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Shadeglass Maze

The first Aenglish looks way better with that visor, I hope they all get them
   
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The far north

Good that the kickstarter runs in to the beginning of november so that I'll have hobby money to spend on this one!

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California the Southern

I hope to see some visors down so I don't have to bother painting any faces!

Poorly lit photos of my ever- growing collection of completely unrelated models!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/627383.page#7436324.html
Watch and listen to me ramble about these minis before ruining them with paint!
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Uppsala, Sweden

This is going quite well; the fourth Aenglish warrior is nearly unlocked, and then it's only another $1,500 for the fifth and final guy in that set. I'm not sure if Tre has decided what's coming next; it might be the halflings. Personally I'm hoping for a set of nasty brigands; that sounds pretty great to me.

grefven wrote:
Trodax, you need to rally up some more support for the resin so we can get some of those, too! These would be even more awesome in resin than in metal.

Nah, I can understand that Tre doesn't want to produce figures at a loss just to meet the demands of a couple of crazy resin addicted Swedes. To tell you the truth my funds are a lot more limited this time around, so part of me is actually thankful that there are "only" $8 metal minis available (and as said, the metals are pretty fantastic).
   
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Yeh the Brigands are in the works but I am not really sure where to go from here. The funding seems to have stalled and that makes me wonder if another themed set of 5 figures is a smart move or if I should just go for singular add-on stretches. I am not sure if the halflings are going to work out as they really do nto seem very popular. I am not binning them per se btu I think it might be prudent to work up a coupel fo different designs for the Halflings first.
   
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Yukon OK USA

Yeah, I know where your coming from. I've bought so many minis from KSers that I've gotten pretty picky about what I put money into now. I'm in this Kser for $45 and waiting for something to really blow me away. I hate to say this but halflings won't do it for me. I like the idea of brigands. Dark Elves would be even cooler.
   
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 tre manor wrote:
Yeh the Brigands are in the works but I am not really sure where to go from here. The funding seems to have stalled and that makes me wonder if another themed set of 5 figures is a smart move or if I should just go for singular add-on stretches. I am not sure if the halflings are going to work out as they really do nto seem very popular. I am not binning them per se btu I think it might be prudent to work up a coupel fo different designs for the Halflings first.


I see what you mean Tre. Maybe going to independent minis and not sets of fives would be safer after the Aenglish. Perhaps Aelfar is an exception and could do well. I think I agree with you on the halfings as well.

And I think metal is a great material
   
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North Carolina

 tre manor wrote:
Yeh the Brigands are in the works but I am not really sure where to go from here. The funding seems to have stalled and that makes me wonder if another themed set of 5 figures is a smart move or if I should just go for singular add-on stretches. I am not sure if the halflings are going to work out as they really do nto seem very popular. I am not binning them per se btu I think it might be prudent to work up a coupel fo different designs for the Halflings first.


I think the funding will pick up when the new sculpts are shown. The new pledge level for getting all the Aenglish will probably give a nice boost. Judging by the comments I think your idea of leaving the halflings as single model add ons is best. Humans and elves seem to be more popular, which is understandable since they're more versatile and more apt to be fielded in groups in a game. Having the option to choose an All of Them deal for each of the human factions and the elves maybe would be nice.

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Yukon OK USA

I agree with Prestor. I'd rather buy in a group.
   
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Nuremberg

I will up my pledge when I see what is being offered, but I am waiting to see that, currently. If you offer halflings, I will up my pledge to get them (I love your halflings) and if you offer brigands, the same is true (I don't have ANY human brigand models, so I am quite interested in those).

   
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I hav ejust gotten the concept roughs for the brigands from Dave and I am STOKED to get started on them! LOTS of character in them! Oh! I am excited for these!
   
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Yukon OK USA

Me too!!!
   
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Right now I have eight armatures on the corks and that does nto cover all of the designs yet. Some of them will double nicely as peasant levies or armed villagers or even zero level adventurers.
   
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Expressing a personal wish, I would really like to see more spearmen and bowmen for all ranges (mainly for the current point Norse and Aenglish)!
Like this:


and this:
   
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Well I do intend to get a few more bowmen for the aenglish at least into this KS. I have one female with a crossbow underway right now. Truth be told the new Brigands I am working on will easily double as peasant levy troops for the Aenglish. There are also two brigands with bows and one with a crossbow as well. So that will cover the lower ranked Aenglish archers for the short term. But who knows?! There are still 19 days yet to go in this campaign and I am adding items as the funding allows.
   
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 tre manor wrote:
Well I do intend to get a few more bowmen for the aenglish at least into this KS. I have one female with a crossbow underway right now. Truth be told the new Brigands I am working on will easily double as peasant levy troops for the Aenglish. There are also two brigands with bows and one with a crossbow as well. So that will cover the lower ranked Aenglish archers for the short term. But who knows?! There are still 19 days yet to go in this campaign and I am adding items as the funding allows.


Brigands with bows will be great and work the way you say!!
For the moment we wait for the next update as long as all 5 initial Aenglishmen are now unlocked!!
   
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Bothell, WA

How tall are your halflings?

Can you post a pic of one next to a couple other models?

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I really like the halflings and would love to see one with a bow or sling. I'll definitely add them to my pledge once their unlocked


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 prplehippo wrote:
How tall are your halflings?

Can you post a pic of one next to a couple other models?



At the risk of sounding pedantic, they are halfling size within Tre's own range. They are like AD&D halflings though, not 3.5 halflings. Alongside Tre's other miniatures, the halflings are about half the height of a human.

My miniatures are in storage for a move, so I can't post a comparison pic, but you can find a scale pic alongside other halfling modes here.

Here you can see some of Tre's models alongside a GW Space Marine. There are no halflings in there, but halflings are about on a size with Tre's dwarves and goblins.


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Shadeglass Maze

 prplehippo wrote:
Can you post a pic of one next to a couple other models?

Good luck with that it is notoriously hard to find pics of Tre's models next to rulers or models from other ranges, unfortunately (although weeble snagged one above)... the reason this sucks is because even within his own range, it's very hard to know size differences.

Fenris, I know now, is like 4 times the size of a normal dire wolf, and a boneback goblin is significantly larger than a normal goblin. You could say folks should be able to figure this out, but as weeble describes his halfings as " halfling size within Tre's own range. They are like AD&D halflings though, not 3.5 halflings"... well, it just makes it really hard to figure out the size of things.

This is the reason I haven't bought the excellent orcs from the store, which were funded by one of the prior Kickstarters- I just can't figure out what size they are, so don't know if I can use them or not

We've brought it up tons of times, but there's been no move from Tre to make it easier to tell sizes, and so I'm left not purchasing a few sets of orcs that I totally would, if I could just figure out the size... I guess I could photoshop and figure out the height based on the 25mm bases they're mounted on, but that's just asking your customers to do way more work than they should, when you could easily (if pics are a no-go) list the height to the eyes or the like.

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Bothell, WA

weeble, Thanks for the link, I wish I had that earlier.

I bought a bunch of old GW halflings off Ebay a few months ago, thinking they would fit in with the GW halflings I currently have, but they are so much smaller than the ones that came with the Empire Hot Pot!

They are almost the size of GW snotlings.

Tre's dont look to be so small.
   
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Looking at Dagmar at the KS page I can very easilly imgine him carrying a bow and an arrow. Or a spear maybe, which would be nice for Ingvar as well

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Nuremberg

Tre put up some early stage Brigands in his last update:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1103158358/red-box-games-heroic-fantasy-miniatures/posts

Personally quite excited to get some scummy looking archers/crossbowmen. Wish it was more than 3!

   
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It may yet be Boss!
   
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Bothell, WA

So how many models total are in this KS?
   
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North Carolina

 prplehippo wrote:
So how many models total are in this KS?


So far there are:

5 Njorns completely sculpted and available as a package deal or individuals
5 Aenglish completely sculpted and available as a package deal or individuals
5 Brigrands with melee weapons being sculpted and will be available as a package deal or individuals once their stretch goal is reached
1 Elf fighter has been sculpted and will be available later as a stretch goal
2 Halfling fighters have been sculpted and will be available later as a stretch goal
1 Additional Njorn fighter has been sculpted and will be available later as a stretch goal

Another 5 brigrands some armed with ranged weapons are going to be sculpted.

Tre has mentioned in the KS comments multiple times that he has lots of ideas for more models and will keep sculpting as long as people keep pledging so there could literally be over a dozen additional sculpts depending on how the pledging goes.

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Nuremberg

Progress on the brigands - they're looking fantastic!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1103158358/red-box-games-heroic-fantasy-miniatures/posts

   
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Central Cimmeria

Here are some links to blogs with comparison photos that may be of use:

http://www.thelastalliance.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4072

http://azazelx.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/how-big-is-that-dwarf-anyway/

http://azazelx.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/red-box-games-size-comparisons-with-gw-lord-of-the-rings-figures/

http://richmondwarmancers.blogspot.com/2012/12/january-releases-and-red-box-games.html

http://blindmetalminis.blogspot.com/2013/01/kickstarter-fullfillment.html

Personally, they are smaller than I care for, and too pricey to buy Red Box exclusively. There are lots of other nice miniatures out there I would like to game with and paint. They are absolutely lovely sculpts and concepts, but too small for me personally.
   
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Melbourne .au

I should do another RBG sizing post sometime soonish. Maybe next weekend. I haven't got anything since KS1, but hopefully it might help with some of the older range up to there.

If Tre' wants to send me some Orcs or whatever, I'll be more than glad to do a post comparing those with other ranges as well.



Automatically Appended Next Post:
Actually, If anyone here has any specific requests for seeing RMG stuff next to X, Y, Z - let me know via PM here (to avoid gaking up this thread) or leave a comment on the blog posts linked above and I'll do my best.

Better than doing random figures next to other random figures...

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Nuremberg

Azazel, I don't have a blog, but I would be happy to do comparison shots with Tre's orcs and send them along to you to put onto your blog if you like. My camera skills are a bit dodgy but should suffice to show the size of the minis, if not their quality.

   
 
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