Vanguard Miniatures update thread - Mar 10: Zeus Grand Cruiser + Cybershadows ships

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**Lord Scythican**

Any way we can get a picture of a tank next to a coin or something? I am having trouble visualizing how small these are.

**Malika2**

Which tank and which scale?

**Llamahead**

3mm I'm guessing I'd like to see a 3mm 6mm 15mm 28mm of something by a ruler just for fun...

**Easy E**

Stop teasing us with things that are not Tainted aircraft!

Show us Tainted aircraft..... please?

I would also love to see a scale shot with a 3mm, 6mm, 15mm and 28mm something.

**Pacific**

Are those some new guardsmen type units? Would be really cool if there is a classic Cadian type, to go along with some of the other plastics that have been released.

As luck would have it have just painted up some of the 3mm dudes, got a free little sprue of the guys in with a recent order. Hopefully this will give some idea of scale (hint: they are tiny!)

**Malika2**

There are some delays in Vanguard's upcoming crowdfunding campaign as you can read here. For the more perceptive ones of you, there is some more new stuff to be found in that link...

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Oh, here's a scale shot of a 3mm and 6mm super heavy tank of the same type next to one another:

**Samsonov**

The crowdfunder has gone live: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/small-scale-armies-from-vanguard-miniatures#/

**Malika2**

Thanks for sharing!

So yeah, after a little delay Vanguard Miniatures first official crowdfunder has gone live!

Who Are Vanguard Miniatures?

Vanguard Miniatures is an established wargames company with its own range of metal and resin miniatures, as well as plastic bases.

In order to ensure this campaign runs smoothly, Vanguard are teaming up with collaborators Troublemaker Games to help run this campaign, as having run five successful Indiegogo Crowdfunders they're pretty good at knowing how this button-pushing bippety-boopety computers lark is supposed to work.

What We Need & What You Get

Our 6mm scale models in this funding campaign are intended to reinforce our Defeat In Detail range of models, by adding more models to the existing ranges.

As we cross stretch goals, we'll be unlocking more models, some of which can be seen in silhouette below...

We have many designs already sculpted, and without a crowdfunding campaign it would be another year or even two before we could afford to put them all into production, so your interest and support at this stage means we can put out more metal models at a much faster rate than would otherwise be possible.

The Models

All of the models in this campaign are to be METAL models, unless otherwise stated.

Most of the models have already been Matter Printed and are awaiting a trip to the casting foundry, whilst other models only exist as-yet in CAD form - your support now will ensure they become real tiny toy fighty models!

Can't direct link to the pictures of the campaign itself since IndieGoGo doesn't let me...

**Pacific**

Here you go Malika I have hosted most of the pics.

Some awesome looking stuff here! Do you know if this is likely to get updated much, and add some sets/collections with bulk buy savings?

Novan Elites Pathfinders

Novan Elites Tainted - Affray Squads

Novan Elites Tainted - Characters & Specialists

Tainted Decimator Heavy Tank

Tainted Hecate Interceptor

Skinner Drop troops

Novan Tribune (Hector Variant)

Novan Firestorm Heavy Flamethrower tank

Novan Convent Redeemer

Previews

**Malika2**

Cant give you any specifics on the bulk stuff. I think that's a matter of convincing John of Vanguard Miniatures. Try to reach him on the Tactical Command forum or try it through Vanguard's Facebook page.

As for further updates, I guess more stretch goals will be added depending on the success of the campaign.

**Kapitan Montag**

Wow, super excited by the convent redeemers. I'm in!

**AegisGrimm**

Those Convent Redeemers and Fleur De Lys Rhinos would look great with the Sisters from Onslaught minis!!

**Jackal**

If anyone does need to speak to John just drop him a message through the Facebook page.
He's a great guy and loves talking to people and sharing ideas.

Between that and the quality of the models shows just why it's a solid company he's building up.

**Malika2**

Good news, on TacticalCommand John has mentioned he is open to allowing army perks. I assume that'll mean something along the lines of bulk orders.

**Pacific**

Ah that's great to know - many thanks for the update guys !

**Mr Morden**

Ahh so its not kickstarter :( Shame

Loving the Sparta's however! Hoping for more Sisters

These are all 6mm right?

**Malika2**

This is the 6mm crowdfunder yeah. Also, no Kickstarter...IndieGoGo has always worked better here. I do miss the lack of Pay Pal though. :(

**Pacific**

Good to see that the total is ticking up nicely.

I'm hoping for the 6mm 'basic sci-fi infantry' guys to be revealed at some point, definitely think there is a market there for the non-themed human infantry, the old GW Imperial Guard infantry reach quite ludicrous sums of money on ebay these days!

**Malika2**

Update time! You can do order multi packs:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/small-scale-armies-from-vanguard-miniatures#/updates/1

New multi pack deals added
Hi backers many thanks for your fantastic show of support so far, this first update is to direct your attention to the new multi pack deals added to the campaign this evening. These have been added due to requests from various sources and we hope to add more such deals as the campaign progresses. Please let us know if there is any particular combinations you'd like to see and we will consider adding them to the campaign. Once again thanks for the support everyone really appreciated.

Regards John

**Samsonov**

Some nice deals in there. Also hoping some of the stretch goals are reached, really want those gladiators.

**Pacific**

Some more details on release of certain miniatures at pledge amounts.

Bit of a catch-22 here as I'm sure a load of people will want those Novan regular urban infantry, but it's going to be a struggle reaching that figure (over Xmas especially) without them being on sale!

A small update.
Hi backers many thanks to you all for a fantastic show of support so far over 60% funded already great stuff. I've added the stretch goals funding pathway to the campaign page now repeated here for your convenience cheers.
Backers' Rewards:

For every £200 you spend we will give you £20 of credit to spend either on further models from this campaign, or models from the Vanguard Miniatures website.
Stretch goals funding path:
£2700 Tribune heavy tanks (Achilles and Turnus) variants released.
£3000 Novan regulars urban infantry released.
£3300 Novan regulars urban infantry specialist set released.
£3500 Skinnerz tractor Vector and Elites Gladiator walker Mk2 released.
£3700 Female political officers released.
£3900 Tainted Rampager light tank released.
£4000+ Further stretch goals will be added.

**Malika2**

Thanks for sharing! I've got a feeling that there aren't any perks yet for £200 yet, unless you want to have tons and tons of models (wait, am I actually complaining that the miniatures are too cheap?)

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/small-scale-armies-from-vanguard-miniatures

**Pacific**

Yes perhaps some kind of sale at £100 spent might have been an idea.

I've ordered some of the tainted troops which look absolutely brilliant. There are some regular tainted infantry as well which would go well with them. Now just need to try and search down some suitable proxies for daemon-type miniatures!

**Malika2**

First up, expect these in the stretch goals of the crowdfunding campaign, which is at 66% at the moment!

And here's something separate from the crowdfunder, a special 3mm deal: http://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/shop/3mm-novan-elites-army-deal-1/

This army deal contains one of every set listed below.

C1- Elites infantry century mechanised

C2,- Elites infantry century on foot

S1- Elites command and support maniples

S2- Elites transport pool

S3- Elites armour support

S4- Elites tank support

The deal is £68, bought separately the units would cost you £80, saving you £12!

**Pacific**

Absolutely love the new Guardsmen, have been waiting for the reveal for these!

I will be extremely disappointed if we do not reach the pledge total for those

Out of interest, do you know if the riders for the quad bikes come as a separate sprue?

**Malika2**

Damn you Pacific! I've been wanting to wait with this but check what Ben did for us: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/small-scale-armies-from-vanguard-miniatures#/updates/3

**Llamahead**

Pacific Microworld Games is your best bet on Daemon proxies as well as the Hellborn from Onslaught miniatures.

**Pacific**

Malika2 wrote:
Damn you Pacific! I've been wanting to wait with this but check what Ben did for us: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/small-scale-armies-from-vanguard-miniatures#/updates/3

Excellent stuff!

That army deal is a pretty good saving as well.

**Zethnar**

I backed for some of those Sparta APCs. I gotta say I'm not a fan of the way IndieGoGo charges you shipping on every single thing. It's a shame this wasn't on Kickstarter, at least it's easier to manage your pledge over there (and easily pledge for multiple items). As it is I kinda want some of those ork stormboys, but I don't really want to pay double shipping for it. I'd be better off waiting for the campaign to end and throwing them onto a bulk order later.

**Malika2**

Thought it handy to share this update officially: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/small-scale-armies-from-vanguard-miniatures#/updates/3

New perks added.
Hi backers many thanks for continuing to support my little campaign, today's update is to inform you of the addition of the Novan Regulars in urban uniform to the campaign, released early due to demand. We have single sets and an army deal available and i've also added a Tainted Interceptor squadron deal to the perks list as well.

Hopefully we will have another update for you soon cheers John

Also, a few new perks have been added:

£12 GBP + Shipping
Novan Urban Regulars
You will receive a set consisting of 80 x Novan Urban Regulars.
Items included:
Novan Urban Regulars Set

£14 GBP + Shipping
Novan Urban Specialists
You will receive 88 x Novan Urban Specialists models
Items included:
Novan Urban Specialist set

£24 GBP + Shipping
Tainted Interceptor Squadron
You will receive 8 x Tainted Hecate Interceptors, and 8 x plastic flight stands.
Items included:
Tainted Interceptor Squadron

£44 GBP + Shipping
Novan Urban Army Deal 1
You will receive 1 x Urban regulars specialist set, 3 x Urban regulars Infantry sets.
Items included:
Novan urban Regulars Army Deal