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Will there be windows for these?

Hey - the windows are cut out of the MDF so you can shoot in / out of the buildings!

Well we nearly forgot about Colours this weekend, but we've just managed to squeeze in producing some pre-release MULE sets so we will have a small selection of the complete range for sale this weekend. Make sure to come take a gander!

woo!

So colours was great! Met with a bunch of you guys and had some good discussions about MDF toys! Having said that, on the Sunday I managed to get some time to model a concept for a service robot!

Modeled, lasered and assembled in a day! Have a gander!

Looks pretty sweet to me. When can I buy it?

Pretty cool although I think the legs could be beefed up somehow.

Looks functional. There needs to be a police suppression unit as well though.


"Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply."

 Casey's Law wrote:
Pretty cool although I think the legs could be beefed up somehow.

Yeah just ask Ed how much superglue he'd used by the end of it On a serious note, we're trying to branch out a bit; after 2 years of looking at 3mm MDF and increasing demands on our time from other sources we need to play with other stuff to keep the enthusiasm going, and card is such a lovely material to work with. I'm working on recreating a T1 engy from sup com just as a fun project, but maybe something similar will find it's way onto our website.

A couple of our customers have written reviews of our products, so go check them out!

SATlink review at http://dropshiphorizon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/review-warmill-satlink-mdfacrylic.html

Waste-ation review at http://projecttoth.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/warmill-waste-ation-review.html

We also provided a load of terrain and prize support to those lovely chaps at Battlefoam for their DuelCon event this coming weekend, listen to Tom Schadle give some of it a rundown on episode 19 of the O-12 podcast.

That's all really nice to hear. I'm glad your looking to freshen things up and that you've woken up a bit again.

I wouldn't think so highly of myself but I did wonder if my comment on your absence from Dakka played any part in you posting more updates again? I was very pleasantly surprised when you replied in whatever random thread that was and I really did mean what I said although I might have put it better. Your early presence on Dakka was quite large and that was a big plus for me and I think many others. I think your products stand wonderfully on their own merit, and impressively in such a crowded market, but your edge for me was community interaction. The more interaction the better I feel. I really do hope we continue to see you around here and that you find some new ventures that rekindle the fire for you both.

I almost feel a little silly saying this since I've yet to place that long promised order with you. Sadly I'm yet to find myself in a comfortably funded position in all this time so I have to live much of my hobbying vicariously. I hope that doesn't nullify my opinion too much. Purchases aside I've also long wanted to take some time to put some of my ideas down in CAD and send them to you for your appraisal. Although I have the time I again don't have the funds to run a CAD program to realise that idea. Anywho, point being, I'm a big fan of you guys and I'm wishing you all the best as I follow you. I'm just sorry I can't put any green in your pockets right now.

No real mystery as to why our community presence dropped off, Ed works in education so his spare time is heavily dependant on term times and other school demands, and for various reasons he didn't have much time or energy left for it. I'd been spending a lot of time helping my partner establish her business, which I had to prioritise over the toys whilst trying to keep Warmill going, coupled with a pretty gruelling show schedule over Spring and Summer (including an epic drive to RPC in Germany) which didn't leave us any time for releasing new products and you have a recipe for burnout! Things are gradually getting back to normal, and looking at things we can make that are a bit more fun is getting some of the enthusiasm back.

As far as wanting to draft your ideas in CAD form, check out www.blender.org, it's open source and free.

Well it's nice to have you back! I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with. What happened to the game you were working towards?

And yeah Blender is something I've looked into, sadly it's my PC holding me back, I need to upgrade. When I do all be all over it.

 WarMill wrote:
woo!

So colours was great! Met with a bunch of you guys and had some good discussions about MDF toys! Having said that, on the Sunday I managed to get some time to model a concept for a service robot!

Modeled, lasered and assembled in a day! Have a gander!

It could use some sort of crane arm. It looks like it ought to be some sort of vehicle recovery drone.

Funnily enough a crane bot is Ed's next project...

We're very pleased to announce that our products are now stocked by Warlord Games as the perfect accompaniment to the Judge Dredd minis game.

As someone who grew up with 2000AD, I'm especially psyched about it!

In other news, tomorrow we'll be doing a photoshoot to get our newest products ready for release. The main event is the MULE building range, (which have been way too long coming!) but there are also several smaller scatter pieces that will be released at the same time, including the Hobox and Ed's new skips.

Do you have a US distributor? I have four of the utility pods, they're great. I'd love to acquire one or two of the full roadway sets as well.

Congrats on the partnership, I agree it's a good fit.

Now you need to design a knee pad kiosk for my gangers to spug around.

Unfortunately the costs involved with shipping large quantities of wood to the US mean it would probably be cheaper to actually move over there! We've heard some real horror stories from some of our friends in the industry.

We've got a new street booth coming, it's similar to the foodbooth but slightly more refined, in the same way the MULE is the second wave of housing from the PUP.

This has been mentioned in other MDF threads, but nothing has come from it so far: surely the way to distribute MDF products overseas is not to physically ship them but to license the designs to other MDF companies? You could do an exchange of sorts. Warmill for UK, GameCraft for US, and CNC Workshop for OZ, for example. Just pool your designs and work out a system to split revenue.

Mmm it's something we've thought about in the past, but I guess there's more to it than just getting someone to cut the stuff. We sell everything as a packaged product with boxes, boxart, printed instructions and what have you, so anyone who we licenced to would have to keep a supply of that stuff on hand as well. Another issue is finding suppliers of everything that goes in to the products, but I guess the main thing is just how the money would be split, and I think the upshot would be the average price of stuff would have to go up a bit. If someone's using a 5 grand hobby laser their hourly rate will be considerably less than someone using a 20 grand professional laser and their products would be priced accordingly, which just wouldn't leave any margin for the other manufacturer.

Today saw a 4 hour photoshoot of new products, here's a little glimpse of the raw MULE images before we spend the next 2 days editing and making graphics.

Great painting as usual. Well done with warlord. Your signage and style certainly fits into the dredd universe.

Yeah I love the tongue in cheek fascist universe of Dredd, it's been a big influence since I was a little kid!

Here's an example of how the MULE can be setup as a city block, perfect for recreating the streets of the Big Meg. I sense a block war coming...

Any plans to ever do these buildings like half sized for 15mm scale stuff?

 Necros wrote:
Any plans to ever do these buildings like half sized for 15mm scale stuff?

To be honest, probably not. We did think about it way back, and even made a fortress in 1.5mm card which worked really well, but most of our kits would be a bit too fiddly at that scale even if we spent the time altering them to use 2mm wood. If we played 15mm ourselves we'd probably be more inclined to do it, but we were raised on 28.

Here's a couple more shots of the upcoming MULE set showing the walkway ring that comes with the hab modules and how it interacts with the core. The hab has a 3/4 walkway ring with enclosed fences, while the core comes with triangular corner pieces. When the hab is attached to the core, the core pieces complete the walkway ring but can also be used with the closing fences intact, so you can modify how free models are to walk around the buildings.



Hab with walkway ring enclosed



2 habs on core with open walkway ring.



Elevated facility made of 4 cores, 3 habs, helipad, tunnel, roof topper and external lifts. The helipad and one of the habs are suspended above the tabletop.

That last picture, I want!

Seriously cool stuff guys, great painting as well.

 Commander Cain wrote:
That last picture, I want!

Indeed, that is impressive.

Sell that as a '1 click bundle' and I'm in!

Well that's it, all the MULE stuff is up on the website and ready to order. There are a selection of bundles available, and to make it even better value the whole range is 10% off RRP until November 15th! If anyone is going to Crisis in Antwerp this weekend make sure to drop by and say hi to us, we'll be looking very hungover and chain-smoking in an effort to stay awake

Head over to www.warmill.co.uk to start putting together your sexy urban table!

Available as a one-click bundle saving 15% over single items:



Not available as a one click bundle yet, but if there's enough interest they can be added:

Totes-Amaze-Balls!!!

Zwan1One wrote:
Totes-Amaze-Balls!!!

Whilst I agree with the sentiment I do think you should be feed to squigs for this phrase alone.

I just tried to order the "Helipad Lobby MULE bundle" (http://www.warmill.co.uk/Helipad_Lobby_MULE_bundle/p814918_11057182.aspx) and got a message that said:

Product Unavailable
Please contact us for details

Any word on when this bundle will be available?

On the images above its days 1st November. So you'll have to wait a day!