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So.. anyone see the blurb from WGF on Facebook showing the Shadokesh and touting them nearing production?

"Mark Mondragon of Dreamforge has been hard at work sculpting the Shadokesh, which are the opposing force to the Eisenkern. Here are some sneak previews- they are getting close to heading towards production!"

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wargames-Factory/334302786058

ski2060 wrote:
So.. anyone see the blurb from WGF on Facebook showing the Shadokesh and touting them nearing production?

"Mark Mondragon of Dreamforge has been hard at work sculpting the Shadokesh, which are the opposing force to the Eisenkern. Here are some sneak previews- they are getting close to heading towards production!"

I saw it, it's kind of a funny statement though.

There's 'in production', 'heading towards production'- and this one is 'getting close to heading towards production'.

So, it could be a very long wait.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
Hearing that talk about legal stuff kind of makes me surprised that GW didn't try to shut down the Leviathan kit. Although to be fair, when the kickstarter had started we had no idea Knights were on the way.

Would've been pretty crazy to see.

That kit was already in development when GW took a swing at the Blockhead. I made sure it was protected in the agreement with GW, just so they did not come back later with another issue on a kit they had already seen and not objected to. Back then Pro-bono was hard to find. I now know where to go and they are local to me in San Fran.


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 Dr Mathias wrote:

ski2060 wrote:
So.. anyone see the blurb from WGF on Facebook showing the Shadokesh and touting them nearing production?

"Mark Mondragon of Dreamforge has been hard at work sculpting the Shadokesh, which are the opposing force to the Eisenkern. Here are some sneak previews- they are getting close to heading towards production!"

I saw it, it's kind of a funny statement though.

There's 'in production', 'heading towards production'- and this one is 'getting close to heading towards production'.

So, it could be a very long wait.

Yep... They cannot start work on the splits until after the Chinese New Years.... they are still clearing the decks.

As the kits get out into the wilds, some are posting up great work on one of my FB pages. I love seeing what you all come up with. The paint work, the custom builds, etc. are all things I wish I had time for... Just wanted to say thank you to everyone posting here and on FB.


https://www.facebook.com/groups/1401326060121348/

Valkir with hood= a whole new level of epic!

 NoseGoblin wrote:




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I love this one. Love it. And since all of my Deathwing wear helmets, I have plenty of hoods to go around.

I wonder if it would be easy to scrape the male face and drop in a female face?

Being plastic, a careful cut should be very doable.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I wonder if it would be easy to scrape the male face and drop in a female face?

You might need to use a dremel or pin-vice to hollow out the hood.


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And I think Mantic's undead kits come with a hollow hood already, although I don't know if a woman's face would fit into it.

It might be easier to use one as a template to form a greenstuff hood over (so you're not dependant on your sculpting skills)

then put than on to your female head

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
It might be easier to use one as a template to form a greenstuff hood over (so you're not dependant on your sculpting skills)

then put than on to your female head

This seems like a solid idea. Using one of the Black Widow heads designed for a helmet would make decent practice at least.

That is a rather simple, yet effective conversion that Mark showed. I am always amazed by how versatile the DFG kits are.

shade1313 wrote:

 NoseGoblin wrote:




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I love this one. Love it. And since all of my Deathwing wear helmets, I have plenty of hoods to go around.

You don't understand, I need those assault troopers to not be sold out so I can use them as assault bullgryns...pleeasese!

 NoseGoblin wrote:
As the kits get out into the wilds, some are posting up great work on one of my FB pages. I love seeing what you all come up with. The paint work, the custom builds, etc. are all things I wish I had time for... Just wanted to say thank you to everyone posting here and on FB.


https://www.facebook.com/groups/1401326060121348/

Dammit Mark, I barely resisted buying those assault troopers the first time around, this is not helping

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

Dammit Mark, I barely resisted buying those assault troopers the first time around, this is not helping

Do it. Do it. Doooooo it.

DoitDoitDoitDoitDoitDoitDoitDoitDoitDoitDoitDoitDoit.

Come to the grey side; we have unpainted plastic.

Really I'm just acting out because Mathieu now has me wanting to convert one to be a female Inquisitor, but my project queue is already way too full.

shade1313 wrote:

 NoseGoblin wrote:




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I love this one. Love it. And since all of my Deathwing wear helmets, I have plenty of hoods to go around.

Inquisitor awesome!

Mathieu Raymond wrote:I wonder if it would be easy to scrape the male face and drop in a female face?

Or bob cut heads?Sisters of Battle!

That head swap makes for an absolutely awsome figure. Looks right at home in the 40k universe as Imperial power armor that is non-Astartes in manufacture, which is something that is actually lacking in GW models.

 NoseGoblin wrote:

That is awesome. Simply awesome. Amazing what a head swap can do.

Everything is better with a mysterious all encompasing shadowy hood.

Everything except interacting with the police.

I already think that Valkir is up to something shady.

 NoseGoblin wrote:

None shall stand against the might of Doom!

 Jehan-reznor wrote:

shade1313 wrote:

 NoseGoblin wrote:




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I love this one. Love it. And since all of my Deathwing wear helmets, I have plenty of hoods to go around.

Inquisitor awesome!

Mathieu Raymond wrote:I wonder if it would be easy to scrape the male face and drop in a female face?

Or bob cut heads?Sisters of Battle!

Way ahead of you. I just need to take a decent picture. And I never thought I'd say this... but I am completely out of bolters. I have 2 left in my whole bitz box.

Now there's some motivation to start doing some of the kitbashing I was looking forward to. I'm very partial to a lot of the flavoured SM power weapons. I stocked up on Sanguiunary Guard ones, here's hoping they look as good as that head swap. Dark Angel big shields would probably match too. Oh also grabbed some GK falchions, swords and halberds, could work quite nicely. About the only thing I don't find perfect about Valkir is the weapons. Maybe painted up with nice power effects they'll be good.

 NoseGoblin wrote:

That pic is awesome!

I have to build one too now!

Is the only non-stock thing in there the Dark Angel Hooded head?

And the arm is swapped from a different Valkir, and probably repositioned a bit.

Bring on the Valkir accessory kit! Those minis are fabulous, extra customization options... och mein gott.

 Alpharius wrote:

Is the only non-stock thing in there the Dark Angel Hooded head?

DA head
Eisenkern (trooper) shoulders
Heavy backpack

Everything else should be Valkir.

(From the facebook post where I asked the build )

Can someone tell me exactly what DA kit that hooded head comes from?

Is it the Knights?

I think it is death wing. Pretty sure there is a hooded head without augmetics in that kit, but he may be screaming.


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I mean rAvenwing. The one with the flyers and bikes.

 Alpharius wrote:
Can someone tell me exactly what DA kit that hooded head comes from?

Is it the Knights?

I picked some up from here. Looks like the Deathwing Command Knights, but the veterans have hooded SM helms too.

edit: Oops, Aussie ebay link. It's a US seller, Bulletbits. (This is US link)

Edit. Wrong Thread!