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 warboss wrote:
Centaurii? I anxiously await the announcement of the Vorlonns and Minbarii as well.

Man, those Spaarti Cylindars are popping out all kinds of clones.

Add +1 vote to the Minotaur Army bandwagon.

All I ask is, make'm big, make them look like actual bovines with a bit of intellect, and make some wizards/priests.

Minotaur magic user miniatures are few and far between.

I also love it when they're all armored up too. Full (Bull) plate armor looks quite badass on a horned giant.

They'd be perfect for riding the awesome shieldwolf War Mamooth's as well. Or maybe they can ride some wooley rhinos, or other prehistoric mammals.

The pinnacle of armored minotaurs in my opinion is Mierce's Ckaarakk



Not even Mierce's other minotaurs compare to this guy.

We need more stuff like him, fully decked out and ready to rock.

While my personal preference would be for a minotaurs mini ks, I think the most likely, (and my official guess) is Goblins.

They have shown us sculpts and art already, and I think they may have been planned as part of the original campaign.

I think that some form of High Elves would actually be the money maker as nobody makes decent and affordable basic high elf infantry, the GW kits are ugly, and the Mantic kits only acceptable if you envision Elves as skeletons dressed in padded lycra bodysuits. Seriously, somebody make decent Elves already. Or Minotaurs.

I'm hoping for high fantasy Araves.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
The pinnacle of armored minotaurs in my opinion is Mierce's Ckaarakk



Not even Mierce's other minotaurs compare to this guy.

We need more stuff like him, fully decked out and ready to rock.

I fully agree! Gotta give props to my first fully armored minotaur though.



And I always liked this guy from confrontation too.

 Gallahad wrote:

I think that some form of High Elves would actually be the money maker as nobody makes decent and affordable basic high elf infantry,...

If you're not looking for multipart, Gamezone did their gorgeous Elf spearmen in plastic and they're dirt cheap.

@Mutter
These elves are lovely indeed! They are resin and very well priced from what I can see.

@Higlhlord
These are detailed but too skiny for our taste, our vision resembles more the confrontation model shown from @skullking.

@BobtheInquisitor @Gallahad
No comment! ;-)

Arabian belly dancer army would be a must have for me. Hands down.

Hmm. Honestly I was hoping for a more "traditional" take on fantasy Arabs. Belly-dancer assassins as one unit in an army? Awesome. But the whole lot? Eh, I'd rather have some proper infantry and decent Djinn models. EDIT: And when I say "proper infantry", I'm thinking of stuff like Brother Vinni's Corsair models.

But, s'not my company eh, we'll see what comes of the idea

Gripping Beast makes plastic Arab Infantry , Light Cav, and Heavy Cav for a very reasonable cost.

Fireforge makes plastic Mongolian/Steppe if you want something more Eastern. They also make Arab plastics and Russian plastics as well, depending on exactly what you want to model for Middle Eastern inpired armies.

These would be easy to add a few fantasy models to.

 Maniac_nmt wrote:
Gripping Beast makes plastic Arab Infantry , Light Cav, and Heavy Cav for a very reasonable cost.

Fireforge makes plastic Mongolian/Steppe if you want something more Eastern. They also make Arab plastics and Russian plastics as well, depending on exactly what you want to model for Middle Eastern inpired armies.

These would be easy to add a few fantasy models to.

Are the Fireforge Arabs on the market? I have some of the gbp plastic infantry and heavy cavalry, but they leave a lot to be desired. Their proportions are dumpy, their faces goofy, and their options limited very limited. Shieldwolf would certainly create a better product.

Hilariously, the Mongolian steppe ponies and the world-famous Arabian horses are exactly the same size and shape in those plastic kits. So much for my 'heavenly horses' conversion...

Am I going to have to find 1/48 horses for my heroes to stand out?

 Maniac_nmt wrote:
Gripping Beast makes plastic Arab Infantry , Light Cav, and Heavy Cav for a very reasonable cost.

Fireforge makes plastic Mongolian/Steppe if you want something more Eastern. They also make Arab plastics and Russian plastics as well, depending on exactly what you want to model for Middle Eastern inpired armies.

These would be easy to add a few fantasy models to.

I must have missed the part where historicals were fantasy and heroic scaled.

 Yodhrin wrote:

I must have missed the part where historicals were fantasy and heroic scaled.

Mantic has Gripping Beast and Fireforge (I think) in their books when covering the Kingdoms of Men armies. And those plastic units aren't true scale 25mm, or even 28mm.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Maniac_nmt wrote:
Gripping Beast makes plastic Arab Infantry , Light Cav, and Heavy Cav for a very reasonable cost.

Fireforge makes plastic Mongolian/Steppe if you want something more Eastern. They also make Arab plastics and Russian plastics as well, depending on exactly what you want to model for Middle Eastern inpired armies.

These would be easy to add a few fantasy models to.

I must have missed the part where historicals were fantasy and heroic scaled.

Gripping Beast and Fireforge certainly are. And Conquest. And Warlord.

Not so much Perry...

 judgedoug wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Maniac_nmt wrote:
Gripping Beast makes plastic Arab Infantry , Light Cav, and Heavy Cav for a very reasonable cost.

Fireforge makes plastic Mongolian/Steppe if you want something more Eastern. They also make Arab plastics and Russian plastics as well, depending on exactly what you want to model for Middle Eastern inpired armies.

These would be easy to add a few fantasy models to.

I must have missed the part where historicals were fantasy and heroic scaled.

Gripping Beast and Fireforge certainly are. And Conquest. And Warlord.

Not so much Perry...

They're really not. None of the historical ranges scale well with heroic fantasy models, the Fireforge knights and sergeants for example look like children next to Bretonnians or Empire cavalry. EDIT: And before anyone hurts themselves clenching - no, that is not a slight against those ranges quality, they're (mostly)very nice historical models. What they're not, by any stretch, is suitable for use in fantasy heroic armies if you even slightly care about maintaining a consistent scale.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Maniac_nmt wrote:
Gripping Beast makes plastic Arab Infantry , Light Cav, and Heavy Cav for a very reasonable cost.

Fireforge makes plastic Mongolian/Steppe if you want something more Eastern. They also make Arab plastics and Russian plastics as well, depending on exactly what you want to model for Middle Eastern inpired armies.

These would be easy to add a few fantasy models to.

I must have missed the part where historicals were fantasy and heroic scaled.

Gee, thanks for the snark.

Artizan Designs also do chunky Arabs, and there are others (GB metal models are all chunky). Many fantasy models scale perfectly fine with non GW models. My Foundry and Gripping Beast vikings scale perfectly with Mordheim bits, and do okay with Wargames Factory or Red Box Games' models.

My Perry's don't tend to mix well with Conquest/Fireforge models if in the same unit, but if they are seperate units they look fine together on the table top. My Templars use Perry Hospitalers for the mounted milites and Fireforge for the foot Sergeants.

Any of the excellent historical ranges would work perfectly fine for your rank and file units, and, you know, look practical and not be wielding weapons that you are more likely to cut yourself with then your enemy (assuming of course you could even lift it). Slap down a few units of historical spear with some fantasy Djinn on the side and it would look just fine. The truly fantastic models can be slightly bigger and it will make them more 'heroic' in comparison if you want that sort of thing.

All snark aside, the original comment expressed a desire for proper arab armies, and at no point did I say Shieldwolf couldn't do non arabic arabs or that they would look bad, but rather offered suggestions for ways to achieve that while only needing select alternate models. As an example, you could create a stunning Nippon army for the fandex WFB list using mostly WGF Samurai for the rank and file/cav, and pick up fantasy dragons/ninja/oni/whatever to flesh it out. Many excellent armies have done just that.

WGF Samurai are an excellent kit. I wish the GB and FF kits were half as versatile. In any case, I wouldn't want to see Shieldwolf make a kit that could be confused as a historical kit.

 Shieldwolf Miniatures wrote:


@Higlhlord
These are detailed but too skiny for our taste, our vision resembles more the confrontation model shown from @skullking.

Sounds good to me!

Here are some other favorite minotaurs of mine to inspire you.









Anyone else have any minotaur figures they think are really cool?

That Ilyad Minotaur is sooooo gorgeous.
Shame it's not available anymore.

I always liked this one, from Confrontation:

Armies eliminated for the coming KS:

-Yeti Army (OK)

-Gluttonic Warriors Army (DL)

-Albino Vermin Army (VS)

-Exiled Avengers Army (ID)

-Dwarfish Great Guardians Army (DH)

most recent army that didn't make the cut:
-Warriors of Redemption Army (medieval fantasy army) eliminated




Still in the run:

-Minotaur Army (BH)
-Araves Charemises Army (DE)
-Saurian Merceneries Army (SA)
-Forest Goblins Army (O&G)
-Talliareum Cataphraiti Army (KoE)
-Wardens of Order Army (HE)
-Oak Elf Infantry Army (SE)
-Zombie Warriors Army (VC)
-Northern Alliance Krumvaal Army (WDG)

Only 4 days left to see who's guessed it right, in the meanwhile the Shieldmaiden Kickstarter is progressing, here's the latest mini revealed...





We would have gone for a brunette version to be honest but we allow artists freedom of expression and this version from the painter looks great too in our opinion!

I like that model much more than the previous heros - looks like she could actually kick arse! Very nice work

Looking very nice!

Are backers able to up their pledges to grab some of the new models now that they are becoming physical reality?

@Wehrkind
That's our intention, but to do that we must first improve the Pledge Manager to make it more user friendly. There's some very heavy pressure placed on the company commissioned to do it, we are expecting it to meet our standards and be available again by end of September.
But the PM is not going to open before Mammoths ship and the imminent KS has finished. One thing at a time, we prefer losing some potential additional funds instead of risking getting too much on our plate to handle (apologies if this expression doesn't makes much sense but I think you get my point).

Cool, yea that's fine. I don't have any mammoth's on order, but I will probably want to add some singles and heroes before everything ships

The Athens 2016 ETC finds Shieldwolf Miniatures sponsoring the event, a great gathering for the 3 most popular games wordwide: Warhammer 40K dominating science fiction, T9A quenching the thirst for fantasy supporters and Flames of War for the historical passionates.

The first winners of WH-40K for the Singles division that started yesterday and finished today have been decided!!! Congratulations to everyone!

Looks awesome, but other than 40k I'd be careful characterizing those as the "3 most popular games worldwide"! X-wing, Malifaux, Infinity, Kings of War, etc all have a lot of popularity and which is more depends on the country / location.

In general, it's pretty cool that you're supporting 9th Age but many of us are buying your models for use in other games, too - Frostgrave, KoW, RPGs, and more

 RiTides wrote:
Looks awesome, but other than 40k I'd be careful characterizing those as the "3 most popular games worldwide"! X-wing, Malifaux, Infinity, Kings of War, etc...

The ones you mention (to my knowledge) are side-events and I think the games popularity is decided by voting; there was also Age of Sigmar from Citadel Miniatures and Kings of War as you pointed out by Mantic Games. Both of which didn't receive any particular warm welcome by the voters.
Again, I may be mistaken but I think that's what happened on the forum where the countries partecipating voted. A forum which we rarely visit however, so take this with a small pinch of salt.