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Matt Maguire's recent work with faun concept art in the background.

rgdgaming wrote:
Matt Maguire's recent work with faun concept art in the background.

I like that style, very nice!

Female and male shamans boosted to 34.5mm from 32mm. To correct for the scaling of the fauns and to alleviate the small feel of the female. Male should stand out even more now.

Update on the box front cover, some vectorizing in process.

The black and white is the better art, IMHO. Look forward to buying a box.

Think we should give it up to the new piece of art?

rgdgaming wrote:
Think we should give it up to the new piece of art?

While I prefer color in box art, I also think the B/W picture looks better. Perhaps use the B/W with a picture of painted models on the cover for the eyecatch.

As for figures I'm mainly interested in the centaur part of the project, although I do like what has been done with the fauns.

This has been the latest update. Still think its coming together pretty well. Waiting to see how Matt finishes it off in color for that piece above. On that centaur, we did go over that with Tim just recently, we got the horse boosted to 34.5 so as to sync up with the body. Tim is going to do another number on it when the kickstarter pushes. We need to put it in line of draft, but more importantly he is going to see how he can fit the torsos more seamlessly. The pictures we had showed them at 25mm, so that slight boost will put them with other horses.

Wait... Why superglue to assemble?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Wait... Why superglue to assemble?

HIPS Plastic is still the goal, use whatever glue you wish. Its just a friendly reminder that you need glue to assemble models (don't get me started on tedious labels).

From reading the description on the back I would assume they are PVC (if I didn’t already know they are going to be HIPS) and that might put people off maybe change to hard plastic and change super glue to plastic glue.

 DaveC wrote:
From reading the description on the back I would assume they are PVC (if I didn’t already know they are going to be HIPS) and that might put people off maybe change to hard plastic and change super glue to plastic glue.

Ah, fair point, easy fix I can make on the back.


After getting everything into line of draft for HIPS, it would be a waste to see people assume PVC.

Looking good!

And, yeah, having just seen a KS for some very nice orcs fail, in part because PVC... being clear is important.

Me, I have no problems with PVC, but other people definitely do.

The Auld Grump

With the beasts of chaos coming out I'm def looking at some of these now for some interesting convertion and musicians.

Some imprints of what the machine would translate for the shield arm, shoulder pad, and imprint of face with horns.

Neat. Thanks for sharing so many details of production!

Bow imprints

Looing nice. Thanks for all the updates.

No problem, Tim is in a bit of stride while working on the files. Since we need them done anyhow, he's just getting them out of the way since he knows we need to get the females into line of draft.

Good news, deposit has hit the molder, XT files of first sprue are in.

Small updates on swords.

Call me crazy, but I think one of those swords look a lot like an axe

Ooh I really like the curved scythe type blade!

 Zywus wrote:
Call me crazy, but I think one of those swords look a lot like an axe

All the better to hack you with. Sculptor had some creative freedom with it. The idea was something you could hack or snatch shields with for the unwary.

Small update, first sprue is being optimized for plastic flow. Parts submitted for initial examples.

Important update: we appear to be the next slated job with the molder. More information will work its way through the vines.

So far sprue #1

5 heads
4 bodies (2 and 2)
4 pairs of legs (2 and 2)
4 javelin racks
4 quivers
4 shoulder pads
4 shields
4 shield arms

What these pictures represent below are the etching patterns for the mold. Each modified to fit within line of draft, and usable for HIPS plastic, or simply hard plastic.

We are going to knock out the first sprue, paint some examples up, and from here we want to make a pitch to take us to the home stretch.

Our job at the moment is continuing to get files ready for the molder. Once those are readied, its just a matter of quantifying parts for the next sprue. So literally feeding the beast.

Packaging details appear to be ready for use with our printer.

Molds for the updated shamans are ready, as well as the Minotaur.

Thank you for sticking with us, this has been a crazy ride.

Looking good, do you reckon you are still on track? Really excited to see the final proofs from this project.

 ingtaer wrote:
Looking good, do you reckon you are still on track? Really excited to see the final proofs from this project.

The last minute requests to go to XT from IGS did add some time. While it pushed to the end of summer, we got the basic necessities ready to get the process initiated. The females need to be readied still, but since we are just doing them anyways, we are attempting to speed things up. The male XT files are nearly finished.

XT files then can be placed out as so. Idea in mind is to fill in the real estate cavity with two new male heads, and place the shofar. Orange, the highlighted runners.

In less then a day, Tim has made this puppy in line of draft. So, shaman death mask for the warband.

Nifty!

rgdgaming wrote:
In less then a day, Tim has made this puppy in line of draft. So, shaman death mask for the warband.

Secondary head up, and in line of draft