haha, starship troopers reference was noted. Gr8 work!

Starship troopers for the win!

Also, I like the idea of painting the cut sections in the mirror backing.

Really glad I'm not the only one who got that Starship Troopers reference! The bases look great. I will have to pick some up.

Starship Troopers is one of the finest films of all time IMHO. What's not to like about it? I've been toying with the idea of machining a new torso based on the MI for my armies on parade guard, but we just secured a major order so who knows when I'll get the time :-)

Harry

Just seen your dakka ad banner

Oh Yeah!!!

I rly enjoyed making the GIF! Everyone at worked teased me though, saying welcome to the 90's!!

Ed

Sweet they look really good!Nice paint job and they will be avilaball on your website soon!Yes!
I also saw your advert on Dakka Just shows how commited you are!

Cheers mate, should be committed more like I haven't played a video game in months, ever since we started this little enterprise. I bought new sofas and have barely sat in them, while my computer chair is getting more and more screwed by the day. My girlfriend has forgotten what I look like. We have an accountant. Ed works until he's sick. It's easier for him and his girlfriend to communicate via Steam Etc, etc...

We love it though

Hey all

Busy weekend all round, we've been cutting bits to fill in the gaps in our ranges so we can offer big flying stands (120x94mm, Valkyrie / Dreadknight sized) as well as the small round bases. Ed's apparently taken loads of pics, as well as drawing up a new Ancient Techron display base, so pics of these will be up soon. Once these are finished we can move on to the next stuff. At the moment the ranges are on the site as random assortment packs but we're considering having less designs for each range but letting people buy a pack of 1 design to get consistency in a squad. It means going back over all the designs and picking just a few though

I drew up some plans for a modular barricade on Friday so will develop that a bit more as well, it needs corner pieces and heavy weapon bunker sections as well. I'm going to use it for my armies on parade board but it will eventually find its way on to our shop once it's ready The idea is that it can be constructed in stages, so to establish a quick defense just the big sloped plate is put up, then once a stable line is set up the forward-sloping plate is attached and the gap can be filled with rubble, sandbags, spikes, barbed wire etc. Inspiration came from the M113s in Vietnam where the crew would fill the space behind the amphibious plate with anything they could to get a bit of extra protection.

Turned out the bit of chemiwood I had to cut the next master for the valkyrie kit was too small, but now we've got some big enough that's ongoing, it would be nice to think everything would be done by the end of July but there's lots of other stuff to do as well, pah.

Cheers guys

Harry

Fething love the barricades. I can just see "Point this way towards enemy" painted across the front with caution stripes on the edges. How much you planning on selling these for, and do you plan on doing more terrain like this? I see fantastic possibilities.

I'm really confused about what that extra bit is which turns the front ramp into a "V" is for

The guys would fill the V with rubble, sandbags, dirt, spikes, barbed wire, claymores, grenades etc as extra armour and protection against guys trying to scale the barricade. I'm going to tweak the design a bit to make it more obvious. Ed's got a tank book with a pic of an M113 in vietnam where the crew have loweredd the amphibious plate at the front and filled the V with stuff for extra armour, but a pic seems really hard to find on google

I'm assuming they are sized so that a models can see over them to shoot at an enemy? They look really great. I think I prefer them without the V at the end. Not that it doesn't look good, I just think it looks a little too bulky that way for game purposes. Really excited to see you make more terrain pieces like this!

yeah I did tweak the design on saturday slightly so that it could be used without the V, figured it might not be to everyone's taste

It's not that it doesn't make sense. That V compared to just the slope would make all the difference is stopping a tank from rolling right over the barricade and onto the troopers and it holds scary Close combat troops that much farther away. The two disadvantages with the V as well though. Smaller or crouching troops, could take cover behind/under the far end of the V, which would be counter productive for the defenders. It would also just be that much harder to set your attacking miniatures in the V to indicate that they are climbing over the difficult terrain, since it's all sloped. But that wouldn't be super hard to just proxy with something, or work around. Either way it's a great looking barricade!

A huge advantage I see with this terrain (and any other stuff you may or may not decide to make) would be that, to me, they look like you could assemble and disassemble them whenever you wanted. Which would be great for those of us that want to have nice terrain, but don't have the space to store it when it's not in use... just a thought. Great work!

Fun with little men!

Ooooooh so cool!! I like very very very much!!


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Oh yeah, almost forgot, you guys should really build a light box

Oh yes! We've had a bit of a browse for one, although all the nice pics were done in my workshop with ed holding a nail technician's light and some of them came out nice when we're feeling lazy we just use our phones

You sir, are a purveyor of Wargames Pornography. Seriously my plastic crack addicition is going into meltdown with this stuff. You are barely scratching the surface (cringe) of the potential here, amazing stuff.

Wargaming Trophies for Tournaments Engraved Plates and Plaques. The shoulder Pads would be amazing, I am tempted to contact you for some bits and bobs for my Custom American Indian Space Marine Chapter, it would look astonishing.

A purveyor of Wargames Pornography. That is so going on the website ;-)

your chapter sounds intriguing, think I will have to have a nose...

When are those barricades going to go on sale? I want some for my DUST TACTICS models o.O Very nice.

Flying bases would look great with a mirrored surface... maybe all of my "Dark Eldric" skimmers are due for some pimping.. Maybe with the centerpeice being clear resin, but have an outer ring that is a colored resin? As it seems the sharpie technique would rub off with your fingers...

Kura wrote:Flying bases would look great with a mirrored surface... maybe all of my "Dark Eldric" skimmers are due for some pimping.. Maybe with the centerpeice being clear resin, but have an outer ring that is a colored resin? As it seems the sharpie technique would rub off with your fingers...

Sharpies (as in the actual Sharpie brand pens, rather than marker pens in general) actually hold to surfaces quite well. If you have any doubt, you could always varnish the coloured surface to seal it in.

Kura wrote:Flying bases would look great with a mirrored surface... maybe all of my "Dark Eldric" skimmers are due for some pimping.. Maybe with the centerpeice being clear resin, but have an outer ring that is a colored resin? As it seems the sharpie technique would rub off with your fingers...

We have plans for flying bases that should look super sexy, we just need some models for reference! A mirrored base with all sorts of engravings painted from behind would look pretty damn hot methinks. Fallen Eldric will probably be the next range we work on once we've worked out exactly what will be in each range and how we're going to sell them (random assortment, specific designs, etc)

Had a bit of a play with the barricades testing out some ideas to prettify them a little. As to when they'll be on sale, the answer is when we think they're good enough! The main challenge is balancing how much detail to put in against how long they take to manufacture against how much people would actually pay for them. Then there's the corner sections to make as well... We're toying with the idea of selling a blank barricade then an embellishment pack as an upgrade to let people match their barricades to their armies, so there's a bit of development to go yet. I just picked up a few Infinity models for me and Ed to have a play with, so a range of snap together buildings will be in the pipeline at some point

Ed's been tied up with work for a while, but I've been doing a bit of painting while waiting for the Valkyrie parts to finish cutting. I've been trying to choose a scheme for my armies on parade board, so I've been painting up a few guardsmen and bases. I think I'm going to go with a sandstone-y colour for the base, sort of like a temple floor I guess, with each squad on a different style of base (fist squad, eagle squad, etc.). Rough phone pics below, we'll get some nice pics up soon.

Cheers all
Harry - Warmill

Love the bases you are using for your IG - the colours work really well.

The barricade face plates look interesting as well - Could see a few different types (chaos star for instance) looking good.

You guys keep on impressing,keep it up.

on the mirrored bases fron an old Modelmaker trick I used for water on architectural models was to take your mirrored perspex and paint the back with a really light coat of paint so as to protect the mirror from scratching then a heavy coat then some parcel tape to give it real protection. aslong as you trim the tape to the base it should be safe as houses and pretty as a picture, Also for water a splatter coat of acrilic varnish or clear coat made a great dimpled effect but thats a bit off topic.


And before i forget again.

I LOVE THE NEW BARACADES.....

Hi all

We've been very busy taking pictures of stuff ready to update the website, so there's going to be a big picture dump tonight when I get home from work (day jobs ), in the meantime here's a couple to whet appetites

@ mullet_steve thanks for the compliment! I would think just painting the engraved bits then giving it a coat of black or white primer would be strong enough for general gaming use, but thanks for the advice, those sound like some seriously strong water bits.
Harry

Liking what you have done. All of the bases look awesome. However just curious how you did the sandstone effect on the gaurd bases as it looks so awesome.

I had some thoughts on what I would do with a CNC and lasercutter and I realised something. There is a definite lack of quality Bunkers and emplacements both in the 28mm scale but also in the 15mm Flames of War Scale.

I think you might with some opaque material, make some quite intricate bunkers, Obviously 28mm would need tobe made in a 5 sided box style with the buyer providing a Base. Furthermore with the 15mm range you could do the base in one pass and then a "Lid" which the buyer would assemble. D-Day style pill-boxes and bunkers would be just as relevant in 40K (although with a few eagles etc dotted about).

Examples such as Sandbag Sangars or emplacements, Mortar pits all based around the size of Flames of War Base. These examples tend to be resin cast, not sure if it is more expensive for you to do it, but it maybe an idea. (Plus FoW is played by older players in the main so more disposable income....mercenary but that is what capitalism is about, despite some of the lefty high faluting ideas on these forums).

http://www.modeldads.co.uk/Life-at-the-Front/wordpress/?p=1524

I think there is a gap in the market.

mwnciboo wrote:I had some thoughts on what I would do with a CNC and lasercutter and I realised something. There is a definite lack of quality Bunkers and emplacements both in the 28mm scale but also in the 15mm Flames of War Scale.

I think you might with some opaque material, make some quite intricate bunkers, Obviously 28mm would need tobe made in a 5 sided box style with the buyer providing a Base. Furthermore with the 15mm range you could do the base in one pass and then a "Lid" which the buyer would assemble. D-Day style pill-boxes and bunkers would be just as relevant in 40K (although with a few eagles etc dotted about).

Examples such as Sandbag Sangars or emplacements, Mortar pits all based around the size of Flames of War Base. These examples tend to be resin cast, not sure if it is more expensive for you to do it, but it maybe an idea. (Plus FoW is played by older players in the main so more disposable income....mercenary but that is what capitalism is about, despite some of the lefty high faluting ideas on these forums).

http://www.modeldads.co.uk/Life-at-the-Front/wordpress/?p=1524

I think there is a gap in the market.

Interesting, I had a quick google and was surprised how few people are selling bunkers. The only issue I see with these is the fact that the historical bunkers were mostly just big blocks of concrete, so there's only so much room to add extra detail without sacrificing historical accuracy. I had a little look at some of the D Day ones and I reckon we could do something there. Consider it stuck on the end of a long list

Evaelc wrote:Liking what you have done. All of the bases look awesome. However just curious how you did the sandstone effect on the gaurd bases as it looks so awesome.

Hah that was easy:

1) Spray base black
2)Paint the whole top P3 Formula 'Jack Bone
3) Wash the whole thing with Badab Black or Devlan Mud, can't remember which one I used
4) Pick out some of the detail with Skull White

So as promised earlier here are some pics of what we've been up to. We've still got some more to take and some painting to do, so will post more soon

Harry

Hmm i like the idea, do you have any plans for say a 45` or even a 90` turns?

We also made some big 120x94mm (Dreadknight size) bases for each range so we can add them as an option on our website when we get some nice pics of unpainted, painted, etc done. The icon can be facing either way to be suitable for whichever way the model faces. We're thinking of doing it so the bases will come with a random icon design or a choice from a select few, so pick random, A, B or C from a drop-down menu for example. That way you can pick one you like but have less choice, or take a random one from a larger range of designs. We figured having to add every design as an option and have a thumbnail of each would get a bit overwhelming.


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medabee wrote:Hmm i like the idea, do you have any plans for say a 45` or even a 90` turns?

Yep, I just need to model up the corner section. There will also be emplacement sections for heavy weapons.

Ed drew up a new design for the Ancient Techron Hero Plinth.

medabee wrote:Hmm i like the idea, do you have any plans for say a 45` or even a 90` turns?

the simplicity of the pieces wouldn't really lend themselves to angles as then your looking at having to saw/sand the edges of the angled pieces to fit however once figured out and a couple of jiggs made it wouldn't be hard to mas produce, remember they're cutting these with laser cutters which only do straight cuts and cutting the baracade to an angle you have to think of all the up and down slope pieces so an angled piece cut to an angle with an angled edge,

Although the easiest way to figure it out would be to take one and ste your disc sander to the right angle and jam it in there untill you hit the right point then mesure all the various angles you just created.

also are you talking internal or external angle there? or would people want both. Basicaly it's about two or three days of real headache to figure it all out properly and make the jiggs needed.


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Ohhh the ancient techron hero plinth looks really nice but the more i look at it the more it screams glass chair at me.

And finally, Generic APC hatches to match each design range. These still need a little tweaking, and please ignore the bone shape, that was the result of needing to make a shape very quickly without a design in mind If anyone wants a set of doors with their custom logo on they will be available as an option on the website in the near future. The engraving is deep enough to make painting pretty simple, we'll get some samples painted up to show it off. As with the big bases they may be available as a choice of random, A, B or C etc.


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mullet_steve wrote:

medabee wrote:Hmm i like the idea, do you have any plans for say a 45` or even a 90` turns?

the simplicity of the pieces wouldn't really lend themselves to angles as then your looking at having to saw/sand the edges of the angled pieces to fit however once figured out and a couple of jiggs made it wouldn't be hard to mas produce, remember they're cutting these with laser cutters which only do straight cuts and cutting the baracade to an angle you have to think of all the up and down slope pieces so an angled piece cut to an angle with an angled edge,

Although the easiest way to figure it out would be to take one and ste your disc sander to the right angle and jam it in there untill you hit the right point then mesure all the various angles you just created.

also are you talking internal or external angle there? or would people want both. Basicaly it's about two or three days of real headache to figure it all out properly and make the jiggs needed.


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Ohhh the ancient techron hero plinth looks really nice but the more i look at it the more it screams glass chair at me.

Yeah the angle issue is something we're aware of and are looking at workarounds for. The simplest way would be to ignore the gaps, as it's intended to be something that can be rearranged and dissassembled for storage and what have you, so I doubt it would bother people in a practical situation. Watch this space for developments...

Ironic that you think the Techron base looks like a chair as that was what the first design was inspired by

Any plans for walkways behind the barricades? The shape of the duckboards looks like it could lend itself well to interlocking walkways and platforms, sort of like what you would see in swamp/heavily flooded areas, where the ground does not lend itself to digging.

Hey! Ed here!

So my initial idea here is to increase the gap between the fixings, this should allow for the front Armour plate to be wedged in, and still be workable...see the quick mock up render for a visual.

Also I included a radar / field satellite for imperial forces which I hope to prototype tomorrow!

Ed

Love those barricades warmill , are you selling those yet?

all of your stuff is very original , and high quality , I think you could be on to something with Ig battle field bits , like bunkers and what nots.

Holy FETH~!

You sir are all sorts of awsome.

The laser etching has possibilites all over the map.

Your laser etched 'space elf' swords are beyond awe insiring.

Bases are jaw dropping. Seriously.

neil101 wrote:Love those barricades warmill , are you selling those yet?

all of your stuff is very original , and high quality , I think you could be on to something with Ig battle field bits , like bunkers and what nots.

We'll be putting them up on the website once we have the corners made, followed by extra detail plates and accessories like bunkers. We're looking to do a whole modular range of buildings and stuff for populating battlefields in the future. We've got so much stuff we want to do but stupid day jobs get in the way! Not to mention armies on parade...

Day jobs suck, they should be banned

Good stuff!

Hey guys!

Thanks for following us and keeping us motivated! As we haven't posted much in the last day or so, a quick update as to my day job activities!

Have been pretty busy preparing for final shows across a range of courses first in London and now here in Bournemouth. Recently I have been helping the Modelmaking course with some of their show prep, setup and breakdown which has been pretty demanding, but fortunately we're sorted now and riding it out now!



A little stand which is situated within the modelmaking's show, illustrating some of the CAD/CAM work that we undertake at the Uni. There are a range of samples from our CNC Mill, Laser Cutters and 3D printer. At the back of the image you can see my RapMan DIY 3D printer, which has taken allot of work to get up and running in preparation for the show - fortunately it made it on the night, and was a big crowd puller, especially with all the men in suits walking around that evening



A completed print, not that its obvious as to what it is...but it looks like a lemon squeezer! (not intentional!).

Now the printer is up and running I'm thinking of making something to add to Warmills product range, where I can 3D print a master or something like that....Recommendations welcome

Have a good weekend - I think I'll be spending most of mine sitting down doing not much

Ed






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Seconded from me mate spent 2 weeks making an arm and am now very sleepy! Think I'll let the CNC do all the work this weekend! Fingers crossed the last valkyrie rotor master will finish soon.

I went to the game shop and gave the mk1 barricades to the guy so they may be used in the big space marines vs genestealers demo game at bovington next weekend when we're camping. I reckon we let the girls go and do girly stuff and we go and play being geeky at the game show

Loving your barriers ( DIE KHORNE BASTARDS! !!!) now I gotta head to your store soon and purchase some items . Wondering if you are going to make some Dark Angel items??
Again great products you have.

Good question!

I have a case full of Dark Angels, and they need re basing with our stuff - so will be picking up the sketchbook again hopefully this week

Any requests in particular? Bike and flying bases will be cool with the ravenwing and whatnot - also the terminators are slightly different so plenty of scope. If there is any reference material that you could point us in that would be handy and make for more varied bases

Ed

Sat playing with the barricades and thought of another way you could arrange the pieces for extra barricadification

I'm working on the corner pieces now!

Good to here the Barricades will make mass production , that makes me smile look forward to seeing your corner sections, really really want to get my hands on them , they look bang on 40k ig mass produced trench lines. Your 3d printer cad work is also , interesting, i can see that this technology and your aproach could really push the direction of moddeling into a new direction , what ever you do , the technical qaulity or your work is obvious, There is so much potential for this stuff, Bizzare geometric forms of tezentch spring to mind. I would love to play around with your machine and soem3d softeware. Btw what 3d programs can you use with the printer ? is it just Cad , lightwave , 3dmax , or does it accept sketchup files and other lower end 3d programs ?

Progress has been made on a concept for the corners. The aim is to have a totally customisable set that allows you to modify the setup every game however you want, and we're thiiiiiiiis close. Once we've got all the extra duckboard parts drawn up we'll post some pics and get some prototypes cut to test that the theory works as well in the flesh as the computer!


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as for the software, most are acceptable to use with a range of technologies out there. I've seen some pretty advanced stuff come out of google SketchUp, we use Rhino as it makes things that would work in real life, and is pretty easy to get going plus has great 2D and 3D tools.

For more organic shapes a mesh modeler is more suited, like Cinema 4D or 3Ds Max..Blender is a great free tool also! If you can crete something, we'll happily make a prototype for you!

Well it's taken all day but I think we have an inner corner! The way it's designed you can have anything between 22.5 degrees and 90 degrees from a single set, but sets can be combined to make a huge range of configurations. I've been playing with one barricade on and off and it's almost like lego!

Now to do the same for the outer angles :(

Beautiful!

I wish more people made corner units for trenches/walls/etc in smaller increments

Those barricades are becoming more and more tempting!

Outer corners are done! Huzzah! We're planning on cutting a few out tomorrow to test them ready for sale, if all goes well I reckon we could have them up on the site pretty quick. I've been playing around with little connectors to hold everything together in the correct alignment and to stop everything getting knocked out of place if you bump your gaming table. All we need now's a fancy brand name like WarClick or something Ed's drawn up a concept for heavy weapon towers that can also slot into or behind the wall sections, so we'll have to get those drawn up in the future.

I've been buying up Infinity models at the moment to persuade Ed to play it, as the chances of us managing to paint whole 40K armies is pretty non-existent right now, but getting a dozen sexy models painted up is a bit more realistic. We've also got a few ideas for Inifinity terrain, but mostly the models are just damn hot

We both need to do a bit of painting for armies on parade as well. Bring on the guardsmen! Hopefully the Valkyrie kit will be ready for it

Harry

So...how much are those defensive barricades going to be?

And will they be available without the 'not-Aquila' section?

Kanluwen wrote:So...how much are those defensive barricades going to be?

And will they be available without the 'not-Aquila' section?

Good question! Once we've made a few we can work out material costs and manufacture time and work out a price from there. As far as the detail plates go there'll be a generic plate that comes with the set with army specific ones available as an upgrade package. This way we can get the basic set up as soon as possible and add more options later, stuff like heavy weapon towers, tank pits, etc. We could also do a package that lets you have an elevated barricade on top of a wall, armoured walkways, etc

Tank bunkers?

What are the barricades cut out of anyways?

mwnciboo wrote:I had some thoughts on what I would do with a CNC and lasercutter and I realised something. There is a definite lack of quality Bunkers and emplacements both in the 28mm scale but also in the 15mm Flames of War Scale.

I think you might with some opaque material, make some quite intricate bunkers, Obviously 28mm would need tobe made in a 5 sided box style with the buyer providing a Base. Furthermore with the 15mm range you could do the base in one pass and then a "Lid" which the buyer would assemble. D-Day style pill-boxes and bunkers would be just as relevant in 40K (although with a few eagles etc dotted about).

Examples such as Sandbag Sangars or emplacements, Mortar pits all based around the size of Flames of War Base. These examples tend to be resin cast, not sure if it is more expensive for you to do it, but it maybe an idea. (Plus FoW is played by older players in the main so more disposable income....mercenary but that is what capitalism is about, despite some of the lefty high faluting ideas on these forums).

http://www.modeldads.co.uk/Life-at-the-Front/wordpress/?p=1524

I think there is a gap in the market.

I would have to agree with you on this mwnciboo, and what you can get is featureless or terrible with everything from fitting issues to poor design.
The only caution would be that with terrain"one mans out house is another mans castle" it's hard to please everyone as taste factors in.

materials for the barricades is 3mm MDF

WarMill wrote:Good question!

I have a case full of Dark Angels, and they need re basing with our stuff - so will be picking up the sketchbook again hopefully this week

Any requests in particular? Bike and flying bases will be cool with the ravenwing and whatnot - also the terminators are slightly different so plenty of scope. If there is any reference material that you could point us in that would be handy and make for more varied bases

Ed

Why yes since you asked as for design the classic icon used in Rouge Trader till third ed. wing and sword icon comes to mind. Other then that I trust your artistic talents .
But as for bases yes also doors look great too.

Please keep us posted when you start selling those barricades.

WarMill wrote:materials for the barricades is 3mm MDF

Intriguing. Very intriguing.

I love this blog. You guys have made so many ultra cool things. i cant wait to see those barricade corners and am looking forward to the space marine shoulder pads alot.

Hello!

A bit of a pet project here really, but I remember I always wanted a cool set of scanners / radars with as part of my deployment or just something to set a mission around - So I made these relatively simple set of communications arrays.

Not quite as complex or cool as some of the things on this forum, but hey...I like them :p

Let me know what you guys think!!

Ed

just jumping on Ed's post to show the slightly tweaked barricade parts. Sorry dude ;P

Have you tried a central or offset single chaos star which stretches over the entire barricade? You could perhaps do a set with the star stretched over several barricades.

Kind of like these blast shields:

Ooh now there's an idea. As an upgrade option that could work really well. Would work well for the aquila as well. We've got plans for themed sets already but hadn't thought of that

I would love to see what you guys come up with for the extras to the barricades you've already mentioned, I'd just like to put forward a kick-ass landing pad; obviously to match the kick-ass valykrie. Any idea for a finish date on that thing?

Ed's already doodled up a landing pad

It's hard to give an exact time for the Valk as we've got a lot of projects on at the moment, including a big job that's huge for us and generally filling in gaps for the website, but I'm aiming for August.

So we got some barricade tests cut, 2 things became obvious:

the corners do not need to be as small as 11.25 degrees. It all gets really fiddly and loose. 22.5 degrees is small enough! (4 pieces to 90 degrees)
the little connectors don't really add anything the way they are at the moment, so they need altering slightly.

Besides that, they're pretty hot and will be good to go on the website soon. Ed ran off a set of his antenna arrays with added detail and they're looking cool as well, and has been working on a couple of commissions that should look pretty sweet. I'm going to get the bases for the pre heresy conclave going tonight then back on the valkyrie kit as soon as possible!

Harry

I love the metal / black and red aquila bases - any chance of a tutorial on how you did those ?

cheers

N

OOO , yummy lots more stuff, You two guys are crazy creative , in a good way, the new chaos front plates are cool, and the corner sections are much more customisable than i expected . Glad to here your not far from production with WarClick TM ;-) The bunkers and heavy weapon emplacements will be a nice height variation , and Ed's radar array sounds promising . Your bases look good painted too .

Awesome work as always with the barricades. What can we expect to see pricing and packaging wise?

Nephilim wrote:I love the metal / black and red aquila bases - any chance of a tutorial on how you did those ?

cheers

N

lol, ok here goes, pay attention:

1) spray chaos black
2) drybrush boltgun metal
3) paint detail blood red
4) there is no step 4

Alfhedil wrote:Awesome work as always with the barricades. What can we expect to see pricing and packaging wise?

well we're using the GW Aegis defense line as the benchmark, so we're aiming for a price around there. Unfortunately laser cutting is not as productive on an hourly basis as injection moulding so we need to make sure we can make enough of them in one hour to cover costs. One of the reasons I'm buying a laser cutter is to cut production costs as much as possible (when my girlfriend will let me use it for toys ) Packaging will consist of straight sections as one product with a choice of detail plate and a corner pack that has the bits to make one 45degree inner and one outer corner, so 4 corner segments of 22.5degrees. 4 segments make 90degrees. When the design is finalised we'll calculate costs and come up with a proper price.

Loving what I see here!

Have you considered plaster casting as an alternative to lasercutting? You can use the lasercut bits as a set of masters to make molds with. You can then cast using a high strength dental plaster (such as merlins magic, you can get like 50lbs. of the stuff for like 50 USD), which will come out as a hard as a rock, but significantly cheaper than using resin (and as the details are not superfine anyway, you don't need to worry about that).

Wish I had a laser cutter, oh the things I could use it for (actually, I've had some ideas in the past, would love to run it by you some time).

Hey! To late to join the party?!

Some image of the radars without paint - hope to get them sorted by the end of the week.

And also some tron-esque bases for a commission, or even our Techron range, we also thought of the models from the Infinity games system.

We tried a few of the different colours available to us for a bit of variation

Ed


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Also - 20,000 page views!! I didn't even numbers went that high!!

Thanks for all your support guys, really makes us keep at it!

The Radar is great guys , lots of detail , for mdf, not really a fan of the new bases though , although i can see that they would suit infinity , its cool that you take commissions too. i like the blue and the transparent but the green looks too much like a circuit board , i realis thats the aim here though ;-)

I like the barricades are you thinking of maiking anything else like buildings or something?

Version 2 of the 'Circuit City' bases.

They look a lot more stylised than the first , i think this version does a better job of being uniqly sci fi, with a deffinate move away from the circuit board . They are very tron , the top ones epsecially. Now you just need some light cycles It would be cool to see some infinity minis on those and painted up maybe with some osl.

Ahhh! Too much cool for one thread! Everything makes me want to bounce up and down far to much for my own good.

Those barricades are exactly what I have been looking for for years! Perhaps some bunkers that attatch directly on to the barricades?

Also, now that forgeworld has discontinued its line of trench sections, perhaps it is something that could go on you ever increasing list of projects!

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Warhammer_40,000_Terrain

The idea for these kits was that they could be placed into a large piece of polystrene. Of course FW chared stupid amounts of money and therefore never sold any!

Keep up the great work! I am sure I will be making an order soon, I can't restrain myself

Cain

Looking great, ever though of using the (laser cut?) wood to make cheap, but detailed buildings? Like a GW sized building for $10 or $15. Those would sell pretty well I imagine.

Thanks for the comments, I did like the first run of circuit bases, but after running version two I agree with you neil that they work better! Give us some time and we will paint up or infinity models on them!

As for the terrain, GW are getting pretty clever with their own, and they're reasonably priced. Once were happy we will upload to the website (soon!) and we can continue to add more stuff; what we wanted in our games, and what you guys as gamers are asking for.

These are great!

The barricades looks really impresive especcialy with the corners.

Hi, warmill Im back!Just had a look at the baricades they look pretty cool!However, I don't know why you would have a network of them with an 90 degrey space left per bend!

Hi warmill, just got back from bovi playing 40k on grahams stand. Must say how impressive your barricades looked on the battle field. Great craftsmanship and the scale is spot on. Keep up the good work guys.

Cheers mate we'll get some of the new and improved ones to graham for the club. Was nice to see something actually being used!

They looked like three sailing ships...
Mate. I'd be seriously interested in buying these, it'd be such an easy way to have great terrain. Have you painted them much, if yes, how?

Hello faithful followers!

Among replying to the multitude of PMs and emails, I got round to completing an idea we had for elevated heavy weapons platforms.

The idea being that it can easily be incorporated into the barricades that Harry has been working on, and either set up stand alone or as a group of three. It also has enough space around the struts to have little army men run around the duck boards to keep coherency and look super cool!

These were worked on this evening so are very much a 'version one' so please don't be shy with your comments and criticisms!!

Thanks for looking.

Ed

I like 'em. The one thing I would suggest is to make the viewport narrower. Being a raised position, its going to be a really big/easy target, and the size of the viewport looks like anyone up there will be super-exposed.

oooooh look at the shiny!!

I had never intended purchasing scenery, wasn't sure I would ever actually play the game as much as have a painting/modelling hobby (and i actually have been modelling, hence I haven't been emailing you guys every week lol) but now you got me thinking again

are you going to produce the vee plates for the corners as well, kinda looks a little off when only the straights bits have them

Great feedback, I'm sure I'll be able to make the amendments. Will try and get some samples done by the end of the day!
Ed

Rather than narrow the viewports, what about attachable slats so you can narrow it or sandbag it to suit your heavy wepons team.

After all some guard poses have Heavy weapons troops llaying down, some kneeling etc, so narrowing it migh "obscure the view of some of the models.

I look forward to seeing the sample so we can get a pic with different heavy weapons teams for comparison.

Good considerations...

If I had ever brought terrain back in the day, I would have always modded it to suit my needs (and I was an ORK player) so lots of styrene sheet and gubbinz were added. Maybe we could offer two variants - open topped and armored.

I guess it all comes down to who our target market is - whether it is gamers who are unable to make terrain, or people who don't have time and would rather buy a cheap set. Until then its all a bit of a guess as to how much complexity we add to the model kits.

The new heavy weapons watchtowers are very good indeed.
I dont mind the open idea personally , but then again i rarely game :-/ It does look in line with the rest though.


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will you also be doing a spiky chaos version of this model ?

Variations will follow once all the nitty grity is ironed out!

How about this?

those are real pieces of art my friend

If you make the front plate so they can be installed upside-down aswell as the standard way it would allow the player to almost pick where the open 'window' area would be situated, kinda like this

right way up
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half decent idea that - running off a new variant atm - will upload soon

Im surprised you understood that, I actually made it and it doesnt make much sense lol.

You have however been able to understand most of my randomness in the past, it must be a west-country thing

Now that GW have discontinued there road packs , could you build some road plates , maybe with pavements and kerbs to seperate buildings out?

Have a look at buildings from the BSG and Stargate Universe series , they have some designs for 'futuristic' buildings that would work.

I like it.

I think the platforms are a little bit wide.

Any thoughts on making larger viewing platforms with multiple scaffolding sections underneath?

Also - if you can make the scaffolding modular, it might be a good start on large radio towers, modular slot together buildings, etc.

Hello!

Thanks for the ideas for the heavy weapons platforms, spent a few ideas moving things around...overall I wasnt to happy with the model once it had been assembled - it looked to top heavy and alittle...weird!

After a bit of brainstorming, a variotion appeared! Hope you guys like it!

The towers can accomadate a 60mm base or a couple of guys on 25mm bases

Ed

YES. Absolutely beautiful.

The new wider base balances it much better.

Weee!

Also - no glue required! (perhaps reccomended)

If I can function later maybe we can paint it up - but will have to see if once I eat I may fall asleep!!

Cheers guys!

Very nice they look like they could work for Infinity as well.

I'm trying to persuade Ed to give Infinity a try so more terrain is good! Been playing around with some bits, I think an outpost needs to be made!

Man that looks good , you guys are on fire ! love love love the mini setup , and the tower has many possibilities

How much longer till I can buy them?

I agree with ChaosOxomega. What kind of price are we looking at here? Those things are SEXY.

Really as soon as possible!

We need to get some painted for the web-store - and get some instructions for assembly created and printed...also there is the packaging side of things.

Mid next week all being well

all this stuff is awesome....

Really impressed by these barrcades and towers, the radar and antenna arrays are also spot on, when will these be available on the site?

OMG i really want some. I have no terrain so I m so keen to get some of those as they are just so epic. Can't wait to order some.

Sorry to get all military on you, but you want maximum protection, and smallest possible firing slits. The Nests look pretty open plan. I wouldn't allow much more than 3+ save on them, Bunkers are designed in a Pillbox way for this reason.

Otherwise I think they look brilliant, and gel well with the Barracades. It looks more PDF than IG.

Thanks for the comments, Harry has heavy weapon teams that we sampled the towers with, so there will be a few alterations to the final model, perhaps with an even more enclosed pill box as that's where a few of the commentors have directed us.

I'm 'out of the office' today and Harry is working on a few other bits, so we'll update as soon as we can!

Ed.

The new design looks much much better. A lot more stable/solid than the top heavy looking ones. I agree with mwnciboo though about the windows still seeming a bit open. Also, why are the tops of the corner pieces those spikes instead of the windows? I can imagine the whole wall looking good with only spiked tops on all the barricade walls (meaning on the straights as well as the turns), and a whole wall (turns included) with window-like tops would look great too. Mixed together seems kinda un-imperial.

Those are just my thoughts, You guys are making awesome stuff!

The spikes are from when there were 8 segments per 90 degree corner, to maintain the shape of the firing port either side of the vision slit ( the idea being you would take cover behind the vision slit plate then lean out and rest your gun on the lowered part either side of it when it was time to shoot). 8 segments was basically too fiddly so now we just have 4 segments per 90 degree turn (22.5 degrees each).

Hey, just bumping this post to give Warmill some mad props. This guy/gal/company has their stuff together. Great communication with customers current and prospected.

Guys, awesome work as always, never disappoint us. Gotta love the enthusiasm you guys put into this

Hey all,

Listening to your suggestions, we revised the file to look more warhammery and more enclosed!

Please give us your worst with the version 3 heavy weapons nest!

Sorry for bad quality iphone pics

Nice tower/out post thing!looks pretty cool!

now with more shooty

i just came...

lol outside of dirty pants, if you received a request for 30mm bases would you fill it? because i wouldn't mind basing my Khador forces on a sweet Acrylic base instead of figuring out how to make "Scenic" bases >.>

Sure would!

A little over the regular 25mm but certainly doable.

Been playing with toys

We're almost ready to launch, got a couple of modifications to make to the gate and we're good to go! Please note this little setup is made of various prototype bits (some of the corners, the heavy weapon tower, etc) I had to hand that we've made over the past month or so, so some bits won't be in the final sets. We need more corners and towers!

That thing is sexy when it is all together!

The gate looks amazing! I really really like it! I think my only gripe I might have with it would be that it currently doesn't allow for units to smoothly move from the barricade walls, to the area under the towers around the main gate. Since there are the diagonal bracers in the way. I feel like having a walkway through there would be very beneficial game-play wise.


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Also, am I correctly seeing this? The gates slide open and closed with that lever in the back? That is beautiful!

NakedBatBoy wrote:The gate looks amazing! I really really like it! I think my only gripe I might have with it would be that it currently doesn't allow for units to smoothly move from the barricade walls, to the area under the towers around the main gate. Since there are the diagonal bracers in the way. I feel like having a walkway through there would be very beneficial game-play wise.


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Also, am I correctly seeing this? The gates slide open and closed with that lever in the back? That is beautiful!

Yeah if you look at the pics of the new heavy weapon tower there's a space between the support struts and the wall for men to fit. As Ed was working on the tower today we'll be modifying that bit on the gate tomorrow to match it. The new tower works perfectly for little plastic dudes!

And yes the gate slides open via the little lever

This is Awesome. you guys have got to paint this up and show it on your site on a game table

Fantastic ! I think the gate is letting down the overall piece though, i think some more research into sci fi doors would help this look great, it needs some depth in my oppinion , i found some pics to illustrate what i mean.












or you could just splash a big aquilla across it


i realise that adding to the door would be impracticle as it moves in ond out of its housing but you could add depth by subtraction. i think it needs depth becuase it needs texture fro the paint to adhere to.



Loving the overall feel to the piece though and the gate towers are wicked

Would still like to see Vee Plates for the corner pieces and, and for the front of the towers to have the invertable front plates, or perhaps just a range of replaceable front plates for the towers so you can mix it up a little. Seems like I just like making more work for you guys.

Nothing like adding more work to the mix!

I think the nest is in a 'done' state - as you mentioned, we can always add to it later once things have settled - offer a V2, V3 etc. I'm also trying to persuade Harry that we need the little armour plates on the corner as well!

Thanks for the reference material you posted Neil, I'm sure Harry will be all over it! As with most of the projects we work on, we get the rough idea on the forum and then you guys tell us how to refine it and make it 'what the community wants', I believe Hazza is working on refining the gate house today so I can laser the revision at some point today.


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@neil101

Just for you we'll add a load of detail engraving like on the tower. Unfortunately adding 3D detail isn't really practical without making the gate really thick, but some nice engraving will show up if you spray the bits. This is the MK 1 gate to test the concept so there's more to add yet. You should see the files for the large aquila gate with raising wing mechanism we've got drawn up!

@Asylum_Inmate The front of the tower is 1 piece so we'll do replaceable rather than invertable plates. This setup is made of various stages of development so some bits are missing, particularly the v plates.

All being well we'll have enough parts cut for a full compound to paint up this weekend.

I don't believe it Ninja'd by Ed!

Really like the heavy support tower

One thing that you might be interested in thinking about making is some kind of shield pylon that you can clip onto the wall.

Interesting you should mention that silver - acrylic rod has already been ordered, but that's already letting on too much

Well I suppose what we had in mind was quite different but sort of similar xD

I was thinking more along the lines of something like the braces you have on the towers which just hooked onto the wall, with some small squares/circles which stuck onto the sides to give a kind of stepped tesla coil type of gadget to pass the forcefield/laser/etc along to the next pylon

If that makes sense...

I like the door how it is can be used in Alt. WWII games.

Woah those are awesome! I hope they are in my price range!

Omg

WarMill wrote:Omg

Do tell

This might be a bit of a daft question, but how do tanks look behind the barricade, can their weapons still be seen over it without difficulty.

Would it be possivble to make a platform that a tank could drive on to so it can "man the walls" so to speak?

Like parking a bunker on the line.

Hull down emplacements are in the pipeline.

Tanks gonna get constructed tomorrow and pics online soon!

A tank platform would be cool

That is one sweet setup of terrain. No bugs are getting past that!

Just read the whole thing start to finish. I have to say reading about your journey so far has been amazing, you developed a truly great range of products as far as I can see.

I had a few questions. You mentioned earlier that you could either do the resin bases or for a fixed price you could sell a mould so you could make you own. The question is if that choice is still available, if so does it have to be a custom design and lastly would you be able to offer a similar mould for Rhin.. I mean APC doors?

Suggestion wise, apart from the APC door mould was if you were to perhaps offer a few more mechanical designs within the Tech range they could double up for necrons, Adeptus Mech and SM chapter like the Iron Hands. After the barricade system is complete perhaps a venture into some city terrain, I'm thinking hive-city style, which would easily suit both the Necromunda and Infinity crowds.

Last question, will you be offering custom engraving on the gates for the barricade system, because every time I see photos of it it just screams Arbites precinct to me and I would love to have my very own Precinct 13 .

You warmill fellers have got a good thing going on here.

Lennysmash wrote:

I had a few questions. You mentioned earlier that you could either do the resin bases or for a fixed price you could sell a mould so you could make you own. The question is if that choice is still available, if so does it have to be a custom design and lastly would you be able to offer a similar mould for Rhin.. I mean APC doors?


Last question, will you be offering custom engraving on the gates for the barricade system, because every time I see photos of it it just screams Arbites precinct to me and I would love to have my very own Precinct 13 .

Thanks for reading, sometimes we can't believe it's only been a few months since we first said hey, we should make some things

The APC doors are an idea we had early on, it's still on the list of things to develop. They will be up on the website as a customisable product option in the near future (we've got a whole load of stuff we need to get on there) but they won't necessarily have to be a custom design, we'll be offering them in most of our design ranges. If there's something in particular you had in mind, fire us an email at orders@warmill.co.uk and we could go from there.

And funnily enough, just yesterday we talked about different engraved gate plates. We'll be offering them with designs from our other ranges or with the option of being customised so hang on in there. They'll be up on the site very soon...

WarMill wrote:
Thanks for reading, sometimes we can't believe it's only been a few months since we first said hey, we should make some things

How long do you think it will be before you are going "holy crap we need to hire staff"??, at this rate, not long at all would be my guess

See what happens when you start with an idea lol

Hey all

So here we are, the reason for Ed's OMG last night. We've been very busy the last few days getting everything ready to launch the flagship product for our new BattleSnap (cos it's for the Battlefield and it Snaps together innit? ) range of modular terrain. Anyone who's been on our website in the past few days may have noticed the new category has appeared in the sidebar, and interestingly thanks to google analytics we know it's been the most popular page since it went up even though there's nothing on there! Anyone who's followed our plog will have seen WIP pics of the parts and even helped us develop them, but now after some long days of cutting and painting (Ed's barely seen his home this week!) we can show the finsihed article off.

We'll be putting the kits up on the website over the next couple of days ready for pre-ordering while we optimise files and sort packaging and instructions (most of it's very straightforward and can be assembled and disassembled in a couple of minutes but the gate is a bit of a headscratcher the first time ) ready for the official launch on 01/08/2011, Monday the first of August. As a promotion anyone who orders any kits between now and launch day will get a free pack of jewel bases from the range of their choice included (the 40mm ones in particular make great objective markers if you don't want to use them as bases), so check our webstore over the next few days to get a detailed look at things and check out prices.

Thanks to everyone who's been following the development, it's pretty crazy to think we've managed to go from an idea for a basic barricade to a complete fort kit in less than a month in our spare time. This is just the start of the BattleSnap range and Outpost Accessories, there will be more on the way!

Harry and Ed - The Warmill boys

PS Asylum_Inmate we made the corner V plates!

Also, we'll be launching our first Outpost Accessories set, Ed's Antennae Arrays! These will come as a pck of 3 and would make awesome objectives, especially for Infinity! We will play that game of sabotage...

Nice to see you managed to finish painting it! I think you had just got the first coat of grey on it when I popped round yesterday. Have to say I was very impressed with all your stuff you've got going. You guys have a perfect mini studio set up.

I was particulary impressed with the laser cut bases. The detail really shines through when you see them in person.

Cheers!

Cheers dude glad you made it home ok!

ok this battle snap stuff is AWESOME, i've been trying to make something similar with foamcore recently and its slow going, looks like i may be able to skip that entirely, can't wait to see the entire set on your website, will order asap. I was also wondering if a simple gear pattern around the edge of the jewel bases would be possible, just to give it a slight mechanicus vibe, if so i expect you'll be getting most of my next paycheck

Amazing! congratulations . It looks pretty much perfect.

This has probably been said already but I'd like to reiterate a bit: be very careful with your names and labels.

Librarium Onine (or whatever its called now) got hit with the IP hammer over something that only vaguely resembled the imperial aquila. Your designs are different but more similar tan Librarium's.

This stuff looks awesome and much more flexible in purpose than GW's stock of gothic ruins. I really want to be able to buy this down the line.

Yeah the pics with plastic men on won't be on the webstore, they're strictly for personal use. The display board's for me to show off my Cadians, hence the text.

You guys have been busy, all the fort stuff looks very nice indeed.

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE THAT LOOKS GREAT!!!? Now, do you have any price estimates for us?

Also, did you ever get my email (regarding heavy weapon/gun carriages)?

Aww heck, that is amazing! Opening and closing gates, now that is clever The modular ability really clinches it though, something a lot of us have wanted for ages!

Keep up the great work.

Cain

Love the bases. what program is it that unfolds the terrain peices for you It might be able to help me with my tie fighter land speeders at least as a refrence sheet type thing.I know you said something but it took me 6 hours to read thread the first time not going to reread to find the program name that i'm not even sure you named.


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Also those hero plynth things mainly the technicron and eldar ones might lookk a bit better if the back part had the mirror(spelling?) back as its a display so itll show both sides at once then so people can admire full model without having to handle your model you worked so hard on.

Seeing it all together like that is too much awesome for the eyes to process

Very nice indeed. If you can make an in-table trench system I am sure there will be more than a few people interested (the making of gaming tables seems to be increasing these days ).

As mentioned, any idea on prices?

Prices will follow soon, and are going to be super affordable!

'caus we love you xx

Ed

Yay!

Is there any chance that you will be making a second story or an addon to the bottom to make the walls higher?

This is the perfect outpost set regardless.

Lysenis wrote:Is there any chance that you will be making a second story or an addon to the bottom to make the walls higher?

This is the perfect outpost set regardless.

yep plans have been afoot for a while for how to extend the set. Higher walls, bigger gates (with sexy mechanisms :O ). The fluff is basically a flat-pack outpost that can be quickly air-dropped and erected then expanded over time as needs dictate, so front-line bases would have higher walls, reserve or needed in a hurry bases would have lower walls, etc, etc.

Now you just need a shower block

Ooh, how about a laser-tag assault course with little pop-up targets and a flag to capture?

WarMill wrote:

Lysenis wrote:Is there any chance that you will be making a second story or an addon to the bottom to make the walls higher?

This is the perfect outpost set regardless.

yep plans have been afoot for a while for how to extend the set. Higher walls, bigger gates (with sexy mechanisms :O ). The fluff is basically a flat-pack outpost that can be quickly air-dropped and erected then expanded over time as needs dictate, so front-line bases would have higher walls, reserve or needed in a hurry bases would have lower walls, etc, etc.

Ok so now not only do I wnat some of your bases, your terrain is now on the list. All I really need now is a price for the system for a 3 level outpost.

OH question will the outpost have firing slits in the lower tiers?


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WarMill wrote:Ooh, how about a laser-tag assault course with little pop-up targets and a flag to capture?

I actually like that idea. you can literally make an entire facility for a training planet attacked by (insert army here) so fluff battles will be so much fun!

You know what i thought when i saw that base completed ..?
3D space hulk walls i am pretty sure your stuff would work wonders for creating a standard set of space ship interior walls . Infact i am pretty sure i could convert one from the sets you have posted already , and the custom jewel bases would look pretty epic on it too

just an idea

Neil if you do such a thing you better make a tutorial on how the feth you did it or there might be angry Dakka-ites at your door. . .

Hey guys,

With 20 mins to spare we finally got the options uploaded to the website!

The products are now live and available for pre order - all orders will be shipped and will arrive to your door by the 1st of August!

As a bonus for pre ordering, we are offering a free set of jewel bases of your choice with selected Battle Snap kits!

Thanks for being lovely and patient whilst we got things in order!

See you at warmill.co.uk !

Edward and Harry (WarMill)

Question, if you buy the sets do they come in the reinforced style? I noticed that the 3 pack were offered in your choice of aquila, chaos star or reinforced, but not such distinction was made for the fortress sets, etc.

Doh good spot! Had a feeling we missed something. I'll fix it now!

Those are epic! Great work guys. How much are they gonna cost?

Check the website: warmill.co.uk

all prices listed there

One Outpost ordered - check
Excitement levels rising - check
Request for possible articles to show how you got them to look so good painted (please could you do either an article here on dakka or something on the warmill site to show us all how you got the sets looking so fething amazing) - Umm, check.

Cool roll on August, thanks guys and congratulations again.

I go away for a few days and look what happens. You guys have done an awesome job there, can't wait untill payday to get my filthy orky hands on a set of these to orkify

Have to say they are very well priced. Almost surprised (in a very good way)

ohhhhhhh yeaahhhh!!!

Its been great, quite the ride for such a short space of time - silver, what happend to MK1?

MKI was lost to us in the great war of '85. It was a sad day for us all :(

Awesome Work, A Company sized outpost. All it needs a barrack block, HQ Bunker and a supply dump and it'll look like a true firebase. With that in Mind a Mortar Troop inside would be well protected and able to keep firing over the Walls. It is very IG, and would make a brilliant Apocalypse Centre piece ( I am imagining thousands of points of Nid's charging whilst Marines fight through them to try and rescue an Isolated Comms Out post where a Cadian Company holds a Comms Relay)

Oh man, why did I have to buy minis. I should have preordered this stuff instead. Maybe in a couple weeks at the next big paycheck.

Can't wait to see this expand.

Don't be ashamed of your plastic crack addiction

I think he just wants to get some wood

Well, it is some wonderful wood.

this stuff is Sex, and even better its cheaper then sex lol

i may put an order in sometime =] as well as an order of bases, my khador need acrylic bases =] and a foreward command base =]

heres a thought, have you given idea to making this to be more steampunk to match something like WarmaHordes or other tabletops.

Well I'm sure we could knock up some different detail plates and parts in the future. We've got a load of cogs drawn up which we could use to make some variants. Consider on the end of an increasingly long list (the mirrored command squad bases have been sat in the workshop waiting to be photographed for a very long time)

A) The walls look amazing, and are very well priced!
B) What happened to the outward turning wall sections?

Released for pre-order within the next week.

They're on the site. If you go into corner pack theres a drop down menu to select inner or outer corner, the one shown being outer corner. Thinking about it it's a bit unclear, having them as a separate product makes more sense from a customer point of view, so we'll be updating it once we have a set painted up (we had an epic painting session at the weekend getting everyting ready for photos)

My bad mis-read your other thread.

Definitley placing an order for the outpost sometime today, I am a tricky guy to impress and I have to say you have pulled this one off brilliantly!

Sorry FW your order will have to wait, I have found more awesome elsewhere!

Cain

Id be all over this if I had a gaming group that came to my house to play. I hate having to travel to the LGS to play everytime I want to play. Very nice! Is that made of resin or something else?

Was my (ed) fault Lenny I did indeed say comming later this month - it appears I dont know what we have for sale on our site!

Having said that, it could do with having some painted up / having some images uploaded to the store

Ed

WarMill wrote:Was my (ed) fault Lenny I did indeed say comming later this month - it appears I dont know what we have for sale on our site!

Having said that, it could do with having some painted up / having some images uploaded to the store

Ed

Well... you have my address

I was going to say a similar thing Silver. Why not use the community, or at least a select few to ease the workload, it would be one less thing to worry about. Of course you may find that producing the models from initial concept to final painted product is just too rewarding an experience to hand out.

I was just being cheeky

But if you like my painting skillz and I can hide the packages from my wife...

I have to ask how easy the terrain was to paint, as it is made of MDF, I imagine you had to use different paints to get the desired effect. Correct??

I would imagine priming it will make it like pretty much any other surface to paint. That seems to be the case whenever I have painted wood.

They're painted with Vallejo model air (only due to gw paints being rubbish at being airbrushed!) They were sprayed black with a cheapy matt black aerosol from a car shop!

MDF takes paint really well, you won't get the paint chipping or flaking off.

It went from black, to dark grey, then light grey followed by a black wash with mig pigments, and select weathering with a ginger rust.

Awesome!

Perfect! I had thought that a good basecoat would go on well and the news that it will not chip or flake is excellent!

Thanks for the reply!

Cain

So sexy. . . I want this so very badly. . . I will get my full set when I go on det! this will be so bad ass to play on!!!

What are the projected dates for the walls that will add height to this lovely thing?

To busy trying to source boxes!

Ouch. . . I can feel your pain. Than again you did come out with something so bad ass that demand is going to outdo your supply.

OMG I want them so bad. But I live in NZ, do you guys ship there? I want to get some bases for my new Cygnar army.Do you make warmachine size bases?

I think given the versitility of the metods of base production that they can probably make any size base you want given enough time... have you tried sending the guys an email through their website?

We have two orders ready to go to Australia so New Zealand shouldn't be a problem! I could do some google Fu and find the sizes for the war machine bases, as I don't know them!

Email us if you want

Ed


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Hey cool kids of Dakka!

We now have our social networking thing up and running, something called 'The facebook'!

Check us out and leave us a comment, would be cool to see you guys on there!

oh - we're called War Mill

I have sent an envoy to your strange and mysterious facebook lands bearing tidings of peace

Thanks man, got the message!

Not sure what its all about I did a really good job of ignoring it...It appears to be a pretty good tool if your a stalker though.... 0_0

WarMill wrote:It appears to be a pretty good tool if your a stalker though.... 0_0

... yes... those... damn stalkers...

*hides*

Realtime harrasment of our favourite purveyors of acrylic and MDF gaming goodness, sign me up!

just found this thread.........awesome truly awesome i shall indded be parting with my hard earned £'s looking forward to some Dark angel stuff, and maybe some Night lords?????????????????
again though well done guys good to see the market expanding and with quality

Thanks Shakey!

Still arguing with CAD - when will it all end!

Not long now till new stuff

I have never tried this but is it possible to cut polystyrene rods and tubes with a laser cutter?

Yah!

We have a rotation (4th Axis) attachment on our machine so cutting and engraving is doable - might have to give it a go

That means even more stuff for you to try, your "To Do" must be huge

Yeah getting things done off that list is slower than things geting added! Maybe division of labour isn't that bad an idea!

your safe for a little while I have given all the ideas I can think of for now lol

Hello WarMillers!

last few days have been long, working into the early hours and I really cannot wait for some extended sleep tomorrow!

That asside, we ran off a few barricared fortresses and realised we need to lay the artwork out in a simple way that allows us to package them in a much simpler way - so back to the drawing board for us! (like we ever left it)!

In other news, I took some rather pornographic images of the Battlesnap range of terrain, which even made it onto the Beasts of War 'On the table' feature! Things are gtting real for us real quick!

http://www.beastsofwar.com/on-the-table/on-the-table-22july2011/

I think we make an appearnce around 7:45, once again thanks guys for featuring us!

Now for the sexy pics

Thanks for watching

WarMill

Snap!

Have to say that is some mighty fine terrain (every time I have looked at it I thought "wow!" ).

How's this for some mighty fine terrain?

Behold the glory of the soon to be complete Warmill Forge on the planet Dorset. First mission will be a take and hold on the laser room, followed by sabotaging the resin room and blitzkrieg on the power tool room. Defending will be 2 points of Cadians (me and Ed), attacking force will be one Hive Tyrant (my girlfriend ) desperately trying to get some laser time while we make castles and laugh!

It might because I'm having a bath. But those look even better if that's possible. I like what you're doing the garage space considering your car has been off the road for 6 months! You are definitely making the most of it. Every model makers dream....

Yeah Ed got in the modelmaking studio with a nice camera. I can't wait to get in there and get set up, it's crazy how fast it came together. Laser gets delivered on the 5th of August

A mighty bastion indeed

So glad to see your endevors are comming together for you... Girlfriends shouldn't be allowed to play with laser cutters or any form of powered tool. ((only kidding))

Cool... I like the bases on the first page.

I don't know if people are aware, but you can now "Exalt" (like) threads/posts.

Exalted threads show up in the "My Exalted Threads" page (linked to next to "My Friends' Threads" link), and there are plans to possibly extend this feature to have things such as "most exalted threads" etc.

I have exalted this thread as I think it is excellent

Your the man, silver

I Exaulted this thread as soon as I saw the button. I didn't know what it was about or what it would do but I have enough vocabulary to realise that exaulting something probably isn't going to be a bad thing.

nice stuff!

I want a warmill LOL!! Dang your one lucky man!

Two Lucky men! LOL

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What does exalted do?

SilverMK2 wrote:I don't know if people are aware, but you can now "Exalt" (like) threads/posts.

Exalted threads show up in the "My Exalted Threads" page (linked to next to "My Friends' Threads" link), and there are plans to possibly extend this feature to have things such as "most exalted threads" etc.

I have exalted this thread as I think it is excellent

As far as I know what silver said.

Warmill, I was a little dubious with some of your earlier efforts, but the latest base images absolutely kick ass! You guys have come a long way in a very short time, and I think you'll sell a ton of those, maybe even to me, and I don't even play war-games lol!

Is it just me, or are there replies on this thread that are not showing up?

Edit: Ah, it just needed a kick up the bottom to show the next page

Thanks for all the comments guys and to everyone who's still following the thread even though there's not been much to see for a while! We've been chained to our computers sorting packaging, boxes, laser files, instructions...

Once we've shipped everything next week we might be able to start making something new again!

Cheers all
Harry and Ed

hey guys I sent you a autocad file which is a rough version only for a quick quote any chance you've got to it yet?

Yep had a quick perusal last, we can definitely do it for you. We'll shoot you an email when we get a chance to look at it properly, but at first glance everything looks good. It's gonna be interesting to see the finished article! :-)

First exalted thread! Looking forward to new stuff

Cool I look forward to hearing back from you guys, hopefully soon as I only have about 11.5 months to get this project done plus a Gargant...... Ohhh yeah and I'm already drawing up the gargant for you to cut the skeleton for aswell....

Well since you've already done the work for us (for which we love you ) we just need to check the file, set the colours and go, so we'll get the cutting done in no time.

Nooo I just sent that file for a rough quote I've made minor changes already, I just wanted a ballpark figure of how much i need to set aside.

Or i could just stop fiddling with it and send you the completed file i suppose...

nope sorry still haven't sent you the real one yet but tonight when i get home from work I shall do that thing.. then on to the gargant file for you guys to laser for me.

Hey guys I got the outpost kit through today and simply wow, I'm actually blown away by the quality of the product. I was able to put a few pieces together before work and I have to say it is one of the best terrain construction kits I've used to date. As for the jewel bases I was a little unimpressed until I removed the backing protection and then.. Beautiful. The pack you sent will remain as they are, I'll be using them as objective markers for games when I finally get my butt in gear and plan a few.

Thanks again for swift dispatch on this box of utter awesomeness.

!!!

Thanks Lenny great to hear! If there is anything in the kit or isnt in the kit let us know!

I held my breath as I read about the bases but then you said they were great so phew!

Looking forward to some pictures! Thanks for the order and the kind words!

Edward - WarMill

You beat me to it lenny! Can't wait for mine to arrive.

I hope you can get your drill problem fixed quickly, not that I mind waiting a little longer for it all to arrive, it will be worth it in the end!

Congrats on your recent success, it is always nice to see a new business emerge and do well in the world. I try to support them whenever I can (hence me spending 100 squid at your store ) Hi-five warmill!!

Cain

Thanks for the understanding, me, Ed and my girlfriend were frantically painting the workshop last night ready for our personal laser to arrive so we can avoid these problems in future. That was in between pouring sets of custom resin bases for a tournament in October (600 of them!)

One way or another your set will be in the post on Saturday. I may be staying up late Friday manning the laser but it will happen!

Harry

"No Mr Board, I expect you to be terrain BWAHAHAHA!"

[/the WarMill team playing with their new laser]

The Warmill Lascannon is here! Now to spend the night cutting everyone's orders

Speedy? What kind of a name is that for a mega death laser

I recommend a new name panel

I looked through several pages of this and all I have to say is wow. I'd seriously consider hiring you to make these bases for my armies... Seriously. Send me a PM if you're at all interested in doing so. I'm impressed.

-J.

Exalted!

Damn....and here I was thinking that "Lascannon" was an awesome new terrain piece...darn you, non-loading HTML in emails!

Hey all

We've been a bit quiet due to busting our guts getting orders out (all pre-orders have now shipped woo!) but we're getting to the point where we may actually be able to start designing stuff again!

I'm going to be working on upgrade kits for the battlesnap fortress, Ed meanwhile has been working on the first in our Infinity range of terrain, getting some ideas out so we can start to fix down an aesthetic. He's currently made some random street furniture-style bits and some concept fences to start developing the direction we want to go in. We've got some big plans for the future, now we just need time to do them!

C+Cs welcome as always
Harry

I like the fences, but am not a fan of the big random blocks.

I've not really read all that much about Infinity, but perhaps look at some of the architecture from the "clean" sections of Brink?

Hell, some of the broken sections could work for wartorn/underhive type areas (I especially love this piece which is just a simple girder ruin).

Managed to squeeze out a quick first prototype for the wall upgrade pack to turn a standard barricade into a MK2 planetary fortress. So the idea is after you've set up a series of outposts and got your front line established the grunts can easily raise the walls up for added defense without taking apart the intial wall. Unfortunately I left a few holes off it and it doesn't go together quite right but the basic construction works

Stop making awesome things!! Now i have to get the wall kit when it's ready to upgrade the barricades when they get here
Love the 'speedy 300 pattern lascannon' btw

I'm liking the honeycombing on the walls, although it doesn't neccesarily fit in 40k it would fit most futuristic settings.
Keep up the great work and i can't wait for my barricades to arrive

Your packages are at the tender mercies of the post office, it' s pretty nerve wracking for us as we've sent quite a few to Aus and the US but have never done that before! We're terrified of getting a sudden rash of emails from people asking where their stuff is :s

Anything that is MK2 is obviously better

I don't know if it would make sense for each upright support to have recesses cut into it (recesses rather than holes) to act as a ladder to get to the upper level? Though that would mean the upright would need to be a little longer so troops could just step out onto the platform.

The Mk2 looks awesome but I would like to see a larger fireing slot on the ground floor, this is my only C+C...


Love those fences.

hmmm, starting to look like structures for a certain alien race...

Doth mine eyes mistake me? Is that Tau Terrain?

I sure do hope so! Warmill, I have a little art depicting Tau buildings if you're interested!

The new stuff was created for infinity, but world work just as well for 'a certain alien race' in the 40k universe! It was abit of a break from the MDF stuff and for us to see if we could produce resin cast terrain. Whilst the answer is a resounding yes, a little more development is needed on our part as to nailing an aesthetic suitable for a range of pieces, so it's going to be a very long weekend watching cool movies and playing all those video games! Hard times eh!

If you made the support beams look like ladders and have the capability of putting models on firing slits I think it would be 200% better but none the less this is friggin out standing!

The "ash tray" terrain piece looks odd, not sure bout the small pieces, like the big towers. The fences have good potential. And if you can manage that the rest of the terrain is compatible with Micro Art Infinity terrain and Tau looks, then you have a winner.

Liking the fences and the barricade upgrade. Undecided about the Infinity stuff, need to see more. Pretty sure it will appeal to tau players though!


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P.s i'll be down the xchurch club tomo night, would be good to see some up to date stuff in person!

The terrain looks decidedly tauish, maybe with refinements it willl be better. I do like the upgrade bit to the barricade though. very swanky.

Guys what software do you use for your APC door and base design, only had a play around with paint at it was laughable. Just wanted to throw around a few ideas before I commissioned a mold.

More exciting updates warmill! Loving the infinity terrain, looks like a very promising start. The fortress extension looks okay, not 100% sold on it atm, perhaps it is because you have only constructed a small portion of the wall? The way it fits together is genius!

Cain

ps. Had a very vivid dream about recieving the fortress last night!


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pps, how about a set of stairs for the wall extension? ladders are all good for a couple of guys but when it comes to rushing a platoon up onto a wall, somethink a little more efficient is needed

You're having dreams about receiving it, we're having nightmares about people not receiving them!

Will do a proper update later when not at work

WOW! I wish i had time to read every single post!!!

Ahh well, i seem to be trying


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I have just realised () that i dont need to look through it all to see how awsome it is... I ALREADY KNOW!!!
This is my first ever exalted pot


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Lennysmash wrote:Guys what software do you use for your APC door and base design, only had a play around with paint at it was laughable. Just wanted to throw around a few ideas before I commissioned a mold.

I think they are using google sketchup

Software for 2D - Adobe Illustrator

free alternative - Inkscape

3D stuff - Rhino / SolidWorks

free alternative - sketchup / blender

good to see some more activity on the thread

Cheers guys I'll have a practice and see if I can come up with something close to what I'm looking for.

Did a bit more on the wall upgrade set while manning the laser, now featuring hot ladder action. I'm thinking about a ramp addon but need to think about whether it's a standalone part that clips on or an alternative kit in itself.

I'd go with a stand alone piece for the ramp - gives people more flexibility.

SilverMK2 wrote:I'd go with a stand alone piece for the ramp - gives people more flexibility.

Agreed, and you could have an interchangable stair surface maybe?

Nice progress! I like how you have now lined up the firing slits to be on top of each other. Stand alone stairs would probably be the best, I can imagine them fitting into that sticky-out section on the third picture from the top.

I have a sneaky suspicion that the fortress walls I ordered could soon become the 'inner fortress'

We've had confirmation that at least 1 package has made it to Oz which is a massive weightoff our minds! Hopefully the US and Canada packages will be ok too.