Hell Dorado

[sea.man]

The great Hell Dorado scheduling update of 2010

Greetings all of you out there in miniatures land! We wanted to take this opportunity to communicate with you about our upcoming release plans for Hell Dorado. I know that many of you have been waiting for something of this sort. We are glad to bring it to you!

December 2010

* The Hell Dorado Core Rulebook. Unfortunately this is still tentative, we are still working on editing and layout. We will update this with more concrete info once the layout files are off to the printer. It is possible that we will have it during December, but I am thinking that January may be more realistic at this point.
* Demon Starter Set HD1001 $29.99
* Westerners Starter Set HD7001 $29.99
* Saracens Starter Set HD6001 $29.99
* Lost Starter Set HD3001 $29.99
* Immortals Starter Set HD2001 $29.99
* Augustinus Raimond HD7002 $14.99
* Doppelsoldners HD7003 $12.99
* Vorenus HD3002 $12.99
* Foulques the Black HD1002 $11.99
* Deserters HD5001 $11.99
* Chan Lee HD2002 $10.99
* Alchemist HD6002 $10.99
* Lemure Pack A HD4001 $9.99

January 2011

* Damned of Wrath HD1003 $11.99
* Imperial Sentinel, Human HD2003 $10.99
* Squamata Trackers HD3003 $11.99
* Lancer HD6003 $10.99
* Swashbuckler HD7004 $10.99

February 2011

* Devilish Ambassador HD1004 $10.99
* Retiarius HD3004 $15.99
* Lemure Pack B HD4002 $9.99
* Thirty Coins HD5002 $10.99
* Dibukkim HD6005 $11.99
* Blades for Hire HD7005 $11.99

March 2011

* Great Damned One of Wrath HD1005 $27.99
* Saurav Geet HD3005 $10.99
* Blessed Warriors HD6006 $11.99
* Sara Zingaresce, includes 2 lemures HD7006 $13.99
* Blade Master, Hybrid HD2004 $10.99

I hope this answers many of the questions that you all have. Please feel free to ask any questions you might have here, or by contacting us directly, and we will answer them as soon as we can. I’ll be working on adding picture links to this post over time.

[Maru]

Lemure pack - that sounds intresting

[sea.man]

I think it is the only new thing (apart from smaller and more expensive starter packs)

[MiSiU]

I think this will still be just a repack of existing line. The only promising thing for me is the english version of the rulebook. They still seem to be struggling with getting the existing minis out, so I don't expect any new lines to come out soon.

[mahon]

don't care much for the rulebook - even if it was to be in Polish.
many minis were cool, I was only not impressed with the casting... they looked so smooth on those studio paintjobs and then I saw them in person and was dissapointed with the smoothness (or lack thereof) of these minis.

[MiSiU]

don't care much for the rulebook - even if it was to be in Polish.
many minis were cool, I was only not impressed with the casting... they looked so smooth on those studio paintjobs and then I saw them in person and was dissapointed with the smoothness (or lack thereof) of these minis.

That's another time I hear about this which is quite odd for me, as I do have quite large collection of HD minis (around 25 models total- most Demons and some from other factions) and didn't come across any casting issues on any of them. Not that they are top casts - there are companies out there that do better minis, but still I've seen really, really worse cast minis. Let's just hope the new editor will publish some new minis that'll live up to the quality of the older sculpts.

[Morf]

don't care much for the rulebook - even if it was to be in Polish.
many minis were cool, I was only not impressed with the casting... they looked so smooth on those studio paintjobs and then I saw them in person and was dissapointed with the smoothness (or lack thereof) of these minis.

I think that is bound to improve as Cipher's casting is one of the best I know (hoho, only Griffin may stand the competition). The whole secret lies in the fact that HD display models are painted resin masters, so some of the fine sculpt quality is lost.

[mahon]

yeah, that was the surprise: I thought the models were all cast in resin. well, you live and learn

[sea.man]

David Cipher fromCipher Studio Forum
We have been working furiously to get the game out. We're mostly done with the starters and first wave of blisters. We had a improbable amount of bad luck that set us behind this month. Production shut down for about 8 days due to our Vent Hood, then melting pot, then casting machine breaking down in immediate succession. This created a back up of all our products much like a train wreck. The first product will be going out next week. The English product will go out a little before the other languages due to translation time but should only be about a week. The book is in the last few pages of writing for the Immortals section. All other editing is complete and layout is moving briskly. We'll be showing a couple more pages shortly. The translations are going along simultaneously. Once the book is at the printer we'll be able to give a better timeline. Like Akatskimilan said, we are a small crew so any bump affects everything we do. Once we get this release out maybe we'll show some teasers for the next new figure, concept by Bertrand Benoit and sculpted by Thomas David

[Skrit]

What a coincidence, I was just reading this thread yeterday to find out if there was any more info on what is going on with Helldorado!