Painting a Trencher from Warzone Eternal!

[@stillunsure7630]

Res Nova has knocked it out the park with the past years worth of progress on the miniature sculpts and adding the Brotherhood and 3rd unit per faction. Love a great painted Trencher model, in Her Magistrys name. For Trencher Dave o7

[@KabinMiniatures]

I completely agree! At first, I was a bit shocked, but that extra year was 100% worth it and I support their decision. RIP Dave, he died for our sins...

[@alexkanous975]

This came out great and that Milliput slurry idea is inspired - never considered such a thing.

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much, Alex! 😊 and thanks again for sending the minis! You've done an amazing job with these sculpts. Sorry if I mispronounced your last name 😬

[@Kardine]

I'm a Warzone nostalgic. I've played the 1st edition back in the 90s and we've started it again in my gaming group as a nostalgia piece among other games. I'm a lot more interested in these new models shown now than models presented at the earlier stage of the kickstarter. Good call taking the time.

[@KabinMiniatures]

Good to hear! 👍 the new models rock!!!

[@trotgun1563]

nice bro i love the fields of NEW ZEALAND basing haha

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thanks! 😊 I like that one too, but wanted to make the soil a bit darker for this mini.

[@donaldkhogan]

Aw man I'm really hoping to get some of the late pledges from this Warzone re-hash. Warzone was my intro to mini-wargaming back in high school and I'm stoked, I think we are ready for a revival! This was a great paint job, by the way, love how it turned out.

[@KabinMiniatures]

Cool, it's always nice to talk to old school Warzone players! And thanks, I'm glad you liked the paintjob 😁 I collected Doomtrooper in the 90's and got into Warzone around 13 years ago. If you're interested in a late pledge, you should check it out quickly because the pre-order on Backerkit closes on April 7th: warzone-eternal-0.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

[@prophet89]

I have been watching resnova rencnently and am hoping they hit it out of the park!

[@KabinMiniatures]

You and me both! They deserve it, with all their hard work and true dedication to the franchise!

[@Trencher1375]

Great paintjob! I especally like the details on the glove!

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much! 😊

[@kaibe5241]

Awesome job! :)

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much!

[@TheGamerZapocalypse]

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[@KabinMiniatures]

Cool!

[@DeanError]

cannot wait, be careful on the price is also key for this company. Very faithful to the plastic trenchers and just a great look with your painting.

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much! I have both plastic and metal trenchers at hand and I think the new one is easily the best 👍

[@alexkanous975]

"be careful on the price"? Can you elaborate on that further?

[@DeanError]

@@alexkanous975 Unfortunately the center of the universe for all table top wargaming, even if you are in the seemingly separate historical only part of the industry is Games Workshop. The closer you are to GW's model scale and pricing, the more and more you get compared to them by everyone outside of the core fans to start playing your game. At this point so many 28 - 40mm large skirmish games in sci-fi wargaming have failed that to keep Warzone 'eternal' will require a very considered price and offering structure. See Mantic Games for how to do it right.

[@alexkanous975]

@@DeanError I appreciate the response. Mantic is a tough comparison because, while still much smaller than GW, they are many times larger than a company like Res Nova and had the fortune of cutting their teeth on proxies for Fantasy Battle, affording them the necessary capital to move to HIPS, which in turn pushes production costs down over time. But there's no question there's a premium pricing in the GW model that their particular market will bear. Our pricing has always been structured around what it costs to make the models. And I think that's true of other similarly sized publishers who have made it work for years - Relicblade, Bushido to name two off the top of my head.

[@DeanError]

It does not matter about the size of Res Nova to the market place. I understand and many core players will understand but the broader market will not and warzone will be compared more aggressively to 40k and kill team than the two games mentioned. Customers will demand a return to the sort of range that the previous launches offered in time. It will be hard to not have the game fizzle out aside from the fans keeping it going as best they can. Mutant Chronicles is great and want to see it back, just like Battletech has done.

[@michalpurc163]

This painting is amazing 👏👏👏 However second step is unnecessary Priming it with a Chaos Black and then white and then using base paints to cover the surface fully again is pointless. White base coat is what you actually need with this style. Unless you want to upsell some pints. Overall, it’s a great job 👏

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much! White undercoat would definitely have been enough, you're right about that. What I like with a zenithal is that it gives me an idea about shadows and such, but it's definitely not necessary in this paint job. If I would have gone for Contrast paints, the zenithal would have served more of a purpose.

[@TheGamerZapocalypse]

Are these Resin Prints or FDM Prints?

[@KabinMiniatures]

These prototypes are resin prints, but the final product will be siocast.