Update #80
Jul 25 2014
Sculpts, Painteds and Wave 1!
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Now then! There's some lovely stuff to show you all this week, including sculpts, painted miniatures, fulfilment news and other gubbins, and the excellent news that Wave 1 shipments are almost complete...
In detail, this week we have:
sculpt work in progress updates from Roberto Chaudon, Benoît Cosse, Yannick Hennebo, Juan Navarro Pérez and Stéphane Simon;
images of painted miniatures from Sébastien Picque;
news of Wave 1 fulfilment, and news that you can still order Wave 1 items again for a limited time;
a list of what miniatures are currently being sent in Wave 1, a final list of what miniatures will be sent in Wave 2 and what will hopefully be sent in Wave 3;
updated lists of sculptors and sculpts;
current QuickStarter Rules, Muster Rules and Kindred Musters;
what else you can expect from us over the next few months.
Here we go...
This week for Darklands: First Edition we have images of quite a few finished sculpts - Praach, Baagath's Herd, Caedoc and Agathae - and continuing work in progress images of Crom on Horse. As well as that, we have painted images of Daarkan and Jörmungand!
The somewhat bearded Juan Navarro Pérez has completed work on Caedoc, the Brythoniaid Abad, and what lovely work it is! That shield is stunning!
Caedoc will definitely be a Wave 2 shipment, as we have him in our hands...!
Yannick Hennebo of the unknown beard has now completed work on Agathae for this project, adding the Fiend helm to her accoutrements.
Agathae will definitely be a Wave 2 shipment now of course.
Stang by criticism of his photography (not really, he never looks here), the slightly non-bearded Benoît Cosse has finished off B-a-a-gath's Herd from Stef Kopinski's artwork and took some better (well, more) pictures! Huzzah!
Here's the unit shot:
They are going to look awesome as a unit!
Baagath is the Gabrax unit champion, a Gultain.
B-a-a-gath looks suitably mean!
Bl-a-a-
rt is the unit's banner bearer, what the Gabrax call a Tusk-Bearer...
We think Blaart's very characterful indeed!
Here's the finished Chuw-a-a, chewing on that horn!
The mouth-to-horn configuration works this way because it's doubtful a goat-man would be able to purse his lips well enough to blow conventionally... so he has a hole on the horn that he can get his mouth around!
This guy is the very first one we saw and Benoît's really sorted him out compared to those first images.
Ung-a-a's lovely!
Rapr-a-a-g is a lowly Gabrax warrior, but looks pretty perky for all that!
We have Baagath's Herd in our hands (and can confirm that they are actually really, really nice sculpts) and thus will be a Wave 2 shipment!
Baagath's big brother, Pr-a-a-
ch, has now been completed by the un-bearded Roberto Chaudon (from Christophe Madura's artwork), and we really do think he is excellent!
He looks too big and awesome to go on a 60mm base, but he does:
We will have Praach in our hands next week, which means he'll be a Wave 2 fella!
The slightly bearded Stéphane Simon has updated us on the lovely Crom on Horse!
We think Crom on Horse won't make it into Wave 2 now (for reasons outlined below), so he'll be a Wave 3 shipment.
Even though the miniatures from Darklands: a World of War have not all been painted yet, we've decided to get miniatures from this project painted - simply because we are determined to release miniatures with painted images of them in the not-too-distant future (we're looking at you, September). They just look so much better!
Thus, both Sébastien Picque and Martin Grandbarbe are hard at work, painting miniatures from Wave 1, and with predictably superb results... this week we have work from Séb, and we hope to show some from both Séb and Martin next week.
With Daarkan being one of the first public releases later on this year - and us here at Mierce determined to have painted releases in the future - we tasked the lesser-bearded Sébastien Picque to get him painted - and what a paintjob it is. Just look at it!
Daarkan, painted, looks utterly brilliant. We dare you to disagree!
Séb is pulling out all the stops for us as you can see... Jörmungand's paintjob is, frankly, bloody awesome.
Next up from Séb is Ágriosávra, who is already looking fantastic!
We have awesome news: Wave 1 shipments are almost complete! After today's shipment we have some Rest of the World (i.e., not the
UK or Europe) packages to go, which will occur next week; and there's also a few more Wave 1 packages to go thanks to backers adding more shipment wave items, so we think that Wave 1 shipping will be totally complete by the end of next week.
After that, we can start casting Wave 2 items, and should be able to get the first Wave 2 shipments out of the door in August (probably the end of August, mind).
Where's My Wave 1 Stuff?
As always, please don't be upset if your orders have not yet been shipped, even if your order is currently in "packing" - please be patient while the boys get your miniatures cast and sent.
Now, if you believe you have an old Wave 1 order that hasn't yet been shipped and are wondering why, many orders only have one shipment wave item and thus will only be shipped when everything in those orders is ready. You can mitigate against this by purchasing a Wave 2 or Wave 3 shipment item, of course - so the power's in your hands!
Due to popular demand we've decided to give you all a chance to get your hands on the miniatures you didn't order from Wave 1!
Grab some Wave 1 items now!
The following items are back on 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
You will only see these items in the webstore if you have backed this project, of course.
Wave 1 Shipping
If you've already received your Wave 1 stuff and fancy grabbing a few more bits before they're released at full price, then feel free to do so - but you have two shipment choices: you can either purchase another Wave 1 shipment item or wait until your next shipment (Wave 2 or 3) comes around.
You've got until July the 31st!
Remember, these Wave 1 items are only making an appearance until July the 31st at midnight (GMT) - 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!
We've now decided on what miniatures will be shipped in Wave 2, so here's an up to date list of what we think will be shipped when.
Unfortunately many hopeful Wave 2 items have had to be put back to Wave 3, for many different reasons; we do apologise for this, but sculptors do live in the real world and they do have real life issues that impinge upon their time. Even so, we think they've done awesome so far!
We'll keep this list updated every Friday.
SHIPMENT WAVE 0: complete for this project.
SHIPMENT WAVE 1 (beginning end of June): Dúngal on foot - Dúngal on pony - Ciniod - Itaina - Domnech - Bagseg - Eadric on foot - Aldhelm - Leofwen on foot - Broga - Urien on foot - Ffion Ferddig - Angedern - Mag
ap Mag - Ieuan Longshore and Taranau - Erebius - Mananaan on foot - Idruaada - Daarkan - Naraa - Gaarwäg- Scecchus - Thelliatiss- Ágriosávra- Eikovra - Myrkranio - Knútr on foot - Knútr on horse - Birna - Víthar - Rollo Iron Head - Jörmungand - Crom on foot - Annik - Zethag - Gondard (Gondard - Ekk) - Brugg - Uhtred Uhtredson - Finnan - Danilo Cruz
SHIPMENT WAVE 2 (beginning August): Timoth - Caedoc - Agathae - Velchior - Djiuzu - Baagath's Herd (Baagath - Blaart - Chuwaa - Ungaa - Rapraag) - Praach - Xontór - Thoth - Hanokh - Dawn of Khthon (Myrinna - Syntyss - Thillia - Phyllidii - Elthissi) - Mälmord - Seza
SHIPMENT WAVE 3 (beginning October): Eadric on horse - Cnebba - Gesith Unit - Hrōr - Urien on horse - Carys - Equitus Durio on foot - Equitus Durio on horse - Con I Modius (Modius - Gellius - Tiberius - Livia - Severa) - Mananaan on horse - Hrafnen Crew - Crom on horse - Trytheorn - Rikkard - Maximus
Items in bold will DEFINITELY be sent in that wave as we have the sculpt; items in italics are in progress and should make it into that wave, but we don't yet have the sculpt.
Have I ordered the right Waves?
Fairly obviously (and to remind you all that we won't split orders unless you've purchased more than one shipment wave) if you've only purchased one Shipment Wave item, your items will only be sent in one shipment when everything is ready. In a nutshell:
If you have purchased Waves 1, 2 and 3, whatever is available will be shipped in each wave, with wave 3 waiting until everything's finally ready.
If you have purchased Waves 1 and 2, whatever is available in Wave 1 will be shipped in June, with everything else waiting until it's all finally ready.
If you've only purchased Wave 1, your orders will be shipped when everything in your orders is ready.
There's still time for you to change this by ordering more shipment waves of course - feel free to do so, but as soon as Wave 1 is complete, that shipment item will be removed from the webstore. so you'd best be quick!
Please be patient!
We would ask you all to be patient with both ourselves and our artists; sculptors live in the real world and real world problems often impinge upon their time, so please bear in mind that they are working as fast as they possibly can on our miniatures and giving us their full attention. We do not want to rush sculptors for the simple reason that rushed work is often poor work!
Here's the big list of who's sculpting what and when for Darklands: First Edition! Please bear in mind that this list may change over time, so don't take it as set in stone until the first work in progress shots appear.
Michael Anderson: Michael, a new sculptor for us, will sculpt Rick Boer's Descendant, Rikkard, later on in the year.
Stéphane Camosseto: Stéphane will sculpt Eadric on horse next. He has also now taken on Hrōr, so that he matches the Werwulfas unlocked as part of Darklands: First Edition II.
Allan Carrasco: There's just Cnebba for Allan, later on in the year.
Roberto Chaudon: Praach is complete, and that concludes Roberto's work for us on this project!
Benoît Cosse: Baagath's Herd is complete, and that concludes Benoît's work for us on this project!
Jacques-Alexandre Gillois: Equitus Durio on foot and Equitus Durio on horse will be sculpted over the summer.
Yannick Hennebo: Yannick has now completed Agathae and agreed to sculpt Mananaan on horse for us, and he's next, as Pedro cannot sculpt this now.
Hector Moran: he has begun digitally sculpting Con I Modius, Legionary Contubernium with Gellius being the first example.
Juan Navarro Pérez: Juan has completed work on Caedoc and then it's Urien on horse and Carys. Juan has also agreed to sculpt Tomas Johansson's Geat Warrior, Trytheorn, although he's not sure when that will occur.
Stéphane Simon: Work is progressing on Crom on horse and after him its the Holumenn Unit and the Gesíth Unit.
Unknown: Maximus, Maximilian Schüte's Germanic Berserker (due to be drawn by Danny Cruz). We should have artwork for Maximus soon.
Not too many sculpts to go now!
We thought this would be a good idea, as things are cracking on - a list of completed sculpts, in kindred order! Completed sculpts are in bold; in progress sculpts are in italics.
ALBAINN: Dúngal on foot - Dúngal on horse - Ciniod - Itaina - Domnech - Bagseg
ANGELCYNN: Eadric on foot - Eadric on horse - Timoth - Aldhelm - Hrōr - Leofwen on foot - Gesith Unit - Cnebba - Broga
BRYTHONIAID: Urien on foot - Urien on horse - Carys - Caedoc - Ffion Ferddig - Angedern - Mag
ap Mag
BYZANTII: Equitus Durio on foot - Equitus Durio on horse - Erebius - Agathae - Velchior - Djiuzu - Con I Modius (Modius - Gellius - Tiberius - Livia - Severa)
FOMORAIC: Mananaan on foot - Mananaan on horse - Idruaada - Daarkan - Naraa - Gaarwäg - Baagath's Herd (Baagath - Blaart - Chuwaa - Ungaa - Rapraag) - Praach
INFERNII: Scecchus
KHTHONES: Xontór - Thelliatiss - Dawn of Khthon (Myrinna - Syntyss - Thillia - Phyllidii - Elthissi) - Thoth - Hanokh - Ágriosávra- Eikovra - Myrkranio
NORSE: Knútr on foot - Knútr on horse - Birna - Víthar - Rollo Iron Head - Jörmungand - Hrafnen Crew - Mälmord
YSIANS: Crom on foot - Crom on horse - Annik - Zethag - Gondard (Gondard - Ekk) - Brugg - Seza
SELL-SWORDS: Uhtred Uhtredson - Finnan - Danilo Cruz
DESCENDANTS: Ieuan Longshore and Taranau - Trytheorn - Rikkard - Maximus
Let us know if we've missed anything!