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Extremely close to unlocking the Wyrm! That's my favorite of all of them, I think. Ed said he'd try to put up a WIP of the Wyrm armature this weekend, to show folks the scale of it.

 RiTides wrote:
Extremely close to unlocking the Wyrm! That's my favorite of all of them, I think. Ed said he'd try to put up a WIP of the Wyrm armature this weekend, to show folks the scale of it.

I can't wait to see it. I'm on the fence right now (I reeeally don't need to be spending more money on toy soldiers.) If we're looking at roughly Carnifex/ sized models I'll probably pass, if we're talking more Hierodule sized I'm in. It's certainly taller than a Carnifex, but if it's spindly like the grubs I'm not sure how I'll feel. I've got a big ole soft spot for big gribblies though. Makes me wonder why I don't play my Tyranids more often.

By the way, here some more weapons for the Dreadnought.

I'm loving the Dread and all the variant weapons!

This one will eventually get made even if we miss the stretch goal to unlock it now, right?

Actually - will all the things featured here eventually get made, even if we don't unlock them?

I really hope so, as they're all quite nice!

Alph, he plans to only make 6 arms- the 2 base and 4 extras. You can vote in the comments which extras you like. Flamer and Drill are the clear favorites so far, not sure about next 2.

Lansirill- The Fiend may be more to your liking (5-6 inches tall and he said it will need the 120mm base, won't fit on the 60mm that the Wyrm will be coiled up onto.

And the Drone ($30 when we unlock it) will be Huge!




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Update: You can get 2 dreads with ALL the arm options (so 1 extra dread body) for $45. Less than 1 GW dread

 RiTides wrote:

Update: You can get 2 dreads with ALL the arm options (so 1 extra dread body) for $45. Less than 1 GW dread

Yes please!

Alien Wyrm and Dreadnought are funded!!

Yasss!!

Perk update:
Collector Level Pledge - $25


Host Level Pledge - $50


Swarm Level Pledge - $110


Queen Level Pledge - $200

Overlord (Cthulu) is apparently going to be BIG. He's considering $30 on a 120mm base... but I'm hoping he goes for a slightly smaller version for $25 or so. I'd like to be able to cram it onto a smaller base.

I've only been vaguely following this KS. Things like what Casey posted are obviously very useful. Is there also a map to all the other addons floating around? I've checked the KS and there seems to be a lot of "$2 each for these, and $4 each for those" all over the place, and, well, I don't have the inclination to delve deep into the page to figure out what's what. Is the $50 set still particularly good value, or are there still stretch goals yet to go to get it to the point talked about earlier? I can see you get a ton of stuff for $200, but I'm really not willing to drop that kind of money on figures I don't have a whole lot of use for. (For $50 worth, I might find a use for them.)

Scipio, here's Host once we hit 24K (we are at 22K currently):

13 Grubs
8 Swarm adults
6 Hosts
1 Hound
1 Flyer
1 Queen (big!)
1 Limited edition Grub
1 Limited edition Host

At 27K, Add 1 Wyrm (big!)

At 30K, Add 1 Fiend (big!)

At 33K, Add 3 Swarm adult warriors

At 36K, Add 2 more Swarm adult warriors and 1 Stealth Swarm

So, ignoring the Swam adult warriors from the last 2 stretches, where Host level really becomes a fantastic value is at 30K (where the last big bug is added in, that one being 5-6 inches tall). Our current pace is a little over 1K a day. With it ending next Wednesday (it says 6 days but that's "7" to me, technically 6.5) we will make 30K very easily. The last 2 stretches at 33K and 36K are a better value for the higher level pledges, which really need it since Host is such a deal!

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Add-on prices:

Grubs $1
Hosts $1
Flyer $6
Hound $3
Adult Swarm $2
Swarm Warrior $4 (-$2 at 30K)
Swarm Stealth $4
Queen $15 (-$2 at $30K)
Wyrm $20
Fiend $20
Swarm Master $10
Overlord - Not Yet Set (art incoming)
Alien Hunter $3 (or 15 for $29, 30 for $40, 50 for $62)
"Alien" (a la Predator) Alien Hunter $3
Dreadnaught $25 (or 2 for $45 including all arm options)
Custom bases for all models at Host ($25) Swarm ($30) or Queen ($35) not including add-on models

Thanks RT, that makes it a lot clearer.

I'll just have to look up what the Wyrm and Fiend are exactly. I'm assuming they're a couple of the figures that feature in Swarm/Queen already but not Host?

Picture update time!

These things are almost enough to get me to start a Tyranid army.

Almost.

As it is, I'll be in for a "Host" level pledge!

And a 2 x Dreadnought add on!

Nice one thanks for posting that, Tides! I'm following things very closely now but i didn't even have that information on hand!

P.S. Updates are rockin' ain't they?!

Sorry if this has been asked before and I missed it, but roughly how big are the Grubs compared to, say, a Space Marine?

Here you go!

Scipio- I am on my phone so can't copy/paste, but the Wyrm concept art is the first pic of the OP (although he may have since added another set of mandibles to the mouth) and the Fiend is the second-to-last pic of the OP.

htj- There is a size comparison pic halfway down the page on page 1 . Again sorry I can't copy/paste atm.

Would be sweet if you guys decided to come onboard!


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Sorry, Tides! I added some more images too!

How did I miss that!? Thanks Casey's Law for catering to my apparently oncoming madness.

 htj wrote:
How did I miss that!? Thanks Casey's Law for catering to my apparently oncoming madness.

Hey, we've all been there, dude!

And as much as i love this Kickstarter it is quite hard to get the information you need from it, having it all in this thread helps!

Swarm Master art is revised. And amazing . I'll just leave this here:

You think we'll make the 36k stretch?

I'm starting to doubt it but if one of those youtubers comes through and throws a video up it could happen. Out of those that have replied i think JoeyBerry is most likely to do it, we might have to badger her some more though!

I hope so - and if not, I still hope all of these get made eventually anyway!

I definitely think so! Pace has been steady at over 1K per day, and the last several days are always bigger .

Drone, Overlord, and "alien" alien hunter (predator) art will goose it, as will his hopefully finishing the Wyrm sculpt over the weekend.

These always end higher than I expect. Dreamforge, we were hoping to get over 100K... and it got over 200

Well, Ed originally hoped to get 7.5k and now is at 22. I wonder if we'll make the 36k, would be really awesome though!


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We just need to spread the word a bit more. Any other forums where we could post about this?

I think they'd look odd alongside tyranid minis.

 CuddlySquig wrote:
I think they'd look odd alongside tyranid minis.

Which is why you'd have to run the entire 'counts as' Tyranid army with these most excellent miniatures!

Which is why you need an army . Although with things like hive guard equivalents for a tenth of GW's price ($2) you can!

Malika, I meant that around this time in the Dreamforge campaign we still thought we might not get anywhere near 200K. The last few days were crazy! And made up a large percentage of total funds raised.