Vanguard Miniatures update thread - Mar 10: Zeus Grand Cruiser + Cybershadows ships

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**Evil & Chaos**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Geeze hate it when the sculptor actually responds to my critique of the sculpting

I really appreciate the feedback - I normally sculpt in 6 or 15mm.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Just to illustrate what I was talking about, here's the original metal Cadians from the 90s

One is firing across the chest Hollywood style but the others have weapons raised or lowered, one is trotting, one reloading, one is even aiming his weapon real-world style. That's the sort of diversity of poses you really can't get with multipart plastics but can get with metal.

**Mr Morden**

Evil & Chaos wrote:
Mr Morden wrote:
Ah they are quite nice but hoping for Sisters!

Wot, 28mm ones??

Indeed as I have a lot of their epic scale ones

**Malika2**

Mr Morden wrote:
Evil & Chaos wrote:
Mr Morden wrote:
Ah they are quite nice but hoping for Sisters!

Wot, 28mm ones??

Indeed as I have a lot of their epic scale ones

You should have a chat with Don from Onslaught Miniatures.

**Evil & Chaos**

Yup, I didn't sculpt the power armoured women from Onslaught. Not my fault guv'nor.
:-)

**Evil & Chaos**

This is some sort of annoying preview where the image has been irritatingly distorted, I guess.

**Kid_Kyoto**

If someone could model or point it to look like that in real life it would awesome!

Predator with holo field!

**Evil & Chaos**

heh. I could apply a distortion to a mesh to achieve that kind of look, but it would probably only work when looked at from a specific fixed angle - once you moved to the side, it would look all spikey instead of digitally distorted, I think...

**Evil & Chaos**

I've been asked to share an unpainted picture of the 5 different heads.

No. I won't do it. Never.

**Malika2**

Coming soon...

**Malika2**

New casts are in...

Novan Elites Battlemaster

Novan Regulars artillery tank:

**Pacific**

Like the artillery piece, the arm for loading the shells is pretty cool.

**Malika2**

Thanks! Very curious to see if these will catch on.

In the meantime, another joint effort by Vanguard Miniatures and Troublemaker Games is coming out soon:

Handy for those who don't want to use round bases for their 6mm miniatures of space ship game scaled ordnance models.

**AegisGrimm**

That's awesome!

Too bad there's not enough of a market for 6mm gaming for GW to bother with Epic...... Obviously no one plays it anymore.

Great to see all the companies keeping a sweet game alive.

**MLaw**

Evil & Chaos wrote:
heh. I could apply a distortion to a mesh to achieve that kind of look, but it would probably only work when looked at from a specific fixed angle - once you moved to the side, it would look all spikey instead of digitally distorted, I think...

If you keep the axis local to the section of geometry you're affecting, it should work out alright. I've seen ghosts that have a similar effect.

**Pacific**

Have those bases been carried by someone else previously?

Sure they seem familiar.

**Evil & Chaos**

Pacific wrote:
Have those bases been carried by someone else previously?

Sure they seem familiar.

It is a brand new mould, with a unique height to the bases, and unique hole placement.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Evil & Chaos wrote:
Pacific wrote:
Have those bases been carried by someone else previously?

Sure they seem familiar.

It is a brand new mould, with a unique height to the bases, and unique hole placement.

Interesting... did someone really try to claim copyright on a rectangular base with 5 holes? that would be abusive, but probably costly to litigate.

**Evil & Chaos**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Evil & Chaos wrote:
Pacific wrote:
Have those bases been carried by someone else previously?

Sure they seem familiar.

It is a brand new mould, with a unique height to the bases, and unique hole placement.

Interesting... did someone really try to claim copyright on a rectangular base with 5 holes? that would be abusive, but probably costly to litigate.

Not as far as I know.

**str00dles1**

Few questions, as a first time buyer of Vanguard and interested in the new bases.

Whats the bases to cost for a pack? Recently lots of people have been selling the amazing rectangle bases again and I do need more for my epics.

Also about how long after a order is placed does it take to get to the states? Anyone know?

**Malika2**

str00dles1 wrote:
Few questions, as a first time buyer of Vanguard and interested in the new bases.

Whats the bases to cost for a pack? Recently lots of people have been selling the amazing rectangle bases again and I do need more for my epics.

Also about how long after a order is placed does it take to get to the states? Anyone know?

Cost of the bases: plan is that they'll cost the same as the round bases, so £4.50 for 50 of them.

Shipping to the US: that all depends on US customs. I guess it takes a few weeks? Not sure though.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Any word on when some of the gothic ships I've seen will be hitting the store. I've got an itch you see...

**Malika2**

The Frigate I've designed will be out soon. Depending on the sales of that one the Destroyers and station will come out.

Frigate (bottom), station (middle), Destroyer (top).

**Malika2**

The first batch of variants of the Centurion Battle Tank have been cast:

Sniper tank:

Siege tank:

Autocannon tank:

Plasma cannon tank:

Laser cannon tank:

**Malika2**

Look what just came out:

Novan Elites Battlemaster Command Tank:

The Battlemaster is a front line C4i (command, control, communications, computer and intelligence) vehicle for novan elite forces.

The design is basically a stretched mauler assault transport chassis and shares many components with that vehicle, the increased internal space allows for a full battlefield command and control suite to be installed giving up to the minute intelligence and situational awarness to the battlegroup commander via the highly sophisticated sensor dome mounted on the upper hull and functions in a similar roll to the regular armies Dictum command vehicle.

The sensor module (with a more limited capacity) can also be mounted on the trojan APC but the smaller size of this vehicle does not allow for the full command package or holo tank to be installed.

Due to the increased internal space a transport variant of this vehicle has been developed for novan elite troops in heavy armour allowing up to 10 such troopers to be transported instead of the mauler’s 5 man capacity with this armour type. With the sensor suite removed the vehicle also has the capacity to mount a scorpion tank turret for increased firepower. This however does reduce the transport capacity back to 5 men due to the turrets operating systems, crew and ammunition.

Dimensions are: hull length 42mm, hull width 25mm, hull height 9mm not including sponson mounts or sensor dome.

Single model (£7.50): http://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/shop/novan-elites-battlemaster-command-tank-x1/

Two-pack (£14.00): http://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/shop/novan-elites-battlemaster-command-tank-x-2/

And yes, it's compatible with existing turrets/sponsons:

**Kid_Kyoto**

Never even saw that station, looks great.

**schoon**

Malika2 wrote:
Coming soon...

Very Shiney! Can't wait.

**Pacific**

Have to say a lot of these releases look awesome. Those Skinners in particular, can see those being popular for a horde or two.

Keep up the good work!

**str00dles1**

Any chance of larger kinda discounted packs for the non-land raiders?

I ask just cause in Epic, you get 4 to a squad, and I know you got your bundle section.

Also I got my non-nemesis dreadknights and they were amazing. Great to paint and see in person. Quickly added to my Grey knight army

**Malika2**

I've forwarded your request regarding the Mauler tank to John.

In the meantime, Vanguard is current stocking Wasteland Game Studio's amazing 6mm terrain: http://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/product-category/terrain/wasteland-game-studio/

And also, some new prints have just arrived: