WarMill wrote:I...I have a problem. I just can't stop adding walls to things.

I'm not complaining! Keep it up.

Wow, I love the look of all of your products. I cant wait for it to all become available so i can give you all my money.

WarMill wrote:I...I have a problem. I just can't stop adding walls to things.

now imagine that sturcture ontop of that structure! awesome but it needs more walls!

Few more photos! Everyone keep in mind that the painting isn't done and this isn't the complete set. Probably won't get to finish these until I get home next (in May, since I work across the country), but I really look forward to finishing everything and seeing the watchtowers involved.

Game-wise we just play the fences as dangerous and difficult terrain which confers a 4+ save. It's pretty balanced, since the defenders have a hard time shooting the attackers but the attackers get slowed by the fences and every once in a while one gets electrocuted to death!







Setting up the board is now almost as fun as the battle itself.

Your modular units look strikingly familiar to one of the capture points on on BF3...nice work.

Looking nice! It looks even better with extra terrain bits and troops crawling all over the place.

Is that a dinosaur I spot in the first picture?!

Commander Cain wrote:Is that a dinosaur I spot in the first picture?!

It's a Griffon Mortar Tank!



Just got the package with the Jurassic Park-style bases and they look great - thanks a ton Harry! I'm going to prime the watchtowers now and maybe get some more terrain painting done.

EDIT: Here's the towers and a bit more painting. All the green has been drybrushed, still need to finish all the black on the fences, drybrush the black, add a black wash over everything, and finish up with some details/rust/aquilas... but it's looking good! Here's a shot from our game last night. The terrain has a pint glass which fits inside filled with strong beer - every time one of your units dies you drink from the "Pint Of Sorrow" in their honor. Two Dark Eldar Warriors fell in by accident.



I'll stop posting photos eventually, I swear, I just like showing how many different ways there are to use the terrain!

Epic posting there Pekel!

Appreciate the images! I think its time we have a page on our site dedicated to users images now there are a few sets out there!

I have an image to upload but its not quite on par with Harry's updtes with the terrain peices! But I'm sure Mullet Steve will appreciate it!!

Happy new Years guys!

Ed

Lots of love from WarMill!

AWESOME! epic win thanks a lot guys.

You've made an ex-modelmaker very happy.

Happy new year to every Dakkanought/Dakkerite/Dakka peep!

Whoo holidays are over and it's back to work! Modelling time has kind of gone second to tying up loose ends like redoing box graphics, but I did find time to make the roof of the little pod building removable so any Infinity players should be happy

I played a game of Infinity down our local games club last week and used the upgraded fortress spread all around the table, it actually worked quite well as little bits of terrain scattered about. Had some epic moments including my LT getting pegged through a vision slit (my opponent needed to roll a 2 or less on his d20! ) then dying when my medic's manic rush to revive him resulted in me fluffing the PH roll.

Also working on some Ancient Techron terrain, just the one piece at the mo. Pics will follow later.

Cheers
Harry

Are there any estimates as to when these pods are likely to be available?

Those pods look like they will be amazing once they're finished.

Can I hijack this thread?? - I have an old project that is semi not relevant....

Ed

So llong as there are lots of pretty pics

Here's one

Would love a life sized gun drone.

HA! maybe that will be next

Gonna go to Harry's later tonight and get some orders sorted out, maybe we can find time to get some colour on 'em!

Come on then, get yer arse over here!

Just posting a little WIP of the huuuuuge Ancient Techron terrain piece I've been working on. As with all our stuff, it will be usable as either one big piece in multiple configurations, or split up into scatter terrain to spread over your battlefield. It'll be a mix of MDF and acrylic with lots of lovely detail Coming to a planet near you in just 60 million years!

Nice!

Ooo very nice, i bet that would look very imposing in the middle of a battle field.

Would you guys be able to make Dark Eldaresque terrain pieces. Either if I provide a design, or come up with something?

Love the giant gun drone

Looking forward to seeing the tower

Looks fab! I can see a lot of 'cron players loving this, keep up the great work guys!

Ovion wrote:Would you guys be able to make Dark Eldaresque terrain pieces. Either if I provide a design, or come up with something?

If you came up woth a design we could look in to it, it's on the list but it's not something we're likely to get round to ourselves for quite some time! We recognise there's a bit of a lack of good xenos terrain out there, hence the space robots in space terrain. Our to-do list is growing pretty long!

Thanks for following us everyone, especially you regulars! It really helps keep us slogging away!

Can you / What 3D models can you take. are Solidworks files ok? ( SLDPT / SLDASM ) If not, what format do you prefer?

I have a design for a Webway Portal I'm making in card but wood / plastic would be significantly better

I sent my files to warmill in dwg format but that's 2d drawing stuff, I'm not sure about 3d?

Tau drone is very cool looking, is it just an awesome paperweight or are you guys thinking about maing it into a desk lamp or something?

A string of LED's under the dome or mounted into the marker rifles would work well.

To make it an effective lamp, you'd want it to be a bulb inside with the 'eyes' clear plastic so it has glowy lenses

Nice, finally some Xenos terrain!

Eldar or Tau buildings would be great, could work out well in terms of sales if you have them ready to release at around the time when their new codexes come out.

how about all three options? all we need to do is cast the LED's and bulbs into the right places already wired up?

what you do is superglue the bulbs with wiring directly to the silicone mould and pour the resin in all that's left is to make the stand

you guys are crazy! I don't think GW would be to impressed if we started selling their IP - even if it was in large lamp form!

Webway portals are on everybodies list eh?!

Solid files are OK, IGES or OBJ are good also

How about Roads?

Everything about this whole thread is amazing...
Good luck to you guys!

Has the page broken?
edit - yes it had!

WarMill wrote:How about Roads?

Roads are an interesting problem - lots of people will want lots of different styles.

Your best bet (especially given your other modular work) is to make a modular road system - seperate kerbs/pavement sections that either rest on or clip into road surface sections, or can be bought seperately for people who want to edge buildings, or use their own road surface (I've seen people using painted fine sand to look like pretty good tarmac). Also means people can choose between wide main roads and small alleys without you having to make up loads of different widths and complex segments.

A selection of long and short straight pavement sections, 30-90 degree bends (or bend segments in line with your fort corners? I can't remember the bends you have on those), a few special interest sections (sewer inlet on side of kerb/cracked paving slab/some form of damage/etc), perhaps a couple of different finishes - cobbles, large paving slabs, metal grating, etc.

Of course, if you can get much thinner (0.5-1mm?) wood/metal/plastic, you can also etch road detailing like manholes, sewer grates/etc so people can just glue them down onto their home made road surfaces (or if you are also making etched road surfaces, they can add them to yours).

Continuing with the street/urban theme, you could also look into things like vending machines, street lamps, road signs, street signs, trafic flow controllers/sensors, etc?

My current project has been making these:

from this:

I'm currently working on a 3D model to see if you can make that

Great stuff Ovion - keep us posted with your progress!

Lots to think about there Silver! Currently drawing something up now - we have a 'theme' to develop, and as you say, there are lots of people all wanting their own layouts / styles - so we're going to have to find a happy median that we can nestle ourselves into!

who said anything about selling it, I thought about your personal desks

Time for personal projects?! lets just say, 'we'll add it to the list!'

Roads huh? Well, I agree with everything WM said especially his idea about making just 'bits' for a road aka grates manholes, could be very promising!

To be honest, I am just waiting for a 40k version of the London bridge complete with moving parts!

WarMill wrote:How about Roads?

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads

Commander Cain wrote:To be honest, I am just waiting for a 40k version of the London bridge complete with moving parts!

Hmmm let me see what I can do!!! now where did I leave my friend with that Autocad CD?

Working bridges eh?! another to add to the list

Had a busy day painting up the prototypes 'hab pods' and walkways that Harry has been workin so hard on - now our backs are broke and we're high on paint fumes!

WIP pics will be uploaded shortly!

will update shortly - got some great WIP images gonna blow your socks off! we hope!!

ed

I'd better put on some socks I don't like then

OK! Well, we have a lot of images - and most of them are pretty shoddy due to my iPhone being old and rubbish, but i'll upslowd as many sort of usable ones as I can! Please bare in mind that these are WORK IN PROGRESS and do not reflect the finish of the final retail product! Harry has spent along time perfecting the design, fit and overall feel of the set, and we are ready to cut our 'Alpha' kit, which we should be able to get painted by the end of the week or so!

The kit in question is yet to be given an official title, but will fall under our Street Wars brand. Suggestions welcome - so far we have 'Hab Pod' or 'generic octagon buildings' etc

Last Thursday we went down to our local hobby club, but didn't so much as play a game but sat in the corner assembling the models, and this past weekend painting them up. We chose to paint them as during the process of refining the design, Harry cut half a dozen of the damn things, including walkways and walls and connectors and stuff, so it would have been a shame to simply waste them. Suffice to say, they'll be donated to our LHC for many games to come!

Enjoy! Comments and feedback welcome! (Any haters please make your way to the process unit to be cleansed )

Hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed making them!

Signing out,

Harry and Ed!

Wow, those look awesome all assembled together

For the name...

Modular Abode Design (M.A.D.)
Stackable Housing And Manufacturing Structures (S.H.A.M.S.)
Transportable Urban Rehousing Development Shanties (T.U.R.D.S.)



Or some more serious names:
Modular Housing Units
Buildings In A Box (more of a brand name for a larger company? )


I will think of some more

holy feth that is awesome! I'd really like to see all the assembled parts seperatly because if my eyes arn't decieving me you have bolted together seperate terrain pieces to assemble to monster building in the final photo's

Thanks for the love silver

sorry about quality of spelling I have a nasty head cold and am on night shifts at work

Tell me about the spelling, 3 edits so far

Seriously guys, I really have no room at all for this stuff you keep churning out!

Fantastic stuff! Can't wait to see the alpha version in all it's glory.

I quite like that weathering...but I suppose that's probably because I like the grimdark of 40k...

We're calling it grimedark ;p

WarMill wrote:We're calling it grimedark ;p

lol

WarMill wrote:Thanks for the love silver

No worries

If you ever put together a painting guide for those buildings - that would be great - they look anazing

Love grimedark too - can just see them in a rusting container town shanty, or squeezed in between giant manufacturing machines - cool stuff.

Those 'Habitation Pods' are great! Will look good with your battlesnap stuff as well

how easily do the 2 levels separate? I bet your LGS were grinning from ear to ear when you brought that beast round!

Hello! Yeah once things settle down we'll defiantly be setting up a terrain painting video, that will also go over the how to pop out the parts and assemble them in the most efficient manner! Got a prototype of the road system cut today so will be reviewing that over the next couple of days. We didn't have much of an issues reaching in and moving figures on the lower platform, as far as the club is concerned, they were very enthusiastic as we were assembling the pieces, I think if we rock up with the painted and assembled set this Thursday we'll be best friends forever!

I really want to own a Mr Pod (TM)

Stop making so many things that I don't have the room (or cashola - damn you crappy job and university fees!) to purchase

Hey guys - just a quick update...

A snap of the WIP roads we're working on!

Ed

Interesting - raised road sections?

Any rationale behind the lines that you have etched? Or are you just going for a semi-random sci-fi road marking system?

you should try and make some sections that can be raised even higher cause then you have models walking underneath or more roads just going everywhere.

The markings were there just so there would be no comments like 'to plane!'

A more holistic aproach to layout is needed ass to how the system will work so they all line up and look good, one for a cross road, t junction, corners etc...

The elevation is so you don't need to have them permanently on the gaming table, and allows for a more modular approach to the games and layouts....they're also conveniently the same heights as the Mr pods and walkways further up the thread!!

Double height sounds like it could be a good direction for us to take


edit: formatting

Looks like they can be raised or multidecked or connected tosome of the other designs. Which means that we can hopefully look towards a landing set or a vehicle parking area. I would not be surprised if Warmill is trying to create an entire Gameboard of things like this.

Funny you should say that, we were chatting about our plans to make an awesome display board the other night

Hmmm... am I the only one thinking about multi-level highways?

Or at least a raised up a floor

Also, Mr Pod - yay!

The roads are cool. They have a semi permanent vibe to them. Like they have been airdropped in like barricades. It makes sense that there wouldn't be any specific t-junctions etc as the soldiers on the ground would just put the pieces together like a simple puzzle to get where they need to go.

Damaged road segments would be great to! With craters and cracks. Like where you're going with the terrain. You are creating your own universe and style.

It is easy enough to add your own battle damage to these sets! I have a fortress section that I attacked mercilessly with a craft knife, the result was very cool!

Good road bits guys, though I honestly have come to expect the best from you anyway!

WarMill wrote:Funny you should say that, we were chatting about our plans to make an awesome display board the other night

That would be amazing! To have a a cuztomizable display board that is expandable based on objects bought from you would not make you cary money but be simply smexy to the core!


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Commander Cain wrote:It is easy enough to add your own battle damage to these sets! I have a fortress section that I attacked mercilessly with a craft knife, the result was very cool!

Good road bits guys, though I honestly have come to expect the best from you anyway!

Pics or it does not exist ;P

We were thinking of a block war kind of thing, imagine 2 opposing tower blocks made of mr pods (btw we may steal that name ) connected at various levels by walkways, with a road running through the middle with little stalls like noodle bars bythe sides, with fences around the blocks. The blocks would get grimier as you went to thebottom as the towers are added to as more people are crammed in, with grafitti all over the ground floor trailing off as you got higher, and all over the place are neon adverts and billboards. Street wars indeed

WarMill wrote:We were thinking of a block war kind of thing, imagine 2 opposing tower blocks made of mr pods (btw we may steal that name ) connected at various levels by walkways, with a road running through the middle with little stalls like noodle bars bythe sides, with fences around the blocks. The blocks would get grimier as you went to thebottom as the towers are added to as more people are crammed in, with grafitti all over the ground floor trailing off as you got higher, and all over the place are neon adverts and billboards. Street wars indeed

Ooo that does sound very cool

Very sexy painted pods!

I might be tempted to have them built around some kind of industrial complex - some large power station coolant towers ringed by worker dorms and services for example, or a couple of huge vehicle assembly bays ("titan" style construction/housing buildings)?



With the scaffolding being Mr Pods + walkways and a couple of more solid towers in the centre of each block of pods? Perhaps rival construction/power companies/gangs in an industrial waste/hive/district?

A maze of walkways and the odd Mr Pod being used as a shop or bar in "no mans land" suspended between them?

Hectic industrial section with roads and walkways going everywhere sounds great.

Silver. we need to win the lottery so we can make that vision happen!

mullet_steve wrote:Silver. we need to win the lottery so we can make that vision happen!

Yeah, if I ever win the jackpot, there are several companies that are going to want to add me to their Christmas card list - WarMill being one of them

Commander Cain wrote:It is easy enough to add your own battle damage to these sets! I have a fortress section that I attacked mercilessly with a craft knife, the result was very cool!

Good road bits guys, though I honestly have come to expect the best from you anyway!

Pics or it does not exist ;P

Yessir! Let me get it painted up first though!


Liking the ideas for a Warmill industrial complex, I imagine that it would look very impressive all set up!

Yeah come on Cain, that first tower looked awesome!

Pods are detailed, construction of the tower block must begin! We've worked out how to do upgrade parts that allow for neon signs for those bar / brothel / gun shop pods that will be in there

Silver that pic is pretty much exactly what we had in mind!

This is coming together really nicely, soon you'll have your own Hive World

WarMill wrote:
This one's for you Silver ;P

Awesomesauce

Ahhh Mr Pod we have been expecting you... No we want you to Die, Erm I mean look pretty

Awesome! The added details transform it from cool to an "add to basket" type thing!

Nice stuff man! Keep it up!

Hey welcome back Hazzer!

And Cain, please feel free to add as many as you like to your basket

Have some more preliminary snaps of the 'production run' Mr Pods. We have this military looking thing, and Harry has been working on a very nice 'high tech' version, and we have another in our lovely shade of Orange. I think we have used up all our GrimeDark skills and are trying to rein in the effect on these 3! More pics to follow (once the pods are painted )

Enjoy! xD

Mr Pod goes to war?

Some higher res shots - still WIP

The orange one and camo one still require weathering.

I was thinking for the laser cutting - could people supply you with essentially "pre-painted" print outs which you could then stick on the wood pre-cutting? ie if someone coloured in your walkway design, sent you the file and you then printed it and stuck it onto the un-cut walkway section and then cut it, they would have their "paint job" (such as hazard stripes, metal plating, rusty patches, etc) with your walkway pattern cut into it.

You could even have your own "pre paint" designs...

If you painted up the pannels prior to assembly and then scanned then in 1:1, you could quickly amass lots of designs without having to draw them digitally...

SilverMK2 wrote:I was thinking for the laser cutting - could people supply you with essentially "pre-painted" print outs which you could then stick on the wood pre-cutting? ie if someone coloured in your walkway design, sent you the file and you then printed it and stuck it onto the un-cut walkway section and then cut it, they would have their "paint job" (such as hazard stripes, metal plating, rusty patches, etc) with your walkway pattern cut into it.

You could even have your own "pre paint" designs...

If you painted up the pannels prior to assembly and then scanned then in 1:1, you could quickly amass lots of designs without having to draw them digitally...

the only way i have seen this work in the past is if you have a template cut around the actual cut for example an A4 sized rectangle that people can download and color in a graphics program that the guys at warmill just print out and paste on this means the pattern can be lined up correctly each time.

mullet_steve wrote:the only way i have seen this work in the past is if you have a template cut around the actual cut for example an A4 sized rectangle that people can download and color in a graphics program that the guys at warmill just print out and paste on this means the pattern can be lined up correctly each time.

That was kind of what I was thinking. Though my slant on that would be if WarMill painted up their own pieces and used a scanner to digitise the paint scheme for each piece, rather than have to colour each piece on the computer.

Paint up a pod "cleanly" without assembling it, scan each piece, then add on weathering etc, scan in again and work in the cutting guides and you have instant "decals"/"pre painted" designs for the buildings/ walkways and still have the etched detailing as well. You could even use colour filters to give people choices between, say, different primary colours. My only concern would be if the laser would burn the paper designs/glue...

Fire extinguishers on hand for this experiment

you have to be soo precise for this to work properly its quite a pain in the arse asnd would easily tripple the time taken to cut a pod hence trippling the cost

mullet_steve wrote:you have to be soo precise for this to work properly its quite a pain in the arse asnd would easily tripple the time taken to cut a pod hence trippling the cost

I can't comment on costs and so on - just thought it might be worth a look

Hey guys!

Interesting comments there guys, at work we align pre-printed artwork with the vector artwork, it can be a pain but having done it over and over it is possible providing everything is set up correctly

I have considered sorting out stickers that could be applied post paining / pre weathering..I think it could work.

Hello!

So, been working on some elevated roadways, a single straight section and a 90 degree corner.




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hmm broke the page again :s

Love on an elevated highway indeed

How tall are these compared to the fortress walls? Could you for example run a highway over the fortress set single height wall (without extended double height wall section in place)?

I have a cool picture of an elevated highway crossing an abandoned hive zone and entering a fortified zone with extra height watchtowers/gateway protecting it...

I would reccomend putting a cross-brace between the 2 supports, so each set of legs is a H shape.

As much as that would improve stability, I think that it would somewhat ruin the look.

I think it would improve the look.. it seems too spindly atm.
Like it'd fall over in a stiff breeze, certainly wouldn't survive traffic or troop movements.

1 or 2 cross bars will improve stability and make it look more.. real.

yip!

Bracing will be added as options I think at the moment. Also I drew them so the legs 'slot in' so there are no single massive pieces of MDF material. If that makes sense!

I'll add the fort in later, working on my laptop which might die if I added the fortress into the scene.

I took reference from Chicago's L train and other steel structures so there is a bit of familiarity to them already - the images I looked at (Google images ) had them without the bracing, and some areas with the bracing...so I thought i'd follow that aesthetic.

I gotta sort out the regular ( none elevated road ) and also some ramps so stuff can acctually get there in game! I was thinking of some method of suspending the mr pods from below the road sections or something along those lines

How big are the gaps between the struts? Would be awesome if you could drive an LR under the road, or a rhino at the very least.

Having your pods dangling sounds pretty fun

Does anyone have basic measurements of a rhino or chimera? The measurement between each foot is 133 and that's the narrowest part at the base.



This bracing would I guess would stop a tank getting between the legs. So You could always leave one clear like in the third pic. the bracing is a simple sketch and could be developed further....


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Also, we have been asked to create a gaming board for use in shows and the like....will have to see how that develops!

Would you be able to add the bracing directly under the roadway to allow extra room for stuff to pass underneath?

Personally I think the braces make it look a bit too busy as is.

Sizes for vehicles here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Scale_Model_Kits_for_40K#Historical_vs_40K_Vehicle_Comparison

Thanks for the link, but they read small can you confirm those sizes? anyone?!

I could turn those braces into a walkway for civvies or something

Anyway, detail is always the last thing to include once everything is as it should be

Now all you need is a bridge piece (Baneblade width would be good, but otherwise wide enough for your ground road... or two...)

You also need to be able to get your hand in under or over the braces to pick up any minis cowering underneath.

WarMill wrote:
Also, we have been asked to create a gaming board for use in shows and the like....will have to see how that develops!

Does this mean you are planning on going to Salute in London?

Still got to work things out but hopefully we will have a presence there, yep.

KKK Getting serious RSI in my mouse hand!!

Have some images...Rendered 10 off - rendering inst my thing it turns out... quite hard to communicate whats actually there using default settings...as soon as i try anything out I really mess it up!

Images 5, 6 and 7 are pretty busy so I hope you can at least get an idea of wahts going on :p

ED!

Wow Ed those are looking really great, I'd love to play on a full table set out like that.

Damn! I'm a sucker for pretty CAD drawings. I'll need to start saving some pennies! For your models and to get a computer that can run something better than sketchup.

Hi Ed, that latest render looks brilliant, it's a bit hard to work out the width of the road though - - are we looking at a narrow one way road or a two way ? If it is too narrow it looks kind of like a fortress wall walkway rather then a practical road.
On the plus side if you can get the low level road to seamlessly fit with the high level then you are looking at an awesome product that deserves to do really well.

GD

very pretty pictures all round.

Very nice

To be honest i think that without the supports they look fine, otherwise to me they look as a little too much.

However that being said they look amazingespecially with the road coming underneath it, any chance at some on and off ramps and maybe some service stairs for infantry?

Hey!

Thanks for the kind comments guys!!

Having chatted with Harry, some guys at work and reading your comments....I have made a start on an alternative appraoch to the legs / braces etc....

Will run off some actual models as soon as I can!

C&C open welcomed as usual!!

Ed

OK - looking at those renders even i'm finding it difficult to see whats going on! Will get some cut ASAP to prototype the design

Nice, i liked the old supports but i agree these are better for gameplay, in fact, they look better too. Good job.

I dropped you guys a message, it's low priority so i sent it via personal message on dak. I'll get in touch via email later in the year.

now those are made of win! damm you guys how much of my imaginary lottery win are you gonna grab for yourselves...

Oh man, so i've been thinking about your clear resin bases again. Is their a definitive response from GW staff as to whether they can be used in store? If GW welcome it then i may reconsider buying the set i inquired about. Hmm...

Hello!

Some images of last nights painting sesh of Mr Orange MK2

Again, iPhone images so apologies for the poor res :p

Ed

Mr Pod, that's its name! It's name again is Mr Pod!

Looking good on the new supports - much, much sturdier, I believe they'd survive now

LostSoulCasey'sLaw wrote:Oh man, so i've been thinking about your clear resin bases again. Is their a definitive response from GW staff as to whether they can be used in store? If GW welcome it then i may reconsider buying the set i inquired about. Hmm...

From what I recall, GW staff don't really care about the base. I know at my local GW there's people using other companies resin bases.

It's primarily the model that needs to be GW, the base can be anything so long as it's the right size.

Thanks Ovion. Well, looks like i'll be making an order very soon. I'll email you guys.

When i was playing at gw with my bases, it was perfectly okay. Some of them also commented on the awesome bases.

I like the new look for the roads, will we get to see some acess points for them?

Lorna wrote:When i was playing at gw with my bases, it was perfectly okay. Some of them also commented on the awesome bases.

How could they not? Seriously though, that's good to hear.



Are there plans for larger structures to compliment the pods?

The only contention was the sizes, but wotr trays are the same size as 40k bases, so that proved it.

Sizes of bases? Our bases?

Some prototypes of the elevated road section.

That is pretty elevated

Its and open top 'AT-AT'

When you put them together you get the human Centipede of 'AT-AT's'

Lol, Human Centipede, minus all the gross cutting, stitching, and blood poisoning haha.

I've been planning to build a Necromunda board, as 5 of my mates and I are planning a campaign this year. This stuff would be an awesome start. I know its only in prototype stages, but any idea how long till its publicly available?

S'jet wrote:I've been planning to build a Necromunda board, as 5 of my mates and I are planning a campaign this year. This stuff would be an awesome start. I know its only in prototype stages, but any idea how long till its publicly available?

I second 90% of that comment. Also, proposed prices? Larger buildings?

Now that is some cool stuff! You guys continue to impress with every thing that you do!

Thanks for the comments

Took some super images of the Mr Pods this evening so i'm going through them now..We hope to get them online by the end of the week!

Roads I think are a few weeks away at the very least from being ready....It all depends on what real life throws at us to be honest! Also, harry just got a new PC so I guess he'll be playing battlefield for a few hours / days /weeks

could be worse... Skyrim has got me totaly addicted and destroyed my life at the moment.

mullet_steve wrote:could be worse... Skyrim has got me totaly addicted and destroyed my life at the moment.

QFT

The roads looks awesome, far more sturdy like this.

Aaannd another photo dump.

Should be the last of pods until they hit the site!!...

Eyes. Are. Bleeding!

Edit: Files are massive!

they are so sleek with all their mud and grime.

Hmm...Like it! keep it up!

Love it. The only thing is i'd be making/buying my own steps/stairs. I'd rather go with scale than functionality, but thats just me.

Pretty damn awesome

I also like that they have an inside

`Right, you still got me hooked ! And I only just finished painting the security compound.

That being said, while I see how your inner fire burns with the new stuff, what about the fortress upgrade kit ?

Sadly I can`t paint the basic fortress without it. Any ETA ?

! yeah Harry was suggesting that we move ahead with that as its been around for quite a few months now! If your waiting for it and cannot progress without it, maybe we can sort out getting you a set as it is..

We got in a little trouble posting on the official Infinity forum so I think we should message the mods and obviously you guys to say thanks for having us!

Also it's a good thing we did get Harry to edit the files so the pods open up, as everyone that commented on them really wanted them to open up!

Ed

Aaaallllllso...A student today noticed the orange Mr pod and thought it to be an image from the new Aliens movie Prometheus. He worked on the set and they had the (very difficult task i'm sure) job of distressing decommissioned Russian rocket launchers as modular Hab Units or something; which apparently looks a little like the Mr Pods at least at first glance!

Have a picture....

I really like the pods. The thing they remind me of most are the prefab units in the Mass effect series... damn I fought through a few of them!.

Something not Mr Pod related, shame on me I know.

Here's a few shots of some sexy Warmill Thousand Sons doors.

The top hatch has an LED inside, if anyone is interested in seeing the tank light up I'll post a further shot when it gets a bit darker!

Like that rhino man!

Yeah looks really nice! We're often lurking around your thread, even if you don't see us

urgh...been battling with man flu the last two days! I think we're on track to having the P.U.P.S (Mr Pods) hitting the website by tonight though! It seems to have taken along time to get to this point!

Ohhhh... PUPS?

Portable Urban Pod System?

Probably Upside down Please Send help?

Ive been following this for a little while and just got to wondering have you thought of makeing counters for wounds, Necron new abilities that need counters and various other things like psychic powers etc

Hello fellow dakkerites!

The Personal Utility Pods or PUPS for short are now up on our web store, with a great description written by Harry! (not sure how he does it! )

Its been a journey! I think the last week actually weakened me to near death (man flu = death rite..rite?!), but it has been fun none the less and was certainly made doable by the continual engorgement from yourselves here at Dakka! your continual support and comments certainly make the Warmill products the products they are; a refined and premium range that any discerning gamer would want on their games table!

Thanks again, and see you very soon as we take 5 mins before we tackle the roads again!

Ed and harry xx

These are just awesome guys, way to blow our minds and disposable income

Oh! So reasonably priced! So amazing! <scrapes through pennies> No moneys!

My order is getting larger by the day, although its also going to take longer to save for it!

Hi again
Nice work on the pods ill be ordering a few when i get home
But i shall refer to them as

Heavyduty Unit Garrison Emplacement -
Tactically Inserted Tenement System

Not as catchy but i do find it rolls off the tounge better
;-)

hahaha

shakey787 wrote:Hi again
Nice work on the pods ill be ordering a few when i get home
But i shall refer to them as

Heavyduty Unit Garrison Emplacement -
Tactically Inserted Tenement System

Not as catchy but i do find it rolls off the tounge better
;-)

Hah Ed bought me a big squishy Heavyduty Unit Garrison Emplacement -Tactically Inserted Tenement for Christmas, it's sat on my desk right now

Love the description for the pods

I was thinking of starting up Infinity and have some ideas on counters that I might be needing - though I will wait until I have actually started the game before I know which ones I will need

Do it! It's an awesome game and the minis are much fun to paint! I've only played a few learning games, so I pretty much just need order counters which I really must get round to making when I find time also some more bases for my Ariadnans.

Haha - I have finished my exams for now so I am in the process of sorting out all the stuff I am selling on ebay - once that is gone I will be picking up a stealth Nomad army so will be looking for some custom CH markers (I was thinking of a clear base with another clear piece cut to look like a person's silhouette slotting into a peg hole on the base with an etched line running around the edge that I could fill with different coloured paint (so I could track which marker was which model)).

Something like this?

Though I would be open to suggestions if you can think of more fun ways of doing it

Have to say that I am looking forward to getting into the game... just got to find somewhere near me which has players

Although i dont play Infinity (yet) do you think it would be possible to make some clear parts for the tech disk / hacker thingies near the hands like in this pic? http://www.infinitythegame.com/infinity/en/2011/miniatures/croc-men-2/

Maybe it would look stupid.... but just a thought.

That's a good idea Silver. I think that clear profiles would work well and with a band of colour around them could look sweet. The only problem we face with he disks is the material thickness, and that you would then have to print on the artwork.
I think most of the infinity models that use the disks come with them in the blister already don't they?

Updates!

Finally got around to the edits on the elevated road section...

Now the road sides can clip on and off as was our original intention, so we can begin to think of additional sidings or details down the line!

I still cannot render!

Ed


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Our webstore seems to be down :(

The bracing looks quite good this time. It'll be good to see it in the flesh.

Evaelc wrote:The bracing looks quite good this time. It'll be good to see it in the flesh.

Believe me mate, all their stuff looks even more awesome in the "flesh"!

I might even get a game on some of it one day!

I think your renders need some colour to them it's all a bit monochrome... looking good though

Nice stuff warmill! Keep it up man!

Hello!

Found some old images of an old project of mine...A 40k Rever titan! made back in the days when digital cameras where rubbish, and I didnt really have the knowledge of taking anyny decent portfolio images. Anyway, here is the beast!

Might be time to make a new one!

Ed

Wow, that's pretty cool, awesomeness from wayback lol.

Titan looks pretty cool! Specially the colour!

Can only imagine how awesome you could make a Titan with your new found skills!

Question is . . . Will you?

That looks pretty damn cool

Very cool titan! even for a back in the day shot! nearly as good as your current work! :-)

Hey thanks guys!

I think a robot will be made, along side the roads to break things up somewhat.


Going to start simple just so I can have made one in a short timeframe, and also it might not be to most tastes or suitable for certain games systems due to its aesthetics - but hey still in planning!

Ed

Seriously i would love you so much if you made a lasercut titan

Warmill I'm loving everything I've seen from you guys, very innovaive work you've got going on here!

Just a suggestion regarding the arylic bases - have you tried 'flame polishing' the cut sections? Might be a little time consuming to get your technique right but doing so might allow you to get those 'frosted' cut surfaces smooth.

I like your new dakka advert

Hmmm, was having a think over the last couple of days. Is it possible you guys would consider making a large building/pod and a small shuttle that can carry a pod.
I have some ideas myself. I don't know what program you are using(i can only run Google Sketchup on my PC) but if you have files suitable for that format could you send me a pod file so i can play about with shuttle ideas. At least that way i can plan a scratch build if you guys aren't going to make one.

you mean something like this?
http://www.spiralodyssey.com/images/HEAVYLIFT.JPG
or something more like Thunderbird 2?

More like Thunderbird Two but i've got something in mind that fits the pod style better i think.
I don't think i'm very good but if you guys like the overall idea i'd be happy to sign it over or something if that needs to be done.

The reaver looks good man!

Wow, Im so glad I decided to read this blog! I love all the stuff you guys are doing!

Hey!

So there has been a week or two of radio blackout! We have been -thankfully!- rushed off our feet with getting all these orders out the door, once we have a free minute we have been catching up with real life! (boooo!)

Today we went to a local gaming day, where me and Harry actually got a game of Infinity in, the second game I have ever played of the system! I'm sure Haz will upload some of the images later. It was a fun little game, not only did we play one game, we played two! and on our own terrain that we have been slaving over the past few months The game was based on the typical 'plant the bomb' mode in current video games, so we had up to 6 turns to run up to the radar and plant the bomb, whilst all the defenders were re spawning and lacing in to the attackers with assault rifles and pistoling the dudes in the face when they got too close

Until next time!!

Is it just me or does it say Warmill posted the last message although the message isn't here? Thread broken?

Edit: My message fixed it.

Sounds like you guys got a well deserved rest, keep up the good work!

Been a long time since we've been around

We did something unheard of today and actually played a game! We had a couple of games of Infinity with house rules since we're both noobs at the game, to make it a bit more like Battlefield since that's been our game for a while. We had a bunch of basic guys, a sniper and an HMG each and played Rush / Sabotage, with an antennae array in the middle of a small forest outpost. Defenders were deployed in the compound, attackers were anywhere 6" from the compound fence. Attackers could plant c4 to blow down walls or hack the gate with WIP rolls, and had to get to the array and plant c4 with a long skill WIP roll. Defenders could defuse the bomb with a short skill WIP roll. Anyone taken out would respawn in the next turn, the defenders would spawn in the 3 pod buildings and attackers would spawn anywhere within 6" of the wall.

After a practice game to work out what we were doing and how to play again, the second game was pretty sweet! We played with 5 orders each so play was nice and quick, with a 6 turn limit to get the antennae as the club was getting ready to close up, so the tension was on!

I was defending, and deployed 4 guys in the pods, with an HMG in a small copse of trees and a sniper in a watchtower. Ed deployed his attackers roughly equally around the compound in teams of two. he started by blowing a section of fence so that one team could attack one of the pod spawn points (we decided any pod with an enemy in couldn't be used to spawn). My HMG took one down but as my men rushed to intercept them they were all taken down by defensive fire, including a 6" pistol fight that left my guy on the ground (happened a lot). Another team eventually hacked the gatehouse and came in behind the buildings, taking down my reinforcements as they came out (one of Ed's troops survived 3 bursts from a rifleman, and took him out with reactive fire. The trooper who won the pistol duel rushed the green pod and riddled the poor sniper who had spawned inside, then dodged a shot from my troops into the pod to claim it as his own. The guards took a few down, but they were soon swarming over the walls again.

Eventually Ed's medic made a dash to the antennae in his last turn, having taken all but one of my defenders down, to plant the c4 with his last order. My guys respawned in the pods on the far side of the radar, and I had just 5 orders to get to the array and disable the bomb, but Ed had 2 men on the objective, a sniper watching the approach and an HMG in the woods watching the path I would have to take. My first trooper ran out to duel with one of the soldiers in the open, but got taken down by the sniper behind him. My next soldier took fire from 4 AROs, and didn't stand a chance. With only 3 orders left, I only had 2 troops in the game. One tried to clear the way for the sniper by taking out one of the antennae defenders, but got downed himself, which just left the sniper 2 orders to make a dash for the objective, taking fire from 4 attackers with each move. He ran out of the pod with his first order, surviving several hits. The first move of the last order just let him reach the antennae, but set off 2 AROs which caused two wounds and would kill him after he tried to defuse the bomb. With the last roll of the dice for the last order of the last turn of the game to decide who won or lost, I needed to roll a 13 or under to defuse the bomb on one dice...



It was really nice to actually play a game on our own terrain, and it all worked really well. We could take fences out as they were destroyed, hack the gate and had the roofs off the pods so we could put our respawning defenders in them. it really did feel like a game of Battlefield, with troops spawning, rushing into the battle and getting shot down, C4 going off and defenders trying to spread out before getting plugged by the attackers, and the time pressure of the other guys packing up really ramped up the tension! . Definitely be playing again!

Looked like a nice game warmill! So are you going to start painting up some minis? Trying the hobby for your self?

Hey guys how are those road sections coming along ?

GD

Ha! Time to hobby is a luxury no longer available to us it appears! maybe once we hit retirement xD

But between day jobs, housework and cutting orders and shipping them off, I did find some time this evening to mess about with the roads. I think it must have been late the last time I looked at them, as I couldn't get my head around a few bits that today I was able to just do, so productivity was high!

But anyway, as you will be able to see from the renders I added some colour, yeah OK so its only flat colour, but its a start eh

Also some dragons teath, as singles and a strip of 5.

And also some WIP alien scatter terrain.

WIP regular roads added

Who knows when they'll be out

Ed

edit - pics broke! + more added

Eldar/Dark Eldar buildings! Nice!

Interesting dragon teeth - do you have plans for just some simple, solid (looking) ones? Vis this.

I think your MDF would make such things pretty easy to put together

Everyone makes those though silver!

True, but it is something that I think will fit in well with your current terrain range, and is something a lot of people seem to look for

Maybe a combo of the streetwars fencing resin bits and MDF spikey bits to keep the tanks out!

perhaps its another to add to the list

Do you do any 'unit filler' sized bases?
Around 40 x100mm or 50 x 100mm on 3mm mdf for fantasy units.

DaemonJellybaby wrote:Do you do any 'unit filler' sized bases?
Around 40 x100mm or 50 x 100mm on 3mm mdf for fantasy units.

We could cut some as a custom job, TBH it wouldn't be for a while as we have a grand total of no spare time right now

SO anyone who's tried to contact us will know we've been pretty much off the radar for a couple weeks now, I've been switching jobs at work to try and free up more time for Warmill (real life or toys? Real life or toys?...) and Ed's been having fun with students needing help and freelance work, the end result of which is we've pretty much sent orders out and nothing else recently :(

Our other big time sink at the moment has been getting a whole bunch of terrain painted up, to be used for new box art graphics (there's a few holes in our photo collection) and also catalogue photos for the retailer price list we've been trying to get done since before Christmas! All things going well, we should have price lists sent out to shops around the time of Salute so fingers crossed in a couple of months you should be able to find Warmill products in a whole bunch of shops! Once that job's out the way we'll have some time to get back on designing new products, as that's the real fun side of the business

Salute is also where you'll be able to see this terrain in the flesh, painted by our own fair hands, being used to run demo games of Infinity by Simple Miniature Games, so be sure to pop by and tell Graham how great we are!

Once Salute's out the way, new projects include:
- new themed PUP buildings to expand the range. First up will be a Noodle Bar, cos everyone loves noodles in the future
- Ed's modular low-level and elevated roads as seen above, these are pretty much ready to go and just need detailing applied. We're going to try and get some done for the Salute board if possible, as they're very big and cool!
- a modular facility set, that can be customised with themed modules to be a research lab, weapons factory, prison, power plant, etc etc and would be perfect for interior battles. It'll also be compatible with the PUP walkways
- scatter terrain as seen above, alien-themed relics etc
- finish that stupid Valkyrie conversion set! It's been a project since before Warmill, but got put on hold when I managed to screw up updating the software for my CNC
- a great big hammer that could be good for dreadknight conversions. The master's been machined, we just need to clean up a cast for re-moulding.
- lots more as time allows!

Here's some pics, see you all at Salute!

Harry and Ed

PS Silver we have seen your email, we don't check that address very often! We'll get a reply to you shortly!

Pretty awesome colony table there

How easy is it to reach into the walkways which have another walkway on top? Or can the walls be removed for access?

Also - don't worry about the email - I actually sent it to some random guy who came up first on the email drop down list when I typed in "war" (their stupid surname was alphabetically superior ) and it was a couple of weeks before I realised and sent it out to you. And as you know I work super slowly, so it does not matter

Love the idea of noodle bars - can think of a whole raft of quasi-japanese/chinese future shops that could come from that - those little witch doctor/shaman PUPs etc... thinking about Fifth Element's mix of old school and super futuristic

Take lots of pictures at Salute - especially if you are showing off a potential new game

So how much wouls a table like that set me back?

A big building set, wooo! I'm holding out for that bad boy.

These look pretty awesome.

Hey guys,

sorry not been around as much as we would like - so it is when your snowed under!

That being said - We have a little promotion going on that entitles you to 15% off your order in our online store!

Just add CAKE DAY in the coupon code box in the checkout!

Thanks for being ace guys, keeps us going!!

(thanks to our username being 1yr old on www.reddit.com)

CAKE!!!

Happy birthday WarMill

woo!

Very nice Ice station Zebra layout.

Hey! Its my brother's birthday!

Happy birthday guys, hopefully you will be around for many years to come.

awesomeness

Great job, Bravo!

I would put diod lights in night winter picture, otherwise it looks dead/abandoned

Yeah! We only took the images at night as it took longer than expected to get the thing sorted - which is why its night outside

Congratulations guys and many happy returns to you!

Keep up the great work!

Ong! Love that base man! That is boss!

Love these buildings they are very aliens styled. Went to have a look at ordering some and crapped my pants when I saw the price.

Truffle wrote:Love these buildings they are very aliens styled. Went to have a look at ordering some and crapped my pants when I saw the price.

I hope you mean because it's so reasonably priced. I'm still in awe over how much bang you get for your buck with War Mill.

For just £15 these guys offer a 55 part, 154mm x 100mm x 73mm, beautifully designed building with an interior. What more could a hobbyist want?

Stop it guys, your making us blush

Nah in seriousness though..If you really want a deal, head over to Salute 2012 - Simple Miniature games are doing buy two get a third free on our stuff!! Not sure how we're going to keep up with demand! So much to do before now and then..yikes!

Plus 15% off with the birthday code

Nice try silver...but no xD

Curses!

Some more work has been done on the elevated road section - sorry for poor pics, but you can see the laser in operation in most of them!

Nice! You have done a great job of making the road section so 3 dimensional, very impressed!

No Mr MDF... I expect you to DIE! FIRE THE LASERS!



Roadway looks good to me. Plenty of height to fit tanks underneath, and wide enough for most as well.

Any chance of some scale shots though?

Yeah, ermm....no where near them though!...There is some a few pages back - as the overall heights hasn't changed...

Just fixed the corner bit and now gonna work on the low levels...

Is it just me, or does the laser head look like a pirate in the next ot last picture...

Awesome! Can't wait.

Ovion wrote:Is it just me, or does the laser head look like a pirate in the next ot last picture...

It's just you

Maybe you could try and draw a pirate face over it in MS Paint, you know, to show those guys who cannot see it...

Admittedly at the time I had just awoke, and I have some horrible illness, so am / have been exhausted and a little out of it for the last few days.
But here you go:

I call him Pirate Laser Face.

Arrrrr tis a great peice of work you have there!

pirate or no pirate tis still a great piece of road.

Cannot unsee!

after looking at the pirate artwork looking back at the original image i can see it now but I couldn't see a dam pirate before

Haha! That is excellent

Me and Ed have been rocking the Pirate 9000 the last few days churning out stock for Salute, but we still found a little time to work on the next batch of products . While Ed's been beavering away on the roads above I've been working on a sci-fi fast food unit, with an aim to it being compatible with the PUP walkways. Still at prototype stage but just needs a couple of construction elements looking at and lots of lovely detail added and it's good to go. Expect a range of futuristic takeaways to be available, starting with the cyberpunk classic, the noodle bar . Anyone who's into Infinity should find a place for it

I was thinking of calling the noodle bar Wang's House of Ho Fun but my girlfriend gave me a look

Herro Happy Noodle Wok you want..... I love that.... No I need that.........

Awesome! How much are you thinking of selling it for?

You should make the billboards interchangeable with other signage. Such as a panel and paint, home depot store and every other fastfood available to man in futuristic warfare. Just suggestions though.

The plan is to have 4 variant signs to start with, I guess the structure's generic enough to be an ammo shop etc as well as a takeaway.

Cost-wise it's hard to know for sure as it's still undetailed and the files need optimising but we should be looking around the same price point as a PUP. For the roads, the amount of MDF used is pretty immense but machine time is fairly low for the amount of parts so we'll probably sell it as a bigger kit with a minimum of 4 sections but make the relative cost per part slightly cheaper. We're going to try and get a set of roads on the Salute board as a nice feature, they just look awesome from any angle

Liking that noodle bar. The insane grinning smiley face really nails it.

Looks like something out of Firefly/ Blade Runner/ Fifth Element, just the right about of futuristic-but-tacky, with a subtle hint of creepiness thrown in.

Looks like some thing out of firefly

We seem to have a knack for making things that look like they're out of things we haven't seen (Firefly, I mean. Of course we've seen Blade Runner )

Hah! Noodles! Good stuff man, good stuff.

How have you not seen firefly and or Serenity????

Chop sui, fi dollah!

Love the grinning face logo. Would really love to see the store suspended in some walkways... I think it might need some kind of "hole in the wall" companion store - more along the lines of a small store welded onto a walkway section...

Something like this but a mini PUP which is only as wide as a walkway section and not quite as long... (in fact, take one of the PUPS, turn it on its side, and shrink it down so it is large enough for 1.5-2 people to stand side to side inside ) the kind of thing that can just be jammed between support struts to feed hungry workers without them having to tramp all the way to a larger food provider, or used as a kind of storage pod for repair/construction tools, power packs etc that acts as a half way house between the main stores and the workforce.

Or even have some wheels/hover unit/etc added and used as a cheap transporter/mobile store/etc.

You haven't seen Firefly?! But i thought you were nerds just like us!

First off, congrats on the noodle shop, and for that matter all the stuff you've been churning out lately. Now that that's out of the way, I second silver's idea about the small utility/ food kiosk pods, they seem like a fantastic way to use space under/ around the walkways and roads. I love what you guys are doing lately, just fantastic work on your terrain lines. The best part is how consistent all of your stuff looks, it works so well together. Keep up the good work guys, you'll be seeing my tax return shortly I'm certain of that haha

Can I get a bowl of noodles?

Fun new terrain guys!

*takes money

Thanks

Been doing a few nick nacks for the gaming table

Also if you can interpret the image, new work on the road model in order to make it affordable and generally cooler looking


Ed

Looks amazing as always!

Great to have you back showing off amazing things!
Hope you enjoyed Salute!

- Martin

Yeah it was much fun We met lots of the big names, it's amazing how many people Ed knew from his GW days!

I couldn't let Ed have all the fun with the battlefield nik naks, so knocked up a portable collapsible barrier that could possibly be good for Infinity. These will be on sale very shortly...

They look as if they could be stacked into steps.

I don't know if you had considered making them fold the other way, so that stuff can drive over them when they are folded down? Though if they are staying in that orientation, would you be able to design them so that they fit into a more uniform rectangular size when they are folded? Seems to me that transporting these as is with the two prongs sticking out of the bottom would be problematic, even for people in the future

Also, they might be quite cool as a built in section for the roads - flip up barriers for blocking off streets to important buildings etc.

These long days are killing us!

Got the bits as good as on sale will update the web store in the days to come.

Anyone got a slow down time machine that we can utilise

*edit - Pics!

THe mixed wood/acrylic "mystical doorways" are pretty cool

Good models for Stargate the board game(if there is one!).


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According to a search I've just done there is SGC miniatures on the market.

WarMill wrote:We seem to have a knack for making things that look like they're out of things we haven't seen (Firefly, I mean. Of course we've seen Blade Runner )

I'd started planning a table around your noodle shop and roads... but now you've said that, I can no longer even contemplate buying from you ;p

Would we be able to order custom signage, like you do custom bases? I want a Mr Wang's!

endtransmission wrote:Would we be able to order custom signage, like you do custom bases?

Great question!

Loving the webway gates!

I have an idea for a new style for (neon green or blue) jewel bases.

Imagine a Tau (or Infinity) general watching the battlefield with a modern computer display showing him all information of every soldier in realtime. Imagine a mix of "Dawn of War 2", Terminator movie or Predator style mixed with a segmented radar screen (maybe with alien glibberish added to the larger than 25mm bases). More detailed and also more uniform than your HiTech Alien design, your Ancient techron design is the closest so far. I think, something like that would have potential for many gamers playing modern SciFi armies and definitely something I would be interested in. What do you think? (I might make a custom design, but I am not that good in graphics).

Edit: On second thought I think, just making fine crosshair bases (8 segments à 2-4 parts) would be a good start, maybe add Xeno signs with larger bases. Lines would have to be finer that the HiTech base design of yours.

Nice gateways! The third has to be my favorite due to its more solid shape.

Kroothawk wrote:*snip*

That actually something i've approached the guys about already. I'm wanting to have that sort of design for the 500 points of marines i bought. Haven't built them yet though so haven't placed an order obviously but it's something i think is going to look really good on the table. I was going to go with clear bases and paint/ink in the details or get them done in red and paint the 'non details' black. Haven't decided yet.

WarMill have been very quiet lately... Almost... Tooquiet...

SilverMK2 wrote:WarMill have been very quiet lately... Almost... Tooquiet...

*nods*

No kidding!

What's the ETA on the Noodle Shop?

And the elevated roads - I can really use those on my Infinity table!

I have it on good authority that they have been at various small conventions in the UK recently.

The Noodle Shop and the Elevated Roads, or Warmill staff?

I think he meant warmill lol

Seriously guys, where you at?

Alpharius wrote:The Noodle Shop and the Elevated Roads, or Warmill staff?

Actually both
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/449399.page

Hi guys!

No real mystery to our absence, we've just been stupidly busy!

We have indeed been out and about at a couple of conventions, the Legionary show in Exeter (our first show ever, and only a bit shambolic! As in, the guy who had our painted terrain was in New York so we spent the morning at the show hurriedly assembling anything we could find to put on our table ) and Campaign in Milton Keynes, which is where the photos came from (also shambolic: some idiot (me) forgot the painted fortress and the cash box, so the first morning of the show was spent hurriedly assembling a table edge outpost and buying coffees with £20s to make change .

We've also been on the networking trail, meeting lots of people at Salute, especially since it turns out Ed knows half of the industry already! We've been talking to a few people, and hopefully we should have a distributor and a few other exciting things to report soon.

Products-wise, we're back on it, starting with the Barricade Fortress upgrade kit which has been sat around 90% done for way too long. Files have been tweaked and finalised, we just need to finish painting the box art set and get the instructions and labels finished. We're going to have it up for pre-order by the end of the month.

The noodle bar is not far off, we just need to paint one up, tweak the acrylic parts slightly, then do instructions and labels.We should have it available next month, probably towards the end of it .

The roads are making Ed want to smash things, but we're aiming to have the models done shortly with the intention of getting them out next month as well, but consider that flexible!

The little warpgates will be on the website as soon as we get some painted for pretty pictures.

The Slum sign on the pod is an early concept piece for a range of themed PUP addons. These won't be about any time soon, but it shows we're thinking about it

Cheers all, we'll have some painted stuff to post as soon as we get it done!
Harry

Excellent update - and we're glad to hear that all is well, and that you and the crew are OK!

You guys are doing fantastic work, I remain genuinely impressed with you creativity and design style!

Looking good man! I thought that it woulde'nt look good when painted. I've changed my mind...

Sweet! Glad to here everything is going well and thanks to Kroothawk for the awesome pics. I love the acrylic additions to the PUP!

As soon as the Noodle shop and elevated roads are available, I'll be placing my first order with you!

I can't wait for the big building!

I must have missed the 'big building' - got any pics?

Sure, i'll just dig out the post.

WarMill wrote:Once Salute's out the way, new projects include:
- new themed PUP buildings to expand the range. First up will be a Noodle Bar, cos everyone loves noodles in the future
- Ed's modular low-level and elevated roads as seen above, these are pretty much ready to go and just need detailing applied. We're going to try and get some done for the Salute board if possible, as they're very big and cool!
- a modular facility set, that can be customised with themed modules to be a research lab, weapons factory, prison, power plant, etc etc and would be perfect for interior battles. It'll also be compatible with the PUP walkways
- scatter terrain as seen above, alien-themed relics etc
- finish that stupid Valkyrie conversion set! It's been a project since before Warmill, but got put on hold when I managed to screw up updating the software for my CNC
- a great big hammer that could be good for dreadknight conversions. The master's been machined, we just need to clean up a cast for re-moulding.
- lots more as time allows!

Harry and Ed

WIP sneak peek of the first module for the facility set

That is very nice...

I think I'll be having a rather expensive list of things when it is all said and done: Noodle Bar, Elevated Roads and this nice, big building - maybe some sort of T.A.G. storage/maintenance area?

Oh yeh, i'm building up a scary list myself. Not to mention the two or three base commissions i have in mind. Ed and Harry, your going to bleed me dry!

I just realised i missed out an important part of the quote:

WIP sneak peek of the first module for the facility set

I've added it in now.

Everytime I look into this log, I see more of my money needing to be spent, this I just amazing.

Hello!

Have some pics!

Far to late to make any sort of written sense, so have some pics! I thin they;re done! The shouldn't look that much different from previous images, other than they 'work' as far as making them in MDF is concerned and now we are able to take the small 'feet' off of the model, and replace them with the elevated high leg thingys!! (two toys in one!)

Next we cut some prototypes and double check everything fits!

The first image is 950 x 700 mm just to give you an idea of scale!!!!

Enjoy!

Ed n Hazzzzz

Get the in the store, double quick!

And the Noodle Shop too!!!

WANT!

A bridge over troubled waters?

These look great! The taller legs look a litter shorter then the earlier images.

Harry, I hope your ' Widow' has recovered from her 'Painting Monkey' duties?

Hey guys!

Yeah I think the legs are somewhat shorter - had a go at laying out all the pieces so we can get some prototyped and used in a game see how they work, although I really don't want to model them again! Lol!

I accommodated a local to help paint and stuff so all in all we should see a quick turn around (famous last words!) of this toy!

What's next then?!

Ed





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Zwan1One wrote:These look great! The taller legs look a litter shorter then the earlier images.

Harry, I hope your ' Widow' has recovered from her 'Painting Monkey' duties?

Yeah she loved it Take her away any time you like

You could make some corridors with removable roofs that then can connect a lot of the stuff you have done, eg the roads(elevators to the tall roads), pods and other stuff, with corners and other stuff. Just an Idea

Evaelc wrote:You could make some corridors with removable roofs that then can connect a lot of the stuff you have done, eg the roads(elevators to the tall roads), pods and other stuff, with corners and other stuff. Just an Idea

I would love that as well. It would allow people to make covered barriers and buildings as well as let people play in a Space Hulk style enviorment.

Hello Loyalists!

Another late one - but at least you get straight to the juice pics! May edit this post later to add more text!

First run of the new road prototypes, only a few nigling edits to go before we can paint em up nice!

Ed

Oh my god amazing! I need some now!

Any chance of an off ramp??

YEah thats the plan, once we have things sorted we will revisit the 'range' and add things like ramps, acces ladders and all manner of goodies!

Oh boy, you guys just keep raising the bar.

Legoss85 wrote:Oh boy, you guys just keep raising the bar.

..and the road, too!

Can't wait to buy a lot of these elevated roads.

And a Noodle Bar or two...

Those are fantastic. I'm right behind Alpharius on that one!

They do look neat. Also, Warmill - have you seen the new Marine Stormthingy? Its crying out for nice detailed ducted fans

Please sir, when can I give you all my money?

Heh! not long now!

How should we present them? I guess we could make a general green gaming table with roads on them, and take a pic.

Or just the individual items on a white background....I suppose we need both. We would need to convey that the roads are modular and can be positioned any way you like, but we're also limited to how much space we have on a box!

We were also wondering how to sell them, as not many people are going to want just one road section - se we thought about a couple of ways around this....

Either 'enough pieces to fit on a 4x4 table, 8x6 etc'

Or 3 straights a corner and two rams in a box.

I made the frames they fit on big enough to fit in the fortress box, (which is big) but not sure we can buy a shallower box in height - so you could order one strait, and receive it in a 100mm high box! (which would be ludicrous!)

Just thinking out loud

Personally I think a series of roads weaving in and out of the PUP setup you had a while ago (looked like some knd of Ice Station Zebra kind of base) would look pretty awesome for a general "in use" style picture.

Otherwise, a plain picture against a white background would be best.

I don't know if you saw them, but S6 sold "layouts" of road, where you got the pieces to make up a pretty cool road set up, ranging from a simple city block, up to an entire city

Also, have you considered making legs to raise up buildings etc to the same level as the upper road sections?