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Hi all

Anyone who's been following our progress log will have seen these already, our new Portable Utility Pods with modular gantry system . Lasercut from 3mm MDF, this is a premium kit for experienced modellers, as even the basic pod clocks in at 55 parts! Available in a range of kit sizes, the biggest Colony set weighs in at a bonkers 702 parts, so you won't run out of ways to set them up any time soon.

They're a very flexible kit, you can add optional fences and supports, and pods can be stacked as high as you like, the walkways can have support parts underneath them but they are also very self-supporting when painted. We've shown a couple of setups below, but there's no real limit to it as more sets can be added in later. Walkway parts can also be combined to make room and corridor setups for indoor games, we've thought about using the pods as containment cells for a clear-the-lab-of-zombies-or-aliens-depending-on-what-takes-your-fancy (or CTLOZOADOWTYF,( or 'cut-loz-ow-dow-tif' ) scenario.

The sets are available now for despatch on Monday 20th of February, the first 25 orders received will also get a free set of antennae arrays that make nifty little objective markers.

Cheers all!
Harry and Ed
Warmill Games

PS please note the Mr Pod text was something we did for our project log and isn't on the production pieces

The link is broken for me.

Anyway, I want to buy all of those. All of them.

Those are some sexy buildings, top notch work!

Link doesn't work, but these things are pretty awesome!

have you ever thought of doing a (cheaper) variety pack of things that you have excess of for those of us on the ropes?

I'm leery of spending money on terrain (ever really) but your stuff always looks great!

They look really great, nice job

Don't mean to sound stupid, but what scale are these? (eg what gaming system are these aimed at)

Whoops link is fixed now!

These are suitable for 28mm scale. The basic pod is 154mm x 100mm x 73mm and is a nice chunky little thing. There's a pic in our plog of me holding a four pod setup and it's pretty sizeable.

As to the variety pack, that is something we wondered about. We have a load of 'factory seconds'. frames that haven't cut through enough to meet our standard for being sent to customers that could possibly be sold for a reduced rate if someone wanted some. As we get more smaller products on our site it'll be easier to do taster packs.

Look great - the ribbing and texture reaslly does deceive the eye into thinking it's not just mdf parts. Remind me of work though - some of our portacabin offices on our construction projects are similarly stacked

Awesome.....

These look great and at that price very tempting, a little longer and I can see me getting some of this, even quite a bit.

axiom wrote:Look great - the ribbing and texture reaslly does deceive the eye into thinking it's not just mdf parts. Remind me of work though - some of our portacabin offices on our construction projects are similarly stacked

That's exactly what inspired them originally a sci-fi version of site buildings that could be for cargo, barracks, slum housing, emergency shelter, etc,etc...

Those pod sets really look fantastic WarMill. A bit rich for my blood, but I'm sure they're worth every penny. Pretty darn slick. Maybe one as an office for my refinery and pipeline terrain... hmmm.

They look great. I think the extra detail more than makes up for the slightly higher price compared to the competition.

"Ooooooooooh.... shiny"

^ My reaction to the pics. And I think the value is pretty good, too if you compare it to the micro art stuff... £3 more than the sarissa pod, but way better looking.. sarissa one has about a dozen parts, this one has 55 and mutiple layers of detail. I'd say you've got the best product on the market with that... cargo pods and basic buildings can risk looking like boring boxes if the design isn't done right, and I think these do a good job of looking "not boring".

These HDF pieces are getting really nice and detailed these days. I wonder if anyone will ever make an HDF tank... that would be pretty crazy, but also possible. I'm looking at the level of detail on your £15 pods and thinking that it's much better than the details on most resin sci-fi vehicles I see that are sold with a much higher price tag. Some sort of generic APC done in HDF would be a cool way to test things.

Looks like they'd be pretty fun to put together too... like those press-out model dinosaur skeletons.

Just wondering, is it possible to spray the pieces pre-assembly to do most of the basecoating?

E.g. with the yellow and grey pod, spraying the yellow parts, then spraying the grey parts, then putting the whole thing together and having a basic paintjob looking pretty good without any effort put in?

They look like the ones in Avatar, although I could be wrong I only saw it once, and presumably it wasn't an original idea.
Pretty cool looking things anyway!!

Nice, I'm getting a real Outland feel from the colony set despite never having seen more than 30minutes of the film.

Cool stuff as always.

NICE

They kind of remind me of some of the buildings in the mass effect game. They are really nice looking.

Really, really quality stuff. And each of their lines looks really compatible with the others (fortress and pods).

I daresay it would look killer -alongside- some MAS stuff, actually.

Perfect for dark heresy. Might pick one up if the price is nice.

Thanks for the comments guys!

and scarlet squig, thanks! also you have some interesting points. The MDF tank thing we have thought about, even so far as to release a titan of sorts. We agree that alot of the success of MDF terrain is due to the lack of bubbles / miss casts that the customer has to end up putting up with or fixing.

The two tone / simple paint job is an interesting one, and could be looked into further. The only initial concern would the the extra thickness that the paint adds, so an already tight fitting model ( such as the slot and tabs) begin to be very tight indeed, and may even take the paint off certain parts of the model. But that would only be a concern if you were spooning on the paint. We airbrush / spray our terrain and so far we have been able to assemble / re assemble with very little damage and still a tight fit.

Will store the idea for later though