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Those werewolves look amazing. Hopefully they show up in plastic at some point.

WGA is teaming with those guys for a nice set of men at arms (hopefully without the puddle abominations) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redboxgames/red-box-games-fantasy-men-at-arms/

It also looks like WGA is teaming with someone else for the animal parts sprue for KS as well.

If I had a probably once in a lifetime chance to make a hard plastic sprue I wouldn't put duplicate parts on it, I'll tell you hwhat

 lord_blackfang wrote:
If I had a probably once in a lifetime chance to make a hard plastic sprue I wouldn't put duplicate parts on it, I'll tell you what

I follow Pete on YouTube and I wish him the best, but yeah I do find the contents interesting, I'm not sure that there is that much of a market for dead animal parts.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
WGA is teaming with those guys for a nice set of men at arms (hopefully without the puddle abominations) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redboxgames/red-box-games-fantasy-men-at-arms/

Those look great! I really wish these Kickstarters showed more size comparisons, though. Or at least made test models to send to someone like Stahly to show us how big they are.

Just noticed werewolves. Hopefully we will see more details soon, like how big they are to standard models etc. Plastic puppies, hell yeah!

 Dawnbringer wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
If I had a probably once in a lifetime chance to make a hard plastic sprue I wouldn't put duplicate parts on it, I'll tell you what

I follow Pete on YouTube and I wish him the best, but yeah I do find the contents interesting, I'm not sure that there is that much of a market for dead animal parts.

I find it a huge missed opportunity that he didn’t include any eagle wings for helmets, shields or chest plates. No bat/dragon wings, either. Those are the dead animal parts everyone’s army wears.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
If I had a probably once in a lifetime chance to make a hard plastic sprue I wouldn't put duplicate parts on it, I'll tell you hwhat

I quite agree.

All these projects are interesting but really I am just waiting for the Quar.

 Grumpy Gnome wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
….but really I am just waiting for the Quar.

Amen

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I find it a huge missed opportunity that he didn’t include any eagle wings for helmets, shields or chest plates. No bat/dragon wings, either. Those are the dead animal parts everyone’s army wears.

I couldn't agree more; those bits are in short supply!

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Dawnbringer wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
If I had a probably once in a lifetime chance to make a hard plastic sprue I wouldn't put duplicate parts on it, I'll tell you what

I follow Pete on YouTube and I wish him the best, but yeah I do find the contents interesting, I'm not sure that there is that much of a market for dead animal parts.

I find it a huge missed opportunity that he didn’t include any eagle wings for helmets, shields or chest plates. No bat/dragon wings, either. Those are the dead animal parts everyone’s army wears.

Definitely. I'm very interested in random parts, but it's weird that there are duplicate parts. Even for the trophy heads I'd at least have made some differences between them so it doesn't look like everyone killed the same guy in the same way and mounts it identically.

And I also think that some wings would have been great. Along with a bunch of claws, different bones, and things like that.

Those demonic looking werewolf heads with bat ears have a creepy Black Spiral Dancer vibe.

Very cool.

That sprue layout of animal parts is so weird. Guy should spend a bit more and get a little variety.

A large pair of wings seems like a no-brainer.

 Gallahad wrote:
I'd love to see a tutorial from someone on removing plastic puddle bases. I always manage to shave off the bottom part of the boot or end up with feet that aren't flat etc. I hate them with a burning passion.

It won't solve all the problem, but as a final step, carefully leveling both feet at the same time on a piece of fine sandpaper on a flat surface can at least leave you with the soles of both feet on the same plane so they'll both glue down flat. If necessary, you can put more pressure on the foot that has more material under it, but generally both feet will come flat with this method This is what I do for figures with heroic proportions

For figures with very small true-scale feet and a blob base, I will sometimes not remove the puddle entirely. Instead I clip around the feet and then remove the material under the front of the foot. The blob under the leg/heel, I shape into a peg and glue that into a hole I cut in a base.

If basing with sand/balast/flock/etc, this is really easy and quite quick. If basing on a cast scenic base you have to be a bit more careful making the peg smaller than the foot and not making your hole in the base too big.

I do roughly the same thing with slotta tabs, though there it's much easier as you simply clip away the tab until you have two pegs left under each foot. Here's a big gang of metal Van Saar, mounted on plastic scenic bases by turning their slotta tabs into pegs.
https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/2014/10/new-paint-for-old-friends-necromunda/


I could have just filed them flat and glued them down, but anyone with experience will tell you that any figure drop will result in the figure flying off the base, especially with figures like this that don't have alot of surface contact area. Trimming the slotta to a peg is faster than drilling out for pinning but gives the same strength of bond.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
WGA is teaming with those guys for a nice set of men at arms (hopefully without the puddle abominations) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redboxgames/red-box-games-fantasy-men-at-arms/

Is there a market for "fantasy dudes but a bit bigger than all the 28mm stuff you already have lol"?

 RustyNumber wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
WGA is teaming with those guys for a nice set of men at arms (hopefully without the puddle abominations) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redboxgames/red-box-games-fantasy-men-at-arms/

Is there a market for "fantasy dudes but a bit bigger than all the 28mm stuff you already have lol"?

I mean... I am... and 131 other backers... but so far only have $7160 out of $20,000 goal. I think Redbox has a good following, but with only 1 item in the kickstarter, and only 1 pledge level (for a single box) and the fact that it does not seem like much of a discount, it is pretty slow going. They are a bit bigger than frostgrave and the like, but look to be right on scale with most of the humans (or near humans) for GW and people like Reaper. All of which is a bit bigger than Frostgrave and the like too.

I dont think the Redbox guys look too out of place next to the WA Conquistadors

So the nights are getting longer, the days colder, the mercury dipped down to 15 degrees here (60 degrees Fahrenheit) prompting all sorts of warnings and news stories.

So I'll be shutting down this thread soon. Since Wargames Atlantic is posting here I'll leave it to them to start up the 2024 thread so they can control the title etc.

That is a great height. The RedBox guys will fit in great with modern fantasy figures.

Preorders for the LesGrognards cavalry have dropped, due 29th Dec

https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/demo-collection/products/les-grognards-cavalry

which realistically means January, but it's cool that they're almost here

Hmmm.... $39.95 I wonder if this is the "Cavalry" Price or if prices in general are going up.

So happy they went with that pose for the artwork.

New SP

Okay, this is a wild guess but given that it's in sketch stage, and obviously a wizard, probably multipart (staff options), probably an Elf, I'm going to say...

Full High Elf plastic range kickstarter to cash in on ToW.

Well done classic design elves are curiosly absent from the market.

The Oathmark ones are well done, but very small.

The Mantic ones are.. unique and extra double small.

The GW ones have hilariously bad design aesthetics (towering cow helmets, three string bows, doofy wooden poses) and are laughably expensive.

As far as I'm concerned, there is a real void in the market for a range of elves.

Give me something that scales with fantasy figures (Oathmark and Mantic have the "scale with historical" covered) and has a noble look and I'll be very happy and very spendy.

 Gallahad wrote:
Well done classic design elves are curiosly absent from the market.

The Oathmark ones are well done, but very small.

The Mantic ones are.. unique and extra double small.

The GW ones have hilariously bad design aesthetics (towering cow helmets, three string bows, doofy wooden poses) and are laughably expensive.

As far as I'm concerned, there is a real void in the market for a range of elves.

Give me something that scales with fantasy figures (Oathmark and Mantic have the "scale with historical" covered) and has a noble look and I'll be very happy and very spendy.

The lotr line has a nice plastic wood elves kit and palace guard. Unfortunately the lotr plastic high elves are about 22 years old at this point. And other stuff is failcast...

Sgt. Cortez wrote:

The lotr line has a nice plastic wood elves kit and palace guard. Unfortunately the lotr plastic high elves are about 22 years old at this point. And other stuff is failcast...

Yeah, that line is very much 25mm, and as such I find it very unpleasant to paint. I have a wide variety of figures, but the bulk are closer to 32mm tall, which is the scale I prefer to interact with.

I'm not a High Elf guy but I know a couple people who'd be ecstatic over a good plastic range.

 Gallahad wrote:

Sgt. Cortez wrote:

The lotr line has a nice plastic wood elves kit and palace guard. Unfortunately the lotr plastic high elves are about 22 years old at this point. And other stuff is failcast...

Yeah, that line is very much 25mm, and as such I find it very unpleasant to paint. I have a wide variety of figures, but the bulk are closer to 32mm tall, which is the scale I prefer to interact with.

Interesting enough, a friend of mine who collects truescale dwarfs, more often than not he has a limited freedom of choice because most miniatures are heroic scale miniatures with strange proportions when he just wants resonable looking dwarfs
But I'd also say calling the Hobbit miniatures 25mm is a stretch. Lotr always was marketed as 28mm truescale and most Hobbit miniatures are rather 30mm already. It's GW/ AoS going rampant and closing in on 35mm heroic scale...