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Hey guys!

Interesting comments there guys, at work we align pre-printed artwork with the vector artwork, it can be a pain but having done it over and over it is possible providing everything is set up correctly

I have considered sorting out stickers that could be applied post paining / pre weathering..I think it could work.

Hello!

So, been working on some elevated roadways, a single straight section and a 90 degree corner.




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hmm broke the page again :s

yip!

Bracing will be added as options I think at the moment. Also I drew them so the legs 'slot in' so there are no single massive pieces of MDF material. If that makes sense!

I'll add the fort in later, working on my laptop which might die if I added the fortress into the scene.

I took reference from Chicago's L train and other steel structures so there is a bit of familiarity to them already - the images I looked at (Google images ) had them without the bracing, and some areas with the bracing...so I thought i'd follow that aesthetic.

I gotta sort out the regular ( none elevated road ) and also some ramps so stuff can acctually get there in game! I was thinking of some method of suspending the mr pods from below the road sections or something along those lines

Does anyone have basic measurements of a rhino or chimera? The measurement between each foot is 133 and that's the narrowest part at the base.



This bracing would I guess would stop a tank getting between the legs. So You could always leave one clear like in the third pic. the bracing is a simple sketch and could be developed further....


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Also, we have been asked to create a gaming board for use in shows and the like....will have to see how that develops!

Thanks for the link, but they read small can you confirm those sizes? anyone?!

I could turn those braces into a walkway for civvies or something

Anyway, detail is always the last thing to include once everything is as it should be

Still got to work things out but hopefully we will have a presence there, yep.

KKK Getting serious RSI in my mouse hand!!

Have some images...Rendered 10 off - rendering inst my thing it turns out... quite hard to communicate whats actually there using default settings...as soon as i try anything out I really mess it up!

Images 5, 6 and 7 are pretty busy so I hope you can at least get an idea of wahts going on :p

ED!

Hey!

Thanks for the kind comments guys!!

Having chatted with Harry, some guys at work and reading your comments....I have made a start on an alternative appraoch to the legs / braces etc....

Will run off some actual models as soon as I can!

C&C open welcomed as usual!!

Ed

OK - looking at those renders even i'm finding it difficult to see whats going on! Will get some cut ASAP to prototype the design

Hello!

Some images of last nights painting sesh of Mr Orange MK2

Again, iPhone images so apologies for the poor res :p

Ed

Sizes of bases? Our bases?

Some prototypes of the elevated road section.

Thanks for the comments

Took some super images of the Mr Pods this evening so i'm going through them now..We hope to get them online by the end of the week!

Roads I think are a few weeks away at the very least from being ready....It all depends on what real life throws at us to be honest! Also, harry just got a new PC so I guess he'll be playing battlefield for a few hours / days /weeks

Aaannd another photo dump.

Should be the last of pods until they hit the site!!...

Eyes. Are. Bleeding!

Edit: Files are massive!

! yeah Harry was suggesting that we move ahead with that as its been around for quite a few months now! If your waiting for it and cannot progress without it, maybe we can sort out getting you a set as it is..

We got in a little trouble posting on the official Infinity forum so I think we should message the mods and obviously you guys to say thanks for having us!

Also it's a good thing we did get Harry to edit the files so the pods open up, as everyone that commented on them really wanted them to open up!

Ed

Aaaallllllso...A student today noticed the orange Mr pod and thought it to be an image from the new Aliens movie Prometheus. He worked on the set and they had the (very difficult task i'm sure) job of distressing decommissioned Russian rocket launchers as modular Hab Units or something; which apparently looks a little like the Mr Pods at least at first glance!

Have a picture....

Yeah looks really nice! We're often lurking around your thread, even if you don't see us

urgh...been battling with man flu the last two days! I think we're on track to having the P.U.P.S (Mr Pods) hitting the website by tonight though! It seems to have taken along time to get to this point!

Hello fellow dakkerites!

The Personal Utility Pods or PUPS for short are now up on our web store, with a great description written by Harry! (not sure how he does it! )

Its been a journey! I think the last week actually weakened me to near death (man flu = death rite..rite?!), but it has been fun none the less and was certainly made doable by the continual engorgement from yourselves here at Dakka! your continual support and comments certainly make the Warmill products the products they are; a refined and premium range that any discerning gamer would want on their games table!

Thanks again, and see you very soon as we take 5 mins before we tackle the roads again!

Ed and harry xx

shakey787 wrote:Hi again
Nice work on the pods ill be ordering a few when i get home
But i shall refer to them as

Heavyduty Unit Garrison Emplacement -
Tactically Inserted Tenement System

Not as catchy but i do find it rolls off the tounge better
;-)

Hah Ed bought me a big squishy Heavyduty Unit Garrison Emplacement -Tactically Inserted Tenement for Christmas, it's sat on my desk right now

Do it! It's an awesome game and the minis are much fun to paint! I've only played a few learning games, so I pretty much just need order counters which I really must get round to making when I find time also some more bases for my Ariadnans.

That's a good idea Silver. I think that clear profiles would work well and with a band of colour around them could look sweet. The only problem we face with he disks is the material thickness, and that you would then have to print on the artwork.
I think most of the infinity models that use the disks come with them in the blister already don't they?

Finally got around to the edits on the elevated road section...

Now the road sides can clip on and off as was our original intention, so we can begin to think of additional sidings or details down the line!

I still cannot render!

Ed


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Our webstore seems to be down :(

Hello!

Found some old images of an old project of mine...A 40k Rever titan! made back in the days when digital cameras where rubbish, and I didnt really have the knowledge of taking anyny decent portfolio images. Anyway, here is the beast!

Might be time to make a new one!

Ed

Hey thanks guys!

I think a robot will be made, along side the roads to break things up somewhat.


Going to start simple just so I can have made one in a short timeframe, and also it might not be to most tastes or suitable for certain games systems due to its aesthetics - but hey still in planning!

Ed

Hey!

So there has been a week or two of radio blackout! We have been -thankfully!- rushed off our feet with getting all these orders out the door, once we have a free minute we have been catching up with real life! (boooo!)

Today we went to a local gaming day, where me and Harry actually got a game of Infinity in, the second game I have ever played of the system! I'm sure Haz will upload some of the images later. It was a fun little game, not only did we play one game, we played two! and on our own terrain that we have been slaving over the past few months The game was based on the typical 'plant the bomb' mode in current video games, so we had up to 6 turns to run up to the radar and plant the bomb, whilst all the defenders were re spawning and lacing in to the attackers with assault rifles and pistoling the dudes in the face when they got too close

Until next time!!

Been a long time since we've been around

We did something unheard of today and actually played a game! We had a couple of games of Infinity with house rules since we're both noobs at the game, to make it a bit more like Battlefield since that's been our game for a while. We had a bunch of basic guys, a sniper and an HMG each and played Rush / Sabotage, with an antennae array in the middle of a small forest outpost. Defenders were deployed in the compound, attackers were anywhere 6" from the compound fence. Attackers could plant c4 to blow down walls or hack the gate with WIP rolls, and had to get to the array and plant c4 with a long skill WIP roll. Defenders could defuse the bomb with a short skill WIP roll. Anyone taken out would respawn in the next turn, the defenders would spawn in the 3 pod buildings and attackers would spawn anywhere within 6" of the wall.

After a practice game to work out what we were doing and how to play again, the second game was pretty sweet! We played with 5 orders each so play was nice and quick, with a 6 turn limit to get the antennae as the club was getting ready to close up, so the tension was on!

I was defending, and deployed 4 guys in the pods, with an HMG in a small copse of trees and a sniper in a watchtower. Ed deployed his attackers roughly equally around the compound in teams of two. he started by blowing a section of fence so that one team could attack one of the pod spawn points (we decided any pod with an enemy in couldn't be used to spawn). My HMG took one down but as my men rushed to intercept them they were all taken down by defensive fire, including a 6" pistol fight that left my guy on the ground (happened a lot). Another team eventually hacked the gatehouse and came in behind the buildings, taking down my reinforcements as they came out (one of Ed's troops survived 3 bursts from a rifleman, and took him out with reactive fire. The trooper who won the pistol duel rushed the green pod and riddled the poor sniper who had spawned inside, then dodged a shot from my troops into the pod to claim it as his own. The guards took a few down, but they were soon swarming over the walls again.

Eventually Ed's medic made a dash to the antennae in his last turn, having taken all but one of my defenders down, to plant the c4 with his last order. My guys respawned in the pods on the far side of the radar, and I had just 5 orders to get to the array and disable the bomb, but Ed had 2 men on the objective, a sniper watching the approach and an HMG in the woods watching the path I would have to take. My first trooper ran out to duel with one of the soldiers in the open, but got taken down by the sniper behind him. My next soldier took fire from 4 AROs, and didn't stand a chance. With only 3 orders left, I only had 2 troops in the game. One tried to clear the way for the sniper by taking out one of the antennae defenders, but got downed himself, which just left the sniper 2 orders to make a dash for the objective, taking fire from 4 attackers with each move. He ran out of the pod with his first order, surviving several hits. The first move of the last order just let him reach the antennae, but set off 2 AROs which caused two wounds and would kill him after he tried to defuse the bomb. With the last roll of the dice for the last order of the last turn of the game to decide who won or lost, I needed to roll a 13 or under to defuse the bomb on one dice...



It was really nice to actually play a game on our own terrain, and it all worked really well. We could take fences out as they were destroyed, hack the gate and had the roofs off the pods so we could put our respawning defenders in them. it really did feel like a game of Battlefield, with troops spawning, rushing into the battle and getting shot down, C4 going off and defenders trying to spread out before getting plugged by the attackers, and the time pressure of the other guys packing up really ramped up the tension! . Definitely be playing again!

Ha! Time to hobby is a luxury no longer available to us it appears! maybe once we hit retirement xD

But between day jobs, housework and cutting orders and shipping them off, I did find some time this evening to mess about with the roads. I think it must have been late the last time I looked at them, as I couldn't get my head around a few bits that today I was able to just do, so productivity was high!

But anyway, as you will be able to see from the renders I added some colour, yeah OK so its only flat colour, but its a start eh

Also some dragons teath, as singles and a strip of 5.

And also some WIP alien scatter terrain.

WIP regular roads added

Who knows when they'll be out

Ed

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Everyone makes those though silver!

Maybe a combo of the streetwars fencing resin bits and MDF spikey bits to keep the tanks out!

perhaps its another to add to the list

DaemonJellybaby wrote:Do you do any 'unit filler' sized bases?
Around 40 x100mm or 50 x 100mm on 3mm mdf for fantasy units.

We could cut some as a custom job, TBH it wouldn't be for a while as we have a grand total of no spare time right now

SO anyone who's tried to contact us will know we've been pretty much off the radar for a couple weeks now, I've been switching jobs at work to try and free up more time for Warmill (real life or toys? Real life or toys?...) and Ed's been having fun with students needing help and freelance work, the end result of which is we've pretty much sent orders out and nothing else recently :(

Our other big time sink at the moment has been getting a whole bunch of terrain painted up, to be used for new box art graphics (there's a few holes in our photo collection) and also catalogue photos for the retailer price list we've been trying to get done since before Christmas! All things going well, we should have price lists sent out to shops around the time of Salute so fingers crossed in a couple of months you should be able to find Warmill products in a whole bunch of shops! Once that job's out the way we'll have some time to get back on designing new products, as that's the real fun side of the business

Salute is also where you'll be able to see this terrain in the flesh, painted by our own fair hands, being used to run demo games of Infinity by Simple Miniature Games, so be sure to pop by and tell Graham how great we are!

Once Salute's out the way, new projects include:
- new themed PUP buildings to expand the range. First up will be a Noodle Bar, cos everyone loves noodles in the future
- Ed's modular low-level and elevated roads as seen above, these are pretty much ready to go and just need detailing applied. We're going to try and get some done for the Salute board if possible, as they're very big and cool!
- a modular facility set, that can be customised with themed modules to be a research lab, weapons factory, prison, power plant, etc etc and would be perfect for interior battles. It'll also be compatible with the PUP walkways
- scatter terrain as seen above, alien-themed relics etc
- finish that stupid Valkyrie conversion set! It's been a project since before Warmill, but got put on hold when I managed to screw up updating the software for my CNC
- a great big hammer that could be good for dreadknight conversions. The master's been machined, we just need to clean up a cast for re-moulding.
- lots more as time allows!

Here's some pics, see you all at Salute!

Harry and Ed

PS Silver we have seen your email, we don't check that address very often! We'll get a reply to you shortly!

Hey guys,

sorry not been around as much as we would like - so it is when your snowed under!

That being said - We have a little promotion going on that entitles you to 15% off your order in our online store!

Just add CAKE DAY in the coupon code box in the checkout!

Thanks for being ace guys, keeps us going!!

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