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Commander Cain wrote:Could work provided you could find the resources to produce the stuff at a reasonable price. Glad you found a better way to produce this stuff, the company that you contacted charged you way too much, I would say it would cost way less to produce kits of the size you are planning.

Well, if I produced the molds I would need to find and contract a foundry to mold it for me, but the machine shops here have plastic injection machines, so I might be able to crank out a couple hundred at what basically amounts to 'at cost' for sale to you guys.

First I need to redo some parts to make it compatible w/ the injection process.

Look forward to it. I'm doing Elysians, which are supposed to lightweight drop troops, but since I love your minis so much, I'm going to justify it in my fluff...somehow....

Its all looking amazing. I really hope to hear some good news about getting those casts made up for all of us who want to get our hands on them!

I want updates. your stuff is looking good.

No real updates, real life has been kicking my ass. I just decided about 10 minutes ago that I should get in contact with chapterhouse and see if they would be interested.

Or try maxmini? they do a lot of cool stuff. www.maxmini.eu

Maxmini is a quality manufacturer who also happens to not be in litigation right now.

Liking your stuff, shot you a PM.

Maxmini is getting sued aswell by who and over what? sorry to derail your topic? anyone shoot me a PM to clear up my lack of knowledge?

Still very interested in this project. Hopefully someone takes it on, it's too good to pass up.

I like the turret...but it DOES look like the Millenium Falcon!

chaos0xomega, the weapons platform looks ace
I like your tank too, looks sleek and fast.. not slow and fat like the Leman Russ.
Really hope everything pans out and you find a manufacturer soon, I'd definitely depart with some of my money.

I hope you find a manufacturer soon! With the price of GW going up, we are gonna need someone with a great looking model!

Also, the tank needs to get done! I am half tempted to offer up money to make the molds as long as I get something back from it! Anything to add a great option.

If you have the kind of money to make that kind of investment, I will gladly work out a deal with you if it will help make it a reality (obviously I'm nowhere near ready to accept such an investment, but if you're serious pm me and we'll talk).

Classes are winding down, so I'll have summer the summer to work on this stuff, and I'm talking to people to try to make the weapon platform (at least) happen soonish. Sorry for the lack of updates, but real life has been kicking my butt.

Can't wait to see some progress.

Time for me to start checking on prices of getting things made in resin.

I want some of these with cannons
have always wanted an Artillery Regiment and these look the things that can give me it, without pouring money into FW
If you can fit the gun carriage onto one sprue it will be very well recieved
have you considered using Shapeways? they CNC the parts and sell them for you.

SteelSpectre wrote:Look forward to it. I'm doing Elysians, which are supposed to lightweight drop troops, but since I love your minis so much, I'm going to justify it in my fluff...somehow....

This shouldn't be too hard, current and past military forces have slung howitzers, tanks, gun carriages and such under helicopters, I see no reason Elysians wouldn't have a similar capability.

Found a pic...

I might give shapeways a shot in the near future, but I've seen their work in the past, and I've never been impressed, their machines aren't really meant for this level of detail.

I've tried getting in touch with Paulson Games, but they seem to be lacking in the communications department...

Fingers are crossed.

Sent an email to chapterhouse today. They might be in the midst of legal action, but they seem to be more responsive to communication from their customer base than the other groups I've tried contacting. Lets see what they say.

Heard anything back yet? Just a thought, but you could possibly collaborate with Warmill? He is in the midst of setting up his own shop.

Dunno who Warmill is...

I'm discussing with Chapterhouse right now. We'll see where it leads.

Ow my ego!

Lol in all seriousness warmill is me and Ed, we've just started making our own stuff. Because we're nuts we're doing everything ourselves, CAD, machining of masters, moulding and casting, etc. At the moment we're cutting the masters for our Valkyrie conversion kit. We have been following your thread for a while now and did actually talk about approaching you about the weapon platforms a while back. If Chapterhouse doesn't work out for you shoot us a message and we can have a chat.

At the very least, knowing someone else is interested never hurt anyone's bargaining power

Harry - warmill

Actually I have seen your stuff before, it was a few months ago, thought it was cool, didn't pay enough attention to the man behind the ideas, my bad.

Yep, will definitely keep you in mind for the future/depending on what Chapterhouse says.

So chapterhouse fell through, now in discussion with warmill (I hope).

Sorry about the Chapterhouse. Good luck with Warmill. They seem really busy, so yeah... I want your stuff though, SOMEBODY needs to make it soon.

Its alright (and to be clear here, tihis is not an issue I have w/ chapterhouse, I expected this might occur. Long story short, Chapterhouse is not a casting house, they hire out to casting services to get their stuff done. The casting houses, for whatever reason, were charging large sums per copy of the mini. The material cost is something to the effect 10-20 cents (US) per copy, they were asking probably in the ballpark of 7 to 8 bucks each...(on top of the mold costs). It just wasn't economically feasible for chapterhouse to produce them, with the markup, they would come out to at least 15 bucks for just a single copy of the gun. I would like to get the price more in the ballpark of a 1/2-1/3 that cost, because honestly, nobody is really going to even consider these as a viable option for their army at anything more than that.

From what I understand, warmill does everything in house, so they may be able to get these into production at a more reasonable cost. They also seem to be pretty smart fellows, with some innovative ideas on how to produce things, so who knows what they will come up with.

Good to hear. I didn't expect it to be Chapterhouse being a problem, but still sucks cause we have to wait longer to get ahold of your fantastic designs!

I know, I'm trying. If warmill doesn't work out, I think I may try troll forged (but from what I understand hes extremely backed up), because really I see no other option.