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 Jehan-reznor wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Looks good, except for the odd looking wheel rims

This has been a thing lately


I would suggest making the cab and personal area separate pieces so it can become a multi purpose vehicle, with options like flatbed, AA, missile launcher, railgun?

Cheers for that, I've not seen that before, very interesting

A lot of his designs are factoring in real world usage atm. Pretty sure those rims were made for OIF/OEF to deal with rocks and debris.

It's mostly so you don't have to worry about flats when you need them the most.

 BrookM wrote:
Just saw this:


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Very nice.

Puppets of war have a good troop truck too BTW if anyone is looking.

Afternoon all,

@Dwartist - Those Instigators are looking fantastic, I really must paint one up!


@BrookM : Thanks for posting up the Taipan render! And thanks all for critique and discussion!

@Bubber - Most definitely resin, even if we could afford hard plastic, the detail level just isn't high enough for the kind of miniatures I like to design!


As a few of you have pointed out, the wheels are indeed the flexible airless variety, though they can be painted up as solid spoke style designs if desired.

@theArmyman and others - Points taken, I don't think its all that unrealistic to have the exhaust running through the cabin down to the engine, as it keeps more of the pipe inside the armour plating, which would want to be smooth as much as possible. It is still a WIP however, and I will likely make lots of small changes to the design.

@SlavetoDorkness - Aiming for around £25-30. For a resin kit of this size (and with as many separate components) it will be hard to price it at a point where its cheap enough for use as scenery!

Can I just say... you guys are my heroes. Seriously, amazing work and love how you just keep making more and more awesome new stuff!

Got my drones shipment in November and am very pleased with them, your casts are flawless as they always have been for me

I just wish you could clone yourself / your modeler to do some fleshing out of already released items, like that fabled weapons pack for the drones

 RiTides wrote:
Can I just say... you guys are my heroes.

Of course, as often as you wish

I have an endlessly long list of products I want to work on/release, I doubt I will ever reach the end because I dream up new stuff faster than I can complete new bits.

The big project for the next few months is lots of play testing and a digital release of the final, definitive AFTERLIFE rules.

Along side that I'm hoping to work on some new products, including the Taipan, and possibly some brand new Exo-Lord kits - the current ones are a few years old and don't match the quality of the recent Afterlife stuff!

Out of interest, which weapons would you want for the War Drones if you could have any?

Haha

Well, really just a few "heavy weapons" - I have the gun tractors and the 3 weapon options were really useful! Ideally, I'd love a gatling weapon, a flame weapon, and a heavier ordnance weapon (such as a laser or missile). I was thinking these could be pulled from your other lines if they're digitally sculpted, and just sized down to work as an underslung forearm weapon for the drones.

Depending on the size perhaps they would need support from the other hand, but that would make the parts needed more complicated, so maybe it could be avoided by just sizing them down enough.

I know the rules need to be your top priority but I think it would be a great addition! Perhaps you could make them so they could be used on many of your kits, since then it would have even broader appeal. It'd be reasonable for folks to clip off any protruding detail on the underside of a forearm to attach them. The obvious kit that comes to mind is Madison Yoshida, who already has underslung weapons!



Hers are more integrated, but for the drones and any other suits you make, they could just be bolted on and the hand could remain free, like they currently are on the C-48 models

I'll add my voice to those saying the exhaust makes no sense.
There are a number of technical reasons and safety reasons for it and the "but technology" argument fails when the exhaust pipe looks like it's from 1940.

 Anvils Hammer wrote:
Afternoon all

@SlavetoDorkness - Aiming for around £25-30. For a resin kit of this size (and with as many separate components) it will be hard to price it at a point where its cheap enough for use as scenery!

How about a single cast scenery version of the vehicle, I think Antenocities were looking at double versions of their kits like this.

Oooooh, yeah!

On the subject of wardrones, have you considered making the heads available seperately, possibly rescaled to fit on 28mm human models? I think they would work really well for Elysium or Chappe style humanoid robot infantry? Which is something that I feel fits your range really well and (please forgive me if I am wrong in this regard) seems a fairly straightforward conversion from the existing files

I'd love to be able to get more of this head - I think there was only one per pack of 4:

Chappie, Elysium, Robocop style slightly taller than an average man robot would be great. I've been playing a lot of Black Ops III and it's pretty close to the setting of the game Anvil has out (in technology).

Good stuff

Hi all,

Thanks for further feedback.

@RiTides -

Thanks for the suggestions, Ill consider the options, but a key factor is how wide the appeal will be, the more specific/niche a bits part is, the harder it is to justify. I agree Wardrones with a minigun would look amazing.. I think that has to go on the "definitely at some point" list!

We can look at making the "command" Wardrone head available as a separate component, I think there are two of that head in the set currently but may be wrong.


@Mlaw - you are right, It looks a bit out of place, Ill rework the vent so it makes more sense and put some actual exhausts for the engine on the side of the engine bay perhaps.

@JoeRugby- Its highly unlikely we would do a single cast, but we will look into it, I want to experiment with roto casting single piece vehicles later in the year.

@Gasmasked Mook - I am planning to release human infantry sized versions of the WarDrones, to add to the CRANE corporation faction. At which point I will make the heads available separately. You are right, its an easy CAD conversion, but printing set up, clean up, mould making etc takes a considerable amount of time more than you might imagine.


ALL -

As I've just announced on Facebook :


What NEW conversion parts/bitz would you like to see??

We've released a few new and updated Conversion components recently and they have been very well received.
So, while we continue development of the Afterlife rules, we are looking to expand and improve our Conversion Bits range.

I've got a few ideas, but this is YOUR CHANCE to suggest (in the comments below) a conversion component/set for us to produce. Additionally, if someone else has suggested something you like the sound off, you can "like" their comment, helping us see which suggestions are most popular.

Note : Please keep suggestions "generic" I.e suitable for a range of different Sci-Fi/fantasy settings. We cant and wont make anything with iconography or very obviously design elements taken from other peoples Games/Figures.

Dakkites can of course make suggestions in this thread!


Already on the list :

Bullet Casings, muzzle blasts, Grenades/charges, Wax Seals/Parchments, Large Bionic Leg Conversion kit. Heavy Ion Rifle, Double handed Melee weapons (with easy pose attached arms), Small scale rifle arms and separate torsos for our regiments range..


Cheers

Joel

How about a recon/ew Wardrone with a radome on its back? Or a jump pack equipped version similar to the ones used by the Republic power armors?

I think you've pretty much already made everything I'd be interested in. I will suggest that if you do make muzzle flashes, try making them in clear resin.

I would love to see some more generic robot heads that were compatible with the Exo Lords. Heck, even if you just sold the Mech heads separately I would be happy as they fit perfectly!

Also I would buy a considerable number of muzzle flashes if you sold them, sculpting each one out of gs is becoming quite a task...

Looks like you've already got my bits suggestions recorded but yeah, robot heads and a minigun / other weapons are what I would love to see!

No rush, of course, and thanks for paying attention to the suggestions definitely prioritize things with the widest appeal! For both heads and weapons, making them usable for other kits I think would be key for that (like Commander Cain is suggesting for the robot heads, and the same for the weaponry).

GW did this with weaponry in the past - if you sell a plasma gun with a handle, any hobbyist can cut off the handle and glue it onto an existing hand!

I would love to see Large robed legs, say for terminator sized models. Regiment sized fusion and heat guns would be nice. Regiment sized beret heads with full masks.

Round frag grenades or Venom spheres would be nice.

Bunkers and outposts.

furious frank style humans and stuff

Gothic Sci Fy heavy ray guns, both in the infantry and heavy robot styles.

For instance I have a Imperial Knight who wants a cannon thats shaped like the Ship from Captain Harlock. And Dark Lasers for my Imperial Robots and Enginseers.

I'd love to see non-Astartes sized miniguns.

Here's some things I've been hoping for from anyone.
1. Extension of existing arms doing non-generic stuff. Any of your arms.. all of them.. just anything. Most armies end up with scores of guys just holding rifles or pointing or some make shift conversion in between.
Examples:
Hands/arms with datapads.
Arms close to the body with the hand facing the body. We can make this look like adjusting straps, removing magazines, pulling a knife, holding a cigar, having a drink..
Arms extended with generic handles coming off of the hands that we can attach stuff to. This could be for toting ammo boxes, weapons, stretchers, barricade material, vehicle parts, or anything else.
Utility or tool holding arms/hands.. useful to turn regular infantry into crew or for dioramas. If the tools are done right it could even be used to represent medical equipment for medics.
Wounded arms.. I don't mean with a bandaid.. One arm is posed to reach across to cover a section of the body or for the hand to cover a wound on the other arm. The wounded arm can be posed to still be firing or just an injured arm.

Basically, I'm looking at things similar to the kits we see for military modeling dioramas.

Another thing that I don't see a lot of is bodies and arms and legs that are meant to be in the prone position. I understand completely why this is tricky from a gaming standpoint. True LOS makes that something many would avoid. I'd love to see models posed that way though and firing from supported positions as well.

 Barzam wrote:
How about a recon/ew Wardrone with a radome on its back? Or a jump pack equipped version similar to the ones used by the Republic power armors?

I think you've pretty much already made everything I'd be interested in. I will suggest that if you do make muzzle flashes, try making them in clear resin.

I wouldn't make a recon specific wardrone, but a Radome is a cool idea, perhaps on the flying Ajax Mech variant when I get round to that!

Clear Muzzle flashes is a cool idea. The problem with clear stuff is that the resin is really nasty to work with and takes hours to cure up, Ill think about it though.




Thanks for all the suggestions everyone!

@Commander Cain - Muzzle flashes on sale later today!

We will look at making the Wardrone heads available.

@Javin - Suggestions noted - Beret/mask heads would be awesome I agree! Regiment scale Fusion/Ion is something I can look at.

Large robed legs I would only do as part of a full "Large Exo Lord" Kit. Which is a possibility but pretty low down the list.

@Desubot - Round frags will feature on the grenade sprue.

@Durandal - Ill add it to the list, If I'm making a Heavy Ion Rifle it might be reasonably easy to make a Heavy laser at the same time, with a shared power plant.

@Brook M - A small minigun is reasonably easy, probably would need to have an integrated box mag though. a belted version has to be made model specific.

@Mlaw - I like the idea of various different "doing things" arms, but its not something Id be willing to produce unfortunately, probably for the same reason its not already made by anyone else. The kind of things you mention are very specific, and it would be hard to make a "generic" set which has all the options people want and fits with different scales and styles of figure, so I just cant see sales being high enough to justify the sculpting and design time. Sorry!

Sci fi style kite/boarding sheilds would nice. I've searched around alot but have yet to find any that aren't generic sheilds or riot sheilds. My knightworld IG need something to hide behind

I love the weaponry in the armoury section, but would really like to see:

-Bullpup rifles
-Auto shotguns

 Ir0njack wrote:
Sci fi style kite/boarding sheilds would nice. I've searched around alot but have yet to find any that aren't generic sheilds or riot sheilds. My knightworld IG need something to hide behind

This is our existing Riot shield for regular human infantry -

http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/AFTERLIFE/Republic/Assault-Shield

Do you mean something like this but in a different shape? Its unlikely I would be able to justify something only slightly different but happy to consider everything!


@YouKnowslt -

Bullpub rifles arnt really an option as bits products. They are really cool, but due to the design, getting them to fit with any torso/arm combination is a total pain, making them not viable for any but the most die hard converters.

We have an automatic shotgun here -

http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/The-Armoury/Rifles-Shotguns-Pistols/Automatic-Shotgun

what kind of weapon do you have in mind?

cheers

I would also be intrested in a futuristic automatic combat shotgun. Not with a drum-mag but pretty bulky and with more a slug feel it and not pump-action.

Kinda like this


The top one of these:

or the shotguns for the FW recon marines:

We have a combat shotgun which is pretty much based on the SPAS-12 -

http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/Regiments/Weapons/Combat-Shotgun-Regiments

Its for regiments I/e regular human sized models.

Ill look at making a new Exo-Lord scale auto-shotgun, the current model is at least 3 years old now.

Sweet. I've managed to miss that one. Probably since it's listed in 'regiments' and not in 'the armory'

I would absolutely be interested in that design in exo-lord scale.