Too much sanity may be madness - digital world building

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**LeCacty**

What's the grey plastic tank in the 2nd pic? Love your's too, but that looks like a perfect rhino proxy!

**evildrcheese**

Cool stuff. The new printed vehicles look great.

EDC

**Malika2**

LeCacty wrote:
What's the grey plastic tank in the 2nd pic? Love your's too, but that looks like a perfect rhino proxy!

Don't know if it's an official model or not, but it looks like an imperial guard Trojan to me...

**Malika2**

By the way, my Novan IVF is up for pre-order.

**Gitsplitta**

That turned out beautifully Mal. Any sense of scale for us? A 25mm base would do fine.

**Malika2**

To give you a sense of scale:

The tank is 36mm long and 22mm wide. With the turret it's 15mm tall.

**Gitsplitta**

Perfect for Epic! Nicely done!

**Malika2**

That's the whole idea! Two more of my 6mm designs that will seen be available through Vanguard Miniatures:

**Malika2**

Started working on a fighter:

**Gitsplitta**

That's really pretty.

**Malika2**

Thanks! Here's a little update:

**Malika2**

Next batch of Vanguard Miniatures' stuff just got printed, including some of my designs.

**evildrcheese**

Awesome. Nice work on the fighter, very swanky.

EDC

**Malika2**

More prints arrived:

And here some more pics of some of Vanguard Miniatures' upcoming stuff.

**Gitsplitta**

Very nice....

**Malika2**

Oooh, metal casts of my tanks:link

**LeCacty**

I Completely forgot I followed you on dakka! Just saw this on taccmd

**Gitsplitta**

Beautiful casts (and tanks). Well done Malika2!

**Malika2**

Upcoming kit for Vanguard Miniatures I did (the weapon systems are already available through Vanguard's site):

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**Malika2**

The first design to be officially released!!!

Novan Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicle (A):
http://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/shop/novan-warrior-infantry-fighting-vehicle-a/

**RiTides**

That's a real milestone, congrats Malika!!!

**Malika2**

Check out some painted versions of the tank over here. (not painted by me)

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Orbital mines:

**Malika2**

Lots of new incoming stuff:

**Malika2**

Remember the siege tank I've designed for Vanguard Miniatures?

Vanguard have taken my weapon designs for a new variant on their Trojan tank:

**Malika2**

Novan Centurion Main Battle Tank ready for printing:

**Malika2**

Some casts came in for the Dragon flame tanks (3 turret variants) and the Novan Elites Jetbikes:

**Malika2**

And we've received some pics from our caster:

**Gitsplitta**

Looking good. Very clean.

**Wirecat**

It is borderline insanity! Must be a wonderful feeling seeing how Your designs turn into something material... by the dozen? Congratulations!

**Malika2**

It is quite intense yeah. I mean, I've been designing models for a couple of years now, sometimes selling them on Shapeways, other times making a few test prints for myself, or receiving prints from people who want to test out their printers.

But this is really something else, which is just really motivating. Personally I'm a big fan of the old 'specialist games' so 6mm and space ship scaled stuff (but also more skirmish 28mm stuff). In that regard I'm lucky to have encountered John from Vanguard Miniatures. If only the 6mm market was a little bit bigger though, we could then really go crazy!