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Geez, I'm out then I'm in, currently in for the Raven miniature, I think as long as they keep that one true to the concept art (especially the face) I'm in to the end.

 keltikhoa wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
So... who's got paint schemes planned out eh?

Going with Jailbirds and my plan is for CSM cultists. Which is the start of a new army for me. I do not have IG either so I may decide to go renegade guard instead but either way these girls are going to be under the influence

That's pretty much what I was going to do. Grab some to use as cultists / renegade IG depending on size of the game and what not. Probably going to end up with deserty colours to match the few Talllarns I've picked up

man There is alot of debate on scale . I have to say , that I field a lot of different minis in my force from different companies and systems ...tbh, when your playing on the table top ,,no one ever notices the very slight scale difference. occasionally I'll get a ...that mini is not gw and I'll nod and show it to them they say cool and then well continue on . I'd like the RH minis to be more faithful to actual scale like they did with the space elves looking characters and the daemonettes stand ins since tbh...no on is really ever going to notice if there not the exact same height/width/depth as the gw brand. And id like to be able to use these minis for all kinds of stuff, not just 40k


Also i have to second an earlier opinion. GW's scale is all over the place. 10 marines are supposed to fit in a rhino......are you serious?

I got to say I preferred the 28mm suggestion that was made a few pages back.

Minis painted the same will look uniform anyway even if they're scaled differently (as long as they're all 28mm) so I'd prefer they go for more realistic proportions than heroic.

I'm not judging anyone who likes heroic I'm just saying i preref idealized.

It's surprising at first glance, but most people are around 7 heads tall.



(note that the "Heroic" scale used in Loomis' image is different from the Heroic scale used in miniatures)

It's not so much the heroic scale look that is the concern for me, I don't mind if they are more realistically proportioned but I am not a fan of the over slim look.

If they keep a slightly bulky feel to the body size mass then that would be great for me, they don't need to have oversized hands or heads but I don't like the anorexia look.

This way they would blend with most ranges without looking out of place.

 rayphoton wrote:
Also i have to second an earlier opinion. GW's scale is all over the place. 10 marines are supposed to fit in a rhino......are you serious?

Technically 10+ don't forget the rhino crew. So thats what two more?

Actually one crew member, the squad sergeant takes up the other place up front.

Or 12 orks in a trukk. or 20 in a battle wagon

 BrookM wrote:
Actually one crew member, the squad sergeant takes up the other place up front.

Then how does the driver drive and fire the pintle mounted SB with no squad embarked?

 HisDivineShadow wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Actually one crew member, the squad sergeant takes up the other place up front.

Then how does the driver drive and fire the pintle mounted SB with no squad embarked?

The Machine Spirit provides somehow no doubt. Imperial Armour 2 has a nice diagram on who goes where when bussed in a Rhino.

But that's something for the fluff section of the forums maybe.

 keltikhoa wrote:
Or 12 orks in a trukk. or 20 in a battle wagon

I knew someone who had a whole mob of orks with arms positioned 'barrel of monkeys' style so that he could fit all of them in the back of a trukk.

Wasn't the rule for ork battlewagons in 2nd edition that the capacity of said wagon was however many orks you could balance on top of it?

 alanmckenzie wrote:
Wasn't the rule for ork battlewagons in 2nd edition that the capacity of said wagon was however many orks you could balance on top of it?

At one point, yeah, that was the rule. Although I believe if one of your orks fell off, it died.

would it have been modeling for advantage then if you made sides out of full plasticard sheets so you had a bucket o' orks on wheels?

Back then there was no official model. You could make it however you wanted

Moving towards the Raven unlock at a nice, brisk pace!

 HisDivineShadow wrote:
Back then there was no official model.

Actually, there was. It just wasn't available for very long, as the mould was supposedly dropped and broken. It was sold in resin under licence by Armorcast for a while, but nobody noticed.


Meanwhile, that topic, hey?

I was kind of surprised to see delays based on Benoit's injury. Does anyone know about how small this company is, anyway? I've expected the possibility of delays from industrial difficulties, but is the company small enough that a personal injury to one person could significantly delay production?

Jim, it's three people. Total.

There's already a delay and the KS isn't even over? Isn't this moving into "GW FAQ" territory?

Hello! We've been quite silent since late yesterday, and that was not entirely due to careful planning. While we intended to spend quite the many hours working on external communications for the KS, Benoit's body decided to take a break: he threw his back so bad he could barely walk, and when he did, he had to be completely bent at the waist... Lucky for us, he saw an excellent chiropractor today who set the articulation back, but the inflammation is still high, so when I say he's now flat on his back, well, ... he is ;-)
So, in a way, it's just as well that the KS is moving more slowly for the moment, we'll be back with a vengeance in no time :-)
Also there's a good chance of our unveiling quite a few stretch goals at once, which will be an opportunity to discover and share new images, instead of staring at the silhouettes. As soon as I can get my man back on Photoshop, we'll make that happen!

I don't think it's that big of a deal, at this point, but I'd hate to have something like that delay production of the minis significantly.

That being said, I'd rather everyone was healthy and safe rather than getting my minis on time. My toys aren't worth someone compounding an injury for.

Ah yes, France. A chiropractor. My mother swears by one. She's only had her back pain come back every month for the past 40 odd years.

We're in great hands, boys.

Dude, that is not cool. Insults against entire nationalities are the kind of joke you tell amongst close friends, in private. A public forum isn't the place where that kind of thing is acceptable.

I believe the insult was towards chiropractors, not French people. Of which I am nominally a part of, as I keep being reminded of often enough.

With a name like Mathieu I'd have figured you clearly had some sort of Hungarian or Indian heritage...

I hope Benoit gets better; losing 33% of your workforce isn't good for any company. Hopefully we're still far enough away from the actual start of production that it won't matter.

What delay? We haven't run out of SGs yet, its not like its come to screeching halt...there was just no update.....

Well, before anyone ninja's me, here's what I've been doing for the last hour while listening to the rain outside.

"But we can say that our personal taste is for proportions more in line to the ones of our Heroines, because we find them more beautiful, and because we think that the entire industry is moving towards “truer”, or at least, more elegant proportions."

Some quick photoshop based on RH's comments from Update #16:



And some lines marking feet (best guess based on boots/high heels) and knees. Blondie is a bit more leggy than the others. The extra length in the photoshopped troopers' torsos make up for the missing height RH was discussing earlier in the KS (I believe their current intentions are to make the Heroine sculpts slightly taller than the R&F troops to draw attention to the characters, though we may or may not see a change later on based on their comment from Update #16).



I think they'll be spot on if they can adjust the scaling and proportions of the rank and files to match up a bit better with their Heroine renders.

Who's got bets for the next batch of stretch goal reveals?

My guess is for some Iron Empire Snipers and Volga Potemkine, the Kurganova's Standard.

~iPaint

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, Raven's been officially unlocked! Yaaaaay!



Awesome stuff!

 -iPaint- wrote:



My guess is for some Iron Empire Snipers and Volga Potemkine, the Kurganova's Standard.

~iPaint

Nope. Can't be a big unit unlock for Iron Empire. It was just Iron Empire (Bikes) and Jail Birds before them (Mechs) so Kruganova Snipers is a possibility (or a bike/mech, gotta be a big unit, I'm hoping snipers meself) and then an IE Hero, followed by a Jail Bird unit, then a JB Hero, and so forth.