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Summer in the desert must have inspired us to go back to the Taforalt Desert and its capital city, Jebel Irhoud. This bustling city of intrigue is home to a multitude of Guilds, each vying for power and status with each other. Employing mages and private armies, they each adamantly protect their turf, guild secrets, and technologies in a city that thrives on merchant commerce with the wider world. This time, we’re getting a look at the Lamplighter’s Guild. Their humble beginnings as a guild that lit the lamps at night has grown to include the management of their special gas lines and the technology stemming from their use. The gas comes from a particular Barrow Realm, meaning it has magical properties. The guild mages connect to this Barrow Realm to draw their power, and also make contracts with creatures of that realm (Hinn) for various purposes.
This month’s minis give us a glimpse into the inner workings of the Lamplighter’s guild, with a few members from different strata as well as a Pari, a specific type of Hinn that often works with the Guild.
Bases and Terrain this month were sculpted by Kittifizz and Calrais, with concepts by Paul Ferret!
We’re almost caught up with the stats now, with only April 2022 and April 2023 missing (as well as the May stats for last month). Phew! Conflux Creatures has been hard at work pumping out the stats, and OddballOwlbear has been making time in his final year of college to do the layouts. You can find the dropbox link for all the stats in the Patron Download Link.
As always, you can read more about the background of Jebel Irhoud and the Taforalt Desert in our Cobra Compendium, the ever-growing lore document for the CobraMode Universe! The end of the Compendium also has a numbered listing of all the collections: https://bit.ly/3om6snO
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This month we’re going back to our roots with the Hikiga and Hanzaki, one of our original factions! The Hikiga have a very regimented Imperialist society, and have all the benefits (and drawbacks) of that system. The discipline of their army is reknowned, and their drive for military power allows for experimentation into some of the more controversial technologies. For example, the enormous Command Post Tsukumogami, an animated object powered by multiple will-o-wisp-like spirits called Onibi bound to physical objects. The creation of this massive magical construct took the lives of fifteen Spirit Binders, and remains the pinnacle of Hikiga ingenuity. Imperial Spirit Binders like Ginchiyo often employ much smaller and more manageable Onibi as assistants, such as the Guanghan Mask Onibi which she uses a bit like a bomb-defusing robot. The rogue Spirit Binder, Tozen, has thrown in his lot with the shady Ryujin Katsuhito, and his chaotic creations aren’t always well behaved. The Hanzaki have their own form of ancestral spirit possession, which Haranobu practices. While it may look like Hikiga-style Spirit Binding, it’s actually an older form that the salamanders had been using for centuries before the Hikiga Empire.
This month’s bases and terrain were sculpted by Kittifizz and Calrais, using concept art by Paul Ferret as the basis 🙂
We’re sooo close to being caught up with our Stats, lovingly crafted by Conflux Creatures and laid out by OddballOwlBear! There are only 5 months missing right now (not including May), so almost all of our collections now have stats that can be used in your tabletop games. Phew!
For all you new Lore Lovers, make sure you read the CobraCompendium to catch up with the background on the Hikiga and the Hanzaki, and check out the numbered listing of all our collections at the end: https://bit.ly/3om6snO
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April’s collection is exploring the dark and forbidding world of the Stygian Apertures, mysterious portals to an unknown Barrow Realm that open seemingly at random. The Geometers of Jebel Irhoud are the most familiar with this phenomenon, and have studied it so extensively that they can even predict when and where some of the portals will open. This has made Jebel Irhoud the main adventurers and expeditionists to the Apertures, where they find extremely rare, alien magic artifacts, creatures, and plants. However, adventurers must beware of the Call of the Apertures – staying there too long or going too often can begin an unstoppable process of mutation into a Stygian creature, not always sentient.
Some of the creatures are featured in this collection, such as the Stygian Alanqa, a flying beast used by the Ait Alexon Air Cavalry force who help to protect adventurers in the Apertures, and the Stygian Cynomorphs, a common and dangerous beast found therein. The Stygian Larva, which scientists have discovered can morph into a variety of adult forms (including the Cynomorph), is an eerie marvel. Meanwhile, some of those who are mutated by the Stygian Realm are received less warmly – called Children of Ydris, they are likened to demon-spawn and shunned (albeit respected) in Jebel Irhoud. You can read more about the specific lore at the end of the post.
This month’s bases and terrain were concepted by Paul Ferret and sculpted by TheBetaMarie, Calrais, and Kittifizz! We also have a stellar Throwbacks pack this month, with our desert themed base and terrain pack, a chonky Tengu with a big stick, and 5 adorable Hanzaki Ashigaru to help you on your journeys.
As always, you can read all of the collected Lore in our CobraCompendium, which also has a numbered listing of all our collections at the end: https://bit.ly/3om6snO
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March is a special month, because it’s the Anniversary of CobraMode and it’s also Erin’s birthday! CobraMode is now in it’s 3rd year of operation, can you believe it?
For such an auspicious occasion, what better way to celebrate than with a dragon, some fluffy bunnies, and a cute pet?! I don’t know if anything says CobraMode more than that. The popularity of Coiled Strike really took us by surprise, but I’m glad that we got that feedback in time to make our “March Hare” collection 😁 Special thanks to resident bunny expert Hasel, whom we consulted with on the features of bunnies in order to create these characters.
This month’s wonderful bases and terrain were sculpted by Calrais, Kittifizz, and Karurosu from our Discord Server, with the help of concept art from Paul Ferret. Our stats are by Conflux Creatures (who has his own Patreon that you should definitely check out), and formatted by OddballOwlBear.
This month we have a couple Cross-Promos planned, the first of which is Dragon Gate Tavern! They’re sharing something I think everyone will enjoy, but I’ll wait till the 2nd of the month to make a formal post about it.
If you’re interested in the full Lore of the CobraMode Universe, check out the CobraCompendium (which also has a full numbered listing of all our models, sans extras and patron exclusives).
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This month’s collection is continuing our sea theme, with the new Lemurians! Based on mermaids or sirens, they pilot their bio-mechs in order to travel (and wage war) on land. The two we have this month are Tereis and Melusine, one a fighter and one a mage. Each of them pilots their own Sandwalker, a biomech controlled by sound or song through symbiotes. They each also have some Servitors, little biomech helpers that can serve as companions and protectors.
The fabulous bases and terrain this month were created by Calrais, Kittifizz, and Karurosu, with concepts for both characters and terrains by Paul Ferret. We have an extra scatter this month with the little crab chest servitor! It might make for a fun thing for your adventurers to chase around 😆
Our throwbacks for February are also great, and include the Sommos Calongo 5 pack, a perfect complement for this sea themed release. I’m also happy to see Izdara the Mazigh Raider and Nycterix, the Pteropodea Bat Assassin, as they’re figures that we don’t normally see people print and paint. Hoping to see more this coming month!
Conflux Creatures has continued to hammer away at the stats alongside OddBallOwlBear now that the situation with the OGL has mostly resolved. Once the release is more settled, you’ll be seeing the Dec and Jan stats in fairly short order.
The lore this month ties in with the lore of the Sommos and the Noctuoidea, so if you’re interested in reading more, check out the CobraCompendium. It also has a numbered listing of all the releases we’ve put out, for those completionists out there 🙂
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This month’s collection explores the remnants of the Sommos Empire, which was destroyed through the political machinations of the Ryujin. As the nearest and most powerful neighbours to the Mikata, the Ryujin were invested in making sure the amphibious fish empire didn’t get too influential, while also seeking to exploit their resources. The Sommos, now a scattered people, have never forgotten their former glory. Even though hundreds of years have passed, and their once-unified lands are now broken into rogue encampments and isolated villages preyed upon by lawless roving bandits, they still hunger for the day when their Empire will become whole again.
Orchamus the Jow Warlord, and his advisor Gishima the Mago Tidecaller, are dead set on reuniting the Sommos. The most successful warlord in hundreds of years, it seems like Orchamus might become a real threat to the Ryujin’s plans. Many Sommos are flocking to his banners, including Jow Veterans who keep the traditions of the old Empire Warriors, and even humble fishermen riding their Kyokas to go see this new hero. Some have even brought the baby Kyokas they’re raising, perhaps to become trained war mounts for the cause (or just for companionship).
Our bases and terrain pack this month was sculpted by Kittifizz, Calrais, and Karurosu, and will provide plenty of flavor to base your water-themed minis!
Stats will be coming for December’s minis pretty soon (we’re just reviewing them and getting them formatted), courtesy of Conflux Creatures and OddballOwlbear! If you haven’t seen Conflux Creatures before, he writes a truly astounding number of stat blocks every month, and if you like homebrew D&D, you should definitely check out his patreon.
As usual, I’m including the lore for this particular collection below, but you can read more about the CobraMode Universe in our 40+ page Lore doc, the CobraCompendium: https://bit.ly/3om6snO
It also includes a numbered listing of every collection (at the very end of the doc), for all those completionists out there.
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December’s collection is set in the Taforalt Desert, in a small oasis area controlled by independent Hikiga. The Kasane Oasis is a new area that we haven’t explored yet, so this lore, while intertwined with the Mikata Wetlands, is separate and distinct. The desert versions of Hikiga and Hanzaki who have been emigrating from the Wetlands for thousands of years, a dusty Ryujin, and a new species (Owl-folk), which we haven’t seen before! MidJourney inspired our new Owl-folk mini, and will be sure to help us generate new ideas in the future.
We have wonderful bases and terrain by Calrais and Kittifizz this month, and Conflux Creatures and Oddball Owlbear are still hard at work on those 5E stats. Supported files, as always, are by Atlas3DSS.
If you’d like to read the lore for the entire CobraMode universe, make sure you check the CobraCompendium, which also has a numbered listing for every model we’ve sculpted at the end. If you want to read the teaser posts, which sometimes have some notes and asides that I don’t put into the official lore, look at the top of this posts section and click the WIP tag to see all of the previews 🙂
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As we start to feel the chill of impending Winter here in Northern Minnesota, our attention has turned back to the cooler valleys and slopes of the Qian Sheng Shan, the Thousand Sacred Mountains. This month we’re expanding the Tengu who live there, including some fun new Sacred Beasts. The Tengu Witches and Kotengu are new aspects of Tengu Society that we haven’t seen before. But perhaps Usagibo from our February 2022 Release would fit in with the Witches if she weren’t busy leading the Yugiri Forest Outlaws?
This month’s bases and terrain were created by Calrais and Karurosu from our Discord! This is Karurosu’s debut as an official freelancer, although he’s created some awesome fan sculpts like the Cool Dude Hanzaki (available for download in the Kitbashing channel on Discord; check the pinned posts). We have a variety of snowy and foresty bases that would look great mixed and matched with your other minis, CobraMode and otherwise.
We’re still working on finalizing and formatting the 5E stats backlog, though the gap is slowly closing! Oct, July, June, and May of this year are in the works, and will hopefully be formatted soon. Conflux Creatures and OddballOwlBear are working hard to catch up 🙂 To access the 5E Stats, go to the Patron Download Post and click the dropbox link.
As always, you can read all of our lore in the CobraCompendium, and also see a complete numbered listing of all our collections at the very end of the document.
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This is our third Spooky October release, and we decided to go a little off the rails this time. When Hasel on our Discord recommended a Vampire Boondaburra, we KNEW it had to get made! Paul’s amazing concept sketch just sealed the deal for us. We had originally planned for this to be a purely undead pirates release, but we couldn’t resist splitting with the Boondaburra since th idea was so golden. I hope that we get to see a lot of awesome dioramas from this collection!
Our awesome bases and terrain were sculpted by TheBetaMarie and Calrais this month, and Calrais even sculpted the 3 undead pirate crew members using Erin’s posable base meshes. We also decided to re-release the fun Halloween Extras from last year that TheBetaMarie made (the witch is my personal fav). So the October Release is pretty huge this time, haha.
You may have noticed the changing proportions of our graphics the last few months; I’ve been trying out some different formats since Mobile seems to be the most common way people look at our graphics, but the super long format just didn’t do that great. I’ve decided to try square format, since that’s more versatile for web and mobile. Which one do you prefer?
We’ve taken on a new Cobra Crewmember, Isaac from Conflux Creatures, who is helping us catch up on the 5E Stats. Isaac has been attacking those stats with vigor, and I hope you’ll all take a look at the new September 2022 stats and let us know what you think 🙂
Our lore is a little bit non sequitur from the usual CobraMode Universe, but just think of this as a side story… You can read more about the rest of the universe (including Hagetaka, from our previous October Release) in the CobraCompendium.
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For September, we’re looking at a whole boatload of Nemesis shards with only a few sly Feixian to fight them. Outnumbered and outgunned is nothing new for the Cranefolk warriors though, all of whom practice some form of martial arts due to their troubled history as a people. The many different Nemesis incarnations would also work nicely as footsoldiers, mooks, or army units for any tabletop games and campaigns. We might not get to all 10,000 of them, but we made a good big dent this month 😆
Once again we have some bases and a ridiculous Flying Pagoda building sculpted by TheBetaMarie, bases by Kittifizz, and bases and a beautiful pond archway from Calrais! Our wonderful renders are also by Calrais. All of them were scouted from our Discord channel, where many people have been quickly progressing on their 3D modeling skills! If you have questions about sculpting or modeling, make sure you swing by.
We’re still steadily making progress on the backlog of 5E stats, with OddBallOwlBear (Zach) on the case!
If you want to know more about the background of the Feixian, including their secret history, check out the Cobra Compendium.
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IT’S MOTH MONTH!!
We haven’t visited the Moth Folk since June last year, and it’s high time we saw them again. This month’s inspiration came from a different concept artist, Yishu Ci, who came up with some cool new armor and outfit types for our Noctuoidea. The Fidelium Hunter was a sculpt that Erin had stashed away. Sometimes he works on an idea and can’t figure out how to make it work with a collection, or how to make it really cool. So it gets filed away for a few months or a year until we can figure out what to do with it. After seeing some of Yishu’s sketches, he was able to work out something with the old sculpt he had, and I think it turned out fantastic!
This month’s bases and terrain were created by TheBetaMarie, Calrais, and Kittifizz. I absolutely love these twisted mushroom bases. The Twilight Forest, where the moths live, is a creepy, dark, mutated forest full of poisonous shrooms, ancient gigantic trees, and all kinds of toxic, poisonous, and venomous life forms, set among the ruins of a grand ancient city crushed by a moon. You should definitely read the secret history of the moth people in our CobraCompendium, which explains more about their circumstances.
Throwbacks this month are the Boarzerkers, August ’21 Base Pack (a shroom pack that goes great with this month’s theme), and Chammurash the Ifrit.
Oddball Owlbear (Zach) has been hard at work catching up with stats, and we now have December 2021 available in the download folders! Zach credits his mad desire for ramen funds as his major inspiration 😂
To check out the complete lore, there’s our trusty CobraCompendium, which includes the numbered listing of all our collections so far.
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For July, we’ve travelled into the Qian Sheng Shan, the Thousand Sacred Mountains where the Xueren Yetis live. A monastic, kung fu practicing people, the Xueren were founded by two sisters with opposing ideologies regarding the cultivation of Qi, and the results are that the Xueren split between those who kill and harvest Qi from others, and those who pass it peacefully or grow it within themselves. These Master and Apprentice duos continue our theme of contrast with the Xueren; old and young, serious and lighthearted, established and thrown together. Paul Ferret’s concepts for this month were stellar, and you can really see the excitement he sparked in Erin’s sculpts!
Our fabulous base pack this month was sculpted by TheBetaMarie, including a huge Xueren House that prints in multiple parts. In theory, this should be able to print supportless flat on the plate except for the wooden table, but you may want to use auto-hollowing to save on some resin for those… The bases should all be OK to print supportless as well. Support files for the wooden table will be forthcoming!
This month we got some help from Calrais with finishing off the fur on the Yaks. We got a few requests to make a separate version without the saddle, so we got Calrais to sculpt in the fur that was missing… She also helped to cut and key the horns, and did our wonderful renders as usual.
OddBall OwlBear (Zach) has been steadily working on the stats, and we should be seeing some more months getting completed quite soon. If you’d like to see the stats all in one place, check the Patron Download Post when it goes live later on – there will be a link to a dropbox folder with all the stats available so far.
To check out the complete lore, there’s our trusty CobraCompendium, which includes the numbered listing of all our collections so far.
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We’re departing the high seas and heading farther inland, in the lands between the Qian Sheng Shan mountains and the Kutugha Steppe. The Okamian are a proud militaristic society of dog-people, most belonging to a society or order for a specific area of life. For example, Ermingild and Gerlonus both belong to Mages orders, but one is a builder mage and the other is a battle mage. We also have an assassin-type in Gerwalt, and a beast-master knight (Berengar) with his attack monkeys.
This month we got help from Calrais and Kittifizz from our Discord! Calrais helped finish the sculpted details of Berengar and the monkeys as well as creating our battleground and warfront bases and terrain piece. And Kittifizz created the castle library and hunting ground bases!
Throwbacks this month are Red Sun, YuanYang duck Knight, Sadiq and his undead assistant, and the base pack from Nov 2020.
The May files will be appearing on MyMiniFactory starting in early June, so don’t worry if you forgot to download from the Dropbox Link.
To check out the complete lore, there’s our trusty CobraCompendium, which includes the numbered listing of all our collections so far.
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This is month 2 of our Pirate Crew, and what pirate collection would be complete without a sea monster?? The Dire Clam is an eldritch horror borne of Erin and Paul’s imaginations, and I hope it makes a perfect BBEG (or display piece) for everyone! We also have more colorful crew members, like the surly Budgekin Bosun, the Cavy Pirate Cook, a big platy Navigator, some chaotic Pyraja, and an adorable fishy to complete your inevitable high-seas diorama.
TheBetaMarie has once again created a stellar set of bases in both square and circular format, this time with the theme of a deserted island! I’m sure this is the pirate cove where The Budgerigar weighs anchor, a mysterious place with ancient stone carvings and temple ruins. And of course, renders by Calrais!
Some of you will be earning your third month in May, so watch out for the updated MMF files. You should receive a notification, but if you don’t, check your Library -> Objects shared with me. Patrons of April will receive their MMF files in early May. If you want to download/print during the month, make sure to use the Dropbox link to grab the files.
Our throwbacks have some fishy fiends for the pirate crew to fight against, as well as a classic mini (Temur), and Acharya the Noctuoidea moth mage! You might want to check out Black Magic Craft’s video where he created a Feywild scene for Acharya using only dollar store materials.
To check out the complete lore, there’s our trusty CobraCompendium, which includes the numbered listing of all our collections so far.
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For April, we’re trying out something new and exciting for our patrons: Loyalty Bonuses! Anyone who has ever been subscribed for 3 or more months (can be non-consecutive), will receive a special Bonus model, The Budgerigar! This platy pirate ship has a removable bottom so you can set it flat on the table, or you can put it on a stand to display it in all its glory. Sculpted by Heriberto Valle from Capsule Chibi, we commissioned him to make us something really special and he didn’t disappoint! From now on, any patron who has 3 months of patronage will receive this model. If you don’t have 3 months yet, staying in the patreon for the appropriate number of months will do the trick. For now we’ll use MMF to distribute it, so it should start appearing in peoples’ MMF accounts around mid-April. Every month I’ll be adding new emails to the MMF shared object as people reach their 3 month mark.
Of course, what’s a pirate ship without a crew? We have a whole cast of merry troublemakers, including our fearless Captain, an artillerist, a swashbuckling octopus with a mild platy-partner, and peg-legged bard pirate. Not to mention the mischeivous monkeys operating the mortar! Unfortunately the ship was made at the same time as a the crew, so we weren’t able to make it accommodate all the minis. But perhaps the fair Budgerigar has been beached and our crew is on land, to go with the fabulous bases and terrain scatter this month!
TheBetaMarie brought the best this month again, with shipwreck and pier themed bases, along with a little pirate cove terrain and some treasure. I’m looking forward to seeing how everyone will use these awesome bases… And of course, our ever-growing number of renders are done by Calrais, who has lately been creating some really fun models of her own over on Thingiverse!
This month we have a Cross-Promo with Night Owl 3D, a new patreon launched by one of our very own Cobras, Sa’iraa from the Discord! They’ve generously shared a Thri-Kreen warrior and pet on a custom base, which you can download from our Patron Download dropbox. Just look for the folder named “Cross Promo Night Owl 3D” 🙂
To check out the complete lore, there’s our trusty CobraCompendium, which includes the numbered listing of all our collections so far.
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This month we went back to our roots; Hanzaki! One of our first fans was an account on Instagram called Mander Mayhem, who loved our Hanzaki so much he commissioned a 3d print before we even had our Patreon set up. Since then, these little salamander ninjas have been one of our fan favorites. So it was fitting that we created a collection around them for our 2nd Anniversary, along with a new Ryujin mob-boss to order them around. Erin also sculpted the fantastical throne setup of the Ryujin, a gigantic set piece that is not for the faint of heart. For size reference, a Ryujin is about 120mm tall, making the set piece around 240mm! We’ve cut it apart with the intention of fitting most standard size printers, but it may take awhile…
We also have a wonderful Hanzaki Tea Shop building this month, from Kittifizz. With the design from Paul Ferret, she created the perfect hangout spot for all your collected Hanzaki 😀
TheBetaMarie went wild this month with the bases, creating 2 sets that are almost like scenic flats! Believe it or not, like all our bases, they can be printed supportless if you put them flat on the print bed. TheBetaMarie test prints her bases every month to make sure you don’t need anything extra to print them. The same goes for the scatter decoration bits she provided this month, to help fill out your Hanzaki Tea Shop. And as usual, Calrais has done our lovely renders.
We have several Cross-Promos lined up for March, which we’ll be talking about as we go through the month. But our first one is with Mojibake, who is running a froggy Kickstarter. I’ll be doing a post soon to highlight them, and the 3 cute frogs they shared with our patrons this month!
You can check out the full lore on the CobraCompendium, or read the Month Preview Post on Patreon.
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This month’s collection is all about Tengu, specifically this band of outlaw Tengu (the Yugiri Outlaws), who hide in the bamboo forest of the same name. This ragtag band of thieves and vagabonds are lead by none other than Usagibo, the child prodigy favored by the Bunny Mask Yokai of the forest. Each of these characters has their own story to tell, and I think this would be an awesome encounter for a creative DM, whether they come in purely as enemies, or as an uneasy alliance to help them on their way to a greater purpose. We also have TWO surprise minis for the Lunar New Year that will get unveiled on the 1st 👀
We strayed a bit far from most of the concepts that Paul provided for this month, but kept the overall feel of the group sketch he made. I don’t want to show it because we might end up using those designs for future tengu! Kotenbo, the mask-on-mask tengu, is the closest match to his sketches, while Erin took the size ratios of the others and ran wild with it.
TheBetaMarie has once again done a fantastic job with the bases and scatter this month, with the wonderful thematic bases that can be printed supportless (flat on the build plate)! The Torii Gate will require supports due to the giant tassels, but the supported file for that should be arriving soon. Lovely renders were created by Calrais, as usual.
This month we have a Cross-Promo with Goonmaster, but not for his patreon… It’s for his Basing Bits Kickstarter! He’s generously offered some samples for our patrons to try, and is about to launch his Kickstarter for even more. I know how much fun everyone has with our 40pc Decorations Pack, so I’m sure this will be a great way to expand your kitbashing capabilities.
You can check out the full lore on the CobraCompendium, or read the Month Preview Post on Patreon.
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This month’s minis are all from the Kutugha Steppe, mainly the home of the Ariche, and the newly discovered boar-people, the Goksagu. The Goksagu are some-times enemies of the Ariche, due to their nature-destroying mines and refineries, while the Ariche worship nature-gods and have deep ties to the land. The three little pigs seem to have a lot of patron fans though, so we’ll be sure to expand on them in future months 😉 In the rush to post the previews, I realized that I left out some of the awesome concept art that Paul Ferret made for us. Make sure to look at all the images in the post to see those too! Special thanks to Dewbug, who is our resident Ariche scholar/fan, and the one who has been pushing for Boarzerkers pretty much since he joined 🤣
We have 32 custom bases again this month, in circular and square format, courtesy of the fabulous TheBetaMarie! She also helped sculpt some of the details on the Ariche Beast Riders, including elements of the pack and clothing (although the “signature feature” of the Ariche was added by Yours Truly). And lovely renders were done by Calrais, as usual.
You can check out the full lore on the CobraCompendium, or read the Month Preview Post on Patreon.
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December is all about the Ciorcal Druids, who have sadly been neglected ever since Mosbir’s release waaaay back in Collection 03 (May 2020). He was a bit of an anomaly as a mostly-human in a world of exclusively anthropomorphic characters, and we had trouble thinking of a fresh and new direction for Druids and their plant friends. As you know, we don’t really travel the beaten path here at Cobra HQ! But Druids are a pretty thoroughly explored topic, so it took a lot of brainstorming from Paul, Erin, and myself to get something we were comfortable with. I still feel like we could have gone even further if we had more time… Nonetheless, I’m proud of the collection we put together, and I think this month’s minis will strike a nice balance for our DMs who can always use more BBEG’s for their campaigns, as well as our painters hungry for unique figures. There may be a special Holiday Surprise near the end of the month as well…
Our super star base and terrain master, TheBetaMarie, went above and beyond this month to bring you SQUARE BASES!! This is pretty awesome, because we’ve had sporadic requests for square bases ever since we started. That means you have twice as much base goodness this month, all thanks to the Patron Saint of Furbies (seriously, when are you releasing that sculpt?) And our lovely renders were done by Calrais as usual, queen of random. By the way, both were recruited from our Discord channel where we have many artists sharing 3D tips and tricks, painting advice and new work, and also host our Cobra Corps Weekly Painting Club. Right now they’re smack in the middle of painting Libang Xian, Xueren Immortal (but you can still join if you want to catch up). Meetings happen on Thursday evenings (US time) in the voice chat. It’s a really nice way to structure your painting, and also paint together with fellow artists. To join the channel, connect your patreon account with these instructions: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/212052266-Get-my-Discord-role
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October just flew by for us over at Cobra HQ. Between working on the bus and getting the release ready, we’ve been pretty busy. Erin also hurt his back and had to take a day to lie in bed. I think the unsupported files will still be ready on the 1st as usual, but supported files will come a little bit later since we gave them to Atlas late.
This month, Paul helped us sculpt the YuanYang Noble, and I think it turned out fantastic. We have quite a full collection of minis this month, with each grouping consisting of 3 or more figures! We also got a big lore chunk for the Feixian, a mysterious crane-folk who we previously had only seen one character from. I hope everyone will enjoy bird month for November 😀
As usual, our lovely bases and terrain were sculpted by TheBetaMarie, who even made a little chicken lair for our C. Rex (Rhacos). I’m loving the character of this set of bases, and can’t wait to see them printed out. Calrais did our renders for us last minute (bless her), so we could get the post together today!
Our Cross-Promo this month is with Naga Minis, who is also one of our patrons and a frequenter of our CobraCorps painting club! Adli and Sarah are an awesome team, and you should definitely check out their work if you like cute anthropomorphic characters. More info about what we’ll be getting from Naga should be coming this week.
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October is all about Spooky Mikata. We delved into some of the more mystical and frightening creatures of the wetlands this time, and I think this collection is probably one of our best yet in terms of potential TTRPG encounters. I’m really excited to see these minis get painted up. We’ve been working with a Concept Artist, Paul Ferret, to help us get deeper iterations and more ideas. It’s been working splendidly, and I think it’s also fun to show the development sketches that we use to base the sculpts on. Erin always ends up putting his own spin on things, but having a more defined vision always helps him to focus down his efforts.
We have a Mystery Halloween Bonus from TheBetaMarie coming later this month, which everyone should be excited about!! We were dying from the Cobra Camp series 😂 She did all of our stellar bases and plop terrain again, taking inspiration from Japanese graveyards. And our beautiful renders are by Calrais 🙂
Our cross-promo this month is with 3DArtDigital, but even we don’t know what the files are going to be yet! Keep your eyes peeled for our highlight post to see what’s in store…
This month’s Lore is pretty fun, and if you want to read more of the background lore behind the Mikata Wetlands, you can do so in our Cobra Compendium, which also has a full numbered list of our collections to date. You can read just this month’s lore on our Patreon Post!
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