New Ship Sign
Hey all,
Amazing how the weeks at the end of a year fly by, especially as you’re hard at work trying to unstick several production projects.
Much to my shock a sample of the “final production” miniatures, exactly as they’ll appear in the Core Box Set fell out of the mail yesterday. As I always promise, as soon as I had a moment to catch my breath, I’m sharing these.
Now the miniatures we received at Gen Con, while the decks were painted different for the British and French, the hulls were the same color, when the French were suppose to be lighter. Now we wanted the British to actually get a darker hull, but ultimately the French were considerably lightened. Considering we learned that the British were almost lightened after we explicitly told them to darker the British, we’ll take it.
Additionally, the tray as been completely revamped. The previous vacuum tray the ships sat in did not have a lid (just a plastic bag), so the pieces for the stands just cascaded everywhere. Additionally, the miniatures were held in place so tight it was the labors of Hercules to extract a ship without bending a turret or shearing off masts. However, the new vacuum tray is almost perfect in every way. It’s got a lid that holds everything in place and the ships simply slide in and out of their positions with ease.
So what does this mean for a Street Date? We don’t know. Supposedly this means that all the Core Box Set miniatures are done and they’re working on the Fleet Sets. We’re waiting on visual confirmation of that so we can make the hard call of trying to wait for the fleet sets, or simply pull the trigger to get the Core Box Set moving immediately so we can have it out first quarter next year.
As always, as soon as I have news, you will!
Thanks for all the patience, crewmen…
See ya next duty shift!
Randall
Lighter? The French ships’ hulls don’t look painted at all! Whatever, they look awesome!
Loving the new trays especially.
Congratulations, Randall. I know how much of a trail has been for you and everyone at Catalyst, so it’s good to finally see significant progress being made with regards to the miniatures.
Can’t freakin’ wait for this to ship. Will continue to follow this blog in the meantime, of course.
Hope the new trays make it a tad easier to get the ships out – also, are our old shipsets from GenCon now collectors items?
The minis and trays look great. The formed plastic lid looks like it holds the ships totally secure until you open it up?
Can’t wait to get my hands on these for play.
Are any of the ships from GenCon going to be available for purchase (you know I’m thinking kitbashing of course!!).
Oooooh! Gives to me, my precioussss
If there are left over ships from GenCon, I would love to buy a set so I can demo with real ships rather than paper ships.
yes they look amazing, but how about finally getting the game out there for people to play. Right now you all look like a bunch of rich kids playing with cool toys for us poor folk to drool over. I am ready with my 100 bucks for the box set…..get it together people or I may just finally give in to a buddy of mine and go with Warhammer…….we can’t have that now can we. (tongue in cheek)
The ships look good! It finally feels like we’re getting closer to the release. Hooray and huzzah!
blackbrunswicker just jinxed it. Blame him when the release date becomes summer… of 2013.
At least this has given me time to paint my orc army for King of War.
Wow, the French ships *are* very bright. On the other hand, that WILL make it easier to tell them apart on the game board at a glance. (I think the last time Nick and I played at one of your G&G sessions, we ended up moving each other’s ships twice.)
We want eight and we won’t wait!!! =)
I like it much better than the previous set. Now, you can easily tell apart which one is which. Please get the main set out first.
Alls I have to say is that they look amazing! I can’t wait to see German and American ships in the future.
How much is this kind of stuff for I am planning to purchase it to my nephew? Do it has a free board game?
I keep throwing my money at the screen and nothing is happening… you need to get these out before something else in my house breaks and I have to throw the money there instead!