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I'm just impressed with how your minis get better and better with every release.

I cannot wait for when the Kickstarter Afterlife stuff hits retail, I really want to start a new army using them. It is just a case whether to make it Unity or Republic.

I kind of want to kickstart kickstarting a new Anvil line. We'll get all the money together and then just hand it to the guys.

And Dreamforge.

Now I'm REALLY excited for these guys to arrive! Those scars on Cortez' head are incredible!

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Great stuff! Send some to dwartist! we need to see them painted!

/agree

Anvils Hammer wrote:

Those are awesome! Looking forward to getting a couple of those.

Anvils Hammer wrote:

Those prints are seriously impressive. Out of curiosity, what printer did you go with?

Good stuff all around.

~Eric

Hey Everyone,

Thanks for all the great feedback!

@aka_mythos - Yep I try my best, and it is great to look back and see my progress as a designer and sculptor, though it can be frustrating, always wanting to go back and "redo" older stuff.

@Thraxas - We are working as fast as we can, though its looking like it might be a while longer than planned. We need to ship all backer rewards before we can make anything available on the website!

@Deadairis - Excellent plan, If you can raise us a few hundred thousand dollars I will make a resin figure of you, with battle gear of your choice

@Taarnak - The prints so far have been done on a Titan 1 from Kudo3D, and we have also purchased a B9 Creator, so will be running two different printers soon, to try and speed things up a bit!


UPDATE - Spectre Operatives

The Spectre Operative print I previewed last week is now completed and in resin, and joined by the rest of his Team!



This is the first full unit of figures we have completed and I am really pleased with how they have turned out.

The Kit includes 4x lower bodies, 4x upper bodies and 6x helmets, including two with open visors.

Also included on the sprue is a full weapons set (Rifle, pistol, Mags and Grenades) for conversions, and lots of detailed "rubble bits" which are great for basing figures.


Some close ups -

Those are beautiful!

Wow, these prints are really impressive! I had some concerns about moving to a new printer after the campaign, but it looks like it is paying off with this level of detail

Regarding this:

 Taarnak wrote:

Anvils Hammer wrote:

Those are awesome! Looking forward to getting a couple of those.

Heartiliy agreed, I pledged for a squad of 6 . Any idea when these will be shipping, since I believe they were done a bit ahead of the rest? Or does that not really matter as far as getting them cast and shipped?

The models look nice, but is there some kind of lore reason for all the hexes on their body armor?

@RiTides - Thanks, printing with our own machines is a real pain, but yes we are getting excellent quality, and will continue not to compromise on that!

Regarding the War Drones, we have the Pose A pack. If you pledged for 6 and nothing else, we can ship 3x Pose A tommorow, but you will probably want to wait for Pose B pack, which will have two new leg/body poses, and a commander upgrade head and arm. Those will take a little longer, but will ship ahead of a lot of the main reward waves.

@Kanluwen - In terms of weapons and equipment, my design philosophy is usually "what looks coolest" swiftly followed by "would this work in real life and does it make sense".

So with the Hexagons, I wanted to do it to create a unit with a different and more unique "look" but from a background perspective, I imagine the armour is made up of lots of different plates so that its very flexible and forms to the users body.
These are stealth infantry, so I imagine each plate also incorporates stealth features which help to fool electronic surveillance. If one hexagon panel is damaged, the integrity of the rest of the armour isnt affected.

Cheers

Joel

I thought it was something to that effect!

Thanks for explaining the reasoning.

I am liking the tiles, makes me think of the ceramic tiles used in tank armor.

Finally got some of the Council Marines and am in love with your stuff.

Also, those Operatives look BADASS, thanks for making yet one MORE thing I have to buy.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
I am liking the tiles, makes me think of the ceramic tiles used in tank armor.

Thanks! Yeah that was another of the inspirations for the design - vehicle reactive armour, but I'm not sure anyone would put explosive panels on infantry, might make getting hit a bit of a shock!

I would hope to make some Spectre vehicles with a similar pattern of proper reactive armour, though it will be a while before I can get round to that!


@ Frankenberry - Thanks very much! and no problem, We will try and have them for sale as soon as possible.

Cheers

Joel

@Anvil's Hammer: I see that Anvil are at Salute this year, will everything on your webstore be available to purchase at Salute? Will any deals be available?

Cheers.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
@Anvil's Hammer: I see that Anvil are at Salute this year, will everything on your webstore be available to purchase at Salute? Will any deals be available?

Cheers.

Hi,

Yes we will be there and we are really looking forward to it!

The focus this year will mostly be on promoting AFTERLIFE, so we will be running demo games opposite the stand. This means we WONT have the entire product range, specifically, we are not bringing all the "bits" products this year, but we will give people the option of a "Salute pick up" order on the website.

Further details about the games, products and any deals will be made available nearer the time.

Just an observation, the legs in particular look very similar to the Dreadknight along with the Psycannons and a few other things... Very cool regardless, one of the cooler automata I've seen.

I can point to a dozen random scifi things with the same legs, created before and after the dread knight released.

The Spectre Operatives, for example, are similar to human infantry in my game. But, that's because we're pulling from the same design sources in parallel development.

 scuzz_bucket wrote:



Just an observation, the legs in particular look very similar to the Dreadknight along with the Psycannons and a few other things... Very cool regardless, one of the cooler automata I've seen.

Humm.. not seeing it really.. perhaps "vaugly similar" but only to the extent they are both robot legs.

There are design elements in common, but only because any mechanical leg needs certain elements in order to look functional. For example multiple mechanical toes are needed to spread weight and provide grip on uneven terrain, a knee pad is always required to protect the joint.
Both models use a "triple joint" design, but this is copied from nature - many animals have the same arrangement of bones.

Both models feature an armour plate on top of the foot above the ankle joint, but again, it serves the same "real world" protective function on both models.

Of course I (along with all other designers ever) draw inspiration from a huge catalogue of existing science fiction work, and also lots of real world sources, there is very rarely anything truly original, but I certainly try my best to create cool new concepts, and hope to inspire other designers in the future!

Still looks like a mini Dreadknight with dual Psycannons minus a pilot to me.

Edit; Gundams, Infinity TAGs, Warjacks, Armored Cores... neither sculpts remind me of any of those.

Looks like another not-Centurion to me in all honesty really.

 scuzz_bucket wrote:
Still looks like a mini Dreadknight with dual Psycannons minus a pilot to me.

Edit; Gundams, Infinity TAGs, Warjacks, Armored Cores... neither sculpts remind me of any of those.

Infinity TAGs, Armored Cores, etc all remind me of Mecha from various Animes. You probably are only pulling similarities because that is what you are used to playing with, so in that aspect that they are mecha-type then they are similar but not in shape or form. The silheoutte of them are different. I'm just not seeing the similarity other than a 3-toe foot which has been used quite often.




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 BrookM wrote:
Looks like another not-Centurion to me in all honesty really.

That makes me want to convert one to a Yen-Lo Wang with claws.

Looking at the close up of the DK compared to the Wardrone, I see very little similarity other than the greaves and knee armour, and the wrist mounted weapons systems. Other than that, they look very, very different IMO.

Hey Joel, I know you're probably up to your neck in Kickstarter stuff, but I was wondering if you'd consider making the Lance Carbine ammo boxes available as bits?

Those Spectre Operatives are the dogs bollocks.

I love the Spectre Operative (SpecOp/s?) I got in the 1st KS. I think it's probably my favourite model from the range so far. And I plan on getting my hands on the rest of his buddies at some point.

 sockwithaticket wrote:
Hey Joel, I know you're probably up to your neck in Kickstarter stuff, but I was wondering if you'd consider making the Lance Carbine ammo boxes available as bits?

Up to my neck? I'm fully submerged in Kickstarter stuff and struggling to the surface for air/sleep every so often!


There are quite a few parts which could be usefully released as bits components at some point, its just a question of finding the time though, many smaller bits products are not that profitable so can only be justified if we are at a loose end, which for the foreseeable future isn't going to be the case!

@Snrub - Thanks very much! I am hoping to paint up a squad of spectres myself soon, they are some of my favourite models from the range, if I am allowed to have favourites.

@Dark Severance, if you look closely, the Drones actually have 5 toed feed, two at the front, one on each side and one larger one at the back, perhaps more like a hoof than a foot.

Thanks for the answer AV, hope you can free up enough time to make it to Salute.

These new models are seriously impressive. Your old stuff was nice, but not a patch on these. Are these from an existing KS, in the store, or for an upcoming KS?

 Azazelx wrote:
These new models are seriously impressive. Your old stuff was nice, but not a patch on these. Are these from an existing KS, in the store, or for an upcoming KS?

These are from the Kickstarter last Autumn. Hopefully will be delivering to backers in the fairly near future