Hell Dorado

[Skrit]

Well the art looks quite good!

[mahon]

I like it.! Add exhausts and you have steam soldiers

[Nameless]

A Helldorado Update


Greetings from New Jerusalem! After quite a bit of time with no news we are glad to be at a point where we can talk about some of our future plans for Hell Dorado.

We would like to apologize for the delay in communications from us after the announcement that we would be continuing the game and miniatures line. There has been an extended period of negotiations between us and Asmodee, which has now been resolved. Currently work is going forward on getting all of the existing molds shipped to us here in the US. We have been working hard on editing the English translation we have, and wrangling all of the clarifications and additional materials, such as the rules for the Immortals, that we plan to include in the English edition of the core Hell Dorado book. This work continues and now we will be kicking it into high gear.

We plan to release Hell Dorado in August of 2010, with new products including faction based starters debuting at Gen Con Indy. These products will then ship to distribution either the week after Gen Con or the week following that. I will work on getting together a concrete schedule of releases to share with all of you as soon as I can.

Along with new starters we plan to restructure the way the product line has been packaged so far, putting most figures in blisters, so that it is possible to get troops separate from unique individuals or to buy specific models that a player favors. For example we will package 2 or 3 Arquebusier’s together in a blister allowing players to easily acquire whatever number of them they choose, without being forced to buy unique officer models multiple times. We plan on using boxes for larger figures that require the extra room such as Georg Von Holbein, or starter sets.

Again we thank you for your interest so far and look forward to moving forward with this great game and line of beautiful miniatures. Please feel free to direct any inquiries you have to info@cipher-studios.com or to me at Dave@cipher-studios.com.

[arctica]

Thats good news they had a very good concept and world.

[sea.man]

That is so great!! My first Hell Dorado minis are on their way... I`m in!!

[Skrit]

Will be good to see some new Hell Dorado stuff!

[Demi_morgana]

yeah, good to know the company is still alive

[sea.man]

This year I am more pro active when it comes to other companies then GW. Looking for alternative miniatures I came up with Hell Dorado Alchemist. More searching and reading about this system made me to fell in love with all Hell Dorado miniatures On the same day I placed an ordered and finally my gorgeous minis have arrived
They came in a box with nice concept art at front.
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Inside were minis with parts(no additional ones or alternative), bases and gaming cards with characteristics. There were not sponges inside, so the parts were flying around. Luckily i.e. the spear only bend a little.
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Now the most important part - minis I think they are made from a bit different metal then GW ones. It is more whiter or lighter and more shining. I don`t know if it has any influence on painting. Of course they had mould line, but on 4 minis I didn`t spot any thin-long-metal-part that are often on minis from other manufacturers. Another thing, some parts (smoke coming out from one bottle) are so small I don`t know how to pin it - glueing may not be enough and easily break.
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Size comparison - they are the same height as most of the minis. One funny thing - the first form the left mini doesn`t fit the base it was given
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[Maru]

better leate then never

about my expitrience with HD minis
normal human are 28 mm
a "big human" a SM size (Doppler knights , pilars , imperial guards )
a "lost" minis - depend from very big ones to tiny (a crow wich )
Demons end golems - a Confrontation from R Devorers size

about mettal - no problem with painting but tini things like spears or sworlds tend to get twicked


but eny way thous minisare usualy very well sculpted end casted
Immortals - (asians) are smoler then average "human" - well they are Asians end they are only one faction casted by madmen who split single mini on 14 parts .... (ye immotrals are faction that i geter )

[mahon]

Thanks for your opinions, guys! I've seen some HD minis and my opinion was that they're something I'd love to see in resin.
Somehow the casting in metal didn't stand up to my expectations (a bit rough surfaces, not very sharp details) but the designs/sculpts were very good. So I think it's mroe about casting...