Loud Ninja Games Open for Business!

Today marked the opening of our LNG store page at the 15mm.co.uk site. Our partners have set us up with a lovely little home there from which we can provide our products to both sides of the Atlantic with incredible service.

From here on out, this will be the place to find all your LNG product needs, Chuhuac and otherwise. 

-Eli

More Painted Examples of the Chuhuac

Hey folks,

Just a quick update to the blog to show off the latest crop of painted samples that were sent my way from my partners at 15mm.co.uk. Their resident pro-painter has done a splendid job on all of these and I think he followed my notes very well. 

Herdmaster - a company level command figure carrying a staff of office which sports the preserved toe claw of on of the unit's historical elites.

Commandos - this single pack contains six Chuhuac and includes a leader , SAW gunner, and a sniper poised and ready to lay down some hurt with his accelerator gun. The commandos where lighter armor and stealth packs that mask their biometrics as well as provide them with optical camouflage (yes, invisibility).

Chuhuac in HTH - These six minis have been posed in various crouching, slashing, biting and kicking poses and depict what a pack of these aliens would be like up close. Because they do not have weapons sculpted on them, it has been noted that they would work well as casualties, gunners, or even as possible vehicle crews. 

This picture shows how the Chuhuac scale up to one of the 15mm Ion Age miniatures. The Ion Age minis are in the larger category of 15mm figures and so you can see that the chuhuac are at a nice size to blend in with most range.

Chuhuac Battlesuits - These are a popular favorite. Each battlesuit comes with two SAW arms and two of each of three support weapons - Drone Missile Pod, Accelerator Cannon, and Heavy Plasma Gun (not shown). The chuhuac pilot is fully enclosed inside the armored body of the battlesuit and uses hi-tech sensors an micro-cams to interface with the outside. The Chuhuac use their battlesuits instead of support weapon teams, allowing them to keep their support weapons as mobile as their infantry. To the Chuhuac, speed and maneuvering is everything.

Grav Bikes - These miniatures are two-piece models with the rider's body sculpted on to the bike. There are three variant heads that can be glued on, allowing a bit of animation in the sculpts by adjusting the head positions. The pilots of these bikes steer with their tails which are in the rear section of the bike, leaving their hands free to control weapons and sensors. These bikes are used as scouts and for fast, local air support as each carries the equivalent of four (4) SAWs.

28mm Chuhuac Squad - Many folks had expressed a desire to see the Chuhuac in 28mm. While the main product line was conceived of as 15mm, I thought it would be nice to at least provide a 28mm squad. The 28mm squad is depicts a typical six-member pack of Chuhuac, including Alpha Leader, SAW, and a Plasma Gun.

These figures are a beautiful upscaling of the 15mm Chuhuac and are robust and sturdy models. All of the trooper heads are separate, allowing some minor variation by posing them. The Alpha's head is sculpted on depicts the greater amount of plumage the Chuhuac leaders display.

Here is a 28mm Chuhuac, posed next to a 28mm Ion Age miniature.

Pictures of Masters

There have been some requests to see the metals being produced by this project. Currently all I have are master casts destined for the molds, so I cannot take pics of them with any sort of inking or shading on them. I have done my best, with the camera I have, to snap a few pictures that show how I have had to minimize the basing to get them to work in the molds.

I've also snapped a couple of really rough pictures of one of the trooper poses along side a few figures from other manufacturers to show their general size.

                                         

 Tacked on to some paces using adhesive putty

Khurasan Miniatures Exterminator, Armies Army Commonwealth, Chuhuac, Khurasan Miniatures Control Battalion  

GZG Crusty, GZG Daghaur, Chuhuac, Khurasan Garn, Khurasan Meso-Nai

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Who are Loud Ninja Games?

As we work toward getting the Kickstarter going, I thought it might be time to take a look at who it is that make up the LNG Team.

While the primary motivating factor is myself, I owe a lot to the support of my wife, Jennifer who has offered to take on the shipping and receiving for the company - no small undertaking. My two daughters also want to help daddy with his new business two. At 13 and 9, they should prove useful in keeping me from going mad.

I am a firm believer that a single mind involved in any creative endeavor is an invitation toward single-mindedness and invariably some sort of error. To this end, I employ a steady stream of feedback and input from my close friends and gaming associates. They help keep me from spiraling into madness and flooding the Internet with armies of space bunnies or something awful like that.

Then there are those who have made tangible contributions to the company. Artists like Chris Miller and Chad Thorson and sculptors like Adam Gayford and Pedro Navaro have all lent their considerable talents toward bringing my concepts to life in pen, ink, and putty. Though they are not employees, without them there would be no LNG.

Charles Branson - Sales and Marketing

I've known Chuck forever and his real gift is in marketing. I'm an artist, which means I am prone to flights of fancy and often lack reason and clarity. Chuck is there to make sure that my ideas make it out of the whirlwind of my mind and out to your tables.

Mik Burns

Mik Burns - Creative Consultant/Designer
Mik brings to the team an incredible creative energy and some solid design ideas. His experience in the gaming hobby and working with various other projects really shines through and has proven invaluable in the recent months as I forge on toward the release of the Chuhuac - Space Raptors. 

Mik is an avid gamer, like myself and most of you, with a broad pallet of interests ranging from historical miniatures through fantasy and science fiction of all types. He's been involved in gaming-based charities (Doctors without Borders, Heroes of Armageddon and Storm Wardens) and public services like Barter Bucket  and is a regular host on the Minions of the Monster Master podcast.

With all this talent backing my crazy ideas, I have no doubt that we can make Loud Ninja Games something special and well worth the wait.

Thank you all,

-Eli