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That looks really cool! I will be torn as I like the look / shape of the original shield that can rest on the ground, but I love the decoration of this one. Decisions!

 Kaine Larson wrote:
I received the first render last night of the Bugbear Ironshield Boneshard Shield.



More to come very shortly!!

I like the idea of a gut mouth/ tentacle piece.

Why waste precious belly space with skin and guts when you can have more things to fight with?

So here is the first piece of concept art of the new Lizardkin Deathscale, a towering reptilian behemoth for the Lizardkin Faction. This model will be roughly 60mm tall and will come with a full range of additional parts. What do you think?

I think it is quite excellent.

And I think we're about to see some serious Highlordin' up in here once the Left Coast wakes up!

Damn, that's pretty cool.

That is incredible!! I like it just as much or more than the Ironshield, which I didn't think would be possible

Thanks for kind words RTides. I was always fond of the creature from the film Relic. The side horns are a bit of a homage to it!

Far be it from me to disappoint Alpharius!

I was thinking it looked a bit like the Relic design, but now that's been confirmed! They've got painted figures of that monster on display at the local hobby shop, so it's pretty fresh in my head.

Curious as to what kinds of options parts that sucker is going to get!

We have one head that will be lizard head with a huge rhino type horn. There will be a closed mouthed version. The head will have an attached fin/spine ridge. The weapon options are still being discussed.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Far be it from me to disappoint Alpharius!

INDEED!



I think the re-launched KS is going to do quite well!

Wow, you've got your own meme now.

So, the te ised KS is going to have the Bugbear, the big undead cobbled together things, and this large lizard. Will other factions be represented in this KS? I'd love to see what you do with Gnolls or werewolves.

As for the Deathscale, I'd like to see how he'd look with a frill.

The starting models are the:

Bugbear Ironshield
Flesh Golem

Stretchgoals:

Lizardkin Deathscale
Bugbear Brute
Zombie Hulk
Minotaur Guardian

The Deathscale is beautiful. The illustration is the best lizardman concept I've seen in years.

If you'd like players to field more than one of these, you may want to consider altering the pose, or making an alternate leg. Integrating scenic elements like the pile of skulls looks great for single figures, but it starts to look odd when several figures in a unit have the same foot on identical piles of skulls.

Otherwise, my only caution would be to keep your talons sunk as deeply into your current concept artist as you can. I think mini companies sometimes underestimate how important their freelance illustrators are. Yes, there are plenty of fantasy / sci-fi artists out there, including affordable up-and-coming types posting on DeviantArt etc.. But they're not an unlimited resource, and they're not all equal in talent. It's hard to underestimate how important Heath Foley has been for Mantic's miniature line, for example. In my opinion he's responsible for all of their most successful designs, and there's a clear qualitative difference between the work he's done for them and the work they've received from other illustrators.

You've done very well with Mr. Georgiev so far, and I hope to see your partnership with him continue long into the future.

(This is not a Mafia-styled insinuation that I have plans to hire him away from you. "It's nice to have a good illustrator, ain't it? Be a shame if anything happened to that beautiful partnership. A real shame . . .")

Grigor is awesome. He works very closely with my sculptor as well which means and we can get a real understanding of what we want and ideas tend to flow between all of us. We plan to use Grigor as our concept artist for as long as he is happy doing it! We have some cool concept art in the pipeline.

Man that Deathscale looks awesome, I'm hoping the design will be an indicator for the rest of the Lizardmen line.

We do have some other Lizardkin artwork but they will not be involved in a Kickstarter until next year. The other artwork is for the Lizardkin Brave which is below.

Will we be able to wait and see the sculpts before locking in what our selections are (post campaign)?

Sure thing.


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I hope to have the scuplts underway soon for most things but not all of them will be done before launch. What I can promise is the attention to detail that we have shown in regard to the concept art in the sculpts we have already completed. I will make sure that I put the money from the KS straight into getting the new sculpts completed and any changes to model selections can be made, or even added to after this point.

Honestly, at this point I'm thinking I'll just be going for the 4-pack pledge, and getting 2 each of the Ironshield and Deathscale, in which case it would be a non-issue

Jeez Alpahrius, if you're going to turn me into a meme, the least you can do is give me a good and proper reptile head.

Deathscale looks great. I love the webbing/crest and the spiny scales in particular.

I'm not a fan of his club. It looks unwieldy, and the pose makes it look like it is heavy for the Deathscale since it is dragging on the ground.

Just my thoughts on what could be improved.

I love the DeathScale and it semblance to the Kothoga.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:




Jeez Alpahrius, if you're going to turn me into a meme, the least you can do is give me a good and proper reptile head.

Fair enough!

Here we go:

Here the additional parts for the Lizardkin Deathscale. I love the crocodilian head and the twin blades!

That's got to be some of the best lizardmen concept art I've seen yet.

I like the crocodile head - a lot!

Better than the 'original' - I hope it is an option in the upcoming campaign!

They are all options. As soon as the Deathscale is unlocked the next stretchgoals are the replacement parts. You can choose any of the replacement parts for your chosen beaties. Some of the replacement parts are free and you can get them in addition to the head etc that you chose which should allow you to magnetise them to make different options for different games. Plus people can use them as those big lizard things in a certain mass combat game whose name eludes me at present ;p

You don't have an actual launch date pinned yet, do you? Last I saw listed was "mid October".

Not yet. I'm just waiting for the last of the art and renders. It won't be very long. I have quite a lot of graphics to finish as well which I cant finish until I get the art and the renders....

But it really won't be long may be 7-10 days top.

No rush, just asking for planning purposes