The Black Riders: full preview!
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Hi lovely people!
Hope you're doing fine, today is Monday and here is a very ugly Monday so what If we make it a bit better, eh?
We had a very busy weekend working on this second unit for this August Release, the Black Riders! We would lie to you if we told you we don't like to make these kind of miniatures, 50% fantasy 50% realistic.
The Black Riders are based on the famous Reiters, a classic firearm cavalry unit from the Renaissance, but re-designed with our fantasy approach! The unit is composed of six miniatures, five pistoleers and one soldier with an arquebus, and three interchangeable horses.
The pistoleers have modular hands, so you can use any of the two available pistols with one or three barrels, and modular heads, so you can use any of the Arquebusiers Unit heads or the heads from the Sunland Imperial Troops from the June 2021 Release (https://www.patreon.com/posts/sunland-imperial-52069019). We’ll try to make all the Empire of Sun troops with compatible pieces, like heads or weapons.
We’ve just finished these miniatures a few hours ago so they’ll be pre-supported in a few days. We’re finishing the printing test for the Arquebusiers, so they’ll be ready very very soon! 💥
But remember! The August Release isn’t over yet. The big surprise is coming! 👏🏾
Hope you like it guys. We read you as always. ❤️
Comments (34)
On a different topic entirely, are there any plans for a 1 year loyalty bonus?
Nice!! Great if you could give us a little direction on how to scale down the "shot smoke" element of the Arquebusiers so that these mounted pistoleers can have the "shot smoke" pieces added too These will form a nice skirmish unit for me :^D
You could scale it down in blender and attach the smoke to the gun so that you don't have to print in separate pieces. The software is free, just import the STLs you want, smash them together and then export the result as an STL and its ready for your normal preparations in Lychee/Chitubox
Is there one that stands out a bit that can be used as an officer?
The heads are interchangeable so you could do a more unique head for one?
Outstanding
As usual Highlands Miniatures does an amazing job
Thanks for the response. I understand that there are some design limits.
Amazing! Never any doubt you would do an amazing job on this much loved type of unit. You've mentioned they are somewhat modular. Are the legs fully separate from the horse?
Thank you very much Mazuri! We're glad you like it. About your question, no, only the heads and the hands (for the pistoleers). We usually mantain a 'low level' of modularity (swappable hands/heads) because doing it in that way allow us to create more interesting and dynamic miniatures. I think most of the companys out there are going further in that kind of modularity (or not modularity at all) to create better miniatures. It would be nice to try some day to create a full modular miniature, like the old core units from GW a decade ago. :)
Absolutely killing it with the empire models. I truly cannot wait to see what else you have in store.
Thank you so much Ben! We've a lot of ideas in mind for the Empire of Sun army and all the factions than compose this great Empire! :)
Wow really nice models man keep em coming!!!!
Thank you very much Duncan! :D
I love you, guys! They look so great. Is there any chance to get less armoured Reitars? Not that I need them, but just for the question.
We've plans for a cool big release in November and December... And we'll probably have some arquebusiers on horses less armoured. We'll let you know soon! :)
Yesterday I was thinking, the only thing I need these black powder troops to have is some pistols… you guys continue to impress.
Thank you very much Nicholas!! <3
I love these so much! This is the PERFECT patreon for me. This is what I have been looking for since I was a child. You will have my money for a long time friends. I really appreciate all of the hard work you are putting in to making these minis and this world!
Thank you very much for your lovely words. We were wargame players before we started this adventure, so we're just trying to create the kind of miniatures/armies that we would love to use in our games! <3
Great!
Thank you Carol! :D
Look amazing
Thank you Joe!! :D
These sculpts are amazing
Thank you very much Johan! :D
man, they look awesome!!
Thank you Stuart!! :D
Whoop whoop....so awesome..thanks guys for your work
Thank you very much! :D
Maaaaaaan! :D Love those!
Thank you Milosz! So happy to hear it! :D
Fantastic! Amazing as usual
Thank you so much! :D