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Yeah trying to get pictures that show off the detail is not easy with a phone camera I quite fancy doing a word bearers squad in a rhino covered in text as a little personal project.

Daymmmm, custom-cut bitz, how come I didn't discover this thread sooner. ^^

I don't seem to find it on the site directly, but I'm curious. How much would doors with that level of detail come or does the LOD not matter? Do you work with templates or 3D files?

You can get an idea of prices here. The level of detail doesn't make any difference as such, what matters is how many levels of engraving are needed. We can either use a greyscale image, which is what we used for the doors up there, or set several layers of engraving to build up a more 3D image which is what we used for the Wild Bunch doors a bit higher up. The greyscale method is quick and easy, uses one engraving pass and can work really nicely if the source image is good but doesn't give as much control over depths of engraving, so it varies. The cog hatch here used 5 (I think) levels of engraving so was a 'platinum' (ie give us more monies!) design, but has text, hinges, cogs, rivets and door frames all at different depths and is really 3D, so was more expensive.

The categories on the website aren't specifically for Rhinos and Land Raiders (there's gotta be more tanks out there than those right? ) but as a rough guide a small hatch is a side door, a large hatch is a top hatch on a Rhino, a rear hatch is a rear hatch on a Rhino, and a glyph plate would be a standalone icon that would roughly fill the front plate of a Rhino.

Hope that helps! The page is still a bit of a WIP but we'll refine it over time.

Blood for the blood god indeed lol they are really nice, I'll post some pics of them on my Rhinos when I get them painted which wont be too long.

Awesome I got them cut tonight I'll get them in the post tomorrow after work, you should get them Saturday I would think

Cool thanks.

If you shine a light (LED) through the khorne top hatch does the image still show ok/light up?

Just thinking of ideas for a Tzeentch rhino for my Thousand Sons.

Just tried it and yes the engraved parts shine very nicely! I primed the painted ones with black and grey and the glow still shows through the gaps. We'll get a pic upon here shortly.

A distinct lack of LEDs in Ed's conservatory but you get the idea

Cheers guys that's very cool, now I need to find out how to use LED's and I'll be back in touch with some more designs for ya.

Good god man! this is amazing!!!! How much does a commision for these run?


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God I want a megafortress. What is the status on added levels?

Thanks they did come out rather nice Commission cost is based on how much work is needed to create the artwork to be cut. For £25 we'll take an idea and create the 2D artwork from scratch which can be engraved on doors, bases, or whatever we can work out, but if you can provide us with a suitable image or data it'll just be the cost of the items to be engraved. Best thing to do is email us at admin@warmill.co.uk with details of what you're after and we can work out what the cost would be from there.

The wall upgrade pack'll be along very soon, we're just sorting the upgrade parts for the heavy weapon towers and we'll set them up on the website with a pre-order bonus.

Cheers for the info mate. That's definitely worth the cash. next vehicle project I do... nomnomnom!

Love the chaos and cog hatches... nice work!

Been working on a few more commissions, including an epic set of pre-heresy bases that I hope to get some pictures of soon once they're in the customer's hands, a sample for a set of custom mirror bases and a sample custom flying stand for Eldar grav tanks.

Nice artwork.

If you mean the avatar that's an ooooold piece of artwork from GW. Thank google for that one. The data for the technosphere base came from the client, the only one we had any hand in is the Death Guard one at the top.

Here's a set of the Rhino doors and top hatch I received from the Warmill guys yesterday, they are very nice indeed.



If you're interested in seeing one of the Rhinos they go on check out my chaos blog below

Those flight stands look pretty damn cool

Shame I have sold all my Eldar

We've been working away this evening, I've been working on a building to go in the middle of the fort and Ed's been busy drafting up a missile silo that'd be perfect for a mission objective. Here's a pic of the building concept, pics of the missile silo to follow

a nice top plate for that and you have your missile silo surely?
Excelent work as usual.

Some great looking stuff as usual! The bases look very cool, especially the mirrored ones!

You know what I am thinking would look good inside that building? A meeting area, you know, chairs, techy style table and maybe a large holo display of some sorts, though you would need to design a roof to go along with it.

Cain

Yeahthat's the general idea, computers around the walls with a big desk in the middle. There will be a roof with a smaller control tower I just hid it them for the picture as they're still in basic block form

Well, you know what they say, great minds think alike!

Well the heavy weapon tower upgrade pack's done, which means we're ready to start sorting out laser files, get parts cut and painted, take photos etc ready to get the set up on the website. We'll be doing a pre-order bonus as when we launched the first parts, we just haven't worked out what it'll be yet

Here's some pics of the raw parts put on the painted fortress to show what makes up the upgrade parts. The upgrade kit makes the wall approximately twice the height, with a walkway around the entire wall and a set of firing slits / crenellations for the top soldiers to fire from. There is a frame for a set of stairs and a set of ladder parts that can be detached from the straight sections and put on whichever one you want. The upgrade parts are constructed separately from the barricade and simply slide over the original barricade parts, so it's pretty easy to take them apart in-game if you wanted to use rules for destroying buildings. Everything fits together so that walls can be arranged however the player wants, with the ability to make really twisting city walls with lots of towers, or simple compounds full of crates. Better pics will follow soon, along with price details, etc.

What cunning uses of those parts you have Warmill!

Really like what you have done with the tower extensions, my only problem with them is that guys could not cross from one side of the tower to the other as the wall gets in the way, however, I can see me making some rope ladders to go from the walkway to the ground so that they can be pulled up if the wall is breached which would solve the problem for myself.

I think you have got yourself a really good set with this newest addition, I hope it sells well so that you can move onto more awesome projects!


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Oh, forgot to mention, what do the extended walls look like when put up against the gatehouse? iirc, they are the same height as the towers so they should match well with this set am I right?


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And yet another thing. If you do not know what to do for the pre order bonus, I really enjoyed the free bases that came with my order, either that or you could throw together couple of small barricade/tank trap whatnots along the same lines as your sample packs!

Good point! It's only an issue if you have a corner between two towers, so we'll draw up a small corner segment sized ladder piece and squeeze it on the ladder frame

Glad you liked the bases, some sort of limited edition extra bits could be pretty cool, we'll have to have a think about it

Love the wall extension, and the stairs are nice.

Not a fan of the ladder, though. The overhang at the top would make it really hard to actually climb up there. If you need the overhand for stability, I would recommend adding a hatchway at the top of each ladder, so the climbers would be climbing up the inside between the two ladders, rather than on the outside of the platform.

If that didn't make any sense, I'll whip up a mock-up of what I mean when I get home...

Yeah I know what you're saying with the overhang, in this case it was for strength, looking at it we can put a cut out into the middle of the overhang, I think this would workbetter than a hatch as you'd have troops trying to climb up back to back then squeeze through at the same time. It'd also save having to widen the platform to give them room to stand once they'd climbed through. You could also just use stair parts if you prefer, giving the player the choice is something we're very keen on.

Any other suggestions are appreciated, it all leads to a better product in the end!

These are PERFECT!!!!! So many uses and variable ideas that can be combined!

Come on lottery win...