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Stackable crates, cunning, I would never have thought of that, looks like great fun stacking them!

Were you planning on casting them in resin? I imagine it would be the easiest way to produce them.

I have to say, the overall desigin is very clever and easy to imagine in a warzone.

You were asking if you should make anymore fleur de lys bases, personally I would stick with the ones you have, maybe a couple of larger bases and stick with that, no need to go ott on them! I am sure you will get some commissions for them, but the bases themeselves will not be as generic as the eagle ones. Just my humble opinion

Cain

Personally I think the boxes would be easy enough to make by just splitting them in half and casting them like that and then find a way of attaching the white caseing.

Other than that I would buy it, if I could... :(

If the crates are part of a set... maybe have one thats been opened.

And my wife laughed at me when I said we should buy a 3d printer. Noooooooo she said

Very cool stuff man, I wish you guys the best of luck

very nice!

Super feedback guy, thanks!!

Another day in front of the pc then! I think tonight's plan is to update the site with some of the things we can make, such as the fleur de lys and a few other base types.

Untill next time!

Hey all

We've just had a big photo session to get some new stuff on the website, including a bunch of new designs that we've (well, mostly Ed ) been working on. Up to now most of the designs have been aimed at fans of large shoulder pads, now we're looking to broaden our horizons a little. We're doing a big update of the site at the moment, adding a few new pages and features, particularly on the commission side of things. We're trying to standardise ordering custom bases and tank hatches to make paying for and keeping track of things a bit easier, as up to now we've been using a separate invoicing programme for custom orders that's a bit clunky. There's also a new page showing some of the different types of acrylic we can use.

We'll update this page over the rest of the week as there's a lot going up, but for now here's some pics!

Harry and Ed

Sexy bases Warmill Really loving the mirrored ones especially!

The alien gunsight bases... Is it just me, but I keep looking at a couple of them and thinking "smiley face!"

Sisters bases look excellent, the details are astounding!

You guys never seem to run out of ideas. It's always fun to catch up on this thread. One can never have too much sexy awesomeness...

Finally started the project I ordered my bases for

I hope to advertise you well in my thread

So much awesome, so little time!
Are you considering doing any fantasy themed things?

Busy day today - between playing allot of Forged Commander on the PC I got around to having a near complete fencing set / gate house type thingy!

The base of the fences would be cast resin, the fences would be Lasered MDF, with little clippy MDF barbed wire attachments!

The gate can be removed for scenarios etc

There are 5 types of fencing, will upload more later!

Thoughts PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

Ed

Ohhh I like that man, what's the spacing vs thickness of the fence? I'd guess 3mm is probably the thinnest you'd go right? how about a double layer diagonal cuts then a spacer and opposite diagonal cuts?

Very cool!!! Dig the fences

Duude, I don't need you bringing out more cool stuff, I simply don't have the space!

I absolutley love it! It looks like a penitentiary from the future, let's see the other pics!

Wow. That is sexy.

Do you have any Dark Eldar themed bases?

That's a very nice looking fence.

You guys should make some kinda flying base for holding skimmers and such.

Thanks for the feedback, not much criticism though, I'm sure you can do better than that!!

I think we're going to bring out a zombie survival game!

We are in the process of drawing up dark fallen eldric space elf pointy ears, same goes for flying stands. We could cut a hole In the bases we currently offer, and you can use the supplied rod that comes with your models.

That, or we colder design the rod element and replace it with something much cooler indeed!!

Any ideas??

Added pics of the fence sections -

Admittedly some are more suited to Infinity, but a couple wouldn't look to out of place in an imperial city / penal colony style affair

Nice! Liking the top fence the most. Seeing the fence sections makes me want to watch The Great Escape again

Speaking of which, some lookout towers complete with searchlights could be your next move, perhaps along the lines as the fortress towers but a little slimmer?

Would it be possible to somehow create a fence style that you could slot wire through instead of the horzontal bars in the first pic? I know it would be hard to come up with the design as you are only working in 2D but judging by your previous work, you could find a way!

As for the flying stands, have you considered creating a broken piece of masonry, cities of death style that could fit into the base and also the craft above it? Granted it would not fit in with the clean style your bases have as a pose to rubble infested streets, perhaps a gothic style 'sticky uppy bit' would be more in line with the bases?

Anyway, some food for thought and praise for you!

Whew, spent longer than I thought writing that!

Keep it up,

Cain

Thats great cain, thanks for taking the time to write that up.....

It wold be doable to cut holes in the 'v' sections - as the orientation of the cut is on the face of the 'v' - so holes would be no problem and a great solution!

Skinny watchtowers sound good and thanks for pointing out a movie to watch as reference! I guess it really needs context as to who / what in terms of games systems and scenarios will use the terrain for further development, and additional terrain types we can include into the terrain piece.

Just done a quick Google image search for cities of death, and it certainly has that grim dark feel we all know and love! I think the Gothic ' sticky up bit' is something we could work on

An initial thought I had was to have quite decorative stands, such as half an Aquila, a chaos star coming out the ground (do chaos even have fliers?!) Ooorrrrr......Ork gliffs / axes, a dark pointy eared elf symbol etc...maybe a picture is needed


Thanks Again,

Ed

WarMill wrote:
An initial thought I had was to have quite decorative stands, such as half an Aquila, a chaos star coming out the ground (do chaos even have fliers?!) Ooorrrrr......Ork gliffs / axes, a dark pointy eared elf symbol etc...maybe a picture is needed

Sounds good! Not sure if chaos have any fliers besides the huge FW ships, however, the flying stands would also be great for jump pack infantry!

You could put a double or tripple scribe on the back of the fence support that would cut into the surface enough to place a sting or wire (possibly fishing wire through it) What do you think?

While the first and last pic looks cool, I'm not sold on that 50/50 fence/wall section. It would probably look better with more wall and less railing. I think a 75/15 ratio should do it.

Saturday i got the bases btw. They're awesome. Now I have to deside in which color I'll paint them.


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For Infinity I would suggest this kind of fence instead of the one with the closed/filled out hexagons:

I have looked at them again and I think the second is my favorite and I would deffinatly second the call for guard/watch towers. Have you played around with a diamond grid pattern like a really thik chain link fence?


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just like the one above but diamons not hexagons... Although the hexagons do look cool.

mullet_steve wrote:
just like the one above but diamons not hexagons.

Heresy! I'll just quote the ones who should know:

WarMill wrote:
Hexagon bases, because in the future, hexagons!

BigHead wrote:

mullet_steve wrote:
just like the one above but diamons not hexagons.

Heresy! I'll just quote the ones who should know:

WarMill wrote:
Hexagon bases, because in the future, hexagons!

fair point

@warmill
How tall is the fence anyway? 7cm?

currently they stand at 100mm high - so yeah, pretty tall.....gotta keep those zombies out!

my concern, having not cut one out yet is that they are already to detailed and will take forever to cut - making them not as cheap as we'd all like.

hexagons might take forever and a day to cut out - I could draft one just for the sake of argument - i'll hazard a guess already and say it would look cool - just might not be effective in the making.