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First 2 miniatures, the bear rider and dreadlord are now for sale on our store:

http://www.thundercloudminiatures.com/




We have lots of concepts still to be sculpted, some of these are shown below.

We also have the beta version of our game rules for those who are interested in helping us to make a great game. These can be downloaded for here, or by emailing us at contact@thundercloudminiatures.com

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s3hd3xr65vcb983/GQ0eHAaequ

Interesting. Will these be heroic or historical scale? I'm guessing heroic, from the art.

Will keep an eye out for sculpts...

We will be trying to keep things are true scale (or historic scale) as possible, though at the same time we understand the need to have a miniature looks fantastic. So whilst we aim for true scale there may be the odd occasion where a hand/face/etc is larger than you would expect just to make the miniature look it's best.

We will be posting pictures of the sculptures just as soon as we have them to show you.

Bear cavalry- very cool. Color me interested, especially if the figs are as good as your artwork.

Thank you to everyone for the kind words, this project has been a long time in development and we are confident that we are providing a fantastic miniature that you will enjoy painting as much as we did designing.

Work is underway on the bear rider already, but I want to introduce to you our second miniature: The terrifying Dreadlord.

Not much is known about the Dreadlord, weather they are a native beast of the world or some creation of the shadow remains a mystery. There are some how suspect that the Dreadlords are responsible for the change in temperature, whilst still others believe that they are simply taking advantage of a natural occurance. One thing all are sure about is that the Dreadlord is a truly terrifying creature, possessing both strength and cunning and takes a sadistic glee in the slaughter of innocents.

The bear rider is a very interesting prospect. I'll be keeping an eye out for the sculpt.

The Bear rider looks interesting, wouldn't mind adding a unit of them to my Empire army and using them as proxy Demigryph knights.

Any ideas on when your going to release them, as in how many months off from production are you?

Hi Turalon,

I'm glad you are interested in our miniatures. Without making any promises we hope to have these ready for sale in August, but obviously a lot could happen between now and then that might delay the process.

We have been asked a lot for some photos of the miniatures themselves, and to that end I am pleased to present the first photos of the bear rider. Obviously this is an early stage photo and there is still a lot of work to be done, but hopefully this will help to whet your appetite for the final piece…the claws are already looking like they could rend their way through an army.

Looking forward to seeing this develop . Bear cav is a weakness of mine, but the Scibor ones just look a little too doughy... and are out of my price range

Nice stuff indeed matey

Thank you both for the kind words

Short update today, but we wanted to show you the first work in progress shot of the Dreadlord. He may look like he is about to perform the can-can at the moment, but rest assured his final form will be nothing to laugh at…

Hello again. Today we have a new update for you, showing both the bear rider and the Dreadlord further along the production process. We are really pleased with how these 2 are turning out and hope that you are as excited as us to see the finished product.

Man, that bear is looking good!

Thanks RiTides, we like it too. As much as we would like to take all the credit it is simply our design, we are fortunate enough to be working with some very talented people who can convert that image into reality.

Are these going to be cast in metal or resin?

Have to say that in such a small hobby, it's really nice to get to see every step like this.

Wow. Not often you get to see the in progress scuplts. They look really good so far.

I love seeing the sculpts unfold.

The Ghiscari are a nation in George RR Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" books (Game of Thrones). You might want to change the name. Cool WIPs though. good luck

Thanks Orkybenji, we had already been informed elsewhere and are looking into changing the name already.

RiTides, these are going to be cast in resin. Whilst we havn't ruled out metal in the future are experiance is with resin so it made sense to start with that.

Everyone else. I'm glad you like the progress, we thought it important that people saw the process from initial concept to finished miniature. Whilst I can't say that we would do this for every miniature we ever release I think it is a nice way to introduce yourself to the market.

 Thundercloudminiatures wrote:
RiTides, these are going to be cast in resin. Whilst we havn't ruled out metal in the future are experiance is with resin so it made sense to start with that.

Sweet! Stick with resin, please as long as the cost isn't too far out there...

We wanted to introduce you to our third miniature today. We present to you The Faceless.
This will be our first “man sized” miniature and whilst work will not be beginning on this until November we are confident that he will be worth the wait.

The Faceless were men once, men who sold their soul to The Shadow for the promise of greatness. Twisted into a form more pleasing to The Shadow, and granted a martial skill far beyond that on normal men, these creatures now seek nothing less then the destruction of all life.

Yep... if it looks anything like the art, it will be worth it

Well, he is finally finished! We present to you the first “Green” of Thundercloud Miniatures – the Viskari Bear Rider – please let us know what you think.

I like it quite a bit. Just wish there were bigger / better pics now that it is complete. If you upload big ones to the Dakka gallery, people can zoom in on them.

What will the price and release date be?

Hi RiTides, I will look into getting some larger pictures uploaded.

The exact price is still to be confirmed as we need to confirm the cost with the castor to get these made, but we would expect a price of around £25. Of cause you could always like our Facebook page, where the first 50 "likes" will be entered into a prize draw to win one of these shipped anywhere in the world free of charge.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Thundercloud-Miniatures/434543293307164?ref=hl

As for when we will begin selling these, we are still hopeful that we should be open for business in early August

A quick update to show progress on the Dreadlord

Ouch, the currency conversion is going to hurt! Thanks for the update, though

After the slew of miniature updates, we thought it time to introduce you to our universe; the world of Avendora.

http://www.thundercloudminiatures.com/page/avendorabackground

We apologise in advance for the poor formatting - our IT monkeys are working on this as we speak.