I'll start posting some more pics of products and things later in the week. I know it's been a little bit since I last updated.
Anyone who's kept track of us before knows we've got a few models that have been in production for an unusual amount of time. Two vehicles, a flying skiff in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom, a disk shaped fighter craft, and the deep diver hardsuit.
The bottleneck has been our caster who, while a nice and apparently hardworking individual, has decided that his time is better spent working in the jewelry market. While I can't blame him for this (heck I agree with him that jewelry is probably much more lucrative than miniatures) the fact that he waited so long, hanging onto our masters for twelve or so months without producing any worthwhile numbers of any of these models is a real kick in the teeth. Especially since he only told us this at Fall-In, where he promised to deliver the agreed upon amounts in full.
So now we're looking at getting Old Glory Shipyards to do the resin casting, and potentially doing the hardsuit all in metal, which will solve the resin casting problems that have plagued it's production. Of course that will raise the cost, and make the models a little harder to work with.
That's where we are with these models now, and they're in the hands of people we know will get them done at least. We have a number of Hardsuits available now, but I don't know if we'll be offering the fighter or the skiff until next year.
And next year should be much better for releases. We've got several packs planned for Lead Bones (with one about to be sent in for molding) as well as more vehicles, and the beginning of a terrain line. We've got more plans of course, but nothing definite yet.
The demos we run at the tables use this size of fleet: A class two and three class ones. Not a big game by any stretch of the imagination, but it gives people a feel for movement and the game's combat and initiative mechanics.
I decided to leave the engines of the Zenithians a pure black though, the orange working much nicer on the bridges of the ships.
The Valkeeri designs I didn't really like when I first saw them. However, now that I've painted some though they're really starting to grow on me. I like the way they maneuver in the game as well; while they can forget about complicated turns they can do fun things the Imperials and Galacteers can't.
Again you can see that using opposing colors for engine glow really make the back of this Class 3 pop.
Here's Acheson Creation's Dead Sauropod from their Primaeval Designs line, showed in this pic with some of dad's Copplestone Castings dinosaurs for scale. The bronto is roughly eight to nine inches long and consequently somewhat difficult to take pictures of in detail.
However there is some very nice detail to see on this model. I'm pretty happy with how it came out (though I think it'd work better with a satin gloss on the bloody parts) and will be doing more for sale in the future. This one got snapped up at Rock-con.
Today we are welcoming Toemerica Games to our lineup. Another little startup with something neat to offer; a miniature line called Workforce Heroes. The 'average joe' as militia, revolutionary, or just getting the job done. There's just the one model at present with choice of big spanner or shotgun, but we hope to help him get more out there soon.
