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Anvils Hammer wrote: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

Yes please

Luuurve the bionics! You know what would be nice? Some guns along the same lines as the widow-makers for the large bionics albeit a bit beefier though you may be saving them for whenever you release the heavy armoured steam lords!

Commander Cain wrote:though you may be saving them for whenever you release the heavy armoured steam lords!

Yep! and Ill get the "Exo Lords" out as soon as I possibly can! Certainly before Christmas! (I know that seems like a long time away but I have a lot planned!!)

Rhodry, ok, Ill get to work on that!

Cheers,


Joel

First time seeing your work. Great stuff.

Quick question about the height of the Steam Lords:

Are they Space Marine height or what's being refered to as True Scale Space Marine heirght ?

Thanks very much Adam!

Picture is better I think-



standard 28mm heroic for now, but planning some "true" 42mm tall parts in the not to distant future as I know thats a popular option.

Cheers,

Joel

SWEET !!

I'm really looking forward to that.

If your looking for ideas, I could use an armies worth of True Scale Armor that looks like Mordred from the old Excalibur movie



I think the Blood Angels have something similar

Anvils Hammer wrote: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

Sounds good to me! angryboy2k's correction to my original post was a good one-- even though some of the art erroneously shows the Iron Hands with bionic right hands, the left hand is the important one here.

I like the latest batch of heads, torso, and claw. I think the regular bionic arms are a bit iffy, but such is life.

You're doing well old bean. Keep it up.

I am seriously thinking of getting a set of 5 of the Steam Lords (which comes in at $17US- with all the selections, still cheaper than a GW combat squad!)

I always thought Anvils designs looked like MK1 and 2 power armor. So suddenly I had the weird idea to meld my copy of Rogue Trader (or a copy of the 2nd edition rules) with my Necromunda rulebook (for the skirmish-style handling getting wounded) to play out some skirmish-level "post-apocolyptic" games set during the conquest of Earth with the first appearance of Thunder Armor against gangs and bands of muties.


Or what is essentially the same thing but easier to approach, set it in the Fallout universe, with Steam Lords as Brotherhood of Steel.

@Aegisgrimm, I actually posted something on this forum about this in the last few months. I was talking about the popularity of Pre-Heresy stuff, and I could see that the next logical step would be to do the Unification Wars/ Age of Strife so WH29K, bearing in mind how popular 30k is, it kind of makes sense to model thunder-warriors and Thunderer Armour and even look to fight out the conflicts when the emperor was trying to unify Terra. Even if it was more of a Skirmish Necromunda 2.0, call it "TERRA" or something.

On topic, they are some very nice models which you can do alot with. I would really like someone to do some, not-quite-but-almost-arbites, there is a lack of Carapace armour models out there for Grenadiers, Arbites etc. I really like the PIG IRON PRODUCTIONS stuff, but would prefer it in Resin or plastic.

I just got my bionic bits, totally love the bionic torso, fantastic kit

If I get a squad set of 5, I will definitely get the bionic torso bit along with the rest of the parts needed to make a 6th figure , I think it looks pretty good.

You can also even make a complete set of Thunder Armor by using the "visored" heads with either of the medieval torsos, though I seriously doubt I will, as I feel that even during the barbarous "Unification of Terra", if the technology available could build partially powered armor (Thunder armor had only the top half "powered"), they obviously would have realized the benefit of fully enclosed helms.

Possibly Auto-senses hadn't been fully developed/perfected yet? The upper torso "powered" armour would theoretically just be like a strength-enhancing armoured exoskeleton. With the legs not powered it makes me wonder how they could walk, let alone run with all that weight on their frames, built-for-war proto-marines or not...

scipio.au wrote:Possibly Auto-senses hadn't been fully developed/perfected yet? The upper torso "powered" armour would theoretically just be like a strength-enhancing armoured exoskeleton. With the legs not powered it makes me wonder how they could walk, let alone run with all that weight on their frames, built-for-war proto-marines or not...

Supposedly the Thunder Warriors were almost as strong as the Primarchs. The official Armor Through The Ages kit makes it very clear that the Thunder Warriors wore only chain mail and plate armor on their lower bodies...

Well, all of that's been retconned to an extent. I got those figures when they came out originally, and it was just powered armour back then.

Thanks very much guys!!

@mwnciboo, carapace armoured mini parts are on the "to do" list for sure.

Unrelated to Anvil Industry---------

Thunder Armour fluff- The open face helms I can understand, the lack of auto senses makes sense, but yes, exo enhanced upper body is ridiculous.
Supposedly the emperor realised that most close up fighting required a lot of grappling strenght, but you have to get close to the enemy first..

Modern day attempts at exo skeletons all have a starting point of working on the legs to allow faster movement and higher load bear capacities. And in M29 they surely would have sufficiently lethal firearms to make close combat total unnessecary.

but hey.. this is the 40k universe so nothing has to make sense!

Back on topic----------

Working on a few new bits and peices, and also expecting some awesome new minis from Miniatures of the North in the next few days, which will be manufactured and distributed by Anvil Industry, so should have some new releases up soon!

Cheers,

Joel

Auto-senses being appropriate or not, my Thunder armor marines (or techno-barbarians, as marines hadn't even been engineered by "Imperial" forces until towards the end of the Unification of Terra- about when they made the jump to space travel to get to reclaim Mars and beyond) will be getting the "Spartan" style helmets, as they look awesome, with or without the crests. I think crests will be for my squad leaders, Roman-style.

Even without auto-senses, a full helm with clear lenses is far better protection than an open-face helmet and 'sunglasses"!

On-topic, I'd like to see some weapons other than assault rifles and shotguns for the Steam Lords to hold. I know meltagun and plasmagun analogies are hard to make without infringement, but flamethrower units or grenade-launchers would be pretty cool.

AegisGrimm wrote:On-topic, I'd like to see some weapons other than assault rifles and shotguns for the Steam Lords to hold. I know meltagun and plasmagun analogies are hard to make without infringement, but flamethrower units or grenade-launchers would be pretty cool.

I'd love some flame throwers that dont like like GW flamers

Full range of Steam Lord "interesting" weapons coming up in the next few months, including Anti-matter rifle, Electro Scythe, Fusion cutter, Anti-Material sniper rifle, chem/flame thrower and anything else I can dream up in the mean while!

Cheers,

Joel

Anvils Hammer wrote:Full range of Steam Lord "interesting" weapons coming up in the next few months, including Anti-matter rifle, Electro Scythe, Fusion cutter, Anti-Material sniper rifle, chem/flame thrower and anything else I can dream up in the mean while!

Cheers,

Joel

Cool!

AegisGrimm wrote:
Even without auto-senses, a full helm with clear lenses is far better protection than an open-face helmet and 'sunglasses"!

It's not just about protection, though. It's about vision, hearing, mobility, efficiency and ability to react. Even, presumably talking about Space Warriors, especially without auto-senses.

That would be why modern shock troops look more like this:



than this:

Just got a small order in....the stuff is excellent, and it got here really fast. Kudo's to you!

Just recieved my order of the grill head set,
really top notch, definitely going to be ordering more gubbinz soon.

as a side note:
is it me or does the bomb disposal guy look like he's on a fasion catwalk?

I guess even Bomb Disposal guys want to look good in this seasons latest gear! :p

Thanks very much for leaving feedback guys!

I will hopefully have some new product from Miniatures of the North, and some new previews of upcoming Anvil Stuff, to show everyone later tonight.

Cheers,

Joel


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And just past midnight, here we are-

Very pleased to offer for sale these awesome new figures from Miniatures of the North. Original sculpts by Icesword, and Anvil Industry is manufacturing and selling them.

These miniatures were an absolute joy to cast and assemble, so really hope to get plenty more of the MOTN range in the store over the next few months.

Imperial Borderers-



Squad of Six, supplied in 4 parts. Purchase 30 or more figures and they cost just £1.33 each! (pricing subject to change as Icesword has not confirmed yet).

The full squad-



The Body Sprue, this is how they come out of the mold, virtually no clean up required.



And here is the Occult Investigator, not sure exactly what his background is, but im sure IceSword will chip in with some info!



This is a single peice resin figure supplied complete with a choice of gaming base.

Cheers,

Joel

I have a feeling Anvil Industry will outshine, outperform and outlive M.O.T.N. in the long run: casting looks fantastic.

Damned dude. How do you do it?

I really really don't need a new army...... You are not helping lol

These look great, looking forward to getting my models now!

Hmmm is the other topic (on Miniatures of the North) a bit...redundant now? Or should we keep it open for the other WiP coming up?

Just got my order. I'm VERY satisfied with the quality, keep up the great work!