New update, "xenomorph" resin heads are now on the site for pre-order, will be shipping out Monday, February 22nd.

You can get them here.


OK the New "Ymargl" heads are up on the site - Ymargl Head bits




I wanted to give you all an update on our new and upcoming 28mm conversion bits.

Firstly, we have 2 new shields available for sale for $2.00 each on the website.

The much anticipated Celtic shield, it is 28mm scale, its less bulky then our previouse shields so best suited for regular power armor. It is lightweight white metal and comes with a seperate spiked knuckle guard.



The second new shield release is perfect for all you Space Wolf players out there. Its a Techno Wolf Storm Shield (good size for terminator armor).



Also up, is a new Generic Hammer, also in 28mm scale. Does great things for fantasy or sci-fi conversions. This is available for $1.50.



I have also updated the Fleshtearer - sawblade and jewel shoulder pad photos:



Lastly some news on the upcoming Ymargl Genestealer heads and Xenomorph Gaunt heads.
These are being molded this week. Our price point for the Ymargl Genestealer heads will most likely be $6.00 for a sprue of 6 white metal heads (3 different bits). The Xenomorph heads are going to be $6.50 per sprue of 6 resin heads (2 different bits).

The reason we went metal on the Ymargls is that they have some slender parts that wont survive resin casting, they also have a nob to allow easy glueing to the bodies. The Xenomorph heads have no pertrusions for glueing so need to be resin in order to be usable.

These will be on the site next week and if you are interested in preordering feel free to email me at nick@chapterhousestudios.com.

The Jetbike Seer Council kit

This kit has been completed by the sculptor and is in transit to me for final approval. Once it arrives and passes quality check it will be molded in resin (and maybe pewter). This is a complete kit with arms, legs, torsos, heads, weapon options and bike accessories. All you would want is the Jetbike model to add to this. There will be a Warlock and a Farseer kit to choose from. They will have options for a sword or spear.

Estimatated time for this kit to hit production is 2-3 weeks. I want the price to be in the $14-17.00 price range.

Boneswords and Lashwhips

These are being sculpted this week, and will be molding in 2-3 weeks. Price point is 2-4$ a set (pewter).

I dont think I forgot anything so enjoy!

I would personally prefer to have the lash whips and bone swords in plastic or resin. Metal is too much trouble to deal with.

hey man, awesome news!

re: bone swords and lash whips... most importantly will you be having both hands done? eg: the swarmlord needs both left and right handed swords... will these be available through you?

same for lash whips... just because always having left handed whips can be boring.

and will we be able to see the ymgarl heads before we commit to buy? I'm interested in probably two sets, but I don't want to make that purchase without knowing what I'll be getting.

that said, you'll probably post with them when they're avail... so i just won't preorder

and the hammers are grrrreat! love those. do DA hammers! and other DA bits!

Thanks for the update - I was just looking for Jetbike conversion kit news.

warpcrafter wrote:I would personally prefer to have the lash whips and bone swords in plastic or resin. Metal is too much trouble to deal with.

I suspect that the lash whips are far too delicate in resin.

warpcrafter wrote:I would personally prefer to have the lash whips and bone swords in plastic or resin. Metal is too much trouble to deal with.

Unfortunately, unless you are a rather large company with lots of capital, plastic is out of the question.

I dont think whip thin bits that the Lashwhips will most likely be will work in resin (snap if you touch them).

Nick

esternaefil wrote:hey man, awesome news!

re: bone swords and lash whips... most importantly will you be having both hands done? eg: the swarmlord needs both left and right handed swords... will these be available through you?

same for lash whips... just because always having left handed whips can be boring.

and will we be able to see the ymgarl heads before we commit to buy? I'm interested in probably two sets, but I don't want to make that purchase without knowing what I'll be getting.

that said, you'll probably post with them when they're avail... so i just won't preorder

and the hammers are grrrreat! love those. do DA hammers! and other DA bits!

Ask and you shall recieve...

So beautiful.... must buy... any pictures of the 'nid "banana" heads?

Nice stuff. Fleshtearer pads are sexy going to need to pick up 50 ;P

Loving the jetbike kit, and can't wait to get my hands on it!

Nice Seer Council bits. Makes me tempted to build up the 500pts of Eldar I have.

Good to hear the Nid bits are right around the corner.

Wow, I didn't expect the Farseer/Warlock to be an entire piece. Very, very cool indeed.

Is the blood drop on the Flesh Tearer pad separate and needs to be 'assembled'? It's a clever way of getting around a CAD but I can already feel the headaches coming on if you misplace a droplet. :(

That said, awesome stuff as always.

You know, I've never had a problem with small Resin bits from DP9 snapping. in fact, I've had the exact opposite problem sometimes.

I don't work there any more, but if you want, I can find out what kind Phil uses and get back to you. Biggest issue with the stuff he uses is you need a vacuum chamber to minimize/eliminate bubbles, and to make sure your overflow channels are cut so it fills properly.

-John

The Eldar legs makes me think of;



And not in a good way. Oh, well. Greenstuff it is.

I think I'll be picking up 2 sets of Ymgarl heads.

aka_mythos wrote:So beautiful.... must buy... any pictures of the 'nid "banana" heads?

Sorry I was in a hurry to send them in for molding, I will have pictures next week


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bhsman wrote:Is the blood drop on the Flesh Tearer pad separate and needs to be 'assembled'? It's a clever way of getting around a CAD but I can already feel the headaches coming on if you misplace a droplet. :(

That said, awesome stuff as always.

Yeah it really is not difficult at all though. Maybe a set of tweazers would help, but I have big hands

Jbuckmaster wrote:You know, I've never had a problem with small Resin bits from DP9 snapping. in fact, I've had the exact opposite problem sometimes.

I don't work there any more, but if you want, I can find out what kind Phil uses and get back to you. Biggest issue with the stuff he uses is you need a vacuum chamber to minimize/eliminate bubbles, and to make sure your overflow channels are cut so it fills properly.

-John

John,

It is more a shipping issue as well, I try to pack as much stuff as we can using Bubble envelopes and wrap. I have yet to hear of anything breaking with this method and it keeps the shipping pretty low for everyone. If we have to start boxing small bits due to resin breakage, then it becomes a nightmare for everyone. (I can ship anywhere pretty much anything for max of $12.50, cheapest is $5.00).

Nick

Chapterhouse why why why do you have to post such nice things. I don't even play eldar and I want that!!!!

Did you have to paint my hammer sculpt in migraine inducing colours dude?
LOL

thso eheads make me want to do a nid army i hat eyou guys soooo much >.<

gonan be ordeirn ga shield or 2 and soem prehresy tnak bits within the nex tocupel of weeks! can;t wait

Chapterhouse wrote:The Jetbike Seer Council kit

This kit has been completed by the sculptor and is in transit to me for final approval. Once it arrives and passes quality check it will be molded in resin (and maybe pewter). This is a complete kit with arms, legs, torsos, heads, weapon options and bike accessories. All you would want is the Jetbike model to add to this. There will be a Warlock and a Farseer kit to choose from. They will have options for a sword or spear.

Estimatated time for this kit to hit production is 2-3 weeks. I want the price to be in the $14-17.00 price range.

What will the $14 to $17 get you?

Eric

legs, bike control panel, bike runes, sword and spear arm, regular arm, warlock or farseer head and torso.

Cool Ymargl heads. If I ever choose them as an elite choice, I know where to come

I'm getting up on those banana heads for sure when they're out, and the other ones are sorely tempting as well.

We will be able to get the boneswords in pairs or one sword and a whip right? Please say yes.
As for the swarm lord, I just used the whip arm, cut off the whip and glue the sword in it's place. Works pretty good. (Yes, I had 4 extra sets to do the conversion from previous kits so everybody probably doesn't have that many extra).
Any news on the tervigon/tyrannofex sets?

We will have both arms for the swords, and maybe a monstrous and a warrior set (maybe!).

We will also have a whip, I cant promise both arms. Maybe we will do an arm able to fit on both sides.

Tervigon and Tyrannofex will be done, but the fastest and easiest bits (arms) will come first.

Boneswords and Lashwhips

These are being sculpted this week, and will be molding in 2-3 weeks. Price point is 2-4$ a set (pewter).

Really looking forward to it!

This is really getting fringe, I think but any possibility of alternate tails in metal for genestealers? IE, long ones with barbs, to go with the banana heads.

Probably not at this time, we have more urgent bug stuff to do atm, sorry.

Some pictures of the MK I rhino parts on a rhino.

That is so cool.

Quick Q: Is there going to be more than one Ymgarl head variant?

I remember seeing 2 other variants, H.B.M.C, so I'd hope so.

I think it's like 3 or 4 variants.

There are 3 total.

Hi guys i have showed these pics a couple weeks back but here they are again.

Note that the bug head showed on this thread has changed ( more detailed and holes instead of protuberances)

first wip


finished head and variants
its the final thingy. ;D






Xenomorph



Just to let everyone know this weekend I managed to make a crater for the pod... its huge and took me 2 full GS big tubes. the cratter hole alone is about 5 inches. 2 big tubes in a couple days thats a record for me.

Can't wait to see that pod, either. I noticed the spores can take weapons in the codex, will there be a mounting point for them anywhere? How much are you thinking of charging for the finished pod?

Our goal is a $30-35 Price for the pod, it really depends on the cost to produce though, I dont want to go any higher then that.

As a bonus we are trying to keep the crater a correct size for the Trygon emergence hole

I love the xenomorph heads.

What are those meant to fit on?

Also, are the Boneswords ONLY meant for the Tyrant or will their also be Warrior size swords as well? I'm also to assume that there will be left and right boneswords as well for those of us wanting to make a Swarmlord.

I'm too assume LW get a similar treatment?

I think we will have 2 different sizes, Warrior and Tyrant, same deal with the Lashwhips.

The xeno heads are sized for Gaunts

Chapterhouse wrote:

John,

It is more a shipping issue as well, I try to pack as much stuff as we can using Bubble envelopes and wrap. I have yet to hear of anything breaking with this method and it keeps the shipping pretty low for everyone. If we have to start boxing small bits due to resin breakage, then it becomes a nightmare for everyone. (I can ship anywhere pretty much anything for max of $12.50, cheapest is $5.00).

Nick

Good point. Everything from the pod comes in blisters or boxes. I wouldn't trust USPS or anyone else shipping resin in a bubble wrapper.

-John

Sweet. You'll get plenty of money from me.

Sidstyler wrote:Can't wait to see that pod, either. I noticed the spores can take weapons in the codex, will there be a mounting point for them anywhere? How much are you thinking of charging for the finished pod?

I'm working to add a place so you can magnetize any weapon you want. And wil post pics of the cratter later today.


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Here is the cratter for the biopod... as you can notice is quite big.







At the begining I considered having details like some small skull or bugs but If you are going to get multiple pods you would end up with a very boring and reconizable features so I tried to make a generic cratter that can go in any terrain and get away with multiples... also the 5inches of interior can give interesting terrain and game options also.
Pod wise the cratter will be mostly covered by pod but I think the extra detailing inside cratter can give you more modelling options.
Hope you folks like it.

wow, can't wait to see the pod!!

Bang-up works, fellas. Thanks for extending the range of xeno bits available! I'll be ordering a few of each for sure.

Very nice! My first look at the crater

The xenomorph head doesnt really look like aliens , is it made to look different deliberately for copy right reasons? (im aliens fan )

Um what aliens movie were you watching?

Besides the inner mouth it looks pretty much the same.

Chapterhouse wrote:Um what aliens movie were you watching?

Besides the inner mouth it looks pretty much the same.

all of them have a distinct shape to their head:
Alien

Aliens

Alien 3

Alien 4

Total droolage over the jetseers!!

Can't wait to see what you come up with for the new bugs as well.

GG

Absolutely love your work..

Well, I certainly think the greenstuff "alien" heads look better then the movie alien heads.
In fact I´m so pleased with Navarros work on them that they will most probably be the sole reason for me starting a warrior based Nid army.

some thing i shut up now going on

Those heads for tyranids are incredible! Man... awesome, awesome work!!

Revliss is working on a very feminine Farseer at the moment. I cant wait to see how that turns out.

Great looking pose on the female seer - can't wait to see how the detail turns out!

OK I have the 28mm resin female Imperial Guard human heads back from the painter.

Honestly I think they look pretty decent. Is there room for improvement, yeah, but I think for a first try they are good.

If you dont like them, well, I cant take the money out of your pocket

If you do like them, they are available for sale.

These are resin and come on a sprue of 6 heads.

You can buy them from our site here.

Nick
Chapterhousestudios.com

Pretty good imo.. I mean since GW doesnt sculpt female models you got a monopoly


(yes i know GW does sculpt male models with breasts and long hair.. those dont qualify as female due to the heads being basically the same as the men!)

These are the very same heads as back in the sculpting phase right?

Hmm. I watched these on the other thread, and was with most everyone else in saying they needed some major work. Now... I'd say they still need improvement, but a good paintjob can do wonders. I still think that some more practice should've been put into it before anything was released (and personally, wouldn't buy these), but not nearly as bad as I expected. Good on you for that.

(And certainly, better than almost anything GW has done in the way of female faces)

I like the mark one rhino parts! Really takes me back to when a box of three rhinos was £10! Man I'm old!

Wow. Gonna be honest, because I like your stuff a lot"

The female heads really, really stink. The previous criticisms of them still stand when painted- even moreso, actually, as the asymmetry and mishapenness of the eyes is more apparent. No offense to the sculptor, I hope- these are an okay starting point, were the eyes, noses and the flattop hair totally redone. The rest of the hair is good, though.

I really hope you didn't sink much money into these. The rest of your line is really good, and none of us would like to see sculpts like these bring you down, either in quality or financially.

Kirasu wrote:Pretty good imo.. I mean since GW doesnt sculpt female models you got a monopoly


(yes i know GW does sculpt male models with breasts and long hair.. those dont qualify as female due to the heads being basically the same as the men!)

Yeah, and we are working on a MK2 set of females with some improved practice as well as female Cadian Torsos

LunaHound wrote:These are the very same heads as back in the sculpting phase right?

Yes, I do think a couple of the heads need better symetry on the eyes as well, but the sculptor is doing another set as a second attempt

Sarrazon wrote:Hmm. I watched these on the other thread, and was with most everyone else in saying they needed some major work. Now... I'd say they still need improvement, but a good paintjob can do wonders. I still think that some more practice should've been put into it before anything was released (and personally, wouldn't buy these), but not nearly as bad as I expected. Good on you for that.

(And certainly, better than almost anything GW has done in the way of female faces)

Thanks, practice leads to perfection, and the sculptor can see whats needed I am sure.

Reaper Man 2020 wrote:I like the mark one rhino parts! Really takes me back to when a box of three rhinos was £10! Man I'm old!

Yeah they have been super popular, I am having a tough time keeping them in stock!

Savnock wrote:Wow. Gonna be honest, because I like your stuff a lot"

The female heads really, really stink. The previous criticisms of them still stand when painted- even moreso, actually, as the asymmetry and mishapenness of the eyes is more apparent. No offense to the sculptor, I hope- these are an okay starting point, were the eyes, noses and the flattop hair totally redone. The rest of the hair is good, though.

I really hope you didn't sink much money into these. The rest of your line is really good, and none of us would like to see sculpts like these bring you down, either in quality or financially.

It was a small investment, and I think it was worth the learning experience as well for the sculptor. If hobbyist dont want them, they can wait for the next set, but I also think when you get down to it, these are so small, when they are on the table, will you notice anything about the eyes? Or will you notice the female hair?

To each their own

By the way, I just got the masters of the metal Ymargl genestealer heads and the resin "Aliens" gaunt heads. They are awesome and will be produced this week!

Nick
Chapterhousestudios.com

Keep working on them.

the previous comments on them still stand. I want to see the next batch please before I say anything else about them anymore.

Would those MkI Rhino pieces still be compatible with Forgeworld Rhino bitz?

chaplaingrabthar wrote:Would those MkI Rhino pieces still be compatible with Forgeworld Rhino bitz?

No idea, as FW has a ton of bits and I do not know what ones your talking about.

In any case here are some god-awful shots of our bits on a model.

Very interesting Rhino kits. I like the Armored Predator and Rhino.

Those female human heads are way below your usually high standard of stuff, though. Personally, I would have taken those, seen what you did wrong, and then made what will be the second wave, the first wave. I mean, I don't mean to shove it down your throat, but these are really bad. They look like anime characters that got slapped repeatedly with a very large ugly stick. I think, by selling these, you are lowering the standard of the product you are selling, but hey, I'm sure some people will buy them.

Like five people .

P.S.

I'm drooling at the arrival of those Stealer heads. Especially the one with the tentacles flayed open, ready to suck out some brains. Yummy .

oh right the last photo i post for this is a blob of blur green slap on now i have a bit more to show ...

time to greenstuff some chest armour...

@Revliss:

Your sculpt's boobs are crooked.

Eric

Very impressed with the ymargl stealer heads. However I can't say I like the xenomorph ones, but that's just a personal preference; the sculpts are spot on.

Really eager to see your take on the boneswords and lashwhips...

I love the Xenomorph heads, and I am really looking forward to ordering a few.

Also, I am quite excited about the Alien Landing spore. I hope the first "shelled" concept drawing will be done.

Ad for the Eldar, I must say I am slightly skeptical. The robed jetbike riders are excellent, but the female Farseer is disturbingly "well endowed"; compare to Howling Banshees.

I am quite excited to see Chapterhouse studios branching into my two favorite armies.

One quick request: Could you take a picture of the Xenomorph head on a Genestealer body? I am curious to see how well it fits considering the Xenomorphs are very similar to Genestealers in design.

I also wonder if you will ever get around to making Space Marine shoulderpads with gears on them.

noted i have just put the seer to the blade she more tin now duble D to emm A....

The Alien heads are alright....but the teeth look a bit strange to me. The Alien have more human-style teeth rather than a mass of needles.

Don't go the "anorexia-with-huge-breasts"-route please. The farseer should imo loose some cleavage. Or the hips need to be bigger. But then you are competing with soda-pop...

I don't quite get the crater honestly. Am I seeing this right, because I think that it's coming out of the ground. The last time I saw a crater it was more in the ground...

Greets
Schepp himself

It is supposed to represent an exit hole for the trygon/mawloc

Absolutionis wrote:I love the Xenomorph heads, and I am really looking forward to ordering a few.

Also, I am quite excited about the Alien Landing spore. I hope the first "shelled" concept drawing will be done.

Ad for the Eldar, I must say I am slightly skeptical. The robed jetbike riders are excellent, but the female Farseer is disturbingly "well endowed"; compare to Howling Banshees.

I am quite excited to see Chapterhouse studios branching into my two favorite armies.

One quick request: Could you take a picture of the Xenomorph head on a Genestealer body? I am curious to see how well it fits considering the Xenomorphs are very similar to Genestealers in design.

I also wonder if you will ever get around to making Space Marine shoulderpads with gears on them.

We have two Iron Hand type pads coming out. One will feature a single cog

Schepp himself wrote:Don't go the "anorexia-with-huge-breasts"-route please. The farseer should imo loose some cleavage. Or the hips need to be bigger. But then you are competing with soda-pop...

I don't quite get the crater honestly. Am I seeing this right, because I think that it's coming out of the ground. The last time I saw a crater it was more in the ground...

Greets
Schepp himself

The crater comes with the spore pod kit. It is also meant to double as a trygon emergence hole, sorta a freebie 2-for-1 deal.

sonofruss wrote:It is supposed to represent an exit hole for the trygon/mawloc

Yep.

So, I ordered the Predator armor kit, and I'm pretty impressed. It needed a little work to fit in right, but no more so than any other resin piece. It looks good, all said and done, and I was able to detail it nicely with my bits box.

My only criticism is that it's incompatible with the FW Rhino dozer blade kit, wthout serious cutting and filling. I don;t blame Chapterhouse for this, nor do I score it against the product. Just something to be aware of for anyone who plans to mix and match the two pieces. If Chapterhouse releases a dozer blade that seamlessly fits, I'd probably snap the FW one off for the chapterhouse one.

Pics?

Still no Chaos stuff = still no interest from me.

Yet you keep hoping and chech our thread

Chaos is wierd.. we get quite a few request for pads, but GW owns those Icons, and theres not much you can do to a specific rune to make it original.

We could use the Chaos Star, but with all the GW bits with the star, what is the point..

Is there a timeline on the boneswords/lash whips? (I'm eyeing Adepticon, and curious if you'll have bits in time for me to receive, paint, and install them.)

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.

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.

Adepticon is March 26. If they're ready in 3 weeks, that should work. (Much later than that, though, and it'll be too late, as shipping from you to me can't be instantaneous.)

(You guys should get a table there; it's full of hundreds of exactly the sort of people who would buy your stuff in truck loads, if they knew it existed.)

Revliss, that seer is lookin' good! Go man, go!

I think we are way too young for an adepticon presence. I have done trade shows before (not this hobby) and it all comes down to preparation, marketing, design of package.

Next year we may make the attempt though, this year is all about product developement and catalogue growth.

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

Schepp himself wrote:Don't go the "anorexia-with-huge-breasts"-route please. The farseer should imo loose some cleavage. Or the hips need to be bigger. But then you are competing with soda-pop...
Greets
Schepp himself

done now i size her down a bit ... now no one tell me to size her boobs up. i got my witchblade at hand and i will use it

Nice natural look, not perky boobs that count as an additional hand weapon. As said, I don't dig the heroic scale on body proportions. Consider me a happy buyer when these come out. Combined with the Jetbike kit and the bone swords...

Greets
Schepp himself

ok mot all character need to have big Boobs i keep forgetting that she an space elf : P keep forgetting they A and At best B.. not C or D, E ,F ..

oh and here my persenal view on armor boobs. they serve a funtion of extra armor .. they are twice the tickness compare to male armor

I would love to see your sculptors take on building a Conversion Beamer for the SM Master of the Forge.

Great piece of kit for a guy many use to get their extra dreadnoughts in, actually, the only useful load-out for him. It is just hard to make something that looks like it truly belongs with the model.

You will see a good amount of money from me, when the alien and Eldar stuff is in stock

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?

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.

Well we already have the MK I shoulder pads, and the Star Fox shoulder pads are one crecent moon away from being Luna Wolf pads

Chapterhouse wrote:Well we already have the MK I shoulder pads, and the Star Fox shoulder pads are one crecent moon away from being Luna Wolf pads

Indeed, I'd been eyeballing them for a while. It's the termie shoulders that I'd really like to see.

I think the best thing you guys could do right now would be some alternative 'great coat' Imperial Guard bits, specifically the legs. If the sheer number of WIP Guard blogs and threads spanning the internet are any indication, that's a market just waiting to be tapped.

Love the bug stuff, and the rhino conversions bring back memories.

But the female heads really don't look any better painted than greened. I'm not certain why, but seeing them posted on the website makes everything else look... lower quality. Maybe it's my brain saying "gosh, maybe it's a trick of the camera making everything else look good and they screwed up the photoshop on this one."

I dunno... I'm suddenly much less excited about the chalice pauldrons than I was 3 weeks ago.

Sorry if I seem overly critical... but now you're running a business. You may not be able to afford a lost image of quality conversion bits while you're so nascent.

Any update on the Space Elf bike rider? Last mention was it'd be two weeks and that was about 2 weeks from today...

I expect them to arrive any day now from the sculptor. I have to make sure they are ok, then ship them to the caster. Caster usually takes 1 week to cast and ship the product back to me.

I keep checking my mail box, I really want to see them.

Any chance they'll go on the site as a pre-order? The IRS owes me a pretty penny and the wife gave me a nod when I asked if she was willing to share it with me.

When they arrive and I find out the cost to produce, I will see what I can do about an early pre-order posting .

Nick

Chapterhouse wrote:When they arrive and I find out the cost to produce, I will see what I can do about an early pre-order posting .

Nick

So...uh...about those bonesword pictures...

Also, any chance of the Yealer heads coming up on your website sometime in the near future? I want to order a bunch .

Tonight I will put them on the site for sale

Chapterhouse wrote:Tonight I will put them on the site for sale

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet...expect a flood of orders .

Gotta love the pre order!

Thanks Nick!

Its 2 in the morning here worked a bit on the whips and hope on the weekend to give a big push on things... wish me luck.
Only noticed by chance yesterday that this weekend its valentines day, Its going to take a miracle to dodge that cannon ball but I will give my best.

I think you owe the "miracle" some photos

P.S. Guys the Genestealer heads are on the website for order.

Here is the link Ymargl Heads

And...


I ordered three. Can't wait for them to arrive. As your shipping info suggests, I assume they will ship Monday?

Assuming they arrive saturday, yes, otherwise they will ship 1-2 days after i get them.

Not a bad price but redoing heads on my stealers will be murder. I use plastic glue on all my plastics.

If I ever get more unassembled stealers I'll order some. Looking eagerly to pics of the Boneswords/whips.

I assume Navarro is sculpting them? If so I don't need to see pics to know they'll kick ass buuuuuuuut...pics wouldn't hurt

Fateweaver wrote:Not a bad price but redoing heads on my stealers will be murder. I use plastic glue on all my plastics.

If I ever get more unassembled stealers I'll order some. Looking eagerly to pics of the Boneswords/whips.

I assume Navarro is sculpting them? If so I don't need to see pics to know they'll kick ass buuuuuuuut...pics wouldn't hurt

You could always use your already assembled ones as normal Stealers and use these heads on some new bodies and make them Ymgarl Stealers.

Yeah, thats what I am doing. I have 20 stealers unassembled.

But honestly, if you flushcut the head at the neck, flatten the cut out, it would be easy to glue it on.

OR just buy new stealers

I need more stealers. 30 isn't enough.

Fateweaver wrote:I need more stealers. 30 isn't enough.

You can never have enough rending gribblies to rip your enemies limb from limb.

AgeOfEgos wrote:

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.

Heresy era armor is the more 'Knight-ish' style right? I'd start a marines army with those..

I'll get some heads for sure, but I'll wait until the other Nid bitz come in so I don't have to pay shipping twice.

I noticed on Navarro's site he has a concept art section with what looks like a couple of sword arm concepts posted. Not sure if those are the bits or how close they are to the finished thing, but I was personally hoping for a tyrant-style bit where there's an actual hand gripping the blade.

But I think I'm one of the few who actually prefers it that way.

Darth Bob wrote:As your shipping info suggests, I assume they will ship Monday?

Alas.. President's Day may prevent mailing until Tuesday.. a 24 hour postponement (The Horror!)

and.. the Techno Wolf Shield is not visible to order on the website, (unless my search-fu is really bad)

-P

Guess it is by accident that Ymgarl is misspelled Ymargl on the website, right?

Ah yes, evil presidents day

I made an error on the Wolf shield, we had the masters cast up. I am waiting for the Wolf Celtic shield to cast on the same mold as the Techno Shield. A grand total of one has been sold as an error

Depending on the cost, I am interested in the new gaunt Alien conversion kit. It would make for a nice display.

Heresy era armor is the more 'Knight-ish' style right? I'd start a marines army with those..

I´m working on that stuff as we speak. Much is already done like pre heresy shoulder pads but I want to hold on to it a wee bit more till I have enough to make it worth molding.

The Alien Heads will be around the same price, maybe .95 each as opposed to .85 each (resin labor is more expensive). Those will be listed next week.

Pyriel- wrote:

Heresy era armor is the more 'Knight-ish' style right? I'd start a marines army with those..

I´m working on that stuff as we speak. Much is already done like pre heresy shoulder pads but I want to hold on to it a wee bit more till I have enough to make it worth molding.

Maxmini are making pre heresy terminator pads. Be interesting to see your take on them.

Well, they are not that minimalistic. Lots and lots of detail is more my style.

Mewiththeface wrote:Depending on the cost, I am interested in the new gaunt Alien conversion kit. It would make for a nice display.

Likewise. I really hope we can see the Xenomorph heads on a Gaunt or Genestealer body simply for the sake of scale. Hell, put them on a Guardsman body even; I'm simply curious.

Pyriel- wrote:Well, they are not that minimalistic. Lots and lots of detail is more my style.

Looking forward to seeing them. If there anything like the other pads in the range I will end up ordering a ton

You spoil us you do Chapter house. Well done !

You guys are welcome

A teaser... we have something eldar in the works. I will give you hints,

1. Its not a farseer or warlock.

2.GWs model is a metal and near 15 years old.

3. It starts with a W and ends with a D

Wraithguard?

Woenix lorDs?

Please say its Woenix lords!!

Kirasu wrote:Woenix lorDs?

Please say its Woenix lords!!

You talk so nasty!

We need bone swords , and tervigon and tyranofex add ons!!

Yes masters... Find me another awesome sculptor and I will get on it!

Navarro does not want a divorce, so I think hes with the wife today (unlike myself whos doing orders ATM).

You guys are doing a good (and ballsy) job on your stuff so far, However-

In general with your product you need to watch the symmetry of the sculpts or casts a bit more... This problem is especially apparent on the shields and hammers, things look a little bent or melted. Most apparent would be the front view of the generic hammer for me. And slight asymmetry on the shields detract from the intricate details as it makes you notice the differences in sides rather than just take in the whole piece as one.

That being said, since you guys are just getting started, and have great new sculptors like Navaro in the mix (even if I don't like the new alien style heads... hate it when he puts random vine like tubing that is too thick over the more symmetrical and defined details) things can only get better. If I were you the biggest oppurtunity right now seems to be Tervigons and Tyranofex parts, everyone seems to want to use them and with no direct competition from GW you can kill it with those I think!

As to your recommend request, Check out Freakforge, I actually just started working with him on something, very nice guy and good comms, and he is a sculpting beast for PA and relief details. Not sure if he is a Dakka-ite but he is definitely a B&C guy.

If you can email me his info, it would be much appreciated.

Argos instant-banned me on BnC, they dont like non-GW modelers over there.

nick@chapterhousestudios.com

What exactly would a tervigon kit consist of anyway? All you'd really need is a pair of chest-vaginas for the torso and a slightly thinner/wider head, right?

Well I could tell you, but there is (all of the sudden it seems) a lot of competition out there

Hate to say I told you so on the Ig heads...

But...

I told you so.

You wont be seeing any money from me on those. Moveing on..

jp400 wrote:Hate to say I told you so on the Ig heads...

But...

I told you so.

You wont be seeing any money from me on those. Moveing on..

jp400, I hearby give you the "beat the deadhorse" award

Hopefully MkII will be a bit more detailed.

Hi chapterhouse , i'll abbreviate the name to CH for this thread ;'P

Im looking for some good space wolf terminator shoulder pads , will we have something like that?
Ah i just looked through them , the termies pads look abit similar to tactical ones o_o?

Yes masters... Find me another awesome sculptor and I will get on it!

What the dude means to say is I need a freaking time machine!

Argos instant-banned me on BnC, they dont like non-GW modelers over there.

Hehe, both maxmini and privateer are frequently showcased and praised over there but Nick got sacked for "advertising"...or was it fighting to much again? lol
But what is to be expected from one such as argos

Hi chapterhouse , i'll abbreviate the name to CH for this thread ;'P

Im looking for some good space wolf terminator shoulder pads , will we have something like that?
Ah i just looked through them , the termies pads look abit similar to tactical ones o_o?

Those (at least two so far) are actually already done by me and waiting on my table.

Just the Deathwing players wanted a special shoulderpad for their models first and that stole some time away from the pup thingies.

I would love to see the termies shoulder placed on termie for comparison , its hard to imagine them from the normal store pic.

CH - have asked him if its cool to send his info to you, will do so if he is down for it!

As to the Tervigon, yes you could just shove a chest-vag on a carnifex and be done with it, but since the beastie appears to be becoming the Carnifex of the 5th ed codex, having a model that is defined, has unique characteristics and a diff sillouette than it's carny brothers would sell well I think. After all, If you could buy the bits or model from CH, and all you needed was a trygon or a carnie to add the bits to, that should theoretically save a bit of money. Right now, most of what I have seen has either been very very scratch-built, or a bash of trygon/carnifex bits... neither of those 2 kits is cheap, and getting one model out of both would kind of suck. I know there would be enough to make another MC left over, but if you want to be consistent the way you are presenting your tervies in the army, you have only have enough for 1.

Chapterhouse wrote:You guys are welcome

A teaser... we have something eldar in the works. I will give you hints,

1. Its not a farseer or warlock.

2.GWs model is a metal and near 15 years old.

3. It starts with a W and ends with a D

Wrought Iron Avatar of Kaela Mensha Khaine, The Bloody-Handed GoD?

Wraith Guard mew!

Hi guys, yes yesterday was a day for my dear Hivequeen could not avoid it
I will take today off since tomorrow is carnival here so I will try to finish up things in the next days. The lashes are going to be something really diferent hope you guys like it.

Before tervi kit I have a spore to take care.

just bought some of the fleshtearer shoulderpads....

I bought 20 of them to test.

these things are nice. The jewel is small and optional and they seem to be a bit larger than the metal BA, tac, and assault pads I have bought from GW which makes for a better look when combining them with a standard plastic pad on the other side...you also don't have to carve off any of the shoulder although I did take it off a few to test the look...Very nice and very happy with my order and how fast they got back to me when I emailed them...Now i need about 30-40 more tearer pads for my upcoming seth list

If those warlock/farseer on bikes turn out to look really nice then you can count on me ordering a squad

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

Chapterhouse wrote:You guys are welcome

A teaser... we have something eldar in the works. I will give you hints,

1. Its not a farseer or warlock.

2.GWs model is a metal and near 15 years old.

3. It starts with a W and ends with a D

Wrought Iron Avatar of Kaela Mensha Khaine, The Bloody-Handed GoD?

LAY off that my home project ! oh wiat am making a goddess, oupps carry on then .. hehe must be the alcohol doing the talking

Chapterhouse wrote:You guys are welcome

A teaser... we have something eldar in the works. I will give you hints,

1. Its not a farseer or warlock.

2.GWs model is a metal and near 15 years old.

3. It starts with a W and ends with a D

Nick, you're a bloody tease! With you guys doing such great work in my fav. army's model line, I might be inclined to divorce GW and shack up with you.

If you're still taking recommendations, a bits kit for Eldar Aspects would be choice, to be added to the current Dire Avenger or Guardian models. Think something along the lines of a variety of banana-helmeted heads, sword (normal or chainsaw-style) and pistol arms, a heat-ray gun, a wire-spinner gun (with teleporter backpack?), maybe even a laser-blaster gun? Sold in lots of five...? Just a kit for the wirespinner & teleporter would be nice since the current model is as old as the W_D model.

Xenomorph 28mm Resin Heads are now up for pre-order, to be shipped out February 22nd.

They will be sold in sets of 6 with 2 variants.

You can find them here.



Nick

alright nick you got me to go WOW.... this is happening a lot lately means good things

Damn, those are awesome. What would they look like on a warrior torso?

Im waiting for the naysayers to kick in now!


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I do not know, though Navarro says they will look good, sadly I am not a fan of warriors, but I will do my best to put one together and get a shot of a warrior.

Besides, I need a warrior built to show off the swords and whips being finished this weekend.

Chapterhouse wrote: Im waiting for the naysayers to kick in now!

ok just because you asked.... ummmm THEY LOOK LIKE THEY ARE FROM ALIENS!! ARGHHHHHH segorney weaver(or however that is spelled) needs to be sculpted now as marbo.... actually hey I think I'm onto something their..... JKJK love the heads great work. Some people will hate it but hey that is always the case. In the end as long as you ahve a good product and your bank account continues to grow screw them

Chapterhouse wrote: Im waiting for the naysayers to kick in now!


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I do not know, though Navarro says they will look good, sadly I am not a fan of warriors, but I will do my best to put one together and get a shot of a warrior.

Besides, I need a warrior built to show off the swords and whips being finished this weekend.

Well, the color choices are certainly...interesting.

Actually, they do a solid job of showing off the incredible level of detail crammed into so small a piece. But I'm looking forward to those sword arms!

Empchild wrote:segorney weaver(or however that is spelled) needs to be sculpted now as marbo....

Convert away!

Sigourney, with hair or ala Alien 3, bald as an egg?

With hair, but tell me that wouldn't be a hot diorama for GD eh eh come one.. Her vs a warrior eh eh she would be a sly marbo_

Ok guys, heres my take on this... the xenomorph heads was builted with the following in mind, they both fit gaunt, stealer and warrior... size wise for the warrior its perfect as is IMO... for gaunts you will need a larger tail to make the xenomorph bigger more bulkier.

Good news is, that the lashes I will upload tomorrow, will give some nice tail options for you guys... I call these Cervical lashes

As in cervix? ewww

Could be worse, it could have been a urethral lash.

As in cervical vertebrae

Talk is cheap without pictures N.

Nice Alien Heads!

But i really really want to see the Spore Pod.

I really want to whine about the really.... curious... choice of colors for those Xenomorph heads, but they're really amazing. They're just the size I expected to be. I guess it wouldn't be too hard to put it on a Genestealer considering the size.

Also, I'm excited about the lash whip preview tomorrow.

Could you show a preview of the spore pod perchance?

Im waiting for the naysayers to kick in now!

The colours are not from this world.
I want whatever the painter was smoking

As in cervix? ewww

You have always been so sensitive dude

Damn, I want to start a warrior and stealer alien themed army like NOW!
Anyone want to trade warriors for alien heads then you know where to find me lol



Anyways, some pre heresy themed thingies and a bit of sweets for the space pups are coming soon and deathwing players have finally gotten their shoulderpad done. Will post some pics soon.

I realize that the paint schemes are a bit "different" but it was a bit difficult to come up with different color schemes for the Xenomorph heads and the Stealer heads. It is different when you are doing a whole unit in one scheme but to come up with say 5 different schemes for 5 similar heads was not easy ha ha. Plus I wanted to try to show people examples of different styles that the heads could be painted in. I must say that the casting quality is really really good. There are barely any mold lines what so ever and if there are they can easily be removed with a hobby knife. You will not realize how much detail there really is until you see them in person either. With the bright yellow head I tried to use contrasting colors to show off most of the detail that you might not see with an unpainted picture.

Thanks guys

antnol wrote:I realize that the paint schemes are a bit "different" but it was a bit difficult to come up with different color schemes for the Xenomorph heads and the Stealer heads. It is different when you are doing a whole unit in one scheme but to come up with say 5 different schemes for 5 similar heads was not easy ha ha. Plus I wanted to try to show people examples of different styles that the heads could be painted in. I must say that the casting quality is really really good. There are barely any mold lines what so ever and if there are they can easily be removed with a hobby knife. You will not realize how much detail there really is until you see them in person either. With the bright yellow head I tried to use contrasting colors to show off most of the detail that you might not see with an unpainted picture.

Thanks guys

Tough to paint to be sure. While Aliens look cool on the big screen...an appropriate paint scheme of black/silver just looks dull on the tabletop.

Hi folks heres the cervical lash arms.

I opted to make lots of vertebraes since there are so many uses for them in a converter hands that I could not miss this oportunity.

You may wonder why cervical main arm is so strait and not bended at all and let me try to explain why its sculpted this way.

THe obvious reason is that its easier for casting but theres also a extra purpose... THese are for you to bend the way you want those lashes so instead of having a pre bended whip that looks the same over and over again you have the option to have tons of diferent bended whips in your collection... Also if you want to complement the xenomorph heads on small critters you can cut half of the cervical lash and use it for tail for amore balanced creature.

And if your nuts like me you can use the triangular shape of the the vertebraes of the big arm as a starting point for some TMC devourers...

Hope you like the Big and medium sized cervical arms.

I realize that the paint schemes are a bit "different" but it was a bit difficult to come up with different color schemes for the Xenomorph heads and the Stealer heads. It is different when you are doing a whole unit in one scheme but to come up with say 5 different schemes for 5 similar heads was not easy ha ha. Plus I wanted to try to show people examples of different styles that the heads could be painted in. I must say that the casting quality is really really good. There are barely any mold lines what so ever and if there are they can easily be removed with a hobby knife. You will not realize how much detail there really is until you see them in person either. With the bright yellow head I tried to use contrasting colors to show off most of the detail that you might not see with an unpainted picture.

You are right. Sorry for complaining.

THese are for you to bend the way you want those lashes so instead of having a pre bended whip that looks the same over and over again you have the option to have tons of diferent bended whips in your collection... Also if you want to complement the xenomorph heads on small critters you can cut half of the cervical lash and use it for tail for amore balanced creature.

Best damned idea since the invention of liquid soap!

Wow navarro, those took me two glances because at fist it was a ewwww, but when I actually looked at it those are awsome great work!!

NAVARRO wrote:Hi folks heres the cervical lash arms.

I opted to make lots of vertebraes since there are so many uses for them in a converter hands that I could not miss this oportunity.

You may wonder why cervical main arm is so strait and not bended at all and let me try to explain why its sculpted this way.

THe obvious reason is that its easier for casting but theres also a extra purpose... THese are for you to bend the way you want those lashes so instead of having a pre bended whip that looks the same over and over again you have the option to have tons of diferent bended whips in your collection... Also if you want to complement the xenomorph heads on small critters you can cut half of the cervical lash and use it for tail for amore balanced creature.

And if your nuts like me you can use the triangular shape of the the vertebraes of the big arm as a starting point for some TMC devourers...

Hope you like the Big and medium sized cervical arms.

Ahh now it makes sense, it didnt before when we were just chatting about it.. guess we are stuck doing them straight

Plus they will look like Alien tails if you do it right!

Nick

your going to give us a bone sword that's reasonably like the original right? nothing crazy like this?

I swear, Chapterhouse is starting to absorb sculptors and painters left right and centre. At this rate, they're going to end up like some kind of collective fan run GW expansion company.

Shhhssshh, who told you...

Personally, I would rather have a bunch of real hobbyist and fans who are dedicated to makeing the game more visually interesting then just be a money grubbing corporation..

Oh wait..

kitsunez wrote:your going to give us a bone sword that's reasonably like the original right? nothing crazy like this?

I dont like that lash either. Its to crazy and doesnt fit the current Nid Design.

Oh and i dont criticise the technical aspect, just the design.

NAVARRO wrote:

Holy mother of god ... that is jaw dropping. Very impressed. How much? I don't play 'nids any more but I may buy some warriors just to paint those arms. I just have a shiva image running through my head (hoping he has used the right god and doesn't now look like a right dumbass)

What is your next project?

edit:
Just had another image of one of those just punching straight through power armor .... blue power armor ... with a U on the shoulder ... with gold edges on shoulder pads - ok .... straight through the chest and out the back of an ultramarine!

FYI Folks, Navarro has said the swords (which are Niddy) will have a hard push this weekend, so probably be done and ready for casting.

Also, we are going to do a set of Niddy whips this week as well. Navarro said it should take next to no time to do some tentacle whips similiar to the style known to the nids.

Just keeping yall informed.

So he'll be doing tentacled whips and these? Cool.

just looked at some concept art on Navarro's site... have to say I really hope he does the boneswords the way they're shown in that section, because they'd be just stunning.

Second Marrak's comment. Navarro, your work rocks.

Thanks folks.

Yes the swords are like the concept art ( the one with one eye) but I was asked to add some crystals in some places due to Fluff... Yet the overall design is like the concept art.

I will also, like Chapterhouse said, do a tentacle classic lash arms... imagine the small tentacle bellow the the vertebrae multiplied by 3 on the new classic arms.

I must say its getting nuts to handle so many new commissions requests these days... I will do my very best to keep everyone happy.

Oh spotted the bug heads I done on the last video of beasts of war ehehe funny.

Ah...I was kind of hoping they would look more like the actual GW bit. I guess if I want one of those I'll have to wait until GW themselves do them (lmao, yeah...).

I really like your take on the lash, though. I may wait for the more traditional tentacled ones instead for mine, but I dunno, I really love how the sculpted vertebrae version looks.

Hoping that non-GW companies sell exact copies of GW designs is unrealistic.

Obviously. I wasn't asking for an "exact" copy, however, just something that looked similar...like if there were an actual hand integrated into the blade to make it look more like a symbiotic organism (and a hand holding a weapon at the same time ) instead of just a weird growth on the end of the arm.

How would you bend the whips. I dont get it

Well if they're cast in metal then you should be able to bend them easily, though they'll also break easily, as I've experienced with many models that came with bent weapons in the past.

And if they were cast in resin you put them in hot water and bend them.

Im pretty sure they will be cast in resin so thats good to know thanks. Boiling water? And how long?

Why are you "pretty sure"? Hasn't CH himself said they would be in metal?

They're supposed to be in both metal and resin.

Oh I had just remembered hearing they would be in resin. Is there a Tut for reshaping resin?

You just put it in hot water or use a hairdryer or something.

That’s how you do the cables on the warhound titan. Just dip them in a bowl of freshly boiled kettle water for about 30 seconds, then take out shape and hold till it re hardens.


I find with the hair dryer method the temperature is too hard to control, sometimes resulting in the resin melting.

Email CH last night and he said they would most likely be metal because it was less expensive and the swords wont be too thin or have holes. So I was wrong.

ETA on the boneswords and lash whips? Pics?

I have a crap load of nids fighting battles, missing a bunch limbs!

Navarro, is mailing the swords and spinal whips this friday (or so scheduled). So that means they should be for sale in 2.5 weeks.

Will be metal

Awesome!! Any chance of some preview pics?

So only the Pods are missing now and then you`ll get a realy big order!

Chapterhouse wrote:Navarro, is mailing the swords and spinal whips this friday (or so scheduled). So that means they should be for sale in 2.5 weeks.

Will be metal

Oh thank you, thank you CH and Navarro! The whips and swords will be greatly appreciated. Metal will be easire to bend, but resin would have been lighter and thus more preferable to magnitizing so as to avoid droopage.

I already ordered a bunch of the SW Celtic Shields. Looking forward to Pyriels take on the SW termie shoulder pads. Hopefully he will do some standard SW shoulder pads as well! Given the popularity of Thunderwolves, some Deathwolf shoulder pads would be nice.

Thermal_Plague wrote:Awesome!! Any chance of some preview pics?

As Navarro said: close to the concept art here: http://buglands.moonfruit.com/#/concept-art/4517650223 (last pic with one eye)

Kroothawk wrote:

Thermal_Plague wrote:Awesome!! Any chance of some preview pics?

As Navarro said: close to the concept art here: http://buglands.moonfruit.com/#/concept-art/4517650223 (last pic with one eye)

Ya I know, but I was hoping to see how the actual model came out.