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The Tech Confederation Defensive Terrain has been unlocked.

A new Fourth Stretch goal at $17K - Dark Space Elves Defensive line and Weapon Turrets

The fourth stretch goal will be the Dark Space Elf defensive terrain kit.

This kit comes with 4 long walls, 4 short walls, a turret mount, 2 weapon choices and a coms array.

The comm array is interesting. My 2 cents - the top and bottom don't match. The bottom is fantastic - 110% spot on. The top part is problematic; I think it looks more like something you're see on an organic xenomorph type race (presuming no skulls) - lets call these hypothetical aliens Terrornoids. My idea would be to scrap the top model (reuse it it for the Terronoid equivalwnt). Replace it with some kind of thin tubing, cylinder, crystal* or; whatever, it's not important, just to add height and balance - then copy and paste the base, scale3D it to make it a little smaller and a little taller/more slender, and bam, call it a day. Maybe flip it upside down or something, maybe make it bladed both up and down.

*and if you use some kind of crystal, you can use that model and part in green again for the Deathcrons or Necrotrons or whatever the space robots are called.

 Hulksmash wrote:
The price point on this is simply to high for me for something like this. $35-$40 I could have understood. More expensive than the company who's "gaps" their filling but still reasonably priced. Almost double the cost just isn't in my wheel house.

But hey, it's not GW so no one will complain about ridiculous pricing so good luck

Remember, it's GW's fault the price is so high, CHS has to make that 25K somehow.

The tall towers on the Dark Elf wall are an interesting idea, but the giant skulls are not. I guess inappropriate giant skulls plastered everywhere isn't a protected design element.

The Necron and Tau walls are decent looking (except the streetlights on the tau wall) but all of the turrets/comm relays so far have looked odd.

I like the DE ones including the skulls. However maybe that sacrifice idea from the daemons could carry over to these walls placed instead of the skulls? I would probably convert to add the sacrifice to the wall itself either way heh.

The Comm array looks good to me. It has that old DE feel with the layered armour you saw on the old DE jetbikes and raiders.

Happy to see something for my CSM/CSD armies.

Sadly thows sacrifice "walls" look way to silly to me. look idea on paper, but needs to be incorperated with something that looks more like actuall defensive structures. Also the cube thingy looks to vague as a weapon to me. I would rather see some real cannons.

Edit:
A wall of dead and flayed bodies would be awsome...

I don't play Dark Eldar, but those walls have potential. Those outcroppings are a prime support for flesh hooks and other miscellaneous bladed items that people may have an excess of from Raider, Talos, and especially Ravager kits.

The skulls, however, really don't fit the aesthetic. I like to see the DE aesthetic more like sleek and high-tech turned to sinister purposes. Constructing a wall of skuls with skullcannons seems more like something Chaos would do.

The Comm Array, however, is spot-on. Looks high-tech, looks like a pylon, has sinister spikes, and has no superfluous giant skulls.

I'd really prefer companies stay away from GW's SkullHammer design style.

I do like the Dark Elf weapons though.

I don't like the skulls on the Elf walls, looks too much like Skeletor stuff. Spikey elegant ornaments would look better IMHO.

 Palindrome wrote:

 Chapterhouse wrote:
Consider a wall of bodies in the works... Ill see what we can work up before the end of the kickstarter.
Nick Villacci
Chapterhouse Studios LLC

A wall of bodies would be an excellent representation of a chaos barricade.

I agree with this, so am glad to hear it's in the works! I may pledge for one if it appears before the end.

Look decent, can't wait to see what else gets unlocked!

I'm in for a wall of bodies, and I don't even play any evil armies. It's just a really cool concept I would never attempt to scratch build myself.

Would love to see less giant skulls but also see the Dark Elf stuff in particular look like it could be deployed and broken down FAST. It looks more 40k Chaos Marauder right now than Dark Elf.

I you do an orc defense wall, try and capture the style/feel of the orc barricades set. Please
Without laying yourself open to problems of course.

Did some modeling today to show how our railguns look on the Games Workshop Tau Battlesuit lines. Each kit contains 20 resin components that allow you to pick between 2 types of barrels for the railgun as well as missile lancher and plasma gun sub-weaponry. These will likely be $14.50 each and are available here.

Chapterhouse Studios Railgun kit on a Games Workshop Tau Commander model (about the same size as the regular Crisis Suits)



Chapterhouse Studios Railgun kit on a Games Workshop current edition Tau Broadside XV88 Battlesuit model


Nick Villacci
Chapterhouse Studios LLC

Oh wow. They scale up real well.

Is that a massive bubble in the commander suit chest?

Loving the arms. They look reminiscent of District 9 weapons a little. Quite nice.

no thats authentic finecast battle damage. provided at no extra charge!

Holy gak. It looks so imposing on the new Broadsides.


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Are there plans to make a similar version for the HYMP?

MajorWesJanson wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
The price point on this is simply to high for me for something like this. $35-$40 I could have understood. More expensive than the company who's "gaps" their filling but still reasonably priced. Almost double the cost just isn't in my wheel house.

But hey, it's not GW so no one will complain about ridiculous pricing so good luck

The tall towers on the Dark Elf wall are an interesting idea, but the giant skulls are not. I guess inappropriate giant skulls plastered everywhere isn't a protected design element.

The Necron and Tau walls are decent looking (except the streetlights on the tau wall) but all of the turrets/comm relays so far have looked odd.

Needs more random spikes.

$58 on the way. Looking forward to getting the "Not-Necron ADL".

I like it! I don't tend to use third party stuff simply because A: I can't be bothered with the hassle of not being able to use it in GW stores, and B: I like to convert all my own stuff, but they look fantastic! I particularly like the Chaos walls with the chained up Psykers.

The only thing I don't like is the Dark Eldar walls/turret. They fit in nicely with the old, 3rd edition aesthetic, but not with the modern designs.

Anyway, best wishes!

Also, will these be cast in resin, metal or plastic?

@Squig - Pretty sure they said the it was all gonna be resin...

@CHS - Any plans to let us purchase additional weapon/comm emplacements as addons?

I wanted to show the revised designs for the Space Elf Shield Walls as well as the Dark Space Elf Walls. As you can see we removed the skulls from the Dark Space Elf terrain as well as made sure that the models would have line-of-sight over the walls themselves.

Space Elf Shield Walls


Dark Space Elf Walls


And here are the variant walls that will be unlocked at 23K and 25K

Space Elf Hard Wall Variant


Space Elf Raider Shield Walls


I also wanted to let you all know that at the end of the Kickstarter that anyone who pledged for the terrain sets will be given the option to purchase additional weapon mounts for their terrain.

Thanks!

Nick - Chapterhouse Studios LLC

Very nice. I like the revisions.

Can there be a Tau force field line as well?

That's it! Force Fields of everyone!

... actually, Necron Shields would make a lot of sense... they kinda pit shields on everything now...

I really like the Tech Confederatin line. If only Tau used things like that in their Fluff. Oh well. Take my money!!!

While such lines are not explicitly mentioned in Tau fluff (or, indeed, any army beyond the Imperium's use of ADLs), I don't see anything indicating that they WOULDN'T use such a defensive line. So, it's all good.

And, having now got 2 nice designs for lines for both "Elves" and "Dark Elves", it's looking like I'll even be expanding my pledge.

I will say, I've purchased a few things from Chapterhouse over the years: some of the Razorback turrets, some of the "TRU SCALE" power armor guys, the jetbike space elf kits, and some of the wheeled APC conversion kits. I've never been happy with any of my purchases from them, though the Space Elf kits were decent(and my brother was happy with them when I gave him the gift)

Well, I gave Chapterhouse another try with the Tau Railgun arms. They arrived the other day, and these are fantastic. They're clean, they fit together perfectly, and they're free of defects. There is a lot of detail on these pieces, and they fit to the GW kits perfectly.

Nick, please continue making kits like this! Also, I would love to see the little missile pod bits being available separately. They're pretty nice.

The revised models are much improved over the previous renderings.