Troll Forged Miniatures rumour thread [Aug 2nd - Little announcement]

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**vfults**

The female soldier looks promising; very nice action pose!

Regards,

V

**Sgt.Roadkill**

agreed the female soldier looks veyr good, is there any chance that she can remain bald or with a buzzcut? thinking she'd fit nciely into my penal legionary squad

**Malika2**

@shakey787: Yes, TFM also does international shipping all over the world!

@Sgt.Roadkill: I'll pass the request on! I do agree that a buzzcut of a sorts would look good. Many female models I've seen on the market have been given this anime like approach of unfitting girly haircuts just because otherwise they "wont look female enough" or some excuse like that...

**ghosty**

instead of a buzzcut, why not just short hair? buzzcuts look weird 0.0

However im all for the bald look

**shakey787**

cheers fella

**Malika2**

More on the Junk bots by Technoscream:

And an update from Ynek:

The missile launcher fits into the body using a partial ball-and-socket joint, which I am feeling tempted to replace, as it would not be poseable on the finished article.

The cannon was originally going to fit in in a similar way, using a partial ball-and-socket joint, but as of this evening, I now have a poseable 'turret', illustrated somewhere below.

Both weapons attach to the body via weapon mount, which fits into a hollow cylinder, circled red in the below picture. (dimensions: OD 8.2mm ID 6.8mm (approximately. I used a ruler to measure)

Direct link: http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4089/aaaaxn.jpg

Into this cylinder, one of the two mounts I have created can be affixed. The first one (the missile mount) is illustrated below. At present, this is the only way that the missile launcher can be attached to the walker (other than being attached, flat and without mount, to the top of the carapace).

Direct link:http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4033/picture377j.jpg

The new cannon mount is a touch more complicated, but I think I kinda captured the elements of how it attaches to the model in the following pictures...

The complete weapon mount and cannon:

First component of the mount, in the carapace socket:

How the new cannon mount breaks down for parts:

close up...

[IMG]http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/7932/picture629.jpg
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The below two pictures illustrate that the new mount could easily be used to give a carapace-mounted cannon turret, if desired. I'll also be making a detail panel (similar to the detail panel for the radar dish) which this weapon mount can fit onto.

Additionally, my stitches came out today, so aside from a little bruising (and probably, later on, a bit of scarring), my finger is pretty much back to normal.

[[EDIT:]]
I also added some more detail to the machine gun chin turret. It has also been fiddled to make it poseable on the finished article. There is still some more detailing to do, but as you can see, I've added quite a few new bits to make it a bit less bland.

And Dracon Magis is still working on that scary daemon:

**Absolutionis**

I really have no idea exactly why, but those Junk Bots really appeal to me. I hope they're in resin, come modular, and are cheap. I would get a large quantity of them.

Plus, Ynek's walker is driving me crazy because no full-body image has been released yet. We're left with dozens of 'teaser' shots of miscellaneous parts. I understand why you do it, and I am looking forward to it being completed.

**Malika2**

The junk bots will most likely be released in resin, they will be a multipart kit, so the idea is that you can customize it fully!

As for the walker, I'm waiting for a full shot as well because I'm curious as hell what it will look like!

**ghosty**

Im intrigued about the giant demon. Im wondering if it'll clean up well, as atm it still looks pretty scruffy.

**insaniak**

Loving the junk bots...

The demon is coming together beautifully.

**Grundz**

are junkbots 40 or 60mm?

if they are 60, I need some for mechanicus sentinals or HW teams!

**Absolutionis**

Grundz wrote:are junkbots 40 or 60mm?

if they are 60, I need some for mechanicus sentinals or HW teams!

The leftmost Junk Bot on the last picture picture shows one on a standard "small" GW infantry slottabase.

**Malika2**

The Junk Bots are infantry sized. We have been brainstorming about some larger ones on 40mm bases to do afterwards. Maybe we will eventually also work on larger sized machines...

**metallifan**

You've got to fit a referance to the universal greeting in there somewhere

"Bah-Weep-Granna-Weep-Ninny-Bong"

Oh god that movie makes me happy.

**Wolf**

I definitely want the one in the middle if those two wholes are it's eyes. it looks awesome

**metallifan**

Wolf wrote:I definitely want the one in the middle if those two wholes are it's eyes. it looks awesome

You were almost gonna say something else, werentcha?

**Wolf**

hey its late i'm tired... give a brit a break

**Borak**

I'll do a sketch of Ynek's walker, I've got a good idea of what it looks like, until it's cast that'll have to do, as both legs use the same components Ynek's only made one and the rest of the model is too big to be held together by blu tack so taking a full pic has so far been very difficult. I believe there are plans for Ynek to produce alternate parts such as legs, cockpits etc. eventually.

**Vitruvian XVII**

Is it just me or does that scary daemon look like its based off the same art that Sersi did his on a while ago? Also, really like the Junk bots.

**ghosty**

It is based off the exact same art.

**Anarchyman99**

Everything looks great guys....ever think of doing some sexy/busty/topless "daemonette" like demons?

**Malika2**

Don't you already have GW's daemonettes?

I don't know if they will pop up or not. At the moment the sculptors are doing their project. We hope to get some level of direction/focus with game/background projects such as Urban Ops, Warspike, Sciror (join the discussions here) and Wastelander, rather than having a mountain of random sculpts or simply creating extras for GW armies, there are already a whole bunch of companies doing that (some of them doing an excellent job!).

Khabuldashudeth has been working on something new:

Nehemiah continues to work on his Dagan:

**ruminant**

How's the organic mech coming on?

**ghosty**

Ugh, space dwarfs.

However, it seems nicely executed, and though theyre really not my thing (i for one hated squats the minute i heard of them. Pretencious bastards -.-) i think that models coming along beautifully.

Now that headless hooved...thing, is it, by any chance, a type of....pig?

Could it possibly be some type of mutated boar?

**Malika2**

@ruminant: I don't know. Revliss hasn't posted on the forums in a while. When he does that you guys will be the first to know!

@ghostly: You're thinking in the right direction...

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For those interested in a full pic of Ynek's walker, here is a sketch he did:

**Padre**

Looking very cool!

Can't wait to see a 3d version - is looking very reminiscent of a variant-pattern Raven BattleMech (or possibly an unusual FW-pattern

Warhound Titan) to me.

Also...is it just me or does the pilot look like Haley out of "Order of the Stick"?

Padre^.

**TyraelVladinhurst**

yay some models i can use for squats and the squat codex i am writing...

**metallifan**

TyraelVladinhurst wrote:yay some models i can use for squats and the squat codex i am writing...

**MajorTom11**

I ragged on that concept art a few pages back, but that walked looks like it is far, far better than the sketch! Still think the legs could do with some serious bulking up though, it looks mentally top-heavy, but again, could just be the sketch and not be reflected in the actual model.

I add my voice, we demand full view shots!

**Malika2**

Male trolls more or less finished:

Ed also started working on a female troll:

IceSword is working on his Great Coat veterans:

Veteran, trooper, agent:

Close up on the agent: