The Ongoing Mierce Miniatures Darklands New & Rumors Thread

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**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Warp Spasm!

**Alpharius**

Infernii Shieldwall Scecchus:

**zedmeister**

Well, he'll appear quite soon!

**veyron44**

**Alpharius**

That Zhull...so awesome!

I really like how 'demonic' mutation and weapons are modeled in the Darklands universe - suitable creepy and powerful looking!

**veyron44**

A strictly limited edition miniature

**zedmeister**

More Jutes!

**Alpharius**

Mierce Miniatures 14-time Creator about 1 hour ago

At £27,500, Reiver Hunter Horse...

And Rob has noted that this will be the last Mierce Darklands Kickstarter 'for a while' - not sure exactly what that means, but with the pound at a low point, this is a good time to get some (a lot?) of Darklands stuff!

**RoninXiC**

In for 10pounds and the updates... still waiting for quite some stuff from earlier KS.

**Alpharius**

Well that was fast!

Update #16

Oct 11 2016
£27,500 - Fomoraic Reiver Hunter Horse Starter Host

Incredibly, we're nearly at £22,500 already... it seems the Jutes are popular. Who knew? To push even further, set your sights on the Fomoraic Reiver Hunter Horse Starter Host at £27,500!

The Reiver Hunter Horse are based upon the Reiver Hunters on foot, of course, simply being the same warriors riding reiver horses. Armed with axes, bows and wearing light armour, the Reiver Hunters are great at harassing the enemy.

Increase your pledge by £100 ($130) to purchase the Reiver Hunter Horse Mounted Starter Host in metal or £140 ($185) to purchase the Reiver Hunter Horse Mounted Starter Host in resin.

**Jehan-reznor**

veyron44 wrote:

Spoiler:

That would be perfect for a greater deamon

**zedmeister**

Blimey, we're flying. Nearing £30k now and a raft of new goals:

**Alpharius**

You forgot about:

Update #19

Oct 12 2016
£28,750 - Hooded Ætulla, Wiglāca on Horse

With stretch goals smashed aplenty ahead, here's something a little closer to the current total to aim for - the strictly limited edition Hooded Ætulla, set at £28,750 to unlock!

Ætulla is a Wiglāca, a battle-waker, a sorcerer of the Jutes who can now ride into battle upon a horse to keep up with friendly units in need of his barrow lantern.

STRICTLY LIMITED EDITION

Hooded Ætulla is a strictly limited edition and only 250 of him will ever be produced in resin and metal (so 250 of each type). He will be presented in a numbered blister pack and will only be available for a short time after this project ends and only to backers of this project.

We reserve the right to sell Hooded Ætulla at shows or events, if we have any left out of the 250, but he'll never be released on our webstore or to the general public.

The Jutes seem to have quickly become one of the most popular Kindreds...

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Apparently there won't be a Kickstarter for 'new Darklands content' until around this time 2017.

There will probably be campaigns to fund starter sets and other 'new gamer friendly' stuff before then though.

And, sadly, it looks as if we just missed this one:

So, £70,450 between the two parts here, and a whole lot of fantastic new miniatures - get into it!

**zedmeister**

Updates!

Mostly Alternates

It's been a little while since the last update here, but our sculptors have been working away feverishly behind the scenes to bring us lots of Cool Stuff, mostly in the shape of alternates as 90% of what's left on this project are of that ilk!

Let us begin!

We've stuff for the Brythoniaid and the Infernii courtesy of Roberto Chaudon, stuff for the the Ysians thanks to Andrew May, and a Sell-Sword from Yannick Hennebo this week!

The lovely Angedern has been worked on very nicely by Roberto Chaudon to become Dragonshield Angedern - he's now got a dragon skull for a shield and he's also got a one-handed cleaver!

Dragonshield Angedern should be a Wave 15 shipment.

Gannwg is the alternate warrior version of the Fireborn banner bearer, Naegannwg, and thanks to Roberto Chaudon he's looking spiffing!

Gannwg will be a Wave 15 shipment.

Also from Roberto Chaudon this week is Ubal, the alternate warrior version of the unit's banner bearer, Drubal!

Again, Ubal will be a Wave 15 shipment

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They've been a while in coming but Andrew May is cracking on with the Brutes of Hedroc, the Armoured Brute Unit... which should really be called the "Armoured Brutes with Double-Handed Weapons Unit", but that's a bit too much of a mouthful, even for us!

Gulguta is the unit's champion, and as Armoured Gulguta he gets a massive great axe-cleaver thing that looks rather nasty, and no mistake.

Armoured Gulguta - and we do think the rest of the unit - should be a Wave 15 shipment!

Ahhh, lovely. Yannick Hennebo has begun work on Sáthach on Horse, with the horse just about done and Sáthach herself next on the list...

Sáthach on Horse should be a Wave 15 shipment, we hope!

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Metal age!

Erebius and the Gesith Host

Another update for Metal Age, and it's a cracking one thanks to the first pictures of the metal Gesith!

Let's go!

Again it's just the one miniature to show this week - from Yannick Hennebo - but it's very welcome as it means we can now get the Demilegionarius Host into metal!

Yannick Hennebo has completed the bits necessary to turn Erebius on Behema into Erebius on Foot! This guy goes into the Demilegionarius Host, of course, and is the final remaining piece for that host to be put into metal.

Here's what he'll look like in the flesh...

Erebius, and the Demilegionarius Host, should be a Wave 15 shipment.

We've just received the first samples of the Anglecynn Gesith Starter Host this week, and they're looking superb. They've been passed to production with minor changes!

Gesith, Werwulfas, Penda, Æthelglyth and Wulfhere!

The Gesith Unit in full

The Werwulfas!

The Gesith Host will be a Wave 14/15 shipment, sort of inbetween those waves; we should get the production casts in November and so they'll be sent before Christmas, hopefully!

Twelve Infantry Hosts have shipped / are shipping!

Twelve infantry hosts from this project have been shipped - the Albainn Gairlom, Anglecynn Duguth, Brythoniaid Teulu, Brythoniaid Rhyfelwr, Érainn Tuanagh, Fomoraic Gabrax, Fomoraic Warriors of Baalor, Jute Wihtgār, Norse Holumann, Ysian Ax-Drune and Ysian Bow-Drune Infantry Hosts - as well as the individual miniatures within them. The twelfth, the Byzantii Legionarius, are in the process of being shipped now and that should be complete very soon.

If your hosts from this project haven't been shipped by now, that means you either:
[*]don't have enough shipment items to justify separate shipments or you don't have any shipment items at all;[*]or you have some resin miniatures on order which need to be cast.

Note that if you have purchased similar infantry hosts from other projects, such as Savage Hordes or Savage Hordes II, we will only ship what we can (as many of them are different) and they are not guaranteed to have been shipped with your items from this project - and again, it depends on your shipment items.

What's Next?

The production casts of the Anglecynn Gesith Starter Host should be with us in November, at which point we'll get them sent!

The Atalantes Oplites Starter Host is sculpted and printed, and will be sent off to the metal casters next week.

The Byzantii Demilegionarius starter host is now sculpted, although the sculpts remaining (Nervor and Erebius) aren't with us yet; we should receive them shortly and as soon as we do they'll be off to the metal casters.

We're getting there...

**zedmeister**

Some stunning pieces here:

Humans, Goats, Spiders and a Lady

We have some amazing stuff to show you on this fine Mierceday, not least because Yannick Hennebo is back in sparkling form...

Here we go...

We've some absolute cracker-jack miniatures to show you this week, for the Érainn (Valentin Zak), Fomoraic (Michael Anderson, technically), Jutes (Martin Lavat) and Sell-Swords (Yannick Hennebo)...

Valentin's been busy doing various characters for us, leaving just the Men of Ármhach, Maoibhanagh Unit for him from this project... and the wait is definitely worth it. Just look at these guys!

The champion of the unit is Eóghan, and a grizzled warrior he...

Don't call him a slaphead, as a pellet in the eye may hurt.

The first warrior of the unit, is Áine...

...she sets hearts-a-racing down the local welfare, I can tell you.

On the other hand, Sínead looks like she stands for no nonsense...

...except her own, of course!

Conall looks like he's a Newcastle United fan, by his attire...

...although the large belly is missing.

The final member of the unit is Nóra, of the "Bloody Nóra" variety.

The Maiobhanagh, we think, are some of Valentin Zak's finest works... and we can't wait to see how he tackles the Reivers for Savage Hordes III!

They should be a Wave 15 shipment (in resin), although the metal versions may appear a little later than that.

These won't though, as we've got the first samples of Gaalgar's Herd (along with Daachuch the Broken and Warrior Daachuch from Darklands: Savage Hordes II, which we slipped into the same mould) in metal. Rather predictably, they all look bloody amazing!

Gaalgar's Herd, plus Daachuch the Broken and Warrior Daachuch

These guys should be a Wave 14.5 shipment (i.e., November time) - as the samples have been approved for production.

Martin Lavat has found time to get Guliant's Web sorted, and so now you all have three lovely 80mm spiders to shudder at...

Guliant you've seen, of course, back on the original concept...

...a nasty looking creature!

Culgulc gets a repose on the legs and a rearing body...

...but is no less horrific to handle!

The lovely Angol gets himself some new teeth and is ready to strike!

...and yes, don't worry, any miscast leg points will be fixed too.

These guys will make it into Wave 15!

Prepare yourself... because Alix of Carn Bran is absolutely stunning.

Our fantastic Beast-Master sell-sword, able to bring almost any monstrous beast to battle with her to fight for YOUR kindred, is about complete - and we think she's Yannick Hennebo's finest work for us to date!

Alix didn't have any concept art for her rear side, so Yannick did her with a bare bottom before we could tell him what to do. He knows us far too well...

Alix will make it into Wave 15 now, but what a present for the new year...

...we're all going to have a nice lie down now. Ahem.

**RoninXiC**

Alix truely is beautiful... for a Ysian

**zedmeister**

Final update for today:

Humans, Hippos, Corruptors and a Drune

It's Friday! It's update time, yay!

Here we go...

This week we have something for the Brythoniaid thanks to Juan Navarro Pérez, something for the Byzantii thanks to Allan Carrasco and something for the Ysians thanks to Jason Hendricks and Stéphane Simon!

Juan Navarro Pérez has completed work on Hunter Carys, and how lovely she be!

Hunter Carys will be a Wave 15 shipment.

Allan Carrasco has completed work on Flail Onumo and, of course, he looks Bloody Great.

Flail Onumo will be a Wave 15 shipment!

Both Daachuch the Broken and Warrior Daachuch are now in metal, as we slipped them into the Gaalgar's Herd mould!

They will be a Wave 15 shipment of course.

Ahhh, Stéphane... how the Ysians have missed you! Here's the spiky Kerazek, a warlord-level sorcerer for the piratical Drunes...

Kerazek will be a Wave 15 shipment of course.

The Corruptors of Kraozon are getting there with Fuggug and Grung complete, and Udo left to do...

We asked Jason to thicken up and elongate Grung's tongue, and the results are superb...

Grung, and the other Corruptors, should be a Wave 15 shipment we reckon.

**RiTides**

Alpharius wrote:
Apparently there won't be a Kickstarter for 'new Darklands content' until around this time 2017.

There will probably be campaigns to fund starter sets and other 'new gamer friendly' stuff before then though.

So, £70,450 between the two parts here, and a whole lot of fantastic new miniatures - get into it!

That is a really impressive total! I am glad to hear they won't be making new Darklands content for a year as I was getting worried about how many horses they've got to get cracking on

. Starter sets and the like are a great idea!

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

I don't know, gamers are fickle beasts and not being able to buy new content for a year (even if stuff from the KS is still chugging along) might impact those already shopping and playing

I guess they'll have to see how it goes

**zedmeister**

Suppose this post is a bit overdue. Here's the current status of Darklands Kickstarters. Anything not listed below has been sculpted and is either in the process of moulding or being sent out to backers.

I've coloured WIP items in green - the sculpt is either in progress or it is a collection sculpts that form part of unit with some completed.

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World at War: Completed

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First Edition: Completed

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First Edition 2: Completed

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Monstrous Mounts: Completed

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New Kindreds:
Unmasked Velchior - Yannick Hennebo
Total outstanding: 1
New Kindreds full total: 1

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Banebeasts: Completed

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Banebeasts Part Deux: Completed

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Metal Age - Completed

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Savage Hordes
New Sculpts:
Gukkok's Blades (7) - Benoît Cosse
Firekin (3) - Benoît Cosse
Total: 10

Alterations:
Gukk's Javelins (7) - Benoît Cosse
Freemen of Scīrbrōc (7) - Stéphane Camosseto
Sigewulf's Pack (3) - Stéphane Camosseto
Hrafnen Bowmen (7) - Martin Lavat
Storm of Khthon (5) - Martin Lavat
Akontar Eikovra - Unassigned
Total: 30
Full total: 40 + the savage hordes book

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Savage Hordes II
New Sculpts:
Cocneidr Unit (3) - Roberto Chaudon
Cogwyfern Unit (3) - Roberto Chaudon
Scab-Face - Benoît Cosse
Warrior Eikovra - Benoît Cosse
Daghda Lúg - Fancagne Didier
Barking Walvax unit (3) - Yannick Fusier
Thurgis - Jason Hendrix
Grima - Yannick Hennebo
Saairen Maari - Valentin Zak
Saethwr Unit (5) - Yannick Hennebo
Helwr Unit (5) - Yannick Hennebo
Auxilia Unit (5) - Yannick Hennebo
Auxilia Sagittarii (5) - Yannick Hennebo
Gaius Galerius in both forms (2) - Yannick Hennebo
Auxilia Bestiarius unit (3) - Yannick Hennebo
Reiver unit (7) - Valentin Zak
Vulcanus - Yannick Hennebo
Malus - Yannick Hennebo
Sagitta Quintus - Yannick Hennebo
Rowena - Yannick Hennebo
Rogue-Drunes (5) - Martin Lavat
Bow-Annik - Martin Lavat
Hound-Aberrants (2) - Martin Lavat
Medusel - Martin Lavat
Klóstiss - Martin Lavat
Pyrokolossos Unit (3) - Duncan Louca
Toxokolossos Unit (3) - Duncan Louca
Toxotes (5) - Jin Wei
Iliotoxotes Unit (5) - Jin Wei
Baltazar - Jin Wei
Total: 98

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Mighty Monsters
New Sculpts
Athena - Duncan Louca
Selkilias - Bob Płociennik
Beasts of Machairá Peat (5) - Allan Carrasco
Crémharunc - Allan Carrasco
Scuttling Núcranca, Núcranc Unit (3) - Bob Płociennik
Scethæn - Bob Płociennik
Spite of Ýdron, Hydrar Unit (7) - Duncan Louca
Total: 19

Alterations
Oghu Watchers, Armoured Oghurithne Unit (7) - Yannick Fusier
Howling Cnebba - Andrew May/Tim Prow
Kretos Beta - Andrew May/Tim Prow
Shieldwall Dyndraig Unit (6) - Andrew May/Tim Prow
Gahwn - Andrew May/Tim Prow
Murderous Cúlaítar - Andrew May/Tim Prow
Great Axe Krull - Andrew May/Tim Prow
Ammon - Andrew May/Tim Prow
Great Axe Malacant - Andrew May/Tim Prow
Choloch - Andrew May/Tim Prow
Cowering Fiends of Dis (6) - Andrew May/Tim Prow
Trolls of Gunnheim, Great Axe Troll Unit (6) - Allan Carrasco/Andrew May
Tórlakr - Andrew May/Tim Prow
Marzaon, Uthard's Chimera - Andrew May/Tim Prow
Total: 35
Full Total: 54

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Mighty Monsters: Part Deux
New Sculpts:
--- TBA - awaiting first Mierceday update with sculptor list ---
Total: 26

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Savage Hordes III
New Sculpts:
--- TBA - awaiting first Mierceday update with sculptor list ---
Total: 61

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Savage Hordes III: Part Deux
New Sculpts:
--- TBA - awaiting first Mierceday update with sculptor list ---
Total: 47

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Starter Hosts
New Sculpts:
--- TBA - awaiting first Mierceday update with sculptor list ---
Total: 29

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If you spot any mistakes, let me know and I'll update this list.

**Alpharius**

Nice list - thanks!

But...I think you mean MIGHTY MONSTERS and MIGHTY MONSTERS PART DEUX there for two of those?

**zedmeister**

Alpharius wrote:
Nice list - thanks!

But...I think you mean MIGHTY MONSTERS and MIGHTY MONSTERS PART DEUX there for two of those?

Ahem....

**grefven**

Oh lord, if you look at that total of outstanding miniatures. They must be keeping sculptors busy for quite some time to come alright.

**RoninXiC**

40 or so are "minor" alterations of already existing Miniatures. No idea what has been the Problem with those... But swapping weapons Arms and stuff is not THAT much work.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

The problem has apparently been getting sculptors to agree that minor conversions are not a lot of work (unless they are done at the same time as the original sculpting) and so not a lot of money

(and i'd guess top end sculptors with more commissions on offer than time to do them are going to find it more fun to do a full mini rather than a head swap)

so it's been a question of finding sculptors with low enough costs for the work in question, and the skills needed for mierce quality work (and ability to follow the art rather than just using it as inspiration) and time in their schedules to do the stuff

**RoninXiC**

Your basket has items!
beasts of uthard, brute-beast unit (3x warriors w cmd) [resin]
hedroc of carn maen, battle-drune on hound-horse [resin]
ysian horse-ax-drunes mounted starter host [metal] [metal]
total: £254.00

;( I needs them all.

**Alpharius**

Musters have been updated!

Find them, and all the rules, here:

http://mierce-miniatures.com/index.php?act=drm

**GiraffeX**

Thanks Alpharius

**Hbbyaddict**

Does anyone have pictures of the Atalantes they've received?

**zedmeister**

Mine have just been dispatched. I'll post a few piccies when I get them if I remember...