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The Titan won't have anything for show until during pledge manager from what I understand.

The Titans are likely Centurions or Terminator equivalents would be my guess.

My hopes are for the best

Hulk, I asked if it was a)the size of terminators/peacekeepers b)Centurions c)bigger..


the answer was C.. lol I honestly can't imagine it but if the visuals on the Sniper give any ideas, I'm excited to see what they have.

Dreadnought or even Contemptor Dreadnought sized would be amazing, imo

God, I have Dreads for days, but would love to see their take on Centurions. I really dislike the GW models and would jump all over a nice/chunkier look-alike.

It looks like it will be big enough to be either a contemptor or centurion (I think.. remember 40k and I haven't been on a date since pre-2010.. )




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Wow, what a wrap up. We cleared all but the very last stretch goal, which I think we'll probably clear during pledge manager.
Titans are in, as are lust minions.

I may end up helping with the Titan design.. waiting to hear back on that. If you pledged keep an eye out.. they want to do it as an open discussion type of development.

Wow, I can't believe the Titans unlocked! That was a very impressive final day

Yeah, that last minute bump was awesome.. very close to the wire too

With the close of the KS fundraising period comes the test of seeing if they actually maintain communication... or if upon the completed cash grab they dive and start running silent again.

I left my $1 in, and having been out of town for half the week haven't been following the thread until just getting around to catching up now. Love the big MLaw reveal on the last page, which explains a lot of the ...enthusiastic defence. I have to say, I find it more than a little dishonest when people who have a stake in a company pretend to just be "a fan". (And yes, if you're working for a company then you've got a stake in it.)

Sadly, I don't think I can trust these guys enough to increase my pledge - which is a shame given how nice their models/renders look.

Love the models. Hoping this goes well, it is all about the communication now. I also agree with Az wholeheartedly as well about the big reveal. (Exalted btw.)

It is similiar to someone I know who pushed Black Library as if it was going out of style before going from fan to writer. (In that man's defense however, they were a fan who struggled for years and achieved their goal of writing for BL.)

I'm in for $32. If the communication stays solid and consistent I will probably bump my pledge significantly. It's really in their court now.

I ended up upping to 40 so I could get the Tank and Marines. I am locked in, I am eager to see where this goes.

Did anyone else get 7 emails from titan forge to:


info@titan-forge.com
07:40 (51 minutes ago)

to me

Before you can login, you must active your account.

Here is the link.

No however on the KS they did comment that they are sending out emails today.

Edit: Got my pledge manager! Check your spam emails!

So I got a Claymore Tank and their Dropship Wing Engines kit. Furthermore, picked up my Marines as the freebie. (I am really excited but, I'll hold my horses for right now.)

Did you get seven of them?

I got 3 or 4 just a bug, I think.

Just received my Armymals Pledge. I'm kind of torn, overall the game has been fun and the pieces are ok. Then there was the latest update to Demigods Rising which explains some issues they had dealing with Titan Forge who was doing resin miniatures for them. They have now switched to using Prodos Games for resin miniatures. This concerns me on the quality of the miniatures for X-Terra.

The Demigods Titan Forge resin minis I received were crap. Utter crap. I can post photos if anyone doesn't believe me. Not a single one of the 5 i got were without flaws, and 4 of the 5 had major flaws that included massive bubbles in the worst places, obvious stepping from the 3D prints that blatantly show no effort was taken to 'prep' the models for production, and grainy texture that I originally thought was due to the lack of prep work, but I later realize was because the nincompoops ripped the figures from the moulds before the resin had set. I'm glad Demigods is cutting ties with them. And I'm glad I didn't touch the latest Titan Forge kickstarter. Who knows, maybe they actually care about their own figures (which will turn out flawless) and they just took the Demigods printing and casting project as an inconsequential side activity to their main business, but that shows a massive lack of professionalism, if nothing else. Sad.

Really, really depressing news,

they've clearly got design skills

(and at least at one time some casting skills since their Undead Orcs indiegogo stuff was good as was most of the Metal Beard stuff if you got it)

but this all suggests they're either not bothering any more or perhaps the people who know how to do things have left

 greywulf wrote:
The Demigods Titan Forge resin minis I received were crap. Utter crap. I can post photos if anyone doesn't believe me. Not a single one of the 5 i got were without flaws, and 4 of the 5 had major flaws that included massive bubbles in the worst places, obvious stepping from the 3D prints that blatantly show no effort was taken to 'prep' the models for production, and grainy texture that I originally thought was due to the lack of prep work, but I later realize was because the nincompoops ripped the figures from the moulds before the resin had set. I'm glad Demigods is cutting ties with them. And I'm glad I didn't touch the latest Titan Forge kickstarter. Who knows, maybe they actually care about their own figures (which will turn out flawless) and they just took the Demigods printing and casting project as an inconsequential side activity to their main business, but that shows a massive lack of professionalism, if nothing else. Sad.

It might be better for the community if you posted it (not that I don't believe you). That way if someone google searches for either company, it comes up and they at least have an idea (pic worth a thousand words and such...). Even if they had someone else make the minis, Titan Forge QA'ed them as adequate for shipping to customers so as much of the blame is on them as the manufacturer in my book.

Also, the latest update is backer only so us non-backers have no idea what it says beyond what is alluded to in the comments.

 warboss wrote:
Also, the latest update is backer only so us non-backers have no idea what it says beyond what is alluded to in the comments.

I didn't want to post the whole update in here, but I did post the backer update in the Demigods Rising thread. At first I was going to go on a spiel about backer only updates and my dislike for them because the information does get posted. Then I noticed there was a backer specific only link for Print and Play stuff, instead of individually emailing they posted it in the update. That is the only information I removed from the update, everything else is exactly from the backup update.

Ah, thanks for the link. Yeah, that clarifies alot, sucks, and is worriesome for this project as well. Maybe they'll take more care with their own stuff as opposed to contract work. Of course, IIRC they had some issues with their own previous kickstarter as well so it's not a given.

 warboss wrote:

 greywulf wrote:
The Demigods Titan Forge resin minis I received were crap. Utter crap. I can post photos if anyone doesn't believe me. Not a single one of the 5 i got were without flaws, and 4 of the 5 had major flaws that included massive bubbles in the worst places, obvious stepping from the 3D prints that blatantly show no effort was taken to 'prep' the models for production, and grainy texture that I originally thought was due to the lack of prep work, but I later realize was because the nincompoops ripped the figures from the moulds before the resin had set. I'm glad Demigods is cutting ties with them. And I'm glad I didn't touch the latest Titan Forge kickstarter. Who knows, maybe they actually care about their own figures (which will turn out flawless) and they just took the Demigods printing and casting project as an inconsequential side activity to their main business, but that shows a massive lack of professionalism, if nothing else. Sad.

It might be better for the community if you posted it (not that I don't believe you). That way if someone google searches for either company, it comes up and they at least have an idea (pic worth a thousand words and such...). Even if they had someone else make the minis, Titan Forge QA'ed them as adequate for shipping to customers so as much of the blame is on them as the manufacturer in my book.

Also, the latest update is backer only so us non-backers have no idea what it says beyond what is alluded to in the comments.

I also had a number of mini's turn out bad. One of my mini's was one legged, as an air bubble at the knee kept the resin from filling it in:


Another one here you can see the mold slippage and the massive air bubble in the blade:


Everything came in a bag parcel. Numerous things were broken. I had a friend who wanted to grab some of Titan Forge's models, I've recommended that he didn't.

Now that the kids are in bed I have time to get my photos together.

My Priestess. Notice the grainy texture. This is the best of the lot that I received.


My Black Wolf. Notice air bubbles on the hands. The animal's skulls is a complete air bubble. Her face is full of bubbles and is missing certain features, like eyes, because I'm guessing the mould section where the undercuts around her hair was torn to pieces when said nincompoop tore previous casts out of the mould. Her fur cape is also supposed to be defined, but her left side is a disastrous swirl of chunky resin, unlike the rest. And the stepping should be visible, though in the flesh its much worse.



My Ice Elemental was covered in the graininess seen in the photos. This is most likely from the figure being pulled from the mould before the resin had fully set, and I would also guess that the release agent was a pretty poor one.



My Wind figure was decent in most places, but her hands were undefined balls of resin. No fingers were visible. Graininess wasn't as bad here.


My Trapper figure looked pretty good at first. But another glance a few months back revealed a ton of the stepping where I hadn't noticed it before. No photos taken of that one and to be honest, I can't find it right now. Spring cleaning in the house. I know it's on a shelf in the basement, but not exactly sure where.

And in regards to the Demigods guys sharing the blame, I don't feel that way. They were responsive from the get-go. They informed me that they had contacted Titan Forge, and that said company assured them that a replacement package had been shipped. This was reported to me March 17, a month and a half ago. No package has arrived. I'm inclined to believe the word of the Demigods guys over the word of Titan Forge. Seriously... how could a company that exists for resin casting let anything of this quality leave their shop?

I do feel they Demigods guys are not well versed in the realm of resin minis, since I really don't know how the 3D stepping would have gotten past them. I mean, it should be clear that some prep work had to be done before the casting. But I'm throwing my full support behind them since I see they're taking steps to deal with the issue. I'm just hoping they send me new replacements now.

Ooh, that's painful...

The ice elemental looks the worst in my book. You could take advantage of the damage (just going by the name here,) and paint the entirety up as if covered in frost/ice crystals.

Really worrying batch of photos there though.

For context, this is what Black Wolf's face is supposed to look like, with the render, and a cast that was shown during the campaign. You'll notice there's no tumorous growth on her forehead, like the one mine sports.



And mine, once again.

Wow I feel so lucky that half of my Titan Forge mini's were actually decent.

Very very glad I didn't back their KS

 greywulf wrote:
The Demigods Titan Forge resin minis I received were crap. Utter crap. I can post photos if anyone doesn't believe me. Not a single one of the 5 i got were without flaws, and 4 of the 5 had major flaws that included massive bubbles in the worst places, obvious stepping from the 3D prints that blatantly show no effort was taken to 'prep' the models for production, and grainy texture that I originally thought was due to the lack of prep work, but I later realize was because the nincompoops ripped the figures from the moulds before the resin had set. I'm glad Demigods is cutting ties with them. And I'm glad I didn't touch the latest Titan Forge kickstarter. Who knows, maybe they actually care about their own figures (which will turn out flawless) and they just took the Demigods printing and casting project as an inconsequential side activity to their main business, but that shows a massive lack of professionalism, if nothing else. Sad.

While I absolutely believe you, photos of this sort of thing are always useful. So please do post.

 Azazelx wrote:
While I absolutely believe you, photos of this sort of thing are always useful. So please do post.

He already did in the spoiler tags above.