Diehard Miniatures: Fantasy Miniatures Kickstarter (Relaunch, Live)

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**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/diehardminiatures/diehard-miniatures-fantasy-miniatures?ref=discovery

**Kid_Kyoto**

Interesting, who's the 'Oldhammer veteran' sculptor?

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Tim Prow has over 22 years experience as a professional miniature sculptor. Starting out at Games Workshop as miniature painter on the Eavy Metal Team, he was first introduced to sculpting, there he learnt his craft, and never looked back.Tim works as a freelance sculptor primarily but has worked in house for both Ral Partha and Wizkids. Some of his more recent work has seen him producing for Mantic, Reaper, Mierce, Avatars of War and Fenris Games. He has also sculpted for toy companies outside of the gaming industry and produced figures for licensed properties such as Marvel, DC, and Yu-Gi-Oh! GX to name a few.

More AncientHammer than OldHammer. 35yrs of creative input in the Hobby Games industry has left it’s mark. While Chaz still has most of his teeth everything else has been sold off to various demons/deities as part exchange. Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine are just a few of the myriad brands that he has contributed to. He now shares his life with Tracey, 6 cats, 32 chickens and 6 months of galeforce winds. Do not approach if spotted – has been known to bite.

Drew Williams has been sculpting miniatures professionally for over seventeen years. Graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1996 and the Academy of Art University in 2009, Drew applies his knowledge of maquette sculpture, ecorche, comparative anatomy, and creature design, to his work in the miniatures field. Besides toy, gift-ware, and novelty businesses, he has also worked as a freelancer for numerous miniatures businesses big and small over the years, including Wizkids, Reaper, and Privateer Press.

Richard Luong has 10 years of experience in video games and illustration. He has worked as a concept artist and illustrator creating art for games such as Cthulhu Wars the board game. He now works as a freelance artist through his website: Tentacles and Teeth.

**Talking Banana**

I'm going to have to pass on this, even though I love the miniatures, as the estimated shipping price to the US is absurd.

I just ordered a couple metal minis from Hasslefree and paid 4.50 pounds shipping. Already more than I care to spend, but every once a blue moon . . .

To order one 28mm miniature from this kickstarter would cost me 17.20 pounds? $26.49 in shipping on top of $9.24, total of $35.24, for a single 28mm metal miniature?

No.

And frankly, not believable as an "actual" shipping cost, unless shipping is next-day airmail or something, in which case, time to offer a cheaper shipping option.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

My suspicion is that is a maximum for the above levels (which could end up being a lot of minis as they let people add on),

but it's certainly not the clearest

**Inspector #264**

The KS has now reached its funding goal, and there has been an update regarding international shipping prices:

Diehard Miniatures wrote:
Shipping ajustment.
I am pleased to report we have found some saving on shipping for our international backers, so please take a look at the newly adjusted prices in the shipping summary. As mentioned you may save more if you want your pledges to be sent untracked, but we do not advice this as the small saving you would receive may not be worth the stress caused by any lost parcels. The Diehard team would rather you received your rewards with as less stress as possible

**Inspector #264**

Some work in progress sculpt pictures have been put up of the free/add on 'Familiar' minitures:

Wood Elf Familiar

Winged Serpent

Succubus

Bone Chalice

I am definately a fan of the Winged Serpent and Succubus so far!

**Inspector #264**

A few more sculpt options have been unlocked:

Eru-Kin Bog-Blood (KS Exclusive)

Troll

Eru-Kin Warrior Elite

The £8000 stretch goal is for the Necromancer, officially un-locked, but there have been a few pledges withdrawn so the total has fallen back below the threshold:

Necromancer

**Inspector #264**

Lots of additional sculpts opened up today with a week left to run, giving a better variety to choose from to fill out pledges:

Eru-Kin Tech Mage Alt Sculpt. Sculpted by Tim Prow.

Chaos Warrior (Harry the Hammer) Alt Sculpt. Sculpted by Tim Prow.

Skeletal Knight alt Sculpt. Sculpted by Tim Prow.

Snakeman alt Sculpt. Sculpted by Tim Prow.

Snakeman2 alt Sculpt. Sculpted by Tim Prow.

Also the Undead Minotaur stretch goal has been unlocked, so it too is now available to choose (this is the sculpt that I have been personally hoping for, I rather like it!)

Undead Minotaur, 50mm tall. Sculpted by Tim Prow.

Diehard Miniatures KS

**Inspector #264**

The £9250 stretch goal has been met, unlocking the Human Wizard sculpt:

Mikhail Angelinus, Human Wizard. Sculpted by Drew Williams.

The next stretch goal at £10,000 is the Hillsman sculpt, a Monster class model.

**Inspector #264**

Hillsman £10,000 stretch goal reached, this sculpt can now be selected as part of the reward:

Hillsman, 42mm tall. Sculpted by Drew Williams.

Next in line is the Chaos Wizard stretch goal at £10,500.

**kestral**

I like the Not Slann/stargate guys quite a bit. Probably not enough to shell out for having them sent from England though sadly.

**insaniak**

The futuristic styling on the Notslann is great.

And that undead Minotaur is just superb...

**Inspector #264**

Another familliar sculpt has been revealed, this time it is the Imp:

Also the next stretch goal sculpt has been unlocked, the Chaos Wizard:

Son of Slomm is next up, once £11,250 is reached.

**Inspector #264**

Quite busy on the campaign with only 13 hours to go.

First up some master castings have been shown:

More spoilered

Spoiler:

The £11,250 stretch has been unlocked, Son of Slomm (more pictures in update #21):

Son of Slomm, 50mm tall. Sculpted by Tim Prow.

Also the KS exclusive sculpt of the Bog-Blood has been painted up:

Not far to go now until the Dwarf Centaur stretch sculpt is unlocked.