Upcoming Chapterhouse Studios releases - Shoulder Pads and Rhino/Land Raider Kits

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**Spacemanvic**

Tom, quick question:

The shoulder pads, they are concave in the back, right? Will they fit right over the SM arms? If so, Im ordering a bunch up for my Marines!

**Chapterhouse**

They have almost identical dimensions to the regular shoulder pads, take a look at the photo below, the pewter pad is ours, the painted one is a regular shoulder pad from the Marine kit.

All our pads are designed to fit the regular models.

**MeanGreenStompa**

Whilst I own no marines myself, just wanted to wish you well with the company.

I'm verymuch in favour of smaller firms adding diversity and customer choice to our hobby.

You mentioned you would not be doing chaos...but what about Pre-heresy icons and armour (which would be suitable) for the traitor legions?

There does seem to be a lot of HH interest online.

**Chapterhouse**

We are working on expanding the Pre-heresy stuff, but alot of that is pretty distinct symbols created by Games Workshop. Unfortunately I dont think GW is handing out any licenses these days. Unless its something that we can do, not sure it will be done.

**JohnHwangDD**

As I suggested earlier: Turbofan jump packs!

**Alpharius**

JohnHwangDD wrote:As I suggested earlier: Turbofan jump packs!

Now that is a good call - seconded!

**jamsessionein**

Alpharius wrote:
JohnHwangDD wrote:As I suggested earlier: Turbofan jump packs!

Now that is a good call - seconded!

http://www.maxmini.eu/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12&products_id=49

**Chapterhouse**

I think we want to do some as well, they will be different then Maximinis though.

**Lordhat**

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

You should definitely find a unique way to do some bird iconography. I'm not suggesting you copy this exactly, but GW does seem to lack any Icons that suggest a bird of prey in action.

Also, how about some Large cat stuff?

Lion heads,

Tiger heads,

one or two different cat forms in mid pounce.

**Chapterhouse**

We have a lion pad done though... hmm website is down due to traffic...

**Fishboy**

That Atlanta Falcons icon is no bird of Prey in action. Trust me...I have lived in ATL for 28 years and there is no prey hehehe...

**Chapterhouse**

OK websites up again

**ubberdorc**

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?

A Griffon of course!!

**Chapterhouse**

We have one!

**ubberdorc**

Chapterhouse wrote:We have one!

Yeah I know, I ordered 70 of them...I was talking about the celt shield.
8)~

**Buttlerthepug**

There any chance for marine body fronts? So instead of the eagle or skull thang its different... Im thinking Chalice of coarse... like the front of the Soul Drinker Omnibus book

Just curious

**AgeOfEgos**

I second the Lion related iconography. One of their untouched chapters that could lead to many cool conversion bits...

**Chapterhouse**

We have been debating the space marine torsos. It is more a timing issue (as in not enough) as we would have to create a torso template from scratch that would fit on the GW back half and then do the sculpts...

Again a not enough time with the current sculpting staff we have.

**Valhallan42nd**

Chapterhouse, why not make a freefloating piece that will fit over a certain torso or torsos that one could just glue on?

**Chapterhouse**

My first thoughts:

Fragility, Resin is not very efficient to produce unless they are thicker pieces and I cant see pewter staying on a model very well.

Ease of Use, everytime someone wants to put on the chest bit they would have to modify the GW chest part extensively.

**ubberdorc**

Chapterhouse wrote:My first thoughts:

Fragility, Resin is not very efficient to produce unless they are thicker pieces and I cant see pewter staying on a model very well.

Ease of Use, everytime someone wants to put on the chest bit they would have to modify the GW chest part extensively.

What about a one piece torso that includes front and back?

**MagickalMemories**

I would like to see shoulder pads with just the head of a Raptor.
When I expand my SM chapter, I'd buy bucketloads.

To get an idea of what I'm thinking of, take a peek at FW Raptors iconography.
I know you can't copy the image (etc), but something like that would be PERFECT for people like me who use Griffon themes, but HATE the old "griffon rampant" look.

Eric

**Chapterhouse**

Yeah, it wouldnt be hard to do a raptor, but wouldnt people ratehr buy the FW ones when they are released with the new Hard cover book?

**Vermillion**

Price competitively?

TBH anyone willing to only buy GW and FW when there is cooler out there for a better price needs their head seeing to.

**Chapterhouse**

That is what is cool with the companies out there making bits, they are there if you want to use them but you dont have too.

I hope that soon we will have enough demand that we can drop our prices, right now we are just trying to stay even.

**MagickalMemories**

Chapterhouse wrote:Yeah, it wouldnt be hard to do a raptor, but wouldnt people ratehr buy the FW ones when they are released with the new Hard cover book?

I didn't realize they were going to be expanding their raptors line to tactical Shoulder pads.

Thanks for the info.

Eric

**Chapterhouse**

Thats the rumor, they will be in the next FW book.

**Buttlerthepug**

ubberdorc wrote:
Chapterhouse wrote:My first thoughts:

Fragility, Resin is not very efficient to produce unless they are thicker pieces and I cant see pewter staying on a model very well.

Ease of Use, everytime someone wants to put on the chest bit they would have to modify the GW chest part extensively.

What about a one piece torso that includes front and back?

That would be cool too... and I imagine much easier then just the front half? Also gives you more room for modeling it aye?

**Chapterhouse**

There is a legal mess with a whole torso as well. I think just a front piece will be done in the future (Tom wants to sculpt it already). I know GW did pewter ones a while back with some models (Plague Marines) and they just fit on the plastic back halves, so it can be done.

**Piousman**

I second the "whole torso" concept. You add that to a more PH look, and it should be significantly less GW-like.

Piousman