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 Bonegrinder wrote:

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:

Looking a bit like the Locusts from Gears Of War. Guess you can't win

Maybe you picked a bad example pic. The only similarities I'm seeing there are grey skin and pointy teeth.

 agnosto wrote:
First let me say that I'm not a fan of the sculpts except maybe the "lancer" not-heavy bolter.

Material:

We have worked hard to find a manufacture in the USA that makes polystyrene miniatures and we are happy to say we have succeeded.

The minis are made with plastic so it is recommended that you buy a hobby primer that is safe to use on plastic.

That seems to indicate that it's going to be, well polystyrene.

Their sculpts say otherwise. This:

...can not be cast in HIPS as is.

I note that the Kickstarter talks about their designers having worked in video games, and bringing their expertise across to designing wargaming miniatures. The problem there is simply that designing models for video games and designing miniatures for HIPS production are two very, very different things.

The minis they have shown would need some fairly extensive re-working in order to be viable for polystyrene. And as others have pointed out, their funding goal is nowhere near what would be required.

 Barzam wrote:
Actually, they did say that they would rework the renders for plastic. As-is, these guys have their heads fixed to the bodies, but if you notice, they mention in the stretch goals adding in new heads. Plus it was mentioned that they would be doing some different shoulder armor as well. So, I imagine that the existing render was designed solely for the 3D printing and that it'll be tweaked for actual production with more appropriate cuts added in.

It's not just a case of where they choose to cut it up, unless they go for an awful lot of little, fiddly pieces. The hydraulics on the waist are problematic, as is all the little intricate detail in the soft joints. They have panel lines running around curved surfaces, undercuts on the edges of armour plates, and those little circular details on shoulders, chest and shins that would need to be warped to point in the same direction as the mould pulls off.

Without these coming an 20 pieces, I don't see any way they can make that design in plastic without a considerable amount of fudging and lost detail.

 Barzam wrote:
These figures might just have to be cut into a bunch of tiny pieces. .

...which is what I said in the first place...

Dark Severance wrote:
What are you basing your figures on that determines "not a reasonable costing even for China"? .

That was based on their original claim that they were going to be producing in HIPS.


I notice that the Kickstarter page has been edited to remove the reference to polystyrene, but there doesn't appear to be anything in their updates actually telling people that the material has changed.

 Azazelx wrote:
Sure, you might not plaster RH's renders all over your page, which is totally fair enough. But if working with Raging Heroes is part of your artist's CV, then it's perfectly legit to name the project(s) and link to the project pages or the artist's own blog/online portfolio/etc with an "external site, images are from another project" disclaimer. Nothing dodgy about that in any way. There's certainly no need to secret squirrel that kind of information. .

Yeah, unless there is some sort of NDA in play, there should be no problem at all with mentioning other projects the sculptor has worked on.

Good to see that they took the criticism in the spirit with which it was intended.

Here's hoping they can come back with a more solid plan.

 MordorMiniatures wrote:
They have to figure out how to NOT 3D print those... I have a 3D printed and it leaves lines in the models (Making paint job looking lumpy)

Industrial 3d printers are slightly better quality than whatever you might have sitting on your desk.


However, removing those lines is simply a part of the process of turning a 3D sculpt into a production miniature. These guys aren't the first company to use 3D sculpting for miniatures.

So not even remotely 28mm, then?

Unless whoever owns that hand has very slender fingers...

Sirio wrote:
What scale is that? 18-20mm? Maybe 22mm?
I don't understand, they said they want to make cheaper minis for 40K, why on eatrh have they downscaled their minis that much?

Uh... what?

Unless that hand belongs to a child, those guys are at least 40mm tall.