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I think the suggestion of small peices of things like wings, skulls etc to combine for shoulder pad icons, vehicle detail and so on is a top notch idea. Shouldn't be breaching any copyright stuff, add in a dagger/sword and water/blood drop things you might find a surprise market as long as it's just components not full icons?

Thanks for the compliment on price, quality and customer service.. I guess my post was more to the fact that if Forge World has done something already, it is hard for us to do something similiar without looking like its a copy..

Yeah, blood drops wings swords and daggers, wouldnt be too hard. I guess making a icon kit that would include, wings, blood drops, skulls and a sword (all seperate components but same scale) would make it legal to do and easy for the customer to glue them as they see fit

Nick

I'm all over the Wolf Shields, please release them soon.....seriously I cant wait to buy them.

They are coming..... save your money for a couple of more weeks

In relation to GW's word isn't law. Does anyone recall what happened to the people who made the "Army Builder for the internet"? I'm pretty sure they were shut down, and claimed they would never be.

(If something different happened, then let me know)

Otherwise.... your land raider work is AMAZING!

Datadep5 wrote:In relation to GW's word isn't law. Does anyone recall what happened to the people who made the "Army Builder for the internet"? I'm pretty sure they were shut down, and claimed they would never be.

(If something different happened, then let me know)

I think the Dakka-pinion is to try to keep the legal stuff out of the thread, but keep in mind that the mere threat of a lawsuit can mean a lot. If I was doing something that was 'potentially actionable' I would be nervous because even if I'm 100% certain I'm not infringing, if a large company can find grounds for a lawsuit, they can potentially destroy my profits with a lawsuit.

Chapterhouse presumably has worked this out, as I think everyone and heir brother has told them this. IP law is a tricky thing, and I'm not a lawyer.

Datadep5 wrote:In relation to GW's word isn't law. Does anyone recall what happened to the people who made the "Army Builder for the internet"? I'm pretty sure they were shut down, and claimed they would never be.

(If something different happened, then let me know)

Otherwise.... your land raider work is AMAZING!

Can you not restate the restated obvious? Everyone and their fething cousins have said that CH would get mightily screwed by GW, and they haven't yet. I personally don't believe they will. If you read any of the other CH threads (and I have no doubt that you did) you probably noticed the endless "lol bs ur scrood copycats" so unless you represent GW please consider PMing CH and leaving this News thread for News and not to post statements that so many other people have voiced concern about.

Rico...

Eh, we arent putting our heads in the sand and avoiding the possibility of a fun legal dance with GW. That being said, we have the legal power and funds to do the dance if it happens, and it will be a very public dance too.

We have STRONG ties with the online community and would let everyone know what was going on. None of this shush shush stuff GW does.

Nick

Look who cares about the legal side of this. I am sure its been discussed before. I just want these guys to keep making more stuff especially for my SW. Also just like the BA skulls and daggers etc some SW goodies would be great.

Yes, more about the products, less people running around in this thread pointing the finger and crying 'J'accuse!'

I'm very glad to see this company doing well and producing a quality product to compliment existing ranges.

Just a pity for me that they aren't doing anything Ork related.

Too many ideas, not enough sculpting time... you know a good sculptor for a good price and send them my way

Make me a set of Guard scaled models that look like


and I will personally pay for you to get a hot tub and a Porsche.

Gotta love the Rebel Alliance

Doing more with less for 30 odd years!

Kanluwen wrote:Make me a set of Guard scaled models that look like

and I will personally pay for you to get a hot tub and a Porsche.

Thats easy, talk to the sculptors of Infinity miniatures.
Pay him the Porche , i'll just have a skaven battalion.

You rich?

Spoke with the caster today, all the molds look good and I am getting samples of the land raider and rhino kits in a couple of days...

Seeing the Land Raider Kit, what do you guys think is a fair price for the kit, its in resin and you can see the photos below, its a 11 part kit (the braziers are in pewter that glue on the rear armored panels). I think we can stay in the 20-24$ price range and be ok.

I think the Rhino kit will be in the 15-17$ range..

That sounds like an excellent price... no plans on making doors for the front or side hatches?

sounds great ill deffinately be ordering a few of these. =o)

Yeah, we have the front and side doors already created (the base parts) we are working on the details and sculpt, so if anyone is good at free hand and has a good idea for what should go on a dragon-salamander door and front hatch, let us know.

I cant access your website from work. But do you post to the UK??

Dont have any pics of the new pads on minis but here is one with some older pads on:


Some things finished:




And lots of loose icons sculpted on recently to transform the segmented rhino plates to various army themes.


Ah, the celtic round shield yes. Some progress made by me, I wanted to bake in a hi-tech feel to it so I added some sort of power cable around the shield edge and also lock it in place by using the celtic ornaments but extend them to the back.
Still dont know if I got a better feel to the shield or not as I´m to immersed in it to be objective so go ahead and let me know. Fail or pass?








Yeah, simple things like skulls and wings, ok I get it but how are they suppose to differ from forgeworlds already awesome skull icons?
Is there any interest in chalices btw?
Am sculpting the chalice themed rhino and some loose icons as well at the moment.


As for chaos stuff or a chaos rhino, as Nick said, FW already does a good job covering those BUT...I have a cool idea for a chaos rhino top hatch that is 100% original and draws on Moorcocks compass. It will be made to represent either "chaos" rhinos or possessed vehicles. As for doors etc FW already covers those pretty much but I might do those to mach as well.

Thanks

Yes! I would love chalice stuff! If theres any chance for a drop pod chalice door (although if your making plain icons they could just be glued onto one eh?)

But yea... soul drinker stuff is awwsome... then again it might be just me since im starting a soul drinker army!

A chalice door set would own.

@Tom

Power cabling = PASS!
I like the "wrap around" celtic knots, too.

Eric

I don't think it looks much like "power cabling",more like rope or some other type of braided material. It looks good, however, and as is, could stand in for a 40k or FB shield upgrade.

Well, that was my intention. It all depends on how you paint the "cables", metal or rope-ish.

The only other thing hi-tech will be cables at the front but those will be easily removed and cables by the handle but those are not visible anyway (so why do I bother )

Because you know they are there and want to do the best job you can?

You guys sure like your salamanders/dragons...
We need more wolf stuff, that shield is FTW X2!

One wolf shield is done and waiting on its partner for the mold, bug Tom to make the wolf pads and icons for the vehicles, he is tired of me bugging him

Thanks MagicalMemories, glad you like it.

Because you know they are there and want to do the best job you can?

Well, I got inspired by the FW MO actually, they do lots of details even though half of them will be obscured but for the people wanting to do conversions of odd placements of the bitz I want the things behind the object etc, to be visible.
Sure it adds time but I´d rather do something good then rush out stuff. Hence the time spent on the rhino and LR addons and previous shields.

Now ehen all that remain of the shield are:
Handle, cabling at the back, knuckle guard.

What fronts would you guys want?
One front will be of a dragon/lizard.
One of a wolf head with metal ornaments on it.
One can be a chalice (however a chalice fits inside a celtic pattern I dont know).
And for the freehanders out tehre it will also come clean with empty space in the middle.

But then what?
A wolf skull?
A human skull?
An armoured open (closed?) gauntlet?
A spartan "V" symbol?