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Thanks to some talented sculptors out there (who we will reveal when the product is ready for sale) we have our first entry into the fantasy world line for Chapterhouse Studios.

These models are approximately 60mm in height and will be done in resin, they will sell for approximately $14 each. There are different types of shapechangers, each able to assume the form of a different animal species, these were-types take the form of a lizard.

Also released this month are a multitude of shoulder pads and a set of laser backpacks,  clicking on the photo will take you to the products page.

I should have some exciting new conversion kits and models in the next couple of weeks as well.
Nick
Chapterhouse Studios LLC

Mechanical Shoulderpads?
Yes sir, I like it!

I like the "not-Classic Kroxigor". They'll let me keep the 4th/5th edition vibe of my Lizards without the arduous task of trying to find enough actual period Krox.

Hotshot Lasguns, yes!

I like the were-croc. Seems like it would work well in a Wargods of Aegyptus Sebeki warband.

shoulderpads are a bit Meh, to be honest. even the otherwise great-looking Mechanical ones have that ugly great nut in the middle, plain banding would have been better. Were-Croc's a nice idea, but the Hotshot Lasgun's not nearly detailed or unique enough for me to buy it.

Still, glad CHS is still pumping out the goods!

Doesn't something seem just plain... off about this image?



Not too impressed with these offerings... by comparison, the Puppets War shoulder pads look really, Really clean and crisp. The detail on this looks soft to me...

Also feel like there a lot better crocs out there from a variety of ranges...

Love the crocs.

Great to see you guys getting into fantasy, since thats the kick Ive been on lately and will likely stay with.

Those Crocs have a very 80s DnD minis feel, and not in a good way they really look like a home sculpt to be honest.

And RiTides, you are right. A lot of the shoulderpads seems to have soft detail. I like the salamander shoulders though. Very clean, yet clealy salamanders. Might pick those up, just in case they become un available in 6 months time

What chapter are you from?
The nutters.

RiTides wrote:Doesn't something seem just plain... off about this image?



Not too impressed with these offerings... by comparison, the Puppets War shoulder pads look really, Really clean and crisp. The detail on this looks soft to me...

Also feel like there a lot better crocs out there from a variety of ranges...

Just a little off. The painter probably refills his water cup with his own tears at having to paint this stuff.
The third party shoulder pad market has exploded in the last few years, there's some incredible stuff out there...this isn't it.

The crocs are terrible. The PP Hordes crocs are so friggin good, these are unreasonable. I was hoping for some 3rd party croc-men to pop up but these won't do.

The not-mechanicum shoulder pads are bomb. I might have to pick some of those up ...

More gearpads!

Lovin the Crock! I adored the lizard men back in the old RPG days ;P

love the crocs and the diversity of the shoulder pads.

Not every style is for everyone....thanks for posting.

These are so awesome! Finally some not blindwater gatormen! Is there anyway you can show us how big they are compared to one of the PP gatormen?

I have a feeling that painting and photography have a lot to do with why some of their pads look so bad.

I really do hate being negative and pointing out what I think are 'flaws', but I only want to see your products improve...

I don't dig the gator men. They have a lot of potential, but the poses kill it for me. Gator #1 doesn't look like he's attacking, so much as he's creeping down a hallway like a Scooby Doo villain... who just happens to weild a huge friggin axe. Maybe if he were leaning forward more?
Gator #2 looks like he's waiting for a baseball. Again, maybe if he were in more of an attacking pose. Still, I know that you're limitged on what you can do with poses if you still want to fit into the rank-and-file formation.
The sculpts themselves are looking pretty darn good, though!

Someone's already made the "Nutters" joke, so I'll skip that. I rather like the techie shoulder pads, though I think the classic gear is better over the nut. But, then, it's also likely to anger some people (like lawyers).

Wing/Skull shoulder pad looks good, and if I had an army that was wingy-skulls, I'd probably buy some. I may anyway because my homebrew chapter is close (more wingy-sword than wingy-skull)

The fist/hammer looks a bit awkward to me. If it's made to look like a fist grasping the hammer, it looks like the hammer is grabbing it about where the thumb would meet the hand. Raise it up a bit, maybe? And the index finger looks a little too spread out compared to the other fingers. I think if the index finger was brought a lot closer to the others (and the others brought a hair closer to the index), it'd look a lot better.

The V/wreath looks pretty darn cool, but the lines don't look as crisp on the terminator-scale shoulderpad. The lines on the left side of the "V" look rather wobbly. I've noticed the wobbly lines on other shoulder pads your company has sold in the past (e.g. the ornate shoulder pad sold under the "Dark Angels" portion of your store. I've seen worse and I certainly couldn't make one better, but as others are pointing out, there are a lot of people making shoulders now, and the general public is becomming less tolerant of flaws/blemishes

Scythe pads look pretty sweet. Could have used them on my old Space Marine army.

I really like the scale/shell shoulder pad. It makes me want to make a Marine army themed after the Koopas in Super Mario Brothers... And that's not a bad thing.

I would love to see the lasgun unpainted. If it was made with the same attention to detail with which you made the servo-arm backpack, then the painting is actually doing it a disservice in this shot ('cause I friggin loved the servo-arm).


Again, I hate being negative, but I want to see your company thrive. I've seen some really great things from Chapterhouse and I think you want to give your customers a truly awesome experience with a truly awesome product.

Chapterhouse wrote:

Srsly, thats one of the worst photoshop jobs you've done.
Spend some money on a couple of Lynda.com courses on Photoshop & masking. Perhaps a slightly better screen too so you wont have all those white "nothing to see here!" blobs in the middle of the picture.

Spend some money on a couple of Lynda.com courses on Photoshop & masking

Or you know... they could just make miniatures... I'd of never noticed the photoshop blurring if it wasn't pointed out... I only really care about their figure quality, not their digital image making quality. Perhaps it's better they suck at photoshop so they can't make things look BETTER than they are.

Or, they could actually present their awesome sculpts and paintjobs in a flattering manner instead of botching them with the wand in photoshop?

It's hard caring about figure quality when you cannot really see whats a shadow and whats part of the figure.

So I will start with some good then bad, the crocs are by in large some of the best sculpts your company has ever done, that said I think a little more angular on the face would convey the crocadile concept as atm they look more like snake heads. The poses are a little off putting and unnatural but like I said overall quality these are the best products I think you guys have produced to date so stick with the sculptor on these ones as they could take you places.

Now for the negative, the shoulder pads are just aweful honestly. You may have a solid product in them but it's hard to tell with the poor paint job. I know you guys have had Angel paint for you in the past and though it may slow production down a bit I would say only let him paint for you because when you post a product up for sale you want people to see what it "could" look like in their army and showcase it in the best possible light. As these stand they look oddly similar to when you guys first started out and I know you most likely wanted them up for sale quick sometimes not having a painted one up for pictures is better then having a painted version up; food for thought.

I do not think it's the paintjob... It is the sculpt.

RiTides wrote:I do not think it's the paintjob... It is the sculpt.

Or the casting process. I see tell tail signs of premature pulling and worse sloppy molding here. If you aren't super clean you can obscure lines during the mold making step really easily. The warped nature of the pad looks like it was pulled too soon, but may be a culprit of sculpting like you said. I sculpt and cast so I know all to well how easily a great sculpt can be altered.

I think the paint jobs are nice actually, and the concept designs are awesome as well.

Somehow, it looks like I'm the first guy to link to this forum post from a document filed with the US court system.

For mind numbing kicks:

http://ia700405.us.archive.org/18/items/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.245.0.pdf

clively wrote:
Somehow, it looks like I'm the first guy to link to this forum post from a document filed with the US court system.

For mind numbing kicks:

http://ia700405.us.archive.org/18/items/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.245.0.pdf

Yeah, there's just a 90+ page thread here....

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/355433.page

Locked for thread necro.