"WIPs for 2014 - Khurasan..." Topic

…detail on these is exquisite!

They're like little jewels!

Happy Christmas one and all…….ok that's it all sown up

That is a nice tank.

oh my god!!! i would be proud to be killed by one of those…..

NextGen Nova Respublik?

Yes, used alongside the red banners. Usually provided to politically connected units, or, more rarely, the presidential guards of client states.

Bottom one is the Drakon-G, the first grav tank fielded by NR, using captured federal tech (which tech was itself Soriog tech, provided to the federation by the Four Nations refugees).

I just drooled all over my keyboard!

Speechless.

Smashing stuff.

John T

nice to see range growing

Love it, but I'm really wanting to see the Four Nations and Soriog vehicles on my tabletop.

That is a really nice WIP of a hand you got there. Gonna be huge in 2014. Keep up the good work. :-)

Grimm

OK OK the tank is pretty sweet as well. Really streamlined and snazzy. I like the bottom one over the top.
Will the bottoms be interchangeable or are they solid sculpts?

They will be available in two sets, with tracks or anti-grav. Each one will come with both main cannon barrels, the plasma gun (top) and the railgun (bottom).

Consider two of them ordered as soon as they're available.

Not a fan of track section.. but grav one is very inspiring.

15mm scifi…best kept secret in miniatures because of stuff like this….I'm thinking. Im guessing 25-28mm people are looking at this and feeling the pull.

Beautiful all around…grav one is amazing…. any chance I could see the under-carriage?

My neo sovs are getting a tech upgrade

Now… Which would be a better Dune II tank – this or ArmiesArmy's? Tough question! So many good new tanks coming our way!

are the guns intercahngable?

Nice evolution of the Nova Respublik designs. These look great.

Best,
JBR

Thanks John. Heinz aryan, you could rig something so that the guns are swappable. Probably best to use rare earth magnets.

"are the guns intercahngable?"

"Each one will come with both main cannon barrels, the plasma gun (top) and the railgun (bottom)."

so, yep – just like the letters in 'interchangeable' :-)

Cool!

goodness those are beautiful…

Very pleased you chaps like them as much as I do. There's an APC as well, which has a smaller rail gun as its main weapon. This can either be fired rapid fire as a rail machine gun, or in slower fire as a light AT weapon. For heavier AT work there are disposable missile boxes which can optionally be added to its sides.

Unfortunately the model suffered a setback when the pewter caster wasn't able to cast the base for the rail gun without crushing one of the finely detailed parts. So I've had to get it back and have sent it to the resin caster in hopes he'll be able to cast it correctly, which I think he will. (I had actually been on the fence in the first place on which caster to send it to.) Not sure how long it's going to take to get a casting of that part in resin so I can get the two APCs to dwartist for paintup. It's an awesome piece though, can't wait! It's grav or tracked, like the tank, and called the Grifon.

These vehicles are known as the Mifologia series by NR designers, because they anticipated -- correctly -- that they would be seen as monsters by their federal adversaries. They are actually in some ways more advanced than mainline federal vehicles. (Of course the federation is itself engaged in development of even more advanced weaponry, the XM programme.) This is why they were named the Dragon and Griffon, respectively.

Brilliant design! I cannot wait to see them; now all we need is the famed Goanna and Canetoad and I'll be one very happy chappy here! (That, and hey, I'm from Australia, so I'm all for any range that makes reference to us!)

Very nice! I prefer the bottom one, as the barrel has more of a sci-fi look to it. but they are both excellent. Cant wait to actually see them on the store.

Thanks -- remember though that both drive types will come with both main cannons.

Here they are with the base-coat (and the AG turned on!)

Those are very slick!

that's a base coat?!?!? they look done to me!!!

Oh lordy do we need those ASAP
, stunning work all round gentlemen.

Very nice finish as always from dwartist, and it's just the basecoat!

What green is that base coat? Looks sensational.

camo base coat

Fantastic progress!

Very sharp looking camp spec, oh Vertically Challenged One!

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

He's not a dwarf! The DW is his initials.

{quote]He's not a dwarf! The DW is his initials.

I tease, Jon, you know that. *Clinically deranged,* remember? "Dwartist" and *dwarf* were just too close to resist… now, about those Space Weasels…

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

Clinically deranged,* remember?

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having a bit of a 'deja vu' moment….

Gorgeous work.

That is looking very slick!!

edged and lined and started painting details

sigh…I absolutely must have these. Heck I absolutely must carry these in my store. Please tell me your no retail discount policy has changed.

Sorry David, but I hardly earn anything on these as it is. If you knew how much resin kits cost to have manufactured….

The problem is, to actually make a respectable profit on this kit I'd really need to charge $25 USD+ for it, and then I could sell it to the trade. But pricing levels in 15 mil just won't support that. Fact is, the cost of each kit to me is often more than half of what I charge the customer. If I sell to the trade I've invested $1,000 USD of my own money in a model and I'll never earn it back.

This looks fantastic, and I can't wait to see that, the Cane Toad, Goanna and Karkpanzers in the store!

The Cane Toad and Goanna/Taipan are just waiting for a redo of the pewter pieces, and the resin gun barrels. I had the pewter pieces made but didn't like the way they turned out so had them reprinted and am now waiting for the redo of the moulds.

Ditto the gun barrels -- and when I had them reprinted decided to make them in resin rather than pewter as they are quite sturdy designs. I have received one set of them so far, for painting samples. Waiting on the rest.

Just a few details to finish