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

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**Bottle**

zedmeister wrote:

There's always time for more Yannick Hennebo awesomeness. Here's his latest masterpiece, Bareheaded Ætulla for the Jutes... I think we can safely say that, as a range, the Jutes are our best work so far.

He'll be a Wave 10 shipment - and hopefully the hooded version of Ætulla will be, too...

Hey guys, can you help? I would quite like to buy this model. I guess it's part of an up coming Kickstarter. I've never bought from a Kickstarter and can't quite work out how to request him on this Kickstarter. Also what would the expected waiting times be, and how long until they become general release after the Kickstarter? Thanks :-)

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

This figure is part of a previous KS and a project exclusive too (so basically you can't get access to him now) and has not yet been shipped out to any of the backers (provisional date on that is somewhere in Feb 2016, although I suspect that may slip)

however fortunately those of us who backed the project can carry on adding on stuff until Mierce start sending stuff out

if you want to PM me I can add one to my order (£15 for the Resin Mini now) and get the shipping cost from you when it arrives and I send it out?

**RiTides**

Yeah Bottle, your best bet for a model currently in production is to add it on to someone trustworthy's pledge (imo, Orlando would most certainly qualify, he's probably the most prolific "Kickstarter" poster in the UK). Waiting for retail is hard to know when a model will make it through the pipeline.

If that model is targeted for February 2016 to ship to backers, I'd factor in several months delay if I were you, as they have been running a bit behind. But it certainly looks worth it!

Speaking of this, have the Jute monstrous infantry been shown anywhere? I'm having trouble keeping track of what an entire faction has shown / released, since the links to bigger versions of the unlock maps on older projects don't seem to be working... but the Jutes are looking absolutely ace and I'll certainly be eyeing the pledge manager close date for them on Savage Hordes. Looks like that's not until summer so plenty of time, but I haven't been able to find the monstrous infantry sculpts anywhere and it seems like at least some must be shown by now?

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Oh I forgot to mention there is going to be an non-exclusive version that will be cheaper (£10) where Aetulla has a hood on

I don't think Yannick has converted him yet as he'll need a master resin cast of the bareheaded version to work on, but here's the art

My guess is backers might get him at the same time or in the next 'wave' (April 2016), but this one will eventually hit normal retail too, (again I'm happy to add one to my order for you if you want)

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RiTides wrote:

Speaking of this, have the Jute monstrous infantry been shown anywhere? I'm having trouble keeping track of what an entire faction has shown / released, since the links to bigger versions of the unlock maps on older projects don't seem to be working... but the Jutes are looking absolutely ace and I'll certainly be eyeing the pledge manager close date for them on Savage Hordes. Looks like that's not until summer so plenty of time, but I haven't been able to find the monstrous infantry sculpts anywhere and it seems like at least some must be shown by now?

last WIP work on the Jutes monstrous infantry (Dreaguth, or big floaty wraiths) is in https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mierceminiatures/darklands-new-kindreds/posts/1356778

**highlord tamburlaine**

I'm looking forward to seeing the lesser beasts from the new kindred campaign.

Mainly the Coqwocor, the Thundering Sronox, and the Brutal Krokokh.

Only in Darklands would "lesser" beasts sit on 80mm bases and stand propbably just as tall.

Rob said originally around 60mm for most of those guys, but bigger will certainly be better.

That Krokokh better be even larger than those upcoming Blackhide Wrastler resculpts that Privateer has coming in March, that's all I can say...

**RiTides**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
last WIP work on the Jutes monstrous infantry (Dreaguth, or big floaty wraiths) is in https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mierceminiatures/darklands-new-kindreds/posts/1356778

Wow - they're incredible! Thanks, Orlando

**Alpharius**

RiTides wrote:
OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
last WIP work on the Jutes monstrous infantry (Dreaguth, or big floaty wraiths) is in https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mierceminiatures/darklands-new-kindreds/posts/1356778

Wow - they're incredible! Thanks, Orlando

They are!

(Though I would like to see actual 'prints' and not just renders by now!)

I went "Jute Heavy" in the last KS...

**zedmeister**

Alpharius wrote:

They are!

(Though I would like to see actual 'prints' and not just renders by now!)

I went "Jute Heavy" in the last KS...

Your wish is my command (remember, these are masters so I think they are a teeny bit bigger)

For reference, these were posted back in early October.

**RiTides**

I'm torn on whether I'd prefer those big guys in metal or resin - the one they showed in zed's pic (thanks for that!) is by far the least fragile - all 4 of the others have a hand with skeletal fingers splayed out, like this:

I know no one's received anything in metal yet (right?) since Metal Age wasn't projected until last month anyway and they're running behind, but what would folks recommend for these? The new (even bigger) Jute monstrous infantry in Savage Hordes are only offered in resin, but their hands are all firmly on their weapon handles, rather than splayed out like this.

Asking because I love the models, btw, not as a hater

(and want to figure out the optimal material)

**zedmeister**

I've gone for the metals myself for the Dreaguthas and the skelly kelly's. Resin is a lovely material, but as you point out, brittle. Although at first glance, they look top heavy for metals, Mierce have said they'll be putting some craftily placed metal lips for the bases to keep them upright.

As an aside, the metals are already getting sent out. The Ysian Ax-Drune hosts are pretty much completely dispatched, minus the brutes.

**Alpharius**

zedmeister wrote:
Alpharius wrote:

They are!

(Though I would like to see actual 'prints' and not just renders by now!)

I went "Jute Heavy" in the last KS...

Your wish is my command (remember, these are masters so I think they are a teeny bit bigger)

For reference, these were posted back in early October.

Of course now that you posted it, I do remember seeing them before - but thank you for refreshing my memory here and now!

Once again, Zed rocks!

**RiTides**

zedmeister wrote:
I've gone for the metals myself for the Dreaguthas and the skelly kelly's. Resin is a lovely material, but as you point out, brittle. Although at first glance, they look top heavy for metals, Mierce have said they'll be putting some craftily placed metal lips for the bases to keep them upright.

That's very useful! I would definitely go metal on the skeletons, just a tossup on the Dreaguthas as they seem to be just about perfectly on the line size-wise between what I would want in metal or resin (or rather, their overall size is something I would want in resin - but those fingers seem like they'd survive better in metal).

I would love to see pics when folks get these, although I'm guessing it will be a bit yet for the Jutes at least?

Finally, could you elaborate on "craftily placed metal lips for the bases to keep them upright". Do you mean, like a small support where the cloak meets the base - or something else?

**Alpharius**

Yes, just that.

Something terrain/scenic/and/or hidden that will act as a weight to keep them from toppling over.

**plastictrees**

Kneel before ZED!

Also all the Jute stuff is awesome. Really makes you remember that 90% of what they have been producing are some of the best models in the industry.

**Alpharius**

plastictrees wrote:
Kneel before ZED!

Ha!

I love it!

Zed is a high ranking officer in the Mierce Militia!

plastictrees wrote:

Also all the Jute stuff is awesome. Really makes you remember that 90% of what they have been producing are some of the best models in the industry.

It really is!

They have a few missteps in their catalog, to be sure, but yeah, I'd put their output at around 90%+ 'best in the business' level!

**zedmeister**

Gents, you're too kind. As long as helps keep the confusion down. Also, just noticed this:

November/December retail and trade releases:

MIGHTY MONSTERS AND MONSTROUS MOUNTS

We're late with the releases again this month, so we've skipped October to bring you November's beautiful BaneLegions and Darklands miniatures! Again, this means we've a few to bring you, from four different Kickstarter projects - Darklands: First Edition, Darklands: First Edition II and BaneBeasts: Mighty Monsters, as well as the first releases from Darklands: Monstrous Mounts! These seventeen releases represent the eleventh, fifth, second and first set of releases from those projects respectively.

For BaneLegions, we have Gore-Fang - a huge driller killer Rat-Beast - as well as his companion, Master Converter Kemp-Kemp (designed by an old friend of ours, Wayne Kemp of Heelanhammer fame), a Rat-Warlock with some arcane contraptions strapped to his back! We have lots more for Darklands, of course: the Albainn get a hold of Ciniod on his Aurogg, a huge monstrous beast; the Anglecynn gain a superb new infantry unit, the Gesith, comprised of five warriors armed with sword and spear; another monstrous mount appears for the Byzantii, the amazing Erebius on Behema (sculpted by the master himself, Dan Cockersell); the Fomoraic get a combined hoof and mounted for Brunchaath the Vile, a beastman of ill-repute and smelly feet; the Khthones have themselves a superb new three-headed monster, Khallas the Hydrakh; and lastly the Norse gain another unit, this time monstrous infantry - the Hrafnmenn known as the Corpse Takers!

Sadly, we've not been able to get them painted in time for release, but the miniatures themselves are fantastic as always - and just like the previous releases, thanks to us being busier than busy bees we've just not had the time to get the release art and descriptions done; but you can still see some good images of each miniature on the website of course.

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CINIOD, UMAER OF DUN DURN ON AUROGG

Another superb sculpt for the Albainn by the awesome Aragorn Marks (from the equally awesome artwork by Sam Lamont), Ciniod is a bare-chested, ginger-bearded warchief riding on a mighty Aurogg... which is perfectly able to trample all over his enemies!

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WOLFBORN, GESITH UNIT

With the release of the Gesith - sculpted by Stéphane Simon from the artwork by Danny Cruz - the Anglecynn now have a superb unit of elite, hearthguard infantry to complement the veterans known as Duguth. Armed with sword and spear and bearing heavy armour and a shield, the Wolfborn are led by the unit's champion, Egbert, and contains a banner bearer, Wulfric and a herald, Hrothgar, as well as two warriors, Cerdic and Wigstan.

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EREBIUS, DEMIURION ON BEHEMA

It's been a while since a miniature sculpted by Dan Cockersell has been released, but let's rectify that right now with his latest masterpiece (originally drawn up by Stef Kopinski) for the Byzantii! Enter, stage left, Erebius the mighty Demiurion on his superb monstrous mount, the Behema!

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BRUNCHAATH THE VILE, GABRAX TAIN ON HOOF AND ON GOORACX

A foot and mounted - well, hoof and mounted - release for the Fomoraic is Brunchaath the Vile (one of our oldest miniatures), sculpted by Benoît Cosse from the original artwork by Stefan Kopinski! Putting them both together as a single purchase ensures you save a little money from purchasing them individually, of course.

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KHALLAS, HYDRAKH OF ÝDRON

It's been a while since the last Khthones release, but the wait has been worth it because the three-headed Hydrakh known as Khallas (sculpted by Roberto Chaudon from the artwork by Tom Mahon) will give his enemies something to think about!

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CORPSE TAKERS, HRAFNMANN UNIT

It's another unit for the Norse this month, and this time it's a monstrous infantry unit. The Corpse Takers are a fantastic unit of five Hrafnmenn - raven-men - sculpted superbly by Roberto Chaudon from the excellent artwork of Dan Warren. The five are led by the unit's champion, Gríminn (which was released a while ago now, as he was completed long before the rest) and contains four warriors - Ormrinn flying from a broken ship's mast, the female Agni, the awesome Oddr and the sneaking Kolskári. Fantastic miniatures all!

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GORE-FANG, RAT-BEAST

Converted by Tim Prow from Flint-Fang, using the artwork of Dan Warren, Gore-Fang continues the releases from the BaneBeasts: Mighty Monsters project and is a cracking addition to the BaneLegions range. That drill looks like it could come a bit keen!

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MASTER CONVERTER KEMP-KEMP, RAT-WARLOCK

Designed by an old friend of ours, Wayne Kemp (of Heelanhammer fame), Master Converter Kemp-Kemp has been lovingly sculpted by Tim Prow from the excellent artwork by Wayne England. Need a Rat-Warlock with some arcane contraptions and a great big whip? Call Kemp-Kemp!

All of the releases above were officially released on the 7th of November 2015, and so you can order them right now.

**PirateRobotNinjaofDeath**

RiTides wrote:I'm torn on whether I'd prefer those big guys in metal or resin - the one they showed in zed's pic (thanks for that!) is by far the least fragile - all 4 of the others have a hand with skeletal fingers splayed out, like this:

I know no one's received anything in metal yet (right?) since Metal Age wasn't projected until last month anyway and they're running behind, but what would folks recommend for these? The new (even bigger) Jute monstrous infantry in Savage Hordes are only offered in resin, but their hands are all firmly on their weapon handles, rather than splayed out like this.

Asking because I love the models, btw, not as a hater (and want to figure out the optimal material)

zedmeister wrote:I've gone for the metals myself for the Dreaguthas and the skelly kelly's. Resin is a lovely material, but as you point out, brittle. Although at first glance, they look top heavy for metals, Mierce have said they'll be putting some craftily placed metal lips for the bases to keep them upright.

As an aside, the metals are already getting sent out. The Ysian Ax-Drune hosts are pretty much completely dispatched, minus the brutes.

I received the first batch of my Ysians in the mail, which is the Ax-Drune starter host sans the Brutes.

I'm about halfway through assembling them, and I can tell you that the casts are of exceedingly high quality. I've seen my friend's resin Infernii and they needed some serious cleanup during assembly, but the metal ax-drune infantry have required very minimal cleanup.

On the flip side, they are also *VERY* fiddly to assemble. Resin bonds better with superglue than metal does (even with amble scoring to increase the surface area), so while metal may be more sturdy in some ways ways the joins are also quite fragile in a different way. For instance, each of my ax drunes have horns that must be *individually* glued on, and which seem to break off every time I look at them. I tried to use a bit of green stuff to strengthen the join but even that didn't help much. Same thing with the arms, which are each a separate piece and are further separate from the hands/weapon, all of which must essentially be glued at the same time to get them to line up properly. Very irritating.

So it really depends. If cost is an issue (Darklands models are fething *expensive*) then I'd say go with metal where available. If cost isn't much of an issue then I'd say consider going for the resin.

**Taaloc**

I hated assembling the resin ax-drunes- can't imagine trying to do the metal ones. I'm getting the metal Teulu so they will hopefully have fewer spindly bits.

I have to say that I hate assembling Mierce figures. I love the figures and the aesthetic and the quality and sharpness to detail, but they are often such a pain to put together and frequently come with huge gaps. They say the figures are for expert modellers, and I consider myself an expert modeller, but many of them are horrible to put together.

The reason I keep buying them, though, is because they are absolutley beautiful.

**RiTides**

Thanks for both of those reviews, guys. That had been my criticism of some of the models as well (mostly the Agriosavra type, Mierce and even the master molder responded here about it). My hope was that as they gain experience they can make the models in less pieces, as while gluing on individual horns is possible, it's obviously preferable to avoid it

. I think that is entirely possible without losing any dynamism or detail, given the resin models I have from other companies that are excellent and in less pieces, so I am hoping this improves!

So number of parts and how small they are would be a big factor in whether to get something in resin or metal. For now, I'll likely wait and see those models come out - quite a bit of resin to work through here as it is

and then I can make a better decision if I decide to get them.

**PirateRobotNinjaofDeath**

Taaloc wrote:
I hated assembling the resin ax-drunes- can't imagine trying to do the metal ones. I'm getting the metal Teulu so they will hopefully have fewer spindly bits.

I have to say that I hate assembling Mierce figures. I love the figures and the aesthetic and the quality and sharpness to detail, but they are often such a pain to put together and frequently come with huge gaps. They say the figures are for expert modellers, and I consider myself an expert modeller, but many of them are horrible to put together.

The reason I keep buying them, though, is because they are absolutley beautiful.

Old GW metals were just as bad. I still have nightmares about assembling my metal DA Sammael-on-jetbike and old (5th ed) Egrimm Van Horstmann on the oldschool chaos dragon. I literally used so much superglue on the second one that the front of my hair was white from the fumes by the end. Probably not very good for my lungs...

Plastic kits are just so much easier to assemble that we've all gotten a little spoiled and forgot how awful things were in the old days.

...that said, having to glue the fething horns onto each individual ax-drune's head is pretty ridiculous. Why couldn't the heads have been a separate piece, with the horns attached?

And the hands are just...ugh. I'm probably going to have to pin them all at some point.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

25% off at Mierce http://www.mierce-miniatures.com/

It's been an amazing 2015 for Mierce Miniatures and as it's nearly over, we thought we'd celebrate this year and the next with a whopping 25% off UK RRP on purchases from our webstore, starting now until midnight (GMT) on Monday the 4th of January 2016

The voucher will work on all the Darklands, BaneLegions and Templar's Forge items within our webstore, but:

not on any Components
not on any Kickstarter items

The voucher will work on pre-orders and, crucially, you'll still earn Moneyback - although tiered discounts are disabled when using a voucher.

Your voucher code is: NEW-YEAR-2016

To use this voucher simply register on the webstore, mierce-miniatures.com (if you haven't already), copy and paste the voucher code into the Voucher field in your basket when you have selected the items you want, press 'REDEEM', and the webstore will do the rest. You are not limited to one purchase and, indeed, we would ask you to recommend us to your friends with this voucher!

**lordphade**

End of the sale tonight. I took the opporunity to get a few big beasties!
Kadamaster, Ygandr, Uuthull, Hrudinn and Mjagnir plus some other bits. Saved over £100, well happy

Great news too is that a couple more players in our area have surfaced, this year is the year of Darklands!

Anyone else taken advantage?

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Sale extended a week

Due to popular demand, our fantastic New Year Sale - which gives you a whopping 25% off UK RRP on purchases from our webstore - has been extended by another week. This means you can purchase all of our amazing miniatures at a great discount until midnight (GMT) on Monday the 11th of January 2016!

**Boss Salvage**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:Sale extended a week

!!!

lordphade wrote:Anyone else taken advantage?

I was going to be good this year ... but might cave and pick up a few monstrous infantry units

Now do I go Snake Men? Snake Women? Rhino Dudes? Raven People?

*sighs, acquires all the big anthro things*

- Salvage

**cromagz**

@lordphade - where is your area?

Holding off on this sale so I have funds for the kickstarter that's coming mid month

**Alpharius**

Rhino Dudes and Raven People.

Whenever you can.

Obviously.

**Boss Salvage**

Alpharius wrote:
Rhino Dudes and Raven People.

Whenever you can.

Obviously.

QFT. Sadly I just stumbled upon Walrus Chap and Sloth Bro, and the confliction builds

- Salvage

**Alpharius**

That would just be The Addiction - because clearly you should get Walrus Dudes and Sloth Dudes often too.

All kidding aside, the monstrous stuff for Fomoraic is usually spectacular.

**Ian Sturrock**

I bought the Harryhausen style brass golem, and the werebear dude in both human and bear forms. Still not sure what they are for yet -- probably Song of Blades and Heroes, and Dragon Rampant. The golem can go with my Reaper brass bull, and the werebear can lead some Blood Rage vikings.

**Henry**

Next kickstarter info

Mierce Miniatures wrote:you're looking at around the 18th of January mate.

definite end date will be the 9th of Feb; it may start before/after the 18th though.

Another three weeker then.