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decker_cky wrote:
Really unimpressed with those Gabrax so far.

Agreed. You can't knock em out of the park every time, but something seems off. I think its their head shape3 compared to the previous ones. Still there's time to refine them.

I like that Sezna has three legs. Didnt realize that originally and the creature looked like it would have a hard time moving on two. She probably should have been nude/covered in chitin or something though, because how does she dress herself?

I see a lot of Brythoniaid and Troll crotches in that photo!

Definitely looking forward to putting Angedern (who seems to be up at the top of the photo) together. Top priority for me. He looks like he'll be quite big!

Is that the dragon down in the bottom of Looky Likey's photo?

No, biggest one I got on Friday was the bloodmaw, which is awesome. I do have the big dragon, just need to sit and paint it like everything else from mierce

4 of the 5 Waelwulfs
Warrior


Warrior


Howler (Musician)


Champion


still need to green stuff the joints but hopefully these show how good the sculpts are since the WIP photos were not that grea(about 40mm for the howler up to 52mm for the leader with the other two in between)



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Oh and no visible genitalia (surprisingly),

so if your kids want some mierce monsters they're child friendly

Where's the long maned super saiyajin level 2 wolf? I thought that one was the champion.

Those pictures are far better than what was shown Orlando- makes me want some of those wolves now!

ON GENITALIA

Now that I have your attention...

Firstly, I am not prude, German heritage so random acts of personal nudity are an aspect of my upbringing, I have been a nude model, gone to nudist beaches, you get the idea.

But I don't find the genitalia on Mierce models contributes anything to the design.

Note that I am not referring to the ball sacks on the quadrupeds, which is anatomically accurate, and usually quite unobtrusive.

No, it's examples like the enormous, wrinkled, veined penis for Druc, the too-human penis on Uuthüll, the gaping open vagina on Torku.

Why do I object?

1. No mammals have external penises, except primates, and all primates have tiny penises compared to humans. So by sticking a oh-so very human penis on the minis, Mierce are basically saying "This is a human" which I (personally) disagree with.

2.The extent to which genitalia on the minis has increased in prominence and size suggest it a deliberate design philosophy. But to what end? Is it to suggest that sticking a willy on everything makes you somehow more adult? If so I would argue the opposite. It strikes me as "Cor, check out the veins on that wang!"

3. It often makes little sense. Torku's vagina and breasts suggests skin, tissue, etc, yet she is a "bone aberrant" Can she breed? With what? Does she suckle young? Druc's massive weeny would be an obvious handicap in battle, as well as bumping along the ground constantly as he waddles along on those short, stumpy legs. Uuthüll has a penis, and yet is a sea creature....you know that you only need a penis of you're a terrestrial creature...right? Because the sperm of aquatic animals already has a fluid to swim in...it's called water.

Just my 2c, I'm content to cut off the extraneous members, and putty over gaping snoos, and at least they are mostly optional extras now.

I posted this to elicit some discussion, not to have a go at Mierce, or to suggest my opinion should count for anything.

Thanks!

Oh my...

Yeah.

That's probably enough of that.

Mierce does a lot of things 'their way', this being one of them.

If someone wants to head off into Dakka Discussions or some such to create a thread about that, feel free.

But meanwhile, this thread will remain about New and Rumors concerning Mierce's latest.

Thanks!

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Where's the long maned super saiyajin level 2 wolf? I thought that one was the champion.

Those pictures are far better than what was shown Orlando- makes me want some of those wolves now!

The maned one is meant to be the "banner" if I remember correctly.

DARKLANDS FIRST EDITION

Last Chance - Wave 1 Items will be removed tonight!

From tonight, Monday the 30th of June at midnight (GMT), you won't be able to purchase any Wave 1 items until they're released, and they'll be more expensive, too!

So get your skates on!


WAVE 1 ITEMS WILL BE REMOVED TONIGHT!

With Wave 1 now being shipped, it is time to remind you all that ALL Wave 1 items will be removed from the Kickstarter category today.

In a nutshell:
•Wave 1 items will be removed from the Mierce Miniatures website at midnight (GMT) on the 30th of June - TONIGHT!

The following items will be removed from the website:
• ALBAINN - Dúngal on foot - Dúngal on pony - Ciniod - Itaina - Domnech - Bagseg
• ANGELCYNN - Eadric on foot - Aldhelm - Leofwen on foot - Broga
• BRYTHONIAID - Urien on foot - Ffion Ferddig - Angedern - Mag ap Mag - Ieuan Longshore and Taranau
• BYZANTII - Erebius
• FOMORAIC - Mananaan on foot - Idruaada - Daarkan - Naraa - Gaarwäg
• INFERNII - Scecchus
• KHTHONES - Thelliatiss- Ágriosávra- Eikovra - Myrkranio
• NORSE - Knútr on foot - Knútr on horse - Birna - Víthar - Rollo Iron Head - Jörmungand
• YSIANS - Crom on foot - Annik - Zethag - Gondard (Gondard - Ekk) - Brugg
• SELL-SWORDS - Uhtred Uhtredson - Finnan - Danilo Cruz


In other words, you'd better be quick if you want any more Wave 1 items; you won't be able to purchase them again until they are released to the general public, and depending on the miniature involved, that could be for a long while yet...!

Plus, they'll be at full price of course.


What are you waiting for? Grab those Wave 1 items now!

Looking forward to those wolves! Though their snouts seem a little wide at the end, not quite pointy enough. Ah well, still cool.

These are different wolves from the ones that you're getting via the Piggyback Pledge with me though - but you probably already knew that!

I added some (a lot!) of the miniatures from the 'about to disappear from the List' to an order yesterday... argh!

Yea, I am just happy for more cool werewolf models in general

 Alpharius wrote:
These are different wolves from the ones that you're getting via the Piggyback Pledge with me though - but you probably already knew that!

I added some (a lot!) of the miniatures from the 'about to disappear from the List' to an order yesterday... argh!

Yeah.

Dooley is about to do that too.

BRACING FOR IMPACT!

yxalitis wrote:
ON GENITALIA

3. It often makes little sense. Torku's vagina and breasts suggests skin, tissue, etc, yet she is a "bone aberrant" Can she breed? With what? Does she suckle young?

Everything about Torku suggests she's for breeding, and probably the source of some of those abominations like the brutes and Sezna . The ysians are the most sexualized faction by far. In another faction she's be weird. I'm going to use her for an encounter with a demonic fertility goddess cult. She's clearly not all bone at any rate. The chitin just covers her back and face.

I'm so glad I backed the last KS and had access to purchase the older models from wave 0 and wave 1. Though, I'm cheap and have to wait till wave 4 to get them. ugh. Those warewolfs look awesome! I'll be interested to see how you make out after you green stuff the joints, Orlando.

Bossk_Hogg wrote:

yxalitis wrote:
ON GENITALIA

3. It often makes little sense. Torku's vagina and breasts suggests skin, tissue, etc, yet she is a "bone aberrant" Can she breed? With what? Does she suckle young?

Everything about Torku suggests she's for breeding, and probably the source of some of those abominations like the brutes and Sezna . The ysians are the most sexualized faction by far. In another faction she's be weird. I'm going to use her for an encounter with a demonic fertility goddess cult. She's clearly not all bone at any rate. The chitin just covers her back and face.

Yea, that is one thing to keep in mind with older mythologies: all the insane critters were offspring of someone or another. There wasn't "a wizard did it" so much, but rather "some god did it with some other god/giant/demon/animal, and this came out 9 months later." Everything could have babies, no matter how strange or unique. Infact, being unique probably made it MORE likely some god was going to get his freak on with you.

My willpower just crumbled and I have added a couple more items before tonight's deadline.

That's what we like to hear

more resin = more fun (allegedly)

I tried to order wave 2 shipping but apparently I have to pay shipping on top of this, doesn't seem right.

Added two more Wave One figures.

Too bad I only got Wave Two shipping.

Guess I'll just have to keep adding to my order until then.

Looks like I've got until August then to paint the dozen unfinished Darklands figures I've got at home. The rest of my unpainted collection be damned!

I *think* they mentioned crediting that charge back to you, if you'd already paid for shipping minis in a wave?

Best to email them directly - and then let us know what you find out!

Yeah, I've had the shipping charges added back to my account... multiple times. I think they paid for my werepiggy.
I had originally paid for wave one (the mandatory shipping stuff), but those pesky hydras decided to take their time getting printed...

I made sure to get separate shipping for waves 4 and 5. That's a big wait between November and February, and I don't want to wait!
Crocs for Thanksgiving, Dragons for Valentine's!

 Alpharius wrote:
I *think* they mentioned crediting that charge back to you, if you'd already paid for shipping minis in a wave?

Best to email them directly - and then let us know what you find out!

I emailed them with the same question yesterday morning and this was Mierce's reply;

Hi Neil


You can't mate - just pay for it, and I'll refund any extra postage. It's just the way the website works, it was never designed to be a pledge management system of course; and I just don't have the time to change it I'm afraid! It will happen one day though. Honest...

I have no issue with this. ...there's always more I want!

 Denilsta wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
I have no issue with this. ...there's always more I want!

It is obviously a "marketing ploy" though, because it will often be refunded into the store credit. And who wants to leave that money just sitting there? So you'll eventually make another order, and so on. I don't care that much, however, as there is always more I want, too.

Very cynical Grefven, very cynical. ....


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Ooh New surprise KS


Project Update #91: A Darklands Mini Kickstarter Project STARTS TODAY at 6pm!Posted by Mierce Miniatures ♥ Like

We have a BIG surprise for you - we're launching a mini Kickstarter project TODAY, at6pm!

DARKLANDS MINI KICKSTARTER PROJECT

We're not going to unveil much about this project in this announcement, to keep that surprise, but what we can tell you is that we'll be running it from 6pm (GMT) today, the 1st of July until 6pm Monday, the 14th of July - so that's two weeks' worth of Mierce awesomeness!

What's the goal?

We have set a initial goal of £5,000 for this project and we do hope to achieve that fairly early. To that end, one of the rewards will be an early bird, and there'll only be 125 of them available - so you'd better be quick and grab one; and you get £10 off the main reward for doing so.

There's only one reward (two if you count the early bird version), too; and that's set at £50 (so£40 for the early bird).

What's it all about?

You'll have to wait until 6pm!

All right, here's a few details. This little project is designed to fund some very cool miniatures indeed, some of which were seen by backers during our last Kickstarter project (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mierceminiatures/darklands-first-edition-ii"target="_blank">Darklands: First Edition II), although they did not become stretch goals; and some miniatures that nobody has seen until now...

Broadly, we are hoping to produce one extremely fantastic miniature - that is being sculpted right now by the awesome Daniel Cockersell - and add a few more to the Darklands range.

Why now, not later?

It's very simple, really - if we wait until September to produce these miniatures (which is the date scheduled for our next big project), you'll be waiting until well into 2015 before we can use Dan Cockersell's skills. He's a very busy man, he had a window of opportunity for us and we took it - the downside being that his awesomeness comes at a high price, and we don't want to dip into funds reserved for other project miniatures.

As well as that, it's an opportunity to produce some more fantastic centrepiece miniatures, too - depending on you guys of course! - and is a bit of an experiment; if this project is nice and successful, we may well run a couple of mini-projects like it in 2015.

We shall see...!

Spread the word!

There's only a few hours to go before the project begins... eeek!

Tell your friends, acquaintances and relatives - we need their support as much as yours!

To whet your appetite, here's a concept of a miniature that may appear during the course of the next project... if there's enough interest ;o)

Possible sculpt for the new KS

grefven wrote:

 Denilsta wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
I have no issue with this. ...there's always more I want!

It is obviously a "marketing ploy" though, because it will often be refunded into the store credit. And who wants to leave that money just sitting there? So you'll eventually make another order, and so on. I don't care that much, however, as there is always more I want, too.

I have to take issue with this Grefven, because that's simply not the case. It's the way it is simply because I do not have the time to alter the basket (which is a damn complicated thing).

I'm surprised at you - you should know us better than that!

Cheers

Another kickstarter? It's not that I don't appreciate the deals offered, the opportunity for Mierce to produce larger quantities of high quality product than would normally be possible, and the arguably impeccable delivery and communication record. I just think that at some point surely we'll just have retail releases, right? I mean... I don't want Mierce to be Mantic, but with resin.

Zond wrote:
Another kickstarter? It's not that I don't appreciate the deals offered, the opportunity for Mierce to produce larger quantities of high quality product than would normally be possible, and the arguably impeccable delivery and communication record. I just think that at some point surely we'll just have retail releases, right? I mean... I don't want Mierce to be Mantic, but with resin.

"It's very simple, really - if we wait until September to produce these miniatures (which is the date scheduled for our next big project), you'll be waiting until well into 2015 before we can use Dan Cockersell's skills. He's a very busy man, he had a window of opportunity for us and we took it - the downside being that his awesomeness comes at a high price, and we don't want to dip into funds reserved for other project miniatures. "

Yeah, I can read. Will this become standard practice? It's hard not to be a bit cynical about this. It already is standard practice to just jump to kickstarter for everything, this being 4th kickstarter, with September's now being the 5th? Might be nice for the rulebook to come out and the game to settle somewhat.