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@d-usa do post a photo if you get a chance

The S.A.W widow maker is now available in the store, and so is a new design of shoulder pauldrons, as modelled by this guy-

Cheers,

Joel

Yay! Thunder warrior pauldrons! Nearly bought some of the metal ones from chapterhouse, glad I waited until I could get yours.

(Skull helmet looks amazing btw, especially now you took the crest off. )

Not sure I can top this amazing new steam lord stuff but for what it's worth: here's the contents of the next shipment to Anvil from Miniatures of the North.

Imperial Borderer Grenadiers. Separate legs/torso's on these guys to get more out of the poses.




Cultists. Separate heads and hands/weapons. Few minor tweaks here and there before I pack them up.

Waiting on pay-day Friday, then I will order a set of Skull Helmets and a pair of robed heads. I need to build a Terminator Chaplain and a Terminator Librarian, so these will be perfect for that.

OK I have to ask can you do the SAW without the arms attached ?

Slight shiver down the old spine when I saw this one, looks a little too KKK.

Holy moly, I was only gone a week and half, but look at all this awesome new stuff! Joel, serious question, do you sleep?

Cheers guys!

Icesword im looking forward to all the new stuff!

LDD - yes Ill try and figure out a version with box mag to go on my tripod product.

@sockwithaticket.

most days I get up about 8.30, work till about 11.30 with an hour or so for meal breaks, so recently Ive probably been putting in around 70 hours a week.

I guess I just really enjoy my job..

Joel

Any chance of a photo of the individual components of the Borderers? And do they fit with a standard cadian torso/leg swap?

Ordered Skull Helmets for a Terminator Chaplain, and some Hooded heads for a Terminator Librarian.

 Anvils Hammer wrote:

LDD - yes Ill try and figure out a version with box mag to go on my tripod product.

No I want a hand held version like the original one but minus the arms, I want my guard to carry one, he will be a big guard mind

 Ketara wrote:
Any chance of a photo of the individual components of the Borderers? And do they fit with a standard cadian torso/leg swap?

No idea - I don't own any GW minis unfortunately.

Image from my blog:

By the looks of them, I would say that they are considerably smaller then GW guardsmen. I like this however, it means that Joels steam lords are 'true scale' to the borderers, perfect!

More of my average paint jobs and photos, more on my blog.

Crowmantians:

Looking good IceSword!

You call that average? I call them kick ass.

 Newabortion wrote:
You call that average? I call them kick ass.

true that. I actually think the paint job makes them come out looking even better than the models themselves actually are (which is quite nice already ), it's really quite lovely. Red *is* one of the "easier" colors to get right on robes in my experience, though. maybe that's what he means?

Hi Joel,
I know you ask for ideas for possible stuff and I haven't seen anybody else mention it but; have you any plans for another faction/race?

I only bust out the paints every other month so my painting skills have slipped over the years. Doesn't really matter what colour it actually is: it's still the same principles and methods I'll use regardless.

(Recipe for those robes was a base coat of dark red, wash with watered down black, highlight with the base coat dark red again, highlight with a lighter red colour then a final tiny highlight of orange.)

Once I get my website live I'll have tutorials galore along with rules and background.

Re: other races, not sure about Joel's Anvil range but I have a few in the works for MOTN. They won't hit until next year though.

IceSword, they look great! really looking forward to receiving the parcel!

@slipStream

I have all sorts of plans!! at the moment on sci-fi human miniatures and tanks, which will keep me busy for the next 12 months or so I suspect!

BITS REQUEST -

Edit - all sorted now thanks!

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT -

Anvil Industry will be attending COLOURS wargames show, at Newbury Racecourse.

http://colours.org.uk/colours/

We will have the full range of products available for sale on the day, (Cash only at the moment im afraid!).
Look forward to meeting any UK Dakka members who will be there.

Cheers,

Joel

 Anvils Hammer wrote:
Thanks for the feedback guys!

Charax I have no plans for the MOTN range, its all IceSword calling the shots on that, Im just the manufacturer.

Charlie agreed with you lot, the rifle was lacking something.

Im now proposing to supply it with two different barrel ends - a 50cal style Recoil suppressor, and a traditional silencer for when you need to be a bit sneakier..

the end of the barrel will have an attachement nub which can have either barrel end glued/pushed on.

What do you guys think?

LLD, Ill try and get the smaller guns out of the way pretty soon, as I want to use the smaller guns for my upcoming guardsman project.

Cheers,

LOVE the one with the .50 cal muzzle! I'll have 15x, please?

Ordered a load of the "Forge Ruins" bases and a couple of other bits. Hugely impressed with the incredibly fast delivery, and well packaged, er, package.

These bases are really beautiful, a great quality product!! They've got a nice weight to them so should add stability to models, especially compared to GW plastic bases. One thing I will say is that when clipping the bits of resin "sprue" off the bases, it's a bit like clipping toenails off a bear, the bits go pinging off all over the place and sound pretty solid when they hit things, after two I moved out into the garden and clipped the rest off whilst pointing the clippers well away from my face as the zooming resin is a bit of a hazard, but once you've got the hang of it, it's fine. Definitely going to order more, I think all the DV Hellbrutes deserve big bases from Anvil to do them justice.

Pictures in this thread when I've got some fully painted models to show off!

Hey, Anvil, I just had an idea. It's incredibly difficult to get hold of urban conversion pieces for models. It could be a small plan to maybe get some into production so people can use them as rebels and rag-tag militias, maybe?

Just throwing thoughts about...

Some conversion bits compatible with the new Chaos Cultists, to make them less Chaosy and more suitable for other 'urban war' troops, sounds a good idea.

@Sikil, of course you can! I plan to include both ends as standard with each sniper rifle.

@Nuclear Mekanik - thanks very much! please do post finnished photots in this thread!
I know the resin gate snaps off with some speed - a problem with most large resin gates, the best option is to saw them off, or altenatively, you can put a jumper/hoody on your lap and direct the "ping" down into that, this is what I do.

@BlapBlapBlap and Clang -

Yes yes and YES. I wont be making any dedicated conversion kits for any GW stuff, but I am planning a full range of sci-fi guardsmen, which will include a few rag-tag urban milita options.

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COLOURS Wargames Show-

We are packing up the van as we speak, so if you're going to this wargames show at Newbury Racecourse - see you there tommorow or sunday, Come and say hello!

Cheers,

Joel

Woohoo. I'll be ordering some robed heads and bionic heads i think. I've a mind to get a little cultist detachment going from Cawdor, Redemptionist and any other model in robes I can find. Those heads will help to tie everything together.

Also, another CRAZY IDEA. I've noticed a distinct lack of wispy-moustache/topknotted 'Mongol Style' heads. It seems that someone could capitalise on this and make some, and that many many people would buy them for their 'very fast mongol-style Steam Lords on Bikes' army. I certainly would.

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Was that a tumbleweed I just saw?

Anyone seen Anvil at Colours?

Yes it blew through the ghost town what was Anvils updates

haha!

We moved house, and are still doing up the new Studio, hence slight lack of updates.. my apologies..

New MOTN stuff to be released later today hopefully, and next batch of Anvil Stuff erm... not sure.. but soon!

Cheers,

Joel

 Anvils Hammer wrote:
haha!

We moved house, and are still doing up the new Studio, hence slight lack of updates.. my apologies..

New MOTN stuff to be released later today hopefully, and next batch of Anvil Stuff erm... not sure.. but soon!

Cheers,

Joel

Joel I need one of your stickers for a diorama I am working on, any chance of getting one mate …….. it will be free advertising