Mierce Miniatures Darklands Ongoing News and Rumors Thread! Darklands Rulebook ships on April 18!

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**CURNOW**

Lol he needs a few slaves models to follow him around carrying it .

**Theophony**

Haven't stopped in in a while, and it's always fun when my phone is trying to load all the pics and this is the first I see

"

should have looked before I swung"

So impressed with all these figures, can anyone tell me how the game plays, or are the rules even out yet?

**Azreal13**

CURNOW wrote:
Lol he needs a few slaves models to follow him around carrying it .

Nah, any horse person worth their salt wouldn't have too much of an issue getting on that horse, he might have to shout for a leg up, but it isn't the toughest thing to do. There have been one or two instances where I've not been 100% convinced of some of the mounted poses, but I come from a horsey family, so I'm probably a lot more critical and sensitive to these things than most (and they're only mild criticism at that, chiefly with centres of gravity appearing to be slightly out from where they ought to be given the pose of the horse and rider - evidently I'm more of a horse nerd than I realised!)

**Alpharius**

Theophony wrote:

So impressed with all these figures, can anyone tell me how the game plays, or are the rules even out yet?

Ask cincydooley - he demo'd it at Gencon this year!

Bottom line - yes, it is a lot of fun!

**Azreal13**

Yes, I've not had chance to play yet, but the general feedback is that the rules kinda look intimidating written down, but when played they make a lot of sense and what is apparently complexity is actually just good and thorough making it easy to figure out interactions etc.

Plus I often see people ask rules questions in the KS comments, and get an answer direct from Rob - which is kind of like having a 40K rules question answered by Rick Priestly.

**CURNOW**

Azreal13 wrote:
CURNOW wrote:
Lol he needs a few slaves models to follow him around carrying it .

Nah, any horse person worth their salt wouldn't have too much of an issue getting on that horse, he might have to shout for a leg up, but it isn't the toughest thing to do. There have been one or two instances where I've not been 100% convinced of some of the mounted poses, but I come from a horsey family, so I'm probably a lot more critical and sensitive to these things than most (and they're only mild criticism at that, chiefly with centres of gravity appearing to be slightly out from where they ought to be given the pose of the horse and rider - evidently I'm more of a horse nerd than I realised!)

In armour with the stirrups at chest height ? On a 20 + hands Clydesdale

i guess he uses the bodies of the slane or has a cheat stirrup . Like
i said love the model but the horse just makes it look off to me .

**Azreal13**

CURNOW wrote:
Azreal13 wrote:
CURNOW wrote:
Lol he needs a few slaves models to follow him around carrying it .

Nah, any horse person worth their salt wouldn't have too much of an issue getting on that horse, he might have to shout for a leg up, but it isn't the toughest thing to do. There have been one or two instances where I've not been 100% convinced of some of the mounted poses, but I come from a horsey family, so I'm probably a lot more critical and sensitive to these things than most (and they're only mild criticism at that, chiefly with centres of gravity appearing to be slightly out from where they ought to be given the pose of the horse and rider - evidently I'm more of a horse nerd than I realised!)

In armour with the stirrups at chest height ? On a 20 + hands Clydesdale i guess he uses the bodies of the slane or has a cheat stirrup . Like
i said love the model but the horse just makes it look off to me .

The stirrups could be higher..

Spoiler:

Plus that isn't a Clydesdale (you can tell by the fetlocks) and, eyeballing it and assuming he's ~6' then I'd place the horse at around 17hh.

But all this is moot, if it looks off to you, it looks off, and that's the only important thing. But I am seeing small details, such as the positioning of the leg and the way the heels are below the toes to suggest the sculptor either rides or did their research on this one. Plus, isn't it leather armour he's wearing?

**CURNOW**

Lol yeah racing stirrups are a little different from ones you would need to be able to sit securely in battle . And from experience i can tell you trying to climb anything even in leather and padded armour is a bitch lol .

If you look at the chap with the 2 handed sword ( lets ignore that bit about how the hell you use that mounted ) the scale of his mount looks good with the bottom of his feet coming down to the level of its girth wheres on uthred his feet are at point of shoulder hight . Just looks like a kid riding.

Im wondering if its the added on hourse armour thats doing it and if he was sat on the unarmoured version it would look better

**Azreal13**

Yeah, that would explain it, either that or perhaps he isn't glued in situ and moves between some of the shots, as it definitely seems more exaggerated in some shots than others, might be a perspective issue too.

**Alpharius**

Great!

Now Uthred on horse looks off to me too!!!

**Azreal13**

I know! He was fine to me too, til that pesky Curnow started using his pesky mind control.

*shakes fist!*

**CURNOW**

Sorry :( lol

**highlord tamburlaine**

I want to read you horse riders' comments when we start seeing sculpts for the more unique mounts, like the ceffyldraig and the giant lizard.

I have found your posts quite entertaining and informative, knowing next to nothing about riding animals and the knowledge it takes to translate that into a proper sculpt.

It will be interesting to see what sort of pose a lizard rides a lizard on (cue the "Yo dawg... meme).

**cincydooley**

I"m going to see if I can find the time to draft a Darklands Rules overview/gameplay synopsis for anyone interested.

We'll see how busy I am at work tomorrow.

**Azreal13**

highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I want to read you horse riders' comments when we start seeing sculpts for the more unique mounts, like the ceffyldraig and the giant lizard.

I have found your posts quite entertaining and informative, knowing next to nothing about riding animals and the knowledge it takes to translate that into a proper sculpt.

It will be interesting to see what sort of pose a lizard rides a lizard on (cue the "Yo dawg... meme).

Well, I'm firmly in the camp of if it looks right then it doesn't actually matter if it is right, but it will be much easier to overlook things that don't have real life analogues. Even then, having been surrounded by horses and riders in some capacity for over 30 years, it still took someone else (grr *shakes fist again*) pointing it out before it hit me.

I'm in no way saying I think it looks bad, not in the slightest, it is just a niggle in the same way as having sold cell phones for 12 years it annoys me when phones in tv shows make the wrong noise for their model!

I have studied biology though, and am a life long natural history nerd, so if those lizards riding lizards aren't precisely correct there'll be trouble!

**Alpharius**

cincydooley wrote:
I"m going to see if I can find the time to draft a Darklands Rules overview/gameplay synopsis for anyone interested.

We'll see how busy I am at work tomorrow.

I am extremely interested in this.

Please feel free to take tomorrow off in order to get this done!

**CURNOW**

Yeah im not saying its a bad sculpt in fact its gone on my to buy list its just that little niggle .its the same as when i get annoyed with space marines only having one magazine of ammo lol .

I do think that the design elements are great on it

**Azreal13**

Alpharius wrote:
cincydooley wrote:
I"m going to see if I can find the time to draft a Darklands Rules overview/gameplay synopsis for anyone interested.

We'll see how busy I am at work tomorrow.

I am extremely interested in this.

Please feel free to take tomorrow off in order to get this done!

Yeah, Alph will cover your shift!

**Alpharius**

Absolutley!*

Also, I'm getting Uthred on horse for 'free', so, yeah, I'm OK with it for the most part.

But, I'm still hoping this is a case of "The angle of the pictures is distorting it!"

*And by that I mean, of course, absolutely not!

**monkeytroll**

Royal mail managed to lose my package - mailed Mierce about it Tuesday, received my replacements today

So now I have some snake ladies to go with my snake men, plus a three-legged daemon lass.

**GiraffeX**

As no one else has posted this yet

Welcome to this, the first official FRIDAY UPDATE for Darklands: New Kindreds!
If you've never backed one of our projects before, it's worthwhile letting you know what we generally keep all our projects updated every Friday - that being said, it's early days still for this project and it's unlikely that there'll be much to show each week for a little while, possibly until 2015; but we'll show whatever we can, when we can!
All right. This week we have:
sculpt work in progress updates from Aragorn Marks;
an updated list of sculptors and sculpts for this project;
UPDATED, downloadable versions of the current QuickStarter Rules, Muster Rules and Kindred Musters;
anything else you can expect from us over the next few months.
Let's begin!

The mightiness of Aragorn Marks strikes again... fresh from completing Akkaz and Oso, Aragorn has turned his attention to the brilliant Thacaldān, the Mound Beetle of the Jutes...

Thacaldān (pronounced "THA-cald-aan")is thus the first miniature sculpted for Darklands: New Kindreds, and what a miniature it is. It looks absolutely superb!

Note that the upright miniature isn't completely finished in these shots, but the parted images below show the completed miniature of course,

We think it's pretty safe to say that Thacaldān will make it into Wave 7!

**Alpharius**

Or these either!

Darklands: First Edition

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mierceminiatures/darklands-first-edition/posts/1035761?ref=dash

Update #97

Oct 31 2014

It's Friday, and that means an update for you all!

With Darklands: First Edition close to fulfilment, there won't be a great deal to show each week from here on in. Even so, there's still some cracking miniatures ahead - and there's plenty of painted miniatures to show, too!

This week there's:

sculpt work in progress images from Stéphane Simon;
images of painted miniatures from Martin Grandbarbe and Sébastien Picque;
news that Wave 2 fulfilment is now complete;
a list of what miniatures should be sent in Wave 3, and when Wave 3 will occur;
updated lists of sculptors and sculpts;
UPDATED, downloadable versions of the current QuickStarter Rules, Muster Rules and Kindred Musters;
news of the Darklands: First Edition rules;
anything else you can expect from us over the next few months.

Here we go!

We do have more work in progress images for you this week, although that's not saying much as we didn't have any last week! This time the Hrafnen Crew get some more treatment from Stéphane Simon...

The Hrafnen Crew are the Norse marines, of course, and with three completed there's just two to sculpt for Stéphane Simon...

The first warrior of the Hrafnen Crew, Jan, is about half-way done!

We do hope that Stéphane can get Jan and the remaining warrior, Undrik, finished quickly... but we'll see. They may yet be Wave 5 shipments, unfortunately.

We've got a miniature each from Martin Grandbarbe and Sébastien Picque, and they couldn't be more different; they are united in their marvellousness, however...

This week from Martin Grandbarbe we have the excellently verbose Aldhelm, who clearly loves a song or two...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/002/831/366/45c25d6198af4ead621c5ef79dd23792_large.jpg?1414755490
Martin has really made these painted miniatures come to life... by painting them...

Sébastien Picque has again come up trumps with the marvellous Angedern, Prifdyndraig of Gwaelod... easy for you to say.

There'll be more painted miniatures next week, no doubt!

Wave 2 shipments are now complete!

We've now completed shipping of Wave 2 items (along with QuickStarter rules and Darklands: Monstrous Mounts existing items), and so it's now on to Wave 3...

Where's My Wave 1 and Wave 2 Stuff?

As always, please don't be upset if your orders have not yet been shipped, even if your order is currently in "packing" - please be patient while the boys get your miniatures cast and sent.

Now, if you believe you have an old Wave 1 or Wave 2 order that hasn't yet been shipped and are wondering why, many orders only have one shipment wave item and thus will only be shipped when everything in those orders is ready. You can mitigate against this by purchasing a Wave 3 shipment item, of course - so the power's still in your hands!

Here's an up to date list of what we think will be shipped when.

With Wave 2 complete, attention turns to Wave 3 of course, and we know a little more about what will and what won't make it into Wave 3. Note that we will probably make final decisions on what will go into Wave 3 next week.

The only "maybes" at the moment are Urien on Horse and the Hrafnen Crew; whilst the former is completed, we haven't yet received images, and the latter is waiting on two miniatures. Carys has definitely been pushed back to Wave 5 now as Juan is completing Forwyn Carys (from Darklands: First Edition II) first. Con I Modius is done, we're waiting on the 3D printers now.

What we will do, to give the sculptors a little more time (and to organise printing of Con I Modius), is push Wave 3 back to November (to sit alongside Wave 4) and thus maximise what we can send to you all before the Christmas break. We do apologise for this, but sculptors do live in the real world and they do have real life issues that impinge upon their time. Even so, we think they've done awesome so far!

We'll keep this list updated every Friday.

SHIPMENT WAVE 0: complete for this project.
SHIPMENT WAVE 1 (beginning end of June): Dúngal on foot - Dúngal on pony - Ciniod - Itaina - Domnech - Bagseg - Eadric on foot - Aldhelm - Leofwen on foot - Broga - Urien on foot - Ffion Ferddig - Angedern - Mag ap Mag - Ieuan Longshore and Taranau - Erebius - Mananaan on foot - Idruaada - Daarkan - Naraa - Gaarwäg- Scecchus - Thelliatiss- Ágriosávra- Eikovra - Myrkranio - Knútr on foot - Knútr on horse - Birna - Víthar - Rollo Iron Head - Jörmungand - Crom on foot - Annik - Zethag - Gondard (Gondard - Ekk) - Brugg - Uhtred Uhtredson - Finnan - Danilo Cruz
SHIPMENT WAVE 2 (beginning August): Timoth - Caedoc - Agathae - Velchior - Djiuzu - Baagath's Herd (Baagath - Blaart - Chuwaa - Ungaa - Rapraag) - Praach - Xontór - Thoth - Hanokh - Dawn of Khthon (Myrinna - Syntyss - Thillia - Phyllidii - Elthissi) - Mälmord - Seza
SHIPMENT WAVE 3/4 (beginning November): Eadric on Horse - Hrōr - Urien on horse -Con I Modius (Modius - Gellius - Tiberius- Livia - Severa) - Mananaan on horse - Hrafnen Crew (Vidkun the Brave - Snorri Snorrisson - Gunnar Half-Shield - Jan - Undrik ) - Crom on horse
SHIPMENT WAVE 5 (beginning February): Cnebba - Gesith Unit - Carys - Equitus Durio on Foot - Equitus Durio on Horse - Trytheorn - Rikkard - Maximus

Items in bold will DEFINITELY be sent in that wave as we have the sculpt; items in italics are either in progress or completed and should make it into that wave, but we don't yet have the sculpt.

Now, if items do slip into Wave 4 or 5, we'll either combine those items with shipments from Darklands: First Edition II or Darklands: Monstrous Mounts, should you have anything from those projects, or we'll ship them free of charge.

Have I ordered the right Waves?

Fairly obviously (and to remind you all that we won't split orders unless you've purchased more than one shipment wave) if you've only purchased one Shipment Wave item, your items will only be sent in one shipment when everything is ready. In a nutshell:

If you have purchased Waves 1, 2 and 3, whatever is available will be shipped in each wave, with wave 3 waiting until everything's finally ready.
If you have purchased Waves 1 and 2, whatever is available in Wave 1 will be shipped in June, with everything else waiting until it's all finally ready.
If you've only purchased Wave 1, your orders will be shipped when everything in your orders is ready.

There's still time for you to change this by ordering more shipment waves of course - feel free to do so, but as soon as Wave 2 is complete, that shipment item will be removed from the webstore (the Wave 1 item has already been removed). so you'd best be quick!

Please be patient!

We would ask you all to be patient with both ourselves and our artists; sculptors live in the real world and real world problems often impinge upon their time, so please bear in mind that they are working as fast as they possibly can on our miniatures and giving us their full attention. We do not want to rush sculptors for the simple reason that rushed work is often poor work!

Here's the big list of who's sculpting what and when for Darklands: First Edition! Please bear in mind that this list may change over time, so don't take it as set in stone until the first work in progress shots appear.

Michael Anderson: Michael, a new sculptor for us, will sculpt Rick Boer's Descendant, Rikkard, later on in the year.
Allan Carrasco: There's just Cnebba for Allan, later on in the year. Excitingly, Allan should be starting Cnebba in November.
Jacques-Alexandre Gillois: JAG is unable to start Equitus Durio on foot and Equitus Durio on horse soon, so we are going to give both sculpts to Yannick Hennebo, who will begin work shortly. That concludes JAG's work for us on this project.
Yannick Hennebo: Yannick will begin work on Equitus Durio on foot and Equitus Durio on horse soon!
Hector Moran: the awesome Con I Modius, Legionary Contubernium is complete, and that concludes Hector's work on this project!
Juan Navarro Pérez: Juan is sculpting Urien on horse right now and Carys is next. Juan has also agreed to sculpt Tomas Johansson's Geat Warrior, Trytheorn, although he's not sure when that will occur.
Stéphane Simon: Work continues on the Holumenn Unit with Vidkun the Brave, Gunnar Half-Shield and Snorri Snorrison completed, with Jan in progress. That leaves one to go. After those, it's the Gesith Unit.
Unknown: Maximus, Maximilian Schüte's Germanic Berserker (due to be drawn by Danny Cruz).

Not very many sculpts to go now!

We thought this would be a good idea, as things are cracking on - a list of completed sculpts, in kindred order! Completed sculpts are in bold; in progress sculpts are in italics.

ALBAINN: Dúngal on foot - Dúngal on horse - Ciniod - Itaina - Domnech - Bagseg
ANGELCYNN: Eadric on foot - Eadric on horse - Timoth - Aldhelm - Hrōr - Leofwen on foot - Gesith Unit - Cnebba - Broga
BRYTHONIAID: Urien on foot - Urien on horse - Carys - Caedoc - Ffion Ferddig - Angedern - Mag ap Mag
BYZANTII: Equitus Durio on foot - Equitus Durio on horse - Erebius - Agathae - Velchior - Djiuzu - Con I Modius (Modius - Gellius - Tiberius- Livia - Severa)
FOMORAIC: Mananaan on foot - Mananaan on horse - Idruaada - Daarkan - Naraa - Gaarwäg - Baagath's Herd (Baagath - Blaart - Chuwaa - Ungaa - Rapraag) - Praach
INFERNII: Scecchus
KHTHONES: Xontór - Thelliatiss - Dawn of Khthon (Myrinna - Syntyss - Thillia - Phyllidii - Elthissi) - Thoth - Hanokh - Ágriosávra- Eikovra - Myrkranio
NORSE: Knútr on foot - Knútr on horse - Birna - Víthar - Rollo Iron Head - Jörmungand - Hrafnen Crew (Vidkun the Brave - Snorri Snorrisson - Gunnar Half-Shield- Jan - Undrik ) - Mälmord
YSIANS: Crom on foot - Crom on horse - Annik - Zethag - Gondard (Gondard - Ekk) - Brugg - Seza
SELL-SWORDS: Uhtred Uhtredson - Finnan - Danilo Cruz
DESCENDANTS: Ieuan Longshore and Taranau - Trytheorn - Rikkard - Maximus

Let us know if we've missed anything!

Darklands: First Edition II

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mierceminiatures/darklands-first-edition-ii/posts/1035825?ref=dash

Update #94

Oct 31 2014

Hrafnmenn and Updated Kindred Musters!
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It's Friday again! Wahey!

Without further preamble, this week we have:

sculpt work in progress updates from Roberto Chaudon;
a list of what miniatures should be sent in Wave 4, and when Wave 4 will occur;
an updated list of sculptors and sculpts for this project;
UPDATED, downloadable versions of the current QuickStarter Rules, Muster Rules and Kindred Musters;
anything else you can expect from us over the next few months.

Let's begin!

This week Roberto Chaudon - fresh from his Fiend-shaped masterpieces - storms back into the fray with the first work on the four new Hrafnmenn...

Gríminn, the Hrafnmann Kappi, has already been sculpted by Roberto for the Darklands: a World of War project, so technically this is the second Hrafnmann of the Corpse Takers, Hrafnmann Unit!

Rather predictably, Roberto has made an awesome start to the Corpse Takers with Kolskári. Very soon you'll be able to field a full unit of these fantastic warriors!

With Roberto's legendary speed we do believe that the Corpse Takers will be a Wave 5 shipment!

Here's an up to date list of what we think will be shipped when.

It won't be long now until Wave 4 begins, and we're also combining Wave 4 with Wave 3 items from Darklands: First Edition.

With regard to Darklands: First Edition, Wave 1 and 2 shipments are now complete, which leaves Wave 3 clear to begin casting for.

Bear in mind that Wave 4 shipments will continue from November into December and probably January 2015. We will try to get everything out as soon as we can, but there's a lot to ship - and as always we will prioritise orders in date order; i.e., if you ordered early, you'll get your stuff sent early.

We'll keep this list updated every Friday.

SHIPMENT WAVE 0: complete for this project.
SHIPMENT WAVE 4 (beginning November): Oghu Guardians (Grubog - Pabogg- Drudd - Skrugadd - Undagg) - Skyclad Ciniod - Skyclad Itaina - Gromi (Gromi - Gromi with two cleavers - Armoured Gromi with two cleavers) - Gomagg - Sweordsman Timoth - Cæna - Loyal Guard, Teulu Unit (Cynog - Lleu Gryf - Gerallt - Dafydd - Emyr) - Feral Agathae - Tykho - The Eye Ascendant, Warriors of Baalor Unit (Aanan - Ulaan - Lungaarn - Coraat - Paara) - Helmed Naraa - Marked Galagaak - Craven Fiends of Dis (Kaius - Drubal - Bacchus - Kolkhus - Luco) - Trolls of Töheim, Armoured Troll Unit (Vörtun, Gjöll, Unnolg, Gurrir, Nisurl) - Kill-Head Flint-Fang - Akkaz - Sáthach
SHIPMENT WAVE 5 (beginning February): Spears of Dun Durn - Umaer Drast - Young Magágg - Armoured Hrōr - Eoric's Pack - Rēoc's Pack (Rēoc - Brega - Hædo) - Tonsured Caedoc - Warriors of Dyngonwy, Rhyfelwyr Unit - Forwyn Carys - Quintus Crito - Brunchaath on Gooracx - Slaughterers - Enslaved Ágriosávra - Khallas - Corpse Takers (Gríminn - Ormrinn - Agni - Oddr - Kolskári) - Ravener Birna - Hrókr - Abhorrents of Ys (Gorz - Kell - Relguss - Ingenga - Zunur) - Ax-Crom - Flesh-Scavengers (Gondard - Ekk - Yrag - Bil - Flesh-Pile) - Shadows of Carn Bran - Uhtred on Horse - Max Schüte's second Descendant
SHIPMENT WAVE 6 (beginning April): Oghu Keepers (Brugbad - Dungabad - Lobeg - Bogad - Rubeg) - Geraint on Ceffyldraig - Parawn - In III Judas - Srók - Thórrir

Items in bold will DEFINITELY be sent in that wave as we have the sculpt; items in italics are in progress and should make it into that wave, but we don't yet have the sculpt.

Here's the big list of who's sculpting what and when for Darklands: First Edition II! Please bear in mind that this list may change over time, so don't take it as set in stone until the first work in progress shots appear.

Olivier Bouchet: Olivier has begun work on the Abhorrents of Ys, Abhorrent Unit, with Zunur getting the treatment first and Kell begun (it's too early for an image yet though).
Stéphane Camosseto: Stéphane has begun work on Eoric's Pack, Werwulf Unit, although there's nothing to show yet; and then it's Armoured Hrōr...
Allan Carrasco: Allan will be sculpting Ravener Birna and Thórrir.
Roberto Chaudon: work has begun on the Corpse Takers, Hrafnmann Unit, with Kolskári first; then it's Enslaved Ágriosávra; Khallas; Parawn; Hrókr; Geraint Nerthol on Ceffyldraig and Srók.
Benoît Cosse: we've given Benoît the remainder of the Slaughterers, Krokodar Unit, Brunchaath on Gooracx and the Young Magágg and Umaer Drast alternates.
Yannick Fusier: thanks to his awesome work on Bagseg, we've given Yannick the Oghu Keepers, Oghurithne Unit - and he's already begun work on them, with Rubeg finished and Lobeg in progress!
Christian Hardy: We have now given Rēoc's Pack to Christian! He has almost finished Rēoc, and then it's Brega and Hædo to complete the unit.
Hector Moran: excitingly, Hector will be digitally sculpting In III Judas, Demilegionary Incaendium and Quintus Crito.
Olivier Nkweti: Olivier has completed the The Eye Ascendant, Warriors of Baalor Unit; and next for him are the Spears of Dun Durn, Gairlom Unit. After those he will be digitally sculpting the Warriors of Dyngonwy, Rhyfelwyr Unit.
Juan Navarro Pérez: Juan has begun work on Forwyn Carys and will sculpt the alternate version of Caedoc, Tonsured Caedoc.
Stéphane Simon: the Shadows of Carn Bran, Shadow-Drune Unit and Ax-Crom - as well as Yrag, Bil and Ekk's Heap - are the sum of Stéphane's work for this project.
Ernst Veingart: the sculptor of Mjagnir, Ernst has now completed a "miniature" that will dwarf Mjagnir the Jötunn - Gomagg, the Albainn Giant! That conclude's Ernst's work for us on this project.
Unknown: we don't yet have a sculptor confirmed for Max Schüte's second Descendant, but we hope to confirm him (and have artwork for it) soon.

Tons of sculpts!

We thought this would be a good idea, as things are cracking on - a list of completed sculpts, in kindred order! Completed sculpts are in bold; in progress sculpts are in italics.

ALBAINN: Oghu Guardians (Grubog - Pabogg- Drudd - Skrugadd - Undagg) - Skyclad Ciniod - Oghu Keepers (Brugbad - Dungabad - Lobeg - Bogad - Rubeg) - Skyclad Itaina - Spears of Dun Durn - Umaer Drast - Gromi (Gromi - Gromi with two cleavers - Armoured Gromi with two cleavers) - Young Magágg - Gomagg
ANGELCYNN: Armoured Hrōr - Eoric's Pack - Sweordsman Timoth - Cæna - Rēoc's Pack (Rēoc - Brega - Hædo)
BRYTHONIAID: Geraint on Ceffyldraig - Loyal Guard, Teulu Unit (Cynog - Lleu Gryf - Gerallt - Dafydd - Emyr) - Tonsured Caedoc - Warriors of Dyngonwy, Rhyfelwyr Unit - Forwyn Carys - Parawn
BYZANTII: Quintus Crito - In III Judas - Feral Agathae - Tykho
FOMORAIC: Brunchaath on Gooracx - The Eye Ascendant (Aanan - Ulaan - Lungaarn - Coraat - Paara) - Helmed Naraa - Marked Galagaak
INFERNII: Craven Fiends of Dis (Kaius - Drubal - Bacchus - Kolkhus - Luco )
KHTHONES: Srók - Slaughterers - Enslaved Ágriosávra - Khallas
NORSE: Thórrir - Corpse Takers (Gríminn - Ormrinn - Agni - Oddr - Kolskári) - Ravener Birna - Trolls of Töheim, Armoured Troll Unit (Vörtun, Gjöll, Unnolg, Gurrir, Nisurl) - Hrókr
VRAS: Kill-Head Flint-Fang
YSIANS: Abhorrents of Ys (Gorz - Kell - Relguss - Ingenga - Zunur) - Ax-Crom - Flesh-Scavengers (Gondard - Ekk - Yrag - Bil - Flesh-Pile) - Shadows of Carn Bran - Akkaz
SELL-SWORDS: Uhtred on Horse - Sáthach
DESCENDANTS: Max Schüte's second Descendant

Let us know if we've missed anything!

Wow!

**grefven**

Roberto Chaudon does it again!

**Alpharius**

No kidding, right?

It would be helpful to have a list (with pics!) of what sculptors have sculpted what for Mierce.

I know it would help me figure out which miniatures I could buy 'sight unseen' during and shortly after these campaigns!

**corgan**

Alpharius wrote:
No kidding, right?

It would be helpful to have a list (with pics!) of what sculptors have sculpted what for Mierce.

I know it would help me figure out which miniatures I could buy 'sight unseen' during and shortly after these campaigns!

That's indeed a very good idea Alph!!

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

A number of us are putting together a wiki which includes artist and sculptor credits (including for minis the mierce website hasn't got round to yet) and pictures

http://lands-of-darkness.wikidot.com/

(I've got the Ysians, Norse, Jutes, Erainn and Mercenaries mostly done, not sure of the state of the rest yet)

**Alpharius**

Nicely done Orlando!

Looks great so far!

I'd suggest then maybe a page that lists the sculptors who have worked on Darklands miniatures, with lists and links to the respective page?

You know, in your spare time, of course!

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

That's a great idea

I'll add it to the list of things to do (but it may take a while)

**grefven**

@Alpharius: Feel free to take over this thread on Mierce forums: http://mierce-miniatures.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17

**Alpharius**

Mierceday is here!

First Edition

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mierceminiatures/darklands-first-edition/posts/1043699

Update #98

Nov 7 2014

Urien on Horse! He's Great!
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It's Friday again, hurrah!

With Darklands: First Edition close to fulfilment, there won't be a great deal to show each week from here on in. Even so, there's still some cracking miniatures ahead - and there's plenty of painted miniatures to show, too!

This week there's:

sculpt work in progress images from Juan Navarro Pérez;
a list of what miniatures should be sent in Wave 3, and when Wave 3 will occur;
updated lists of sculptors and sculpts;
downloadable versions of the current QuickStarter Rules, Muster Rules and Kindred Musters;
news of the Darklands: First Edition rules;
anything else you can expect from us over the next few months.

Here we go!

Once more it's only a few work in progress images this week, but we think Juan Navarro Pérez has worked some wonders on Urien...

The awesome Urien, Teyrn of Môn on Horse is looking absolutely superb... and is completely finished except for the horse's tail.

If we can get hold of Urien on Horse next week then he should make it into Wave 3!

Wave 2 shipments are now complete!

We've now completed shipping of Wave 2 items (along with QuickStarter rules and Darklands: Monstrous Mounts existing items), and so it's now on to Wave 3...

Where's My Wave 1 and Wave 2 Stuff?

As always, please don't be upset if your orders have not yet been shipped, even if your order is currently in "packing" - please be patient while the boys get your miniatures cast and sent.

Now, if you believe you have an old Wave 1 or Wave 2 order that hasn't yet been shipped and are wondering why, many orders only have one shipment wave item and thus will only be shipped when everything in those orders is ready. You can mitigate against this by purchasing a Wave 3 shipment item, of course - so the power's still in your hands!

Here's an up to date list of what we think will be shipped when.

With Wave 2 complete, attention turns to Wave 3 of course, and we know a little more about what will and what won't make it into Wave 3. Note that we will probably make final decisions on what will go into Wave 3 next week.

Urien on Horse stays as a "maybe" as we may get him next week but it looks like the Hrafnen Crew are not going to make it into Wave 3/4; so it's Wave 5 for those.

What we will do, to give the sculptors a little more time (and to organise printing of Con I Modius), is push Wave 3 back to November (to sit alongside Wave 4) and thus maximise what we can send to you all before the Christmas break. We do apologise for this, but sculptors do live in the real world and they do have real life issues that impinge upon their time. Even so, we think they've done awesome so far!

We'll keep this list updated every Friday.

SHIPMENT WAVE 0: complete for this project.
SHIPMENT WAVE 1 (beginning end of June): Dúngal on foot - Dúngal on pony - Ciniod - Itaina - Domnech - Bagseg - Eadric on foot - Aldhelm - Leofwen on foot - Broga - Urien on foot - Ffion Ferddig - Angedern - Mag ap Mag - Ieuan Longshore and Taranau - Erebius - Mananaan on foot - Idruaada - Daarkan - Naraa - Gaarwäg- Scecchus - Thelliatiss- Ágriosávra- Eikovra - Myrkranio - Knútr on foot - Knútr on horse - Birna - Víthar - Rollo Iron Head - Jörmungand - Crom on foot - Annik - Zethag - Gondard (Gondard - Ekk) - Brugg - Uhtred Uhtredson - Finnan - Danilo Cruz
SHIPMENT WAVE 2 (beginning August): Timoth - Caedoc - Agathae - Velchior - Djiuzu - Baagath's Herd (Baagath - Blaart - Chuwaa - Ungaa - Rapraag) - Praach - Xontór - Thoth - Hanokh - Dawn of Khthon (Myrinna - Syntyss - Thillia - Phyllidii - Elthissi) - Mälmord - Seza
SHIPMENT WAVE 3/4 (beginning November): Eadric on Horse - Hrōr - Urien on Horse -Con I Modius (Modius - Gellius - Tiberius- Livia - Severa) - Mananaan on Horse - Crom on Horse
SHIPMENT WAVE 5 (beginning February): Cnebba - Gesith Unit - Carys - Equitus Durio on Foot - Equitus Durio on Horse - Hrafnen Crew (Vidkun the Brave - Snorri Snorrisson - Gunnar Half-Shield - Jan - Undrik) - Trytheorn - Rikkard - Maximus

Items in bold will DEFINITELY be sent in that wave as we have the sculpt; items in italics are either in progress or completed and should make it into that wave, but we don't yet have the sculpt.

Now, if items do slip into Wave 4 or 5, we'll either combine those items with shipments from Darklands: First Edition II or Darklands: Monstrous Mounts, should you have anything from those projects, or we'll ship them free of charge.

First Edition II

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mierceminiatures/darklands-first-edition-ii/posts/1043712

Update #95

Nov 7, 2014

Carys and Kell
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It's Friday again! Wahey!

Without further preamble, this week we have:

sculpt work in progress updates from Olivier Bouchet and Juan Navarro Pérez;
a list of what miniatures should be sent in Wave 4, and when Wave 4 will occur;
an updated list of sculptors and sculpts for this project;
UPDATED, downloadable versions of the current QuickStarter Rules, Muster Rules and Kindred Musters;
anything else you can expect from us over the next few months.

Let's begin!

This week we have something from Juan and something from Olivier...

Forwyn Carys of the Brythoniaid is looking super-duper awesome thanks to Juan Navarro Pérez' ministrations... as you can see!

There's not much left to finish on Forwyn Carys so we are hopeful we can have her in time for Wave 4... and now that she's done, Juan can sort out Carys too!

Olivier Bouchet is doing a wonderful job on the Abhorrents of Ys, especially as they're so... well, weird!

The unlovely Kell has got the treatment and she really is ugly. But that's a good thing!

We do believe that these guys will be a Wave 5 shipment!

Here's an up to date list of what we think will be shipped when.

It won't be long now until Wave 4 begins, and we're also combining Wave 4 with Wave 3 items from Darklands: First Edition.

With regard to Darklands: First Edition, Wave 1 and 2 shipments are now complete, which leaves Wave 3 clear to begin casting for.

Bear in mind that Wave 4 shipments will continue from November into December and probably January 2015. We will try to get everything out as soon as we can, but there's a lot to ship - and as always we will prioritise orders in date order; i.e., if you ordered early, you'll get your stuff sent early.

Teulu Issues

Unfortunately we are going to have to put the Teulu Unit back to Wave 5, for which we can only apologise. When cast from the 3D prints, a number of issues - chiefly to do with the thickness of their weapons, shields and cloaks, as well as the size of the hands and head and some detail work - have become apparent. Simply put, we're not willing to put them out as they are - they're just not up to standard. So we're getting Olivier Nkweti to correct them for us and then have them printed again. We should have updated versions of the 3D sculpts next week.

Bear with us on the 3D stuff; we're still learning about the process, and so is Olivier really!

We'll keep this list updated every Friday.

SHIPMENT WAVE 0: complete for this project.
SHIPMENT WAVE 4 (beginning November): Oghu Guardians (Grubog - Pabogg- Drudd - Skrugadd - Undagg) - Skyclad Ciniod - Skyclad Itaina - Gromi (Gromi - Gromi with two cleavers - Armoured Gromi with two cleavers) - Gomagg - Sweordsman Timoth - Cæna - Feral Agathae - Tykho - The Eye Ascendant, Warriors of Baalor Unit (Aanan - Ulaan - Lungaarn - Coraat - Paara) - Helmed Naraa - Marked Galagaak - Craven Fiends of Dis (Kaius - Drubal - Bacchus - Kolkhus - Luco) - Trolls of Töheim, Armoured Troll Unit (Vörtun, Gjöll, Unnolg, Gurrir, Nisurl) - Kill-Head Flint-Fang - Akkaz - Sáthach
SHIPMENT WAVE 5 (beginning February): Spears of Dun Durn - Umaer Drast - Young Magágg - Armoured Hrōr - Eoric's Pack - Rēoc's Pack (Rēoc - Brega - Hædo) - Tonsured Caedoc - Warriors of Dyngonwy, Rhyfelwyr Unit - Forwyn Carys - Loyal Guard, Teulu Unit (Cynog - Lleu Gryf - Gerallt - Dafydd - Emyr) - Quintus Crito - Brunchaath on Gooracx - Slaughterers - Enslaved Ágriosávra - Khallas - Corpse Takers (Gríminn - Ormrinn - Agni - Oddr - Kolskári) - Ravener Birna - Hrókr - Abhorrents of Ys (Gorz - Kell- Relguss - Ingenga - Zunur) - Ax-Crom - Flesh-Scavengers (Gondard - Ekk - Yrag - Bil - Flesh-Pile) - Shadows of Carn Bran - Uhtred on Horse - Max Schüte's second Descendant
SHIPMENT WAVE 6 (beginning April): Oghu Keepers (Brugbad - Dungabad - Lobeg - Bogad - Rubeg) - Geraint on Ceffyldraig - Parawn - In III Judas - Srók - Thórrir

Items in bold will DEFINITELY be sent in that wave as we have the sculpt; items in italics are in progress and should make it into that wave, but we don't yet have the sculpt.