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love the new stuff, any plans of making dead space inspired armor?

I will definately be ordering some Black Ops kits and holstered pistols.

Need to put together my Kill Team and this will be perfect for it.

The Spec-Op Marine looks great, IMO.

There is some ridiculous commentary against this kit over on TTGN regarding how "overburdened" the model looks - apparently no one there has watched news about any recent conflicts that have occurred in the last decade. Anyway, vets here have already remarked about that, so....

My only criticism of this kit is that there are not more obvious ammo-pouches - Astartes mags are big. I see the holster for his side-arm and immediately think that is exactly how that piece of kit should appear, so please consider some larger ammo pouches.

Alternatively, you could design various drum- or large box-mags that could be attached to the Astartes back-pack and connected directly to the... ammo-well? (sorry, I'm just a citizen) via an armored feed similar to those on the current Devastators offered by GW.

@Jehan-Reznor -

Nope sorry, the release shedule is jammed full to bursting for at least the next 6 months!!

@Ovion - Cheers, the various bits of extra kit will of course be available separately in various forms.

@Scott -

Thanks for your feedback. though I must point out neither figure nor ammo mags are "Astartes", it being a GW trademark.

The basic problem with spare ammo is that the guns im working with are heroic scale, this means the mags are 3 or 4 times larger than they would be in real life, so it looks comical to put them on the chest piece.

I image the pouches have food/equipment/medical supplies/grenades etc in them.

Rest assured the final models will have plenty of regular ammo, Im looking at options to put a couple of mags on each side of the power plant for example.

Im also experimenting a bit to get the balance right between a realistic burden for a special ops trooper, and avoiding making the miniature look to cluttered.

Cheers,

Joel

I agree that Mag Pouches for the Steam Lords might be too big, especially on 28mm models. Remember these mags will be the size of their arms! Imagine the Double Tap ammo pouch

"... I must point out neither figure nor ammo mags are "Astartes", it being a GW trademark..."

Yes, understood, but I think we all know what I mean.

Extra mags attached to the power-plant should do nicely....

Hey in my experience not every Magazine pouch is for magazines (Hmmmm What ? you are all saying). Well mine sometimes had pocket flares, signalling equipment, extra smoke Grenades, spare batteries, PRR etc. Having a modular Chest Rig is useful, but I prefer lying down closer to terra-firma, so prefer hip pouches, modern body armour makes it bloody impossible to keep low to the ground, plus a chest rig makes life bloody uncomfortable.



With Space Marines, they aren't really bothered about diving to cover, they carry their own cover in the form of their Armour. Therefore they aren't bothered, about lying down, so covering their armour with pouches is a no-brainer. Remember you don't know where your next re-supply is coming so carry as much as you physically can.

 mwnciboo wrote:
Hey in my experience not every Magazine pouch is for magazines (Hmmmm What ? you are all saying). Well mine sometimes had pocket flares, signalling equipment, extra smoke Grenades, spare batteries, PRR etc. Having a modular Chest Rig is useful, but I prefer lying down closer to terra-firma, so prefer hip pouches, modern body armour makes it bloody impossible to keep low to the ground, plus a chest rig makes life bloody uncomfortable.



With Space Marines, they aren't really bothered about diving to cover, they carry their own cover in the form of their Armour. Therefore they aren't bothered, about lying down, so covering their armour with pouches is a no-brainer. Remember you don't know where your next re-supply is coming so carry as much as you physically can.

And the benefit of Power Armor, is that you can carry more!

just saw the autocannon on Facebook. Thank you! You've just saved me a lot of work trying to convert some for a Havoc squad.

No Problem Barzam!

For everyone whos not on facebook here is a WIP of an upcoming Man Portable AutoCannon for Steam Lords.

I will also be doing a missile launcher.

Cheers,

Joel

Hi Joel , REALLY excited about the Tactical Marine , I think a rifle magazine pouch is a cool idea , just mold it up separate and let the purchaser decide where it goes ! (no disrespect intended !!) These could then go on the waist or upper legs even.

How would the marine reach it if it were on his pack ? LOL. When you NEED ammo , you tend to NEED it quick !

Bolt Pistol holster is the dogs obvious.

IMHO all these pouches look GREAT and would fit just fine with a little shaved of the back and figure to "settle" them on to the model !

How about some half armoured legs for scouts ?

GW will be getting very little of my cash in future WELL DONE SIR !!!!!!

That autocannon is beautiful! I will take five please.

 Anvils Hammer wrote:
No Problem Barzam!

For everyone whos not on facebook here is a WIP of an upcoming Man Portable AutoCannon for Steam Lords.

I will also be doing a missile launcher.

Cheers,

Joel

I need this in regiment scale please

Hi guys. I wanted to bump this thread since I got my second order and I've been slowly working on the stuff I got. Been slow going since I'm preparing to move, but between that and work, I've managed to bang out a few new ones.
Anyway, part of the reason I'm posting these pics is because I really haven't seen any size comparisons of the MOTN. So, I figured I'd go ahead and post two of my finished MOTN cultists with some fairly common figures from other ranges.

The praying cultist is ever so slightly shorter than the heavy weapons cultist. I tried to go with a Nurgle scheme for him, but I think he turned out looking a bit like an Infardi.

And, as promised, here's the first of my all Anvil marines with his cultist buddies.


Color scheme based on the Barzam Mobile Suit from Zeta Gundam (that robot in my avatar). He's got four buddies coming up.

Also, here's my latest Plague Marine conversion with a good chunk of Anvil parts. The Anvil ammo clips and drums look great on GW Bolters BTW.

Hmm....

I couldn't afford my Anvil order this week. Of course, it wasn't until later when I realised that there's a free shipping for £50+ - so I might make a running series of orders every payday instead.

Joel - I like the Cyborg Steam Lord set, but is there any way to get different helmets with them? I'm not real partial to the skulls, as they won't fit with my forces.

Hey Everyone,

Sorry Ive been a bit under the radar lately! Ive been working very hard on an upcoming release (Below).

@Barzam -

Thanks for posting up those photos! very useful scale photos, and awesome looking Steam Lords! Nice work.

@Azazelx -

The cyborg set is a fixed deal, but you can put together the set with the "build your own" product and its only about £1 more expensive - and you get shoulder pads and can choose the exact combination of parts you like.

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NEW "BLACK OPS"

For those of you who dont have facebook, this is the new preview/sneak peak for my upcoming "Black Ops" release.

Im really excited about it because its a totally new direction for Anvil Industry - new modern/high tech style for the figures based on modern day special forces, and also Im making them up as a full kit, with 4 components per miniature, which makes them a lot easier to assemble, and allows me a lot more freedom to design cool looking poses.

Im hoping to release the new kit toward the end of next week - Initially a set of 10 figures.




Cheers,

Joel

Need it soon for my Kill Team.

 Anvils Hammer wrote:

@Azazelx -
The cyborg set is a fixed deal, but you can put together the set with the "build your own" product and its only about £1 more expensive - and you get shoulder pads and can choose the exact combination of parts you like.

Hey Joel. Unfortunately it works out to be a fair bit more than that in the BYO sets, since the cyborg sets also have arms and guns. I might have to go with those and just bin the heads.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
love the new stuff, any plans of making dead space inspired armor?

I would definitely get some of those, for the record.

 Azazelx wrote:


Hey Joel. Unfortunately it works out to be a fair bit more than that in the BYO sets, since the cyborg sets also have arms and guns. I might have to go with those and just bin the heads.

Just ran it through, its actually 10p cheaper!

Unit body set with cyborg legs, your choice of head, torso and power plant, with no shoulder pads is £8.40

Rifle arm set (from the same section) with bionic arms, carbine and curved mag is £5.

Grand total £13.40 per 5 miniatures.

Order away before I come to my senses and ramp up the prices!

Joel

This long range Infrared image is the only Intel we have on this new threat, we expect more detailed imagery to be available within 24 hours.

Looks a lot better then Call of Duty

Just thought I'd leave a little bit of feedback about an order I placed with Anvil. Yesterday morning I ordered a rather large amount of guns from Anvil and they arrived today. I'm really impressed by that.

For those who are wondering I ordered 30 exorcist carbines (with stick mags), 3 exorcist rifles (with stick mags, sniper scopes and silencers), 10 ion rifles, 4 rail guns, 4 revolvers and a pack of battle axes. That's a lot of stuff to sort out and ship in one day.

Any updated ETA on the human sized double tap carbines? Looking forward to getting a couple and testing them out!

Ooooh exciting! haha

Cheers guys!

@ Nick - Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback.

We manufacture everything in house, and a combination of keeping good stock levels, and Just In Time manufacturing means we are able to dispatch 90% of orders within 24 hours. 4pm is the rough cut off for same day dispatch - Monday to Friday at least!

@Target - Apologies for the delay, we are still waiting on receiving the mould from the 3D printer, as soon as we have it and can get some test casts we will put them up for order.

Cheers,

Joel

 Anvils Hammer wrote:
Cheers guys!

@ Nick - Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback.

We manufacture everything in house, and a combination of keeping good stock levels, and Just In Time manufacturing means we are able to dispatch 90% of orders within 24 hours. 4pm is the rough cut off for same day dispatch - Monday to Friday at least!

@Target - Apologies for the delay, we are still waiting on receiving the mould from the 3D printer, as soon as we have it and can get some test casts we will put them up for order.

Cheers,

Joel

No problem at all, was just curious! I already have a backlog of I-own-too-many-toys to keep me busy for a couple years

 Anvils Hammer wrote:
@ Nick - Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback.

We manufacture everything in house, and a combination of keeping good stock levels, and Just In Time manufacturing means we are able to dispatch 90% of orders within 24 hours. 4pm is the rough cut off for same day dispatch - Monday to Friday at least!

Well Joel, let me just add that I will be placing another sizable order soon, I expect similar rapidity.

Replacing every gun on near as makes no difference 90 models for my Imperial Guard army based on the old Warzone Imperial plastics is time consuming but it's going to be worth it. I just threw together my first guardsman using your rather excellent parts and it's a massive improvement on the stock weapon. Now to get the rest of the first platoon done so I can place the next order.

 Anvils Hammer wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:

Hey Joel. Unfortunately it works out to be a fair bit more than that in the BYO sets, since the cyborg sets also have arms and guns. I might have to go with those and just bin the heads.

Just ran it through, its actually 10p cheaper!
Unit body set with cyborg legs, your choice of head, torso and power plant, with no shoulder pads is £8.40
Rifle arm set (from the same section) with bionic arms, carbine and curved mag is £5.
Grand total £13.40 per 5 miniatures.
Order away before I come to my senses and ramp up the prices!
Joel

Huh! I apologise.

I had never noticed the option to not get shoulder pads (is that new?) and I was reading the rifle + arms set just as "steam lords rifle set" - without noticing the arms part or the fact that you can get cybernetic arms in there. My fault. The order will have to wait until next week, I'm afraid. Fortnightly pay and all...

I must see these. Spec Ops guys.