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Sensible Catachans, very nice.

vic wrote:

Oh bloody hell yes. Yes on so many levels. "Van Diemens World Devils"? An excellent name to be sure.

d-usa wrote:Sensible Catachans, very nice.

Pfft please. Catachan has nothing on us.

Vic, you just made my old style Cadians conversion idea a reality *manly tears*

Rolled sleeves? Check

Awesome combat armor? Check

Old styled Lasguns? Check

Metal? Check

Tons of character? Check

As soon as I can get my student loans figured out, I'll be making a large order soon with flak armor torsos, rolled sleeves, victorian legs, and all sorts of other goodies. If I can just find some helmet heads, my work is pretty much done. The only scratch work I'll have to do is making the shoulder armor parts.

Also, any thoughts on some helmet heads to go in line with those combat armor torsos?

As always, magic from Downunder!
I've got to finish my Pith troopers before I start something new.
Or not....
Really like the Slouch heads, ammo pouches and armoured torsos!
At least you made it easy to make my list for Santa.

70 pairs of Rolled Sleeve arms and a sprue of Slouch Hat heads - ordered! Can't wait to see how these look.

70 pairs of arms and one set of heads? Either retro fitting an army or your're creating some really funky looking chaos spawn.

No, see the problem I have (as I described a page or so ago) is that I had waited and waited for Vic to release her ANZAC heads. She had originally teased them over a year ago - I tried to be patient - I did. But then, the day before she released pics of her Slouch Hat heads, I went and ordered 40 of MaxMini's from the WarStore (I already had 10 from a previous order). I was a very sad monkey when I saw that she had released hers. But I've been waiting for someone to produce Rolled Sleeve arms since Vic originally sculpted some for her original Golden Daemon ANZAC guardsman entry years ago. So, I ordered up a bunch of them to go with all the MaxMini heads I'd already ordered.

But, I'd be a fool to not at least try her Slouch Hat heads for comparison.

And it's an IG army. While I may have enough heads and arms for my troops now, there's certainly room to expand for more troops needing Vic's Slouch Hat heads.

Sorry if i sounded like i was questioning your order. It was meant as more of a joke about the oddness of the order. Like who orders 70 arms and ONE set of heads. Kinda hard to convey humour over text.... Even crappy humour such as mine.

I've been wanting to start a Australian themed force ever since i saw this army. The only thing that put me off buying the maxmini ones was the faces. That and the fact that i couldn't find torsos that i liked. Now however that Vic has solved both those problems my chances of running an Aussie Guard army is looking good.

So any chance of doing something to create a light horse brigade??

Really impressive as always

No worries - I wasn't offended at all. I appreciated the joke, but I figured it was worth a better explanation.

Victoria completed this Rough Rider over a decade ago - and ever since then, I wanted an Aussie-style IG army.



I've seen a few such armies - some better, some worse - but the amount of conversion and green stuff on such a large scale had been prohibitive to building the army. With folks like Vic, MaxMini, and Puppet's War coming out with some good slouch hat heads, it has become substantially easier. Santobell's is the first I've seen to use Slouch Hat heads in a large capacity (I particularly like his Chimera Ute, too). I don't mind the look of the MaxMini heads. I think the Puppet's War ones look way too cartoony, but I'm really looking forward to seeing how Vic's look in person. I'm already working out a list that'll let me have an excuse to make some Light Horse Rough Riders.

@Void_walker - I think it'll actually be pretty easy to do Light Horse with the bits Vic's already got up there, although some Rolled Sleeve arms with lances seem like they'd be a pretty easy addition.

I love these guys! Great models as always, and an archetype I don't see very often. Even in WW2 minis, I don't see many Aussies. Also, those flak armor and groin plate bits are aces as well.

Hi, thanks for all the great feedback and comments. (yes that was a lot of rolled sleeved arms I packed this morning.
Here is a pic of the squad set I currently have on offer (hopefully the first of many).
You get all there bits plus 10 slotta bases for $45 US.
Let me know what you would like to see in future sets.
Thanks,
V

Vic you seriously spoil us far too much. I may just have to get that VDWD complete squad for my Birthday/Christmas.


Also not sure if you are aware or not but the banner in your sig is still linking to the old website.

You floated the idea sometime back of one piece Troopers for quick squad building. Was that viable or was there a lack of positive response? I'd be interested but only to mix amongst modular troops thereby retaining some individuality in squads.

Okay, why not? Let's give this stuff a try and with the free shipping, all the more reason to jump in while I can!

edit.

Flak Armour Groin Guards, Flak Armour Torsos, Militia Heads, Shoulder Boards, Shotgun Arms, Rolled Sleeve Arms, Dress Uniform Torsos, Sword and Laser Pistol Arms, Pistol Holsters, Conscript Legs, Grenade Launcher arms, Ammo Belts and Victorian Torsos.

Let's do this.

Great looking squad deal! A bit cheaper than the GW metal guardsmen and these look much better as well as being multi-part. I hope we can see more bundles like this in the future!

BrookM... i think you are onto something really cool looking... would love to see how these would work together... would make nice trenchers iirc...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
BrookM... i think you are onto something really cool looking... would love to see how these would work together... would make nice trenchers iirc...

Ding!

Though would it sound crazy if I said I was just looking at the groin plates, tossed in the flak torsos and it, ahem, escalated from there?

LOL... well... that sentence started naughty... but we are still talking about toy soldiers here^^ so...

Any plans on doing separate shoulder plates like the ones on the shotgun arms?

Well, sometimes it just takes a bit for me to get hooked and for some reason, them groin plates did it for me. Certainly made me look at my Krieg engineers for a moment, who also wear sensible carapace with family jewel protection.

But yeah, can't wait to go mad with the order!

i am still wrestling... and seeing the new aussie stuff doenst make it any more easier for me^^

beside...all the other gathred and unused stuff in my shelfs and boxes...oh my...

 BrookM wrote:
Well, sometimes it just takes a bit for me to get hooked and for some reason, them groin plates did it for me. Certainly made me look at my Krieg engineers for a moment, who also wear sensible carapace with family jewel protection.

But yeah, can't wait to go mad with the order!

I'd be super surprised if you aren't happy! vic's stuff is great.

Hi, lots of great feedback and ideas. Thanks. Sounds like some very cool projects in the works.

 5P0G wrote:
Any plans on doing separate shoulder plates like the ones on the shotgun arms?

Could do, I'm still getting a feel for how fiddly people can manage multi part minis, but so far the tiny bits I've made seem popular.

Yes, I am still planning some unit builder one piece minis, but want to get the modular sets done first.
Cheers,
V

Any chance of Cadian style shoulder pads. Female IG? Heck just legs and arms would do for those.

I'm going to echo the female bit of that request, though without the torsos remark, manly chests don't work for girls, though if this were to happen, it would be grand: Female troops using the style of torsos, arms, legs and whatnots as the other ranges you have up for sale.

All i want are combat helmets and I'll be a happy happy guardsmen. something that matches the style of the combat armor torsos would be amazing.

everything released from there is just gravy to me

 Death By Monkeys wrote:
No worries - I wasn't offended at all. I appreciated the joke, but I figured it was worth a better explanation.

Victoria completed this Rough Rider over a decade ago - and ever since then, I wanted an Aussie-style IG army.



I've seen a few such armies - some better, some worse - but the amount of conversion and green stuff on such a large scale had been prohibitive to building the army. With folks like Vic, MaxMini, and Puppet's War coming out with some good slouch hat heads, it has become substantially easier. Santobell's is the first I've seen to use Slouch Hat heads in a large capacity (I particularly like his Chimera Ute, too). I don't mind the look of the MaxMini heads. I think the Puppet's War ones look way too cartoony, but I'm really looking forward to seeing how Vic's look in person. I'm already working out a list that'll let me have an excuse to make some Light Horse Rough Riders.

@Void_walker - I think it'll actually be pretty easy to do Light Horse with the bits Vic's already got up there, although some Rolled Sleeve arms with lances seem like they'd be a pretty easy addition.

This is the next set I want to see in production, I would use these as my Catachan rough riders.

Javin wrote:Any chance of Cadian style shoulder pads. Female IG? Heck just legs and arms would do for those.

BrookM wrote:I'm going to echo the female bit of that request, though without the torsos remark, manly chests don't work for girls, though if this were to happen, it would be grand: Female troops using the style of torsos, arms, legs and whatnots as the other ranges you have up for sale.

I third a request for a females kit. Some armoured torsos and maybe an officer torso or just plain non armoured torsos would bloody beaut.

lone dirty dog wrote:This is the next set I want to see in production, I would use these as my Catachan rough riders.

There are already Rough Rider parts. Its not a full kit per se but you can easily make up a squad with the parts available. Infact the only componant of Rough Riders Vic doesnt do are the Horses themselves.

lone dirty dog wrote:This is the next set I want to see in production, I would use these as my Catachan rough riders.

Snrub wrote:There are already Rough Rider parts. Its not a full kit per se but you can easily make up a squad with the parts available. Infact the only componant of Rough Riders Vic doesnt do are the Horses themselves.

Yes, but the legs are different to the ones used in this set, I would like to see matching styles in the rough riders, also rolled sleeved arms for the horse riding pose.

Arms with one handed weapons and some packs to add to mounts, however if you want to go the full hog or should I say horse and produce the mount that would be amazing.