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2012/05/07 20:50:38
Subject: www.anvilindustry.co.uk - NEW City Rubble Anvil Gaming Bases!!
Anvils Hammer wrote:Running legs - out next wednesday
YES, just what i've been waiting for.
rhodry wrote:Running legs - out next wednesday. sweet
Oh dear.. Ive once again accidently set a release date which I will now most likely miss.
But you know what.. Challenge Accepted!!
I completed and molded the Armoured Medieval Rifle Arms last night, and the sprue includes a set of Bionic Rifle arms as a free bonus. Ill get some photos and the pre order up tommorow night.
So here, as promised, photos of the new Medieval style armoured rifle arms.
Without pads-
and with pads
The sprue contains 5 pairs of arms (4 unique sculpts) and a bonus pair of bionic rifle arms, the same as my modular bionics but pre assembled and much easier to use with a rifle!
I will list the new arm options on the store tommorow, and post a few more photos as well.
Hope you guys like these new parts, Ive got a few new shoulder pad, torso and power pack options coming up in the near future, as always im open to suggestions!
Cheers,
Joel
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The Medieval Rifle arm sprue, including a pair of Bionic Rifle Arms
The Bionic Rifle arms by themselves as a conversion set-
Here are some more photos of the Steam Lords I built with these new components
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Ive also completed the City Rubble set and got some proper photos, so the complete range is now available.
As with the previous bases, these are twice as dense as regular resin bases, and have a specially designed texture on the bottom, making them stable and grippy on almost any surface!
If you've not already seen the demonstration video for the Anvil Gaming Bases its well worth a look, im very proud of the techniques I developed for these bases!
and here are the new bases-
25mm
40mm
Bike
60mm "Corner"
and 60mm "Straight"
here is the photo of the Straight 60mm base "as delivered". The Material used is naturally Jet Black like that, it takes paint perfectly, and you can see that the larger pieces of rubble for both 60mm and the 40mm bases are separate pieces on the sprue, allowing for more variety and easier positioning of your miniatures!
Now on to the running legs!
Cheers,
Joel
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The Steam Lord page offered the Steam Lord Body Sets and separate arm/weapon combo sets, at an equivalent discount of about 33% versus the price of purchasing all the components separately.
I do constantly review my pricing to keep it as reasonable as possible, but each Steam Lord has up to a dozen hand cast resin components, and im not willing to compromise at all on quality.
For the 5 Steam Lords I assembled for this news release, the components were grabbed randomly from the same stock pots I use to pick customer orders, and Im extremely proud to say that I only found ONE bubble, smaller than 1mm across, in over fifty components.
Thanks for your suggestions, a "sniper" varient of the Exorcist Rifle is coming up, as is a "SAW" varient of the Widow Maker rifle, which will have a BIG ammo box.
Definatly, thats a great idea, like the terminator?
Im hopefully have a CAD artist re-do all of my helmets soon, as well as a few new ones, so Ill discuss it with him.
@grundz, the website only allows for each guy in the 5 man unit to have the same combination of parts, but its also not a problem to specify a few "swaps" for squad leaders and the like in the order "comments box".
Anvils Hammer wrote:@Vain, I will put that idea on the list! seems to fit my product range
Yay, I am part of the creative process!
I had a look at your site again and starting to create an order list. How long have you had you gapfiller/sculpy? I think that is a great idea with all your extra bitz.
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2012/05/11 03:12:14
Subject: www.anvilindustry.co.uk - Medieval Armoured Rifle Arms now available - 10th May
Those bionic rifle arms are pretty cool. I don't suppose you are considering selling them as a full set of just the bionic arms?
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2012/05/11 08:25:09
Subject: www.anvilindustry.co.uk - NEW City Rubble Anvil Gaming Bases!!
Vain wrote: How long have you had you gapfiller/sculpy? I think that is a great idea with all your extra bitz.
I thought it was a great idea as well, but Ive sold a one set, so perhaps its not obvious enough!!
@ph34r
at the moment there is only one bionic arm sculpt, so a full sprue of 5 identical pairs would not be very good! If the bionic rifle arm pair sells ok, I will take the time to make 2 more different poses and make a "full sprue" option. similar deal with the bionic/robotic legs, one pair to start with and more if they sell well.
@Escra, thanks! glad it turned up ok, and I look forward to seeing the photos!
I personally think that a "Bionic upgrade kit" with a few legs, arms, and heads would be a great idea. Currently the only real options are the Iron Hands kit and the FW character upgrade kit. For armies that want to have heavy on bionics, having more variety helps a lot.
I must also say that "Medieval Armoured Rifle Arms" is a wonderfully anachronistic combination of a name.
2012/05/11 11:17:38
Subject: www.anvilindustry.co.uk - Medieval Armoured Rifle Arms now available - 10th May
Tyrant!! :p can you email me a sketch of exactly what you are after? seeing as you wanted 40 of them I might as well work to your diagram!
@MajorWes.
Good plan! Ill be selling all the bionic options separately, but a combined sprue with a few of each will also make it a lot easier for everyone, and certainly cheaper than anything GW put out!
Anvils Hammer wrote:@MajorWes.
Good plan! Ill be selling all the bionic options separately, but a combined sprue with a few of each will also make it a lot easier for everyone, and certainly cheaper than anything GW put out!l
I agree here, while I am building a Deathwatch theme Sternguard army (this my need for fusion nozzles for all those combi weapons) I still want the sweet Iron Hands represented. One thing I would recommend/ask for is a larger scaled arm and leg that would fit on a "particularly heavy armoured infantryman."
We have Wolfy Terminat...I mean we have Wolfy "particularly heavy armoured infantryman" as well as Blood Drop and a few other types but nothing to show the most hateful of Chapters. And the bonus is that it isnt even Iron Hands specific, it could just be a Veteran etc.
That being said, I really sure put my money where my mouth is an order some product to actually help you get these out. Before I put in an order and rage that you release something just after can I get a super secret squirrel hint as to if the Fusion Nozzles would be out in the next couple of weeks (unlikely but it always pays to ask).
P.S. On the Fusion Nozzles thing, does anyone think it might be a good idea to combine the Fusion Cutter Nozzle with lets say a Flame Thrower Nozzle, and maybe a Superheated Gas Nozzle in a three pack? Cover a few combination options in one sprue?
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2012/05/11 12:28:33
Subject: www.anvilindustry.co.uk - Medieval Armoured Rifle Arms now available - 10th May
I think "plasma" is a suitably generic scientific term that you don't have to try and rephrase it!! :p Plasma Rifles are all over the place in Sci-fi, Anvil Industry is releasing one soon!
Any kind of nozzel set is at least a month or more away im afraid!
You know I already do the large bionic arm set for "Wolfy" right?
*claps slowly*
These arms and weapons just took your company to the point where I would consider the quality good enough to order. The casting looks a little rough, but these new arms and guns are actually quite decent pieces!
Congratulations and well done!
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2012/05/11 16:56:19
Subject: www.anvilindustry.co.uk - Medieval Armoured Rifle Arms now available - 10th May
Are you going to offer a complete 5 man Steamlords set that includes these arms and rifles?
I'd buy a bunch of those right quick.
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2012/05/12 04:10:22
Subject: www.anvilindustry.co.uk - Medieval Armoured Rifle Arms now available - 10th May
I'm a little late to this party, but let me say the weapons systems look amazing. In addition, the bare heads look incredible. I'm considering grabbing a batch and doing all the sanding it would require to put them on a guardsman. The faces just look great. And I will be getting some of those adjustable bionic arms. Something that I think would be right up your alley and end up making you some money would be some hooded heads. Every bits site I know is consistently out of hooded heads, and the only company I know of that makes a set of hoods is West Wind, and half of them have beards and and all that, which are good for fantasy and some Space Marine armies, but not all. What that basically says to me is that there is definately a market for them. Even if all you do is take the bare heads you already have and put a hood on them, it would be a victory.
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2012/05/12 20:04:35
Subject: www.anvilindustry.co.uk - Medieval Armoured Rifle Arms now available - 10th May
The "Unit body set" is everything except the weapons and arms, with all the optional extras, and the two arm sets - melee and rifle, contain the rest of the components to make a complete squad of 5 Steam Lords.
I dont offer it all in one big listed anymore as its almost impossible to include all the options and still have it make sense!
Purchasing the Steam Lords using these listings works out at a saving of around 33% versus the cost of the various components separately, and all the options are included at cheaper prices, cloaks for 60p instead of 85p, for example.
@noneoftheabove0, welcome to the show! and thankyou very much.
Im actually planning to release a "gaurdsman" version, with all the sanding/neck reshaping done for you, so if you can wait a few months Id do that!
I also plan to make a number of varieties of the heads, including hoods, respirators, masks etc, Im open to any ideas people have, modifying the basic heads is pretty straight forward..
I'll certainly be using them on heroes and all that. This may be telling you things you already know, but the heads will have to be scaled down somewhat. SM heads are a little too big for IG. I'm using the Defiance Games Marines, so even Cadian heads are a hair too big, but Space Marine or Catachan heads look insane. My soldiers would all have hydroencephalitis. Not having access to Catachan heads limits the heads I can use on special characters, so I'm hoping these would end up more of a Cadian scale once their done. Either way, congratulations on your sucess and as soon as my wife isn't looking, I'll be making an order.
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2012/05/13 04:47:58
Subject: www.anvilindustry.co.uk - Medieval Armoured Rifle Arms now available - 10th May
To me, catachen and cadian heads look about the same size, and the Steam Lord ones are a fraction larger, but still "normal heroic human" size in my view as Steam Lords have quite small heads relative to the rest of there bodies.
As and when I do work on the Steam Lord heads to retask them however, I will be sanding down the skulls to remove some of the "bulk", probably some work on the jaws as well, so they will end up a little more human scale.
and thanks, and I look forward to the order!
@Vain, thanks!
@Lone DIrty Dog, yes I did! my apologies for replying, Ive had a rare "weekend off".
Thanks for the images you sent me, feel free to post directly in the thread in future!
Hopeing to actually do some new product development tonight! Exciting!
