 Hey folks, Johnny here and I'm with Dave from the studio. We've been greedy little magpies and we have stolen some sprues from the warehouse, fresh into the warehouse for the new Northern Alliance stuff and we have been raving about them haven't we? I'm going to get as many bad birth puns in as I possibly can so you have to be warned. I'm just going to wing it, yeah. Let's talk about the ice skin first Dave. Okay, ice skin. So the ice skin are fully enough, elves. Which means that we were first part of designing them, was going back and saying what we'd already done with elves and then sort of imagining because a lot of them are sort of refugees from the Elven kingdoms or they're refugees so they kept some of the Elven's equipment they have. You can see that in the designs of the weapons and also their anatomy is Elven. But they've got a lot of the furs and the bones that you are familiar with with the Northern Alliance. This sprue is designed to do both ice skin hunters and also the berserkers for the Northern Alliance. It's quite a nice little setup where the hunters have a bow and arrow and the berserkers have a pair of hand weapons. We even got our first sort of Elven axes on the sprues at all. Yeah, they're really nice those axes aren't they, they're sort of the hollow head to them. It's like they're berserkers so they must have axes but at the same time it's a matter of the there should still be Elven that are really light and very fancy. There's a little filigree which you could just, you might just be able to make out on some of the weapons. Very ornate rather than, I mean they're obviously practical but they're aesthetically pleasing as well rather than just an axe for practical. Another one for the poses was like there should be no flat feet so the dwarfs and also the clansmen are all very, we must stand and race against things and the elves is like they are constantly in motion so you can see sprinting, that one's moving forward sprinting, sprinting, sprinting and you've got the lovely billowy clothes coming out behind them. Very dynamic. Very dynamic, gives them a bit more volume as well and again it's a sort of a Northern Alliance traped fur capes because you're in the cold weather. I can't remember how many heads on this boot but that's okay a lot. I think eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, yeah. So for every five moles you get eight heads, if you have other elves that you want to sort of bring into Northern Alliance, hey you've got some extra heads and some extra arms you could use for them too. Yeah, that's really good with obviously seeing the night stalker sprues as well having as much as we can as variation on the tools be it diorama pieces or extra head options. Yeah, these guys have got a little stuff around their bases for stability but also so you can have them look a bit more interesting on the base and like the night stalkers they're not really designed with ranking up in mind they're designed for your unit basis so everyone is in a big sort of wide dynamic pose. They're a bit easier than night stalkers because none of them are calling on all fours this time which we've now said that out loud sounds really weird. There would be a weird niche elves calling on all fours. I mean Twilight King's happening sooner or later but the yes in this case it just means that they can be sprinting forward and firing bows or swinging axes around and not worry about hitting their mates build your unit however you want to see it on tabletop. Yep, excellent. I think that covers everything for the elves. Yeah. Shall we move on to the beautiful Frostclaw riders? Yes. Just pop that to one side bring these in to view and there we go this is one large sprue that would you snap in half just for ease of getting into boxes? Yeah. We'll receive two of these sprues for a regiment. Yes, because they're quite wide and we're starting to think now in terms of as again in terms of units rather in terms of like individual models. So we'll provide you a regiment in the box or a troop in the box so that you just get something that looks cool rather than just going no it must be absolutely perfect and also in this case it will go into a bit more in a second but it was about restricting the it would restrict the poses of the wings you'd have to basically have them just waddling around like pigeons which isn't impressive. So going into these these were sort of Ronnie's pet project a bit where he goes right I want dwarfs and I want them to be cool and people love flying things so let's put them on mavens and say okay I'll go work out. Does Ronnie like dwarfs? He's never mentioned before. I honestly I don't know I don't know if he does I think his favourite faction might be elves. The idea is whiteboard is all dry wipe apart from the word dwarfs in permanent always dwarfs it may or may not have been intentional but yes the dwarfs are part of the northern alliance as well and the dwarfs of the northern alliance are a bit more I'd like to say sort of rebellious or free so a lot of them are sort of fleeing the tensions down south with the between the free dwarfs and the imperial dwarfs and also between the imperial dwarfs the free dwarfs and the abyssal dwarfs there's lots of dwarfs who hate each other so the ones in the northern alliance are sort of survivalists who have learned to do things in ways they might not normally have done but these I think we're thinking these may even fly into a free dwarf army at some point so they sort of fit both things free dwarfs again being a bit more rugged than the very heavily armored metal imperial dwarfs but these guys have very little metal at all on the models because again it's not really practical their defense is flying above the battlefield and therefore not being able to be attacked by most things but rather than having when you're quite a when you're quite a stocky dwarf the last thing the raven needs is more weight on board isn't it yes so they've got two weapon options on spoof which is the spears and then what I'm sure have an interesting name the rules but I just called ice grenades so ice grenades has definitely become the new at least internal loving name for the mason yes yes it is literally they just get you get frozen you get frozen everyone gets frozen they love it you also get a couple of heads and a couple of bodies to pose on the door so you can have them sort of left mounted like standing on the left or standing on the right is how it's worth it's worth mentioning this as I say this is one sprue when you get two sprues so you might be able to see that there's four wings there there are multiple options per bird and per rider aren't they every every sprue comes with two different poses of wings and two different rocks which meet which you mount them on to adjust the height if you don't want to use rocks I have seen a couple of comments about maybe I should use brass rod or something yes sure just put it where the rock goes and so that means that you can get a reasonable amount of variation across a unit even if you want to go into a larger unit of like four or five models maybe or if you just want to split one off for a hero the dwarfs have their heads separate and those are cross compatible with most of our other dwarfs it's the same head jointed to the abyssal dwarf so it's a ball and socket but if you've got any of our other dwarf kits with a flat head you should be able to get that to fit with no problems as well so you there's a lot of little fun things you can do with the kit or halflings I'm going to be sticking them on halflings uh you could they should just about fit I'm sticking them on the the bird on top of the halfling or the dwarf on the halfling the dwarf head on halflings but also I'm going to be putting halflings on birds yeah okay okay I've been confused because I've like that's a big bird and halflings are very wee that's not gonna oh yeah so it's also worth mentioning as as as northern as and as tight-fisted Yorkshiremen I love to see the fact that actually once you've built your two frostcore riders you're going to have dwarf like full dwarf leftover some wings left over so there's there's going to be a lot in your bits box for for added fun times yes yeah conversions and of course these are I mean I'm gonna do what when Johnny says do you not move the spru from the camera but these are full wings so if you want to glue them onto something else there's no reason why you can't oh yes that's something else I've got the raiden has two separate heads too you've got all the mouth over more than half clothes so that you can do it sort of attacking or being a bit more reserved reserved or oh my god cat face yeah that's okay let me flip these over and then you can see what we're talking about on the other side as well so you've got body in two halves there with all of the sort of the rigging to keep just a little bit like the saddle and the armor up we did have some different we tried out some different poses for how the horse should work and what happened was sitting looked weird and then we had this idea that maybe they should be like riding like a lowdown on a motorbike and it's like no because then the weapons don't work and they also just looks really strange so it's like okay they're standing on the surfing the rapids and like actually looks really cool when you get to it if you talk about sitting sitting like a motorbike or surfing you go surfing sounds ridiculous that's not going to work but actually out of the three options it's the one that worked the best and looked the best yes yes it's aided by the fact that dwarfs are relatively short in stature so if it was a human it would look a bit probably a bit weird yeah because it's a dwarf you get away with it um and so i think if there's any other fun things on this uh of course there's the back with the saddle yeah you can see and you again two different vox which you could just use on iron if you want to so i've mentioned in as well that with all these new lovely new hard plastic sprues um there's the the numbers on them so do you want to explain a little bit about the the process of the the building and putting them together so uh that is uh sort of part of the tooling process where we hand the toolers the whole bunch of files with a couple of things like we want the head to be separate and things like that and they work out some of the splits and we work out some of the splits and then they number each piece but they're all tied together as one file for them so a b c d that sort of thing now if i grab the ice skin back without destroying the camera yep uh so how these work is each model will have um and letter and number so the letter is just the model a b c d the number is the part so all if you glue d1 and d2 together you'll start making an ice skin some of these are keyed so you'll notice the ones like the capes are keyed and the quivers are keyed for the ice skin so it's like like a a male female sort of part it fits together in a specific way yeah and the heads and the arms are cost compatible but if you want to sort of not think about how you need to build these just glue all of a's bits together or glue all of b's bits together same sort of thing with the rider they um they just go straight together there's no issues with those so that just makes building a little easier whilst whilst there might not be solid instructions that there are clear guides there to be able to say well all of those together yes yes it means that uh as long as you have a sprue you have everything you need to be able to build things uh picture of the box is also useful of course um but obviously if you want to mix and match parts and do things in other ways there is nothing to stop you this is a serving suggestion rather than you must go together in this exact way uh i was talking to um someone in the office who's building reapers at the moment and they and i went basically you do the legs and you do the upper arms on their back and then whatever you like and then well that's what they did and they've got a bunch of really random poses and mixes of the two arm styles and it's like yeah this is great this is exactly what you're meant to be doing with it yeah so you're likely they don't want to put this down that's really cool it's going to go a wander in uh yeah yeah i didn't yeah i was i was on the holiday when the last uh versions of these came in so i haven't had the normal swirling of them away into a drawer to keep for records yep i've done exactly the same with the with the ravens i said well i'm going to need some of those for video content so i'll just uh just just you put them under my my desk yeah oh no i've accidentally put halflings on them and painted them oh i hate it when that happens yeah yeah so these are coming out very very soon they're on pre-order now um everyone's very excited about them and uh really excited here at hq as well to just see more and more high quality hard plastics coming through the door yeah so stay tuned next week we've got some fantastic uh terrain building on the way more wonderful plastic goodness until then we'll see you later see you later