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Here we have the assault squad finals, created with feedback by all of you. Changes from the originals: Widened stance on one of the leg sets. Ankle armor to better ground the mini Complete rework of the grenade launcher. Addition of a squad leader’s sword. Addition of an optional shield. Taking feedback and making changes to these, took me in directions I would never have gone by myself. The vote for the grenade launcher was pretty much unanimous, as a lover of auto-feed weapons; the cylinder design was not an avenue I would have ever explored. The sword design was so close that I needed to make the call, #1 and #2 were tied, so I stayed with what I had. The only acceptation was the addition of a squad commander’s sword to set him apart from his squad. I would never have mated these with a shield but the folks on Dakka were pretty persistent and I am happy to oblige. This addition raised some interesting problems as the figures were not originally designed for the us

After receiving some great feedback here and on Dakka-Dakka , the general consensus, (two or more mentions of the same issue) so far seems to be. Make for easy weapon swaps: Will do…. I will make a few blank arms without weapons. Make all three helmets available as options for each figure: Yep, all three will be included with each mini, for both heavy weapon and assault minis. Energy heavy weapons need to be supported by free arm: I will rework this, I agree the left arm needs something to do   Some issues with the size or design of the shoulder pads: I probably won’t make huge changes to these, it’s a design decision that defines the minis silhouette but I think they could use some tweaking to make the minis less top heavy while maintaining a heavily armored look. Need to re-design the sword to more medieval two handed sword look: Easy fix… will do. I will show an option and you can give a thumbs up or down. Need to redesign the auto-grenade launcher to be m

Overall the feedback has been great. Comments like, "The best casts I have ever seen" and "The quality and design is excellent. It’s not often I get metal figures of this quality, nor ones that look relatively effortless to prepare for painting." Don’t get me wrong, there have been issues... the wrong left arms were sprued on tabs with the right arms.... I have replacement lefts in transit to me right now and will have those out to the Kickstarters ASAP. Overall I am very happy with them and it seems that despite the error with the arms, so are my customers. One of my customers, a very talented painter posted up a review.   DWARTIST’S PAINTING BLOG A big thank you, to my customers for all their support and understanding.

Some of these you have seen, others are new. This is a preview of the complete line of Eisenkern heavy troopers, with some poorly written fluff :) I would like to encourage you to leave comments about these miniatures; this may be the last chance for changes or revisions. Anything you love, hate, or feel you would like to see.... please speak up. I will be starting another Kickstarter project to attempt to gain funding for these miniatures. I hope to see you there and will post here and on many of the gaming news sites when this becomes available. Here is the full squad of heavy weapons. The heavy trooper is encased in a protective layer of armor that simply shrugs off most small arms fire. On its surface, a thin layer of IRC (Iron ring carbon atoms) provides an immense level of protection. The similarity to their large cousins the Leviathans is striking. Augmented by the same mechanical musculature of the Leviathan, the armor provides vastly improved physical strength and resi

This week my wife started a campaign for me to play in. She opted for using the stand alone Pathfinder modules and the first one used was The Godsmouth Heresy by    Rob McCreary.   Characters in this Session Piria Coln  - a female halfling trained as a flowing monk. Onana Justcause  - a female halfling paladin sacred shield with an oath against undead. Boram Icebringer  - a male halfing sorcerer with the elemental bloodline of water. Hakon Truthbringer  - a male halfling inquisitor with a hatred of aberrations. While in the city of Kaer Maga the shortpack adventurers responded to a request for help from the clerics of Pharasma. They were hired to investigate the ossuary of Pharasma to discovery why some of bodies recently interned there have gone missing and to rid the site of other vermin.  Lamia stock art by Gary Dupuis. Available at Rpgnow from Purple Duck Games. The ossuary has a number of sealed doors that can only be opened with the chime of opening  provided to us by Valanthe.

Th e Kriegsmarine were created when the Imperial navy took to space. A merging of the Navy, Air force and Fallschirmjager, these are elite troops and medium troop choices for the Eisenkern faction. Typically assigned to planetary assault, they drop from low orbit with the use of their drop packs, a device that allows the trooper to fall at terminal velocity towards its target and stop just before impacting the planet’s surface. This is achieved by creating a micro tear into void space, encapsulating the trooper in what is essentially a bubble of reality that overrides the laws of physics for a brief moment, saving the trooper from a grizzly impact. The effects to an observer would be a blinding flash; a two-meter ball of energy is created encapsulating the trooper, then a huge energy release that scars the earth at the point of impact. Scrambling from this crater, a Kriegsmarine, his armor popping and pinging as it cools. Here we have a five man squad. This is a command squad.

First shots of an assembled squad, command squad and support. Keep in mind these are multi-part metal minis. There are five standing/running leg poses and two kneeling leg poses. A total of seven weapons choices and the ability to choose what weapons to assemble with any leg set, as well as the ability to customize the pose by twisting the torso and heads. Here we have a five man squad. This is a command squad. A forward observer with   artillery/orbital strike designator. A light Anti-Tank gun and crew. Not every venture goes as smoothly as one would like. Apparently when the arms were matched, not all the left and right arms were matched properly as a set. This will cause a slight set back as I correct the issue for the Kickstarter crew and the stock that I have for retail sale. I will post pics of the Kreigsmarine next and update with an official release date and price as soon as the kinks have been worked out. All the best! Mark-