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Sophia wrote:I suppose we could also whip up a zombie option for the dragon as well?

Absolutely. I, like many other I imagine, am getting ready to collect Vampire Counts. I would certainly purchase a nice looking Zombie dragon if you guys made one up.

Zombie... Dragon... guuurh sorry my brain exploded a little bit.

cheers for that Sofie.

looking forward to him squaring up to the current heavyweight champ of my games table, the Heresy Netherlord!

Sophia wrote:
I suppose we could also whip up a zombie option for the dragon as well?

I would love you forever...

I might buy the Giant now too, just to support further advances in miniature awesomeness!

looks like mine arrived today but I was out. Will collect from post office tomorrow, am all excited.

Will post a review then.

sleazy wrote:looks like mine arrived today but I was out. Will collect from post office tomorrow, am all excited.

Will post a review then.

Photos of how it came packaged and what it's like out of the box would be much appreciated ^_^.

will do matey

ok here we go...

I was a little suprised at first, the package seemed rather small and light, secured tightly in a jiffy envelope I found...



looking further, the actual pieces are inside the foam padding in a placcy bag



the pieces arranged, all very clean and no obvious defects, warping or holes.



an example of the minor filling work pre done to ensure you can jump straight in..



finally it put together (took all of about 5 minutes) and stood next to others for scale, to the left is the classic marauder giant and to the right is the Hersey Netherlord..



thoughts?

Well he's huge!, larger than I expected (the current GW giant is about the size of the marauder one). The resin used seems a very fine, light, high quality material. The level of detail is simply astounding, I cannot really show it via these poor pictures but its actually above that of Forge World. The definition on tiny things like the fingers and toes is perfect, even down to veins in his hands, this is the most detailed, most finely sculpted model I own.

10/10! I dont wanna sound all hyped or a suck up but I am really impressed. I can safely say this wont be my last purchase from Ultraforge.

one last thing.... that face must have been inspired by Michael Berryman?

Thanks a ton for the photos sleazy ^_^!

Here's to hoping they do something that will fall into one of my armies someday! ^_^

I just recieved mine in the mail today (Merc Giant) and I have to add to the review already posted.

It's massive, it stands a few centimetres shorter than a Necron Monolith.

Also, the head and hands snap fit together pretty well with the premade pins, much MUCH better than Games Workshop "premade pins" go together (coughGorgercough) and a very minor amount of gap filling is required at the neck, waist, and on my model, left hand (one without the club) and on the rock base of the right foot.

The sculpt is beautiful and the amount of detail is almost impossible to picture with a myriad of tiny cuts and flicks to provide excellent texture.

There are two visible moldlines from the head that go down the shoulders and across the side of the hands and also down the sides of the legs. Very easy to clean up.

The entire model is quite light for it's size but solid with the base having good balance (it did not tip over when dryfitted and left to stand for half an hour on it's base.)

Did I mention it's huge? Archaon only reaches it's groin.

Sophia wrote:
I am curious to your thoughts on the standing platform. It is different than the conventional seated rider and allows for far greater flexibility but looks quite a bit different. Our inspiration comes from a lot of video games and fantasy art. Here is one example of the idea...

I like the idea of the platform, it's really something different, and lets one get away with some rather impressive conversions.

the new tree woman temps me to make a stupid joke involving wood etc. i know. stupid. i really think all of your newer work looks really great. your doing an awsome job. a real improvement over the older works. keep it up.

painted most of mine yesterday afternoon. I love Sundays I spent the whole afternoon painting, drinking beer and watching Prison Break.

I keep finding more detail on this bugga! Will hopefully finish him tonight and will post the results. I hope I do him justice.

Back to the dragon:
will the seat be a removeable piece of the model, so you can have just a dragon without a rider?

Three questions:

1) Are any of these pieces limited or will they always be available for purchase in the near future? (near being for the next few months)

2) Will Ultraforge sculpts always be large sized?

3) In relation to (2) are there any plans to make more Wood Elf figurines like Dryads or Glade Riders - like the non-large miniatures?

Sophia are there going to be any like classic models sold from ultraforge? because I'd like to get the koolaid man treeman. I love that guy for whatever reason, and I'm looking to get one.

Hey Sophia.

Went through all of the pics/comments. IMO, your work is brilliant. Why nobody has come up with a female 'Ent' before is beyond me. LOTR players, Fantasy, all must be drooling right now!!!.

I would love to see some 'Raptor' style mounts, for cavalry uses??

It seeems to be one of t6he few figs out there, or I am not looking on the Net hard enough....

Such excellent sculpts, for the price, puts into perspective how much money GW makes, and how it looks after it's customers.(Rant)

Agreed about GW. and some raptor mounts, like alternatives for the new stupid looking cold ones would be an amazing add. For my lizardmen i'd prolly need like 20 of em'

for raptor mounts right now your best bet is the Gamezone ones..

http://www.artemisblacks.com/gamezone/darkelves.shtml

Wow, those are some pretty wicked looking Raptors - and the riders aren't half-bad either.

I bought a Treewoman just then
Looking forward to it!

Wow, Thanks for the great reviews Solasun and sleazy! I keep forgetting to mention that we do most of the cleaning and gap filing on the minis before sending them out. This makes it a little easier getting to the fun parts: painting and playing! We use the recycled paper padded envelopes and foam as opposed to boxes and stuffing to make things a little more environmentally friendly. I would LOVE to see pics of those giants all painted up and perhaps we could even include them on the website? Thanks again for the great reviews.

As for the dragon, there are actually some pics and information in this new thread: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/208752.page

There are some pictures there and I would appreciate any reviews and criticism as we want to make this mini the best we can.

For Vascariz: All the Ultraforge peices will be fairly big for about the next four or five minis to come. Then we may get into smaller stuff. We just love doing the big centerpiece type units as they really turn heads at the local game night and are a lot of fun. All the Ultraforge minis will run for about 200 casts or so, so they will probably be available for the next few months as long as they don't sell out. We want to keep our minis semi-rare. We are strongly considering doing some big tree brutes and smaller sexy female Dryads since the Treewoman needs an army but we would not be able to sculpt these things until closer to summer.

For Bastirous666: You will be happy to know that we are sending in the classic Treelord for a re-cast at the same time as when we send in the dragon... which will be in a few weeks. He will even be upgraded with some new deadly claws and a new scenic base with loads of skully bits. This is mainly for personal reasons since he is my favorite mini. Oh yeah!

I am also very much into the idea of creating new mounts, especially chariots since they are so much fun to see on the table, but those are all things we have to put into planning. Coming up is the 4 new demons, the dragon, the classic Kool Aid Treelord... and we have begun sculpting up 3 more demons even! That is a lot of work for only two people so we thank you very much for your patience and excellent input and ideas... and most importantly your support.

Sophia wrote:
For Vascariz: All the Ultraforge peices will be fairly big for about the next four or five minis to come. Then we may get into smaller stuff. We just love doing the big centerpiece type units as they really turn heads at the local game night and are a lot of fun. All the Ultraforge minis will run for about 200 casts or so, so they will probably be available for the next few months as long as they don't sell out. We want to keep our minis semi-rare. We are strongly considering doing some big tree brutes and smaller sexy female Dryads since the Treewoman needs an army but we would not be able to sculpt these things until closer to summer.

Sophia you have made me so happy!!! Looking forward to all of them!

Crikey....makes me feel like buying a WHFB army now. The value for money seems unbeatable for the quality.

I am ging to PM you now.................

Definitely waiting to see that classic treeman again. the second he's ready i think i'm gonna have to buy one.

Well obviously it's a huge leap in aesthetics and should be positive news in economics for your business too. Interesting indeed. As with all crafts, practise makes perfect and you clearly have the talent, so I am quite excited where the next leap takes you and your work.

I actually saw the Treewoman somewhere, but failed to totally make any connection to your previous work.

Thanks for sharing,

I'd love to post some pictures of the beast so far, alas my nation seems adverse to having a calm clear day and I can't paint rope or wood very well! I'll keep my eyes open though.

I find it interesting to hear that you've only done a run of 200 or so. Will you be doing any after that? It sort of makes me feel special that I'm the only one in my local miniature circle to even have heard of Ultraforge.

That is exactly the point I think. I love Ultraforge miniatures being rare, and I am sure that even if we did cast up another hundred or so you would still be the only person at your local game store with one. It is like having a very custom mini for a fraction of the price of a commissioned sculpt. Until we hire a whole company of sculptors I feel that Ultraforge will always be that super-rare company and we like it that way. We probably will re-cast another run of the more successful mnis and replace old minis with newer and better ones when we can. We just want to apply customer feedback and have the best catalog we can.

I love the idea of the centrepiece to my army being a bit rare. I can't wait for the game when I plop my giant down on the table to cries of WTF!!??!!

.. I just have to paint up 150 or so gobbos first (maybe a trial run in my chaos force first?).

My Giant arrived this morning. May I jump on the bandwagon and say how excellent it is, definately on par with Forgeworld stuff in general, and actually better than the current FW Giant that is out.

A question to those at Ultraforge. Are you planning on any sci-fi releases? I would love to see some futuristic stuff. I realise that there is a greater demand for fantasy things since dragons and the like are not the IP of GW while Space Marines are, but I'm sure you could think of something. Maybe a few gothic buildings, tanks or cyborgs (who may look like but are definately not the Skitarii )