"15mm Chechens and Spetsnaz almost here..." Topic

Straight from the caster's magical workshop…

The miniatures will be available for sale about next week.

Additionally, the Tigr sculpt is almost complete too:

Thanks,

Piotr

Nice!

Very nice, now I know what to order the next months ;)

Love the idea. Can't see the miniatures well enough to get excited about them.

Will these be on the ebay store or on your own website?

RTJEBADIA: Both – the eBay store an dour own which will be up soon.

AXABRAX: Better pictures below [those are intermediate resin castings, not yet fully cleaned]:

What is your Ebay user name so I can find your store.

auction

I think this is the one.

hmm, nice models, but are they going to ship out with that much flash on them? – quite a bit there to take off and resin can be a pain with this, let alone at 15mm. Would rather metal, but either way I can see myself get some of these for modern/near modern games :-)

@Surfer,

[those are intermediate resin castings, not yet fully cleaned

Those are just quick snaps of the in-between resin casts. if I understand Piotr correctly, the final product will be cleaned up metal minis.

-Eli

So looking forward to these, can we have some gas mask wearing versions for possible S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Metro 2033 scenarios?

Thanks Eli – I wasn't sure if they would be cleaned up before shipping, I'd gathered the rest. I have to stop looking though as until I sell my current collections I can't do my new ones (15mm sci fi and moderns to start with)

Any news Chaps?
After playing through Battlefield 3 I'm super eager for some of these guys :D

Ben.

Not just yet. In communication with Piotr to try to get some news.

-Eli

Any more news out there regarding these guys/, cheers all

Those look great!

and any update on these?

so?

Hello,

My caster managed to destroy the production mould during the vulcanization process I was told, including the resin production masters, therefore they had to remake everything from scratch.

A working production mould and at least some castings should be available by this weeks end [Thursday / Friday ?!?!] I was told today. Seriously I hope this is going to be true…

von pumpernickel: Once I have at least a few metal castings, I can send you some free samples if you are interested ?
Just email me at: sztab@polebitwy.pl

Thanks and once more sorry for keeping you waiting.

Piotr, if there are some samples don't suppose there's a chance of a few as well, I'll paint them up for you and send the photo's .

Sorry to hear about the casting hassle, however I'm sure the wait will be worthwhile, is there a chance of doing some heads with full Russian gas mask and hood etc, so the figures could be converted for stalker, Metro 2033 scenario's?

Really, really looking forward to these and painting up the Khazak Liberation front for my Neo Sov future war project.

mail sent Piotr, I look forward to these joining me out here in Kabul :)

sorry to hear that too !

but you can count on my ordering about 50 of these as soon as they are available, they are gorgeous !

Bad news on the casting problems. Have the fellow flogged!

May I echo the idea of some with gas masks. Useful for SO many things. I could green stuff gasmasks, but after the third one I think I would give up the will to live.

Should we expect the SF civilians (mostly aliens, some humans) that you picked up from PF awhile ago to come out at around the same time?

RTJEBADIA: I don't think so. Unfortunately not yet.

I just talked to the owner of the casting business, but he didn't have any solid information for me. I need to contact his casters, but they are on some kind of training [!?!?] and don't answer telephones or SMS messages… :/

You mean they were watching the footie?!

I would go as far to say they are still watching… :(

Hope that all gets sorted out. Please keep in touch. We want these figs, man!

-Eli

Sure these will be well worth the wait, just to confirm i'll be putting in an order for 60 + confirmed of these when they become available, with quite a few more to follow, fantastic figures.

Yeah, I can put in for a good number myself. Alcovia needs miniatures badly!

-Eli

I think you should put up some sort of advance order for these guys!

Otherwise you're going to run out super quick :D

(…and I might miss out! haha)

Ben.

I feel I may need a few squads as well.

Thanks gentlemen. Well the caster didn't manage to cast any minis today because he was out of metal.
He should receive more metal by Monday I was told.
Aaaarrrgh !

And how can I order them? ^^

Be still my beating wallet!… any news?, i know you must be getting sick of us asking piotr, but any approx date for release, just need to make more room on the painting table

Johny:

I have just received an update from the owner of the casting / miniatures company and they did it again…

I have say I expected good news, but… they 'somehow' AGAIN destroyed the production mould as well as the resin production masters. So here we go again…

The owner of the casting company is also very shocked by this issue and promised me that I have priority over their other projects.

Once more the coming end of week / early next week I 'hope' for information that the whole process of casting of the resin production masters, cleaning them, making the production mould and FINALLY casting of the metal miniatures will be achieved.
Since the casters run a very successful 28mm resin and metal miniatures business [anyone ever heard about MaxMini.eu ?], with new moulds made weekly, I believed this wasn't an issue. Unfortunately, so far I have proved myself wrong and have a large backlog of greens with them, with no hope of a workable casting timetable.

Please bear with me a bit longer, while I quarter, hang and shoot [not necessarily in this order], the people responsible for this mega failure.

:( I am sorry guys… :(

Piotr,

Is it possible to shift your operation to another molding/casting shop. Two broken molds in such a short time is troubling, at best.

-Eli

Maybe stop posting until you actually have something?

Whatever happened with the guys who ordered from your first webstore and never got their figures?

Zardoz1957: That is one option but then others want updates.

Porfirio: They had their money refunded. Some of them also ordered further minis and are happy with them as far as I know. Case closed I believe.

Eli: In theory those guys are professionals. I mean who else would have in-house a brand new 3D printer as well as a spin caster and materials for casting in resin and/or metal plus a platoon of workers/helpers ? Still want to see their castings before I pronounce them dead. Plus in a week I wont be able to get anyone in Poland and rest of Europe to cast production pickup the package from courier and cast production masters and finally mould them… Have to wait even if this sounds stupid :/

Best of luck!

Don't worry it's not stupid, they could be training somebody up etc, it happens occasionally in business. They are superb figures, hence the eagerness for them, but I think patience here will be rewarded. Look forward to these.

Certainly put me off the idea of resin masters

Aye

Ive a feeling resin masters is are whole different artform! Can I ask why use resin in the first place?

The reason given was to cut on the amount of detail lost in the mastering process. Hot metal does pull back as it cools. Resin does not share this property.

You will get sharper details, in theory, on a resin master which means your production molds made off those masters should then have an increased amount of detail over ones made from metal masters.

-Eli

Never knew that. Thanks for that. Looks like it is a long road for them though.

Depends on the metal. Some metals actualy expand as they cool.

Exactly Eli. Resin production masters have almost exactly the same detail quality as the original green master. Hence the intermediate resin casting step and the reason why I am still waiting to see their first metal castings.

Geoff: It's not the fault of resin masters, rather incompetence on the part of the person monitoring the whole process at the caster.

I've not heard of this being done before this. I'm surei t has, but not that trickled out to my ears.

One of the selling points GW used for its Finecast resin kits was this same sharp detail, except they are casting the final minis in resin as well.

-Eli

Having seen the GW prices I thought the final casting was in some precious metal!