Previews και νέα από τα releases μας...

Και σιγά-σιγά κάνουμε πιό αισθητή (και μόνιμη) τη παρουσία μας στα ξένα φόρουμς...

  Shieldwolf Miniatures Official on Dakkadakka

   

Και οι Γάλλοι μας έκαναν τη τιμή ενός review... δε το γνωρίζαμε το site αλλά... χεχεχε, τι μαθαίνει κανείς!   

Edit: Κάτω δεξιά έχει υποτίτλους στα αγγλικά (ούτε αυτό το ήξερα, λολ, που ζω;!)

(Το έβαλα σε ξένα forums, είπα να το τοιχοκολλήσω και εδώ)   

In the heated Greek summer, work over at Shieldwolf HQ is continuously pumping. We are following our main plan and awaiting to see the results. We do however have also a plan B set in motion that will tilt things quite a bit again unexpected. :-)

We will be posting a very detailed "report" in the second week of September when it will have been decided which route to take. In the meanwhile we are working with our manufacturer on our 2nd plastic kit, we have no interest at this point for any other type of plastic. Shieldwolf:War is coming will undoubtly need also other sculpts to be produced in resin from a variety of factions and races, always with the same vision, passion and innovation. Resin is again always done in house to ensure both the quality and availability.

We have not stoppped commissioning nor preparing since our very arrival, but these things take time and the more Shieldwolf grows the more weight it will have to push forward faster. We are sculpting, painting and casting un-revealed models as we speak. We could show off some artwork but we prefer not to, after all artwork and final product -as both customers and manufacturers know only too well- are two very different things. :-)

Finally, this small post features a first overlook/progress at our current races:

Undead: We have commissioned for the future release of a couple of heroes to enrich the Undead.
Kingdom of Talliareum (Humans): We have already sculpted and painted some, we are currently planning something...nasty.
Kingdom of Hell: We are working on their regiment and 2 more heroes.
Northern Alliance: Being the only company worldwide producing a barbarian army at this scale, we are currently working on more.
Dracantropii Kingdoms: New bases available. Further update coming September.
Orcs: Having 4 factions for this race, we have for now more than enough releases for our 1st faction (Mountain Orcs) and are currently working on the 2nd, sculpting as we speak.
Araves: A surprise is being prepared for the Lords of the Sand Lands.

Other future factions and races.
(Please note some are main races -meaning one of the 12 planned- and some that are supplementary. We are only mentioning 6 out of 13 currently planned).

Dwarfs: We can't immagine our fantasy world without these interesting fellas, but there are simply too many manufacturers producing dwarfs atm. Although we have some artwork, Shieldwolf has no plans for the bearded race for the next 2 years.
Elves: We have them in the pipeline, we have shown off some artwork and sculpts in the past but nothing to be produced in the very near future. 2015 is more probable.
Tragomaxoi: A race of goat warriors, some lovely artwork and a beautiful finished sculpt for now. They are on hold.
Goblins: Plastic regiment planned and some heroes already sculpted with plenty of beautiful artwork, first minis should hit our store shortly.
The Rebels: Human faction. We have commissioned artwork but no sculpts have been created yet.


Thank you.
The Shieldwolf Team.

   

(Απ'ευθείας από το post που έγινε σε USA timing στο Dakkadakka... η Shieldwolf μεγαλώνει!)




Undead: We are sculpting a couple of heroes to enrich their ranks since these guys don't have any (yet), if the final results should turn up as we like, these should hit our store before X-mas 2014.

Kingdom of Talliareum (Humans): We are preparing something really nasty, once it hits you can tell us yourselves whether you like it or not. In the meanwhile all pieces for their dual regiment are finished and tested, but -as you may already know- Shieldwolf has decided to try launching full sprue plastic for all our future regiments, so they are on hold for now. Either way these come with twenty 20mm square bases and full command, along with a variety of goodies/bitz we'll be adding.


(We apologise for the quality of the pic, they all came out a bit blurry :-(  )


Kingdom of Hell: We finished working on their first regiment (Infernal Assaulters Infantry) and have designed the concept artwork for 2 more heroes, one on a 25mm base and one on a 50mm base. As with all regiments this too may be destined for plastic sprue tooling (should our plans work  out), so is on hold. If it does go for plastic production, it will need some re-sculpting as pieces are not eligible for the tooling process it needs. Final miniatures will stay very close to what we are revealing today however.
If our plan for going full plastic sprues fail us, these twisted guys will be massed produced in our -notorious by now- orange utility boxes and can easily hit our store in less than 1 month time! They come with 25 mm square bases and (as all our regiments) come with huge choice of convertibility and in packs of 20 with full command options.













Northern Alliance: We've been messaged before from people wanting to field an entire barbarian army at this scale (and us being the only ones producing one), so we are currently working on releasing even more stuff to enrich their ranks. As always innovation is something we are constantly working on, imagining these miniatures and bringing them to life! This is the Grand Yeti one of the "Greater Monsters" categories we have, should be carrying 4 light barbarian infantry atop once completed.





Dracantropii Kingdoms: Our Dragon Race! After our Arabic and Barbarians, seems we are the first (to our knowledge at least) to have sculpted a regiment for a Dragon race at 28mm "heroic"/bulky scale! (if we are wrong please let us know however, lol) :-)
We have already made new bases available. Their Light Dracantropii Infantry regiment is practically ready -but same goes here as for the Infernal Assaulters regiment, we have frozen this in order to favor full plastic sprue tooling via Renedra (our UK manufacturer for our plastics)-. If things do not work out and we put these in production, these guys will be packaged in our orange plastic boxes once cast in resin (for those who are not familiar we at Shieldwolf refuse to work with metal since we consider it a worse and outdated material to work with, penalising the details of a sculpt -among other defects). The Light Dracantropii Infantry regiment can be ready and in stock via our website in about 1 month time should we decide to go via resin production. They come with 25 mm square bases and (as all our regiments) in packs of 20 with full command options and tons of convertibility.















Orcs: The Orcs have been planned and divided in 4 different factions. Although a young company we are very happy to be producing what are maybe the most detailed Orc army miniatures worldwide and for the response they are receiving, we have completed our releases for now for our 1st faction (the Mountain Orcs) which became so welcome in the Community and are currently working on the 2nd, the Valley Orcs. Sculpts -and hopefully painted versions- should show up rather soon :-)

Araves: We have already showed some sculpts ready for regiment tooling, should we decide to abbandon plastic sprue-tooling (which is not our intention at the moment, quite the opposite) we have 3 regiments and a couple of Characters ready for immediate production. Two of our regiments come supplied with 20mm square bases and one regiment comes in 25x50mm bases. In the meanwhile we are preparing something else too for the Lords of the Sand Lands.







Other future factions and races.
(Please note some are main races -meaning one of the 12 planned- and some that are supplementary. We are only mentioning 6 out of 13 currently planned).

Dwarfs: We can't immagine our fantasy world without these interesting fellas, but there are simply too many manufacturers producing dwarfs atm. Although we have some artwork, Shieldwolf has no plans for the bearded race for the next 2 years.

Elves: We have them long now in the pipeline, we have amazing fluff/backround for the Elves, plenty of astonishing artwork and 3D sculpts but nothing to be produced in the very near future. 2015 is more probable/doable. This is a sample of what our first regiment will look like, the Elven Oak Order. Some characteristics will be slightly altered in order to fit our 28mm "bulky" scale but that's relatively easy since the sculpts are in 3D. Also, we noticed that there are extremely few products available that have their heads being bare (i.e. without hoods/helmets), and we find this a shame for the "pointy ears" of our World. We love those ears! Our team will try (and it shows from our initial efforts at least) to leave the most basic characteristic of this race more... evident.









Tragomaxoi: A race of goat warriors, some lovely artwork prepared and a beautiful finished sculpt for now, we didn't have any time to work on their fluff during July/August, hopefully Angelos will draw more inspiration during Autumn. They are on hold.

Goblins: (we promised no further comments other than what we have already said at this point, so bear with us)

The Rebels (Human faction): We have commissioned artwork and currently working on it but no sculpts have been created yet. We also worked a bit more on their book, there is going to be a huge alteration in all our books however (for those who have not been following our brand we've been working on fluff and rules from 2012)!


So, hope you enjoy as much as we do and bear with us till the completion of our plan, next months will be a deciding factor with our upcoming releases :-)

Thank you.
The Shieldwolf Team.

Είδες με επιμονή και πίστη τι γίνεται;
Καμμία σχέση με την αρχή που κάναμε, έ;

Το γιέτι σε αντικατάσταση του μαμούθ?

Δεν έχουμε πεί τίποτα για Μαμούθ...
Εάν όμως κάναμε και το είχαμε στα σχέδια, τότε το Yeti σε σύγκριση με το Mammooth θα το είχαν οι Βάρβαροι των Northern Alliance για "τα σπάω όλα αλλά αντέχω λιγότερο" ενώ το άλλο θα ήταν του στυλ "αντέχω τα μάλλα αλλά τα σπάω λιγότερο...".
Το Μαμμούθ θα είχε πάνω του επίσης "αναβάτες" αλλά δε θα ήταν light barbarian infantry... λέμε τώρα εάν...

Σόρρυ απλά το είδα έτσι με το "καλάθι" στην πλάτη και μου φάνηκε count as mammoth.

Υπολόγισε 100 ημέρες ακόμη Αντρέα... 100 ημέρες και ύστερα κάποιοι θα παραμιλάνε...

Θα πάρει καιρό αλλά κερδίζουμε έδαφος σιγά-σιγά...

ναι αλλα τα βηματα τα οποια εχετε κανει ειναι εντυπωσιακα!!!!

Ragnar έγραψε:

ναι αλλα τα βηματα τα οποια εχετε κανει ειναι εντυπωσιακα!!!!

+1!

Ragnar έγραψε:

ναι αλλα τα βηματα τα οποια εχετε κανει ειναι εντυπωσιακα!!!!

Για όσους δε μας ακολουθούν στο Facebook, πάρ'τε μία ιδέα για το τι έρχεται το 2015...

Nice!!!

Το Νοέμβρη θα αποκαλύψουμε το project Monuments of Glory, το οποίο έχει σκαλιστεί εξ'ολοκλήρου από Έλληνα γλύπτη.  
Είναι ο πρώτος Έλληνας γλύπτης με τον οποίο συνεργαζόμαστε ύστερα από χρόνια (από τότε που πρωτοεμφανιστήκαμε για την ακρίβεια) και η δουλειά του αξίζει να αναδειχθεί.  

Το Δεκέμβρη αποκαλύπτουμε το περίφημο project Pillars of Destiny που όπως έχουμε απαντήσει στο dakkadakka είναι Kickstarter, απ'όσο γνωρίζουμε το 1ο από ελληνική εταιρία μινιατούρων, και πάνω στο οποίο δουλεύουμε από 29 Απριλίου!  
Λογικά θα κάνει launch Ιανουάριο '15, αν και υπάρχει ένα ενδεχόμενο λόγω ενός προβλήματος που ακόμη ταλαντεύεται να γίνει launch από Φεβρουάριο '15.  

Έχουμε ετοιμάσει πράγματα που -μάλλον- δε τα περιμένετε, ελπίζουμε να αρέσουν τόσο πολύ που να σπάσουμε την οροφή και να δικαιολογήσουμε το όνομα που δώσαμε στο project. Ετοιμαστείτε για πολλά καλούδια, αντίστοιχα των οποίων δεν έχει κανένας...

Ωραία πράγματα και εύχομαι κάθε επιτυχία στο kickstarter!

ΥΓ ο γλύπτης είναι ο Κονταρός?

O Μιχάλης Κοντράρος λες;
Όχι, παρ'όλο που μίλησα με το παλλικάρι τηλεφωνικά και ναι μεν τις καλύτερες εντυπώσεις αλλά είναι "κλεισμένος" και δε μπορεί προς το παρών να συνεργαστεί μαζί μας. Ίσως στο μέλλον ενώσουμε τις δυνάμεις μας.  

Τρέφω ιδιαίτερες ελπίδες για αυτό το KS, έχει πέσει απίστευτη δουλειά και έχουμε ετοιμάσει πάρα πολλά πραγματάκια, εμφανίζουμε τα πρώτα Centerpieces μας       , καθώς και units που είναι απλά εντυπωσιακότατα. Έχουν προσληφθεί γλύπτες που δεν έχουν να ζηλέψουν τίποτε και από κανένα και τα αποτελέσματα τους θα τα δείτε (κάποιοι τα έχετε ήδη δεί, άλλοι θα τα δουν εάν γίνει Golden Dwarf από κοντά σε αποκλειστικό preview). Οι painters της εταιρίας για τα καλούδια του KS είναι GD επιπέδου και εκτός όλων αυτών έχουμε
- πρόθεση να γίνει heavily co-funded όλο το project και
- εκπτώσεις τεράστιου μεγέθους που είναι πραγματικά ελκυστικές (της τάξης του -40% κατά μ.ο. )

Ο ανταγωνισμός μεγαλώνει και παραμένουμε η μοναδική εταιρία μαζί με μία που λέγεται Citadel Miniatures που συνεχίζουμε να φτιάχνουμε τα πλαστικά μας σε HIPS. Και αυτό είναι παγκοσμίως...

Ας ελπίσουμε ότι τα καλύτερα έρχονται...

χιλια μπραβο !!
δεν μενετε στις δαφνες σας αλλα βελτιωνεστε προς το καλυτερο!!

Περιμενουμε παντα τα καλυτερα απο εσας!!!

Boromir έγραψε:

Περιμενουμε παντα τα καλυτερα απο εσας!!!

Και θα κοιτάξω να μην απογοητευτεί κανένας, όσοι από εσάς τα έχετε δεί ήδη έχετε σχολιάσει θετικότατα και αυτό δείχνει ότι -μάλλον- είμαστε στο σωστό δρόμο.  

Θα θελήσουμε όμως έμπρακτα τη βοήθεια σας, όσοι έχετε accounts σε άλλα φόρουμς θα θελήσουμε κοινοποιήσεις, shares, σχολιασμούς... αυτά που λένε στο εξωτερικό shouts! Οι υπολογισμοί λένε ότι θα χρειαστούμε 700+ backers    για να πετύχουμε! Δεν είναι καθόλου αμελητέος αριθμός, οπότε θα χρειαστεί λαό να το υποστηρίξει από πίσω, ακόμη και εάν δεν θέλει κάποιος να συμμετάσχει (βάζοντας χρήματα δηλαδή).

Παρ'όλο που ο αρχικός στόχος είναι πολύ χαμηλός (αρχίζουμε μάλλον με 5,000$), έχουν ξοδευτεί ήδη τα υπερ-τετραπλάσια αυτών  με στόχο να σπάσει την οροφή! Είναι κρίσιμο να δούμε εάν μπορέσει ή όχι να πετύχει αυτή η προσπάθεια για καινούρια kits προϊόντα σε HIPS, κάθε άλλη που γνωρίζουμε έχει αποτύχει, και δε θέλουμε να βγαίνει μόλις ένα set κάθε 2-3 χρόνια!



Εάν πετύχει, εδραιώνεται επισήμως η εταιρία και πρώτα ο Θεός δε θα χρειαστεί καν άλλο KS!