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Sweet! It made it to 50%! Soon, we get to see some sweet, sweet concepts!

Does anyone know how long it took before the android or the zombie concept art came up? I'm really eager to see what Wargames Factory can come up with!

Im so excited, I peed a little. Seriously, its' going to take them forever to get this set out.

look at my sig

So we just fill it out? And they make it?

Basically, yes. Provided 100 people and 1000 sprues "preorder".

http://www.wargamesfactory.com/AnnouncementRetrieve.aspx?ID=21520

Horrible in a bad way... great, now I will skip it all.

AFAIK the "preorder" cost's you nothing, it serves the purpose of gauging consumer interest.

If you preorder it stands to reason you would buy the sprue if it were available.

NAVARRO wrote:http://www.wargamesfactory.com/AnnouncementRetrieve.aspx?ID=21520

Horrible in a bad way... great, now I will skip it all.

Wait until painted pictures come out. The plastic that WGF uses generally looks bad until it's at least primed; just look at the Zulu Wars sprues in comparison to the painted pictures.

How do these models size up compared to GW? Especially the zombies? I have been looking for a way to do a zombie horde for Apoc.

NAVARRO wrote:http://www.wargamesfactory.com/AnnouncementRetrieve.aspx?ID=21520

Horrible in a bad way... great, now I will skip it all.

I had high hopes for WGF when they started working, but none of those have materialized. Companies like Warlord Games and the Perrys seem to be making consistently higher-quality plastics. Everything I'm seeing off WGF, on the other hand, seems to have the same general theme: soft, blobby detail.

IMHO, when painted up they look as good as any others.

Yeah, like I said earlier, wait for the paintjobs before you dismiss the kit. The plastic used by WGF is "shiny" and does not lend itself well to pictures, but the detail really comes out once the models are painted or even just primed. This doesn't look bad at all, but the sprues for that line looked just as bad as the zombie ones when the prerelease pics came out.

Finally these are getting somewhere

When I submitted the idea, I wish I'd put in some more detail than I did, looking back it really doesn't seem that descriptive.

I just submitted a suggestions for two other sets to go along with these.

One set is for a heavy weapons team with things like mortars, RPG rocket teams, light autocannons (PaK38 style) etc...

Another is for a special weapons sprue with things like a grenade launcher, LMG, panzerfaust type rocket (to represent a meltagun) etc...

Those should be up hopefully within a couple days here, I'll post links when they get them up, so preorder them too

Any idea how long it takes WGF to get pics up of the the "sketches"?

*Double post*

Well, I think they said they start work once it reaches 500 preorders, I'd expect to start seeing stuff get posted in the next week or two here, if the preorders keep coming we'll probably have the sprue out in time for the IG codex release

We can only hope.\

Woot almost 600 pre-orders!

I tried preordering 20 sprues but the confirmation mail said that I just preordered female zombies :\

lord_blackfang wrote:I tried preordering 20 sprues but the confirmation mail said that I just preordered female zombies :\

O_O

That is...a bit weird.

Try shooting them an email maybe?

While they do look better painted, they would look even better with proper detailing on the miniature itself, rather than having to paint it in.

Admittedly, they have just the right amount of detail for tabletop miniatures, and their sprues are very affordable.

Paint them up with a table quality paint job and they work great. Just don't expect collector's quality.

I have a question; why is it out of the three or four different companies that do Celtic warriors in plastic sprues none of them do female ones?

On topic though, once I see the great-coat concepts then I might put my name down, we'll see though.

Kettu wrote:I have a question; why is it out of the three or four different companies that do Celtic warriors in plastic sprues none of them do female ones?

Because girls are icky?

It would require exposed chests, something that would be a complete hit with the target audience, but less so with the target audience's mothers.

Actually, the historical wargames companies don't much care for that sort of thing. I know Warlord Games has several Celts who're not wearing a stich, with anatomically correct genitalia and all. It could just be that according to whatever sources they use, female warriors are ahistorical.

we're at 66% now

So close yet so far.

They won't go all the way until we see concepts. So let's see the concepts already!!

Looking at their older stuff, I'm liking it, I'll think about it.

Would anybody get mad if you use this in tourney army?

Fattimus_maximus wrote:Would anybody get mad if you use this in tourney army?

An official GW tournament probably would, an independent game store probably wouldn't care much.