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UK

Assassination pack was an add-on, not part of the shard strike pledge level. Looks really nice, can't wait for it to hit retail.

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Unstoppable Bloodthirster of Khorne





Melbourne .au

I've got to say - Anvil have been off my Radar for some time now since I missed the first KS. The new stuff is simply amazing looking. Some seriously great stuff happening here.

   
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Junior Officer with Laspistol





The Shire(s)

Came back from a week in Dorset to my Kickstarter pack waiting for me! the stuff is awesome! Really happy. When I get chance, will start putting them together

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Thanks very much everyone!

@Ritides - Yeah they would make good Killa Kan stand ins with Orky guns strapped on!

At the moment just the two leg poses but when I get a chance Ill add a third pose.

@SlavetoDarkness - Yep, character models are generally slightly more realistically scaled (as oppose to infantry which are slightly more heroic) so would probably fit ok with the Infinity sculpting style/proportions.

@ultimentra - I'm not sure which figure you are referring too, sorry, even though I googled it! The girl with the two swords is closest? Technically she is a bodyguard, but will have her own background once I get a chance to write it up.

@ANN - Yep as Bull0 kindly pointed out, it was an Add-On, it is currently pencilled in for a retail release at the end of September.

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Veteran Inquisitorial Tyranid Xenokiller





Cymru

Picked up my kickstarter stuff from the postie today.

The hacker, Assassination pack and the wardrones.

And their amazing

Well happy with my stuff just wished I'd picked up some more stuff now


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Ah, man, I didn't realize there was going to be a giant robot in the Assassination Pack.

Time for me to start saving up for the end of September.
   
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Calm Celestian





Kansas

Received my pledge today, really nice casts. Truly excellent.

I'm not sure why I didn't order the medical team though. That's my problem with Kickstarter- I almost always forget what I ordered, and why.

   
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San Diego

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Morning all,





This reminds me of an Urbanmech. I don't think I can unsee that now

   
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Bounding Assault Marine





London

Some excellent Anvils painted by twitchydroid


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Some excellent Anvils painted by twitchydroid

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Wow, that's going to be a right pain keeping those factions apart on the table if they're painted to look that similar.

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Prescient Cryptek of Eternity





East Coast, USA



These look primed with a very few bits of base coating... is this a work in progress, or are they intentionally meant to be predominantly black?

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Zealous Knight







I don't know about that, seems most of it has grey edge highlights; i don't tend to do that on my regular basecoats for sure
   
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http://dwartist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/anvil-industry-republic-instigator.html
   
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Thermo-Optical Tuareg





California

I wish he'd paint some of the Spectres or CRANE troops. I need some inspiration for mine.

   
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HATE Club, East London

I got the second wave of my cataclysm pledge yesterday. I am absolutely delighted with the quality. Really looking forward to getting painting. I have a spare Republic Grenadier and a spare Unity Council Marine, so I'll try to get colour scheme tests up soon.

For my Spectre Operatives, I am thinking of painting each hexagon a different colour - blue, red, green, purple and so on, then giving a black wash.

Another option would be grey with different colour washes, but I don't think I'd be able to keep the washes in place. Maybe I could do washes over metal for an oily effect like on this guy: http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/129948-.html?m=2

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Afternoon all, and thanks for the kind feedback!

I quite like Twitchydroid's dark black colour scheme, though it would be hard to tell the factions apart, I think they would work better with bases painted grey/ other urban colour.

One thing we are testing in the studio at the moment is painting base rims in bright faction specific colours, this means you can use realistic urban camo schemes and still easily see the figure on the tabletop.

@Dwartist - finished instigator is looking stunning! very impressive work!


@Fifty - I considered painting my spectre hexagons with an iridecent look - starting with black and highlighting different areas of each hexagon with subtly different colours, but it would be a ridiculous amount of work to get it to look right!

Metallics could work, though Im trying to avoid them having seen Dwartists stuff, which uses no metallics at all.


An exciting announcement if you've not been following Facebook recently!

The first miniatures from our KS are available at retail!

Check out the new stuff here - http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/AFTERLIFE

So far most of the basic infantry kits are available, and some characters.

Tomorrow we are releasing all the Pulse Mech Units and the Republic Instigator, with further releases the following two Fridays!

We are staggering releases to give us a chance to make new moulds and keep good stock levels up, but everything from the KS will be available by the end of this month.

I am also hoping to have the all important RULES available before the end of the month, with a narrative mission pack to follow on.


We wanted to try something different with our studio colour scheme for the new Republic commandos, check out this time lapse video - 2.5 hours of painting compressed into less than two minutes.

Youtube Video - Republic Commando Painting Timelapse

We would love to know what you think of it (the concept, not the paintjob which was rather hindered by a lack of easy access to the figure!)



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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?





UK

Awesome news, I'll definitely be grabbing a few of these once I'm off Batman minis for a bit!

While I'm probably more in it for painting than playing, what kind of size would you be looking at for a simple starter game. Would a basic troops unit, a mech or two and a special unit like the assault team or Spectre operatives per side be decent, or would you want more (or less)?

 
   
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UK

Damn fine job Joel these are truly stunning miniatures, I could not believe how nice these turned out and full of conversion potential.

I also really loved the sprue diorama sections brilliant idea and I hope it is something you continue to do, it makes basing so much more fun and easier to detail.

I will be investing in more soon as I have the funds as these are going to be some great additions to my collection, great job all round on the KS.

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Morning,

@Paradigm - The game is designed to work ok at various game sizes, what you describe would be fine for a smallish normal game - in writing and testing the rules I have geared the mechanics toward battles with between 4 and 10 units a side, with 25-50 individual Figures.

I will also be releasing a "skirmish" version of the rules set where each "Unit" is a single figure rather than a group. That version will use 5-10 individual figures, and some slightly different rules.

I'm hoping to get the rules out in the next couple of weeks, so you can have a read and try out the starter mission with some existing miniatures you have.


@LDD - Thanks very much! I'm certainly pleased with the new figures and I'm glad you are also!



More new Retail releases coming up later today! Stay tuned.


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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?





UK

Sounds like a nice size of game, and the news of a skirmish mode is exciting as well. If you can write rules like you sculpt minis, we're in for a treat!

 
   
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HATE Club, East London

@Joel - regarding the metallics thing - I had decided something very similar. Then I had the washed metals for spectre ops idea and ruined it...

I still can't decide for certain on paint schemes. I reckon light and dark grey with blue details and either green or yellow as a spot colour for Republic. For unity, I was thinking black with yellow details, but I am not sure I can make that work. Maybe Unity in black and Crane in yellow...

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Swamp Troll




San Diego

The guy in the business suit went missing :(

I might get in on the actual game but even if I don't, there is a lot of quality here that's useful in a lot of other applications.

Quick question, if a person is to get the pulse mechs and say..they want 2x autocannon pulse mechs.. is it possible to get the body shown on the missile launcher pulsemech for one of them? The pose for the autocannon pulse is really rigid and having two of them in that same pose would be...uh.. bad..

Anyway, can't wait to see the other releases.

   
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@Paradigm - I certainly hope so! The Rules are coming together nicely from my point of view but the test will be in the first full public release!

@Fifty - I guess just try a tester model and post them up here?

@MLaw - Do you mean Vargo Federici? He will be back soon dont worry.

The support Pulses are deliberatly in "braced for shooting" poses.. the missile launchers and Autocannons are swappable so Yes, if requested, we can supply 2x autocannons with one of each body (or vice versa) In fact Ill discuss with the others the possibility of packing them up like that.

Cheers


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HATE Club, East London

So I went to Anvil HQ last night to playtest the rules with Joel and some other guys. We asked way too many questions, so we didn't get very far in the scenario, but I am confident Jacob and I would have trounced Joel and James. Rumours suggest Joel isn't very good at his own game anyway. :p

The rules have been streamlined since the beta version that are available online. I'm pretty sure the turns will fly by. As I believe might be the vogue these days, it is unit activation based rather than each player taking turns one at a time. It works though, so no complaints about that. There is a reaction/overwatch mechanism which requires a reaction check, so if you get shot at, you might get to act, or you might be dead beforehand. The mechanics are simple, but there is a lot of thought needed over what to target when you activate your unit. Should you shoot the unit that already fired at someone else (so can't be in overwatch) so they definitely have no chance to react and shoot back, or shoot the unactivated unit and hope you shoot before them and kill them before they shoot back and prevent them acting at all?

We also saw the really good vehicle movement rules, which I think might be the best out there. The movement from the previous turn affects movement in the next turn, which is pretty important for realism, in my mind.

The game is definitely a game, not a simulation, but it feels a lot more realistic than GW games. I enjoy GW a lot, but I am sure I'll enjoy this too.

Hey, look at some pretty photos of the table!






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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?





UK

 Fifty wrote:
So I went to Anvil HQ last night to playtest the rules with Joel and some other guys.



In the words of Captain E. Blackadder, lucky lucky lucky...you know the rest!

Thanks for the info and pics, I am increasingly sure Afterlife will be the next game I go all-in on once I'm done with Batman. It sounds promising rules wise, and the minis are just great!

 
   
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Dankhold Troggoth






Shadeglass Maze

Awesome Crane wardrone in that first pic! I'm geeking out here.

Will be placing an order for a few more wardrones whenever the weapons pack for them gets made
   
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HATE Club, East London

You like wardrones? Then I'll give you wardrones!


Though guards may sleep and ships may lay at anchor, our foes know full well that big guns never tire.

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Afternoon all,

There has been a bit of radio silence recently while we have been working on finishing up the Afterlife rules!

Last week I took a much needed break from the rules, and made up a couple of brand new "bits" products for our Exo Lords range! The first new bits in probably close to two years, exciting!

First up -

The Mechanical Arm Conversion Set - including a Power plant with 4 ball sockets, 4 mechanical limbs with a selection of tools and weaponry, and a separate Power Wrench/Axe held by a bionic hand.




Here the assembled Unit is shown mounted on a tractor Unit with some Exo-Lord Parts to complete the figure.



The arms can also be used individually, so there is a LOT of conversion potential with this kit, and a discount if you purchase 3 or more!


Next up we have Exo- Lord Jetpacks



Available as a set of Five - every Jet Pack is unique, with a variety of angles for the intakes and thrusters, so no two flying Exo-Lords need look the same!




Click the images to go to the product pages on our website, where there are more photos!

We will be shipping these new products from early next week.



I am planning to use the Jet packs to make a Black Ops Assault/Melee unit, which will be available some time next month hopefully. I am also thinking about Exo-Lords with much heavier Exo-Armour suits,

Is there anything else you would like to see added to the Exo-Lord bits range? I cant offer any guarantees but will try to work on options which are popular.

Cheers

Joel

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I love the backpack. I'll probably be grabbing 3-4 of them for one of my projects. Also the tractor units are awesome in general.

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I like the mechanical arm backpack, but could you put up an image of all the tools and weaponry available for it? I'm thinking it could be a handy way to transform a mini into a mad surgeon type, but would be interested in seeing all the possibilities.

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