Unboxing: Dreamforge Games’ Eisenkern Panzerjägers
April 8, 2015 by dignity
We take a look at the Eisenkern Panzerjägers from Dreamforge Games; a Sci-Fi/WWII inspired group of all-female stormtroopers ready to hunt down tanks.
The design of these miniatures mean that their components can easily be used with their male counterparts and then further cutomised with Dreamforge's own Stormtrooper Accessory Set although they are quite customisable straight out of the box.
How would you customise these minis?
Very nice – I’m looking forward to picking up a box of these once they hit retail. Do you guys know if the helmeted heads from this set are smaller than the ones from the Stormtrooper box? I was hoping to re-use the spare heads from my Stormtrooper box on some other models but they are a bit too big to put on my Bauhaus Hussars 🙁
They are very slightly smaller, they are not the same head design from the normal Stormtroopers, these are not quite as Stahl helm.
Good by me. I found the stormtrooper helmets turned everyone into Darth Vader, and I’m just not big on the German WWII pastiche
Any idea when these are likely to become available for purchase? A few UK retailers have the other recent releases for sale such as the Valkir but nobody seems to have these girls for pre order yet.
They’re already out of stock on the site, so your guess is as good as mine.
Mid to late April with most retailers. They should have been at WGF US already but the west coast port slow down put everything a bit behind schedule.
So the armor is designed to make it easy to go to the bathroom?
Always good to see more realistic female miniatures, especially for those of us that want a good variety in our armies. Looks like a good kit.
Very nice. I’ve chosen the Eisenkern troopers for my human faction as I build alien and human combat teams for my Traveler RPG… less the German style helmets. Definitely head swap time. I’ll be picking up some of these to give the company a good mix.
Beautiful stuff, way better than those guys with enormous shoulder pads… 🙂
Glad you said that :-).
Thank you guys for the wonderful unboxing.
You have a great product here mate. You have every right to be proud of it.
I want to see the flying Stug more than anything haha, do some great stuff, have sometimes thought of doing more of a Teutonic theme Inquisition force for 40k using these things pretty much out the box – top stuff lads
Yes! Grav StuG please! 🙂
Oh look it’s those annoying adverts again… I’ll just skip past those and…
HOLY S**T WHAT’S THAT TRYING TO EAT JUSTINS’ FACE..?
John has a point about the box art. If I went into a shop and saw that box I wouldn’t give it a second look as it makes the minis look fugly as hell when they actually look quite nice.
As for the having to be form fitting to look female. I point you to Victoria Miniatures female Arcadians.
Yes and no. I love Vic’s Arcadians but if you didn’t have a male model alongside it so that you could see the difference in build, the only way you can tell is by looking at the face. Now, that’s exactly how you would be able to tell in real life (build and face) and for people who want that realistic look (in the case of my IG, I do) that’s great. But I can appreciate that there are people who want their models to be recognisable as ‘female’ from more than a foot away and that’s where you start… Read more »
Agreed. The women in our RPG group want to see heroic women on the battlefield, and while the guys like big beefy characters, the women also want something strong, but distinctly lithe and female. Nothing wrong with that, as long as they’re equal opportunity models and not some pinup soda pop abominations with their asses in the air.
I’m willing to conceed that some people may need the help of having a comparison mini next to them. But personally I could tell right away that they were female the moment I saw them.
Having said that though. I do prefer my female minis to have a more form fitting outfit. But that’s just because i’m a perv. :-p
I am a huge fan of Vic’s minis…. I tweaked these just enough to be recognizably female next to the males from a 1+’ distance.
Fluff: The soft suit is more akin to a flack jacket in thickness. Not true power armor but power assist. it has a musculature (the beefy parts) connecting to a frame (the indented parts, lines) that expands and contracts and works as an external musculature over the outside of the trooper. This creates a rather accentuated bum on both the male and female troopers.
I’m gobsmacked… workable, believable, sci-fi fluff, purpose-designed into the miniature. *Falls to knees* Thank you, thank you, thank you! :-).
Yeah agreed, its one of the issues with a KS release and plastic tooling…. Everything is held up in tooling then boom, its scheduled to be on a boat and they need box art to package everything up with no time for a painter or proper art.
love the futuristic helmets & the (aliens smart gun) type heavy gun as well.
Really like the Dreamforge stuff. Picked up some of the earlier releases and tempted to revisit them with these.
Oh – and I’d love to spend a day doing a lighting, materials and composition pass on the box art render. I agree the presentation on those really doesn’t do the content justice (and hasn’t since this line launched). Slightly frustrating because that could be improved so quickly.
A great product though.