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I love how the scoop of that collar armour looks when it's not paired with a helmet but now I'm torn! I was going to go with the Heavy Armour torsos and a mix of Gothic Void helmets and bare heads for my Fire Drake vets.. but the Gothic Void torsos look so good!

I played a game of Afterlife with people:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/692818.page

Ok, I'm gonna sell of the two Infinity starter sets I stupidly bought years ago and buy AFTERLIFE ones instead! What should I be, Russ? Is there a third faction coming out at some point?

Also, Joel or anyone else in Anvil-land, I remember buying these two robot models years ago, at the same time as buying a load of bionic bits off you guys. I don't know if I actually bought these kits off another company, or if they're old Anvil kits that you don't make any more. Recognise them??

I recognize it. That's from Bitspudlo. They're a Polish company. Definitely not an Anvil product.

Yay, Ian, go get Afterlife!

I have a considerable number of points of both Republic and Unity. In the short term, I am currently getting my Unity forces ready first, but I have more total Republic and in the long term, I think it'll stay that way. Right now, I think the Unity army list is slightly better balanced, between various unit types, but both lists have enough choices that either is completely viable.

James has a Republic force, but no mechs for it yet. Dan (Sanders), Rick and a guy I just met last night have all played, but none have models yet.

I've written a couple of medium sized army lists that include what I consider to be the "iconic" units in each force. I could bring them along to HATE for a game, and you can choose which you like best?

Also, go to the website and download the rulebook. V1.3 is the same as the printed rulebook, and I have a couple of them we can use at the club, so no need to print it.

So good they hurt, Martian Orbital Fusiliers.

As a sculptor myself I'm having an existential crisis seeing what Joel and the team is capable of. These must be some of the best sci-fi miniatures out there, including anvil's service and production methods.

This might be a bit of an odd thought, but I'd love to see some civilian parts for the regiments range. I was looking for some civvies and can't find any I'd really like to buy. It would be especially great to be able to mix and match civilian parts to make paramilitary forces. Hoodies, heads in scarves, hands holding nothing and hands holding molotov cocktails could add a very different range to what you do now, but still work within the regiments line, maybe?

Yup the martian fusiliers are awesome. Went to get some shield arms and some of the riot infantry, ended up with these guys. Very nice design and go to get in a flash (no mold lines, everythings go peg joints. Bliss!).

I'd like to see them add these regiments as seperate catagories though, so that rather then having to click through the build options for command squad, specialist etc its all there.

Id also like a heavy tesla gun too please joel!

Afternoon all!

Apologies for my slow response, Ive been away and then busy with new Regiments Heavy Weapons - see preview below!

@BrookM - Thanks for posting the photo! I think the figure looks great with the female head!

@Commander Dante - No current plans for female heads, but its something I would like to try out in the future - the hold up is that just making heads wont really be enough, to get female figures to look correct in "heroic scale" the entire anatomy needs to be slightly different - narrower waist and shoulders, slightly smaller hands and feet etc.
The current plan is to sell male regiments figures for a while, and then once we've got a good idea of which are the most popular combinations and options - Ill look at making small sets of female parts for those.

In the meanwhile Victoria Miniatures does some great female bits which would likely fit well with our parts (thought Ive not tried it)

@Fifty - thanks for posting up the game info, looks good! Ill try and make it down to the club soon and we could try and get a few games going at once!

@Arbitorian - When I go back to doing some work on Afterlife figures, the plan is to add some vehicles, flesh out the CRANE corporation as a separate faction and also release the resistance faction - underground civilian resistance fighters/criminal types, but no current ETA as I'm working on regiments stuff for the time being.

As Barzam kindly points out - not our robot figures.

@MOTN - thanks for the photos! Glad you like the figures- I look forward to seeing them painted!


Civilian parts for Regiments range -

As suggested by Fifty, this is something Im considering incorporating at some point, parts to make a more varied civilian militia/contractors/zombie survivors. Though I'm not sure exactly when I will get around to it.


@GomezAdams - The plan with the Regiments is to add a "Platoon Builder" which will allow the one click purchase of multiple squads of varied types, only having to select the primary options once.

A Heavy Tesla Gun, to mount on the weapon carriages (preview below) is on the cards for the second wave of heavy Weapon parts.

Speed paint tutorial on my blog for this if anyone interested. http://miniaturesofthenorth.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/speed-paint-tutorial-martian-orbital.html

Very nice MOTN, showcases the new models really well.

I freaking love that tan and off-white colour scheme. I tried it on my Bauhaus but it didn't look half as good as your "speed paint". After I finish crying and working my through this tub of ice cream I'm going to sweep all my existing stuff of the table and start again

Edit: For the search-fu impaired, where might I find this blog good sir?

That looks awesome, MOTN! I'd appreciate a link to the blog, too (thanks for posting the pics in-thread, though!!)

Something missing from 28mm is lady engineers and the like at work. There are plenty of male models of this type by Tamiya and other scale model companies, but no women at all. If/when civilian stuff comes around, that's the kind of thing I'd really like to see.

Has anyone tried the Gothic Void and/or Medieval Heads/Torsos on the plastic Cadians? (Using the Arms/Legs.)

I love the void torsos but I don't think the cadian arms would fit on the torsos.

But, why?

 BrookM wrote:
But, why?

Because the 10 man conversion kits are alot cheaper then the full ten man squads? Because I want to know? Because all the indy FLGS's are only open till 6PM on Saturday nights, and you can't game on Fridays because of Friday Night Magic; meaning alot of times I'm forced to play in the Local GW store?

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But for Real. The price difference between the Build your own Upgrade Set and buying the done up squads is more or less exactly the same as buying the Cadian Shock Trooper Box at Full Retail, and I get alot more bits.

I can buy the Cadian Shock Trooper Box at a slight Discount Locally. Thus it works out slightly cheaper, and I get alot more bits to play with. The Manager at the local GW is ok with 3rd party bits as long as the model is mostly GW/they are not reconcilable bits from another company (I.E. Privateer Press), and of course no full 3rd party models.

 Lockark wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
But, why?

Because the 10 man conversion kits are alot cheaper then the full ten man squads? Because I want to know? Because all the indy FLGS's are only open till 6PM on Saturday nights, and you can't game on Fridays because of Friday Night Magic; meaning alot of times I'm forced to play in the Local GW store?

=/

But for Real. The price difference between the Build your own Upgrade Set and buying the done up squads is more or less exactly the same as buying the Cadian Shock Trooper Box at Full Retail, and I get alot more bits.

I can buy the Cadian Shock Trooper Box at a slight Discount Locally. Thus it works out slightly cheaper, and I get alot more bits to play with. The Manager at the local GW is ok with 3rd party bits as long as the model is mostly GW/they are not reconcilable bits from another company (I.E. Privateer Press), and of course no full 3rd party models.

I know what you mean. Kitting out the Vet squad I want + a heavy weapon option when they come out will be more expensive than just buying the Get Started: AM box for ~£40 (comes with free toy car thing too!). I don't mind paying more to get exactly the squad I want, but I have to get it right first time. If I buy a particular combination of parts and they don't fit too well, I'd be pretty sad

You know, on the topic of getting the "perfect look" it might be cool to see how the regiment bits mix with victoria's bits. Her great coat legs with the Gothic void torso/heads would might give you something kinda like the dkok. Maby 30k tallaren or something.

Keep in mind Anvil is coming out with greatcoats soon.

 Lockark wrote:
You know, on the topic of getting the "perfect look" it might be cool to see how the regiment bits mix with victoria's bits. Her great coat legs with the Gothic void torso/heads would might give you something kinda like the dkok. Maby 30k tallaren or something.

Speaking of, does anyone have comparison pics of the two, side by side?

Victoria minis are quite slender. I'm interested in a comparison but I suspect these are maybe a little bit more chunky. Personally I find chunky legs with smaller body and arms looks a lot better than the other way around.

Morning all,

@MOTN - Wow! Thanks so much for that, As soon as I get a break from sculpting Ill give it a try - probably slightly different colours but the same methods, an hour per figure for that end result is brilliant!

@Frozen Ocean - No immdiate plans to add female figures to the Regiments range, but Id like to do a few next year if I get a chance.

In the mean while Lena Petrova from the Afterlife range might suit - she is tiny compared to regiments figures, but could believable represent a very petite female engineer type.

http://anvilindustry.co.uk/AFTERLIFE/Republic/Lena-Petrova

Otherwise have you looked at Hasslefree? They have so many models!


@Lockark - I started typing "no probably not" but then spent 5 mins putting a test figure together and it works much better than expected!

The only issue is the metal "straps" over the torso shoulders, but if you trim the tops of the cadian pads ever so slightly, they attache underneath them without looking weird.

Picture is worth a thousand words and all that.. see below.


@Siygess - If you buy regiments bits and are unhappy, we will swap them free of charge, or if you want just one of something to test it out before putting in a larger order, we can sort that out as well. We cant match plastic cadians on price, but good customer service doesnt cost us anything


Regarding Victoria Miniatures - she has some great parts which I think would work with regiments - I understand both ranges are scaled appropriately to work with Cadian plastic parts, so they should be interchangeable. I will email Vic when I get a chance and see if we can arrange some official mix and match photos.


Also attached - new autocannon render, based heavily on the real world M230 Autocannon. printing today!

Oh whao, that test figure looks sharp. Going to have to make that order this payday now for sure lol.

The new auto cannon is looking ace too.

Ian and I have both made long discussion posts about Afterlife in this thread rather than cluttering things up this news thread.

Joel, I know you're probably e focussed on Regiments Wave 4 right now, but, as you may have noticed, a certain company just officially released a faction that hasn't really had models before. There's a particular weapon that may or may not include the words 'cannon' and frag' in some order that people seem to feel there is an insufficient quantity of readily available.

Potential opportunity afoot...

@Fifty - Thanks for the heads up - Ill get over to that thread asap and clarify a few rules points for you guys!


@Sockwithaticket -

Excellent suggestion, seems like most wargamers on the internet asked for an Exo-Lord Frag Grenade Launcher in the past 24 hours.. enough that it got bumped to the front of the development queue.



We will get it up for sale as soon as possible.

Heh, I'd love to see a regiments version of that!

It never ceases to amaze me just how quickly things are designed and thrown into the fray, unlike some other competing bits companies out there.

@BrookM - took about 3 hours to design, reused some parts from the Regiments Heavy weapons and of course the existing Exo-Lord arms, so I didnt need to start from scratch.

We will 3D print and mold it on Monday most likely.

Pre Order is up, shipping a week from now.

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