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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: uti long smile on July 04, 2011, 11:14:59 AM

Title: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments - NOW IN STORE
Post by: uti long smile on July 04, 2011, 11:14:59 AM

After a bit of a dry spell, we've got a few new images of up-and-coming Crooked releases.

Here are the first painted pictures of our next release - the Failed Experiment - sculpted by Mark Evans and painted by Mark Dixon.

(http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/store/images/lg-failedexperiments.jpg)

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj278/pez47/Crooked%20Dice/d86a2202.png)

These shows the 3 lower arm options, the Scientist and Minion bodies and the 3 heads. In this release are:

• Scientist and Minion bodies – both with suitably mutated bits and ragged clothes
• 1 sprue of 3 heads – insectoid, mutated human and ape-man
• 1 sprue of 3 lower arm options – tentacle, giant pincer and robot claw

Both bodies also come with a more human lower arm in case you don't want the big mutated arms:

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj278/pez47/Crooked%20Dice/ba901d3b.png)

The bodies are also intentionally a little bulkier (with more mutated bits) than their standard versions. We hope to get these in the store in the next couple of weeks.

Pricing for individual models, parts and deals to follow.

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments
Post by: Sterling Moose on July 04, 2011, 11:22:07 AM

Nice.

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments
Post by: Centaur_Seducer on July 04, 2011, 11:48:42 AM

Brilliant, Karl!

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments
Post by: Chaos Wolf on July 04, 2011, 12:52:18 PM

Nice. I can see these adding to the paint me! pile.

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments
Post by: Argonor on July 04, 2011, 01:08:41 PM

Nice and interesting pair...  8)

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments
Post by: Dr. The Viking on July 04, 2011, 02:04:39 PM

How cool!

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments
Post by: uti long smile on July 04, 2011, 07:58:53 PM

Cheers all! We're really pleased how they turned out :)

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments
Post by: shadowking1957 on July 04, 2011, 08:42:42 PM

Brilliant , Id like  the boiler suted one with  some  weaposn next same heads or  visors gasmasked etc, also one for the talos so it can be used as the x -ray man....

looked on the forum which i cannot get on for some reason ever and have to say the  august release is perhaps the most outstanding work i have seen amazing models and work......

I have some new paint jobs using the  heads ill post later this week, more please the flamboyant agent is  a class model....


Tony 

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments
Post by: aircav on July 04, 2011, 09:33:24 PM

Fantastic   :-* :-* :-* :-*

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments
Post by: goon3423 on July 04, 2011, 10:41:50 PM

Look forward to the head pack, lots of good conversion fodder!

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments
Post by: infelix on July 05, 2011, 04:17:59 PM

Very cool! I'll add that to the ever growing To Buy pile.

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments - NOW IN STORE
Post by: uti long smile on July 06, 2011, 03:51:10 PM

Griffin have pulled it out the bag again and delievered these in super quick time - so they are now in store!

There is a £9 Failed Experiment Gene Pool deal which includes two supersize bodies (scientist and minion) each with an optional human lower arm, 3 heads (mutated, apeman, bugman) and 3 mutated lower arms (robot claw, pincer, tentacle).

http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/store1.html#failedex

Plus bodies, arms and heads all available seperately.

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments - NOW IN STORE
Post by: uti long smile on July 06, 2011, 08:52:03 PM

Some new pics from Mark with the repositioned ape-head:

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj278/pez47/Crooked%20Dice/failed-experiments-21-g.jpg)

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj278/pez47/Crooked%20Dice/failed-experiments-22-g.jpg)

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj278/pez47/Crooked%20Dice/failed-experiments-23-g.jpg)

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj278/pez47/Crooked%20Dice/failed-experiments-24-g.jpg)

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments - NOW IN STORE
Post by: blackstone on July 07, 2011, 03:32:20 AM

Great figs and paint jobs... bubbly faced guy vaguely reminds me of a baker era cyberman story on a space station... dragging that up through the mists of time though.. ahh those were the days.  Repositioned head looks better btw.

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments - NOW IN STORE
Post by: Steve F on July 07, 2011, 04:19:04 PM

Quote from: blackstone on July 07, 2011, 03:32:20 AM

bubbly faced guy vaguely reminds me of a baker era cyberman story on a space station

I suspect that you're conflating "Revenge of the Cybermen" with "the Ark in Space" earlier that same series: they were both set on the same space station, but "The Ark in Space" was the one with someone mutating into a giant insect like that.

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments - NOW IN STORE
Post by: uti long smile on July 08, 2011, 08:14:06 AM

Wiiiiiirrrrrrnnnn...

And that was Noah I think :)

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments - NOW IN STORE
Post by: Jet Simian on July 08, 2011, 09:38:03 AM

Hmm...

'melting head' + clear resin classic Dalek casing = http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Arthur_Stengos (http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Arthur_Stengos)!

Could also make a nice human trooper attacked by melty Dalek gas a la Resurrection of the Daleks.

Title: Re: Crooked Dice: Failed Experiments - NOW IN STORE
Post by: uti long smile on July 08, 2011, 01:53:44 PM

Sounds like you better buy a few to cover all these :)