns be?

Not played in along time so have been utilising google to help us out

So I've had a play around with the trays. Interestingly, the big blast marker is 126mm across, which is 1mm bigger than it's possible to spread 3 bases apart. Therefore If you go for an X arrangement, a hit on the centre ork would technically hit all 5, but only by 0.5mm. This means that if someone was sharp enough to do the maths and anal enough that they'd want to win at all costs and you had an X arrangement they would be able to claim a hit on all 5 orks even though the on the table the marker may not touch all the orks. If you need absolute safety from blast markers technically the best arrangement is either an M shape, in which the maximum that can be hit is 3 or 4 depending on how much you stretch the shape, or a V shape, where the absolute most that can be hit is 3, and allows you to interlock them to get the mob in a compact space. The downside to these is that they don't lend themselves as well to pretty shapes.

Hopefully this pic explains it better than the wall of text:



I guess really it comes down to how friendly the people you play against are. Personally, I'd take my chances that you're only going to get that perfect hit on a group of 5 once in a blue moon, but for absolute safety the V shape would be your best bet.


So if you managed to read through that, as concerned gamers...what would you suggest?!

Cheers
Harry - Warmill

The "W" shaped bases look to be the best idea in terms of minimising the threat of blasts on a single base. However, as I suggested earlier, most people would probably be bunching their bases up anyway (as most tables don't have the space for everything to spread out massively).

The "X" designs do look pretty cool as well...

Hi all

just a quick update to show off the improved custom bases for me and Ed's marines, unfortunately due to being off work I won't be able to pour a mould for a while which sucks, but it gives me time to get the Ork versions ready for when I do go back. The mould will give us bases for the AoBR marines, multipart tactical, assault and devastator marines, and terminators, as well as a couple of Warmill plates for us to stick on tanks and dreads and what-not. The Ork version will be much the same options, but with suitably orky logos and name plates, and a different font for the engraving.

On another exciting note, we've just started cutting a prototype for "generic APC" doors that should let us make custom chapter doors pretty economically. Watch this space for some pics when we've got a few made up!

Cheers all

Harry - Warmill

Looking good

Will be interesting to see the custom doors.

One thing I just thought of though - if you can tool the clear plastic, have you thought about creating shield shapes with lightning etched into it? Then people can paint the etch, leaving the rest of the shield clear - a rather effective energy shield - especially if you can produce some kind of solid outer rim/handle arrangement that the clear section can be slotted into...

Hi all

Not much to show at the moment as we're busy developing a few projects, but here's a sneak peek at some prototypes for our APC doors fresh off the CNC! They still need a bit of tweaking but it shows the direction we're going in. I'm also busy making some custom bases for our personal Orks, still creating data but I hope to cut them in the next couple of days.

Cheers

Harry - Warmill

Looks pretty cool.

Any chance you could cut an over sized halberd for the dreadknight?

@Foda_Bett

Funny you should ask that, the hammer was originally going to be a halberd until my mate decided he preferred the thunder hammer. We've got a design for a halberd head with a clear highly engraved acrylic blade that slots into the shaft, which is why the hammerhead is cut separate from the shaft. When we get round to it I'll post pics, at the moment it's one project of many!

Harry

If you get them built I'll pick up 3!
I'm building an all halberd count as force (because I have 150 of the old metals) and I don't want to say "Every halberd is a sword, except these Dreadknights."

Watch this space and we'll see what we can do

I've been through this thread with interest, and now i'm wondering just how small of a piece can you make from the clear cuts. IE: what's the chances of getting fancy looking blades for Farseer's, warlocks, banshees, autarchs, and the avenger exarch.

and then there's the possibility of fancy flight bases for my Grav tanks.

Hi all

Yesterday was mostly about bbq, beer and a little bit of painting, but we also managed to prototype a sexy display base for those special characters and whatnot. The 40mm base is heavily engraved with stepped feathers and should look pretty sweet painted up in a stone-y effect. I'm thinking maybe a scroll or something between the wings with some embossed text would finish it off nicely, but let us know what you think!

More updates in the week, including hopefully the oversized force halberd.

Cheers all
Harry - Warmill

I love that surround.

I'm subbing this one too, just in case I miss some of your awesome work.

Yeah they are lovely, harry is pwning with his CNC!

He's working on another version of the above as I type, it should make a lovely mould!



Above is an updated movement tray for More Dakka's Orks!

We had to change the layout quite dramatically, it now has a more efficient use of material, and deploy-ability due to the lower profile. The layout also makes it look like the center model standing a little further forward - ideal for nobz all whilst keeping coherency and being as blast marker efficient as poss.

Hope he likes them!

Edward

Also - thanks for the kind comments


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I actually painted a model!

First model I have painted in over 5 years! All I need now is a sexy base...







After several beers, he looked alot different in the morning than when I put my paintbrush down the night before!!

Ed

Looks good for 5 years on/off (depending on your point of view ) the wagon

Did look different the morning after!

@SebastionSynn

Your comment didn't go unnoticed, just busy on other bits

If your seriously considering using some clear acrylic for the blades, pm us and we can fit in a sample somewhere. our initial concern would bee that the edges would be flat, and you would loose allot of the features that make a blade, well...a blade

Ed

I just stumbled onto this blog again, and I have to say, it all looks amazing! You should definitely open a store or something! I think a lot of people would love to buy things like this!!

Those clear basses specifically are absolutely fantastic! One thing that has always bugged me is when you see a squad with, for example, grass-flocked bases on a urban style board... I think the one thing I dislike more is an unpainted basses!

These seem like a fantastic solution! And I'm definitely considering them for my next army!

Thanks for taking the time to post a comment!

Peeps are a screaming out for the bases to be kept clear, we had sort of considered it, but really assumed most people would paint them, we have dubbed the term 'jewel' bases when kept clear!

All we need is minis to put them on

Hello!

Been working on a few ideas today, one of these being a response to sebastionSynn for his Eldar weapon upgrades!



The brief was for a range of standard and 'fancy engraved' swords and spear heads to replace the standard citadel ones.

comments / suggestions?

Ed

Excellent!
Awesome!
Beautiful!
Out Standing!
and now every Eldar player out there is gonna want these.

neat

Hi all

A quick update tonight, we've been working on some symbols to engrave on clear bases in preparation for getting a couple of ranges on Ebay, these will be pretty generic, like the Templar bases, with things like fists, swords, scrolls, etc, so could be suitable for a whole range of armies.

We've also been working on a very nice display base for characters and special figures, as seen a few posts above. This is being designed to have panels that can be customised with different names and symbols if people want one for their own armies, we just did an Ultramarines one to test ourselves . Once I go back to work I'll get a mould poured and we'll cast a couple up to show what can be done. If people like them maybe we'll work on a few other designs. Being on holiday and away from work's vac chamber is killing me, I've never wanted to be in work during a holiday before!

Harry - Warmill

Wow. Those swords look great! I wouldn't mind a set of those if they get made too.

Wow. Those swords look great! I wouldn't mind a set of those if they get made too.

oh don'/t worry Foxtale, they will be made. as i explained in the pm to Warmill, i've been trying for a long time to get good looking crystal swords for my Eldar.

Holy crap!!

I want that Ultra base!

You know they make crystal clear resin. It takes 90 minutes to become hard, and then 3-5 days to reach "maximum hardness" but you can see through it. The stuff I have isn't through my usual dealer (I don't know where it came from), but my usual resin dealer is sending me a sample of their clear resin to see if I like it better.

I really really love your basing idea.

the only way you could possibly make it more awesome would be to add roman numerals to the tactical so you could have tactical I through X and make up squads or something...

I guess that would maybe be too much variety to sell though for 1 squad type.

This is a very cool thread, thanks for bringing new stuff to the Dakka table!

I am becoming very fond of the plain acrylic bases, although a beautiful and intricate base is great for display purposes, I really like the idea of the clear acrylic if I were to actually play the game. There is something cool about knowing that your army will always fit the board theme.

blaktoof wrote:I really really love your basing idea.

the only way you could possibly make it more awesome would be to add roman numerals to the tactical so you could have tactical I through X and make up squads or something...

Funny you should say that, as that was our very first idea that got WarMill off the ground, I even made a bunch of drawings ready to make the bases, maybe I should revisit the idea. Once we get our eBay shop off the ground I think we can just add and add the different types of bases without diluting the look and feel to much.

As for the clear resin, we have used a range of them before, but they are quite finiky to get just right, as they often produce alot of bubbles, have to be baked to fully harden. also for the good stuff, it's very expensive!

Thanks for taking the time to read through and post comments guys

If you make up some heat resistant moulds you could try using the heat moulding/pourable clear plastic?

OK I have 2 questions,

1. Do you do any heavier/thicker versions of the acrylic bases? the reason I ask is that my chapter master is a conversion based on the Astorath the Grim figure which is quite top heavy and prone to falling over (same applies to the sanguinor model I believe) and as such would require a heavier base to prevent this from happening/ Also bases that are thicker are quite popular for mounting character pieces so they stand out from rank and file figures.

2. I know its kinda an established market but have you guys thought about doing marine shoulder pads? granted its nothing new in itself, however, those of us with homebrew chapters, could make use of a one-stop-shop for chapter personalisation. If the same chapter symbol design could be put on vehicle panels, bases and pads that would super-mega-double awesome

We can do bases in thicker acrylic, though we don't generally keep stuff much thicker than 5mm which is what the big Templar bases are engraved on. Although it is heavier it's only very slightly, and probably wouldn't be enough to make any difference to whether your model falls over or not. What we could do and would make a difference is to either cut a bigger base, say 40mm, with a 25mm radius engraved on it (I'm assuming this is the size of his base). The 25mm radius would then be the one you'd measure from for game purposes and could have some fancy stuff engraved around it.

The alternative is to do it like the big Ultramarine display base, where the guy is on a 25mm base that slots into a recess on a bigger 40mm base. You could then put the model in it to move hima round the board and stuff but could take him out for close combat or squeezing in narrow spaces where it's less likely to fall over. This would use more material and cost a little more, but would be more practical in game terms. We could engrave a recess for a magnet but this would add to the cost and wouldn't be clear then, but it is an option.

Hopefully this pic makes sense of my rambling ;P



If this is something you'd want to follow up, PM us and we'll discuss cost and design

Harry - Warmill


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Lol guess you asked the second question while I was typing

Shoulder pads are something we could do, but it depends on how much interest there is. It probably wouldn't be economical for small batches of less than 20 or so, but with bigger orders it could make sense, or for a flat fee we could produce a mould that people can then use to cast their own. It really depends on if there's enough interest in it, as it would require a bit of experimentation.

Tank panels are a different matter though, which is what the Rhino doors posted earlier are for. We're designing them to have detailed laser-engraved panels slotted in, so someone could say to us "I'll have the door with the round panel with my custom chapter logo in, here's a picture of it, and my chapter's name on the scroll. I'll take 10 sets please (;P)". If there's enough interest we could extend the range to guard tanks and whatnot. It should make it economical enough for everyone to have a few sets of cutom doors and panels

Hope that answers everything, comments and suggestions are always welcome

Harry - Warmill

These are very pretty! I've been thinking of (badly) making a mould for shoulder-pads/doors. I've seen this just in time.

I'd be interested in moulds for shoulder pads, if that idea is done.

Very tempted by some of those bases too...
I'm curious as to how much these are gonna hurt my wallet, what with me being a poor student though!

Didnt you poor students just get your easter term loans in?!

for the 25 mm bases its 5 for a fiver
40mm is 3 for a fiver
1 60mm for a fiver

not to bad eh? that's for the acrylic ones mind you

Hi all

We've got a couple of things to show off today. We've been working on some generic Fist designs to be engraved on clear bases that should be suitable for anyone with Imperial fists, Crimson Fists, etc. Everything that's white in the pic would be transparent; black, red and green would be engraved and opaque. We're also working on Angel and Wolf ranges, we'll show some pics when they're further along.

Ed's been busy and knocked out a sexy display base that would be perfect for Eldar characters, as well as 3D printing a concept for a display plinth that a 40mm / 25mm base would fit into. More pictures on our Imgur page at http://warmill.imgur.com/imperial_charicter_base#0BmmA and http://warmill.imgur.com/4O647#pREcY

We've also got a couple of pictures to show of my work-mate's grey knights that he's been using our bases for, once he's done we'll get some nice photos up.

cheers all, comments always appreciated

Harry - Warmill

WOW looks nice!

Wow. I want that Eldar display base. More than that, I wish I had one of those CAD machines. I'd build an entire Eldar craftworld table.

seriously, you should sell them. you'd make a lot of money, even at gws ridiculous prices.

Excellent work so far! This is something I have never seen before and love it for that reason!

I may just have to buy a set of bases to fit a certain squad of true scale maines!

that Eldar display base is absolutely stunning! And now that i have seen that, there goes even more of my hard earned cash, as another idea has struck me that almost every Eldar player out there is gonna want. I'll pm you the details, and leave it up to you to surprise your followers with the results.

Got my delivery of bases yesterday.
They are absolutely stunning guys.

Thanks so much for the awesome bases.
You will be getting more custom from me when i start other armies.

Once again, thank you.
I'll probably have some of my models stuck on them during the day.

Thanks for the kind comments, glad we could help! We look forward to seeing how they look with some guys on!

Harry-warmill

Just... absolutely amazing I feel as though we are witnessing the birth of a new age in basing!

An interesting idea I had... what about drilling small holes around the edges of some of your bases, for multi-wound models? You could make, or people could find, small pins of some kind to go into the holes, which would then be removed as the model looses wounds? Just another idea to kick around...

But, as I was saying, absolutely fantastic work

You guys are being alot of help recently!

You can tell that your seeing these as gamers as well as just model collectors! Neither myself or Harry has played in a long while so things like forgetting how many wounds are left, that is something that could lead to many an argument i'm sure! There is super cool coloured acrylic rod that you could use - similar to the Necron's weapons.

It wont be long until we take over eBay

Ed

I can't wait! Glad you like the idea

You could also perhaps make an inner and outer base? With the inner and outer bases connected by a peg system so they don't just fall apart, but so you can rotate the outer ring which has the wounds written on around the inner base which has a pointer on it?

The old Titan bases had something similar for their shields so maybe an updated version doesn't sound to bad an idea

Quiet on here today

Maybe you noticed that we have a poll up on to find out what the overall feeling of where we should focus our time and effort for a new range of bases, please check it out!

Ed

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/365519.page

Link for the lazy.

Props silver

I get a kick out of reading this thread.

Link for the lazy.

LOL, way to go Silver.
I've added my choice to the poll.

Hi all!

Just an update to show off the bases we made for our own Orks, we realise the laser cut bases may not be everyone's cup of tea so just showing what other sorts of things we can do. These will be cast up in resin once I've poured a mould. We're developing this as a possible product where you order all the different sizes of base for your army, along a variety of emblems / panels for vehicles and maybe shoulder pads (we've had a possible breakthrough in making shoulder pad chapter symbols economical to make, so watch this space!), and then either we can cast them up for you or you can buy the mould to do the casting yourself for a lower price. We could slap a set of rhino doors or similar in the mould as well, all customised to the customer's designs

We've also been creating more symbols, I've been working on angels and wolves and Ed's been doing Chaos and Ork - style ones, so expect to see some samples on here soon

Also, for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, we've updated the Valkyrie thread with pics of the new rotors ready to be machined. I've been doing a bit of work on remodelling the turret, I'll post some pics when it's done. Check it out on http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/358792.page

Cheers all

Harry - Warmill

So how was your bank holiday Monday?! Mine went from a potential nice day off to a day sat in front of the puter drawing chaos stuff - a lot of chaos stuff!

I started off with a series of Chaos stars, something nice and generic that can be used for a range of bad guy's bases!

Overall for the bases, red gives an outline, a slight marking on the surface, black engraves about 0.5mm down, and white is untouched. Once a range has been made it was a case of swapping around the colours to get different effects on the layouts.

I went for a Khorne / Slaanesh side with the icons, as I'm going to begin a Bezerker themed army!

I found it hard to find reference material outside of games workshops own, so please, if you have any suggestions....fire them our way!

I hope to get these out in the next day or so so watch this space

Of the three lowest images, there is a variation of 128 individual bases!

Hello!

In response to the poll, of what bases to focus our time on next, here we have a range of generic Chaos bases, mostly featuring stars and symbols not specific of any legion or god - what we will do at a later date is re visit and add some of the more popular chaos legions, or your own iconography at your request.

Most of the bases follow a theme, of three different types of engraving which hopefully the images can explain better than I can, and also some of the bases have a nice boarder with spikes and arrows all the way around

Hit me up with any questions

Ed

Wow you work quickly. This is full of win here Ed. The chaos stuff is fantastic. As is the orks stuff. Are you familiar with the Da Boyz GT? We usually give away something every year for the people that show up. Last year it was custom objective markers. It would be awesome to see these bases possibly distributed. I'll have to talk with the other people running it this year, i think they may be giving away dice, but a possibility for the next year! I'll pm you if i find out any info

Tell me about it! I'm pretty burnt out today! but the lure of the chaos symbols made me stay another couple of hours after work to get some sneaky bases made!

I'll happily subsidies some bases for your competitions the more bases out there the better! let you know!

And thanks for taking the time to comment and say nice things about the work we do here

ChronoTrigger - I was on your gallery page the other day I was blown away great to see you in our thread!

WarMill wrote:

ChronoTrigger - I was on your gallery page the other day I was blown away great to see you in our thread!

Thanks! I am equally blown away by what you do. A skill i do not have

I have a couple of questions. Can you make just normal size bases that fit stiff around IG size. If so could you tell me the prices. That and how much is one of thoose laser cutters and how hard are they to operate?

InquisitorVaron wrote:I have a couple of questions. Can you make just normal size bases that fit stiff around IG size. If so could you tell me the prices. That and how much is one of thoose laser cutters and how hard are they to operate?

Most of the bases are 25mm, which is the size of a regular slottabase. We're doing them for £5 for 5 x 25mm, 3 x 40mm or 1 60mm in thicker acrylic. Bigger bases like the valkyrie or dreadknight basesdepend on the design.

As far as the laser cutter goes, they come in lots of makes and sizes, and run off different software so google is your friend if you're thinking about getting one, I've just ordered mine at a shade over £21k. I would say if you don't know what you're doing don't be tempted by a 5k one off ebay.

Hope that helps
Harry


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Hey guys, Just a quick one - We got some 1mm acrylic in so we'll be making some of the swords we drew a few posts prior, and also some lovely colours, tinted and florescent acrylic, maybe I'll fun a few Eldar bases with colour!

So, My eyes are about to drop out the amount I have been staring at a monitor today! But Harry dropped by after work so we ran off some of the work hes been laboring away at the past few days!

The set starts with a commission - including a massive 200 x 150mm base which is going to be used as a centerpiece in a diorama and also double up as a display base. there is also the more usual 25mm and 40mm bases, all of which bare the Aurora Chapter Iconography!

We also have one of Harry's sets, this time a generic 'fist' base pack, which could be utilised by a range of chapters. The bases offer a range of detail that we have not gone to before, with extra depths of engravings and markings.

And finally we have a full range of bases with skulls, scrolls and numerals. These are quite simple as far as they have mostly marking (outlines) of the details, but still look striking enough and will take paint exceptionally well!

If you have any questions or comments let us know with a reply or hit us up with a PM!

Better pictures will arrive soon!

Ed

Really fantastic stuff Ed. What does a custom display board like that go for?


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have you considered cutting other designs other than scrolls and logos? Like a brick patter? or wood or perhaps chevrons. Maybe some other industrial style bases?

Glad you like our stuff

We could do bricks and stuff but there's already a bunch of guys doing resin wood, paving slab, sci-fi, dungeon, bases, bases with rocks on, bases with lava on, etc we're trying to offer something a bit different. Custom designs to a precision standard is our other main direction, as we haven't seen anyone else who can offer this. You can achieve a lot of effects with some textured styrene or resin bases off ebay, but there aren't many people who'll engrave or cast into resin your custom chapter symbol!

Then again, if someone wanted to commission some very particular brick bases, like with their logo on every 3rd brick, maybe that's where we can help...

Harry

Okay, I admit it: I was drawn in by the title (How sexy can a bit be!?)

This is great stuff!

I actually invoiced the guy wrong and he got it for 9GBP!!!!

I'm thinking around the 19GBP mark, it had allot of engraving on there which took a fair bit of time. As Harry said it would seem a shame to have the laser engrave bricks and mortar, maybe we could embellish the idea somehow like Harry mentioned

Will run them at 9GBP for the remainder of the week if anyone wants to send in their drawings!

Do you do model bits? I sent you a message but no reply. Im intrested because the Hammer for the Dreadknight you did was awesome. Could you give me a price roughly?

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, we both have day jobs unfortunately! I've sent you a PM, hope it helps

Harry

Ok thanks. I have replied.
I love your work. Very neat and crisp top notch.
Im wondering how come your so skilled with Laser cutters? And how would I get into it.

I don't go online for a while and come back to lots of sexy things

Well - I am selling off most of my warhammer stuff to fund building an entirely new army. When I am done I will be contacting you regards some bases

How are you at dragon heads?

Well we can put pretty much any picture on a base, so you could either find a pic you liked or we could draw something up for you. Just PM us nearer the time and we'll see what we can do

Good stuff - I really like the skull and numeral bases and am trying to think of a good way of drawing a dragon head

Hope to be talking about it to you in the near-ish future

Just a quick question do the glass basses scratch on sandy tabletops?

I work as a technician at a university helping students use a laser cutter among other technologies, so having submersed by them for the past two years I have become quite verse in their function . Before working with them both me and Harry were on a modelmaking degree course at which we were shown things like cad, illustrator and things like laser cutters and cnc mills. I must admit though, I didnt utilise the technology that much as a student!

The acrylic is pretty tough and durable, you could get micro scratches over time but no more than what I would deem unacceptable with standard use. We came into the base building arena with the idea most people would want to paint them, it seems the opposite is true however by most peoples reactions here in the thread.



Edit: Spelling and grammar

Ok cool. I was wondering depending on how much the model is if you could make a base aswell not too sure on what that may be though mabye a Glass thin base with Archmagos Varon ingraved into it.

Working on some Necron concepts - I also got some pretty cool acrylic in so that should spice things up a bit

Do Necrons have character models that would benefit from a display base like we made for the Eldar guys?

Any pointers appreciated.

I read somewhere on here that according to the rumour mill (no relation to the war mill I assume) we aren't far off a new Necron Codex and there are going to be all manner new stuff.

One rumour that I have read more than once is that they are going to adding more character/characters to the army other than just the Necron Lords. I would therefore guess that there would be plenty of models that could use one of you special display bases.

I would however state for the record I am not a Necron player so i'm not 100% sure how reliable the rumours are.

cool!

Yeah we heard a few of the rumors ourselves, and neither myself or harry are Necron players!

Our poll showed us that people seem to love the Necrons, so by doing a range now we'll be ready for the new army rush!

certainly cant hurt to get some designs ready, and they should look good seeing as they already employ acrylic rods in the models, have you thought about producing alternate coloured rods for their Gauss weapons? dont think I have ever seen anyone do that and something other than boring old green might be nice

i would hold off on doing colored rods for necrons, one of the rumors is that the new boxes will contain different colored rods for players. Now how true that is, is another story.

:( I did think about alternate rods - although there are a lot of different colored rods out there I can hardly imgine GW providing around 15 different colours per boxed set of Necrons! Maybe a few alternatives... will have to see.

I've seen quite a few people trying to get purple rods for Necron weapons and not being able to.

Purple does exist, maybe I'll start selling that too

although there are a lot of different colored rods out there I can hardly imgine GW providing around 15 different colours per boxed set of Necrons! Maybe a few alternatives... will have to see.

I've seen quite a few people trying to get purple rods for Necron weapons and not being able to.

true, the rumor mill has it that the boxes will come with 4 different colors at 5 each, of blue, red, green, and yellow. Or that the boxes will have 5 colors at 4 each, same list as before but this would include orange as well. Again how true this rumor is, we'll just have to wait and see. However, as Silver points out, a lot of people are looking for purple rods and not having much luck. I myself was and may still be, looking for purple rods as well, to make custom flight stands out of. Whether i still will be looking for purple rods, will be based on what you dream up for me using the info i provided for eldar tanks, and something tells me, that what i'm going to see is going to be a "must have" and purple rods be damned.

and i'm still patiently chewing my fingernails to the nub waiting to see and hear about flourescent blue arcrylic eldar swords.

Lol don't worry you haven't been forgotten, we've just been absolutely swamped with stuff (I've spent an hour this morning just answering messages!) as well as running around trying to sort out all the admin for starting a business! Blame the day job ;-)

Harry

There is some really amazing stuff here, I'm going to make a list of things I'd be interested in and will send you a pm.

Oh did I see that you are able to do custom shoulder pads (for marines) as well?

We haven't started doing pads yet but we've had an idea for how we can make custom logos that could then be applied to pads, similar to the brass etched ones forge world sells. This would be a lot quicker and therefore cheaper than making whole pads. We still need to do some development on them but I'm certain we can pull it off.

I see you're from wiltshire I'm a Trowbridge boy myself!

Harry

the work you are doing is fantastic.

Amazing work! The custom bases and bits are coming out beautifully. I might have to add a CnC unit to my christmas list.

SebastionSynn, As harry just said we haven;t forgotten you!

I had to get a quote for the blue acrylic sheet, as we anticipated it is frightfully expensive - we did however just received the clear 1mm in the mail on Thursday so were good to go as far as the clear ones are concerned. We'll have to get some prices figured out, as it is I cannot afford to buy the material at the cost that it is.

So far we are a victim of our owns success - as we really need website up and running to make things more official and efficient. Not enough hours in a day lol

I had to get a quote for the blue acrylic sheet, as we anticipated it is frightfully expensive

I had a feeling that was going to be the case, but i hoped otherwise. ok, so np, that's where blue ink will come in handy.

I would buy them to be kept same way as people collect coins.
They are too beautiful for me to turn into bases lol

Yeah we had a play at painting the edges with marker pens and they turned out great! I'll run some clear ones off sometime next week see how things are looking, get you something excited about until you can put an order in

As for collecting them for the sakes of collecting them, I really liked the look and feel of the 60mm Aurora base I made recently - it really was something else!

Man, the more I look at your stuff, the more I want to put in a custom order for something.

Keep up the great work!

I would be interested to see what you could do with the image I just sent across to you (a low quality version of which you can see below)

Mate they are going to look awesome. It's going to really show to people just what we can do It'll almost be a shame to put guys on them.

You saying my painting and modeling skills suck?



Also, I just noticed I made a mistake in the colours on one of the scales* - do you need me to send you a new version with the mistake corrected, or can you sort it at your end?



*2nd scale up from the bottom - the interface on the left side between the white and grey should be the same colour grey as the grey next to it on the left

Thats awesome man.

I want to see those bases when they are done.

Lorna wrote:Thats awesome man.

Thanks - I made the design using this image, with an extension to the neck, filling in the top of the horns and a few other minor alterations (as well as obviously breaking it up into different depths of cut represented by the greyscale).

I want to see those bases when they are done.

Me too

SilverMK2 wrote:

Also, I just noticed I made a mistake in the colours on one of the scales* - do you need me to send you a new version with the mistake corrected, or can you sort it at your end?



*2nd scale up from the bottom - the interface on the left side between the white and grey should be the same colour grey as the grey next to it on the left

No worries, we can fix that

Ok so who needs sleep?!

Micro update - some of the working drawings for our Necrons!

You do some impressive work!

*subscribed*

Forgive me for not being totally up on the thread- I just wanted to mention that at my job I use a laser cutter, and order acrylic for it, and the blue-tint isn't noticably more expensive than the clear from what I've seen.

I considered cutting a base out of it, I didn't realize you were using acrylic! I would think that the bottom would scratch on tables that are flocked and the like, however people could certainly put a pad on the bottom and keep the rest clear. I'm not sure what kind of pad would work, I'm almost thinking felt...

Anyway, keep up the great work!

I was thinking of adding a layer of varnish to the bottom of the base to give it added protection.

Also - of the necron bases I like the look of the one with a small triangle and the increasingly small circles coming off each of the points (in the middle, far right). Also love the medium sized base on the bottom row at the left.

the one i like the most is the one in the top row, second from the right. very reminiscent of things we've seen in several different sci-fi series and movies.
I think the big one would look better to me if it had a circuit board imprint, or computer code (matrix style).

I must admit these bases have so many possibilities I'm finding the idea quite addictive.

I've put in an order for some for the start of an army I haven't started collecting for yet, I'm now fighting the urge to re-base my entire Chaos army on custom bases.

Those Necron bases look fantastic.

The idea of adding varnish to the bottom sounds good I'll have to give that a try.

I'll post some pics of my bases on here when they arrive.

Thanks WarMill for bringing these and more to us.

Sweet you guys are lovely!

The Acrylic we were referring to was 1mm in thickness which is expensive from the start! I'll do some digging to find if what you say holds but suppliers of 1mm cast acrylic are few and far between!

At some point next week I'll see just how well the bases handle a bit of ware and tair, if at all. Varnishing sounds like a great idea, but as we have said we really hadn't considered so many people would want to keep them clear! We only chose acrylic due to it being able to be machined very well and the durability of the material overall.

Some pictures of my bases are up in my P&M Blog.

Lorna wrote:Some pictures of my bases are up in my P&M Blog.

Link for the lazy

Many thanks Silver

This project is good!!!
So do you use a layser cutter with some fandango software?Because this is really good!
While I was looking thought them I noticed a fare few things you have changed your space marine army about 3-4 times, Your orks look really good bearing in mind you have had a 5 year break!The bases look like there up for sale?(Is that correct?). Did I mention those ultra smurff bases would look lush with my ultra smurffs!I would love to get the equipment then make my own!lol.This how cool I think this is (The guns are there to add even more hottnes!)

Lol that is a whole lot of love! The bases are for sale, we're still working on our website but if you're interested in buying some email us at admin@warmill.co.uk and we'll get an invoice sent over. You can buy the ones we've shown off or get some custom ones, just let us know what you're after.

The Ultramarine big display base was just a personal project, I quite fancied getting a Marneus Calgar and painting him up to go on it. The purple and black marine is my personal army, though god knows when I'll actually find time to paint some lol.

We've been commissioned to make some Ultramarine bases for a fellow Dakkaite, so we'll get some pics up when we've got something to show.

Harry - Warmill

I just used marnous calgar with the base provided.(If you own one you should of seen the right part of an ultramarine simble on there.To give an impression that it was on some sort of stautue or something.Finaly what I did for mine was to add a tryin head to the side that just adds that little touch! )

My Eldar display base has been sat on top of my computer for a couple of days now, somehow I only just noticed this.

He looks pretty bad ass when lit with a blue LED!

I actually took the picture to show off the trick when colouring the edges with a lovely shade of pink!

Here is another example of the coloured in edge!

What are you using to colour the edges? I seem to remember you saying you used a marker pen in another post

Yeah Sharpie markers!

I'm sure other brands will work just as well

Not got many drawings made myself, spent some time getting the layout of the *business* side of things.

I made some simple posters to illustrate what we are able to offer at the moment.

At the time of writing our website is non existent so please use the emails to contact us

Ed















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Loving the fact the doors are mine.

I must say that becasue of the clear doors, when i do get my Flying APC, i will be leaving the doors clear.

If I still had a Vampire Counts army those tombstones might tempt me

And I am really trying to resist getting that platinum APC top hatch

Shhh.....They're APC hatches remember!

WarMill wrote:Shhh.....They're APC hatches remember!

Sorry, I was watching a safari program on TV

Those APC doors look nice I just won an APCcator off ebay, if I can get the doors off I’ll see about ordering some nice new ones

Do you have a better pic of the plat top hatch as I can’t make out what sort of detail you can offer from the pic.

Thanks

These are the concepts for the top hatch, with a couple of pics of the hatch with some ink washed over the sample one to bring out the detail. This was a commission for a dakkaite, but gives you an idea of the level of detail you can get



Fresh off the laser



With ink

Thats very nice thanks

WOW, i haven't seen the gravestones before. I'm gonna have to order a grouping of those asap.

Also you should know, you miss-spelled "Character" in your first sample page flyer.

edited for typo

Lol yeah ed hates me cos i pointed all the typos out when they went up. Cheers.

OMG necrons!

No, your eyes are not deceiving you! Just made the bases from both live edge green and mirror backed acrylic - they look hawwt

I'll look forward to taking actual decent images as Iphones are rubbish!

Those mirror ones look pretty damn cool.

Do you etch away the mirror backing, or etch on to the other side? It looks like you are etching into the backing, but I think that some simple designs might look good reflected into the mirror...

I'm tempted to request my bases with the mirrored background now! (even though it would kind of defeat the whole point of me having the bases clear )

yeah the backing is engraved so the detail is below the base apposed to on the surface as per normal.

Will have to get some good images of the Live Edge as they look so different IRL.

God I wish I owned one of those machines.

Finally you have a website!
You hay want to change some of the names for instance: the bases you can paint pver a say something like layser cut resein bases and for the clear ones that idealy don't get painted put clear see through bases ect....Hope this helps...

Those mirror backs look amazing.

Can you do different colour backs?

Also are you able to do frosting on the sides of the bases and also etching on the sides if that's the right word?

great work on the top hatches, the necron bases look fantastic

your work looks very cool.

You might want to label your newest bases as "futuristic techno Egyptian" or something though

SilverMK2 wrote:You might want to label your newest bases as "futuristic techno Egyptian" or something though

Space Pharaohs?

GiraffeX wrote:

SilverMK2 wrote:You might want to label your newest bases as "futuristic techno Egyptian" or something though

Space Pharaohs?

@ WarMill
Yer, thats true you can't use the offical names for them but make it look ovous.Like send an E-mail when someone when something has been bought from you and say in you singnutre like thing space pharos or something were created for necrons ect.
Also Im really tempted to buy some ultra smerf bases for my hounr gauard when you ahve your website up and running!lol!

terminecrons?

WarMill wrote:terminecrons?

Indeed

Not quite sure how I would use these bases at the moment - as I like a little bit of a rugged look for my ork bases.. but I do have a few other models/races that these bases would be amazing with. I will keep watching until I get more inspired! Awesome work either way though! Very cool.

Hello!

Quite a bit of activity on here this evening! Thanks for the comments guys

I just assembled a prototype for a single 'terminecron' character figure - I say prototype as I think there might be need for more icons and or details cut out of the 'back panel'

Note the eldar is there as a placeholder as I dont have any terminecrons to hand....

Gorgeous bases!

Wow, I hadn't considered the implications, but those mirror-backed bases would make wonderful objective markers, and other markers like Eldar Psychic Power Effects. Not to mention custom Flame templates and Blast templates!

Not forgetting any Ork players out there...

Where would you say there is room for improvement? Need to nail the design for this one!

edit: its for a 40mm base

I can see Necron players going crazy over these new bases! The mirrored backing looks amazing also.

Liking the Ork base concept!

The metal posts are too uniform on the Ork base. I would say they need to be more haphazard.

Foxtale wrote:The metal posts are too uniform on the Ork base. I would say they need to be more haphazard.

Agreed. Some extra wonky armour plates with different sized rivets all over the place would look good. Also, you should be able to go to town adding on "rust" and "corrosion" texture effects direct to the model, which I think would look excellent.

Pretty much what the two above me said.

Also, the writing is waaaaay to uniform. Needs to be straight edges and different sizes.
And even the edges of the base should look wrong, but the spikes can do that.

Also, i wanna see direct effect like Sliver said.

OK that will take me some time in that software environment!

I'll add it to the 'to do' list Will heed your comments!

I always hated designing things on software. It is hard enough to make pieces that are all the same, let alone design something to look more "natural" (especially if it is Orky ).

I think the biggest thig is just to have different nuts, bolts and rivets holding things together. As many different random types as you can put on there.

Another thought is to make it look as if the name had been hacked out of the plate, rather than letters welded to it.

I think it looks awesome. Might add that too my list too buy from you.

As before said It needs too look ramshackle and shoddy the writing needs too be like corrugated metals and some normal bits. Difficult I would assume. Another point is its a tad too high for game play.

InquisitorVaron wrote:Another point is its a tad too high for game play.

The recess in the top is to slot your regular 40mm gaming base into

Plus, if it looks cool, no one really cares if it looks cool, or make the model bigger.

WarMill wrote:terminecrons?

yes! ovious and simple GW coulden't sew you for copyrights with that!Lol.
You could do for ultramarines ultra-smerffs.

HAZZER wrote:You could do for ultramarines ultra-smerffs.

Or Omega bases as its the same symbol just a different way up and Omega isn't under GW's IP and with bases you don't have a wrong way up

Holy crabs, these are the SEX! The mirror ones look the best, but the overall idea and all the designs are nothing less than inspired. Awesome!

Are you planning to do 10 man squad trays eventually?

Hi Llamahead!

We did venture into 5 man or command squad bases, which looked cool!

If you wanted to use them in battle to better move the units around the board, it becomes tricky as they could be to big to filed large units, especially as you want to keep them spaced out to compensate for blast template weapons and the like.

Is that what you were thinking of? What would you like to see?

Ed

Those are awesome. Lve your purplce scheme as well..probably since I am a dark elf guy lol

So what happens when you try the coloured edge trick on one of the mirrored bases?

Does it equal awesome?

will try when home sounds like its going to blow minds though!

Just got my bases in the post today, they are looking very nice indeed.

Thanks

You have some very neat ideas going on here WarMill. Don't know if they're just demos but the reflective bases would seem to me to be a really attractive option for a display base as they can reveal detail otherwise lost or at minimum give a spectacular reflection of the mini above.

Those red scorpian bases are kick ass.

Hey guys!

GiraffeX, glad you're happy with the bases! and thanks for posting a pic!

In response to Asylum's request I did indeed have a go at colouring the edges of the bases which you can find below. The results were better than expected really, and speak for themselves!

Gitsplitter, that is a great idea! a lot of love for the mirrored bases, will get some samples done of a display base...you guys got any recommendations for what race / army we could do one for?!

I also managed to get some additional images taken of the Terminecton character stand, in better lighting I think you really get to see the effects of the fluorescent acrylic!

I've also been privy to some of Harry's latest work which I assume he#ll add to the total conversion thread we have so that will be worth checking out later!

Ed. xD

I'd suggest doing the outside edge of the base with a heroic saying of some sort or the same in latin (like the disc shown above), but leaving the bulk of the base clear of design so that the "mirror" part is not interfered with by the decorations on the base.

That sounds incredibly sensible and i'm sure will look the nuts!

Just when I get an idea of what kind of bases I want you guys come out with something even more awesome

Started out as etched acrylic
Then there were the plinths to stand them on
Then came the acrylic hero bases
Then the coloured edges
Then the mirrored bases

what comes next? can't wait to find out what comes out of the Warmill Bat-Cave, I like think that every night there is a little conversation that happens there

Harry: "Gee, Ed, what do you want to do tonight?"
Ed: "The same thing we do every night, Harry—try to take over the world!"

Actually the LED lighting thing could be explored further, mmmmm LED's

subsribed

Hey, those are beutifull... how much one of those bases cost? Do you ship them internationally? lol

Can you do it custom? Like with the symbol of my own chapter? Or can you do some tests with "flyers" bases, specially small ones, intended for Assault Marines and other Jump Infantry?

Nice,when are you going to put up your website?

Hey all

Nice to see everybody's enjoying our work, it's what makes us sit at our computers after a full day of work to bash out some more stuff

@The Dwarf Wolf

We do custom designs, a couple of the posts on here are commissions from other dakka guys. The Rhino hatch, Shadow bases, Aurora Chapter display base and the Red Scorpions are all with their respective owners now

PM us about what bases you're after (25mm, multi-part display stand, etc) and we'll sort out a quote. As a rough guide there's some price lists up in our gallery for this thread.

@Hazzer

When we stop making cool stuff and do some boring but essential stuff instead. We're getting together to paint up some samples and take some glamour shots this weekend, so that'll be one big step done.

I've just started the finishing pass on the second half of the Valkyrie rotor, I hope to have it finished by Sunday. Check out some pics of the first half of the master on our other thread http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/358792.page

Ed's mentioned something he's worked on today which I think is going to look pretty hot, so I'm sure there'll be a pic up soon!

Cheers all
Harry - Warmill

I am blown away by this thread! Dude your work is astounding!!!!

I'm trying to figure out what I can order from you for my self...

Not as large of a target audience, but there are a couple of skirmish games I play that make extensive use of 25 or 30mm tokens. Creating a simple design selling casts or molds would probably do well.

For Malifaux (Wyrd),
30mm corpse counters, 30mm scrap counters (the two big ones) possibly blight and blood counters too.
50mm blast marker, 40mm Wagon marker, 30mm dynamite marker...

For Infinity (Corvus Belli)
25mm tokens, there is a whole list incl. mines, repeaters, Camo, TO Camo, Impersonation 1 & 2
There are more (prone, immobilised, possessed...) but the first list are ones that you actually need a 25mm base, normal thickness for the games.

Anyways, just ideas and I know that you guys are already getting ideas thrown at you left and right from the 40k crowd.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/downloadAttach/75488.page

these could be modified to accept an LED edge lighting kit they just about tall enough to place a hidden compartment for a coin battery and switch with a groove hidden just under the lip for a LED light

Deminyn wrote:Not as large of a target audience, but there are a couple of skirmish games I play that make extensive use of 25 or 30mm tokens. Creating a simple design selling casts or molds would probably do well.

For Malifaux (Wyrd),
30mm corpse counters, 30mm scrap counters (the two big ones) possibly blight and blood counters too.
50mm blast marker, 40mm Wagon marker, 30mm dynamite marker...

For Infinity (Corvus Belli)
25mm tokens, there is a whole list incl. mines, repeaters, Camo, TO Camo, Impersonation 1 & 2
There are more (prone, immobilised, possessed...) but the first list are ones that you actually need a 25mm base, normal thickness for the games.

Anyways, just ideas and I know that you guys are already getting ideas thrown at you left and right from the 40k crowd.

Thanks for the suggestions, we have thought about Infinity after a conversation with our FLGS proprietor. We just need to find some time to go and see the game being played! I have downloaded the stuff off the website to look at so expect something in the future, once we're a bit more established

Asylum_Inmate wrote:http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/downloadAttach/75488.page

these could be modified to accept an LED edge lighting kit they just about tall enough to place a hidden compartment for a coin battery and switch with a groove hidden just under the lip for a LED light

That could be pretty sweet. We've had an enquiry from someone who wants to light their bases, so depending on how that pans out we may have something to show. It's one of those things where we have lots of ideas, we just have to choose which ones to pursue and it's usually the ones people show interest in, so shout about it if you want us to make something

The finishing pass on the valkyrie kit is coming along nicely so hopefully we'll have some bits to post on our other thread later in the weekend. I'm going up my shed to cast up some of our Ork bases now

Harry

Hey

Managed to get some more work done on the Ork trophy stand thingamajig - see images below.

I think I'm going to get it prototyped looking like this, and batter up the edges myself, as making it in the software is a pain up the a**.

Also, I left a slot at the front so we can add custom name plates for your warboss or if used as a trophy, the category / event name.

Ed

Nice!
Thanks for the hipperlink.

This is hands-down some of the coolest stuff I've seen. Like anywhere.

I got a prototype made at work - with my trusty eldar dude to stand in for an ork or something!

That's sweet. BTW, I sent an email to the link in your sig with some questions. Did you receive this email? If not, I can resend it.

Artsoldier35 wrote:That's sweet. BTW, I sent an email to the link in your sig with some questions. Did you receive this email? If not, I can resend it.

I'm not sure, what were you after? Send it through again and we'll get back to you

Hey warmill, can you do the 60mm oval bases?

Is that the bike base? We can make them any shape or size



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Anyone a web developer who wants to work for bases?!

Its really hard to fit it all in!

Got your estimate. Thank you very much. May even add a Boss Plinth stand. These things are so cool.

Hey all

Decorating and doing a clean install on my PC have kept me from doing much digital stuff this week besides wainting for the CNC to finish the Valkyrie rotors (not long now ), but I did find some time last night to cast up a few sets of our Ork bases. I was also doing a little bit of experimentation for shoulder pad icons and I reckon the idea's sound, it's just a matter of refinement and seeing how fine we can go with the detail. If custom shoulderpad icons are something people are interested in shout about it and we'll see what we can do It'd be god if we could do an offer to get your custom logo on bases, rhino doors and shoulderpads as a set.

Also, why is it when you paint something with a few rum and cokes it always looks so much better the night before?

Harry



The master for the Ork bases. These were for our own Orks but if anyone wants a set PM us



A 40mm Boss base and skull glyph I started painting last night



Close up of the boss base. I'm not really sure what I'm doing with these paint-wise. Guess I should really stick a guy on there eh?



Skull glyph. We can basically just fill in the spaces between the bases on the master with little nic nacs like this to stick on things...



...like this!



Or this!



This is part of the research for the shoulder pad icons. It's wrapped around a curved surface...



...as you can see. The possibilities are quite exciting...



The valkyrie kit is getting nearer. This master should be finished by tonight. Then we just need to machine the other wing and we can start casting some up

PS if anyone knows why since I did a clean install of Windows 7 and Firefox the attachments button on the post reply button doesn't work for me anymore? I just get a javascript:void(0) in the bottom left. Most frustrating

Cheers all
Harry

Do you have the most recent version of FF?

And have you installed the various java plugins?

SilverMK2 wrote:Do you have the most recent version of FF?

And have you installed the various java plugins?

We're both using newest firefox and I downloaded java this morning. Thought it might be because I'd just done a clean install but now neither of us can get on dakka at all! It sucks because we just made a whole load of stuff today, including some clear swords and some new wolf bases but we can't get pictures up! If we cant get on tomorrow I'll upload pics to imgur and link to our galleries. Thank god for phones eh?

Cheers all
Harry

Perhaps post any queries in Nuts and Bolts forum? Legoburner can usually sort anything out!

Hey - back online!!

Quick update tonight, managed to cut some laser swords for the space elves! Hope you enjoy them, I have a little fluorescent orange left over from a job, Sebastiansynn I wish it were blue! xD

will post more tomorrow!

WarMill

dude, those look really nice. I'll just have to try and ink the swords and see what that does, and failing that i can also try out magic markers and so on. I really don't want to change from Sapphire blue weapons to another color, as it will clash to much to use red, orange, green, or most of the other colors that are readily available.

They look pretty cool. It is hard to tell, but how "sharp" are the edges?

Those swords are so f***ing awesome. How much would it cost to send some of these bases to your long lost convict bretherin in Australia? lol

Nice name for the elder-space elfs..ha.I also thought of another idea, how about on the home page of your website put a hipperlink to a thered saying what your products are eg-
space pharos(Or whaterver they are)-necrons
space elfs-elder
dark space elfs- dark elder
space cyborges-space marines ect....

I don't think they're sharp at all, but the ends are pointy and stabby!

Your more than welcome to hit us up with an email if you want a set dragoons! They're all 25 mm long and vary in width, the lowest image is an avatar sword, which is 75mm long and is 3 pieces sandwiched together.

We would very much like our bases to be known around the comunity as warmill bases, opposed to simply another laser cut base. How we achieve that not quite sure yet, but we have to get them stuck to the feet of lots of soldiers and in stores accross all 4 corners of the world!

We will be considering how we can Market the bases, whether it is say, sic fi base, or something more specific like you mentioned Hazzer! And there is nothing wrong with space elves!

Ed

WarMill wrote:I don't think they're sharp at all, but the ends are pointy and stabby!

Your more than welcome to hit us up with an email if you want a set dragoons! They're all 25 mm long and vary in width, the lowest image is an avatar sword, which is 75mm long and is 3 pieces sandwiched together.

We would very much like our bases to be known around the comunity as warmill bases, opposed to simply another laser cut base. How we achieve that not quite sure yet, but we have to get them stuck to the feet of lots of soldiers and in stores accross all 4 corners of the world!

We will be considering how we can Market the bases, whether it is say, sic fi base, or something more specific like you mentioned Hazzer! And there is nothing wrong with space elves!

Ed

True, that name is pretty neat but you will want to seprate elder to dark elder just add dark ot space elives for dark elder.

Hey all!

Picture dump time! We made quite a few things on Saturday, as well as the swords and spear tips shown above. We got some samples for our new wolf bases made, as well as playing around with some ideas for another range for us to launch with. These will be Greco-Roman inspired, we're thinking something like the Spartan range as a name. We're aiming to have our website launched by the end of the month, so we just have to nail down our initial ranges then do all the fun web stuff like resizing images woop!

The second master for the Valkyrie VTOL kit finished cutting on Saturday as well, so there's only 2 left to cut! I'll try and get them done in the next week or 2 so we can start moulding and casting some up. Once we have an idea of how much resin it takes we'll it up for sale, then it's just a matter of finishing off the turret and skids. I'll post some pics in our other thread.

Cheers all

Harry

Looks cool

Also, my ebay stuff has all sold and most of it has been paid for so if you want to send an invoice across for the total number and type of bases in my last email as well as payment instructions (I assume you take paypal?) and I will send you lovely money and we can kickstart operation Warp Dragon

Awesome we'll get the invoice over and I'll get cracking on your data

Harry

I hate to say this, but the noses on the wolf heads in the above pic are too long for the skull, they look like aardvarks right now. The rest of the Wolf stuff looks good though.

Gah now you've pointed it out they do look a little long. Back to the computer...


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nah they look hot dont listen to em haz

Lol, i didnt think that at first but now I cant unsee it XD

Warmill: If I send you a design can you sex it up a little like your ultramarines ones?

Just a heads up. I'm gonna be entering my sanguinary guard on my lovely clear bases into a painting cometition on sunday. Should get some proper pictures then.

Grundz wrote:Lol, i didnt think that at first but now I cant unsee it XD

Warmill: If I send you a design can you sex it up a little like your ultramarines ones?

Ooh I should think we can sort something out. Send us an image at admin@warmill.co.uk and we'll have a look

harry

Hey -

Quick update....tonight we plan on taking images of all our work so far, no mean feat!

I ran a couple of samples for Silvers dragon head order...

Any preference on A, B, C or D?

Ed

Ha omeia marines love it!Of the spartain range nice Idea I geuss you took the whole you can't use the proper names thing onboard!

war:
I'll try to get you a prototype design tonight, Ive tried a bunch of times and with all the curved text, I just cant sylize the damn thing.. XD

dragon coins?
Those are awesome! though you can kind of see the tool paths in some of them, not a problem if the person is going to paint them, but if he isnt, maybe you could make the tool paths be a tangent of a circle at a set point instead of straight side to side? This way they would look sort of like scales or lines that show the "roundness" of the dragons head.

( I remember doing this in autocad/mastercam in like..... 1995, i have no idea what it is called, lol)

BTW I prefer D

Hey Grundz, your right about the tool path, but bere in mind that these images haven't been re-sizedand are about 3 x 2 meters square!

Yes they are visible but not as visible as in the images...Unfortunately our laser cannot engrave in a spiral - maybe we should develop a machine that can :p

getting stuck with getting the artwork 'just right' can be a challenge, I usually get wound up enough to just say, right, that's it, that's what I'm going for! Otherwise take a day or so off and have another look then, see whats changed! Thanks for your comment!

Warmill. Awesome stuff as usual. My only beef is the warboss ork stand isn't orky enough, looks too clean and well put together.

Yeah!

the above image is in no way Orky enough! I really couldn't be a**d with modeling bullet holes!

I should be getting the lovely 3D print delivered tomorrow, my thinking is sell one that is like the image, for users to Orkify, and i'll try my hand at Orkifying one myself, with added Armour plates and bullet holes etc so expect an update to the trophy stand next week some time...

I was thinking about donating a dozen for the bring da boys trophies

I think I prefer D - but I am a bit concerned about how visible the paths appear

Is this just the first tooling, or the final product? You say that they are "clearer" in person?

Although I would prefer the design to be on the bottom of the base, if you can set the main body of the dragon as the "top" layer of the cut so it remains clear that might be better.

Perhaps cutting into the base is not the best option - I do really want a reasonably clear base. Do you think the design would work with just outlining? Perhaps with frosting like your most recent bases?

Hey warmill, question.

Have you tried taking an edge highlighted peice, cut into, lets say, a gear *wink wink* and press fit that into another peice (with the gear cut out of)?
Would the edge higlights showing through look stupid... or awesome?

WarMill wrote:

I was thinking about donating a dozen for the bring da boys trophies

That would be awesome!

Grundz wrote:Hey warmill, question.

Have you tried taking an edge highlighted piece, cut into, lets say, a gear *wink wink* and press fit that into another piece (with the gear cut out of)?
Would the edge highlights showing through look stupid... or awesome?

We wondered about flamer and blast templates and the like, in reds and oranges for human weapons, or shades of blue, green for alien weapons etc...

As for the dragon heads; we could invert the colours of the design, so the main body of the dragon is left clear and everything else is engraved - it could sort things out for us.

Harry has just let me know he has edited the file already. Looking at the base actual size, I dont think there is much to worry about - the camera is picking up and amplifying a lot that isn't noticeable on the real deal.

Ed

Cool - sounds good

If your not happy when you get them, we'll fix them and send you more

Cool - just sent you sweet, sweet monies

Wowzer! these are gorgeous! I can only imagine how many mini's could be put to shame by their own bases The quality looks ace!

Got your bases silver, just have to post them later today!

Om nom nom.

Now I just need some models to put on them!

Hello!

I got my lovely Ork Trophy base in the mail the other day, and since then I Orkified it, hopefully enough to please Chronos Trigger

There is space for a personalised Ork Gliff plate, and it's big enough to house a 40mm base, so this boy must have snuck onto his nobs base!!

On Sale as of now, only £14!

It does look good now it has been battered

Also looking forward to posticles as my bases have been shipped!

That also looks god for some senery like a ork turret foran ork snaty town!

Woo - bases arrived today. Had a look at one of them and it looks good.

Just having dinner and then I will take a closer look

You guys should consider making Dice Cups. Capped containers with etched insignias. Those would be bad ass!

Just had a look through the bases and they look great. Gave a couple of them a quick wash (as in soap and water) and it really made them a lot clearer.

Also, love the extra symbols I requested - they look fantastic.

The whole base design probably would not suit other people (I placed a regular IG model on the base and it blocked out a lot of the design). However, as my bases are all for "jump" infantry with a minimal footprint on the base they should be fine

I would advise anyone who was thinking of getting some custom bases made to pick a relatively simple very clear design so it can be easily seen when the model is placed on the base. If you had a base similar to mine which is quite finely detailed the effect would be lost when a regular style of model is placed on it.

I think I may end up tinting the bases very slightly just to make the design stand out a little bit more (I will almost certainly be painting the squad numbers/marking so they show up really brightly).

They were also very quick to arrive from me actually placing an order (rather than jabbering away to the guys at Warmill ).

Very pleased

Oh yeah, glad you like them! Suffering from man flu ATM so don't know how many updates I'll make this weekend. Cheers. Ed

Hi all

We've been a bit quiet on the update front for a few days, a combination of us both working extra hours at our respective day jobs, Ed coming down with the man flu and us working away on all the boring stuff before we can get the website up properly means we haven't been able to make lots of cool stuff unfortunately! We did get a couple of commissions out the door and got some good feedback which will help us in the future ( many thanks Silver and Dionysus ).

We've both been burning ourselves out a bit so took a break at the weekend to do a bit of painting (though there's not much to show yet) and we've decided to enter armies on parade, Ed with Eldar and me with guard or space marines depending on whether I can get that Valk kit done. I went to cut the next master and discovered all my chemiwood was too thin, so it's on hold until we can order some Hopefully it won't take too long to arrive and we can get cracking on it again.

We're going to focus on our website for the next couple of weeks, so updates will be a bit slower, but we'll try and squeeze in the odd bit of making here and there

Cheers all

Harry

No worries - I hope to actually be able to put some men on them soon

And your IG are looking pretty cool so far - I like the colours.

Sorry, more iPhone images!

Haz brought his paints around the other night, got as far as I could but couldn't finish the warboss!

Here he is mid paint job on his epic plinth! Might paint that as well when I can

Ed

Warboss looks dead killy on dat dere gran soapbox o'is, dunt he?

I shore does, now shut it whilst i makes me speech.

Those base’s are pretty bad sweet!

The website is starting to look pretty cool

Hope Ed is free from the Manflu

Looking forward to the next exciting episode from the Warmaill action hour

yeah all better now, started on a Friday and ruined my weekend, but better for work on Monday - what is that about?!?!

We received a bunch of sample silicones and resins in order to make bases, shoulder pad icons and the like, so that could be where we head next. Work is still mental as every course at the Uni is prepping for their final shows next month, its really draining!

Thanks for the comments, a lot of the motivation we had needs to be re invigorated, we were producing stuff at a rate of knots - all seems quiet now doesn't it! :(

Ed

Great stuff man! Subscribing!

will post a pic of new project later - get a spare pare of pants ready caus ur gonna mess 'em!!!!

It is particularly scary?

Ha!

Well, maybe! But no, not really! Wasn't really thinking about the brown discharge! eww!

Just doing some samples for some images...wont be long!


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Waiting for things to cure / dry....might be tomorrows update