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**parakuribo**

Looks alright. I'd field her, but for a different game. By the way, I'd seriously change your company name to reflect your line if I would you; I know she's third party, but the last thing you want is a C&D from GW for 40emperor alone.

**BrookM**

Received a newsletter email from the company, they'll soon be kicking off the KS.

The ADF is coming to a printer near you!
These are very exciting times for us, as we are getting our range ready for launch this October.
To show all the people who have supported us since day one our gratitude, we will kick-off with an Earlybird Army Deal campaign on Kickstarter.

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There's also a, at the moment of typing, dead link in the email for a file that lets you print out a plasma trooper. People who sign up to the newsletter should also get the file sooner or later.

**Irbis**

Matt Swain wrote:
Ok, i agree with what most of my brothers here have been saying, the upper half is great, the lower half not so much. Is that a loincloth? Over pants? Well, Ok, 40k so maybe some fools wear a loincloth over pants because it's 'turdishun" and if you don't you're a "hairy tick". So I could let a loincloth over pants go except it looks like the loincloth is melting into the pants if that is what it is. I like the boots and knee pad both are detailed and good.

EDIT: OK, it's jsut some creasing in the pants that seem a little too...extreme. smoothen it out a little please.

People here really have zero exposure to other cultures? Not even in history books? No, that's not a ""loincloth"", that's a salvar, loose pants worn all over Asia, and they are supposed to be that creased:

**warboss**

I believe in modern parlance they're also commonly known as "Hammer pants" when paired with an open chested long sleeved vest.

Spoiler:

I don't know if the IG have access to it but I personally think they deserve a 5+ "You can't touch this" invul save.

**Albertorius**

Well, "modern", we're talking end tail of the 80s, there. Literally last century

**Malika2**

Digging the model, but why only one knee pad?

**warboss**

Albertorius wrote:
Well, "modern", we're talking end tail of the 80s, there. Literally last century

One may even be so bold as to say last millenium!

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Malika2 wrote:
Digging the model, but why only one knee pad?

MC Hammer pants combined with LL Cool J leg fashion asymmetry?

**alphaecho**

Malika2 wrote:
Digging the model, but why only one knee pad?

Some only wear one knee pad as they only kneel on the one knee when firing.

I know it doesn't necessarily make sense but if you are right handed then it's the right knee down for the firing position.

I've seen it done by others and I've done it myself.

**spiralingcadaver**

Albertorius wrote:
Well, "modern", we're talking end tail of the 80s, there. Literally last century

FWIW, modern isn't the same as contemporary, so that was a completely appropriate use of the word.

**Grot 6**

How about some more info on the figure, and if you have more then just that 1.

It looks like a rough render right now, you have any cast?

What does the figure look like compared to other ranges?

What's the price? How many we looking at for this range...

etc.etc.etc...

Not really much here but a bland plug, we need a little more then a pretty picture, at this point.

**Albertorius**

spiralingcadaver wrote:
Albertorius wrote:
Well, "modern", we're talking end tail of the 80s, there. Literally last century
FWIW, modern isn't the same as contemporary, so that was a completely appropriate use of the word.

Oh, I did not know MC Hammer lived in the centuries XV-XVIII...

**spiralingcadaver**

Albertorius wrote:
spiralingcadaver wrote:
Albertorius wrote:
Well, "modern", we're talking end tail of the 80s, there. Literally last century
FWIW, modern isn't the same as contemporary, so that was a completely appropriate use of the word.

Oh, I did not know MC Hammer lived in the centuries XV-XVIII...

Ugh. Really? There are like a hundred definitions of modern, and picking one that excludes someone else's use is wholly pedantic. It doesn't prove anything other than that if you misinterpret a statement you can find a reason to disagree with it.

relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past

mod·ern his·to·ry
/ˈˌmädərn ˈhist(ə)rē/
noun
history up to the present day, from some arbitrary point taken to represent the end of the Middle Ages. In some contexts it may be contrasted with “ancient” rather than “medieval” history, and start, e.g., from the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

**warboss**

Albertorius wrote:

Oh, I did not know MC Hammer lived in the centuries XV-XVIII...

Well, 80's fashion is timeless so there is that... plus it apparently has the ability to completely derail a forum thread with one corny joke so never underestimate the power of Hammer pants! Just don't get me started on a new decade and Z Cavaricci's!!!

**deadairis**

Oppl wrote:
AdmiralHalsey wrote:
What's with the baggy pants and one kneepad?

I'd pass. Besides the last thing I need is more laspistol and chainsword guardsmen. Give me a decent plastic plasmagunner not in the command squad box anyday.

I'm not really digging the aesthetic of the figure, and the placement of the pad is odd. But single kneepads are fairly common in the military on actual deployment. You only typically need one to 'take a knee' so don't bother with one on your standing leg. They are a bit restrictive on leg movement. This is one of the reasons why the fancy Crye trousers with in-built knee pad sections are popular among SF and SOF elements of militaries across the world as it provides good protection with no trade-off on movement restriction.

This. They're not for praying, they're for taking a shooting stance, hard.

**Albertorius**

spiralingcadaver wrote:
Ugh. Really? There are like a hundred definitions of modern, and picking one that excludes someone else's use is wholly pedantic. It doesn't prove anything other than that if you misinterpret a statement you can find a reason to disagree with it.

Yes, really! when you go on to nitpick a joke post, you probably should expect to be nitpicked back, you know.

**spiralingcadaver**

If you don't understand the difference between defending someone else's use of a word as accurate because a definition makes their statement, well, accurate, and attacking someone's use as inaccurate because you've chosen one of the definitions which doesn't fit their statement fit, that's cool, but those two actions are not equivalent.

Polysemy is additive, not subtractive

**Albertorius**

spiralingcadaver wrote:
If you don't understand the difference between defending someone else's use of a word as accurate because a definition makes their statement, well, accurate, and attacking someone's use as inaccurate because you've chosen one of the definitions which doesn't fit their statement fit, that's cool, but those two actions are not equivalent.

Polysemy is additive, not subtractive

See the little ork showing you the tongue, there? It means it's a joke. If you absolutely have to explain how a joking comment is wrong (which actually is not, and yes, the word has multiple meanings... hence why you can make the fething joke), well, OK, but expect to be nitpicked back.

I mean, I felt like that shouldn't need an explanation, but here we are. Kinda the same as with "modern" and "modern"...

Anyways, it was a joke among two posters that are friends, know each other's way of posting, and someone decided he just had to fix someone's wrong on the internet (https://xkcd.com/386/). Whoop de doo.

**BrookM**

Okay guys, enough of that, now back onto the actual topic please.

**BrookM**

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We are giving away a complete printed Qirkirin to a random participant!

Time to get another taste of what our Range has to offer.
40Emperor is proud to introduce: The Qirkirin

With our Peshmerga Theme for the Azadi Death Front, we found it fitting to give our flagship vehicle an intimidating Kurdish name. Qirkirin means Slaughter. And Slaughter it does.

Our Armored Assault Transport has room for dual HotSh*t Volley Blasters on each side of its Chasis.
On its turret is room for a set of Cloudburst Machine Guns.
The Qirkirin comes with two Turret options. The mighty Combat Cannon and the Dual Gatling Cannon.

The pledge level that gives access to the Qirkirin comes both with the Pre-Supported and the Unsupported versions of the STLs. The Qirkirin comes as a multipart kit to facilitate different sizes of build plate.

The free mini is still apparently unavailable / not properly linked at this point.

**endtransmission**

The kickstarter is now live: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/40emperor/azadi-death-front?ref=user_menu

And the first stretch goal, Sentinels, is unlocked.

The two levels are:

The modular troops are split into 3 parts legs, torso/head, arm/weapon

The modular parts do not come pre-supported, but the rest do. I did manage to get hold of the sample model in the end and it is nicely done with some good supports in place so it printed well.

**Albertorius**

Looking pretty decent, if not exactly spectacular. The early bird looks like a decent price, but the market for 3d IG models is getting quite saturated, and these gals look pretty basic right now (there might be a fair amount of poses, but they aren't very different, it looks like there's like three different heads, guns are really simplistic...)

So it's a... good start I guess? But IMHO it needs work.

EDIT: Oh the EB premium army is not available anymore? Never mind then. Not gonna pay €20 extra just for the hell of it.

**endtransmission**

Irbis wrote:

People here really have zero exposure to other cultures? Not even in history books? No, that's not a ""loincloth"", that's a salvar, loose pants worn all over Asia, and they are supposed to be that creased:

They have included a reference photo that they used in the sculpting and it is based upon the Peshmerga forces operating in Iraq where all female brigades were key parts of battles in the 1960s and again in 2003. I get the feeling that the reference photo is from the 1960s brigade as photos from 2003 show them in standard military trousers, but still allowing the headscarf