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That's great. Will be watching this topic closely.

those victorian guard look bloody amazing, and they are chunky enough to blend in with cadians.

What price are being sold at? I may pick up a couple of boxes.

US$45, with free worldwide shipping – £28 quid to you and me.

Since Vic was such a good sport about getting those metal arms on to the store (ta!), it would have been churlish not to buy them, so I've picked up a few bits and pieces to do some modelling. Looking forward to starting a new regiment already

Just placed my order as well. I cant wait

 plastictrees wrote:
What would those be? Arms with goggles on them? Cog shaped friendship bracelets?

Are "Not 2nd edition Cadians" a confirmed future release?

Those legs might be more suitable for what I have in mind then the Victorian ones...

'Arms' as in 'Weapons'.... Though, given that the weapons appear to be fixed to the arms, steampunk arms with arms would work too....

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing....

The Auld Grump

Wait, not 2nd ed Cadians? when that was announced?

Vic spoke about it in September:

The female guard are being sculpted at the moment, hoping to have the sculpts done by the end of October. The first squad will be in the style of old school cadians, with a female and male squad, (or 50/50). There will be helmeted and un-helmeted heads.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1320/410982.page#6083369

Vic's since mentioned the females in flak coming around the end of the year. If the plan's remained the same, we might see the older Cadian-styled minis soonish.

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Edit: The above relies on the assumption that the female Guard are old Cadian-themed. That's the impression I got (plus, well – look at 'em!)

TheAuldGrump wrote:'Arms' as in 'Weapons'.... Though, given that the weapons appear to be fixed to the arms, steampunk arms with arms would work too....

Vic mentioned in the same post linked above

The original las-rifles are not going anywhere. It would be a lot of work to remaster all the arm sets. The most that would happen with them would be to do a digital version of a similar design, but thats a low priority atm. The current priority with the guns it to plug gaps in the range and add some variety.

That might go some way to answering your question.

Great work Vic ! - Ordered the Moss Guard on the 9th - by the 19th they arrived in Malta unharmed - Thats all they way accross the planet great service !

Thanks or the great feedback (and orders)
The (not) female cadians are still on track for December, the only hold up might be casting.
I am planning to release a male and female version of these troops at the same time so they can be fielded as mixed squads.
The female leg sculpts done by the awesome Gregor Adrian arrived today. I will work on these minis tomorrow and post some pics if I have something to show.
Also recently received my first digital prints. The gun sculpts previewed a while back by Jake Schneider are next on the casting list. They are an AK style lasgun, autogun and autogun with sickle mag.

As much as I love your minis you need to slow down with releases my wallet is going to into cardiac arrest

I can see me pushing the overtime at Christmas dam I hate my job, see what you are making me do now

Go Vic, go!!!

Got my batch of Van Diemen's just now, excellent as always! And extra torsos, you shouldn't have!

 vic wrote:
The (not) female cadians are still on track for December, the only hold up might be casting.
I am planning to release a male and female version of these troops at the same time so they can be fielded as mixed squads.

Great news – I'm looking forward to the possibility of a mixed, gritty, realistic-looking regiment.

Also recently received my first digital prints. The gun sculpts previewed a while back by Jake Schneider are next on the casting list. They are an AK style lasgun, autogun and autogun with sickle mag.

Interesting stuff – will these come with arms attached or not? I would have thought that would make things a bit awkward to manage; unless the plan is for each (or some of the) regiment(s) to have its own rifle?

Vic, impressed by your models and the quick delivery times (4 days on my latest order).

I know you've got the chem-tank backpack, I'm wondering if you intend to do some other backpacks?

Vic posted this up on the Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/VictoriaMiniatures), alogn with a request for names:


Looks very swish indeed. I've suggested the 'Vendetta Valiants' as a regimental name.

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In related news, I placed my first order for some oddments about a week ago. They arrived safely, and I was really impressed. I'll be posting up a more full review and look into Victoria Miniatures on my blog a little later, but here's what I cooked up:





I'm snowed under with painting for the moment, but he's all primed and ready for painting. Really looking forward to getting some colour on this chap and his mates!

Thanks Vic

Oh wow they look good with fur hats.

Names eh?

What about the "Glensterling Marsh Wardens"

Those fuzzy-hatted highlanders are cool. I like the name Possil Swamp Rats.

Yosefgrad grenadiers would be my idea

Balmorian Royal Guard. Could switch out the arms for the Tannenburg dress ones...

Old style Cadians anyone?

Oh hells yeah. Those guys are sweet as.

How about Notstroyans for a name?

And wow... those really are(n't) old style Cadians. I'm impressed.

Only thing missing are the old oversized shoulder boards.

 Frank&Stein wrote:


Old style Cadians anyone?

Vic please...
so much want...
no money...
why do you do this to me?

and to be honest seeing the regular combat arms with those heads looks pretty good. If the new lasgun she's working with comes with those combat armored arms (and even better, with rolled sleeves) they'll look awesome.

It would be very easy to add a larger shoulder armor pad over the basic ones sculpted onto the arms, which would give you an awesome Aliens Colonial Marines/ Roman Legionnaires look.

Not to mention that in some of the art for the old Cadians, there's a secondary armor pad/plate thing under the main one. I'll see if I can find the pic I'm thinking of.

EDIT: Found it!



Also, I just realized those are new arms and legs in the pic as well as the heads. Both look excellent. I'm personally going to be waiting for the newer lasgun design to put on these guys, but they look excellent as is. I think Vic nailed it. These don't need to be exact copies after all, they do an excellent job of capturing the "feel" of the original Cadian's art.

Oh happy day! My wallet is screaming, however.

Cor, they look great. I'd like the no shoulder pad look, personally – it leaves future space for heavier troops to be built with breastplate torsos and shoulder pads.

They look spot-on to me as is.

Those look great without the shoudler pad, will be amazing with it. Time to sell the NOS Cadians I have lying around since they're horrible in comparison. Well... horrible in general.

As soon as the female Guard arrive my wallet is going to be running for cover.

Also I'm looking forward to seeing what the end results are.

Same here, I'm supposed to not buy anything else this year, but Vic's female Guard are a high-priority exception!

 Frank&Stein wrote:


Old style Cadians anyone?

These are really really good. I could do with pistol grips on the rifles - just a preference, for this more modern-looking outfit. I think the more traditional rifle look is totally fine for the other regiments in the range, like the highlanders, though.