RiTides wrote:Voted for your Crusader

Any chance on hearing about the progress on the 15mm Crusader, too? Might as well spring on you while you're online, after all

Your stuff is fantastic and I look forward to purchasing from you!

NoseGoblin wrote:Well..... its in the hands of of caster. I'm waiting for the production run to be completed right now. This caster does great work but hes soooooooooo slow, I just cant get a firm date from him :(

RiTides wrote:

NoseGoblin wrote:Well..... its in the hands of of caster. I'm waiting for the production run to be completed right now. This caster does great work but hes soooooooooo slow, I just cant get a firm date from him :(

That's OK, I can wait

I hope you win this poll! I think you deserve to, although it's possible your results will be split between the Mortis and Crusader.... so everyone vote for the Crusader

NoseGoblin wrote:Still a W.I.P.
Here is one of three troopers for the "heavy" trooper class. The soldier is clad in full power armor and wielding a quad mount machine gun. On his back is an auto-loader system to reload his main weapon as well as a massive power supply for his armor.
There will be three heavy troopers…. More to follow….




TGN has nominated the Leviathan Mortis and Crusader for best vehicle 2011.
If you feel either of these should win, please head over and vote HERE
http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/forum/showthread.php?50-2011-TGN-Reader%E2%80%99s-Choice-Awards-Vehicle-Voting

Theophony wrote:Placed my vote. Looking forward to the new models, any update for the mini crusaders, and are the krieg marines available to order soon.

NoseGoblin wrote:I could use some feedback....

Would you like the fluted style armor on all minis?
Do you prefer all minis have the helm that the close combat specialis is wearing?

Is there anything that you love about these or anything you would like to see changed?

Zefig wrote:Wow, those heavy weapons troopers look awesome. They fit in really well with the crusader, but aren't really all that visually similar to the marines. I like the CC specialist's helm as a command helm. I think the others look fine as is.

Fafnir wrote: ...They'd look to make fantastic Inquisitional bodyguards....

Slayer le boucher wrote:Really love those heavy's, and as many i'm of advice to change how the AT gun is feed, but not a box or drum, keep the ammo belt, but make it so that the belt actually comes from the backpack.

A bit like what you can see on a SM Deva with a Heavy bolter.

I also do hope that for the CC oriented guy, different poses could be achieved, or that their would be variations, like a two handed pose or striking pose.

Mad4Minis wrote:Those are awesome, I really love the CC guy in the middle. Needs a shield or something to really set it off.

Sikil wrote:I love the helmet on the QuadMG-guy, and the Stahl-helmet is good if one wants to tie in with the rest of the Reich-troops. I realy realy dislike the CloseCombat helmet, I think it just looks out of place.

BUT, since some like it, why not have all three on sprue, and let the builder choose?

I can live with having to pay a wee bit more to be allowed to choose... The coolness of the QuadMG trooper is just too much to miss out on! Pure WIN!

(My Secret of the Third Reich germans will be based on your models, I have a platoon ordered from the Kickstarter you had, and with the addition of the heavies and some extras I will have a realy realy kick-arse platoon to put fear in my opponents! )

Grundz wrote:These are awesome!!!!
the only thing that would stop me from getting these is lack of posability, which they shouldn't have judging from your exploded diagram.

my only complaint would be a slight curve outwards to the inside of the eyes to make them easier to shade properly

Will the basic trooper's rifle work on these guys too?

NoseGoblin wrote:

Slayer le boucher wrote:Really love those heavy's, and as many i'm of advice to change how the AT gun is feed, but not a box or drum, keep the ammo belt, but make it so that the belt actually comes from the backpack.

A bit like what you can see on a SM Deva with a Heavy bolter.

I also do hope that for the CC oriented guy, different poses could be achieved, or that their would be variations, like a two handed pose or striking pose.

I like the suggestion, but unfortunately there are some issues....

Two problems:
First is the rounds are too long to twist back to the feed on his back without clipping his leg... I tried I could give it an unnatural twist to keep it from clipping, but this leads to issue # 2

Second, even if I could, the loop would need to be split in order to cast it. spin casting is not he most dimensionally stable process and getting the small parts that twist on two planes to line up properly is an issue.

NoseGoblin wrote:What do you think? About the Wehrmacht vs. Teutonics?

Kroothawk wrote:

NoseGoblin wrote:What do you think? About the Wehrmacht vs. Teutonics?

I hope you know when to stop with hyping the Third Reich. You are approaching the limit IMHO.

NoseGoblin wrote:

Kroothawk wrote:

NoseGoblin wrote:What do you think? About the Wehrmacht vs. Teutonics?

I hope you know when to stop with hyping the Third Reich. You are approaching the limit IMHO.

Thanks for the conversation Kroot! you were a big help!

Grundz wrote:

NoseGoblin wrote:Thanks for the conversation Kroot! you were a big help!

Yeah he's an idiot

Kroothawk wrote:

Grundz wrote:

NoseGoblin wrote:Thanks for the conversation Kroot! you were a big help!

Yeah he's an idiot

Just for your information: His remark wasn't sarcastic but based on the PM conversation we had.

Kroothawk wrote:

NoseGoblin wrote:What do you think? About the Wehrmacht vs. Teutonics?

I hope you know when to stop with hyping the Third Reich. You are approaching the limit IMHO.

Kroothawk wrote:

Grundz wrote:

NoseGoblin wrote:Thanks for the conversation Kroot! you were a big help!

Yeah he's an idiot

Just for your information: His remark wasn't sarcastic but based on the PM conversation we had.

Kroothawk wrote:I was mainly referring to the use of the slightly modified Nazi War Flag in the (original now changed) ad, which has been personally designed by Adolf Hitler. Using Adolf Hitler IP to promote a product was crossing the line for me

ShumaGorath wrote:This would hardly be the first nazi themed product produced for a games workshop game. They've done as much themselves numerous times in the past.

chaos0xomega wrote:

ShumaGorath wrote:This would hardly be the first nazi themed product produced for a games workshop game. They've done as much themselves numerous times in the past.

Who said anything about this being produced for a games workshop game? This is for iron core, a system that promises to be far and away superior to anything the GW design studio has produced in years.

NoseGoblin wrote:Here is a possible belt feed... I'm checking with my spincaster to see if this is possible to cast as a single piece.

chaos0xomega wrote:Question, why not check with your caster about doing the feed in a flexible rubber? Better yet, embed a thin metal wire in it to give it some rigidity so it'll hold its shape when you bend it into position and you're golden...

Slayer le boucher wrote:Nice!, mebe so that everyone is content, you could propose the two different ammo belts as alternative options?

And the second Assault pose is nice, but i dunno why put the arms/sword stance could work better if shifted on the other legs stance...

You see what i mean?

Having the Right foot in front with the raised sword, and the left foot front with the one hand sword stance...

Might try to play around with that to see the results.

Or simply if the arms are freely placeable on the mini, people could choose their favourit poses.

NoseGoblin wrote:

Kroothawk wrote:

Grundz wrote:

NoseGoblin wrote:Thanks for the conversation Kroot! you were a big help!

Yeah he's an idiot

Just for your information: His remark wasn't sarcastic but based on the PM conversation we had.

Yep, I was watching a German forum http://www.brueckenkopf-online.com/ and they were discussing the flag and how it represented a Nazi theme, so I knew exactly what context Kroot was talking about.

We Americans see this stuff as all in good fun but it’s very different in Germany. Kroot pointed out how a neo-Nazi organization was using a very similar banner... I did not know that.... I went back and changed the banner to a less offensive color scheme. I'm not trying to pander, but I see no need to offend by using imagery that represents a real world group that most find offensive.

NoseGoblin wrote:After speaking with my spincaster he gave the exposed shells a 70% chance to work but warned of mold tear outs and parting issues. Here is an enclosed belt design that may be the final if most like it more than the single strip shown in the original post.





Here is another Assault Specialist pose…



One more of these to make with him firing an auto grenade launcher; sword in one hand launcher in the other with a wide leg firing stance…. Still working on that but it looks good so far.

Off to work on shipping so I'm going to go silent for a bit

ruyn wrote:I ran into someone once who was advocating the banning of a game for using "Nazi-inspired eagles." I had to explain to them that the eagles were in fact Roman-inspired (as are 40k's Imperial Aquilla -- which means eagle in Latin), and that the Nazis stole their imagery, by and large, from practically everyone who ever used remotely cool looking icons who came before them.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

ruyn wrote:I ran into someone once who was advocating the banning of a game for using "Nazi-inspired eagles." I had to explain to them that the eagles were in fact Roman-inspired (as are 40k's Imperial Aquilla -- which means eagle in Latin), and that the Nazis stole their imagery, by and large, from practically everyone who ever used remotely cool looking icons who came before them.

I've got a friend who wants to get an Aquila tattoo, but he knows that as soon as he does he'll be spending the rest of his life explaining that he's not a neo-Nazi.