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Email sent, thank you for that, I wasn't expecting it.

Hi Everyone,

We have been busy the last couple of weeks with some major upgrades to our manufacturing room, and a general organise/sort out, to get ready for full scale Kickstarter production starting in December.

This means I've not had a chance to do much work on the KS stuff, hence the Radio Silence.

I am hoping to have an update up next week some time.

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In the meantime, This Friday November 28th is Black Friday for our American customers, so we've decided to hold a one day only "BLACK OPS FRIDAY" Sale - The sale will offer 30% off Black Ops Kits, meaning you can get your hands on some incredibly high detail resin miniature kits for a huge discount.

The BLACK OPS FRIDAY sale will run from 12 Midnight on the 27th until 8am on the 29th - covering all of Friday in all UK and US timezones.



Check out the Black Ops product range HERE

Thanks

Joel

So... a Black Friday Bunduru?

The First 3d Prints are in, from the facebook page

Does anyone know when the "Afterlife" pledge manager is due to close?

And hopefully the answer is "Not for another month or so!"

 Alpharius wrote:
Does anyone know when the "Afterlife" pledge manager is due to close?

And hopefully the answer is "Not for another month or so!"

dont remember seeing an actual date, but:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1637892615/afterlife-the-shards-of-liberty/posts/1046669

Nov 10 2014

"We will be keeping it open for at least 6 weeks, and give at least 2 weeks notice of closing it when we need to finalise everyone's choices."

That puts it closing right around...Christmas?!?

Youch!

Morning all,

The Kickstarter is running a bit behind in terms of model production, this means we will be keeping the pledge manager open until January.

We will still give two weeks notice of its closure.

Cheers

Joel

This is good news - for me a least!

Thanks for the update!

This came up on the facebook page today

Testing the 3D printer is going well! Here is a character we are using for test prints, Aleksander Malik.
We still have a bit of work to do, but we are almost at the point where we can start printing parts to go into production!

I had been led to believe the guy from Zealot was doing your 3d printing.. did you guys go ahead and get your own printer to do that stuff in house?
It looks like the print had a lot of air bubbles.. hope you get that sorted.. I'm sure it won't be a problem though

I'm currently waiting for a shipment of gunses from Anvil so it had me wanting to look in here

That's probably an in house, enthusiast grade printer.

Sending models to be printed is expensive and time consuming. Sometimes you just need a print that's not high quality, so you can see if the pose, size, and design looks good in hand or on the table.

Anvil Industri recently invested in a 3D printer - So that they may print and produce masters in-house.

I think its a solid investment, as I can see the company expanding their portfolio, not just with the Afterlife range, but also other addon bits for various known tabletop games.

Morning all,

@Jehan - Thanks for posting that up for me, I have been neglecting Dakka somewhat recently while there has been rather less to show off!

@Mlaw - the original plan was to have Eddie from Zealot, and a few other printing bureaus to produce the miniature for us, But we have now got our own machine in house.

Having our machine will cut costs over the long term, but in the short term the main benefit is reduced lead times and far more control over the prints.

If I make a mistake with a sculpt and need to correct it with a second print, its going to cost £25+ and a weeks waiting with a printing company, versus about £1 and under a day to print the part ourselves.

@Vertrucio - We are intending to produce our own masters in hosue also, the printer we are using can print at 25 micron resolution, 1/40th of a mm, which with careful calibrating, is good enough quality for miniatures.

We are still testing the machine (hence we are quiet lately) but once it is fully up and running I will be able to post much more regular updates!

We have finished the 3D printing for the Crane Wardrones, one of the most popular figures from our KS.

The final versions here are much crisper and better detailed than the Wardrone prototypes we originally showed off during the project! Im really pleased with how they have turned out!

The kit is two separate bodies plus the "rubble sprue" parts, two separate heads and 4 unique arms, interchangeable and poseable.



I am hoping to have more stuff in production by the end of next week!

What will the prices be like? That is a great looking war drone.

Thanks!

I dont know prices exactly, as we are a few months away from retail release, but I would estimate around £6 each, in packs of 2 or 4.

Wow. They look so good. So nice seeing such crisp detail.

Will you be at Salute this year?

Looking very good. How's it looking for the Unity Council APC? will it see general release?

Those look nice, Are they about the same size as the Goliath?

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Those look nice, Are they about the same size as the Goliath?

Spoiler:

on facebook they said they are:
"About 40mm tall. 40mm base. I think that's the same as the aerial Drone."
https://www.facebook.com/AnvilIndustry/photos/a.140835545997773.36496.114540935293901/767382096676445/?type=1

I'm a huge fan of the Crane wardrones, very glad I pledged for some

Morning and thanks all!

@Zwan1One - Yes of course, we will have a 12 foot stand packed with awesome stuff!

@Barzam - I am afraid we still dont know about the APC yet, sorry! We will update the KS as soon as we know whats possible.

@Jehan-Reznor - Yep as Nicky says, around 40mm tall. Size wise they are slighhtly taller, but less bulky than, an Ajax Exo-Mech.

Hey All,

We have got some new character figures from our KS ready to go into production.

Our printer is still suffering teething problems but when it works it is capable of really amazing resolution!




A close up of Isiah Cortez's face, showing the detail we are achieving -

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Next week we will have the Spectre Operatives as a complete unit in resin, but for now here is a preview of some of the 3D printed components. They have had minimal clean up to remove support struts.



Cheers

Joel

Wow, those are exceptional!

I know he's going to look cool painted up but all I can think is:

Ok, I might have been a bit concerned at first, but this is just mindblowing! You really outdid yourselves here!

Agreed - these are fantastic looking miniatures!

Great stuff! Send some to dwartist! we need to see them painted!

Man, these guys really know how to make a kick ass looking mini!