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 Kroothawk wrote:
I think making these clampacks (plus one for Van Demon's World Devils) a general release is the way to expand your business.
Bits are nice, but ready packs of complete squads are nicer.

I concur this is a good idea and the packaging is quite eye catching indeed

I agree with Kroot and LDD, as long as the bits stay as they are, with the clamshell sets.
They look fantastic, btw!

I have to agree. I'm not headed up to Cancon, but I could see these selling well at retail and online.

I'm with the others.
Those clam shells are a great idea and they shurely are going to sell well! Great for retailers!

Add my vote to that total!

 Alpharius wrote:
Add my vote to that total!

Me too.

If these were to appear in my FLGS the squee of joy I would emit would be heard across the country.

I concur that clams shells look really good.

Good luck at Cancon Vic.

 Kroothawk wrote:
I think making these clampacks (plus one for Van Demon's World Devils) a general release is the way to expand your business.
Bits are nice, but ready packs of complete squads are nicer.

Jumping on this bandwagon! If I saw a clampack of the Victorians or Tannenberg at my FLGS, I doubt I could turn them down!

Hi, Thanks for all the great feedback on the squad packs and packaging, this is definitely the beginning of things to come. Still got to sort out my supply chain for manufacture before I can go to retail stores, but its all very encouraging.
Cheers,
Vic.

Are these packs the same as any of the stuff available on the website? (Product breakdown and price?)

Count me in to !
I've been lurking and drooling on your site long enough, that might push me over the edge into the murky waters of a spending spree.

I love the clam shells. Your stuff makes me want to drag out my piles of Praetorians and finish them. I never did because of cost, I need to expand to really make it an army. Hmm... looks like maybe now I can. I do have a couple requests.

Glengarry hats! Any chance heads with Glengarry hats are coming? I would so love to see some.
Obligatory wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glengarry

Also, I'd love to add a native contingent. Any chance for something "native"?

And on another note... any chance of Scots themed heads that would fit something the size of a GW Space Marine?

Lastly what my wonderful wife got me for Christmas (and a lot of the inspiration to finally get my Praetorians done):



Never mind the DUST all over that picture. ;-)

Hey Vic on the extreme off chance you do ever produce Gengarry hates can you sculpt some Glengarry teeth too??




Dem some gnarly clackers.

Anyone else having problems getting to her site?

that's weird, it's giving me a redirect loop

Hey Vic, do you have any plans for creating female trooper bits? There's a lot of people who are interested in having female soldiers in their army (myself included), but not many companies out there manufacture good ones.

Javin wrote:
Anyone else having problems getting to her site?

Yep, site is down at the moment, its being worked on to get it running again asap. This is the last straw with my current ecommerce platform, I will be changing to Shopify as soon as I can.


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 Smitty wrote:
Hey Vic, do you have any plans for creating female trooper bits? There's a lot of people who are interested in having female soldiers in their army (myself included), but not many companies out there manufacture good ones.

Hi, yes its something I am planning to do and have started trying out a few ideas. Its going to take some time though.

Your female troopers Vic, will they be more along the lines of standard humans or fanatical nuns with guns?

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Add my vote to that total!

Me too.

If these were to appear in my FLGS the squee of joy I would emit would be heard across the country.

Now something about that is just downright unsettling

now onto the female soldiers, I really hope they are believable. To many companies make over the top ZOMG boob soldiers

 Sgt.Roadkill wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Add my vote to that total!

Me too.

If these were to appear in my FLGS the squee of joy I would emit would be heard across the country.

Now something about that is just downright unsettling

now onto the female soldiers, I really hope they are believable. To many companies make over the top ZOMG boob soldiers

Look on the bright side, you're in the UK, you shouldn't hear the squee..... I on the other hand will be sending Mr. M a bill for broken glass!

And I think you'd be safe in assuming that whatever vic comes up with, it won't be "over the top ZOMG boob soldiers". She's got too much skill
and class, IMHO.

Hoping for great things for the female IG!

Javin wrote:
Hoping for great things for the female IG!

IMO, some "non-cadians" would be nice.

I'd just like to chime in here on a few points

1) The models available look fething awesome
2) The models look fething awesome

I kind of forgot my other points.

More seriously, the clamshell packs of relevant bits seems like a good way to move forwards. Speaking for myself, I don't have a notable bits reservoir; lasguns, grenade launchers, you know, useless stuff of no real value, so to really use any of Vic's awesome stuff, I need to buy the whole kit. Thus I can't help but feel that making whole sets would be attractive to anyone in a similar boat as myself.

I've got a hankering to try and make a 19th century Imperial Japanese Army out of those Tannenburg, but since I'd have to basically start from zero, I'm inclined to wait and see what the rumoured kickstarter might entail, or until the combined "kits" become generally available.

And this is from someone who absolutely loathes metal, but the quality of the minis is high enough for me to want to get them, I'm just waiting for the opportune moment.

On the subject of historical sources for future guard variants, has anyone considered WW2 Soviet Combat Engineers as a concept? Those are the folks with the big, bulky steel armour, not much good against a bullet at the time, but good against shrapnel and the like. Something along those lines would make decent stormtrooper/veteran stand-ins, distinct from the existent GW line of Stormtroopers and their ilk.

 MajorStoffer wrote:
I'd just like to chime in here on a few points

1) The models available look fething awesome
2) The models look fething awesome

I kind of forgot my other points.

More seriously, the clamshell packs of relevant bits seems like a good way to move forwards. Speaking for myself, I don't have a notable bits reservoir; lasguns, grenade launchers, you know, useless stuff of no real value, so to really use any of Vic's awesome stuff, I need to buy the whole kit. Thus I can't help but feel that making whole sets would be attractive to anyone in a similar boat as myself.

I've got a hankering to try and make a 19th century Imperial Japanese Army out of those Tannenburg, but since I'd have to basically start from zero, I'm inclined to wait and see what the rumoured kickstarter might entail, or until the combined "kits" become generally available.

And this is from someone who absolutely loathes metal, but the quality of the minis is high enough for me to want to get them, I'm just waiting for the opportune moment.

On the subject of historical sources for future guard variants, has anyone considered WW2 Soviet Combat Engineers as a concept? Those are the folks with the big, bulky steel armour, not much good against a bullet at the time, but good against shrapnel and the like. Something along those lines would make decent stormtrooper/veteran stand-ins, distinct from the existent GW line of Stormtroopers and their ilk.

Might want to check back a few pages for the preview pics we got a while back. There are a few uparmored troops that might match what you're thinking of, as long as you don't mind them wearing gas masks...

ah yes, my mistake, totally forgot those, they looked pretty awesome. Gas masks and armour, it's all the IG players have been asking for for years.

FW got half of that done with Krieg, and it looks like Vic might fill that void in my soul which needs to be filled with delicious, crunchy, armour.

The clamshells look great, but I think they'd really take off if there were heavy and special weapons options avaialable. Of course there are other places to get them, but I would think that being able to get a fully equipped squad in one place could only be a good thing.

Other makers have proved the viability of selling special/heavy weapon bits so I'm kind of surprised that Victoria hasn't.

I'd guess that since Vic's going for a period look it's hard to come up with heavy/special weapons that 'look' right

'period' heavy weapons were definatly not man portable so you'd be looking at carriage mounted (or maybe tripod mounted) heavy weapons which might not suit 40K counts as

or making some sort of man portable version which woulds just look odd (10 barrel man portable Nordenfelt gun anybody)... fine for a Steampunk mini but probably not these

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
I'd guess that since Vic's going for a period look it's hard to come up with heavy/special weapons that 'look' right

'period' heavy weapons were definatly not man portable so you'd be looking at carriage mounted (or maybe tripod mounted) heavy weapons which might not suit 40K counts as

or making some sort of man portable version which woulds just look odd (10 barrel man portable Nordenfelt gun anybody)... fine for a Steampunk mini but probably not these

Carriage/tripod works fine for the heavy weapons, that's exactly what the GW models themselves have, after all

Special weapons need a bit more thought, hopefully a design can be found that is subtler than the massive GW efforts but still identifiably flamethrowers, heat rays or what have you.

@OrlandotheTechnicoloured: do remember that the (still available) 2nd ed vintage GW heavy weapons were all on carriages, and that the current plastic generation is all on tripods... so, how would that not suit 40k counts-as?

The only ones that need to be man-portable are the special weapons, and Vic has provided good looking break-action grenade launchers, and showed some demos of a "heat/microwave" gun (with the barrel shroud-looking barrel we know and expect). I for one can't wait to see those in production, and hope further for a, uh, sun/nuclear fluid gun, and (hopefully) a marksman's rifle, flamethrower, and large tank-supplied flamethrower. Communications gear and medical kits would also be very welcome, as would magazines for heavy weapons (e.g. automatic cannon magazines, large caliber ramjet magazines, rockets, etc).

The grenade launcher is a good weapon to be sure, and I do hope that the art is indication that a heat gun is on the way.

To really appeal to IG players who want to game competitively, there will still at least need to be a Plasmagun, Lascannon and Autocannon, and possibly a flamer and missile launcher.

luckily, these would not be hard to fit into the psuedo-historical look of the existing Victoria miniatures lines.

I built an IG army a few years back and really wanted the historical artillery look for my Lascannons, so I put them on toy gun carriages like this.



The size of mine is definitely more artillery than squad portable gun (and maybe a bit over-the-top), but it wouldn't have to be so large. Perhaps something more similar in size to Victoria's own IG conversions.