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Thanks for giving us a sneak peek Joel. I personally like the look of the backpack and the new torsos.

Is there any chance of more shields being released in the near future?

These new bits are looking great. They would make some great pre heresy Space Marines.
If only I didn't have so many projects going on now! Still might sneak some stuff anyway as the quality of your stuff just keeps getting better.

Cheers guys!

Zinge, yep, Im really pleased with how the backpack came out, the detail is so crisp! a million times better than I could do by hand!

Candy.man.

Im planning one more shield, a medieval style design similar to this but teched up a bit-

http://www.aceros-de-hispania.com/image/charlesv-shields-gladius/charlesv-shield.jpg

Is there anything in particular you are after?

Flying Poo0, thanks! The plan is to create loads of modular parts for the Steam Lords range, so they can be used in virtually any 28mm setting/game.

My new Vacuum Chamber arrived today, So Im currently conducting lots of experiments!

Cheers,

Joel

You keep getting better and better with these kits! I may wait a little while so as to take advantage of a wide variety of options and then will probably place an order!

I'm really impressed with your designs.

Couple questions.
1. Will you be making a 25mm version of the city ruin broken wire style base?
2. Do you plan to produce your interpretation of any other races? I'd love to see your take on elves in space.

Cheers guys!

@Commander Cain, I freely admit Ive got plenty to learn about sculpting, and plan to continuously improve the quality of my offering..

Ive got big plans for expanding the Steam Lord options available, Im hoping to "finish" the range in the next 3 months in preparation for attendance at Salute 2012, so stay tuned!

@Rented Tritium.
1. Do you mean a 25mm version of the 60mm "Wires" base? I didnt plan on doing so.. But I am remaking the molds for those bases in the next week so I could sneak a new one in..
The wire cable cover on the large base is 25mm wide by itself.. so so you mean the same concept but smaller scale? or something else? let me know and Ill make it for you!

2. My miniatures are drawn entirely from historical sources with a "sci-fi" twist", and are original work.
Im finishing the Steam Lords, then moving on to regular human infantry models. After that I dont know.

At the moment all my time is focused on getting a "core" model range out and the company off the ground running..
In a year or so I hope to have time for "fun" projects which will be awesome to work on but not necessarily have mass market appeal.

Joel

Anvils hammer wrote:Cheers guys! Candy.man.

Im planning one more shield, a medieval style design similar to this but teched up a bit-

http://www.aceros-de-hispania.com/image/charlesv-shields-gladius/charlesv-shield.jpg

Is there anything in particular you are after?

Thanks for your reply.

You’ve mentioned the medieval shields in the past and I was double checking that they were still in the works (as I wanted to buy some).

The only other that I was interested in (that has been mentioned in the past) was the officer weapons sprue (single sprue containing ornate versions of the sword and spear).

Lastly I think its good you’re aiming to complete the core Steamlord range sometime this year. As someone who is building an army using primarily “Steamlord bits”, I’ve had to delay a lot of my purchases (made a big order during Christmas but plan to make a follow up order when more stuff comes in).

Anvils hammer wrote:
@Rented Tritium.
1. Do you mean a 25mm version of the 60mm "Wires" base? I didnt plan on doing so.. But I am remaking the molds for those bases in the next week so I could sneak a new one in..
The wire cable cover on the large base is 25mm wide by itself.. so so you mean the same concept but smaller scale? or something else? let me know and Ill make it for you!

Same style, not actually the exact same thing. You have a 60mm and a 40mm that look like they're in the same type of terrain, but there isn't a 25mm that fits the same aesthetic.

I know you're backing off bases for a while to catch up on steam lords, that's cool, but when you get back to bases, if you make a 25mm that matches the 60 and 40 wires/meta/factory looking base, I'll definitely be interested in getting an army worth of them.

Rented Tritium wrote:
I know you're backing off bases for a while to catch up on steam lords, that's cool, but when you get back to bases, if you make a 25mm that matches the 60 and 40 wires/meta/factory looking base, I'll definitely be interested in getting an army worth of them.

hang on.. do you mean these?-



The "forge ruins" series contains two 60mm, 5 40mm, 3 cavalry and 10 25mm.. Im soon going to add the 120mm Oval base.. I thought you meant a smaller copy of the big base but if you mean a set of bases in that style they already exist!

The 25mm bases will be redone this week. The other sizes in February.

@Candy.man.

Thanks! yes I remember we discussed the Officer upgrade sprue. Its somthing I want to do but I want to get the "core" weapons including the upcoming assault rifles done asap, then can think about command stuff!

Cheers!

Joel

Oh excellent, I must have missed that. Will be buying some then!

Just ordered some "Winged Beakies" for my new WIP Raven Guard, looking forward to getting my hands on them, will make great heads for Sgts etc..

This is looking really good. I saw your stuff on eBay a while back, followed the link to your website, etc., and mentally filed it away as a "maybe" depending on future projects. Great to see you working with Zinge -- he makes high quality kit too.

What I personally would love to see are some slightly smaller power armoured type minis, ideally still in Spartan style. I'd use them for power-armoured Inquisitors, power-armoured Warrior Henchmen, etc., just because ordinary humans (especially S3 T3 humans) should be a bit smaller than Space Marines.

azreal13 wrote:Just ordered some "Winged Beakies" for my new WIP Raven Guard, looking forward to getting my hands on them, will make great heads for Sgts etc..

they are "winging" their way to you as we speak.. *ahem*

@Rented Tritium, glad to be of assistance! Ill announce here when they are available again.

@Ian Sturrock, thanks! I saw Kit's (Zinge) stuff and thought.. I wonder if he could design a few bits and peices for me.. and he can.. its awesome because I have no CAD skill what so ever!

Smaller armoured minis is a possibility, after the Steam Lords, Im going to do a whole range of normal human sized infantry in various styles, all fully modular, and the range will definatly have some powered/exo armour suits in there..

AH

insaniak wrote:
I should point out though that the gigantic pictures aren't doing you any favours. There's no real need to show those heads 100 times bigger than actual size... it makes them look very rough, and shows off flaws in the surface and/or painting that would otherwise be negligible, which gives people an exaggerated negative view of the quality of your product.

Just to reiterate this post, I had seen these before, and had dismissed them as poor quality casts (not that I had much use for them at the time)

A new army means I'm on the look out for new bits, and I decided to take a punt as a few helmets is not a fortune if they're not right. Very glad I did, they arrived this morning (quick delivery) and they really look the part, if anyone has looked at these but been put off by the pics, I urge you give them a try, they are immeasurably better IRL, and not expensive either!

Thank you very much!! I hope you will post some photos at some point

As a result of your pricing feedback, I will be increasing my prices by an arbitrary 20% every year! (the joke would be funnier were it not the actual policy of everyones favorite larger company)

Apologies to everyone who's waiting for assault rifles, medieval parts, gaming bases, etc etc..

I am trying my hardest to get new parts completed, and the new production molds done, as quickly as possible, but as its just me and I only have so many hours in the day, I have a pretty serious "new releases" back log.

Thanks for your patience!

Joel

Can't wait for the new bits! Still trying to figure out ways to fit these guys into my army!

I gotta say this looks rediculosly awesome as f**k!
Im differently gonna buy some of your stuff! It all looks really great. Great detail and nice actual bits
And also the price... Insane! I can really see you sell alot of this stuff. If not then people are stupid

To give any kind of critisim is that the paint jobs on the minis simply dont do the stuff justice. If they were painted as good as GWs(for example) they would look even better.

Anvils hammer wrote:Smaller armoured minis is a possibility, after the Steam Lords, Im going to do a whole range of normal human sized infantry in various styles, all fully modular, and the range will definatly have some powered/exo armour suits in there..

Awesome -- I will definitely buy a few of those.

In regards to your human miniatures, personally I think you should also base them off historical designs with a SciFi twist. It would be unique IMO.

I personally recommend avoid GW’s Imperial Guard type designs (e.g. Cadians, Voystran etc) as they’ve been done to death by other third party companies.

Those missile launchers might just work on the shoulders of some termies. Need to check the sizes again ...

candy.man wrote:In regards to your human miniatures, personally I think you should also base them off historical designs with a SciFi twist. It would be unique IMO.

I personally recommend avoid GW’s Imperial Guard type designs (e.g. Cadians, Voystran etc) as they’ve been done to death by other third party companies.

Point to me where I can get some decent sci fi desert infantry!


Also the top line is ironic, seeing thats exactly how GW does it (they literally have art of Space Gladiators at one time)

Thanks for all the comments and feedback!

I will have some new WIP photos up later tonight I hope.

@Clausel, Yeah, I consistently get people saying the paint jobs are dreadfull.. so Ive decided from now on Im going to sell the parts with "naked resin" photos.

At some point I hope to paint up a few squads of these guys when I get a minute spare!

@Candy.man,

Im going to do A LOT of different stuff, I love guardsmen, so Im hoping to do the full range, at least 10 different "regiments" like GW metals back in the day!

@Ruminator. yes, they just might work. The dimensions are on the website so hold a ruler up to what ever miniature you are contemplating attaching the launcher to!

@Kenshin620, coming up! not in the first "wave" but certainly on the list!

Cheers guys,

Joel

So checking these out when i get home!

Anvils hammer wrote:
Smaller armoured minis is a possibility, after the Steam Lords, Im going to do a whole range of normal human sized infantry in various styles, all fully modular, and the range will definatly have some powered/exo armour suits in there..

Excellent to hear! I don't really have any interest in the steam lords, but you're quite talented and I'm sure you'll make something more my style eventually.

You could cionsider getting them painted up by a pro. If you have a budget that could afford it. Such things might increase sales Even more.
It wont affect me but maybe others :p
that said im pretty sure you have thought about it..

Thanks guys!

@Clausel, yes Ive certainly considered it and even got a few quotes.. its a possibility for the future but at the moment I cant really justify the £50+ per model im looking at for a properly "pro" miniatures.

Id like to teach myself to paint like a pro, but realistically im better off focusing on building the company, so when cash flow is better Ill certainly be commissioning some pro painted stuff!

NEW WIPS-

as promised, Ive been busy over the last few days and here is what Ive come up with-



Apologies for the poor photo quality, better pics coming soon!

Top Row-

The re-mastered "large roman pad", "Renaissance" style Torso.

The Spartan helmet and Spartan Crest as ONE PART. Ive sold literally hundreds of "spartan head plus spartan crest" sets, so this will save people a lot of time and hassel!

Second row-

Widow maker Assault Rifle and Shotgun - approx 25mm including the stock, which can be removed easily to make a sub-machine gun variant.

3D designed/printed, Im so pleased with these parts, the detail is so crisp!

And the new medieval "buckler" shield.


And coming up over the next week or two-

Scope, Chainsaw and Grenade launcher for the rifle
Arms to hold the guns
Widow Maker pistol
Multi-bionic arms in a range of sizes

Plus the medieval legs and armoured arms!

I know a few people are waiting on the rifles, so im putting some of these bits up for pre-order for dispatch next week as soon as the molds are done.

Cheers!

Joel

Clausel wrote:You could cionsider getting them painted up by a pro. If you have a budget that could afford it. Such things might increase sales Even more.
It wont affect me but maybe others :p
that said im pretty sure you have thought about it..

I'd do a bit for bit in trade promotion.

Submit a photo of your painting of the bit by Day X. One (or more) photos will be selected for feature on the webpage, and that person will receive any 1 bit of equal or lesser value from the currently available range.

Stagger your contest right and a master painter could get the entire line for free

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Not a double post:

Do you have any plans to release just plain flat base?

can we order bases through your special order set? I'm looking for some ICE / Crystaline bases.

Bounty wrote:

Stagger your contest right and a master painter could get the entire line for free

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Not a double post:

Do you have any plans to release just plain flat base?

can we order bases through your special order set? I'm looking for some ICE / Crystaline bases.

A master painter could have an entire army of Steam Lords for painting up a small squad for me!

In fact- offer now open to any golden daemon standard painters out there- paint an Anvil Industry miniature to heavy metal standard or better, get a squad of 10 shipped to you for free!

I already have and will be re-releasing flat bases with just sand texture, or do you mean plain flat like glass?

The "Parched Desert" bases were designed to be used as ice world with the right paint job, I dont have any plans to release an ice set at the moment, but may do in future.

The Rifle, Shotgun and Medieval Powerpack are now for sale under "NEW / PRE ORDER" in the Miniatures tab of the website. Dispatching as soon as the molds are completed. If there is anything else people want to pre order, post here and Ill sort it out.


Cheers,

Joel

Anvils hammer wrote:

Bounty wrote:

Do you have any plans to release just plain flat base?

can we order bases through your special order set? I'm looking for some ICE / Crystaline bases.

I already have and will be re-releasing flat bases with just sand texture, or do you mean plain flat like glass?

The "Parched Desert" bases were designed to be used as ice world with the right paint job, I dont have any plans to release an ice set at the moment, but may do in future.

Cheers,

Joel

Pictures Help:

Here's the sort of things I HOPE to be doing:







He was using light panel acrylic for the last oneof those, and that would likely work to modify a normal base, but out of sheer desperation I based a guy on a quarter last week and realized I want a nice base with weight to it, that won't slide around on me. Then I found your bases. More than a quarter, but I'm betting they're worth it.

Woohoo! Those guns, pads and torso are just what I was hoping for! The designs themselves are great. I would love to see some other guns, maybe grenade launchers and flamers?

Keep up the great work!

Cain