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Archon SF necromancer from their upcoming wargame in grey, GW primeris in blue

I picked this sprue from Archon (Prodos) at the UK games expo, it's apparently been sculpted, cut and the mould/sprue designed and cut (one of the most critical bits, even if your 3d sculptor is talented, and can cut their models for resin/metal production cutting for spued plastic is fairly different) in house in Poland (note they don't talk about the actual plastic production so from the sound of it you have to have contact with a factory with an appropriate machine to do casts, but they may well introduce you to whoever they're using?)

my impression of the sprue is good, it's well laid out, attatchment points are decent, mould lines look fine, it's maybe not quite as sharp as the GW one when you get down to the small details but its pretty marginal and could be down the sculpting (more true scale looking at the hands) just as much as the tooling


photos of the leaflet they handed out talking about this, spoilered for size

Now while i'm not the greatest fan of Prodos/Archon because of the AvP debacle they're technically competent and clearly are making decent metal tools for sprue production and having another firm that's not out in the far east is a good thing

Do I believe they'll be able to handle things on the timescale they talk about, I doubt

(for example their Unicast resin stuff works well, but a number of KS projects discussed using it and ended up talking other routes as they couldn't deliver on the timescales originally mentioned, Gangfight games for one if I remember right),

but certainly worth talking to them, the waiting lists to get stuff done in china is getting longer (not to mention tariffs if your in the USA), Renendra seems as busy as ever with very long waits to get a tool made, let alone a selection

Huh. Impressive. I wouldn't Kickstart any project using them for fulfillment, but if something shows up at retail, I'd give it a shot.

I built him up already. There should be video on youtube if anyone wants to see. I'd post it myself but I have no mouse for this computer and I hate using Japanese keyboards. Too tiny!

Anyway I wasn't super happy about some of the contact points on the arms. They went together weird, especially the arm with the staff. You have 3 separate parts all competing for surface space in a very limited location made for some sloppy gluing shenanigans.
Otherwise Orlando is pretty spot on, and that's their very first try at it. There are sprues of space vampires for their Starcide game floating out there in the wild as well...

They've also had videos showing the machines producing the sprues in the rampart updates, and as far as I know, even those are in house.

If you want a closer look at the Legion of the Black Sun vampire space marines they've done in injection moulded polystyrene my youtube review here:

I am all in on their plastic aztec ruins kickstarter. Very happy with communication, we practically saw them setting up their tool cutting and injection molding factory. In my mind they've gone from "never touch" as a company to "back their next KS before they deliver the first one".