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Decorative Stands for fliers is an interesting idea. Cool. WOuld be interested to see what that might look like. I suppose I was just imagining something more like your current bases, but then with different colored rods holding the unit up.

That or something like flames, a wind stream, smoke, dust, etc being pushed under the flying model..

Then what is more effective/affordable, a pure wall section or a pure "railing" section? I'll just assume that a wall is more effective (cuz it's kinda less detailed ).
Thanks to my uber skill in PAINT, I was able to do this:

Or just a slot at the right height for someone to shoot through without showing to much of themselves to be shot at? although I can see why multiple slots might be usefull as some units have different heights like wraithguard/ dreadnoughts excetera

personally I think the wire idea would be awesome.

I like the 3rd fence best with the Hexaganol plates, some cool spots for iconography or posters

How much cool stuff in the last few posts!


I'll draft up some walls based from what you drew big head, and go from there...

Hopefully tomorrow i'll be able to have some prototypes made

Hey all

We've been busy this week getting some stuff together to send out to a couple of tournaments in New York that are on next month, Da Boyz GT and Battle for Salvation. We've made sample packs that can be given to all the players that include a free jewel base and a little MDF terrain nik-nak, if anyone has any ideas for something they'd like to see in the pack, bearing in mind we want to keep it to the size of a business card, let us know and we'll look at it for future tournaments .

Ed's going to work on some flying stands this weekend, I'm determined to get back on to the wall upgrade pack as it's sooo close to being ready, it's just a matter of tidying up the corner sections and finalising the stairs / ladders, then doing all the associated graphics / instructions etc.

I've also been drafting up a concept futuristic building to go with Ed's fence / checkpoint, the idea is people would customise their houses to what they needed / could afford by choosing combinations of lobby units and housing units and could add new pods as their needs changed. For Infinity, if Microart's building was the city centre tower block this one would be more of a pleasant suburb style of living Still some way off being ready to show anything physical but it gives an idea of where it's going at this stage.

As always, comments / suggestions welcomed

Harry

Looking good there guys. I like the pods. I'd like to see a two and or three sotry version aswell.

The sample thing- How about a road sign with stand, maybe do a heavy scribe of "stop" or "orks you have been warned"

Looking amazing as usual

mullet_steve wrote:Looking good there guys. I like the pods. I'd like to see a two and or three sotry version aswell.

The sample thing- How about a road sign with stand, maybe do a heavy scribe of "stop" or "orks you have been warned"

Ooh that's a good idea, a little bit of coincidental scenery. Consider it stolen for later use

Hi Warmill,

Do you have some adeptus mechanicus range of bases or icons of the mechanicus accessories? bits of bionics, stuff like that?

Been searching for a long time of those, since I'm a huge fan of the adeptus

I like the look of the Infinity buildings. I am starting to introduce the game at my local shop and I'll definitely be getting some of your terrain to make the board look better. I'd also like to see some space ship interior pieces as we will be building a table to play Space Hulk/ boarding action games.

Additional question Warmill, whats the pricing+shipping if you happen to have the adeptus stuff I asked earlier?

We don't have bionics but we do have assorted cogs and mechanicus-y data drawn up from a commission that never went through ages ago, we could get some bases drafted up very quickly, and cut out some cogs and stuff to stick on tanks or whatever if you wanted. Prices for bases can be found here, shipping worldwide is pretty cheap, you'd be looking at a few quid GBP. We shipped 45 bases to germany and it was £2.50 postage.

I seem to remember seeing some street lights etc earlier - are they still going ahead? I think you should be able to make some pretty cool gas lantern style steam-punky street lights using cross section style assembly...

And have you thought about barbed/razor wire stands? Both the tradition "X" shape, and others as well? (pole, multiple height "XX - etc" shapes? - whist these are reasonably easy to make, some simple shapes with scribed/etched detailing might be attractive to many.

Got my selection yesterday, postman decided that because he couldn't deliver one parcel from GW, he'd not deliver any of the packets that COULD fit in the letterbox...

Anyway, I really dig these, but I can't help but feel they seem a bit naked straight out, I felt like they could do with having a rim/edge of some sort;

Would you be able to do bases at a size able to fit in the edged display bases, like those that are used in Malifaux? I believe they are about 23mm internal circumference. Going to experiment a bit with painting the underside or rims to see how they come out. I've net yet considered how I'd base my seraphim =X

We can engrave a border around the edge but yeah, we'll get along to our local gaming club and measure up a base to have a look at.

To anyone who went to games day this weekend, we cut the base plate for the silver-winning warhammer regiment, the 5 boar boys . Admittedly a rectangle with 5 rectangles cut out isn't particularly exciting but still, warmill at games day!

Hey warmill I had a thought if you want I would be interested in designing some more vehicles that you could put up as kits? If the idea interests you, you can drop me a PM?

I must say, those are some beautiful bases!

I'm curious if you could possibly make engraved flying stands, possibly for battlefleet gothic ships. I would love a fleet of IN/Chaos ships with their names engraved on bases.

Either way, some great work here and I'll likely be buying some stuff from you in the future.

Hi all

Time for an update! We cut and printed a prototype for Ed's security fence and checkpoint, we're going to be cleaning up the bases for the fence panels this week and look at making some moulds ready for casting. Once we've got some samples made we can work out prices, options etc. We'll get some pics up once we've got some casts made to show how the fences could be used alone or with the barricade system. He's also been drafting up some bases that would be nice for Dark Eldar armies though it's early days on those.

I've been carrying on with the wall upgrade pack, just refining the design and adding some engraved detail. The only thing left to make are the parts for the heavy weapon tower and it's good to go. Then it's just painting some up, taking photos, making instructions, making graphics, etc etc We'll be doing another pre-order bonus for the launch of the fences and wall upgrade as well so stay tuned for that!

Here's the Golden Daemon entry that my friend did and won silver for that I mentioned the other day. He brought them in to work the day after and one of the girls promptly snapped the empire guy held by the ork on the right off luckily it had been pinned on so no lasting damage done, but the look on her face was priceless Our contribution was the base plate in the picture frame that the bases sit in. He also had a Custodes army in the armies on parade contest that we cut a bunch of plates with holes in for him to put in the baseboard.

We've been testing a way to standardise ordering custom bases and tank hatches on the website, it's worked pretty well so we'll look at rolling it out into other types of custom job as we get an idea of what we're repeatedly asked for. It just saves the hassle of using a separate invoicing programme and generally makes things neater.

@Blacksails If you're looking for BFG stuff it'll be pretty straightforward to do engraved bases with a hole cut out for the standard GW flight stand peg to fit in. Flying stands are something that have come up a few times and we should really pull our fingers out and get them sorted, but in the meantime you can email us at admin@warmill.co.uk or contact us through our webstore contact page and we can talk about what you're looking for.

@mullet_steve we noticed that there was someone interested in your bomma kit (you may not see us in your thread but we're always there... ) Ed's been struck down with the man flu this weekend but we'll send you an email in the next couple of days once we've had a chance to get together.

Here's some snapshots of the upgrade kit until we can get some of the fences.
Cheers all
Harry

Hi guys have you thought about doing some old school APC doors, the round ones. Thats if you could make them to fit in a square hole lol

Those walls look amazing - can't believe all the new bits you have added in. Really fantastic.

Really looking forward to if you ever decide to make trench sections

Ah - hah - hah - haaaah way ahead of you! If you look closely at the barricade, it wouldn't take much to make it suitable for embedding in a gaming table would it? Maybe just a couple of pieces to add to the back? And perhaps that V-plate makes a good murder ditch that could be filled with all sorts of mines and barbed wire and stuff?

WarMill wrote:Ah - hah - hah - haaaah way ahead of you! If you look closely at the barricade, it wouldn't take much to make it suitable for embedding in a gaming table would it? Maybe just a couple of pieces to add to the back? And perhaps that V-plate makes a good murder ditch that could be filled with all sorts of mines and barbed wire and stuff?

excelent graphics there man.

'looks around room to see if he can fit in more Warmill fortress' Well, I guess the bed will have to go, they say sleeping on the floor is good for you anyway...

I would not mind picking up some inner corners and maybe some more bits when I have finished painting the stuff I have atm, just looking at the first computer generated image (the one with all fortress extensions and the steps) makes me want to do the same with my own!

Checkpoint looks mighty fine, looking forward to seeing the rest of the complex!

mullet_steve wrote:

WarMill wrote:Ah - hah - hah - haaaah way ahead of you! If you look closely at the barricade, it wouldn't take much to make it suitable for embedding in a gaming table would it? Maybe just a couple of pieces to add to the back? And perhaps that V-plate makes a good murder ditch that could be filled with all sorts of mines and barbed wire and stuff?

excelent graphics there man.

Yes, that is indeed a very artfully drawn stickman

Yeah it's gonna be the cover art for our new StickTrench TM range

hey warmill are you guys any good with 3d modeling I have a couple of bits that completely escape how to build them in my pathetic little brian

WarMill wrote:Ah - hah - hah - haaaah way ahead of you! If you look closely at the barricade, it wouldn't take much to make it suitable for embedding in a gaming table would it? Maybe just a couple of pieces to add to the back? And perhaps that V-plate makes a good murder ditch that could be filled with all sorts of mines and barbed wire and stuff?

Oh dear

(though the basic idea isn't too bad I was thinking about actual trench pieces )

An addon pack to the barricade to make it suitable for burying will probably be more likely in the near future than trenches designed from scratch, there's just too many projects we want to do and not enough time to do them!

We've done quite a few commissions over the past few months but haven't really shown that much of them off, but I just cut some samples for a job and really wanted to show them off to show people the kind of thing we do. This is a set of Rhino doors for a fellow dakkaite and follower of the blood god, Ed's got a berzerker army from the old days so maybe we could update them a little in the future.

Harry

Wow! They look great, I may have to order some for myself when I start my Thousand Sons army (with the suitable icons or course)

I had no idea you could get such intricate details on the acrylic, the skulls are very impressive.