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Heads are molding this week, arms are nearing completion in sculpting.

Chapterhouse wrote:Heads are molding this week, arms are nearing completion in sculpting.

Sweet, I might make that my Combat Patrol force this year (Provided I finish my Scars for the Championships). What about the spore pods?

New idea/request: plates to cover up the incribed text on the new Ven. Dred. model (also bulking/blinging it up to look more, well, venerable).

Spore pod is in the works too, but thats a much larger model then a sword arm

I have thought about armored torso plates for the dreads, as well as shin and arm armor. Reminicent to our armored droppod panels and rhino kit (slabbed armor).

Have you also thought of Xeno terrain, usable for Tyranids, Eldar, Tau and maybe Orks? Maybe start with a Tau/Tatooine building

AgeOfEgos wrote:

Chapterhouse wrote:When is adepticon? I just had notice from the sculptor, he is trying to finish the greens this week for the 6 arms (2 pair of Boneswords, big and small; 2 Lashwhip arms (big and small)).

If that schedule is good, they should be ready in 3 weeks for sale.

Does that include the heads/pods? Or just the arms?

Has said heads are done and arms getting there... spore only cratter is done but pod itself is kind of huge.
I sculpt mostly on lunch breaks so you guys are forcing me on a diet... After this weekend is over I hope to have 6 arms done wish me luck... and that my wife doesnt boicott my weekend I can avoid eating but cant avoid her wrath


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Chapterhouse wrote:
As it is we used to get 30-40 hits a day on our site, now its 500 and growing. That is a great growth factor when you consider the site is not even a year old.


Nick

Wow! Glad things are working out for you guys, I really apreciate when small companies start growing and buttkicking bigger companies. Keep it going.

Battlefoam is great example of how a hobby orientated companie can deliver the goods professionally and make some money.
Hope to help Chapterhouse to get bigger and better for the sake of this hobby.

Kroothawk wrote:Have you also thought of Xeno terrain, usable for Tyranids, Eldar, Tau and maybe Orks? Maybe start with a Tau/Tatooine building

I would have to look into foam resin casting for that. Pure resin is too brittle and heavy for large pieces such as terrain. I am trying to find out if the Spore Pod should be foam and if I can find a caster for this.

NAVARRO wrote:

AgeOfEgos wrote:

Chapterhouse wrote:When is adepticon? I just had notice from the sculptor, he is trying to finish the greens this week for the 6 arms (2 pair of Boneswords, big and small; 2 Lashwhip arms (big and small)).

If that schedule is good, they should be ready in 3 weeks for sale.

Does that include the heads/pods? Or just the arms?

Has said heads are done and arms getting there... spore only cratter is done but pod itself is kind of huge.
I sculpt mostly on lunch breaks so you guys are forcing me on a diet... After this weekend is over I hope to have 6 arms done wish me luck... and that my wife doesnt boicott my weekend I can avoid eating but cant avoid her wrath


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Chapterhouse wrote:
As it is we used to get 30-40 hits a day on our site, now its 500 and growing. That is a great growth factor when you consider the site is not even a year old.


Nick

Wow! Glad things are working out for you guys, I really apreciate when small companies start growing and buttkicking bigger companies. Keep it going.

Battlefoam is great example of how a hobby orientated companie can deliver the goods professionally and make some money.
Hope to help Chapterhouse to get bigger and better for the sake of this hobby.

Thanks to hobbyist like Navarro and Revliss and a few others, we have been able to add to the races we do bits for and grow. I hope to be able to pay these guys better in the future, at the moment we all work for bits and peanuts and spare change!



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OK stealer heads are on the way right now, I should have them Friday. I will post them on sale Friday or Saturday.

Good news is they look great!

Bad news is I only have 36 sets of them until next week.

We are selling them in sets of 6 (3 variant heads, 2 of each type).

These will be $5.25 each set of six. I think that is very competitive, since other companies sell resin heads for .80-.85$ each and these are Pewter heads.

Ill post a announcement saturday once they go live.

Nick

You know if you could make say a sisters of silence kit I would buy a TON(just a thought), and GW couldn't screw with it since well they don't have one.

Any chance of WIP shots of the boneswords?
Thanks

Im trying to get Navarro to post some shots, send him some begging PMs

When you say the Heads will go on tomorrow, do you mean the Ymgarl heads only or the Xenomorph heads as well?

Also, will there be comparison shots as to how big the Xenomorph heads actually are (on a Gaunt or Genestealer body)?

Navarro you fool, post pics! My wallet hungers for bits!

The xeno heads are not molded yet, the resin molding takes a bit longer then pewter with our manufacturer.

I did send assembled gaunts with xeno heads and stealers with ymargl heads to the studio to be painted up.

I really wish you would have postponed those female heads and taken the advice that was collectively given.

Those are a real waste of resources that could have been put to better use.

When I see the quality of those aliens, then you put those crap heads in the same paragraph, it just doesn't wash.

Well, seeing that one didnt effect the other in resources, I saw no reason not to. If you dont like the female heads, you dont have to buy them, I dont see what the big deal is.

Got word the Xeno heads are being molded monday.

Nick

The heads are not that bad. If you’ve paid the sculptor you may as well cast them and some money back from them.

Like the idea of the dread armour.

Plan on doing any more marine helmets? maybe pre heresy?

We have a ton of preheresy bits coming out soon, including heads

All of the stuff from chapterhouse look great, what I would like to know is when we might see you guys make some chain axes .That would be awesome for the flesh tearers I'm doing

The female heads look okay, but what would really hit the spot to go alongside those would be armour conversion kits. There was this one German site that sold female heads and flak armour fronts for Cadians so you could turn the armour into something less manly and more generic. Can't seem to find that site though. Not that they've been very helpful, they kept declining my orders and won't answer any emails.

I think if you guys made up kits to convert pre-heresy marines that would sell well and not infring on GW. Just a thought maybe worth looking into as the Horus Heresy stuff has really booted what people want in that genre.

BrookM wrote:The female heads look okay, but what would really hit the spot to go alongside those would be armour conversion kits. There was this one German site that sold female heads and flak armour fronts for Cadians so you could turn the armour into something less manly and more generic. Can't seem to find that site though. Not that they've been very helpful, they kept declining my orders and won't answer any emails.

Yeah seen the greens for those. But never found the web store selling them, must have got a cease and desist for GW

Just a question on the boneswords: Are they going to be available as left and right handed options? I will be dissapointed if they are all on one side of the body, as, for things such as Swarmlord, we need to have one for right and left sockets :\.

Darth Bob wrote:Just a question on the boneswords: Are they going to be available as left and right handed options? I will be dissapointed if they are all on one side of the body, as, for things such as Swarmlord, we need to have one for right and left sockets :\.

As I recall, 6 arms being sculpted: 1 left TMC sword, 1 right TMC sword, 1 left Warrior sword, 1 right Warrior sword, 1 lash whip for TMCs (I'm guessing left handed?), 1 lash whip for Warriors.

Janthkin wrote:

Darth Bob wrote:Just a question on the boneswords: Are they going to be available as left and right handed options? I will be dissapointed if they are all on one side of the body, as, for things such as Swarmlord, we need to have one for right and left sockets :\.

As I recall, 6 arms being sculpted: 1 left TMC sword, 1 right TMC sword, 1 left Warrior sword, 1 right Warrior sword, 1 lash whip for TMCs (I'm guessing left handed?), 1 lash whip for Warriors.

Alright, I hope this is true .

If it is, I'll be picking up at least one set of all of them.

Just one?!

Yeah that is the case, I keep begging Navarro for pictures.

We are working on Pre-heresy Helmets, and shoulder pads (for terminators as well). I dont know about torso and legs. Oh yeah and a Jump Pack.

We will probably not do arms, as the GW ones will work fine.

I will see about a chain axe.

Outstanding ! I would buy them in bulk

Chapterhouse wrote:Just one?!

Well, maybe if we got some pictures....

Chapterhouse wrote:Just one?!

Yeah that is the case, I keep begging Navarro for pictures.

We are working on Pre-heresy Helmets, and shoulder pads (for terminators as well). I dont know about torso and legs. Oh yeah and a Jump Pack.

We will probably not do arms, as the GW ones will work fine.

I will see about a chain axe.

Heresy era term shoulder pads, helmets and torsos would be bigger than Elvis in these parts.

AgeOfEgos wrote:

Heresy era term shoulder pads, helmets and torsos would be bigger than Elvis in these parts.

QFT

I'd probably do Pre-heresy Luna Wolves if that happened.

I'll take 60 torsos and heads...no kidding seriously 60 of each please.