Designing a new game with accompanying model range from scratch

I sculpted this guy from an armiger, but I’m not particularly happy with it. I’ll print him off with the others and see how he looks.

Okay, so I thickened up the blades and the base tabs as they were so flimsy they snapped off last time. Slightly adjusted the normal Labrador model as well.

So this didn’t go as well as I’d hoped. The blades are WAY too thin and most of them snapped off. The regular dogs need to be reorientated as they didn’t print right on their butts. Strangely, the cats came off the best, with only one of the blades snapping (because of my fat fingers) but they were a bit small and fragile. The Labrador knight was a disaster, his cloak was too thin and I accidentally snapped his right arm whilst trimming off support I’d missed. It’s a learning curve, and I feel I learned a lot from this first run.

I’ll thicken up the blades and then re-size the models in 3D builder to reduce their flimsiness, so stay tuned.

So here are the initial renders for the first models. I have done a Labrador Knight and Soldier, then a regular Labrador (based on a low poly render from (MRPAULBEZ) on Cults 3D. It’s a nice model, but I will probably sculpt my own from scratch eventually to complement the aesthetic look of the other models. And a cat soldier (getting the face right was hard).

For this project, I want to create a ruleset and a range of miniatures to complement it. I also have in mind a comprehensive lore to go alongside this, with special characters and various campaign books as well.

So far, all I have decided is that it should be deck-based and that I have a few units planned out thus far.

I have a program called Nomad Sculpt that I have been playing with. I will post renders and test prints once they have been completed.

I have decided to go with a post-human land, where animals have begun to anthropomorphize and form their own societies. I envision the enemies being corrupted forms of the last humans. I plan to set the storyline initially in the north-west of England some 40 years after a great battle between these two factions.

By the end of this project, I am hoping to have a full, functioning ruleset, armies, miniatures, and fully fleshed-out lore. When I lay it out like this it seems like a mammoth task, but I’m fired up for this.