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Looks good! Btw when is salute?

Get those drone torso's and heads ready! My Dark Mechanicus need more infantry bitz!

MOAR PREVIEWSZ!!!!!11111!

Those drones look awesome, perfect pre heresy servitors. Looking forward to the regiment releases.

 HAZZER wrote:
Looks good! Btw when is salute?

Salute is 20th April

http://www.salute.co.uk/salute/salute-2013/

Received my order yesterday, only a couple days after placing it. Everything is in good order and the sculpt quality is amazing - no warping or flash at all. Will definitely shop there again.

Yes, got my order yesterday very happy and impressed, the new regiment weapons are spot on look great and fit well with little work needed.

The bionic 5 leg set is an impressive set as well although one leg pose seems a little peculiar, I will see how it looks once a torso is added as that might be throwing it of.

The Bionic arms are also well detailed and fit quite well, although if fitting onto some 3rd party torsos some adjustment will be needed but quite easy to achieve.

The one thing I would say about the Bionic leg set is the legs seem quite close to one another, I think if you ever create any more poses maybe space the legs a little further apart.

Over all great items with a lot of potential and great detail, next to no flash and no air bubbles from what I have seen clean casts.

Top Notch product once again Joel

I was going to share this with you as we mentioned hands sets as an idea, you could cast them up like these to make it easier.

 I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:
Received my order yesterday, only a couple days after placing it. Everything is in good order and the sculpt quality is amazing - no warping or flash at all. Will definitely shop there again.

Same, excellent casts on everything overall, speedy and great scale items.

I'd like to chime in on support of hands armoured and unarmoured in similar style to suggestions posted.

My order came in yesterday too. Tons of the regiment bionic legs and arms along with 20 combi-weapons. I have to say it's all as awesome as normal but the combi-weapons truly blew me away.

Well my mini order hasn't come yet, I need those shoulder pads!

I live in st.louis in the usa and every order I place constantly gets here in 8 days, which is pretty great.

Thanks Everyone for feedback and compliments! Much appreciated!

Glad to know plenty of orders are turning up quickly, even across the pond, there is hope yet for international Postage agreements!

@LLD - There is a "running" and "walking" pose in the set, I assume its one of those which looks a bit odd at first?

The legs are a sensible distance a part for normal human beings. A certain larger wargaming company likes to sculpt most of its miniatures with their legs splayed far further apart than is sensible in a combat situation!

Update - today I completed work on the Black Ops ALPHA STRIKE squad, Five new sculpts designed specifically with the Lance Carbine weapon in mind.

Im also roughly half way through work on the ARC Drone Cell - including a alternative "metal skull with scary red eyes" head option.

I will put up previews in a day or two of the new stuff but nothing else is getting released now untill next weekend

Cheers Everyone!

Joel.

I second the idea of changeable hands!!!!

Joel, I gotta ask, is this what you do for a living? If it isn't, you should probably rethink your stance on that.

You consistently put out a quality product at a realistic price that I (And many others) would prefer over a well known main company.

By far the best bitz maker I've seen for quality, consistency, and customer service.

 Traceoftoxin wrote:
Joel, I gotta ask, is this what you do for a living? If it isn't, you should probably rethink your stance on that.

You consistently put out a quality product at a realistic price that I (And many others) would prefer over a well known main company.

By far the best bitz maker I've seen for quality, consistency, and customer service.

It certainly is! I probably work about 60 hours a week on average in "The Forge" - Ive been working on Anvil Industry full time for over 18 months now, there are three of us full time at the moment and hoping to get a few new staff in over the next few months.

Thanks very much for your kind words.

I do my utmost to offer the products and service you describe because Im extreemly privilaged to have turned my Hobby into a full time job, and want it to continue for as long as possible, which means I need lots of happy customers!

Its 9.40pm UK time on a Sunday and we are still at work. Charlie is making the mould for the "Alpha Strike" Black Ops and Im working on the ARC Drone Cell masters so we can mould those tommorow (fingers crossed!)

Cheers,

Joel

Highly looking forward to your new Black ops team Joel, I just finished painting my first squad but I need to wait for those missing bases to arrive before I can finish them. They were a real joy to paint and I'm the kind of guy who really hates painting.

Nice work mate, looking good!

well my parts came yesterday so seeing how many post the spec ops marines i might as well post somthing diffrent

SAY HELLO TO MY ZOGGING CHICKEN SUIT

 emperor bacon wrote:
well my parts came yesterday so seeing how many post the spec ops marines i might as well post somthing diffrent

SAY HELLO TO MY ZOGGING CHICKEN SUIT

Spoiler:

for those that dont get the joke the terran marine allways complains about his armor calling it the chicken suit >3>

Got my missing parts in the mail today along with a few extras bits and what not, thanks Joel!

My pads also showed up yesterday, awesome stuff as always.
@ Emperor bacon, nice stuff! Great to see such a unique conversion, loving what you did with the gun.

Its been awhile since ive checked out your guys shop. Alot of cool stuff! And plans to do any exo lords with a more chaotic flare?

Hey Guys, Thanks for feedback and photos!

@Newabortion - wow they look great!! Thats the first fully painted team Ive seen, havnt had time to paint any myself yet!

@Emperor Bacon -Looks like the Negotiator Rifle serves quite well as a sawn-off shotgun!

@Lockark - Thanks, No, no plans for any chaotic Exo-Lords, sticking to stuff which fits the background of my own game universe from now on, which limits me a little but will mean greater focus on building a complete range.


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SALUTE 2013 - ITS ALMOST TIME. Charlie and I have been working 14 hours a day all week in preparation and I've manage to get loads of new stuff ready!!

Charlie took a few quick photos..

As well as the separate Black Ops "Vanguard" Legs and Arms and a few other smaller things - we will have limited quantities of...

Black Ops ALPHA STRIKE

Elite Veterans equipped with lance carbines - The body sprue contains new sculpts, including a guy wrapped in bullet belts, and a sergeant with "Winged" Black Ops helmet and armour collar.



We will also have the Suppression team equipped with M88 Negotiator Rifles -





And after a long long wait and many delays - The first REGIMENTS Release - A.R.C Drone Cell and Drone Specialist weapons.

A cell of 10 terrifying cyborgs comes with a choice of two heads, choice of any of the regiments guns, and a Specialist Weapon (Flame Thrower, Ion Rifle or Fusion Cannon).





They are 4 component models which makes them easy to assemble, but there are 5 different leg and torso sculpts, to allow for lots of different poses. No two Regiments figures need look the same!

I will be expanding this range with Drone Heavy Weapons before moving on to other REGIMENTS.


We are really looking forward to the show on Saturday, so come down to London's EXCEL center and see the full product range in person! If you've not been to Salute before it really is well worth the journey, so much to see!

We will have limited stocks of the new ALPHA STRIKE and A.R.C Drone Cell available to purchase on the stand, and they will go on general sale online next week when we've had a chance to sleep!

Thanks guys,

Joel

Nice! the ARC Drones turned out nicely, I'd like to see the chest without a gun in front of it though and I much prefer the gas mask-ish head to the scary robo skull heads.

Also loving the Alpha strike squad, the guy all covered in ammo belts looks great!

Almost time for another Anvil order!

Ohh man fregg'n sweet. I cant wait till i get more hobby allowance.

Damn those look cool.

I got my Paranormal Investigator. He came on Monday, but I wasn't able to pick him up until Tuesday. Primed yesterday, painted today. The base is Anvil's also.



For some reason he doesn't show up in the MOTN section anymore though. He's a nice little figure.

Woop, my heretek techpriest will be getting some servitors, good luck at salute Charlie and Joel.

1. Sleep is not an acceptable excuse for not releasing even more minis.
2. Impressive job on the drones Joel - now I'm just waiting for you to robe up those legs some.
3. You say 4 components? That means head/torso w arms/gun/legs ?
4. Please tell us the torsos with the cables are without gun pre-attached!!!!

Super job again Joel

Cyborgs look great scaled next to the exo lords!

Great ALPHA STRIKE team!!

Will defo order them as soon as they are available!!

One question thou Joel, is it possible to get the whole saqad only with the sicle magazine?

...and will you eventually make an assault/jump team?

Wish you the best for Salute!

Thanks everyone!

@Dmyze - the torso/arms is one peice, but Ill get the torso out separately at some point also.
I much prefer the skull head - Thats why I did two different ones!

@Barzam - He looks great! Its a really characterfull sculpt! (by icesword, its not mine).
He is out of stock at the moment as we dont have a mould, but we will make one at some point.

@Manus -

1. Sorry! I try my best to stay awake and at my desk all the time, perhaps some bionic upgrades for my arms would be in order.
2. thanks! Robes are coming dont worry
3. Yes exactly the component breakdown.
4. The cabled Energy weapon torsos are one peice - it had to be that way as each gun has its own different respective power pack/fuel tank on the back of the model.
I will try and release some cabled up versions for regular guns but no promisises.
Its pretty easy to add cable - I used a Masq-Mini "tube tool" to make the masters and really reccomend it!

@Miniholic -

thanks, and its no only possible, but already there - each figure in the squad is supplied with drum, box AND sickle mag as standard, so you can choose the one you want for the gun and the others can be used as spare ammo/put on other models.
There is also one small ammobelt peice for the gun on the "bullet belts" guy.
You also get 5 of each upper weapon for the carbines, so you can have a mixture or all 5 the same, or swap between battles with magnets or bluetac!

Assault/Jump team is a possiblity but not a priority.

Cheers,

Joel