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Hello everybody!

We have finally put our Dwarf Halls up for sale. There is the basic hall here and the Grand Entrance is here.















We have a few other Fantasy kits and some Science Fiction kits, too. They are all laser-etched MDF. Check out our website here and please tell us what you think or want to see on our blog.






Our previous Dakka thread is here.

The Dropship is up for preorder here.

The Hellbadger dropship is now available for pre-order
Posted on June 21, 2013

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I like the warp portal, but I guess it's not intended for actual sale?
I just might have to get some of those nano or circuit wall sheets to make my own Necron Monolith (I use the original 2nd Edition Necron models, so the current monolith doesn't quite fit the aesthetic).

Those Dwarf Halls are really nice!
If I ever plan to make Dwarven scenery, I'll definetely check that out.

Very nice

Since you started this topic I'm going to assume the older topic will get locked

Really like the Dwarf Halls, that's something I haven't seen something like before!

Wonder if there would be some way of tying that in with the Mantic game?

Man, I really want those Dwarven Halls! I need to move house pronto so I have room to store scenery!

Definitely the best take on that sort of thing for the price I have ever seen.

40 euro (ish) plus postage for a square foot's worth of halls is pretty good! I could get a 4 by 4 board for 160... O_O

Oh whao. I love thows Dwarf hulls.

Since they are on 6"x6" squares it means with a few sets you could make a nifty little modular table. And you only need two sets to make a 12x12 board, for 4 to make a 24x24 modular board.

I love it. Like it alot more then the sci-fi coradors for the reason in all honesty.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
I like the warp portal, but I guess it's not intended for actual sale?
I just might have to get some of those nano or circuit wall sheets to make my own Necron Monolith (I use the original 2nd Edition Necron models, so the current monolith doesn't quite fit the aesthetic).

The Warp Portal was designed as a promotional model to give people an idea of what we could do. We are planning to make a less legally risky version soon that we can actually sell.


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 Pacific wrote:
Really like the Dwarf Halls, that's something I haven't seen something like before!

Wonder if there would be some way of tying that in with the Mantic game?

We would love to accomodate anyone who wants a boardgame-ready version. None of us own a copy of Dwarf King's Hold, so we don't know what the tiles need to be like. What would make our halls compatible with that game?

Or do you mean trying to become an official tie-in product? I think Mantic already has an MDF terrain company they used for Dreadball.


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 kenshin620 wrote:
Very nice

Since you started this topic I'm going to assume the older topic will get locked

Is that how it works? I started this thread so I could edit the title and OP for new product releases.

These look great and the price seems very reasonable. Once I actually start my dwarves I might be interested in this.

Man, these look great. I hope I get my order soon so I can show them integrated to my ship interior board.

You know what you shoudl do? I see most of the dwarven themed pieces are actually separate, you should try to come up with just a second set of decoration and market those as a steampunk, dare I say Malifaux, table scenery.

yeah,
DungeonBowl !!!
Just placed a order for some dwarf halls.

Panic...

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Man, these look great. I hope I get my order soon so I can show them integrated to my ship interior board.

You mean the barricade kit? Or the corridor kit?

You know what you shoudl do? I see most of the dwarven themed pieces are actually separate, you should try to come up with just a second set of decoration and market those as a steampunk, dare I say Malifaux, table scenery.

Please tell me more. What style of terrain works with Malifaux? Or Dwarf King's Hold for that matter?

We are planning to add some new "skins" to the tower and the Dwarf Hall parts. Just not happening as quickly as we would like.


EDIT:
Someone mentioned paint trays in the other thread. Does he mean army-themed trays? What are you guys looking for in a paint tray?

 TheAngriestBadger wrote:

We would love to accomodate anyone who wants a boardgame-ready version. None of us own a copy of Dwarf King's Hold, so we don't know what the tiles need to be like. What would make our halls compatible with that game?

Your stuff is seriously impressive. I'll probably wait until you have a few more things available then do a bulk order, since postage from the USA is a bit nasty nowadays.

On an unrelated note, it might be worth you guys picking up a copy of each of the three DKH games as well as Project Pandora (and Space Hulk) as they are all excellent miniatures-themed boardgames I am sure you and the team would enjoy. You might even find them inspirational.

At some point later on, you could release some "Dwarven Lord's Crypt themed dungeon tiles" and "generic space ship/station corridor/room tiles".

Malifaux is basically anything from mid-nineteenth to first decade of the 20th century, with either a european or american feel.

I've been scoring a bunch of mdf sheets to act as basic flagstones for a steampunkish city.

I got my order in, by the way, it's waiting for me at home. I damn love my postman who leaves my stuff up two flights of stairs in front of my door, safe from my neighbours' prying hands! I'll take pics and review soonish.

 TheAngriestBadger wrote:

Someone mentioned paint trays in the other thread. Does he mean army-themed trays? What are you guys looking for in a paint tray?

I imagine either something like this:



or this:

 Panic wrote:
yeah,
DungeonBowl !!!
Just placed a order for some dwarf halls.

Panic...

Exactly

Post pics when you get them!

Too excited to post pics. And it's late, I work early tomorrow. But the bag of stuff from the corridor kit is big. I wasn't expecting as many gubbins and stuff. This is going to pimp-out my space-corridor table admirably well.

I dare my friends not to come and play on it. I dare them...

I REALLY like those dwarf halls. Though I have to spend quite alot to build a properly sized hold, or even cover half of a board with it if I wanted a significant amount of the terrain to take place inside the hold. Any plans for large combo packs? Enough to cover a 2'x2' square or so?

yeah,

 RiTides wrote:

 Panic wrote:
DungeonBowl !!! Just placed a order for some dwarf halls.

Exactly Post pics when you get them!

Will Do planning on a blog to make sure I get it started double quick and completed and gamed on!

Panic...

Just a quick trio of pictures to show the veritable pile o'stuff you get with the space corridors kit.

The details are plentiful, crisp and everything goes together admirably well. If it seems askew, it's because I haven't glued anything, it's just leaning against each other. Rather than just use them as corridors in and of themselves, I will be using those to spruce up an existing board, so I have more than enough to make that work.

If future stuff matches this quality, they'll make a repeat customer of me.

 Azazelx wrote:

 TheAngriestBadger wrote:

We would love to accomodate anyone who wants a boardgame-ready version. None of us own a copy of Dwarf King's Hold, so we don't know what the tiles need to be like. What would make our halls compatible with that game?

Your stuff is seriously impressive. I'll probably wait until you have a few more things available then do a bulk order, since postage from the USA is a bit nasty nowadays.

On an unrelated note, it might be worth you guys picking up a copy of each of the three DKH games as well as Project Pandora (and Space Hulk) as they are all excellent miniatures-themed boardgames I am sure you and the team would enjoy. You might even find them inspirational.

At some point later on, you could release some "Dwarven Lord's Crypt themed dungeon tiles" and "generic space ship/station corridor/room tiles".

We will be putting up big bundle deals and combos soon. We are just trying to figure out a way to make it fair for people who have already spent a lot of money on multiples of, say, the Dwarf Hall or the Barricade. We don't want anyone to feel angry that they missed out but we can't really afford to ship out more free stuff too much. Maybe there will be some sort of angry points system...

One of our team has Space Hulk, Dreadball and Sedition Wars, as well as a few Fantasy Flight Games bix boxes. I'm not sure DKH or Pandora are in our budgets at the moment. Does anyone have any sample pictures? We are looking into KOW, too, and the possibility of doing movement trays or wound counters. That would probably be a bit farther off, though.

We are working on an abandoned dungeon version of the Dwarf Halls, as well as some fortifications for evil elves. Time is our biggest constraint right now so it might take a while. Even the laser cutter has a day job.


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 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Malifaux is basically anything from mid-nineteenth to first decade of the 20th century, with either a european or american feel.

I've been scoring a bunch of mdf sheets to act as basic flagstones for a steampunkish city.

I got my order in, by the way, it's waiting for me at home. I damn love my postman who leaves my stuff up two flights of stairs in front of my door, safe from my neighbours' prying hands! I'll take pics and review soonish.

We do have a few stony textures that might work. It's taking longer than we thought to bring out most of our new products so it might take a while to get to anything steampunkish. Also, there are many companies making historical, Western terrain right now and we are trying to stick to markets that are more open. So it might be a while on anything too Western.

I'm glad you got your order. Thank you for taking so many nice pictures!

@Azazel: We will have to look into it and see if we can make them sturdy enough with MDF. Shipping might be a bit much on such large kits. If we were to make paint trays we would probably give them army-specific shapes and textures. Not sure what else would make them stand out.

I think getting the Pandora rulebook for $4,99 ish on WGV would do; that has pictures of the room tiles in it. I could take a few pictures from my rulebook for you, or a bunch of shots of all the separate tiles laid out? Don't have DKH myself though; just Pandora.

Great to see you're listening to our feedback.

When I mentionned American, though, I meant urban, and not western. You're right that that part of the market has good competitors at the moment. But generic, turn of the century brick and dressed stone buildings.

But your halls could easily be de-dwarfified into more generic tunnels and sewers. You could even make... furniture. I'm thinking bookcases, bars, tables and chairs, mantlepieces,


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This is what I'm thinking about.

Thanks for the above pics of your stuff, Mathieu (which I just saw). I have to spring on any of this laser cut terrain, but it looks tempting...

Looking forward to the blog, Panic!

I really like this terrain, its really good looking.

I would love to see something or a set i could bodge together to represent a more generic Fortress of redemption.. Generic bunker complex or something

 TheAngriestBadger wrote:

One of our team has Space Hulk, Dreadball and Sedition Wars, as well as a few Fantasy Flight Games bix boxes. I'm not sure DKH or Pandora are in our budgets at the moment. Does anyone have any sample pictures? We are looking into KOW, too, and the possibility of doing movement trays or wound counters. That would probably be a bit farther off, though.

We are working on an abandoned dungeon version of the Dwarf Halls, as well as some fortifications for evil elves. Time is our biggest constraint right now so it might take a while. Even the laser cutter has a day job.

@Azazel: We will have to look into it and see if we can make them sturdy enough with MDF. Shipping might be a bit much on such large kits. If we were to make paint trays we would probably give them army-specific shapes and textures. Not sure what else would make them stand out.

No worries. I was just using those pics to answer your question. I'm probably not after paint racks from you guys due to shipping and the fact that I can source them locally (and I want the acrylic ones). Scenery is a different matter.

Here's a non-detailed pic of DKH. The games are about $50 each, so not expansive and are actually quite fun to play as well. Descent would possibly be another one to look into, but the DKH/Pandora series have card tiles that are closer to cheap & nasty, so good for replacing with MDF. Descent's ones are much nicer.

Would you consider selling packs of 4 dwarf floor tiles on their own?

I like Mathieu's ideas as well. Stuff like that can be used in modern urban games, pulp games anywhere from the late 1900's through to now, 28mm WW2,(Bolt Action!) even steampunk and 40k - as I don't think buildings need sprockets&cogs or skulls&eagles on them to fit those genres...

No, a distinct lack of those would be a definite plus, in my book. And they don't need to be made of plastic, at all.

And from the pieces I have, I know your level of details is more than enough to make each building interesting.

Just as a point of inquiry, how long does it take to, say, burn one of those dwarf hold tiles? I confess not to know how long doing these kits takes.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Great to see you're listening to our feedback.

When I mentionned American, though, I meant urban, and not western. You're right that that part of the market has good competitors at the moment. But generic, turn of the century brick and dressed stone buildings.

But your halls could easily be de-dwarfified into more generic tunnels and sewers. You could even make... furniture. I'm thinking bookcases, bars, tables and chairs, mantlepieces,
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This is what I'm thinking about.

We do have plans to create some buildings to fit this time period, roughly. However, we are pretty far from making them. It took us nearly a month longer to get our Dwarf halls up and for sale than we expected so I'm hesitant to give out any expected release dates.

We are planning to turn the Dwarf Halls into dungeons. We also have furniture and some small accessories planned. Just can't say when they'll be ready. There is a lot of stuff we have at varying levels of completeness right now but don't have the time to finish properly at the moment. Usually when we design something we create some sketches, prepare a CAD mockup, print some prototypes, figure out why the prototypes aren't fitting right, tweak the designs, try to figure out why the next prototypes aren't working, swear a lot, and so on. We do have day jobs that keep trying to get in the way too. Don't get me started on our families.

Sometimes there is also the need to switch around our scheduled releases a bit in order to strike while the iron is hot. For example our next release, evil elf fortifications, might be 95% done. However, we might decide that we have a pressing need to revisit our designs that complement giant robots or Space Germans, which are only 50% done, so that we can release them while a lot of people still want them...

I guess if I have a point it's that time is a predator that stalks us all our lives.


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 Sgt.Roadkill wrote:
I really like this terrain, its really good looking.

I would love to see something or a set i could bodge together to represent a more generic Fortress of redemption.. Generic bunker complex or something

We are planning a sci-fi version of the fortress. Some day. Some day.


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@Azazel: Thanks for the pictures! We are looking into this now...

 Grimstonefire wrote:
Would you consider selling packs of 4 dwarf floor tiles on their own?

Yes. Well, maybe not 4 alone, but we are in the process of putting together bundle deals and combos, as well as tile sets consisting of a number of dwarf floors and corridor set floors. We need to find a good balance for pricing and shipping to work out.


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 Azazelx wrote:
I like Mathieu's ideas as well. Stuff like that can be used in modern urban games, pulp games anywhere from the late 1900's through to now, 28mm WW2,(Bolt Action!) even steampunk and 40k - as I don't think buildings need sprockets&cogs or skulls&eagles on them to fit those genres...

In the fullness of time, we want to have all of these things covered. Right now, we are prioritizing which sets we work on and release based on what we perceive the demand to be and how untapped we think the particular market is. For example we might make a Chinese fortress/monastary/generic building to test the market since no one else it doing it, but we might wait until after we make stuff for evil elves, giant robots, dropships, and the like because we have a better idea what people are looking for in those areas. Or we hope we do.

Speaking of modern urban games, is it weird that we wanted to make some terrain based on the mall we used to work at? We were thinking "Zombie games or paintball", but now it seems a little weird.


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 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
No, a distinct lack of those would be a definite plus, in my book. And they don't need to be made of plastic, at all.

And from the pieces I have, I know your level of details is more than enough to make each building interesting.

Just as a point of inquiry, how long does it take to, say, burn one of those dwarf hold tiles? I confess not to know how long doing these kits takes.

Thank you. I have to give credit to Terry. He's the member of the team who really adds the details and makes everything look great. Also, he owns the means of production.


It takes about an hour and a half to burn a Dwarf Hall kit. Kits with more texture take longer. It's faster for the laser to cut out a hole than to burn out an indented section, so it's always tempting to reduce texture and just creatw everything out of layers only, but then it really tends to look like a balsa wood model.