Curious Constructs: Steampunk Field Artillery Promotions

Just found that Curious Constructs is selling their new steampunk field artillery at a promotion.

Curious Constructs: Heavy Weapons and Crews Released

Curious Constructs has recently added their new heavy weapons and crews to their shop.

Curious Constructs: Iron Horse Bike Reviewed!

Today it's time for a review of one of the newer releases from Curious Constructs, the Iron Horse Bike! First of all who is the driving force behind Curious Constructs and what may you expect of the company? Here's an extract from the website "I'm Rob Angell, the owner of Curious Constructs, though you may know me instead as Col.Gravis - my pseudonym amongst the online wargaming community and upon my blog, Col.Gravis’ Praetorian Imperial Guard. Based in South West England, I’ve been involved in miniature wargaming for well over a decade, and, in this time, I’ve found myself more and more inclined towards sculpting my own original bits, and even complete miniatures.

I’ve dabbled in selling my work previously, as well as taking on occasional commission work, which I continue to do. However, in early 2012 I decided to take this one step further and establish my own online shop. The result of this is Curious Constructs, now upgraded with this brand new webstore. The range on offer is still relatively small, and will be of particular interest to only a relatively small number of gamers, though I have also recently started stocking items from other manufacturers.

In the future, we will be offering pieces which will be of interest to a whole new audience, as well as expanding on my existing range, as you may have seen from some of my recent previews. To that end, I’m busy working on a host of new additions, and, for the first time, have a number of others working alongside me on yet more new projects which you'll start to see more of in 2013. I’ll also be continuing to expand on my stock of other manufacturers’ products and hobby supplies."

Up to the actual review starting with the actual review, followed by the assembly and scale comparison. After that follows a short conclusion, giving the advantages and the price.

The content

The Iron Horse Bike is casted in resin and is scaled 28mm heroic much like the Games Workshop Warhammer 40K line and other smaller science fiction companies. Although the main part of the kit is made out of resin some smaller parts such as the handle bars and foot rests are casted in white metal due to the small scale and fragility of these pieces. The entire kit is made out of 10 pieces: Bike Front Wheel, Bike Chasis Stowage Accessories, Handelbars, Foot Rests, Biker Head, Carapace Torso, Bike Rider Armoured Arm Set, Bike Rider Legs. All of the pieces are well casted but come with resin parts inherent to the casting process. These can however easily be removed with a stanley knife and fine vile. Please make sure to sand these pieces in a well-ventilated room as resin dust is harmful for the health when inhaled.

The assembly

The assembly of the bike is quite straight forward as all pieces cane asily be glued in place using the right sort of glue! before I assembled the pieces I washed them in warm soapy water to remove casting residue and make the pieces easire to glue together. As you can see from the picture above the actuel bike exists out of 6 parts while the rider exists out of 5 parts. 

For the construction, I first of all glued the main bike together, followed by the biker as you can then bend the already glued handle bar in place to fit the arms. You can also bend the foot rests to match the foots of the biker. As said previously you won't find any parts that don't fit as everything is cast well and you can clearly see where which parts need to be glued in place.

The scale comparison

Here's a scale comparison with a warhammer 40K miniature to show you the scale.

The conclusion

To conclude I can really recommend this fine resin-metal kit for the warhammer players looking for some quick attack units or as Imperial Guard Rough Riders. Although the kits seems to exist out of a large amount of parts they really fly together when they are well-prepped and glued with the right sort of superglue. This kit can be bough for £8.00 a piece from the Curious Constructs webstore.

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Curious Constructs: Lucky Punk Sandbags and Crate Barricades

Just received this news from Rob over at Curious Constructs: Curious Constructs is very pleased to have Lucky Punk Miniatures popular Sandbag and Sandbag & Crate Barricade sets back in stock, not only the sets have recieved some attention, with each set now including three of five different designs.

In addition, we're very pleased to be carrying the brand new Sandbag Defence Line, this set includes 4x5" (13cm) Barricades and 4x2" (5cm) Barricades ideal for protecting your troops on the tabletop!

And welcome to the new follower, can't adress you with your name as you seem to be added in the back of my follower list but leave a comment and I will add your name and blog to another post. Cheers!

Curious Constructs: Autocannon Kickstarter

The Curious Constructs Kickstarter is now in it final hours, with the campaign closing at 12:36PM EDT / 16:36 GMT on Sunday! We've smashed our funding targets, but we're still making one final push in order to help fund future project, including further weapons for the carriage, and to help get things moving on a Heavy Artillery Project!

We've got one last batch of images to share here, courtesy of Kit, and a fantastic video which shows how the Autocannon works! So if you like what you see it's not too late to support us and grab a kickstarter deal at the same time!

Curious Constructs: Kickstarter Update

Just received this news from Rob over at Curious Constructs: We have been blown away by the response to our 28mm Steampunk inspired Anti-Tank Lasercannon Kickstarter - we've achieved nearly 600% funding now, a huge amount exceeding all expectations, especially considering the campaign isn't even half way through! With all our initial Stretch Goals unexpectedly smashed within the first 3 days of the campaign, we made the decision to not add any further goals until we've caught up, and we're now making progress. We'd rather deliver everything on time then promise the world and leave you waiting!

The Autocannon is currently work in progress with early proof of concepts shown to backers, the 28mm heroically scaled artillery crew will be previewed shortly, with the other weapons, the Gatling Gun and Tesla Cannon to follow.

However, we can now show you renders of the completed Rocket Launcher addition, designed by Faolan, mounted on the carriage designed by Kit Burrows of Zinge Industries, as well as a new addition to the Kickstarter, the Mule Logistical Support Vehicle, a hardy little tractor unit ideal for transporting loads such as ammunition, or with the option tow hook pulling your artillery pieces. We've also made some further changes to our pledge rewards, with new options!

28mm Steampunk Inspired Heavy Weapons Kickstarter from Curious Constructs

Curious Constructs is very pleased to launch our first kickstarter campaign! We're seeking to fund a 28mm steampunk inspired range of heavy weapons, starting with our Anti-Tank Lasercannon, and the Heavy Weapons Carriage. These highly detailed, multi-part resin kits have been designed by Kit Burrows of Zinge Industry. In order to put these into production we are aiming to raise £600, however, if we surpass this total and reach our stretch goals we will also add a selection of alternative heavy weapons, starting with the Gatling Cannon and Autocannon. All those who pledge to support us with complete Anti-Tank Laser kits will also receive any of these unlocked alternate weapons.

For further details, pictures and video, take a look at our kickstarter page and make sure to pledge as the first stretch goal has been reached with ease!

Curious Constructs: Iron Horse Biker!

I was just contacted by Curious Constructs, and I'm happy as otherwise I had never discovered this company and it's great range of conversion parts! 'Curious Constructs, is very pleased to announce the release of our first resin kit, the Iron Horse Biker. This multi-part resin kit, which also includes some white metal components, allows you assemble one complete detailed 28mm heroically scaled biker. The kit is available now, singularly for £10.00 each, or in discounted 3 man and 5 man squadron sets at £28.00 and £45.00 respectively.

This new release joins our existing line up of white metal 28mm heroically scaled conversion components, including Torso's, Heads, Weapons and Conversion Kits.