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Shields printed and lay-out printed. The bottom left will NOT make it into the kit (unless we come up with something amazing, doesn't look like there's going to be enough space for that though...)



and here's another view of them.
We'll be showing off 3d printed heads later today, working on getting some decent shots. :-)

Will they have hands attached to the back or be handless? They would be great for BFG conversions.

@BobtheInquisitor
They will have hands attached to the back, affirmative.

Here are the heads we promised earlier today, we are in full printing schedule. They ALL go on both kits.
We'll be discussing more on the heads and weaponry in the coming days... :-)

Drat. Hopefully they will be easy to remove.

What is going on with the leftmost head's hair?

I think I know which one you are talking about. I'm attaching a picture to show it better. If I mistook which one however, by all means let me know. :-)
In the image attached you can see the amount of work going into every single item. This project was designed to deliver the best and we will accept nothing less!

Her right side--our left--has very unusual hair. It looks like she's wearing part of an Egyptian headdress or a jet intake.

Yeah, the rest of the hairs are nice, but that part Bob is refering to looks... artificial. Not how actual hair works

You mean this one then? I don't know if it looks egyptian or not, our research showed people liked it though :-)

I think Bob is referring to this:

Thanks for using your technosorcery in aid of my point, DarkTraveler777. That is exactly the part I am talking about.

Aha! :-D
Well, with every kit we get better I think. With the Shieldmaidens while we thought we had done a great job with the heads, we still got people complaining about "spaghetti" hair (sigh), so we decided to better address the issue in the following projects.
In this case it's either leave it blank is or try adding minor detail, taking into account that plastic tooling has it's limitations and some designs have to (inevitably) comply. Leaving it blank looked worse :-)

Funny fact: If you notice, the detail in the first head I thought you were talking about is higher than the second. Still people might opt to use more the second type provided! Lesson, more detail doesn't always make it better :-D

No, this hair is absolutely fine, a classic, and I'm glad you are using it. As Darktraveler pointed out, we were refering to the other one.

I addressed that above :-)
(I didn't get it at first, @Darktraveler though gave a hand!)

Oh no! I dislike hands on the back of shields, it makes the model so much harder to paint.

Also, I am not a fan of fancy shield shapes, so unless there are alternative hands I am gonna have a hard time replacing them with more simple Heater and Kite type shields.

So, the shipping on the preorder is free, right? Do we need to use a code to activate free shipping?

 StygianBeach wrote:
Oh no! I dislike hands on the back of shields, it makes the model so much harder to paint.

We can't please everyone :-D
That said, I'm pretty sure the size of the shields will allow those who want the shields "bare" to simply scrape them off.

 StygianBeach wrote:
Also, I am not a fan of fancy shield shapes, so unless there are alternative hands I am gonna have a hard time replacing them with more simple Heater and Kite type shields.

You mean like these ;-)
Yes, there are and they are plenty. This is the largest investment ever made from the company so you can safely bet our kits can safely withstand the test of time :-)

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
So, the shipping on the preorder is free, right? Do we need to use a code to activate free shipping?

The free shipping for Tiers 2,3 and 4 should be automatically activated from the system. If for some reaon it does not though, just let us know :-)

Dang. Getting two tier 1s.

 Shieldwolf Miniatures wrote:

 StygianBeach wrote:
Also, I am not a fan of fancy shield shapes, so unless there are alternative hands I am gonna have a hard time replacing them with more simple Heater and Kite type shields.

You mean like these ;-)
Yes, there are and they are plenty. This is the largest investment ever made from the company so you can safely bet our kits can safely withstand the test of time :-)

Brilliant.

So is anyone here rethinking their purchase after the GW announcement? Or are you guys simply not interested/can't be arsed to wait and see what GW has to offer way down the line in 2019? Or maybe you'll buy both?

 Mymearan wrote:
So is anyone here rethinking their purchase after the GW announcement? Or are you guys simply not interested/can't be arsed to wait and see what GW has to offer way down the line in 2019? Or maybe you'll buy both?

I amnterested in GW's product, but also in Shiedlwolf's. Unfortunately, time and budget really only allow me to sample a box at a time regardless of the manufacturer, so my preorder was never going to be very impressive.

 Shieldwolf Miniatures wrote:

Does that mean the torsos and legs are now separate?

 Shieldwolf Miniatures wrote:
I think I know which one you are talking about. I'm attaching a picture to show it better. If I mistook which one however, by all means let me know. :-)
In the image attached you can see the amount of work going into every single item. This project was designed to deliver the best and we will accept nothing less!

You know I'm a supporter of you guys, but please stop saying "best". Those heads aren't best. They're far from it. They're decent to good. Try talking about "always improving" as you did in the later post and avoid the word "best".

For the guys questioning the odd side-hair, remember - those renders are blown up to about 50x actual size. It's definitely still odd (hair doesn't look like that, humans probably still have ears in the future, etc) but it probably won't be that noticeable if you're not looking for it. (Again, also not "best", by any means.)

@Original Timmy
We follow the same design for the torsos and backs as we did for the Shieldmaidens.

@Azazelx
Copy that, I was carried away from the enthusiasm of what we are creating! It's always subjective aesthetic wise anyway, so yeah, "best" isn't the appropriate term :-)

@Mymearan
We have every confidence the community will choose to stand by our side and support what it asked us to deliver!

Will there be helmeted options? I'm terribad at painting skin...

@inirian
Affirmative. We can't guarantee there will be enough for all 20 models per box, but we are certainly including helmeted versions for both the Sisters of Talliareum and Sisters of Faith.
Here's what we are going for as revealed in one of the tiers, I'll try finding a picture with more them as we are currently printing them out.
http://www.shieldwolfminiatures.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=146


As I said earlier, we are extremely positive that the community will choose to stand by our side and support us in what we are creating :-)

Armoured feed belt that doesn’t feed from anything?

I do like the head though.

Yeah, that's a bit ...odd. Hopefully they'll also have an oversized sickle mag or a box feed as options.

Box or Drum would be best for me, but I can always find a bit from the Dreamforge accessory sprue if need be.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:
So is anyone here rethinking their purchase after the GW announcement? Or are you guys simply not interested/can't be arsed to wait and see what GW has to offer way down the line in 2019? Or maybe you'll buy both?

I amnterested in GW's product, but also in Shiedlwolf's. Unfortunately, time and budget really only allow me to sample a box at a time regardless of the manufacturer, so my preorder was never going to be very impressive.

I'll just buy both plus some other versions...

I agree that if you don't go with a non-backpack option (which I like) an ammo drum or an ammo belt with apparent shells looks nicer. Also that belt looks a bit too long, as it goes all the way to the ground, which will limit how you can posse the mini and looks awkward.

The helmet looks great, though.