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So no spider monsters till like 2018? That's... unfortunate. And kind of mean to tease them this early.
I'm pretty sure it's not going to be like 2018, TOK noone has ever done a trio of them for fantasy army battles (let alone with various versions), it's a design we have worked a lot on (both concept and fluff wise, but at this point their fluff probably doesn't interest you) and we are looking forward in creating them :-)
overtyrant wrote: I'll be using these for KoW. I have 0 interest in '9th Age'.
Exactly. I think the spiders would make really great Fiends for the NightStalkers (unless I am totally misunderstanding what the Fiends are suppose to represent- I thought spiders?).
Also adding more to the shieldmaidens will be great for if this game has rules put out! Everything you guys put out for those icy maidens is a hit for me!
So no spider monsters till like 2018? That's... unfortunate. And kind of mean to tease them this early.
I'm pretty sure it's not going to be like 2018, TOK noone has ever done a trio of them for fantasy army battles (let alone with various versions), it's a design we have worked a lot on (both concept and fluff wise, but at this point their fluff probably doesn't interest you) and we are looking forward in creating them :-)
If the next KS isn't till Aug/Sep, then that means the next would be mid 2017, right? So fulfillment in 2018. Unless you're going to make them outside of the KS cycle?
@Skarsol
Negative. The current schedule puts a smaller KS for Aug/Sept 2016 (it will again include a plastic kit, by "smaller" we mean it will have like 1/4 of the scheduled SGsKS-2.5 had). If we stay in program and deliver on December the Shieldmaiden project, then the KS for the Warmaiden+Dragonbred+Krumvaal+? will hit January/February 2017, again with delivery date set at December of the same year.
If things don't work out as planned, we will be sculpting and releasing the aracnomaidens outside the KS cycle, the crowdfunding platform while good in helping us provide additional models to enhance the armies is mainly used for the funding of our plastics.
skarsol wrote: Laugh, so my guess of 2018 is wrong because you're targeting December, 2017? Fair enough.
Well, 2018 did sound vague :-D
We are planning our schedule for the long run, we would like to see it speed up a lot and we think it will speed up as our range grows (not sure how fast, time will tell I guess). We feel it's best we slowly produce armies that will withstand the test of time rather than spam units just to bulk up the choices we are currently offering. Take our Araves faction for example, you know we could have been selling resin regiments for over a year now, yet we decided to hold on and try sculpting them in plastic. With more people supporting this idea, wouldn't it be swell to have these retooled in a better material for troops with more options and ability for conversions rather than have them in resin? Wouldn't that elevate the army itself in the hands of a hobbyist?
I'm not as much a hard-plastic fetishist as many seem to be, so would have liked them in resin as well. All else equal though, plastic is always the best material, if the sculpting takes the limitation of the medium into consideration.
@Zywus
We had posted pictures of them quite a while back, so the sculpts obviously do exist, we hold off the production however since we think we can do even better.
Here are the pictures if you'd like to have a look, comments (even negative) are welcome! :-)
Hey, if you wanted to put those slave models out as resins, I would buy the gak out of them, perfect for use with an Arabyan Corsairs warband for Mordheim.
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skarsol wrote: Laugh, so my guess of 2018 is wrong because you're targeting December, 2017? Fair enough.
Well, 2018 did sound vague :-D
We are planning our schedule for the long run, we would like to see it speed up a lot and we think it will speed up as our range grows (not sure how fast, time will tell I guess). We feel it's best we slowly produce armies that will withstand the test of time rather than spam units just to bulk up the choices we are currently offering. Take our Araves faction for example, you know we could have been selling resin regiments for over a year now, yet we decided to hold on and try sculpting them in plastic. With more people supporting this idea, wouldn't it be swell to have these retooled in a better material for troops with more options and ability for conversions rather than have them in resin? Wouldn't that elevate the army itself in the hands of a hobbyist?
What do your Araves look like? If you are going for plastics, please make them distinctive, dynamic and fantastical, as different from the historical plastics as possible. I'd love to see something like GW's plastic Haradrim, but with more scimitars, armor and/or magic weapons. The Gripping Beast Arab infantry are just too boring to buy, but an entire army of infantry as swanky as this guy (see below) with optional covered, Agahnim-like faces would be amazing.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Ah, now I see the posted pictures. They seem a bit...vertical. Would the plastics be more dynamic with more head options?
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Really liking the Araves! Not really my jam in terms of fluff styling and aesthetics (more of a Norse Werewolf guy) but man, they are really appealing! You might just change my mind, or at least break my will to resist cool models
Make the Araves like the Dornishmen from Game of Thrones (the costumes in the TV show are brilliant) and I think they'd sell like hot cakes.
A good design, well sculpted and in plastic? I think they'd do really well. Try and keep them as proportional as possible to real humans if you can. The market seems to be swinging away from heroic scale to miniatures which look a lot more like an actual human. So full length torsos and legs/arms to match. Most miniatures, even historic ones, look like the people are missing most of their stomachs, and have stumpy legs and hands/feet/heads which are way too big.
Fenriswulf wrote: Make the Araves like the Dornishmen from Game of Thrones (the costumes in the TV show are brilliant) and I think they'd sell like hot cakes.
A good design, well sculpted and in plastic? I think they'd do really well. Try and keep them as proportional as possible to real humans if you can. The market seems to be swinging away from heroic scale to miniatures which look a lot more like an actual human. So full length torsos and legs/arms to match. Most miniatures, even historic ones, look like the people are missing most of their stomachs, and have stumpy legs and hands/feet/heads which are way too big.
I never understood this. I am a bit newer to gaming but I do not understand most of the older models (in any genre really) were so disfigured. I really do prefer the newer models that actually look like humans that are not horribly disfigured.
Fenriswulf wrote: Make the Araves like the Dornishmen from Game of Thrones (the costumes in the TV show are brilliant) and I think they'd sell like hot cakes.
A good design, well sculpted and in plastic? I think they'd do really well. Try and keep them as proportional as possible to real humans if you can. The market seems to be swinging away from heroic scale to miniatures which look a lot more like an actual human. So full length torsos and legs/arms to match. Most miniatures, even historic ones, look like the people are missing most of their stomachs, and have stumpy legs and hands/feet/heads which are way too big.
I never understood this. I am a bit newer to gaming but I do not understand most of the older models (in any genre really) were so disfigured. I really do prefer the newer models that actually look like humans that are not horribly disfigured.
They're "disfigured" for three reasons;
1. It used to be easier to manufacture them that way, modern techniques make that a less relevant concern.
2. It makes the models more robust, and so better gaming pieces. This is still something to consider.
3. Older plastics tech had issues with detail reproduction, so making "focus" areas of the model relatively bigger meant better details.
Those applied for so long that the solution to them, heroic scale, became a style of model. Honestly I look at the spindly "realistic proportions" models for stuff like Warzone and wonder how the hell anyone can stand to assemble and game with such fragile pieces. I like the modern GW heroic style, ie 6.5 heads tall with modest enlargement of appendages and weapons, over the old GW heroic style of 5 heads tall gorilla-men, or the 8 heads "classically heroic" you see from the "realistic" companies.
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Fenriswulf wrote: Make the Araves like the Dornishmen from Game of Thrones (the costumes in the TV show are brilliant) and I think they'd sell like hot cakes.
This is a really nice idea.
Dorne image in the series is a bit strange, combining oriental and medieval European style.
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Fenriswulf wrote: Make the Araves like the Dornishmen from Game of Thrones (the costumes in the TV show are brilliant) and I think they'd sell like hot cakes.
This is a really nice idea.
Dorne image in the series is a bit strange, combining oriental and medieval European style.
"Your society's broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No, lets blame the people with no power and no money and those immigrants who don't even have the vote. Yea, it must be their fething fault." - Iain M Banks
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"The language of modern British politics is meant to sound benign. But words do not mean what they seem to mean. 'Reform' actually means 'cut' or 'end'. 'Flexibility' really means 'exploit'. 'Prudence' really means 'don't invest'. And 'efficient'? That means whatever you want it to mean, usually 'cut'. All really mean 'keep wages low for the masses, taxes low for the rich, profits high for the corporations, and accept the decline in public services and amenities this will cause'." - Robin McAlpine from Common Weal
2016/05/10 14:39:48
Subject: Re:Shieldwolf Miniatures - Official News thread (54mm Dragons released page #49)
we have just ventured in the 54mm area for the first time with the release of two display items, aimed at painters & collectors. We hope you like them as much as we do!
For a couple of weeks we will keep a discounted price at a hefty -20%, after which we will replace the normal one.
I gotta agree.. If the dragon has a 28mm figure on it's back, I would submit that it's a dragon in 28mm scale. Being a big model doesn't change the scale.. it's just a big model in 28mm.
The miniatures (=riders) atop are not 28mm scale, they are twice as large.
The measurements are shown on the 00:12" of the video, 29cm hight, 23cm width.
You are absolutely right however, we will add these numbers under the description! :-)
These are the only pictures we currently have available, hopefully they are in grade to show how really large (and in our honest opinion spectacular once assembled) this miniature is. The price has to be justified after all and we repute ourselves very reasonably priced.
Now, how much call there is for 54mm stuff vs. 28mm/32mm stuff remains to be seen!
We don't know yet but we are always willing to expand in various sectors, we are only aware that there's a substantial number of painters out there looking for spectacular pieces on which to spend many hours ( and on which to try draining their artistic abilities).
We weren't sure about the busts either but we launched our project "Monuments of Glory" all the same, it has gone very nicely indeed, next week we launch "Monuments of Glory-2" which will see consecutive small wave releases in an arc of <3 weeks, we mean to more than double our existing range! :-D
I am sort of wondering if it could work as a frost giant/ess on a big dragon?
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