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**Necros**

Sure, you can wait for the other gangs if you like .. could be a long wait though, I'd say probably October or so.

Didn't see that before, but yes, I can ship them separately. I have to set up some kind of survey thing through Kickstarter to get everyone's info, so when you get the email from that you can just mention it there.. I'll probably send that out tomorrow or tuesday.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

I'm happy to wait till both start gangs are ready, and get the lot sent together. I risk the wrath of the taxman that way, but I might get lucky and that plane cargo might not get checked for tax charges.
Probably still cheaper than multiple US to UK shipping packages though.

As to gangs, I'll be just getting the two originally offered, if I like this game as much as I think I will. I'll be getting the Mexicans and Native Americans anyways, as they where a selling point in my decision.

Wish you all the best in this venture Necros, nice to see a Dakkanaut going places with their wargaming dreams.

**RiTides**

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Probably still cheaper than multiple US to UK shipping packages though.

Having shipped to the UK a number of times, this will definitely be true!

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Wish you all the best in this venture Necros, nice to see a Dakkanaut going places with their wargaming dreams.

Agreed wholeheartedly!

**BrookM**

Agreed, congratulations on run well.. run!

**Necros**

thanks folks

I'm going to be emailing everyone tonight and I'm going to recommend that they wait until everything they want is available and do 1 shipment, but the impatient folks can get the Clancy Gang sooner if they want to pay extra for the shipping

Got my final quote for the dice, 3500 dice (!) .. gonna take 8-10 weeks to make them though.

Gonna be talking to the Game Salute folks later today about the fulfillment stuff .. guessing they'll be the ones actually sending out the rewards, which will be a lot easier for me. that means I'd just have all the boxes and figs and dice shipped directly to them (to save on shipping) so I'll never get to see them all those dice in person. But if that's the case I'll demand photos

**MagickalMemories**

You might want to wait to be sure about those dice.
Remember, there are folks like me out there, who are actually representing 2 people. Presumably, those people are getting multiple sets of dice and minis?
I know that there are people out there who won't be happy if they don't get the free stuff they were expecting, simply because they don't have Amazon payments.

Eric

**Necros**

yeah, when I email everyone I'm going to ask them to write back and clarify and list everything they wanted, just to be sure.

3472 dice would be if everyone got them, but there's 10 backers who were under $30, so they don't get any dice .. but I'm also thinking I'll order like 100 more than I need just to keep them on hand to use for demos at cons and stuff like that.

**RiTides**

That's a good idea, Necros

**Necros**

Got some new news to share .. just signed a manufacturing & fulfillment deal with GameSalute.com .. they'll be handling worldwide (!) distribution of Blackwater Gulch miniatures and more. We have lots of cool stuff planned

http://www.GameSalute.com/?p=27381

Game Salute is excited to welcome Gangfight Game Studio to our family of design studios! Blackwater Gulch - Gangfights in the Old West recently wrapped up a successful Kickstarter campaign, proving that there’s much love for the wild, wild west.

From the project’s Kickstarter page:

Blackwater Gulch is a table top hobby game where you and your friends collect small gangs of finely detailed, 30mm miniature men who will fight each other in the fierce and wild west. You will create a gang or posse based on different professions and equipment, breathing life into your men through the skirmishes they win or lose in the town streets and outskirts.

The game is named after the fictional town of Blackwater Gulch, located “somewhere out west”. It’s around 1890 and a gold rush has brought fortune-seekers to town after a local discovery made nationwide news. This also brought a population boom and the town has become overcrowded with unsavory sorts, and not enough lawmen to go around.

Your gang is living in these troubling times. They can be lawmen or outlaws, vigilantes or freedom fighters. You decide who they are, what they can do and why they do it. Adventure awaits in Blackwater Gulch! Keep your six-guns by your side, and an eye on your back. You’ll never know who’s coming down the road…

Check back regularly for production updates, including the official release date.

Welcome to the family, Gangfight Game Studio!

In other news, sculpting is about to get under way for the figures in the next 3 starter sets. I'll have previews to show off as soon as the sculptors send em

**Kanluwen**

Congratulations Necros!

**Catyrpelius**

Woohooo! good to hear your making progress. I'm definatly looking forward to getting a box in the mail from you.

**Necros**

Thanks, I'm pretty excited now

I think the only downside is my 3500 dice will have to be shipped directly to their warehouse. I won't get the chance to roll em all at once and dump the whole box on my kitchen floor :(

**Necros**

Just got a WIP pic of the Bloodwolf Tribe figures. Here they are so far!

It’s a lower quality pic and some of the details are over emphasized or washed out. Once I have them in hand I’ll take nicer high res pics of each figure. But this should be a good preview for now.

Also, the guy in the middle bottom is one of the deputies for the Vigilance Committee, in case you were wondering

I'll post other new greens as I get them!

**JP1138**

Necros wrote:Just got a WIP pic of the Bloodwolf Tribe figures. Here they are so far!

It’s a lower quality pic and some of the details are over emphasized or washed out. Once I have them in hand I’ll take nicer high res pics of each figure. But this should be a good preview for now.

Also, the guy in the middle bottom is one of the deputies for the Vigilance Committee, in case you were wondering

I'll post other new greens as I get them!

Those are looking great, Tim! *adds Bloodwolf to the ever expanding to-buy list*

**Necros**

thanks

Forgot to post it here.. but I asked the sculptor to send me nicer pics of the models.. I think he just scanned them all at once before, couldn't really see the details too much.

I'm also going to ask him to tweak the leader a bit, not a big fan of his tomahawk in the air. And it might have been tough to tell before but in this pic you can see the deputy has a bowie knife in his right hand

**MagickalMemories**

I've got a love/hate thing going on here.
Hate:
I hate the girth of the tomohawk handle and the pose he's holding it in.
I hate the legs on the gut with the top hat. They're HUGELY disproportionate. The hat doesn't seem to be sitting "right" on his head, either.
The face on the spear holder looks very "1980's Julie Guthrie/Grenadier" The standing guy with the rifle and the deputy may have similar issues.

Love:
Love the pose & the mohawk on the kneeling guy.
Love the hunched "knife fight" pose on the deputy.
Love the pose on the standing rifle-toting Native. It's very defiant.

My honest opinions overall -
Although there are things I really like about this band, I doubt I'll be getting it - and it was one of the ones I was holding out to see before choosing my 3 kickstarter armies. Is this a sculptor who's done any of the other models? None of these seem to be at the sme level as the others. Even the kneeling native, which I think is the best by far, has some issues that keep it below the level of most (all?) of your other sculpts.
No disrespect intended (towards you or the sculptor), but I really hope he's not doing the Bandidos warband.

Eric

**Necros**

I hear ya .. and I agree for the most part. Not quite what I was hoping for which is why I wanted the clearer pics that still aren't great. Thing is a lot of times what looks bad in a pic ends up look great in person. These were done by Bob Naismith. He did the clancy figure that's kneeling with the sawed off shotgun. He is going to be reworking the chief a bit, I also didn't like the tomahawk so that will be changing.

Brother Vinni will be doing all 5 of the bandidos, plus a sheriff

Then for the Vigilance Committee I have Pedro Ramos doing 2 more, and 1 to Ian Mountain.

**MagickalMemories**

Where's the kneeling Clancy model? I can't find him. I know Vinni & Ramos by name. I'm not much into the custom sculpted model market, so I don't know much about them. I believe I've seen Vinni's work in other places (non BWG:GItOW models), though, and it was damned good.
I don't know Ian, though.

Eric

**BrookM**

Vinni is doing the whole bandidos gang? Niiiiiiiiiiiice!

**Necros**

Yeah I'm hoping he can have some of the Mexicans done in time for me to show off for Cinco de Mayo

in this pic, Bob did the 2nd guy in. Pedo did the 3rd guy, also the Norwegian and my Bounty Hunter gang leader. Vinni did the girl and the guy running with 2 pistols. Ian hasn't done any for me yet, so this will be his first, but he's a solid sculptor. I think he does more historical kinda stuff.

**Necros**

Smallish update...

Those Bloodwolf figs are going back under the sculpting knife and will be updated a considerably, if not redone from scratch. They're good sculpts, but just not currently up to the standard that I want for the game. We want to raise the bar so to speak and not just make the same wild west figs that everyone else does already. So I'll have all new pics soon. I've been kind of lacking in the art direction department and didn't really convey to the sculptor what I was really looking for, so I'm hopeful the new sculpts will be much better.

Also, hopefully I'll have at least a few of the Mexicans done and ready to show off around the end of the week

**Mad4Minis**

Necros wrote:Yeah I'm hoping he can have some of the Mexicans done in time for me to show off for Cinco de Mayo

in this pic, Bob did the 2nd guy in. Pedo did the 3rd guy, also the Norwegian and my Bounty Hunter gang leader. Vinni did the girl and the guy running with 2 pistols. Ian hasn't done any for me yet, so this will be his first, but he's a solid sculptor. I think he does more historical kinda stuff.

Please tell me the last one (done by Vinni) is part of the Clancy gang...even better if him and the girl were part of it...

**Necros**

All of those are Clancys

Vinni is also going to be sculpting a lot of figures for us

**Alpharius**

Glad to hear that - his sculpts are looking like the best of the bunch!

**Necros**

So... looks like I'm going to GenCon

Never ever been to a big con before, so I don't quite know what I'm in for... but I'll be hanging with the Game Salute fellas and doing demos and showing off the models and all that fun stuff.

I might also see if it would be possible to have backers pick up their Kickstarter orders there if we have everything ready in time.

**bbb**

Awesome new, Tim!

**Necros**

Just in time for Cinco de Mayo, I just got pics of the first sculpt from the Bandidos Mexicanos! Allow me introduce you to Cabo Mendoza!

**Cyporiean**

>.>
<.<

*Throws fists into the air*

MENDOOOOOOOOOZA!!!!!!!!!

In all seriousness, looks great

**Samurai_Eduh**

That's a great looking Mexican!

**bbb**

Looks awesome!