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2015/02/18 12:34:38
Subject: Shieldwolf Miniatures - Official News thread (KS launched, NEW 5th race revealed!)
RiTides wrote: I finally got a chance to look at the campaign page more closely, and actually the deals (especially buying heroes, like the existing orc ones) seem pretty good.
I've put in a small pledge for now, but just a quick question: does even the tiny pouch ($15 pledge plus shipping) get this model free:
Plus the free gold coin unlocked at $17K? So, 6 gold coins for the tiny pouch... meaning I could select 3 existing orc heroes? I'll likely go for the goblin hero with great weapon once it unlocks, but the orc heroes look great, too. Or maybe 5 coins for the Ogre halfbreed.
But basically, this looks like a fine deal to me. I know people are hoping for regiments, but the heroes are pretty cool and a good deal, imo. Let me know if I'm off about anything above, though, particularly the free figure / free coin!
ALL pledges/backers are entitled to the free miniature illustrated above. The free coin is for all pledges/backers with the Citizen's pouch and up.
Got it, thanks
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2015/02/20 10:21:07
Subject: Shieldwolf Miniatures - Official News thread (KS launched, NEW 5th race is... Goblins!)
Orc Wyvern, Rider, 40 HIPS Mountain Orcs and 30 of their coins ($90 worth of KS-discount priced a la carte product), plus all freebies for $200 inc post. It works out to slightly better value than their EBs and is obviously aimed at Orc players, since there's enough stuff there to start a basic army for WHFB/KoW or whichever other army people are interested in.
I'm tempted. I already have a lot of orcs, but I've got a Necromancer (undead) pledge since my wife is a big fan of undead.
Well I've upped to an Orc pouch (ooh err missus), primarily because I love Orcs. It means free shipping as well (thus more minis).
Theyve also said we can pay for shipping if we want the stuff thats already produced now, rather than wait to get everything at once. Which I will
I found this video presenting the Siberias lion rider A. I have to have this lion It looks a really interesting model to paint! Congratulations for such quality Shieldwolf. I am really impressed!!!
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2015/02/28 03:58:34
Subject: Shieldwolf Miniatures - Official News thread (KS LIVE + 54mm Dragons show up!!!)
Pretty much. I know that's why I came to the party.
The overly Raging concept art didn't seem to go over well, either.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I hope it funds, though, because Shieldwolf's plastic orcs are great quality and I would love to have some more kits like them. Kits that are not orcs or goblins.
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I was really hoping for the chain mail style Sisters myself similar to the bust. Hopefully they relaunch after gathering feedback with a higher funding goal and go straight for ShielMaidens.
2015/02/28 17:57:18
Subject: Shieldwolf Miniatures - Official News thread (KS LIVE + 54mm Dragons show up!!!)
primalexile wrote: I was really hoping for the chain mail style Sisters myself similar to the bust. Hopefully they relaunch after gathering feedback with a higher funding goal and go straight for ShielMaidens.
We have learned a lot during this excursion of ours, any relaunch would however take place only if we have delivered first to all of our backers. That's what we said and that's what we intend to do.
Not only that but we still have a lot to learn during the completion of the campaign, for us it doesn't finish on the 12th of March, quite the opposite!
In a future campaign we will first launch with the plastic kit -like you said-, and our waves are not going to be evenly spread throughout the campaign (which -although too soon to judge- we believe is one of the reasons we haven't reached some targets we believed extremely reachable and enticing).
We still have 12 days for this campaign. The most important thing is that the better this campaign goes, the lower the funding goal becomes for the plastics in a future project, the collected funds are still mainly oriented for this... ;-)
primalexile wrote: I was really hoping for the chain mail style Sisters myself similar to the bust. Hopefully they relaunch after gathering feedback with a higher funding goal and go straight for ShielMaidens.
We have learned a lot during this excursion of ours, any relaunch would however take place only if we have delivered first to all of our backers. That's what we said and that's what we intend to do.
Not only that but we still have a lot to learn during the completion of the campaign, for us it doesn't finish on the 12th of March, quite the opposite!
In a future campaign we will first launch with the plastic kit -like you said-, and our waves are not going to be evenly spread throughout the campaign (which -although too soon to judge- we believe is one of the reasons we haven't reached some targets we believed extremely reachable and enticing).
We still have 12 days for this campaign. The most important thing is that the better this campaign goes, the lower the funding goal becomes for the plastics in a future project, the collected funds are still mainly oriented for this... ;-)
Thank you for your feedback and for communication - I do wish you all the very best even though you are not (yet) producing what i want - but I look forward to giving you money when you do
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Negative. It's going to be delivered to our backers first (as we stand probably this September).
Only after everything has been delivered -and by everything, we mean everything-, will it be available for retail sale via our webshop and our distributors. The augmented range we have created witht this Kickstarter and some of the items that are unique/very rare to find at this scale (like our 2-headed Dragon and the War Mammoth), may make it more welcoming to new retailers, we already have had contact with 2 USA distributors and we are looking forward to expand our network.
We are still lacking an Australian/New Zealand distributor which makes things harder, hopefully we'll come to agreement with someone before 2015 ends.
Grabbed the one remaining Necromancer pledge, because cool undead even if they are resin. Looking damn good and keen to see what else you guys come up with.
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So many games, so little time.
So many models, even less time.
Screw it, Netflix and chill.
2015/03/03 04:58:03
Subject: Re:Shieldwolf Miniatures - Official News thread (KS LIVE + Orc Hero preview page #17)
Final 3 days, the last stretch reveals the Ogre Champion freebie, we like the character we've given to our Ogres and think we've made them really unique. We hope you like him just as much!
We hope to have completed the entire Talliareum Ogre army before 2015 ends, so, lots to do still!
In some 60-70 hours the project ends, and with it commences the marathon to deliver ASAP and relaunch by pitching off with the much awaited plastics. We'll keep you updated! :-)
Ogres are looking great and I really like paint scheme artist picked up.
I was wondering why didnt you do more advertising here on Dakka. Update posts were few and between so maybe missed chance here also.
dubovac wrote: Ogres are looking great and I really like paint scheme artist picked up.
Thanks, we too like it a lot and look forward to seeing the rest of the army painted like that :-)
dubovac wrote: I was wondering why didnt you do more advertising here on Dakka. Update posts were few and between so maybe missed chance here also.
Actually we commited a number of rookie mistakes, we did however have good support from the Dakkadakka forum for which we are grateful. We also have a banner here, although the support came mainly from the monitoring of this thread. The banner was the least we could do.
We still have around 70 hours left on our campaign, but we feel we got severely penalized from the timing of the campaign, probably couldn't have been worse :-(
We are determined to prove everyone right after this project ends and with the accumulated experience push forward into what we consider a needed and deserved chance for the huge plan we have set in motion. We definitely know what our limits are and will keep respecting them in any future project. The future seems very promising! :-)
PS. We have also been penalized from the fact various forums/websites from whom we seeked advertisment either never answered our emails, or proceeded in a very slow manner when it was however too late, something that certainly didn't help us nor the hobby. Even now we expect more exposure but don't seem to be getting any :-(
On the other hand other websites seemed to be very interested in providing exposure for us, even if they had never posted something on our behalf. That was a very pleasant surprise which we must certainly coltivate! :-)
That's even more experience for us however in general since in the future we will proceed in booking the needed banners quite some time earlier, exposure is much needed for a project of our size and we feel strange in how some things evolved...
Well I dont think you failed badly with your campaign, consider this as a testing kickstarter. After all you managed to unlock quite few interesting kits although main "down point" for me was 5th army. I know everyone loves Goblins and they can be quite fun project but market is overflooded with greenskins these days (only bigger "mistake" could be if you decided to put WW2 orks and goblins inside ;D ).
And for the next kickstarter put more updates here on dakka in your "free" topic, this one kept falling to the bottom of the page or dreaded second page that noone is looking .
And keep conversion values out of next project some people get itch just from mentioning coins, tickets or some other imaginary value
Either way hopefully next one is around corner and I am eagerly waiting for it.
@RiTides
Estimated new date of delivery is 3 months earlier, thus September 2015, which might also be the month the follow-up KS may take place. We have already communicated with both concept artists to provide a 3rd and final chainmail version, while we plan to have at least a couple of renders done before the campaign. We must first have the voting results however.
We are also going to offer an "Early wave" to all those backers who are willing to pay for the additional shipping. Those are to be dispatched within 45 days from the end of the campaign.
(If everything goes according to plan obviously, we have finished the molds on the Mammooths and are currently creating those of the Talliareum characters)
@dubovac
Even if we haven't finished yet, we think the campaign was a success. We did have much higher expectations (never hid that), but all in all we can aspire that the next one will top this many times over :-)
As for the goblins, there are plenty out there, yes. We are not pleased with any of these however, we mean to produce the best ever ;-)
Will you be allowing people to "pledge manage" additional funds onto their existing pledge? I can't afford as much stuff as I'd like to get (big beasties) and would like to add on some more after a couple more paydays.
Azazelx wrote: Will you be allowing people to "pledge manage" additional funds onto their existing pledge? I can't afford as much stuff as I'd like to get (big beasties) and would like to add on some more after a couple more paydays.
We will allow everyone who has pledged to upgrade their reward selection and we will exclude everyone else in order to both honor the backers who stayed aboard and speed the general fulfillment of the project.
Early wave will be processed as soon as the Pledge Manager has been compiled and send back to us from everyone. It is ready and will be sent out the same day our US collaborator sends us the list we have asked for.
We will probably make it available to pledgers however sooner in order for them to calculate easier their rewards :-)
I realy hope to see another kickstarter for the sheild maiden infantry, I was keen for them. In the end my pledge is probably for a 1/10 of what it could have been :( but I may pledge for some lions before the end.
Still looking forward to what was funded here
2015/03/11 20:11:43
Subject: Re:Shieldwolf Miniatures - Official News thread (KS LIVE + Orc Hero preview page #17)
Aye, last 24 hours on the campaign, I'm hoping you guys get a little boost at the end here. The significant backslide during the last week might make this feel like a failure, but I really don't think it is. I believe the campaign was simply too ambitious, with too many goals, and people that were pledging for some of those goals dropped out or lowered their pledges when it became apparent that what they were pledging for wouldn't be achieved this time around. Work hard and deliver this one and you'll be in a good position for a follow-up I think!
Anyway, I'm pretty happy with the stuff on offer here; adding in the items from your existing range gave some nice diversity. I'm in for the ogres (I think they look great, and the addition of the pig-carrying champion makes the unit a nice deal I think). I'll also be grabbing the set of djinns and the plastic orcs, plus a few of the orc characters, they are brutal little beasts.
2015/03/11 20:23:38
Subject: Re:Shieldwolf Miniatures - Official News thread (KS LIVE + Orc Hero preview page #17)
Yeah, there's definitely some lessons to be learned in here:
Anyone remember when it became apparent that 1) The Shieldmaidens were less Lagertha than most wanted and 2) That Plastic Shiledmaidens weren't happening at all?