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@Barzam,

Yeah we will look at a 5 man unit at some point.

@Mlaw - separate tomahawks are unlikely, sorry, but a sprue of 5 of the axes is coming out next week.


WAVE THREE - July 21st (target date)

Gothic/Steam Punk Hazardous Environment Set - An armoured Torso and head with breathing gear, air tank and power supply, plus a matching "Ray Gun" style rifle. These will be designed to match with our existing Armoured arm and leg sets.

Gothic/Medieval Helmet and Torso Set

Radio Transmitter Backpack plus "Bergen" style military rucksacks.

New Specialist Weapons (Below) - Phase Repeater and Heavy Flamer,

Wave 3 might tempt me to make the plunge

Can't wait to see the Gothic stuff!

What's the plan regarding prone poses for heavy weapon teams? I hear they are a thing in.. that game.

Wave 3 diving in for me new PDFs yeah

Wave 3 is when I reckon I will be weighing in too

Great stuff Joel, just keeps getting better and better. I have to ask, of course, I thought greatcoat legs would be in the 3rd wave...

Alright, so this review is like a week late, but Anvil Industry is incredible. The delivery took only 5 days from the UK all the way to Canada, which is amazingly fast. Getting stuff from another part of Canada takes like 3 days, to put things in perspective. The bitz were free of bubbles, none were miscast, nothing was bent out of shape and the few amounts of flash fell off with a mean glare. Everything came in seperate bags allowing me to easily see if I was missing anything. I wasn't. Overall, I'm extremely impressed. If I have one minor complaint, it's that the Black Ops bodies have subjectively boring sculpts and a lack of life in them, but that's more of a subjective thing and speaks no ill of the actual technical quality.
10/10 saving money to buy again!

Evening all,

@Siygess - I'll certainly think about prone gunners/spotters etc - they would also be useful for snipers, the problem is making prone parts which work well and look good is rather difficult in a fully modular system, it may not be physically posible.

@Manus - Yeah I planned them (Greatcoat legs) sooner than September, however I want to release new arms/guns, and new torsos/heads to match. Rather than release all the parts piece meal, I want to do all the "trencher" stuff all in one go, hence the delay.

@MacMickles - Thanks very much for the reveiw, much appreciated, and I am glad you like the parts

Regarding the Black Ops bodies - They are over three years old now - my design skill and our technical capabilities back then were nothing like as good as tehy are now hence the older products are gradually being updated and replaced with improved versions.

An entire Exo-Lords revamp, replacing the entire range with new models, is planned for 2017.




Attached is a "Dakka exclusive" preview of the Gothic Hazardous Enviroment armour.

Its still WIP - Torso largely finished but more work to do on the head - suggestions welcome!

Im also doing a more medieval style torso/head set to go with the gothic shoulder pads, for more baroque/feudal world armies.

That is even better than I was expecting! My one suggestion would be to include a sensor/lamp. Either shoulder mounted or helmet mounted.

You're knocking it out of the park with this stuff!

Oh that is just fething slick AF. Can't wait to see the entire model now!

You must include the Dakka armor in wave 3 it has that vibe that says have an entire army of those models!

 inqscott wrote:
You must include the Dakka armor in wave 3 it has that vibe that says have an entire army of those models!

Pretty sure they're going to be the foot troops for my Knight Household

They'll be going into my Solar Auxilia for sure if the arms and legs have the same look and feel. As is, the torso has enough cues from the models done by Forge World to neatly fit in without looking out of place.

Hmm. I'll be putting them with my Mechanicus. They'll be Explorator troops. It'd be cool if they had some unique legs, but I believe they're meant to go with the existing armored arms and legs.

 Anvils Hammer wrote:


Attached is a "Dakka exclusive" preview of the Gothic Hazardous Enviroment armour.

Its still WIP - Torso largely finished but more work to do on the head - suggestions welcome!

Im also doing a more medieval style torso/head set to go with the gothic shoulder pads, for more baroque/feudal world armies.

I like it. I'd consider some sort of version of the helmet with a head lamp or some other sensor.
Will these be compatible with the Specialist energy weapon arms? These appear to have built in backpacks and those arms have the cable snaking to a backpack.

 Barzam wrote:
Hmm. I'll be putting them with my Mechanicus. They'll be Explorator troops. It'd be cool if they had some unique legs, but I believe they're meant to go with the existing armored arms and legs.

I'll probably use the armored arms and fatigue legs myself

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 Barzam wrote:
Hmm. I'll be putting them with my Mechanicus. They'll be Explorator troops. It'd be cool if they had some unique legs, but I believe they're meant to go with the existing armored arms and legs.

I'll probably use the armored arms and fatigue legs myself

For sometime I've had it stuck in my head to do a Knight household for 30k that takes Solar Auxilia as allies to represent the household men-at-arms... If Anvil gives me some halberd like power axes, I think I've found my men-at-arms.

 aka_mythos wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 Barzam wrote:
Hmm. I'll be putting them with my Mechanicus. They'll be Explorator troops. It'd be cool if they had some unique legs, but I believe they're meant to go with the existing armored arms and legs.

I'll probably use the armored arms and fatigue legs myself

For sometime I've had it stuck in my head to do a Knight household for 30k that takes Solar Auxilia as allies to represent the household men-at-arms... If Anvil gives me some halberd like power axes, I think I've found my men-at-arms.

Exactly the plan I had too

Even wrote about it to GW in the Army of your Dreams competition...

This is pretty cool! I was just looking at an old IG codex (the one with all the different worlds' IG from an old illustration) and this is one of the looks that I was like "wow that would be pretty neat!" .. and here it is

Will the heavy flamer be a special weapon option?

How will the comm backpacks be distributed?

That is an AWESOME preview!!! I definitely need those helmets, and probably the torsos too...

I'm loving the new environment suit. Will it come in a head only option?

I will be using them with my existing Dreamforge troopers to round out my PDFs army

That preview looks superb.

It just occurred to me.. those would make for excellent Sisters of Battle components.. The torso.. I guess that depends on personal stance on the boob armor or not debate but the helmet is bang on.

 MLaw wrote:
It just occurred to me.. those would make for excellent Sisters of Battle components.. The torso.. I guess that depends on personal stance on the boob armor or not debate but the helmet is bang on.

Well if Anvil produced some boob armour torsos a few waves down the line it'd cater to both groups. I agree the heads are great though.

Check out the new conversion corner, it's great

Does it really need to be "boob armour torsos" though? With a different style helmet and clever application of certain iconography it may just as well make for great alternate Adepta Sororitas components.

of course it doesn't NEED to be boob armour, they don't NEED to exist at all, but some of us like to maintain the aesthetic of the old models to some extent, otherwise you could just as well plop down a tactical squad and say "well they're sisters underneath"

So far I think the Dreamforge Valkirs are the best alternatives we have, but these helmets would be a good addition to those too

Morning all,

Thanks for the lots and lots of feedback!!

@Barzam - Good idea, Ill add a lamp to the side of the helmet, which will also make it asymetric (usually helps)

@BrookM - as Barzam stated - THese are intended to work with the existing armoured arms/legs, but could also be used with the fatieque varients.

Making a torso and head is a lot of work, but nothign complete to designing, posing x 10 and printing/moulding entire new arm/leg sets, so the range will include more new torsos/heads than legs.

I do plan to release new arms and legs a a couple of months, starting with great coat infantry.


@Aka_Mythos - The basic torso isn't compatible with specialist weapons, but I'll be doing a variant which doesnt have the backpack.

Axe Halberds is a cool idea but unfortunately a bit too niche for the time being.


@Nostrodamus

Yes Heavy Flamer Thrower and Lance Repeater will be special weapon upgrades.

Comms pack will be a squad upgrade (one pack) or a separate sprue of 5.

@Sledge Hammer

Head and torso are separate, so they can be mixed with any other parts in the range, or sold separately.



We currently don't plan to do any miniatures suitable for use as Sisters of Battle, and if we ever do, there will categorically NOT be boob armour. GW and Raging Heroes can do their thing.. I personally think the world needs more realistic female miniatures


I'll try and get another preview up later - currently working on a lighting rifle!