Working with other fan sites/projects...

[Malika]

Baldemyr is hanging on 40konline sometimes, so if you are looking for him you might find him there, or on Deviantart.

This is not a one-liner!

EDIT: Check this out. This guy ALF on Warseer wants to create a campaign manager/designer which would enable players to start their campaigns, offering an interactive way of starting their campaign, generating maps, storylines, special rules and so on. Now I don't know how exactly this will work, but the idea of creating some "Anargo Package" might be very cool, it would offer players the ability to run campaigns in our sector without having to "generate a campaign" from scratch. I've sent him a PM with the idea of a collaboration between our projects. What sayeth thee?

[Kage2020]

Hey Malika... I've been waiting for that artwork that you were going to send through regarding the Warp Rift article.  The absence, combined with work pressures, have meant that I'm drastically behind.  Horizon has been gracious enough to extend the deadline, but it also means that I have one night to get through everything... It would be great to have the artwork!

Kage

[Malika]

Oh, I'm terribly sorry! I sent the artwork to Horizon already and simply assumed only he would need it, I will email them to you right away!

[Kage2020]

Thanks... and while nominally Horizon would be the only person that needs it, I'm also going to decide where I consider the "best place" for the artwork is.

So, thanks!

Kage

[horizon]

By all, that CELS made Navis Mercantilis article looks might fine in Warp Rift format......

[Malika]

I'm bad at keeping secrets... I've been hanging on the Troll Forged Forum lately, which is a place filled with a bunch of skilled sculpted. Troll Forge also produce various miniatures which not only could be used as alternatives to GW models but also managed to mold/cast miniatures you sculpted.

I noticed that they had a bunch of talented sculptors and artists hanging around there, but not all of them are into 40k so I don't know possible recruitment of them into the ASP could be. However, and this is where my inability to keep secrets comes in, I've been discussing the potential of one of them actually trying to sculpt an alien from the Anargo Sector, namely the Aoidean. Now I wanted this to be kind of an artistic surprise for all the hard work that Kage and CELS did, as in that one of the things created for the ASP "comes to life". But I've been pondering if that was such a smart thing to do...perhaps I should have asked you guys permission and all that for it first. But yeah, what do you guys think of it? Has Malika been overly enthusiastic and naive again? 

[horizon]

Eh, enthusiastic is cool and I think CELS and Kage will like the idea.

[Kage2020]

It sounds interesting, Malika! 

I think that CELS will get his rocks off more to the concept, though, given his more wargame-y/modelling bent, though.

Keep us in the loop!

Kage

[Malika]

I don't know how this will end up, I mean so far both parties seem enthusiastic. I don't know if there will be an actual sculpt, but if there will be one it wouldn't surprise me if it will be available on Troll Forge for sale. Now...what if that would happen, would this mean that CELS or perhaps the ASP get a share of the profits (why am I thinking of financing bandwidth true this?), or should I have been more careful with handing out ideas to other people?

However, if this does work out with them creating an Aoidean, how would you feel of seeing other xenos species or flora/fauna of the Anargo Sector sculpted?

[Tynesh]

I think they should create a model of my ASP 'persona' that Magelord was drawing...if only to sate my own ego!

Cheers

Tynesh

[Malika]

Hmm, the only problem is that they can't use too clear GW iconography. So sculpting a Space Marine with your face on will probably be a no-no. However some robed figure with weird bionics and such could be perfectly done. I want to wait first and see what other members here (namely CELS since the Aoideans are his creation, but also the rest) think of it and how the Aoidean thing will work out. If that goes good we could perhaps have them sculpt/mould/release more figures.

Check out the models Troll Forge have released so far:
Troll Forge website

[CELS]

This is very interesting, to say the least. I don't want to be too enthusiastic at such an early stage, but it would be very cool to collaborate with such miniature companies.

However, I do have to play the devil's advocate and ask; Did you mention to the people over at Troll Forge that the Aoideans are an extinct species that were wiped out by the Fall of the Eldar? They were dead before the Imperium came to be. Of course, the Aoideans are still around in the Anargo sector, but only as ghosts, materialising temporarily from their new home in the warp.

To sculpt Aoideans would be mostly an artistic exercise, as opposed to some of our other aliens that could be used in a wargame campaign (e.g. Jovans, Cyani, etc). With that said, I do like my Aoideans, so I wouldn't complain if someone wanted to do a model of them anyway

[Malika]

I did mention they were extinct and that they currently exist only as ghosts. However we were currently sort of looking at the pre-Fall era Aoideans. But yeah...perhaps we could see them model them as ghosts as well? Time will tell!

EDIT: further discussion on the potential Aoideans sculpts can be found in the thread about the Aoideans in the artwork section here. I'll quote the people from Troll Forge in posts here so you can respond to their concepts which I will bring over there.

[horizon]

Hi,

just to let you know the feedback on the Navis Mercantilis article in WR19 is pretty positive.

I will not bother for an ASP article in WR20 (september) since you should focus on your website.

[horizon]

Sorry for necromancy.


Are there new articles by the ASP which could feature in an upcoming Warp Rift?

Battlefleet Anargo?
Warp Speed?
etc?