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

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**highlord tamburlaine**

Most of the those units have at least had concept art shown off.

Gotta get with the times Barzam!

I forgot to update my pledge. Dammit. Was going to go in for Golgog and his freebie monster but was busy at work. Recess hit, I get on the computer, and see things have funded already.

Guess I'll be piecemeal adding to my pledge over the next year!

**Bolognesus**

You could email them and see if they'll still let you up now, they seem to be fairly relaxed about that sort of thing this short after a campaign, usually

**PirateRobotNinjaofDeath**

zedmeister wrote:
Ooo, didn't think of an Baalor turned one....

On an unrelated note, these just posted:

Jutes - resin and metals

(Spoilered the rest)

Spoiler:

Oh man...those are some great looking skellies! Liking the look of the nice big square pegs for the joints as well...hopefully that will make them slightly more palatable to assemble compared to my Ax-Drunes (for whom I ended up having to pin every fracking joint). They're to be my girlfriend's first real miniatures army, so I'm reeeeally hoping that the modelling experience won't be so frustrating as to turn her off the hobby (though I suppose worst case scenario I'll just have to do all the pinning myself to get her on her way...).

...or...actually I suppose worst-case-scenario is that I get myself a free Jute army

Is there any update on when the rulebook is expected to ship?

**zedmeister**

PirateRobotNinjaofDeath wrote:

Is there any update on when the rulebook is expected to ship?

From what I can tell, it's at the printers! They're being closed lipped to avoid promising things before they are sure. However long it takes to print all copies, I don't know. But hopefully we'll see the first proofs soon.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

I don't think that this has been posted here yet,

the forum is back up and running and the old content and user data was rescued

http://www.mierce-miniatures.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3

so drop on by, especially if you're gaming and have rules questions as Rob (and others) will find it far easier to answer than in the KS comments

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

looking like no updates today as rob has too much stuff to do from the just finished KS in terms of emails an wesite access,

but he has dropped a wip

Taai-ac:

**Slinky**

Gorgeous - don't even remember that being a thing?

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

From New Kindreds,

Cúgacx (pronounced Coo-gaz) are ferocious wolverine like creatures the Fomoraic use both for hunting, as mounts for their Lords and generally being nasty on the battlefield.

**Alpharius**

Here! (From New Kindreds)

**Bolognesus**

The sketch was cuter...

**Bossk_Hogg**

The head looks totally off on the sculpt from the concept. Its more a bear/wolf head there. The snout is longer, teeth/claws are huge, and neck is way thicker. Maybe it looks better from another angle, but I'm fairly disappointed on the execution.

**Azreal13**

Here's one fully painted..

Spoiler:

No, hang on...

Fun fact, wolverines are a member of the mustelid family, along with weasels, badgers and otters, and modern wolverines are not large enough to be used as mounts.

**Barzam**

Yeah, the art looks significantly less ferocious. The sculpt almost looks more like a wolf.

Speaking of wolves, I'm sure I missed it, but have we seen the final sculpts for Reoc's Pack? What size bases were they supposed to be on?

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

and 40mm bases I think

**RiTides**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Taai-ac:

I like the sculpt much better than the art for this one!

Not too keen on the others shown above, but Taai-ac (seriously, how does anyone google Mierce's models

) is awesome!

Also note that his far paw obscures his profile a bit in this pic, as it's just below his jawline and blends in from this angle.

**madzerker**

While I agree there is a difference in the sculpt and the art, I much more prefer the actual sculpt to the art. The art looked too cute and not mean like I imagine a wolverine. I am happy

**highlord tamburlaine**

Art was a pretty laid back concept. Sculpt looks much better.

That's the problem (positive?) with Mierece's stuff- once they start showing sculpts off, they tend to really knock them out of the park!

...and knock more cash out of my wallet.

**RivenSkull**

Got a big package from Mierce today from the mailman - as I was leaving to go do work. I'm excited because this should close out 2 kickstarters for me from them.

**skullking**

I feel like that art that they showed for the regular Cugax was pulled from this drawing of Iruaada riding one. It's pose seems much less awkward in this picture.

I think the sculpt is far better as well, can't wait to add him to my 499 gold Formoraic host!

**zedmeister**

RivenSkull wrote:
Got a big package from Mierce today from the mailman - as I was leaving to go do work. I'm excited because this should close out 2 kickstarters for me from them.

Jutes?!

**RivenSkull**

zedmeister wrote:
RivenSkull wrote:
Got a big package from Mierce today from the mailman - as I was leaving to go do work. I'm excited because this should close out 2 kickstarters for me from them.

Jutes?!

No. This was part 2 of 3 of my Monsterous Mounts, the Infernii demon infantry starter minus Armored Scecchus and Velchior, and my Mighty Monster pledge (Krull!).

I really only put in for about 4 shipping waves for the earlier kickstarters. I don't mind getting the stuff this late - I don't have too much time to paint (engineering student), and most of my summer job money goes to textbooks, so I tend to be a bit of a penny pincher where I can be.

I just need to do the miscast checks. I'm a little disappointed that both the torso and legs of Krull had some air bubbles and mold slips. Going to try and see if Mierce will replace them or not.

**Mierce Miniatures**

@RivenSkull

Of course we'll replace them. Send a photo of the offending components to parts@mierce-miniatures.com and we'll replace if necessary.

**Fenriswulf**

Grabbed the Fomoraic miscast grab baggie, looking forward to seeing what kinds of cool stuff I get in that. I am hoping it's stuff that with a bit of skill I can rework to make cool alternate Mierce miniatures. I was just wondering the other day when they might have some more of these available, and bingo, here they are!

**Wehrkind**

Has there been any work on when the Angelcynn and Erainn metal hosts are going to be shipped? I vaguely remember them targeting February, but I haven't been on top of things lately.

**GiraffeX**

I've not heard anything about them yet. We have seen the Jutes in metal though in the post at the top of this page, not that that helps you much but there is progress.

**zedmeister**

Wehrkind wrote:
Has there been any work on when the Angelcynn and Erainn metal hosts are going to be shipped? I vaguely remember them targeting February, but I haven't been on top of things lately.

Duguth are currently being sent out. Gesith will probably be a while as they're waiting on the two alternative warriors now that the Æthlyglyth resculpt is done.

From what I can infer, they've just got metal Erainn samples back (along with the Jutes), so a send out should be imminent, probably within the next month I reckon depending on how far down the queue you are.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Noticed this little titbit hasn't been posted:

Tim Fisher:
Atalantes sighted!

Jute-like levels of excitement here at Mierce HQ - not kidding.

Zedmeister:

Oplites? Or Mesokolossos? Or something else?

Tim Fisher

@Zed that's Mesaikolossal tease to you! :0P

Zedmeister

Ooo, a Roberto shaped tease. Assume he's still booked to doing them...

Tim Fisher

Roberto has feathers and humpbacks to sculpt at the mo. These are from a new guy to the Mierce stable.

Roll on Mierceday...

**PirateRobotNinjaofDeath**

Wehrkind wrote:
Has there been any work on when the Angelcynn and Erainn metal hosts are going to be shipped? I vaguely remember them targeting February, but I haven't been on top of things lately.

Guy in my area got his Angelcynn recently in the mail. Unfortunately they'd been shipped without packing material so everything in the box was totally fethed. Apparently Mierce is replacing it all for him at least.

I was told early March for my Jutes/Ysians when last I was emailing with them.

**Wehrkind**

Thanks for the info Zed et al.! Good to know something is happening with them, and I am just waiting for everything to finish up instead of something going down badly.

**skullking**

Wehrkind wrote:
Has there been any work on when the Angelcynn and Erainn metal hosts are going to be shipped? I vaguely remember them targeting February, but I haven't been on top of things lately.

The post got buried under all the stuff for the new KS, but I got the Angelcynn duguth host about a month ago. Still waiting on my metal Erainn host.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/6540/481333.page#8394488

Looking forward to what gets shown for mierce day today! The sculptors have really been chugging along nicely as of late.

**zedmeister**

And we're off!

Demons, Drunes and a Pile of Flesh

It's a fine day for an update, so why don't we give you one?

This week we have:
•sculpt work in progress images from Yannick Hennebo, Martin Lavat and Stéphane Simon;
•a list of what miniatures are currently being sent in their various waves;
• an updated list of sculptors and sculpts for this project;

...and anything else you can expect from us over the next few months.

Let's begin!

As this project is almost complete, there won't be many miniatures to show from here on in. Today is probably the last time we will have a large amount of miniatures to show, too - so enjoy!

After a little break from the Demilegionarii Yannick Hennebo has begun work on the penultimate warrior from the unit...

A warrior from the In III Judas unit, Duilius looks like a nasty piece of work indeed...

We are very much hoping that this guy and the last remaining warrior from the unit will be with us for Wave 11.

Martin Lavat - having finished the Nithings - has now turned his attention to the Flesh-Pile, the last remaining miniature from the Flesh-Scavengers.

The Flesh-Pile known as Ekk's Heap has been sculpted, and looks brilliant!

That means the Flesh-Scavengers will be a Wave 11 shipment!

Stéphane Simon is cracking on with the last remaining Shadow-Drune from the Shadows of Carn Bran...

Cador is the champion, and is definitely getting there...

We are hoping these guys will be a Wave 11 shipment of course.