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More shots of the grav tank:



And then there are these:

Nice. Glad to see Mark not giving up.

I hope he'll consider running Kickstarters if people are interested in the existing plastics. That way he can guarantee enough orders to make it be profitable.

FlugStuG is amazing. I want to get one, even though I no longer play 40k

As much as I prefer plastic I understand the hurdles Mark faced / faces and I'll be happy to get these new models in resin. The man is talented and has great ideas that I want to see on my table ! (I can see those Shadokesh Ferals terrorizing my Core Space and Zombicide: Invader games ... and so much more).

@ bbb ... Good idea to use KS for plastic production runs.

The Shadokesh are sweet, but if they're going to be made in resin I wonder if they could have more texture on the skin. Just not sure if these will look completely smooth, and thus be hard to paint for most people?

I used the kick starter shadowkesh as Dark Eldar HQ bodyguards. Feral shadowkesh became Ur-guls .

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I wonder what happened to the panzerjagers/black widows. I bought some initially, but planned to buy more when funds allowed, and by that time they had disappeared from the website.

FYI - I asked through the DFG website back in April about the Panzerjager kit getting any restock and got this back:

Dreamforge Games wrote:
No restock on that kit for a while, we will likely be re-releasing this as a resin kit. To my knowledge there are no retailers with that kit in stock.



All the best,

Mark

I'll probably pass on the Shadokesh, mainly because these particular models, which were originally intended to be cast in polystyrene, have a lot of fine details (the claws, the handle of the halberd weapon) that look like they'll be too delicate and brittle in resin for me.

That said, I think Mark made the smart, pragmatic choice for his business, and keeping Dreamforge financially viable naturally takes precedence.

 bbb wrote:
Nice. Glad to see Mark not giving up.

I hope he'll consider running Kickstarters if people are interested in the existing plastics. That way he can guarantee enough orders to make it be profitable.

Don’t know how feasible that would be for Mark but a final run Kickstarter or Mark starter(on his site not KS) would be awesome.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
FlugStuG is amazing. I want to get one, even though I no longer play 40k

Same here. Is the FlugStug an old nickname for it or did you come up with it just now?


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 Malika2 wrote:
And then there are these:

I really like those. They're just the right amount of alien/disturbing with some design cues taken from designs I like (Aliens and Pitch Black) without crossing over into the just plain chthulu cranked up to 11 oddity factor. Are those similar to what was last released from the kickstarter?

 warboss wrote:

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
FlugStuG is amazing. I want to get one, even though I no longer play 40k

Same here. Is the FlugStug an old nickname for it or did you come up with it just now?

It's literally "flying StuG", which would be the likely German name for such thing.

I've used it before. In 2015

rwwin wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I wonder what happened to the panzerjagers/black widows. I bought some initially, but planned to buy more when funds allowed, and by that time they had disappeared from the website.

FYI - I asked through the DFG website back in April about the Panzerjager kit getting any restock and got this back:

Dreamforge Games wrote:
No restock on that kit for a while, we will likely be re-releasing this as a resin kit. To my knowledge there are no retailers with that kit in stock.



All the best,

Mark

Thanks for asking. What a bummer, though. I've already assembled most of them, so now I'll have to consider very carefully for which conversions I use the rest.

Really glad to see this line continuing, even though I don't do resin. They do good design work, and I hope this allows for some more variety in kits.

The Shadokesh look brilliant. Nice to see Mark's still kicking.

I'm hoping for an updated version of the Black Widow walking tank. That thing fits the feel of Iron Core so much. Not to mention it's a hell of a kit in it's own right.


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Also, can someone email GW and show them how the Repulsor should have looked?

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

It's literally "flying StuG", which would be the likely German name for such thing.

I've used it before. In 2015

I'm aware of the wordplay hence my question. I don't expect you to know it but I took German in high school and random things like that are the only use I've gotten out of it for decades. I like the term.

It's nice-n-catchy and all, but where's the 'flug' in "flying"?

 Mysterio wrote:
It's nice-n-catchy and all, but where's the 'flug' in "flying"?

"Flug" is the German word for "Flight" much like "Eisenkern" is German for "Iron Core".

I'm just wondering if the switch to rain includes the Leviathans.

BTW, looking at the FlugStuG, I kind of wonder why the MG isn't set up as rundumfeur. That's odd to me.

Clearly it's and early war Flying Stug

So more expensive than the APC's or....

 Krinsath wrote:

 Mysterio wrote:
It's nice-n-catchy and all, but where's the 'flug' in "flying"?

"Flug" is the German word for "Flight" much like "Eisenkern" is German for "Iron Core".

Well then, it is quite catchy and clever!

My resin leviathan is still unassembled in its box while 3 plastic ones are bouncing around the tables. A resin Stug will probably stay in its box.

I'm totally planning armchair general here, but...
Imagine a world in which instead of spending resources tooling 21(!) plastic kits for leviathans in two scales Dreamforge had instead released the dizzying array of leviathan weapon options in resin, and then put out 1-2 infantry kits and a vehicle kit for the Shadowkesh 2-3 years ago....

Instead we live in a world where you can get right and left hand weapon options in HIPS for that leviathon that you need ONE of in a 28mm army, but the infantry opposition force for the Eisenkern will be in resin.


I know hindsight is 20/20, but surely someone must have paused at sometime and asked "is it worth tooling a left hand claw for a 28mm leviathon in plastic?"

 Mysterio wrote:
It's nice-n-catchy and all, but where's the 'flug' in "flying"?

The full name would be "Flugsturmgeschütz," "Flying (flight) assault gun."

Put in a (perhaps irresponsibly) big order at the webstore as those infantry kits are some of the finest kits ever put into production imo. Mark really has quite the talent for multipart plastics, although I realise HIPS was not a good fit for a one-man operation. Still, I look forward to seeing the Shadowkesh and Protectorate take form. Companies like Anvil have shown that multi-part resin can be very viable.

Im glad to hear news on the panzerjaegers, Im curious whether or not re-releasing the existing kits in resin will reduce or increase the cost. Not that they need to be reduced at all, just a thought I had.

 Midnightdeathblade wrote:
Im glad to hear news on the panzerjaegers, Im curious whether or not re-releasing the existing kits in resin will reduce or increase the cost. Not that they need to be reduced at all, just a thought I had.

The exact same kits with the same bits? They would be a lot, a lot more expensive in resin. More than double the price judging by similar kits.

I would hope some pieces could be combined for resin production - you're able to get away with some undercuts, so don't need to have things broken up quite as much as on the plastic sprues (which were actually a bit Too modular for me ).