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 Jehan-reznor wrote:
You could do a series like De Agostini

Spoiler:

Built your shard in 30 installments, first issue history of the Shard assault craft
And first part of the fuselage!

Genius plan.. Now to sort out distribution in major newsagents!


@Haigus - My GCSE science is a bit rusty - Ill think I will let Radoni corporation or whoever manufactures the Republics guns worry about the science and just make guns that look cool

@shasolenzabi - correct, its a folding pistol on a wrist RIS rail. The operator can either remove it and unfold it to use as you would a regular pistol, or unfold and fire the weapon while still RIS mounted, using small controls in their glove. - you dont want to take a right hook from this guy thats for sure!

You cannot see from this angle, but the other wrist has a RIS with folding combat knife.


Just over 24 hours to go now - however just to let people know, we are not doing "early bird" pledges, so if you are not able to be on a computer the moment the project is live, don't worry - you will not lose out - everyone gets the same awesome pledge options!

Here is the miniature we have chosen as our Kickstarter Exclusive -



Like many Upworlders, Ellenor Renard whiled away her seemingly endless youth in a series of pursuits, learning a variety of skills to perfection before moving on to the next. Unlike her fellows, however, she preferred to indulge in all forms of combat, ancient and modern, rather than the more socially acceptable pastimes of a bored up-tier debutante. Now, Ellenor puts her skills to the test, fighting for the Unity Council as a special operative. Her wealth affords her the greatest in Afterlife care, instilling in her a near-disregard for death, while her prodigious skill with a blade has already earned her almost legendary status.


Im really excited for the launch tommorow and the next few weeks!

I'm looking forward to throwing some money at you tomorrow, Joel. I hope this will be going up in the morning so I can watch the numbers go up while I'm stuck at work.

 Barzam wrote:
I'm looking forward to throwing some money at you tomorrow, Joel. I hope this will be going up in the morning so I can watch the numbers go up while I'm stuck at work.

We are aiming for 8pm launch UK time, so that will be anywhere from 12 noon to 4pm depending on where you are in the US.

And thanks!

Cool. Looks like it'll be around noon then for me.

CRANE Corporation War Drones

Armed with Twin Heavy Machine Guns and body mounted Munition Tubes.

Dunno if I need another Sci Fi skirmish game...

But it looks awesome!

Why hello there sexy drones. I'm gonna need a lot of those guys...

Damn! Now that's the sort of robot I was hoping to see.

Uhhh - those could be my second unit of hunter robots

Ooh, shiny! I'd love to see a bigger version of that War Droid, with heavier armour and four arms ala the GX-1 from Star Wars

awesome bot but how does it stay together with that big hole in the middle?
really loving the looks of this Anvils Hammer

and that's the set! Goliath finished with 45 mins to go :-) all ready for vol 1 now

Soooooooo tempting...

Only just got my first ks stuff started :(

Theres a load of good lucking kickstarters coming out very soon I want to back so may have to hold back this time.....

Not seeing it yet...

Did I miscalculate the time difference?

 Alex C wrote:
Not seeing it yet...

Did I miscalculate the time difference?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1637892615/afterlife-the-shards-of-liberty/comments

here you go

Looking forward to seeing the add-ons list.

You lot beat me to it!

We had a very hectic last 30 minutes or so finishing the KS page off - so launched a minute or two behind schdule, but its up, its live, Im very relieved and need to sit down for 10 minutes!



CLICK HERE


Thanks everyone for your support in getting us this far! Very Exciting times ahead for Anvil Industry!

Joel

Ps. The guy in the picture is Ephraim Bolivar, Chief Engineer at CRANE corporation. CRANE, along with Krono-Tech and a few others, forms the main block of corporate support for the Unity Council, and Ephraim is responsible for the development of many of the weapons in used by Unity Council military forces.

 Commander Cain wrote:
Why hello there sexy drones. I'm gonna need a lot of those guys...

 Barzam wrote:
Damn! Now that's the sort of robot I was hoping to see.

Whoa, agreed! Totally pledged, and looking forward to the add-on price list which he said he'll post tomorrow:

Anvil Industry wrote:Creator Anvil Industry 1 minute ago
Andrew - Just total up all the Add-Ons you want. We will be putting up a price list tommorow, and adding to it throughout the Kickstarter.
UK P+P is included, £3 flat rate for everyone else.

Also, if anyone missed it, this is now live, of course!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1637892615/afterlife-the-shards-of-liberty/

Edit: Ninja'ed by the creator... again

£30K goal!

 Anvils Hammer wrote:

@shasolenzabi - correct, its a folding pistol on a wrist RIS rail. The operator can either remove it and unfold it to use as you would a regular pistol, or unfold and fire the weapon while still RIS mounted, using small controls in their glove. - you dont want to take a right hook from this guy thats for sure!

You cannot see from this angle, but the other wrist has a RIS with folding combat knife.

That is a nice touch! and knife on the other hand, practical as the rest of the soldiers looks loaded with gear and other equipment. You are making me drool to start another faction or more of my already large army!

 Alpharius wrote:
£30K goal!

Yep, We want to do this properly, and launching a game is a significant undertaking, so no point asking for an unrealistically small amount of cash.

Good luck - I hope it gets funded!

How big are the CRANE robots? What base size are we talking? From their armament, they look large, but not huge. Little hard to tell though without any kind of scale shot.

Hi Haighus,

They are approximately 39mm tall.

If you have an Ajax Mech, they are a bit taller and a fair bit skinnier (as no need to fit a human inside)

I will post some scale shots up of everything together once we have more renders and poses.

Cheers

 Alex C wrote:
Dunno if I need another Sci Fi skirmish game...

But it looks awesome!

White Knight slap!


Lots of spiffy thing in that kickstarter those drones look great any chance for close combat weapons on those guys?

Mark, any color schemes available? finally finished magnetizing the ajax and armored guys but i have no clue how to paint them.

That settles it, no pledge from me

I'm in. I look forward to Feb 2015 with glee.

Oh man...

I am so psyched up about this KS.

The Pulse Mech and Wardrones especially - They are absolutely stunning.

Not to crazy about the Hex-armor - look ok on the body, but not on helmet IMO.. oh well, one can always convert them

@Anvil: Great work there Joel, looking forward to more renders, addon and stretchgoals!

Thanks people!

The KS is going well so far! I will try to do an update at least every day.

@Jehan - Glad you like them. no plans to add combat weapons - Swords are cool, and there will be a few here and there, but Im trying to keep most units realistic to the near-future sci-fi concept.

Here is a colour scheme Dwartist came up with for the Ajax, which I like a lot - http://dwartist.blogspot.co.uk/2014_02_01_archive.html

He has painted up quite a few of our figures to a very high standard!


@Barzam - thanks! We will do our best to get the figures completed and shipped asap!

@Treadheadz - Glad you like them - I can see why hex armour on the helmet isnt quite as realistic (no need for it to flex) but I wanted to continue the theme a bit - it would probably be quite easy to fill the gaps between the hexs with putty.