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I'd shoot them an email about the screw-up at the very least.

Still waiting on artillery and a bike.

Oh I will, fret not. I just have to do that from home, because I refuse to live in the XXIst century and have my passwords and emails safely ensconced in a home computer.

Luckily, I don't have to feed it diesel and have hamsters running in wheels for it to load pages.

So... it's been slow on Thursday nights at work. I assembled a chick. They use the words multi-pose. I don't think it means what they think it means. I made the running pose as not-ridiculous as I could. In the command group, you get 3 running legs and one of them standing on a rock. These are severely limited. Maybe Dreamforge spoiled me.



I repositioned the left thigh guard because I couldn't get the right one to sit lower.

Only thing that mini is missing is a shouting head..

Anime run for sure

Very well then sempai.

Perfect, just perfect

Shall I send in my resume for the TGG anime?

I had an answer this morning. They are not closed to selling me more minis (especially since I mentionned full price) since they have to send something overseas anyway.

No word on the return address for the Jailbirds, though.

The details are nice, and the casting quality looks good, too. But that pose... I can't imagine what it was like before you fixed it.

 BlackTalos wrote:
Yeah, definitely count-as for me, but for the 1st TGG i picked Wave 1 & 3, so still no sign of my Imperial Guard "Squads" yet...

Some of the models i chose, like the lulus in TGG1 or some of the choices i might take in TGG2 will be only for painting / aesthetics.... As i doubt they'll have a place in 40K.

I'm picking up a bunch of these on both the TGG1 and TGG2 Kickstarters. (Doubled my pledge amount for TGG1 when it came time to actually purchase them; probably do the same when the TGG2 pledge purchase opens.) Once they go retail, I'm sure I'll eventually get at least one of everything.

Since I don't play IG, a lot of the TGG1 models will be for painting only, until they release their own game (assuming it doesn't suck). Unless I decide I still have too much money and create a predominantly-female IG army (not likely). I'll definitely be using more of the TGG2 models once I get them, since a lot of them look like they'll work well for Sisters and Dark Eldar (Wych Cult and Haemonculus Covens). Even if GW does get around to finally doing plastic Sisters (not holding my breath on that one).

I've gotten my freebies already, and they look great. Really looking forward to painting them (gotta do my harlies first though). I annoyingly chose the cheap full-lot shipping option instead of waves, so it looks like I'm not going to see the rest of them for a considerable time yet (included the werewolves and JB bikes in my purchase). I think I will be shelling out for wave shipping for the next round.

SO I just finished assembling a Command squad. Officer pose is laaaaaaame. And you get an extra torso? The damn hip armour pieces are very, very thick and sit awkwardly on the raised details of the pants. I had to replace one of the heavy weapon's trooper with a regular trooper's because the box thingy on it was too bulky. It's sad, because it's a nice bit.

They ok'd my purchase of an extra Nepharya, as long as I wait until everyone is back from vaycay so she can invoice me. I'll say this for the company, the percentage of female employees is impressive. So, again, great service. Which is also sad because how can they be so great at one on one service and suck at general PR?

Got my resin Vega today, gave her a head from my Statuesque beret heads set and I covered up the scroll on her hip with a spare holster. It's a good cast, not that hard to clean up, bit sticky. With her in, I've got myself a complete Auxilia Tactical Command Squad at long last.

Only downside, she's a whole lot taller than the rest of my Victoria Miniatures command squad.

 BrookM wrote:
. It's a good cast, not that hard to clean up, bit sticky.

They must have just made a new mold for your cast then. Usually the first few resin pulls from a new mold will be sticky unless you let the mold finish curing for a week or two in the air. It's due to the alcohols in the silicon curing agent preventing curing in the resin. Generally though once the paint is on it doesn't cause problems unless some fine detail never finishes curing and is squishy forever. You might want to wait a few days and see that isn't the case before you convert and paint her up, in case you need a replacement.

I cleaned it and gave it a scrub before priming it, so far, so good.

Another downside, aside from her size, she's not good with receiving heads other than her own due to the high-backed collar of her coat.

Yeah, it's the same for the Iron Empire troopers. Even their own heads can't be put in straigth, sometimes needing a weird angle to fit properly. These are not multi-pose, I'll say it again.


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Hey BrookM, I think I won't be using Severina Madsen's alternate head, and she looks like a screaming version of your Commissar lady there. Let me know if you want it. I really don't think I'll be using it.

Lack of posing options in the troops makes me happy I didn't go all in for those then. Especially with all those over the top poses they're pulling off.

And thanks, but I've got a Madsen of my own, with that head still on the sprue. Not sure what I'm going to do with it, the way the hair is sculpted on she's another one of those limited pose things.

I figured that would be the case for the troops in the end, which is why I only got a 10 girl heavy and 10 girl regular, but then I'm a project painter and might use my ladies for skirmish games vs. making a proper army, so I'm obviously biased.

Well, if going for a larger army you can always group them pose by pose, have the anime girls in one squad and the ballerinas in the other.

Assembled Nertha today. To my dismay, her leg is a piece that joins in two locations, which did NOT line up. Not even close.

Yeah, had the same problem. It's not THAT dramatic. Most it does is deytroying the rock beneath her foot.

timd wrote:

vegeta365 wrote:


So is wave 3 now getting to the final few people?

Some of it is. Got notification of freebies and another shipment going to my drop ship location, but there is still ordered stuff that is still in the casting queue.

http://www.tggks.com/what-is-in-each-wave/

Stuff in white is sculpted, but still in the casting queue.

T

 greywulf wrote:
I'm waiting on wave 3 with no sign of any shipment yet. I didnt get any of the vehicles, just waiting on the troop squads and the artillery/support weapons.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I got my Wave 3 stuff today. I was thinking of the bittersweet post I was going to write to sign out of this one... but they screwed up my shipment. Got a squad of Jailbirds instead of Iron Empire, and I am still out Drusilla.

Weirder and weirder. Nepharya is a beautiful sculpt. But anyone deluded about her standing on a regular 25mm base is on very good drugs...or out of them. If she's available in resin soon, I might end up purchasing her, since they have to send stuff my way anyway. Even at full retail.

It seems i'll have to wait as i got the dreaded "The Mecha" lol

That'll probably add another 3 months to my Wave 3.... But it's nice to hear that most are being sent out.

I guess the poses were to be expected, what with running legs and flowing robes... I did not expect a 2-locations joint (Nertha) though.... (don't think i have the model either, unless she slipped through me looking at the Freebies?)

 Jimsolo wrote:
Assembled Nertha today. To my dismay, her leg is a piece that joins in two locations, which did NOT line up. Not even close.

Every Nertha I've seen pics of seems to have that problem, I just glued it at the hip then used hot water to get it flexible enough to make the rock work.

I actually just filled in the gap in the rock part. Since I have her standing on a few layers of cork, it camouflaged the whole enterprise quite nicely.

I fiddled with them a bit more. I couldn't let the IE officer pose stand as it was, so I dismembered her and gave her a regular rifle, it almost immediately fixed the pose issue, as her arms are now closer to her body, a more natural running pose. I'll be using Kano from the freebies as an officer.

It's coming along nicely. I will use them as Tempestus, finally. An all female Tempestus would act as a bridge to my SoB army, so I can merge the two. And add more melta drop goodness too!

I'm going to do the same, Matt. I was just mentioning it in case people hadn't heard.

Karoline socketed together nicely, though.

I'm beginning to have the horrible feeling that one of the little bits of resin casting gates we've all thrown away (yep I've started building her too) was actually a bit that was intended to fill the foot/rock gap......

So that would be our Castingate?

*coughs* I'll show myself out.

If more than one modeller "gets" it wrong I'd say it's a case of poor design or a poor layout.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
I'm beginning to have the horrible feeling that one of the little bits of resin casting gates we've all thrown away (yep I've started building her too) was actually a bit that was intended to fill the foot/rock gap......

Just let them know/ask. I was trying to dry fit the Kurganova Snipers and one of them did not want to go together... And then I realised I am missing an arm piece, which I might have lost when I was playing with the sprues. It was a really tiny piece. I shot them a message and they included it in my freebie shipment without problems.