Viktor von Domm wrote:at kit...yes this is doing it for me just right^^
and now to put some quantity to the quality...? what will you charge for the minigun? i see lots of potential for this...by the way...since it fits so neatly to your own belts...how a bout a package price for a combinded product?
well...to be honest i have a business administration degree and specially in marketing... so something like that is something i should thinking about...but i don´t like to do that kind of thinking anymore
anyway, that's kind of what I was trying to get about in my own incompetent, mealy-mouthed way: with the similarity in designs and the probably-not-wildly-differing costs, what's the USP of these ones over the established brand of the Maxmini ones (other than personal preference). Belts & bundles would be a good one
but in essence...what my old tutor /prof said...we don´t sell qualities we sell benefits/gains... that´s what interest the customer... so a bundle for that would be quite a good idea...
so...how long till shotguns and a fitting amobelt bundlepackage?^^
Give it a proper tube frame if you are doing an ammo backpack- But I think your minigun barrels are too short...They are long and they rotate because a minigun is generally air-cooled.
If I had one of those, I would use the housing, it looks great!, but I would cut off the barrels, scratchbuld different ones, and give it a weed-whacker handle.Of course, I may just be biased on miniguns now
Is the power fist new, or something subtle like the metallic power conduits? I'll be honest I tried but didn't spot the difference between the two pictures. Guess I'm not very observant...
@Gitsplitta - sorry about that the 2 pictures are identical - computer error couple with my mischievious sense of humor. I meant the fist picture and minigun picture.
The fists are already available
@Charax give the man a cookie - loincloths are Anvil
Are they? (the power fists I mean) I just went to your web site and didn't see them... they must be hidden in the "cool people only" part of the web site?
and tho i love your stuff kit!!! i have to say... the price for the sigle amo sickle is a bit too much on the steep side... i don´t want to haggle here but one pund for mebbe 5 of them would be much more fair......also...you know i would need to buy me lots of these anyways...and if the price is lower beforehand it prevents copymaking... this small detail is one that i could use for zillion items...
Zinge (or Anvils Hammer, if you're also reading ), I'm currently in need of a couple of Infinity-style Heavy Machine Guns and Sniper Rifles... think high-tech versions of 21st century guns and you can't go far wrong. Any plans along those lines? Chain Rifles would be handy too (Corvus Belli don't seem to sell any gun spare bits).
In game terms they are similar to very short-range shotguns, but the fluff involves superheated scraps of metal being shot out or something... they're cheap, mass-produced weapons that don't require much skill to use.
Zinge, what Ian's refering to are a bit like the Needle Weapons of Battletech lore - shove in a block of ammo and it knocks a bit off and fires it down the barrel at stupidly high speeds.
Kit, your store is wonky bud- I'm trying to pay by paypal and all it gives me is "forbidden" when clicking "continue" when choosing paypal. It isn't bringing up the paypal login page.
Automatically Appended Next Post: ..I don't think it is calculating shipping under step 4 either- shows rest of world weight 0.00 g
Automatically Appended Next Post: ..maybe it is my IE9, or the store back-end? Anvil's site is acting the same way for me.
Automatically Appended Next Post: never mind man, it worked from home...great, that means we have an ActiveX problem at work...
..stupid Proxy server in Zurich...
The Swiss are experts at making chocolate and watches, but when they try to do IT, and they create a problem for 10,000 users worldwide, they ignore the problem and just go on holiday for an entire month...
dsteingass wrote:..stupid Proxy server in Zurich...
The Swiss are experts at making chocolate and watches, but when they try to do IT, and they create a problem for 10,000 users worldwide, they ignore the problem and just go on holiday for an entire month...
Dave you don't like the swiss do you
Kit you sound very techy mate I also thought it was an Actively Z issue to
not the ones that make my life hell, I haven't met ALL of the Swiss though, so I can't make that broad of a judgement
Automatically Appended Next Post: EVERY DAY, they do things that would get you fired on the spot and walked out of the building by security if done at any American company...
dsteingass wrote: not the ones that make my life hell, I haven't met ALL of the Swiss though, so I can't make that broad of a judgement
Automatically Appended Next Post: EVERY DAY, they do things that would get you fired on the spot and walked out of the building by security if done at any American company...
oh, you know...nothing important, just accidentally deleting the entire Americas OU, all the user and computer accounts...nothing anyone needs in Zurich...
dsteingass wrote:oh, you know...nothing important, just accidentally deleting the entire Americas OU, all the user and computer accounts...nothing anyone needs in Zurich...
I do like part of the gun I think it's the barrels I am not keen on, they need to be gapped if you see what I mean like in those posted pics.
Plus the heads on those are pretty cool I do agree, but the arms suck the weapons look like melted blobs of plastics and the coats folds all look wrong they don't crease properly they look computer generated not real.
well...kit...have you thought about designing your own range of mini soldiers yet? i think after the very good work with those powerfists it seems rather obvious that you should one future day move on this field too...after all you already have a followship of buyers so this would be a rather selffulfilling endeavor... i mean we all would buy them simply to test them and as we use them and portray them here it all gets multiplied...
hmmmm...me? lol...but maybe you should cater for the necromunda players out there... a more street war kind of range? after all your already done weaponry would then be of major use...
Necromunda style would be perfect. Generate a general idea and give someone a creative set of ideas to build open ended fluff for you so that you really can never run out of projects.
If I could have one generic miniature body created for me, I would want this:
A simple duster or trench coat! Pig Iron has already made this head (most of us have some of them)- and with seperate arm bitz, I think many, many, many people would buy them for conversion work.
Great to meet you guys at Salute, fantastic stand, by the press of bodies I guess you both made quite an impact. Hope you got loads of new customers. I guess you probably need a bit of a rest now.
It was an awesome day day from start to finish, the 4 of us (Joel (Anvil Industry), me and our 2 stooges) felt we had more fun than everyone else not to mention the biggest banner
The Scrum was quite something!
The response was amazing and I never tired of seeing peoples reactions to my flexible resin bits.
I was understaffed and understocked but waht a result next year I will certainly try to up my game - Think I need scantily clad glamourous assistants (Bikini for Gareth), a podium and a 40megawatt sounds system.
Glad you had a great day and it was a success wish I could have been their (next year will be ) sounds like you had a sale out of stock well done indeed.
Now any chance of seeing these new releases after all Salute is over
P.S. Will wear a bikini next year if it gets me a discount ……. cant see how it will help with sales mind
just about recovered from Salute. was great to see the Kit & Joel there (that 30 minutes where the hall was only full of people with pre-bought tickets was bliss!). They definitely looked besieged when I went back later
I bought a bunch of hatches to outfit one of my Rogue Trader land raiders, and they're great - didn't realise that the circular one was quite as big as it is though. I also didn't know that the hatches fit together without glue, and have working hinges!
new rivet strips were great, I thought they'd be much harder, like a plasticard strip that you slice the rivets off of, in fact they're made of very soft resin that can wrap around things like armour and shoulderpads. the preview strip I got had a few that were slightly out of line, but they're easy to spot and cut out if need's be
I was with Anvil Industry defending our store against the hordes of customers besieging us. I wasn't in the brochure as I was a late addition - Next year I will not be quite so timid.
wow...that bended rivetstripe...holy cow...! the hexagin rivet stripe and the double rivetstripe...that is just god darn sexy...as a riveteer speaking... OMG!
and did i read you correctly? one meter of one type of rivetband for 4.50 pounds? one meter? (no criticism...just wanting to verify the price here...) how on goods earth are you making one meter´s worth of these stripes? five times of 20cm ? but that´s still a long mould to pour resin in... my hat is off to you good sir!
that is downright revolutioni- zing (e) the riveting process...
Could not come at a better time these look FANTASTIC!!!!!!! will save time and look more uniformed.
I will need some of these in the very near future (Like now) to finish of my Grot mega tank
Love the variants great idea there and the different look of each looks brilliant, I cant wait to get some of these to work with how long before the long length ones are available
With your skills of making flexible strips, how about a crenulated strip that's flexible so people could bend it around armor to look like cogs? Probably not a good idea, after all who would make an army that would use cog patterns as their motif?
Ok well give me a shout when all is ready to ship if you don't mind, as I want some of the multi load hand cannons, the shotgun pistol, pirate cannon pistol a shed load of each resin strips and some cogs.
That being you don't release anything else surprisingly before hand I gather these new test pieces will be for the green species if so can we have some chequered strips of varying sizes please
Any chance of getting a bout 4 or 5 of those dread ammo boxes as well, they work great for my projects
Just got my "box o' Zinge"!! Woo hoo! Great stuff! Everything arrived in good shape, casts are excellent, even a couple of odd bits thrown in for good measure. I have no idea what I'm going to do with any of the stuff I ordered... but I love it!
@Grundz - Yes - £4.50 or 4.5GBP or 4.5 GonkPonks for 1m (1 big Yard) 10 x 10cm strips. This is an estimate but i see no reason for it to change I will confirm price once I get the production system running.
zinge wrote:Did I say moulding? I meant casting - I was making moulds last night whilst being entertained by Vik, Dave and yourself talking absolute twaddle.
Pics - I didn't get to sit down until 3:30 camera was last thing on my mind
zinge wrote:Did I say moulding? I meant casting - I was making moulds last night whilst being entertained by Vik, Dave and yourself talking absolute twaddle.
Pics - I didn't get to sit down until 3:30 camera was last thing on my mind
Twaddle you got that much from it did better than us then
Got to sit down at 3.30 easy life for some then
So does that mean new stuff added to the store then any news on the tank bike
Also - its been long overdo but I have updated the Small Ammo Belt sprue - which is now my best ever in that size. 6 Belts that all cast well instead of 4, 10mm longer, better detail and still the same price per strip (6 for £6 or £1.20 each)
Your stuff looked perfect for my AdMech project, ordered a nice set full of gears and cables. Looks like you were out of the multiple cables bundled together sets though, that was the only bummer. Looking forward to seeing what I can do with it.
One is not enough to make that judgement I guess I'll have to order some more damn you!
I want some of your chains for a crazy steampunk motorcycle idea I got..
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Is there any chance of doing a strip of teeth like you get on chain swords, I think it would be a great thing for scratch building and converting models.
Thanks Dave - might sort out a second sample set. need some more recommendations.
Ok so lets put together a "conversion" pack of strips.
I think that most things will come in 2 sizes small and large. Looking to make a 10 strip pack so:
5 ideas 2 of each in a set - large set & small set - or
5 ideas 1 of each in both sizes - or
10 ideas 1 of each - large & small set
Ideas:
Chain saw teeth
Normal Chain
Rope
Pipe with clamp plates
Ribbed pipe
The last 3 are a bit weak and kind of rehash some of my other work. Those that suggest ideas that I go with will get a sample set (You will receive a pm to acknowledge the fact)
i just love the chainsword idea!!! eviscerator and plain chainsword style and maybe something that fits a bigger demand as titans or dreads and knights?
I did have another idea you know the teeth you get on the end of cogs how about something a long the lines of that, it would help with the dilemma I am having which is on a gun mount.
This way we can build cogs of any size or shape or part round ones ect, then just add the chuck strip to the edge hey presto …….
Also any chance of building a chaos version of your human power fist, I so want some for my chaos guard
I would also like to see some strips with varying size bolts to what you have all ready, also can we have a human size chain blade and a ork size one as well
Maybe you could build large ones for dreads and even Titans …… maybe over kill there
Thinking cap on ………
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Viktor von Domm wrote:i just love the chainsword idea!!! eviscerator and plain chainsword style and maybe something that fits a bigger demand as titans or dreads and knights?
Have you thought about any orcy stuff? I'm thinking a ribbon of crenelations which could also be used for admech) or a ribbon of triangles, or better yet... squiggly triangles. Things that could be used as 3-d decorative trim or orc vehicles.
The possibilities for architectural greeblies of all sorts with your flexible resin formula are really endless. Small Gothic arches, stone relief work, Window Cornice, etc. etc. etc.
http://www.buffaloah.com/a/DCTNRY/vocab.html
By ribbed pipe, do you mean like a hoover hose? If so that would be great, as I have searched high and low for those but all I can find is the green stuff mould thing. I have no other suggestions for the strips but how about magnetised ball bearings in shoulder joints- full pose-ability.
True..I have been using hoses from old plastic toys- but those are cast in that soft plastic crap that doesn't like glue or paint.
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A week or two ago it was more like 0.5!
First I have to say that I've picked up a number of items from Zinge and am constantly amazed at the detail and quality of the castings.
I'll second the request for Orky items. Also, how about belts? I was thinking of a strip of about 5 to 10 cm with a buckle in the middle that could be trimmed down to attach bedrolls and whatnot. Also, straps with ratchet tie-downs would be very useful.
Would it be possible to do a swivel mount for a heavy stubber or Stormbolter for a Russ/Chimera cupola/hatch?
It wouldn't actually have to swivel, just give a more natural look to those types of weapons.
If you feel like cheating for profiles, look at the BF3 battlelog page and the unlocks for the weapons, there's decent (slightly stylised) profile pictures for multiple sighting systems.
I think I have one 3d'd up that's printing ready, if you're interested contact me.
@Mr Dog Cheers - got another classic in the works but your gonna have to wait for the set to see that one
@Padre - The second 2 sets need remastering and will be available in about a month. I am not happy with the large bolt head strip. I seems to closely spaced and the strip is not wide enough. The Large rivet has casting issues.
Cheers
Kit
Oh Yeah - stock updated on site
Added the orc pistols, AK & M4/M16 sprue and minigun/BFG & 23mm wheels
I am doing an Adeptus Mechanicus army, wires and cables galore, and glockworks to boot. How can I build man-machine hybrid robots and not include pistons.
I will gladly add two sets to the order.
(Do you need me to place a new order through the website (not sure if that would add an extra shipping charge), or do you want to send me a bill through paypal?)
Kit, I've seen them, but you're talking to a man who needs more variety for his optical needs, especially with 3 SM armies, 2 Guard Armies, a Traitor Guard Army, etc.
And while I've 3d'd up new bolt guns for my SMs (other than the Wolves), their combi weapons, and a scoped sniper version for each of the two gun patterns, I just CBF making ALL of everything - so if you can do it and make some money off it, I'm glad to support it!
I am not always the best at posting reviews, but what about posting my conversions and such and pointing out where and how I used your products to make these conversions?
Also public shout-out for great customer service. I was able to inquire about adding to my order on this forum and had good communication from Zinge. I needed to spend about $10 extra bucks to get free shipping, I was not able to go through the site and handpick items so I asked Zinge "can you just throw enough random cables and bits in there to make me meet the free shipping limit?"
Zinge was happy to oblidge, took my money, and now I am looking forward to getting to work once they get here! Adeptus Mechanicus, here I come.
If the products turn out even half as good as the service so far, I shall be a happy panda.
How well do your flexible cables stay 'fixed' in place? Eg. if i was to use one as a mechadendrite, with ome end attached to a body and a claw at the other, would it stay in the position i put it?
Vitruvian XVII wrote:Just have a quick question Kit.
How well do your flexible cables stay 'fixed' in place? Eg. if i was to use one as a mechadendrite, with ome end attached to a body and a claw at the other, would it stay in the position i put it?
Great minds think alike!
The resin power cables have a bit of spring to them, they'll stay in whatever shape you bend them but really sharp bends and curves make the thicker cables pull back a bit, but the wire wrapped cables are perfect - I'd keep the diameter low though, the thicker wrapped cables are quite stiff and don't lend themselves to easy bending by hand. The 1mm wire wrapped cables are perfect for mechadendrites, with the thinner power cables (1.3mm or lower) as secondary power lines works well
Sweet. I see a big order in my future, once I find employment again. *sigh* Why can't I just win the lottery so I can spend more time and money on my hobbies?
Zinge, I thought I'd throw an idea at you. Would you consider making shoulder straps for various races/weapons? I'd think they would be simple sprues with maybe 5-6 variations. The obvious ones are those found on many marine bolters but I'd bet both IG and even Tau players (like me) might like some for their weapons as well.
Example...sorry its a bolt pistol, but you get the gist:
Arms holding a steering wheel - both for Cadians and Catachans. Also seated legs suitable for drivers and passengers, again both for Cadians and Catachans (with the jacket flaring over the pants and without).
zinge wrote:
@Lockark - computer consoles and read outs are definitely on the list. working on a way to incorporate clear resin and LEDs hmmm thinking cap on.
Personally I'm a painter 1st, so for me clear resin would be pointless since I would want to paint Object Source Lighting on them.
XD
Just my 2 cents on the topic. Maby have it available in both Clear and Normal Resin?
=O
Just you keep mentioning working on vehicles ……. and a bike is a vehicle after all
How the chain saw strips going want to place an order for stuff but want to place it at the same time …… and the sten gun pistol so want them how long on those
Dont want to be a pain in the arse just want the order all together saves me hassle you see, any chance you could produce a load of these for me, I want them to fit Goblins.
@Lone Dirty Dog - The only problem I see with casting up Jawa blasters like that is that you'd need to either cast them as one piece with the firing arm or cast a separate special firing arm specifically for them. The problem with so many of GW's models' arms is that they're designed to hold pistol grip weapons - very few are easily converted to hold rifle grip.
You can sculpt or convert a hand for it. Which reminds me I still need to do that for the ones I made. I totally forgot about that.
LDD, you had mentioned those to me before, sorry I didn't get around to it, but you didn't pester me about it, so I didn't think you were that anxious for them. If Zinge doesn't want to I can still give it a go.
Holy crap I forgot I mentioned these before I have been working on my grots a lot lately and found a load of my old goblin bits, hence I started thinking about kitting them out with something uniformed.
After several hours of routing through my pictures I came across this picture and thought thats the one, I new I had mentioned them before, but thought it was on here obviously it was not.
So sorry for that and the reason I did not bug you Jake was it was not a major need at the time but rather a cool idea, now I think it will work well for me.
So I asked Zinge as I know he can nock them up pretty quickly and adapt them easily, plus he lives in the UK so its quicker and easier for postage, plus I have asked him to work on some other stuff for me.
He was the first person that came to mind, so no offence intended mate I am trying to remember where we had this discussion now
RSJake wrote:Ha ha, no worries LDD. I had never added them to my project list. They are cool, but like I said if Zinge can do them, awesome! I'll even buy some!
I feel really bad now I remember having discussed them but could not remember where for the life of me how long ago was it
I know that Zinges previous work with Ork pistols are the right shapes and sizes that I want, so he seemed the perfect choice.
You know when you get an idea and you have to run with it well this is it.
Not a Jawa army but Goblins with a ww2 vibe and since I saw this pic again I cant get it out of my head, so I need them to start the work on the goblins.
Although I am thinking a few Jawa looking Night goblins might look cool
Ola - Diablo 3? how about Life 3 - Things are mental here.
My real job is busy, Zinge Industries is on steroids, I have to organise my brothers stag do, set up the marquee, get house ready for sale, go to music festival, design sisters wedding invites. Its a lot of fun but aaaaaarrrrghhhh.
Nyhoo back to more important things:
@Roy Bike is next whatever that means, I wouldn't do the Jawa blaster per se but the base rifle or similar is on the cards.
I'm trying to hand sculpt my own small ones, and this is probably too ambitious a task for someone like me who barely knows what end of the pokey thing to use.
finally found an excuse to try out your flexible belts: forge world punisher cannons (the included belts dont work for me).
the "Extra Large Flexible Resin Ammo Belt" looks perfect, but what size is it? I couldn't find sizes of anything anywhere (probably my fault, I know ^^). 2mm by 4mm is what I'm looking for, ideally.
thanks!
ThomasPolder wrote:finally found an excuse to try out your flexible belts: forge world punisher cannons (the included belts dont work for me).
the "Extra Large Flexible Resin Ammo Belt" looks perfect, but what size is it? I couldn't find sizes of anything anywhere (probably my fault, I know ^^). 2mm by 4mm is what I'm looking for, ideally.
thanks!
Extra large is massive - 3.5mm by 8mm wide.
The normal "large" sprue contains one which looks similar, which is 2mm x 3.5mm, closer what you are after.
Kit, scale it down a bit and make a versions which is sized in the middle!
ThomasPolder wrote:finally found an excuse to try out your flexible belts: forge world punisher cannons (the included belts dont work for me).
the "Extra Large Flexible Resin Ammo Belt" looks perfect, but what size is it? I couldn't find sizes of anything anywhere (probably my fault, I know ^^). 2mm by 4mm is what I'm looking for, ideally.
thanks!
Extra large is massive - 3.5mm by 8mm wide.
The normal "large" sprue contains one which looks similar, which is 2mm x 3.5mm, closer what you are after.
Kit, scale it down a bit and make a versions which is sized in the middle!
AH
and would that be LA1 or LA4? ordering 4 whole sprues instead of just what I need gets expensive...
I just can't bring myself to sculpt all the tons of them that I'd need, and since I don't know what your flexible resin is, I couldn't cast them myself even if I did!
Hi Guys, gals and small furry creatures from alpha centauri.
I know I have been quiet for a while but things have been mental.
I havent had much time for social media but the cogs have been whirring and have loads of ideas just need time to bring them to fruition.
Things are clearing slowly and I have a whole bunch of products headed your way over the next few weeks.
Thank you for giving me such an idea! for now, I will have to work quickly on the wing skids and extend the nose skid as I am under time pressure, but will convert all to wheels in the future.
NP The skids are made quickly, just a couple of rectangles glued together, the bottom wider, longer rectangle bent with pliers and teef nipped in with sprue cutters. The hinge is just a piece of 1/2 round. I'll probably add rivets and a few details yet..but that is all it is.
The wheel rigs are just brass rod layered with styrene tubing and strip parts
Console and scanner are perfect! I can think of a plethora of uses for them.
Had a sudden idea for a new gun you could make (a bit late I know!) How about the machinegun from Lost Planet? It has a pretty different design from your average firearm, could be a pain to add to existing figures though... Just a thought!
That minigun is pretty sweet. I hope it will be in your store soon.
Speaking of things being in your store, when can we expect some of the pretties you've tempted us with to show up. Specifically I'm interested in the computer console & hand scanner, the loose bullets and the power claw.
Also, any plans on releasing the bulkhead lights in ordinary resin?
And finally, you had mentioned to me in an email some time ago that you would be releasing the 23mm military wheel in a sprue of 4. I hope that happens soon as I need about 20 of them.
zing when are you restocking i have a order i need to place for your delicus revolvers since its the first time i have seen plastic ones that isent necromunda ones and get my hands on since the oder is around 50£ of goddies that i want
but all freebies are welcomed 
thats ages ( in my kevin voice ) now shrugging my shoulders and dragging my feet .
not the ones that make my life hell, I haven't met ALL of the Swiss though, so I can't make that broad of a judgement 
I am now in need of another hit come to think of it 
If Zinge doesn't want to I can still give it a go. 
but good luck with all and will wait patiently for releases 
Looking pretty good so far Kit nice job mate cant wait to see this develop further 
