In the virtual battlefield that is business, you sometime see old rivals form new creative alliances. That’s exactly what two very active players of the industry have done in our eternal quest to support the efforts of Live Action Role Playing artisans.

We are very happy to announce the creation of a new partnership between Calimacil and France-based Atelier Fantastic’ Art LLC. Fantastic’ Art is world renowned for the design and creation of Heroic Fantasy and Sci-Fi accessories such as weapons, armours and costumes. They’ve built themselves a stellar reputation creating products for LARP, film projects and mind-blowing promotional costumes for videogames such as Blizzard Entertainment’s Starcraft II and World of Warcraft.

This new partnership will merge Calimacil’s technical expertise and revolutionary materials with Fantastic’ Art’s creativity and design finesse to create a new line of medieval weapons. The first prototype of this union is a marvellous black sword whose beautiful design perfectly combines the blade from Calimacil’s « Pirate » sword with an elven hilt of Fantastic’ Art creation. This weapon gives an idea of what’s to come as legendary weapon waiting to be picked up and worn by intrepid heroes seeking new adventures.

This sword is but the first of many concepts we’re working on! We’re burning with impatience to show you our models and we hope to make the first one available to you in the next month or so. Each of these will be incarnations of Calimacil’s fundamental vision of giving life to your dreams.

We are firm believers that cooperation is the best strategy to grow a creative and dynamic hobby such as ours. That’s why we are so excited about this partnership and look forward to creating many others in the coming years.

I have to admit, I’m excited!  Yes, this is my first blog post on Calimacil’s websites, but that isn’t where my excitement comes from.  Once you have posted to the blogosphere it’s pretty much old news.  But this … this isn’t old news at all!
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