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 Shieldwolf Miniatures wrote:

 Wehrkind wrote:
A couple of questions, which are a little silly perhaps because I think I know the answers.
1: What scale are they? Are they going to be more like the pretty bulky GW gobbos, or a little smaller and skinnier?

They stand on 20mm square bases and will be slightly bulkier than the more recent Citadel Miniatures goblins. These are warrior goblins!

Could you make a size comparison picture? Preferably alongside different generations of GW goblins (which has been drastically different in mass and size during the years).

If you only have the goblins in digital render form at the moment, perhaps a comparison picture with a goblin and one of your plastic mountain orcs (I believe those are sculpted digitally as well right?)

 Shieldwolf Miniatures wrote:
If you color the feathers in some lively colors (e.g. orange, pink etc) compared to the green skin and combined with the leather clothing, I trust it should be a very distinguishable force on the table :-)

And don't forget the opportunity to add tribal tattoos and/or warpaint during the painting stage

@Zywus
Negative, the Orcs (both Valley and Mountain) have been suclpted traditionally.
I'll see if we can get a comparison pic with a Shieldmaiden next to it if that helps any :-)

 Shieldwolf Miniatures wrote:
@Zywus
Negative, the Orcs (both Valley and Mountain) have been suclpted traditionally.
I'll see if we can get a comparison pic with a Shieldmaiden next to it if that helps any :-)

Ah I see.
Comparison with a shield-maiden would be nice. Although since we haven't seen the maidens in physical form yet, it still don't really give us a perfect feel for the size of the goblins (although a fairly good one).

Perhaps you could 3D print out a example of a goblin just for size comparison to show next to some various GW goblins through the ages (and other manufacturers of goblins for that matter, like Mantic or Red-box games)? (Put in a clear annotation in the picture that the model is just to show it's size and not sculpting quality or manufacturing technique)

I feel that the importance of proper size-comparisons cannot be underestimated in these kind of campaigns.

People are much more prone to back if they are sure of how the models will fit in with their existing collection. There is always loads of requests for these kind of pictures but companies tend to be surprisingly averse to providing them, So if you can get one of these comparison pics ready before the campaign start, I think you'll have a good edge there already.

Ah I can miss this one as the Goblin shown does nothing for me. Good luck with it though!!

 Shieldwolf Miniatures wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
This has potential. What's the projected turnaround time looking to be?

It will launch 1st or 2nd week of September. Project will end in September regardless, so the sooner we launch this, the more days available. :-)

I mean the projected delivery date!

That would be Summer 2017. As you know tooling HIPS takes its time. After which, it lasts...forever! :-D

I think he looks great! Will probably back this but I would like a size comparison with some other goblins. Also I agree with the comment on feathers with pre-sculpted detail please! Much easier to wash.

This is great news (Forest Goblins) To make mine currently, I need to buy specific Grot 40K legs, source spider riders separate to if I can spiders (I have about 40 spiders spare now). Carve the torsos on both, fit and then putty loin cloths, belts, bellies, armor plates and furs... etc

In one swoop, my life making a decent force just got very easy. Cheers!

You can see an example of my project (what a bunch of these Forest Goblin infantry would potentially fulfill) in a celebration post about this announcement

I'll be keeping an eye on this. Hoping for beetle riders (everyone does spiders

I say go one step further and have goblin shock troops in heavy beetle armor.

I love beetle inspired armor!

Which in turn makes me want to go read Guyver fight ZX-Tole, but that's getting off topic (if not one of the coolest beetle inspired kaiju designs)

Goblins in heavy beetle armor would be amazing. So would goblin beetle riders.

This was one of my favorite Rackham figures.



And he never got any friends just like him- ever! And no, I'm not counting the Scarabs for the Daikinee because they were just pointy ears in beetle themed armor, and nobody cares about pointy ears!

Don't you want him to have some friends Shieldwolf?

Beetle riders (preferably with spider riders as well) would see this one edging from a "probably no" to a "probably yes" for me! I never even realised I wanted beetle riders before...

Soldier Ant riders instead of spiders might be pretty cool, actually.

Hornet riders for aerial cavalry?

Beetle armor would be brilliant; great suggestion. Man, thinking now that could answer a couple of conversion ideas of mine presently. I'd vote for this to be consider for the range too!

So... about those comparison pics?

If you don't have any when the campaign starts, you'll get approximately five thousand requests for such then anyway, so you might as well get ahead of that.

 Zywus wrote:
So... about those comparison pics?

If you don't have any when the campaign starts, you'll get approximately five thousand requests for such then anyway, so you might as well get ahead of that.

That's true. Scale is 28mm heroic, goblins infantry comes on 20mm square bases but some people will probably not suffice to that. We will therefore have some type of comparison picture when time comes to make this even clearer, if we get it sooner we'll post it here also, but for the time being a couple of people needed for that are on summer vacation. Why heck it's a Sunday here in Greece too, guess they know better! :-p

 Shieldwolf Miniatures wrote:

 Zywus wrote:
So... about those comparison pics?

If you don't have any when the campaign starts, you'll get approximately five thousand requests for such then anyway, so you might as well get ahead of that.

That's true. Scale is 28mm heroic, goblins infantry comes on 20mm square bases but some people will probably not suffice to that. We will therefore have some type of comparison picture when time comes to make this even clearer, if we get it sooner we'll post it here also, but for the time being a couple of people needed for that are on summer vacation. Why heck it's a Sunday here in Greece too, guess they know better! :-p

Yea, "28mm heroic" has been interpreted in so many different ways by various manufacturers it tells us almost nothing by tself.

Good to see you'll get some pics in order before the campaign. That'll save you a lot of headache.

@Zywus
Here's the best we could do for what you asked :-)




Also, this month's update is up for anyone following our previous project

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1273312680/war-is-coming-shieldmaidens-army-reboot/posts/1666251

That's a pretty good comparison pic. Pictures of real models is of course preferable, but it's hardly anything that we can demand when the goblins aren't in production yet.

The mammoth casts look awesome BTW. So crisp and detailed.
I kinda regret not getting one. I forsee that one being a top seller for you in the future.

I actually think the comparisons pic works well especially due to the stance's being upright rather, I did pledge for mammoths so I guess it's time to stand by the door again then look great by the way and thanks for the pic.

P.s. Looking at the goblins I will definitely be a backer

Goblins aren't the only creatures lurking in the dense forests to the south of our world... ;-)

Oh... I think I might like that one - a lot!

I'm definitely interested to see what the silhouette reveals! Always up for a big (I assume resin?) scaly monster

Not sure why but it reminds me of the contours of an old school Bulette.

I would be okay with this.

Based on the goblin's size, I'm guessing a 50x100mm base for it?

Maybe Forest Goblins can ride on Aoshiras while they're at it... P

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:

Based on the goblin's size, I'm guessing a 50x100mm base for it?

There are two versions, one comes on 100mmx100mm and the other 150mmx100mm.

Those are nice sized bases!

Look forward to see what goes on them!

Do you guys envision these goblins to be a single (melee) kit, or will it be like the Shieldmaidens and offer up ranged parts as well?

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Not sure why but it reminds me of the contours of an old school Bulette.

I would be okay with this.

Old School Bulette?!?

You know I'd be down for that!

Love that thing!



IIRC, they loved to eat halflings, but hate the taste of elves?

This here is my favorite pic of one:



Spoiler!

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Those are nice sized bases!
Look forward to see what goes on them!

I'd even wager you that you'll end up being surprised... :-)

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:

Do you guys envision these goblins to be a single (melee) kit, or will it be like the Shieldmaidens and offer up ranged parts as well?

The latter; the Forest Goblin Kickstarter will follow the last succesful model we had for the Shieldmaidens meaning the more stuff gets unlocked the more goodies get packed on the sprues.
Should this be succesful again, I think we'll establish it as a permanent trend :-)

Oh yeah! Forest gobbos! I got your orcs kit and loved it.

Make it happen for next Salute (please) and I will be there with gold coins for you!

Promising stuff!

@Navarro
Making it available in time for Salute is going to be *very* hard. We would really like to make it obviously, a venue (let alone a big one like Salute) allows companies to offer some great deals and show off new goodies to a large number of people but it seems unlikely. Therefore, we are planning to use the power of crowdfunding to counter that instead by offering an awesome deal for this army and make the most of it! :-)
We have planned the project in a way to offer such a good a value for money that it's going to be very pleasing from just a couple of boxes to literally a bucketload!

This coming week we finish shipping wave-1 and announcing the date and time of launch! :-D