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Ok, after browsing News&Rumours section I`ve decided it may be cool to change the format of posting MaxMini news. From now on I`ll include all of them in a single topic , just changing the title with a note about latest update. This seems more "proper" -shouldn`t spam this section of Dakka .
Even though it`s Sunday we`ve decided to pay our workshop a short visit . Thus I was able to demold this new piece by Marcin Szmyt - a gatling gun platform:



As usual - 28mm "heroic" scale.

Very nice, as usual.

In your other thread you mentioned the terminator pads with tassels now...yet the link doesn't display any pictures and I can't seem to find them on the online store. Any pics of the pads with tassels? Thanks!

I like the platform but the tires seem a bit bare, is there fine tred that is just not showing up?

A scope also seems a little un needed for the type of gun but that can easily be removed and reused.

Actually the scope / targeter is an optional piece .

@AgeOfEgos: here`s the pic

Ah, taking the Troll Forged route huh?

The minis are looking great man!

exactly mate . Now when we have steady stream of updates it really seems a better option .

Przemas wrote:Actually the scope / targeter is an optional piece .

@AgeOfEgos: here`s the pic

Awesome, thanks .

The gatling platform is great. The bare tyres aren't really a problem... If they're just there to allow the crew to tote the weapon around, they don't really need tread. That would be more necessary on larger, towed weapons.

Any plans on alternate weapons for the carriage?

See I was thinking about it in another way, well a) if it is detailed its easer to paint and make it look better for me. b) I was thinking in practical terms that it would slide around making aiming and transport harder. I have not found many pictures of them but I want to say they have something similar to motorcycle tires.

Yup - you can expect other weapon variants in the future.
If you have any specific ideas let me know - it will make some planning easier .

That is a neat looking weapons carriage. Would look nice for my VSF and steampunk projects.

I would like to see some kind of Tesla style cannon and maybe a ridiculously big bored cannon?

I'm liking that, something for my Airborne units to lug those Las-Cannons around on.

You should make a mortar variant. Allows for a bigger cooler looking mortar that makes sence on how it gets moved around.

I'd love to see a small breech loading gun of sorts, but this one right here is nicely done! I'll be looking forward to my stockist selling it ASAP.

I'd like to see variants for all the standard IG heavy weapon teams. A "Laser Cannon," a mortar, and an autocannon.

Why not just sell the carriage and let people stick whatever sort of gun they want in it? My IG are all about the light towed guns.

If that gun come out I'll buy 20 for my Imperial army, they look sweet.

Agreed with comments about the carriage. I definitely have use for a lot of gatling/miniguns, but I would be tickled pink if it had options for an 'autocannon', a 'light cannon' (missile launcher) and a 'heavy cannon' (lascannon).

A little bird tells me that this is just one example of what is comming down the pipeline in the future.

Expect more great things to come from these guys in the future.

I`ve added Wunderrocket to the webstore. If all goes well tomorrow you should expect plaguebeast and bioswords as well .
I`m waiting for a couple of packages from the sculptors. Damn, can`t wait to get them - especially for the ones from new sculptors .

Could you maybe make some other tires that could go with it, that are also sold on their own that look like the Ork Big gun wheels?

Bioswords have been added to the webstore :

Since Przemas is now keeping the stuff for MaxMini.eu in one, main thread, I just wanted to chip in a bit of opinion / review here. I really hope Przemas doesn't mind the very small hijack.

Back in February, I had a bit of correspondence with Przemas. He asked if I'd be interested in previewing some of their upcoming releases, and since I'd been really happy with the stuff I've bought from them in the past, my response was an enthusiastic yes.

Fast forward to today, and a package arrives in the mail all the way from the moon, er, Poland. Needless to say, I was more than a little excited to tear into this thing and see what's inside, and hopefully the MaxMini guys don't mind if I share the contents with all of you. I'm about to sound like a gigantic shill, I'm well aware of it, but they didn't ask me to write any of this and I do very genuinely love the work these guys do.

First and foremost, I received one of the prototypes of their 'Wunderrocket'. I first saw their previews for this model a couple weeks ago, and I was more than excited about it, since it looks to be a fantastic proxy for a Pulsa Rokkit for Apocalypse.

The main thing that always staggers me about MaxMini stuff is how much cleaner their casting work is compared to other companies. Last year, I ordered a bunch of their Ork Nob-sized pirate heads and Post-Apocalptic Big Guns to use in Flash Git conversions, and I was startled to discover that there was basically no mold lines, flashing, or cleanup required on the stuff I received. The same can be very easily said for the stuff I received from them today - while not completely perfect, their stuff is giant pogo-stick leaps and bounds better than stuff like Armorcast. Even a company like Forgeworld, which survives with ludicrous detail for ludicrous prices, produces and sells a lot of pieces that require considerable effort to repair into the product advertised in my experience.

To that end, all of the photographs of the stuff I received depict product that has not been cleaned up at all - I basically just removed these parts from the box and grabbed my camera.

So, let's return to the Wunderrocket. Przemek, the MaxMini.eu representative that sent me this stuff, advised me that the rocket I've received "has been cast in a sample mold, so the main 'body' of the rocket has been cast slightly differently than the one from the production mold". If you notice any significant differences in details between what I'm photographing here and what MaxMini.eu currently has up, I think it's probably attributable to that - because shipping from Poland takes as long as it does, they sent me one of their preproduction kits to play with.



You can see the parts breakdown of what I got here. The parts are keyed to fit together in a very simple manner - it's hard to get it wrong. There's two top covers that plug into the main, cylindrical body of the rocket; one resembles a large antenna rig, which presumably would suggest a remote control for the rocket, and the other is a cockpit-esque hatch that would conceal a pilot. The ramp is cast as one solid piece, which is actually fairly technically impressive from a mold-making standpoint. You can already tell from this picture that the quality of these casts is pretty damn high - there's nothing flashed, broken, mangled, bent, or bubbled. In fact, the kit fits together without any glue:





This is dry-fit together with zero glue, and really looks just great. My Big Mek is in the picture for scale purposes, and to admire the construction. You'll notice that the one thing that appears absent is a turbine to plug into the front of the engine on the tail, but I expect that's absent just because they hadn't had the time to get the molds together for that part yet. It's certainly not a big deal for me, since I can manufacture my own fairly easily, and I've no doubt that it's remedied on the actual kit itself. That said, though, this thing fits together seamlessly, and there's hardly any flaws anywhere - the only thing I've noticed is a very tiny miscast on the second picture above, in the thin 'casing' that goes around the gauges and dials on the side of the rocket, but I imagine that's simply due to how thin the part is and it's not a hard thing to fix. Certainly nothing like having to drop your Forgeworld model in boiling water to straighten it out!

MaxMini's current pricing on the Wunderrocket puts it at around $50 USD, which means for Ork players it's something like the cost of a Battlewagon or Deff Dread. Obviously, cheaper would be lovely... but speaking from experience playing Apocalypse, I would almost always rather spend the $50 on one of these Rockets instead of a Dread. Pulsa Rokkits can be ridiculously useful in a large game.

The Wunderrocket wasn't all I received from the MaxMini guys, however. They also pitched in a "Confession Machine", an interesting terrain item that looks right at home in the 41st millenium.



I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to use this for yet, but I'm thinking it might be a good element to include in a diorama or large display base, since pegging it onto an ork vehicle or the likes seems wasteful. Perhaps I'll loot it and use it as an objective marker?

I also got a handful of small, assorted bits to play with.



Obviously, I'm very excited over the hammers and pirate orc heads. Since I'm working on a 'Saladamneders' army, I need all the Thunder Hammers I can get, and these things look right at home being swung by power or terminator armor. The orc boy heads are also pretty fantastic - I already have a larger set of the Nob ones for when I make flash gitz, and I think I might save these three for the orks that will have to be crewing their very dakka-laden Battlewagon transport. I hope that down the road the MaxMini guys consider making some bodies to go along with these heads; right now, Micro Art Studio produces the closest thing to "Flash Git" bodies wearing long coats with their Orc Body set, but these are only Boy sized, and proppa Flash Gitz need to be almost the scale of Nobz. You'll also note a couple of other bits there, including one of MaxMini's "M-guns", a trio of "Steam Knight Helmets", "Fallen Legionnaire Helmets", "Feral Heads", and some of their "Skulls" bits. As with the other photos, these are all of bitz that are straight out of the package with zero cleanup - you can see why I love MaxMini's quality control. If those hammers had been from anyone else, the wires on them would have been a disastrous, miscast mess.

So, yes, in summation I have nothing but glowing things to say about MaxMini.eu's work. I'm not ashamed to say it. Obviously, I hope they focus on making more... 'post-apocalptic', or scrap-built wargear so that I can incorporate it into my greenskin army, but for those of you working on weedy forces like the Imperial Guard you really can't go wrong either.

kestral wrote:Why not just sell the carriage and let people stick whatever sort of gun they want in it? My IG are all about the light towed guns.

Amen Brother Kestral! I love the carriage, but I'd probably want to put my own weapons on it.

Vale,

JohnS

I had a browse of MaxMini a while ago. Brilliant stuff, but I just couldn't choose! Anyone mind if I just take the whole store? Let's see....I've got about....10 bucks.

Przemas wrote:
Even though it`s Sunday we`ve decided to pay our workshop a short visit . Thus I was able to demold this new piece by Marcin Szmyt - a gatling gun platform:

Oh my!!
That is so sexy nice! Must have 3!!

Those bioswords look really nice- I'm considering ripping the arms off my Swarmlord conversion for them; just need to decide what arms to use...

Really nice stuff so far, I'll be keeping an eye on this thread.

The Wunderrocket ramp is really one solid chunk of resin? Is it the ramp hollow underneath? Is the rocket hollow inside or is it also one solid chunk?

On the model I got, the ramp is one solid chunk of resin. It's not hollow, and the bottom is solid and smooth. The rocket body is also one solid piece of resin - not hollow.

Well... damn! Those look pretty sharp! I will have to take a look at their site and see what excuses I can find to spend some cash I really like those thunder hammers and traitorous heads.