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ooh, the Energy Fist sounds good - I picked up a load of Kit's Mechanical Fists at Salute, and they're nice but very plain and small - if you did a set of big 'uns with lots of surface detail, that'd be awesome

Congrats on being able to hire a full time employee Joel! Tell that bloke to get a haircut! I'm sure your Bionics will sell really well and I'm looking forward to seeing them.

Anvils Hammer wrote:All points noted guys!

mwnciboo, thanks very much for posting the photo, looks great! where is the mini from? is it an old metal one?

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Indeed, he is the old style Metal Techmarine, I want to add a Servo Skull, Servo Harness, etc, so he can be one of my Thunderfire Gunners. He was more of a bit of a play with the bits you sent me this week. The real fun will be my Pre-Heresy Morlock terminators, but you'll have to wait and see (I will send you the WIP pics), however I have spent a small fortune on these guys and I want them to be suitably EPIC.

Giant Bionic Energy Fist will be pure win, I'll put my name down for 20 already (termies and Sgt's of units).

Good to hear the business is expanding and waiting eagerly for the new releases

How can I convince myself to make an order if I know there is more cool stuff round the corner?!

I was just reading mwnciboo's blog and I thought it could be handy if you stocked some green stuff to go along with the insta-mold. Just a suggestion!


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Oh just remembered, any idea when we will be seeing armoured melee arms in the store? I need some for my order!

So, some actual new product to show off! Its been way to long!

I released bionic rifle arms as a single pair a while ago now, and they have prooven really popular, with some people purchasing 5, 10 or even 20 of the same pair of arms, so here is an updated sprue of bionic rifle arms- this time you get 5 pairs, and each one is a different pose, one pair has some added power cabling on each arm, great for hefting larger energy weapons around!

You may notice the insides of the shoulders have small holes/marks. Each left and right arm pairs have matching patterns so you can pair them up correctly, same with all my other arm sets.



Here is a photo of the arms in use on a couple of Steam Lords, and these minis also preview a couple of the new "Veteran" heads which will be released tommorow.



FInally here is a WIP shot of a new bionic torso, which has a socket joint to fit a bionic arm, which will be supplied with the torso. Great for converting sergeant/commander models, or just regular squaddies who have taken a real pounding! (also displaying another WIP veteran head)



The new bionic rifle sprue will be available in the store tonight, the new torso, and heads sprue, tommorow night.

For the large bionics, Ive started work on the various bionic hands, but decided to hold fire on the energy claw for now, as it would be a lot of work, which would make the sprue a fair bit more costly. I will release an energy fist product separately, which means I can CAD design it, much better quality for that sort of thing.

Commander Cain, The armoured melee arms are on the list, I will try to get them done in the next couple of weeks but cant promise anything. The continual flood of new stuff is certainly a conundrum.. I will be doing my best to update this with info on what Im working on, so everyone has some idea whats coming up next.

Cheers,

Joel

Looks great!

My next army is definitely going to feature some of your bits. Just have to finish what I got first lol.

The Bionic Heads are superb, more IH sergeant heads is great stuff for me! (disappointed about the PF's but i'll wait or buy the ones from Puppets War).

Thanks SickSix!


mwnciboo, you will be pleased to know that in the end "cool" overuled "logic" so the bionic power Talon will be included on the sprue afterall, its currently 75% built.
Left handed initially but will almost certainly also release a left/right paired version separately.

Cheers,

Joel

Well, just you wait another order from me soon!

Yay for big fists! I might have to wait for some torsos then pick some of them up.

Me and My Iron Warriors thank you! Once the new Chaos codex comes out i'll be spamming you properly even more than with my Wolves

well, Joel, you don't do a lot of stuff I like (not my style, really) but your bionics have consistently been great, can't wait for them to hit the store!

Im pleased that all of you seem to assume Ill do a good job of making the claw!

Cant resist a quick photo of the master, Im about to put it in the mold.



What do you guys think? its in two parts, the main claw, and the thumb which is fully posable. The whole claw then sits neatly on top of the bionic forearm peice.

When Ive cast a few of these I will make a left and right pair with posable fully armoured arms.

I will add these new arms, and the torso and new heads, to the store tommorow evening (If mold making goes to plan!)

Cheers,

Joel

If the thumb is separate, shouldn't it be easy enough to make ambidextrous?

I realized today that I could build an entire super soldier infantry force with non-GW parts, EXCEPT for one thing...

You would make me very happy if you put your skills toward a full line of man-portable heavy weapons!

hmmm, looks okay more Orky claw, than Bionic Powerfist. Maybe something more like this?



Bionic Commando look is awesome. If you could do something like this.....well fap fap fap fap.



I actually quite like this one.

It's an excellent start, but I feel it needs to encompass more of the forearm, pretty much right down to the elbow.

scipio.au wrote:It's an excellent start, but I feel it needs to encompass more of the forearm, pretty much right down to the elbow.

If you mean the forearm looks a bit thin to support the giant hand, I agree, I'd prefer a bulkier forearm, perhaps by adding pistons/cables to the current one.

The hand itself I like - sure it's oversized, but that's the whole point of having a bionic power talon, right? One that was merely hand-sized would be much less fun and probably much less useful in combat...

Thanks for feedback guys!

@masterslowpoke - the housing for the thumb needed to be sculpted on the claw, hence left hand only so far.

@SickSix, Heavy weapons have been on the to do list for a while, they are on the way.

@mwnciboo, I guess it comes down to personal preference, Im not a fan of the bionic commando claw (also dread to think how I could sucessfully cast "fingers" like that)

@Scipio and Clang.

Agreed, but I had to make a trade off, If I had integrated the claw into the forearm as one peice, it could have been bulkier, but it would then have been impossible to rotate the claw on the end of the arm, which is somthing I feel is important for getting a minis pose "just right".

Cheers,

Joel

Here we go!

New product!

Bionic/Veteran heads - various bionic alterations, skull studs, horrific scarring etc, these guys have been through hell and are still fighting!!



Bionic torso, supplied complete with compatible bionic arm and pistol fist.



an assembled example with one of the new heads-



and the new parts on the large bionics sprue-



the new sprue contains 4 multi pose ambidexterous arms, 2 right hand bionic pistol grips, one left hand bionic sword/hammer grip and one fully poseable power claw, again for the left hand.

Lots of boring business admin over the next few days, but hopefully some new product before the end of next week, along with an exciting announcement!

Cheers,

Joel

Oooooh, shiny! I'm going to have to pick some of these up for my Steel Confessors next month.

Glad I stumbled upon this post today, just placed an order for some shotguns, rifles, and bionics. Everything looks amazing, keep up the good work.

I like the arm claw thing, the heads aren't bad but the chest looks wonky and rather bland. Interesting stuff.

I like the look of the bionic claw arm Joel I even quite like the bionic torso (though not a SM fan myself) maybe I could use him as a large catachan commander

Can you sell a set of only right bionic hands? Iron Hands players everywhere would rejoice...

Hey Guys,

Thanks for feedback and orders!

@LDD, a VERY big catachan commander :p

@Fetterkey, good plan! not sure how well it would sell, but very easy to do so Ill try and sort that out.

Cheers,

Joel

Anvils Hammer wrote:Hey Guys,

Thanks for feedback and orders!

@LDD, a VERY big catachan commander :p

@Fetterkey, good plan! not sure how well it would sell, but very easy to do so Ill try and sort that out.

Cheers,

Joel

He is that big then

Well, I think these were just what my Iron Hands needed and I've bought a few of them. They look great! (Iron Hands need left handed bionics, btw).

ah good shout!

I could do a sprue with 2xpistol grip, 2x rifle fore grip and 1x sword/axe grip, All in left handed bionics?

Joel