Sunday, January 04, 2015

Farawell Spiky Rat Pack?


Many of you good and loyal followers have noticed how the activity of Spiky Rat Pack has been shamelessly quiet for quite some time now. There really is no excuse for this negligence and that's why we sincerely want to apologize this from you. You guys are the reason why we've kept this thing up and running as long as four years! And crazy four years it has been!

The header of this post is a bit scary. We have discussed about Spiky Rat Pack's future numerous times, namely talking about what we should do with the blog in the future. We still love to make distinctive miniatures and love to share our work with you guys, so we still want to keep blogging. But we think the Spiky Rat Pack as it is has came to its end and that's why the header actually is true.

But like all the pests, rats don't die and give up so easily!

Here's the twist! We've had long and interesting discussions with Migsula of Legion of Plastic – whose inspiring work we both admire and appreciate a lot – about putting our forces together to establish new joint blog for our creative projects. It kind of made sense to us all; we all come from Finland, share the same vision regarding the 40k universe and like to explore and widen our artistic nature with great passion. The new blog is now up and running and is know as...

>> IRON SLEET <<


The new blog will be mostly about our beloved 40k universe. We also want to keep sharing our insights regarding the hobby and keep inspiring you guys with numerous different ways, such as nice illustrations, rousing poetry, great stories and fantastic ambient music. There will also be interesting guest contributors every now and then...

We are very excited about this and look forward to keep blogging together with such a great talent as Migs! So if you still wish to see and hear what I and Mikko are about to do in the fields of miniature hobby and the scene around it, follow the link and start following the Iron Sleet. I promise you won't be disappointed!

21 comments:

  1. Nice, buy why on silly wordpress that is hard to follow ;(

    WIth Blogspot i can log in with google account and see your new post in a blogfeed, nad there I will have to remember to go especially to check if you have new post or not.

    You both had probably some reasons to go there, but for me as reader is major inconvenience

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    1. Sorry AWu... Our experiences with the Blogger were pretty OK in general, though there were some issues (eg. mobile version) that pushed us away from it. We wanted to elevate our blog to the next level, give it yet more professional touch, starting from the platform. We did some benchmarking and found out that WordPress would be most suitable for our plans. It was a hard decision to make as we do know our followers are very much using Blogger/Google+ to be in touch with our blogs.

      The work is still in early stage and that's why the current outlook of the Iron Sleet is very harsh. It will find its place in time.

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    2. Awu, this is good feedback. Major reason from my moving away from blogger was to make everything easier and prettier for everyone. We will be sure to add a follow by email function which I super convenient but also see how we can make life easier for our Blogger friends. Blogger has been neglected by Google for years and Wordpress offers the tools for a far better experience. We just have to learn and unleash them :) Migs

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    3. I just gave it a go, and Blogger followed the new site without any problems.

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    4. Ok i think i made it work for now. It had to be added to feed manualy.

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  2. I saw Migsula's post over on DakkaDakka and am following the new blog already. I am very excited to see what all of you come up with in this new collaboration.

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    1. Cheers ephrael! I'm sure that the new blog will bring new inspiring fire to our work.

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  3. Good luck on the new combined voyage!
    As I subscribed to both this and Migs' blog, Iron Sleet is now naturally in my to-read list...
    Keep the awesome coming!

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  4. When I first saw the heading I was a little crestfallen as it was this blog that introduced me too all kinds of magnificent creations, modelers and indeed a whole new side of the hobby I had yet to experience.

    Needless to say I am most pleased to hear you guys are continuing your good work.

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    1. Thanks Mathew! The Spirit of Spiky Rat Pack will never die. It will live in our work as long as we keep doing miniatures – and there are guys like you who help us keep pushing our boundaries.

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  5. Good luck with the new venture. I'm looking forward to watching the next chapter unfold.

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    1. And what a magnificent chapter it will be! Thanks for following, MonkeyBallistic :)

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  6. Can't wait to see what you guys get up to. Godspeed!

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  7. Phew, got a little scared there! 4 years...gosh that's a long time...I remember when I first stumbled upon this paged and felt like discovering a whole new world!

    I'm glad that you still keep going-and having a bigger 'team' is a good thing, it keeps it going and the muse alive.

    Cheers and thanks for the great stuff guys!

    MarK

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  8. Magnificent news! Long live Iron Sleet! And RIP rats. What a wonderful journey it was.

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