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 Barzam wrote:
Joel, what are you doing? You're making sensibly dressed and propotioned female figures? No bare midriffs? No boob plates? No butts sticking out? What heresy is thid?

Yeah we are in need of a nicki minaj hero fighting with an anaconda

Joel just keeps chugging on, producing awesome figures one after another. Here's the final design for Madison Yoshida.



He mentions that she'll also have an optional head with a helmet.

I like that a lot, wonder what the Japanese on the blade means?
Also looks like she has a flamer, so all very CQB it would appear. Will complement the rest of the Pulse mechs with their longer range firepower nicely.

 Haighus wrote:
I like that a lot, wonder what the Japanese on the blade means?
Also looks like she has a flamer, so all very CQB it would appear. Will complement the rest of the Pulse mechs with their longer range firepower nicely.

I refused to tell Adam, our caster, what the symbols meant, and he went home, spent over an hour researching on the internet and came in the next morning and told me (correctly), so its not fair on him if I tell other people :p

Its actually a Thermal Lance, a cutting torch, a smaller version of the one in the Commando Assault Unit.

Well its in Korean

 Desubot wrote:
Well its in Korean

Yeah never seen that kanji before! And the miniature looks great by the way

I've really enjoyed watching this range develop and absolutely love painting the afterlife miniatures, here are a few pics of what I have managed to paint so far from the second kickstarter.

I need these!

@ellyll81 - as I said on KS, loving the pink/red/bone camo on Ellenor, great mini diorama!

Commandos look badass. The White on the Unity Guard looks good, but I think having both the visor and parts of the coat in red looks odd, might look better with the visor in gloss black?

@Annie - I was looking at your female minis store the other day, great idea, and we have plenty of suitable sensible sci-fi females we will be delighted to supply you with once it all goes to retail

@Anvils Hammer, thanks for the suggestion on the visors, I was not 100% happy with the minis but could not put my finger on it, think you hit the nail on the head :-) I have re-painted the visors in Black and much happier with them now.

Kinda gutted I didn't back this. Look forward to the release.

 Desubot wrote:
Well its in Korean

I was gonna say that the Japanese model suffers from a cultural identity crisis. Maybe change her name to Kim, Soo-hyun

Bok-su means "Revenge" for those that didn't know...

Hi All,

@Ellyll91 - Glad I could help! Look forward to updated photos.

@Carlos13th - We are working through KS pledge rewards as fast as possible, and hope to have the first figures available at retail release in a few months time.

@Dwartist - That looks fabulous! Very nice work as always, thanks for posting!

@Agnosto - The game is set after almost 200 years of a single global government, nations as we know them today have been all but eliminated, so I imagine human society and culture has become a lot more homogeneous.
It will be extremely common for characters in the fictional world to have very mixed up ethnic and cultural heritages, and for people from all different backgrounds to find themselves on any side of the conflict depending on their corporate loyalty. This also gives gamers maximum scope to create a unique faction/group of fighters.

Some new figures in resin, I have started making master copies today.

Ephraime Bolivar, the Mechanic, a mysterious and powerful figure within the CRANE corporation.

Madison Yoshida, joint leader of the Republic Shard Strike on Unity City.

and a Support Pulse Mech with Missile system.

The original masters for all of those were made on your new 3D printer, right? Looks like it's humming along beautifully now! Any lessons learned you can share there?

That middle model especially is fantastic, imo . My only critique is with all 3 of these together they look a little static, but of course they're in bulky exosuits and I think it'd be easy to mix up the poses using bits on the bases.

They were all made on our second 3D printer, a B9 Creator, which I am really pleased with.

The first printer still doesnt work reliably, and untill I get a chance to tinker with it, was an expensive and time consuming bad judgement call.

So the lesson - Dont back a 3D printer on KS, purchase an established one which already exists and has good reviews.

But, the important thing is that we are getting reliably excellent prints.

Regarding the static poses, I dont see the Mechanic making any fast movements, hes more of a brooding angry kind of guy.

Madison can be angled on her base bit (or anything else) to produce a range of lean angles to get more or less dynamism. She also has a separate head and another alternate head (helmted)

The Support Pulse, Yep static, very much intended, as anyone would be luging that thing on his back around and trying to fire it at moving targets!

The Support Mech also has separate head and arms which will be interchangeable with the ones from the other support Mech, so there will be some variety possible even with more than two.

Woh First guy with augmentations look like an amazing start to a True scale marine.

neat stuff.

Or an amazing pre-Heresy servitor.

Ooh, a helmeted head on that center model is a nice option to have

Thanks for the info on the 3d printer, that's really helpful!

Those look awesome!, need some faction boxed sets now!

Here they are with black visors

The biomechanical looking dude is a cool design but he's in such a static 80s pose.. it just kills the whole model :/ The other two there look really good but the goofy rocket launcher on the guy on the right would need to be swapped out before I put him on the field

 RiTides wrote:
Ooh, a helmeted head on that center model is a nice option to have

Thanks for the info on the 3d printer, that's really helpful!

I would agree with that. I generally prefer helmets on my heavily armored troops.

Thanks for the feedback all,

@Desubot - the Mechanic stands 35mm tall from base to top of head, Hes quite an unusual figure and probably suitable as a base for conversions in lots of games!

@RiTides - No problem. Yeah I wanted to do an unhelmeted head, but I think its important to have the Helmeted option for any heavily armoured Character, I know some people find "No helmet" an annoying look in a wargame.

@Jehan - Faction Boxes are planned for later in the year, not sure exactly what the plans are at the moment.

@Ellyll81 - A huge improvement, and really nicely executed with the white reflection marks, The one on the right looks exactly like a glass visor in the photo!

@MLaw - I guess I have to respectfully disagree on the pose - I put more effort into getting it "just right" than is obvious, and I think the pose perfectly suits the characters background.

You will be pleased to know the missiles are separate parts, and can move up and down, rotate, or be removed and replaced with entirely different weapons should you be so inclined

Well talk to the planner! Find a mirror!

Hello,

I registered to the site just to post this:


Last week I finally got round to order some kits from your store:
- 15 exolords
- the sniper duo
- 4 dogs
- a walker
- some accesoires (minigun, command upgrades, heads etc)

Ordered on Sunday, recieved on Thursday. Fast!

Upon opening the kits I was amazed by how good the quality is.
Crisp details, no bubbles, no mold lines, no 'bent' parts...

I think your company has a bright future ahead of it, if you keep making kits to your current high standard. (I bought alot of kits for a long time from 2 big companies in the industry. Yours beat their resin kits by far.

I saw an APC earlier in this thread. Will it be available in the store of your site?

I believe the APC will be available in the store if the Kickstarter release of it continues to go well, and Anvil feels they will be capable of maintaining the production.

Hello,

@Pelikaan1 - Thank you very much! I'm glad you were pleased with the service and components, we certainly try to exceed peoples expectations and we will never lower our production standards!

The APC will certainly be available, in the future, along with other vehicles, however at this stage I cannot say how long it will be before we can make it available, sorry!

There will be an announcement both here and on our Facebook page with the release of all KS products to retail sale.

Cheers

Joel

Got my stuff through the post today. Haven't had a chance to go over them with a fine tooth-comb yet, but, as far as I can tell, everything is perfectly cast.

Exactly what I've come to expect from Anvil, so cheers Joel et al.

 Anvils Hammer wrote:
@MLaw - I guess I have to respectfully disagree on the pose - I put more effort into getting it "just right" than is obvious, and I think the pose perfectly suits the characters background.

I have to agree. The pose looks perfect for the model. And every model doesn't have to be in a funky action pose. Some of my favourite models of all time are in static poses.

You will be pleased to know the missiles are separate parts, and can move up and down, rotate, or be removed and replaced with entirely different weapons should you be so inclined

Does the little sensor unit in between them also rotate? It bugs me that it's not pointing in the same direction as the guy's head