Someone (RiTides?) was worrying about when the scams would start showing up on crowd-funding sites, so cautionis advisable.
NOTE: I am NOT saying that this one is a scam! I am merely saying that if people want our hard earned money, then they need to get a bit more done upfront...
One thing that could help, the Indiegogo should probably read "28mm Plastic Multi-part Zombie Miniatures- By Studio Miniatures"
Alpharius wrote:Sounds kinda smart, actually.
Someone (RiTides?) was worrying about when the scams would start showing up on crowd-funding sites, so cautionis advisable.
NOTE: I am NOT saying that this one is a scam! I am merely saying that if people want our hard earned money, then they need to get a bit more done upfront...
Well I doubt its a scam, its just unprofessional right now
I mean their plastic zombie germans aint bad, though I never actually seen them myself
I would argue that crowdfunding sites should be used for the kind of stuff that is not commercially viable because it is too off the wall, not because it faces too much competition.
Kilkrazy wrote:Does the world need more 28mm zombie figures?
I would argue that crowdfunding sites should be used for the kind of stuff that is not commercially viable because it is too off the wall, not because it faces too much competition.
Why would you argue that? What does off the wall have to do with crowd funding sites in any way shape or form? Why do you want to restrict other people choice based on your preconceived notions?
on topic now......... I will wait to see if he comes up with anything a little more concrete. I wouldn't mind doing $100 and based on his previous work I am not too worried but I personally would prefer to see something more than just an idea.
These guys have been out for quite awhile. Though the German zombies seem new, the batch packages are top notch deals on quality zombies. Perfecto for those AFMBE, and all things zombie.
Zombie skirmish games? these guys look good for the go!
not sure those shown are the plastic product i belive there the metal ones allready relesed..
if there multi part i would think they would all be a simaler design to each other to allow them to be interchangable..
Thanks for the interest and comments on our campaign. We have put the first of many update pics on the site,heads to start with the rest to follow in the coming days. A big thanks to everyone already onboard with us for this and if we hit the $1000 mark by midnight Sunday 24th then everyone already contributing will get an extra 10% sprues FREE with their perk. I will checkout the forum everyday and try to answer all questions you guys have.
More zombies, really? As if there weren't 4 plastic zombie kits on the market already.
Yeah, and they're all pretty bad.
GWs are big and cartoony
Mantic's are ok, but repetitious, and half zombies (half out of the ground, only the legs w spine) are a cop out...
WGFs are poorly sculpted
Who is the fourth?
I'm patiently waiting for a company to do decent plastic zombies with lots of options (heads, torsos, legs, male and female). When that happens, I'll finally get that zombie horde I've been wanting (not to mention use them for WHFB).
More zombies, really? As if there weren't 4 plastic zombie kits on the market already.
Mantic and GW ones are primarily for fantasy, so imo they dont exactly count. Assuming thats what you meant. And yea as said before WGF zombies are on of their worst sets. There isnt a really good straight out of the box zombie set for modern
More zombies, really? As if there weren't 4 plastic zombie kits on the market already.
To my knowledge these are the 4 available zombie sets at the moment, (not including mono pose plastics from boardgames.)
GW, Fantasy.
Mantic, Fantasy.
Wargames factory, Modern.
Studio Miniatures, WW2.
Notice how only one of these kits actually contain MODERN zombies, and quite frankly the Wargames Factory zombies are awful models that are lacking detail.
Personally i prefer my modern zombies to actually look like they're from our era, not wearing loincloths or looking like they were infected at a WW2 reenactment.
Kilkrazy wrote:Does the world need more 28mm zombie figures?
I would argue that crowdfunding sites should be used for the kind of stuff that is not commercially viable because it is too off the wall, not because it faces too much competition.
There's always someone out there who will argue that "crowdfunding shouldn't be used for this, that or the other thing" based on their own biases and feeling of "This sort of thing should be done the way I think it should be done". That's the beauty of the free market and indeed, crowdfunding. We're each free to spend/pledge our money wherever we like. It's also not a zero-sum game. I'm spending on both Mantic and Sedition Wars this month, but I've never Kickstarted anything in my life before (motorcycles notwithstanding), and I have no personal interest in spending my money on "off the wall" ideas.
As for these zombies, their previous work is actually quite nice looking. Of course, I have a ton of GW zombies, Target/Warzone zombies, Mantic Zombies... and probably a few others' as well so I don't exactly need any more. I might go in for the $30 box. I might also look into their Nazi Zombies set as well...
They have their 3-ups of the first 8 heads on the indiegogo site under updates. Very nice. I'm definitely in and hoping they can do some females and kids to go along with it.
Kilkrazy wrote:Does the world need more 28mm zombie figures?
I would argue that crowdfunding sites should be used for the kind of stuff that is not commercially viable because it is too off the wall, not because it faces too much competition.
There's always someone out there who will argue that "crowdfunding shouldn't be used for this, that or the other thing" based on their own biases and feeling of "This sort of thing should be done the way I think it should be done". That's the beauty of the free market and indeed, crowdfunding. We're each free to spend/pledge our money wherever we like. It's also not a zero-sum game. I'm spending on both Mantic and Sedition Wars this month, but I've never Kickstarted anything in my life before (motorcycles notwithstanding), and I have no personal interest in spending my money on "off the wall" ideas.
Exactly!
The beauty of 'crowd-funding' is that if the idea does NOT have merit, or is NOT presented well, or does NOT offer value, etc. etc. etc. then it will NOT succeed!
Heads look good, though currently where I am I cant post them, silly computer
Though one thing I think would be nice is that some of the bald heads should have separate hats. That would really add to the customibility. Like hardhats, baseball caps, etc. Even a resin/metal conversion set would be neat
Alpharius wrote:
The beauty of 'crowd-funding' is that if the idea does NOT have merit, or is NOT presented well, or does NOT offer value, etc. etc. etc. then it will NOT succeed!
A perfect example, actually. Great quality product, but negligible value over RRP for investing your hard earned cash and dubious ability to deliver on time.
That's a good thing. It gives people some breathing room. If you look at the "right now" timeframe, we have Mantic, Sedition Wars and Avatars of War all ending within about 10 days of one another. It also removes a lot of the pressure that campaigns like AoW has - where it seems that Felix thought he'd make $55k in a month (Min $20k) and is now under a lot of pressure to even get the $20k.
I just pledged for a set. It looks pretty solid to me, and their previous zombie work has been excellent. Rather than scrounge here and there, this should set me up for Ambush Z very nicely!
The exclusive mini will be brand new but not telling you what it is yet If we hit our goal then one of the stretch goals will be plastic female zombies.
Why are people stating "Yawn, more zombies"? I mean, I'm not a zombie fan as such, but you can use the "Yawn, more xxxxx" against almost every fantasy / Sci fi character genre available...how many elves, dwarves, vampires, knights are out there???
This is one companies take on an existing concept, either youw ant in or you don't, surely theres no "yawn" about it.
Plus, before you make those comments, consider this, people buy miniatures because they can imagine using them (normally associated with the games they play), if this company made three breasted, slug women with holy crossses for legs, sure it'd be novel and "new" but who the hell would buy it and why?......Slannesh, there I said it
Delephont wrote:Why are people stating "Yawn, more zombies"? I mean, I'm not a zombie fan as such, but you can use the "Yawn, more xxxxx" against almost every fantasy / Sci fi character genre available...how many elves, dwarves, vampires, knights are out there???
This is one companies take on an existing concept, either youw ant in or you don't, surely theres no "yawn" about it.
Plus, before you make those comments, consider this, people buy miniatures because they can imagine using them (normally associated with the games they play), if this company made three breasted, slug women with holy crossses for legs, sure it'd be novel and "new" but who the hell would buy it and why?......Slannesh, there I said it
three breasted zombie women.
They're "Yawning" because they don't know what they are talking about. This company has been making solid zombies for over a few years, now. These german zombies are great for fill for other Wierd WW2 zombie games.
Hey, remember when people posting unhelpful negative things about third party bits sellers posting their work here was evenly enforced? Me either, actually. Truly, all the animals are equal, but some are more equal.
I don't think there are a lot of good available zombie miniatures. I was looking at the IA renegade stuff, and one of the books deals with zombie hordes for Nurgle, and I thought, that's kinda cool. You need a giant posse though so I wanted something cheap. I looked at what was out there and was very not-pleased. You got GW, which are real expensive. You got Mantic, which while are definitely not expensive are very monotonous and of course the scale doesn't match my incorrectly-scaled Warhams. You got WGF which in addition to having the exact same scaling issue as Mantic, also has the WGF-typical soft detail. So I find it sort of surprising these guys would get such a negative reaction just for even announcing their product. You'd think we as gamers would want more options, not less.
Additionally as a Kickstarter-type project I find this to be a great execution. They have a reasonable cost, the explain where the money is going (to toolmakers, for plastic injection), and they have some concept art up along with some prior stuff. Atop that they are an established company with a reasonably likelihood they will actually ship a project more or less when they say they will, rather then buying 2 tons of Pez with the money or whatever.
I haven't signed on to this - in my experience, with these sorts of projects the longer you wait the sweeter the pot is - but I'm definitely keeping an interested eye on it and I'm kinda surprised by how many people are crapping on this. 160 multipart plastic zombie for $100, FFS!
Delephont wrote:Why are people stating "Yawn, more zombies"? I mean, I'm not a zombie fan as such, but you can use the "Yawn, more xxxxx" against almost every fantasy / Sci fi character genre available...how many elves, dwarves, vampires, knights are out there???
Lacking self-determination, zombies don't work on the same level as those. A knight can be a character, while a zombie can only be the tool of a character or a threat to a character.
Delephont wrote:Why are people stating "Yawn, more zombies"? I mean, I'm not a zombie fan as such, but you can use the "Yawn, more xxxxx" against almost every fantasy / Sci fi character genre available...how many elves, dwarves, vampires, knights are out there???
Lacking self-determination, zombies don't work on the same level as those. A knight can be a character, while a zombie can only be the tool of a character or a threat to a character.
Sure, but Zombies are like Goblins. They work best en masse as part of a swarm or horde. These guys also make great zombies, and I like great-quality models.
Man, these guys really aren't getting much attention, I don't understand it! They look pretty ace - realised this thread doesn't have any pics yet, so here's the images they've released so far:
And if they reach their goal, everyone also gets one of these:
I'm a bit gutted that they seem to have gone for the same legs for two of the torsos, but nothing that a razor saw and a touch of GS won't fix. Studio miniatures have some awesome other stuff, so I'm still pretty excited about this. These are some of their older zombie groups (in white metal):
And they've got some ace survivor groups too:
I'd love to see this project take off, but they don't seem to be marketing it very well... They're taking suggestions of stretch goals now - a couple of people have suggested female zombs. Wade in there!
I'm not liking two of the zombies being in the exact same pose, its very limiting modelling wise especially since there are only gonna be a total of 4 different bodies. I already left a reply detailing my thoughts in their comments section earlier today.
Concerning their lack of attention I think the 90 day campaign length isn't helping them at all, its excessive and doesn't really create any urgency.
Announcing more of the future stretch goals may help attract some more potential pledges, im going to assume that they already have plastic female zombies planned as Stuart posted this about a week ago in the zombie indiegogo thread over on http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=42658.0
If we hit our goal then one of the stretch goals will be plastic female zombies.
I wrote about this earlier at the top of this page, but i think people may have thought the quote box was my signature...
Mr Gutsy wrote:Concerning their lack of attention I think the 90 day campaign length isn't helping them at all, its excessive and doesn't really create any urgency.
I think it's an understandable decision - it gives them some breathing space between themselves and Sedition Wars/Mantic/AoW/40k 6th edition.
Announcing more of the future stretch goals may help attract some more potential pledges, im going to assume that they already have plastic female zombies planned as Stuart posted this about a week ago in the zombie indiegogo thread over on http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=42658.0
If we hit our goal then one of the stretch goals will be plastic female zombies.
I wrote about this earlier at the top of this page, but i think people may have thought the quote box was my signature...
Bit of a slow down recently, but a big update today! New body up - Unfortunately it's the same leg pose as the first one. Nice sculpting though.
6 sets of arms are up too - these look really good! Lots of variation, fantastic detail, and they all work with any of the bodies.
I'm a bit gutted about how they've done the bodies, but with a razor saw, some filing and gap filling, it should be possible to do a fair number of different poses. I'm also doing a post-apoc project, and I'm actually pretty excited about de-zombifying some of these and just using them for the tattered clothes!
Sold. I have been a long time fan of their work but the cost of the model kept me away. This however sold me and I'll be very happy to get the $100 deal. Infinity zombie apoc scenario is calling
Those are actually very impressive sculpting skills. I am all spent out with KoW and Sed Wars at the moment but it won't stop me picking up a set when they eventually get released!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Come to think of it, they might fit in pretty well with my Sedition Wars set as new strain models... Hmm, like that idea!
I'm tossing up whether to join in this IGG pledge, or just buy a bunch of figures right off their website without waiting for the plastics to be produced. I like that Nazi-Zombie deal they have there.
It probably wouldn't hurt to go with the $30 option, with free worldwide shipping included its a pretty good deal. The actual wait for the zombies is gonna suck depending on how long the queue is for tooling, but at this point who out there isn't currently waiting for miniatures.
Myself, im waiting for models from Zombicide, Sedition Wars, Mantic, Blackwater Gulch, Avatar of war (Warriors of Apoc, and the IGG campaign.), and Wreck-Age.
Hopefully when Stuart gets around to posting pictures of the painted 3-ups, it will help bring them enough attention to reach the 5k goal. And then we can move onto the stretch goals.
I'll get something, but I'm trying to cut down on the amount of pre-ordered stuff after also backing SW, Mantic, AoW and probably this, the Dwarves and the Kev Adams gobboes.
Finally another update after a few weeks of silence.
Studio Miniatures wrote: We have been quiet the last week or two but thats because we have been busy painting away and as you can see from the new profile picture and those in the gallery the resin 3ups have turned out very nicely. With almost two months left of the campaign it is great to see that we are 2/3rd’s of the way there.
Stretch Goals will be posted later this week as we finalise with the mould maker/tooling company what we can fit into our reserved time slot.
They look good. Unfortunately using IndieGoGo they take your money immediately, which obviously makes it harder to modify your pledge up or down as you can with KS. Also means people are probably more likely to "wait and see", which means fewer pledges upfront which means, well, vicious cycle.
On hitting our main goal we will include 1 x free Romero zombie cast in metal with every order. See our gallery for pictures.
$7,500
On hitting our first stretch goal we will include a 2 x sets of 4 NEW zombie heads cast in resin with every boxset, giving you 12 different male zombie heads.
$10,000
On hitting our second stretch goal everybody will receive the unique zombie character cast in resin AND everybody who contributed $100 or more will receive a SECOND unique zombie character cast in resin.
That's good. I intend to back this one closer to the date. Since IGG takes the money from you right away and I have too much other immediate stuff to pay for - even beyond games stuff(!!)
The two-month timeframe I think might have been a bit long as well.
I emailed Stuart and he's said that they're quite happy to split orders between these Modern Zombies and their existing WWII German Zombies. I'll go in for half and half, I think. And garnish with those female zombies shown the other day.
Just giving this a lil bumpage. The main goal has been reached, so these are assured to be made and shipped. These huys make the best zombie models I hace seen out there and the HUGE thing about this is they ship free! Shipping for me in the US is what stop me from buying their stuff before so this is a super win/win.
New update from Studio Miniatures, includes the limited ed. model.
GREAT NEWS!!!
With a month left on our campaign we have hit our goal, the 3up’s are now with the mould maker ready to be put through the tooling phase. There are two processes before we get back the finished sprues but expect an 8 week turn around.
EXPECTED RELEASE DATE – EARLY OCTOBER
I have also just added a picture of the exclusive zombie miniature that will accompany all perks above $100. The mini is inspired by a famous British zombie hunter
Im surprised to see that these zombies will be getting released so soon, i was expecting at least a 4-6 month wait like most of the other KS/IGG campaigns.
Just a lil bump on this one. Just so everyone knows, this one has been fully funded so there is no danger of not meeting the Indie-gogo goal.
For $30 you get 40 modern day looking zombies, which is completely and utterly dirt cheap compare to other maker out there for this quality. Hitting the 7,500 mark will include additional heads for mix and match goodness.
The $7,500 goal has been reached, so every boxset now comes with 2 sets of 4 (8 total.) resin zombie heads.
Some more stretch goals have been added to the campaign too, including the female zombies that i posted as a rumor earlier in the thread.
$10,000 On hitting our second stretch goal we will add :
*the unique character zombie cast in white metal to every perk.
*a second unique character zombie cast in white metal for perks of $55 or more.
*the choice of 3 survivor miniatures cast in white metal from our Survivors range(this can be single or group miniatures) for perks of $100 or more.
*the choice of 7 survivor miniatures cast in white metal from our Survivors range(this can be single or group miniatures) for perks of $200 or more.
$12,500 On hitting our fourth stretch goal we will add :
*the second unique zombie character cast in white metal to every perk
*the choice of 3 survivor miniatures cast in white metal from our Survivors range(this can be single or group miniatures) for perks of $55 or more.
*the choice of 7 survivor miniatures cast in white metal from our Survivors range(this can be single or group miniatures) for perks of $100 or more.
*the choice of 15 survivor miniatures cast in white metal from our Survivors range(this can be single or group miniatures) for perks of $200 or more.
$20,000 On hitting the fifth stretch goal we will add :
PLASTIC FEMALE ZOMBIES.
They're at $8,200 now. 8 days to go. They can hit the $10k goal. $12,500 at a stretch (see what I did there?). I think $20k is a bridge too far though.
Great value for Zombie minis and being able to mix them in with the German Zombies is a great little side benefit. I think he should have pushed this angle a bit harder, as the zombies are great, but there's not a lot else there that's of interest. Campaign was/is also way too long, especially cinsidering that it's Indiegogo, who takes your money immediately - making it more painful to change your pledge later. Still - it's great value for what you get. I went in for $55 - 40 Nazi Zombies and 40 civvie ones. I was tempted to go in for $100, but I doubt I'd ever get around to painting 180 zombies, even if half of them were wearing German Unis...
$12,500 should be the female sculpts, in my opinion. According to their initial campaign, $5000 was what they needed for tooling so $12,500 would get them paid for and cover the extra heads.
Personally, I don't care about survivors right now, and they don't add value for me. I already pledged $100 (in fact, I kicked them over the $7500 stretch), and more variety added to my 160 zombies would be better.
Personally I think they have the ability to hit 20k, if this campaign manages to get enough attention over the final week and Stuart posts some pictures of the WIP females i could definitely see them hitting it.
i agree that the 90 day campaign really hurt this project, in that 3 month period alone we've had 4-5 major Kickstarters launch not to forget the countless number of smaller campaigns.
Taarnak wrote: $12,500 should be the female sculpts, in my opinion. According to their initial campaign, $5000 was what they needed for tooling so $12,500 would get them paid for and cover the extra heads.
From my understanding the actual tooling costs for injection moulded plastic is very expensive, to produce a single sprue costs much more that the initial 5k they were originally asking for.
Most miniature based KS/IGG campaigns tend to set their initial goal lower than they need, it means they can add stretch goals earlier as incentives to gain more backers and by having the a low initial goal it pretty much eliminates the possibility of the campaign failing.
I mean look at Sedition Wars, there is absolutely no way that game cost only $20,000 to produce.
I don't see them more than doubling their existing pledges in 7 days based only on the 4 core sculpts they have (or even 4 + nazi Zombies). If they were closer to the female stretch goal, then maybe, but being so far from it the promise of females aren't going to cause more people to pledge. Especially with the WGF Female zombies near-available, also for a cheap price.
They're at $10,421 with 43 hours left in the campaign, so it does look like they will fall far short of the 20k.
I think the end timing of this campaign is pretty unfortunate, not only because of the WGF female zombies you mentioned Scipio but people are also starting to receive their Zombicide copies too. (Got mine in the post today.)
Their campaign was far too long and lacked more interesting stuff. Considering how good their metal zombies are, I'm not entirely sure why they weren't added into the equation at a discount to get pledge monies moving.
Stuart also seems to have faded out a fair bit. 17 updates in 88 days, less than 48 hours to go, and the last three updates were 8, 9 and 28 days ago. - ie we've been doing more to keep the campaign visible by bumping this thread than he has on his own IGG page (never mind him posting elsewhere.)
Well With only an hour and 10 minutes left in the campaign i think this thread deserves a final bump.
$104 to go until the campaign reaches the $12,500 stretch goal, if they manage to reach it all orders will include both limited edition models for free.
A new update has been posted featuring some photos from the test sprue, as well as some information about the estimated shipping date.
Stuart Studio Miniatures posted an announcement 4 days ago
WELL HERE THEY ARE!!!
We just got in the first test sprues today and everything is ready to go. The tooling company just have to put our company details/trademark on the edge of the frame and then its into production they go.
We expect to be sending out the first orders in 2 weeks..
Looks like the Zombies are shipping out. Someone on TMP has some
This must be my week for Kickstarter and IndieGoGo stuff. Earlier in the week I got my Citi-Def minis from Mongoose and today got my Z-Clipz zombies from Studio Miniatures. Here are a few pics comparing them to Wargames Factory plastic zombies and Zombie Plague's Crissy Hot-Rod.
I'll be painting some of these as time allows. First impressions is that they have much better detail and proportions than the Wargames Factory zombies and seem to be slightly taller overall. In the following pictures the Wargames Factory zombies are the ones with sand on the bases.
(Note: The packaging that says that the box contains 60 miniatures but this is not the case. This might just be a typo.)
40 zombies plus 3 metal ones and 8 resin heads for $30. USD Good deal! Not sure how much these will retail for.
Cgecking my emails, I see that I haven’t heard anything in 2 weeks. They state that they will let people know as they're sent out. The project had a total of 214 funders. Surely they can sort and post out more than 20 orders per working day?
Being generous, allowing for only 6 hours per working day and only 2 orders an hour should still take only 2 employees 2 five-day weeks to do 240 orders….
ouch, yeah that detail in the faces is pretty weak. I really hope that isn't what we should expect with all the boxes. Also not terribly happy that the feet are attached to something :/
I got mine last week, they are definitely better than that pick suggests. They are pretty slight and non-heroic though which may disappoint some people, and the clothing styles are a bit bland but the way I see it most modern clothing is of a pretty similar cut and it's up to the painting to give it some variety.
They also look (I haven't directly compared yet) very compatible with their Nazi Zombie sprue, which I am a big fan of -shame it's only a two man sprue- and which I have combined successfully with Warlord's plastic Nazis (bulkier, but not jarringly so).
As for the extras - lead Z is nice enough, bit more heroic and in rags, zombie Romero is cool though will just join the horde. I asked for a bonus survivor that was outside the range offered, and put an in-offer alternative as well - they were kind enough to send both! Props for that, great customer service
Automatically Appended Next Post: Quick nazi zombie pics:
Studio plastic and metal nazi zombies
L-R: Studio plastic, Warlord with studio head+arms, Studio metal, Warlord/Mantic, GW/Warlord - GIANT HANDS
Update from Simon (in the IGG comments, not the IGG email updates to all backers - /sigh)
Stuart said 2 days ago
Hi Folks
All of the $30/$55 level pledges have shipped,we are working on the $100+ level as we speak. ALL non-painted orders will have been shipped by Monday 3rd December so everyone should have theirs by Christmas.
Everyone has been great with their comments and patience so if you dont have your zombies yet it wont be much longer now.
On a personal note Studio Miniatures will be shut from Monday 3rd December until Thursday 6th so I can get married Thanks
Stuart
Mine came yesterday, though I've only had a chance to put a few together because im working nights.
The detail is actually really good - the musculature on the arms, for example, is really well done and the detail on the clothing is really crisp. The faces do seem a little coarser, but are still much better than the pictures suggest. There's loads of extras too - for every 4 zombies you put together there are 4 spare heads and 4 spare arms, so lots to customise with. They also scale almost perfectly with the zombicide zombies, so should be nice to get some variation in there. The leg poses leave a little to be desired on the variation front, but with some creative posing (or hacksaw and a little gs!) you should be able to get a nicely varied horde.
All in all, for the price I'm really pleased! Anyone else get theirs yet? Ill post some pics when I have some painted
Did you get a despatch email? Stuart initially said he would be dong so, but later comments never mentioned it again, nor did the people who had them arrive seem to be mentioning them. I'm expecting mine to hopefully be sent out today unless something screwed up, as I was a $100+ backer, so my stuff would be going out last, according to what was written in the comments (that'll show me! next time I'll go in for $20!)
Woot got my 160 zombies in . These are so epic! The are actually dead on Infinity scale just the crappy bases they come with make it look a little off. Sooooooooo happy! I got 160 + 4 packs of extra resin heads + ~7 surivior/bonus metal zombies.
Infinity Zombie Apocolypse Match... coming to board near you.
Still waiting on my Studio Miniature plastics ( two boxes + various perks), hoping they arive soon.
Thanks, but the Warstore has amongst the worst shipping rates I've ever seen to Australia. I got half of my Studio Zombies, along with an incorrect set of survivors. It turned out that Stuart missed/forgot my additional pledge, as well as the several emails stating I wanted half of them to be German Zombies (along with him saying no worries! I've got your email!).
So anyway, I'll hopefully get the rest of them within a couple more weeks.
So.. 2 weeks later. No German Zombies yet. I've started assembling the civilian zombies, and they are indeed very slight in stature, though they're proportions are okay. They're noticably smaller than even the Mantic ones though. With only 4 rather bland torsos and pretty much the same for arms (6 pair) they're not a real interesting set of zombies. I'd have been much happier if they were a little bigger, which would have made the parts cross-compatable with Mantic zombies and perhaps others. (without going anywhere near GW's zombie scale)
The detail level on the above picture is accurate - there's not a lot, but at the same time they're very small. The heads have basically no detail on the sides, being so tiny. Some don't even have ears. Out of the 8 heads, only one is partly skeletal, which is a shame. Most of the others could be used for scruffy living people. I think a bit more variety would have made the kit a lot better, but as a cheap set they appear alright, though you could very easily use the kit for the living homeless. The resin heads are far, far better than the standard ones in the plastic kit, but then again, after these are drybrushed and dipped, I'm not sure who would be able to tell the difference on any but the construction helmet head.
The hardest part is the tedium of scraping off the (small) mold lines on every component. Hopefully I can finish the assembly in a couple of days, then I can start the basecoats and maybe get them dipped by next weekend. If I'm lucky...
I guess this thread can also be bumped out of N&R. Not sure which subforum it can go to die. I guess the mods can decide.
Hmm apparently Studio Miniatures has been shut down for a while. That might explain your zombie germans MIA
From a TMP post
HOWEVER, before you place an order, remember that they are currently shut down until the end of the month (January 26th), so your order likely won't go out until the end of January/beginning of February, depending on how many orders they receive in the interim and how backed up they find themselves upon returning.
hi all is there any chance of keeping this thread going, and/or a way were we may have a place were to put projects of this sort in one place i.e.:- Zombie-apocalypse (or something) then in that link terrain idea's, model ideas, people wip's,
painting idea's conversions, concepts, pictures drawings and green stuff.... so if any one knows a admin to set this up sorry for going on its that I think it would be a great idea, as I bought some z-clips by studio mini's, and I loved them and converted two at this time, but mainly because I think this model forum is one of the best I have visited and there isn't many people out there to get info from like the scale of the cars as 28 mm is between about 1:58-1:61 scale
if I may both are still in progress one with a severed arm and one based on my self, also being from Britain I am going to try and keep my models British looking also may I add if you are after a lot of green stuff then search the troll trader on eBay
and I thought my idea was important sorry if I annoyed any one by bumping an old thread
If you have some pics of your zombies i would suggest starting a "post your zombie thread "or somthing along those lines in painting and modeling then people can add any they have done.
Im working on some 1:35th scale zombies/hunters and vehicals at the moment. .
CURNOW wrote:If you have some pics of your zombies i would suggest starting a "post your zombie thread "or somthing along those lines in painting and modeling then people can add any they have done.
Im working on some 1:35th scale zombies/hunters and vehicals at the moment. .
wow 1:35 scale, in a way I wish I did 1:35th everything is all readily available weapons, people, vehicle's.. so are they a plastic kit, or are you sculpting them?
and mostly that's why I posted but now looking at what you are saying i know what you mean hope to see some of your stuff in there and thanks for your sugestion
Kilkrazy wrote:I am moving the thread to Painting and Modelling.
ooh O.K. thanks but going to put a post up like CURNOW suggested
It is hard m8 but the possibilities with your scale can be endless as with mine a lot of main vehicle Companies don't recognize 28mm figs You should definitely get some wips and pics up on my thread http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/519034.page
And i have been searching for lots. Try eBay, and amazon but will keep an eye out other wise search tamiya as the have lots of vehicles , a bit expensive tho
thanks mate ,ive almost finnished my toyota pick up and have just orderd a vw beetle , there seems to be loads of ww2 and mil vehicles and figures but only a hand full of civi stuff so loogs like im going to have to convert ww2 harleys into sportlines etc now just need to find some none mil weapons sets (shotguns and stuff) for my survivers and some really cheap bodys i can sculpt over for my walkers :]
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