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 ingtaer wrote:
That sucks to hear mate, hope it wasn't too acrimonious.
But then there was good news as well! Look forward to seeing the samples.



Alarming when the molder claims you cant good details until about 40mm. All wasn't in vain though, we kept in contact with leads and we will be partnering with Wargames Atlantic LLC to make some models. We had some common goals in mind, and thought our models could coexist. Down payment out tomorrow, sprue formation is changing a bit, but more later.
   
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Wow, that is alarming.
   
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 StygianBeach wrote:
Wow, that is alarming.



Tim called some major bs to.



   
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Bare arms have at least 2 each, shoulder pad and shield 2 as well. To streamline the first mold, while also offering parts enough to do weapons and bodies, we condensed, and placed parts as so. Mentality hasn't changed much, as the females will replicate the idea, and the third focusing on the goody bag of weapons.


Tooling is streamlined, so after the male, we expect to try 10k for each section of the molds thereafter. 10K nets females, 20k weapons, 30k centaurs etc
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Is that one sprue mirrored or one sprue complete (with 4 bodies but mirrored)?

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Mirrored. We can essentially produce two bodies twice if needed, alleviating the space for the third mold where we can increase the amount of parts to toy with
   
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off topic, but I couldn't help but find: wargames factory LTD does GW stuff?
   
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rgdgaming wrote:
off topic, but I couldn't help but find: wargames factory LTD does GW stuff?


Having signed an NDA when I was painting Wargames Factory's display models a couple years ago (which is likely still in force), I can neither confirm nor deny that.

Curious where you discovered that?

   
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Cargo logs on ships. Didn't need an insider for that. They routed product through Port of Tacoma, thousands of age of sigmar stuff.


https://panjiva.com/Wargames-Factory-Ltd/33258484


According to some others, they are almost exclusively GW



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I heard that they were originally making some of the terrain and later picked up some slack when the whole GW warehouse debacle happened.

They also do Kingdon Death and Malifaux as well as others, they have a pretty distinctive way of making sprues so are often easy to spot.

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Seems they do some of the stuff. Im sure if subscribed more cargo logs could be found. But you can trace each companies molder to a boat, Hong Kong seems to be really popular.


0.2mm-0.3mm molders aren't too hard to find
0.1mm molders definitely locked up


Rubicon models appears to be one of the best shots, they partner with a studio in HK.
   
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Looking for critiques and feedback on the kickstarter page preview for now. We are awaiting samples in February, so updates are inevitably due. We want to hear how we can step it up a notch for you. Delivery times aren't set in stone yet, and we want to show mold samples on the page.


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rgdgaming/1482710497?ref=736381&token=80ddeecc&fbclid=IwAR3rCkncRipodQXF5JEITNBEtqSUoegfCS7M5n0-2OXUWxP3gR9Cja1QOS8

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IMO the comparison photos are too dark - I can't really see the details on the minis.

I mean I know from the posts here you have a good product, but as someone just taking a scroll through it doesn't jump out at me.

I prefer to buy from miniature manufacturers that *don't* support the overthrow of democracy. 
   
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 ScarletRose wrote:
IMO the comparison photos are too dark - I can't really see the details on the minis.

I mean I know from the posts here you have a good product, but as someone just taking a scroll through it doesn't jump out at me.




Better lighting, check.
   
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It is great to see the project come so far, but it pains me to write that the models are just not Heroic enough for me.
Sure up close they look great, but from my lofty heights over the table they will look too thin and smooth for my unsophisticated eyes.
I like easy to see details, even if it defies realistic anatomy, but I know others prefer a more true representation.
   
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 StygianBeach wrote:
It is great to see the project come so far, but it pains me to write that the models are just not Heroic enough for me.
Sure up close they look great, but from my lofty heights over the table they will look too thin and smooth for my unsophisticated eyes.
I like easy to see details, even if it defies realistic anatomy, but I know others prefer a more true representation.



I would reserve judgement until we get some painted models, and some better photos. I realize that everything on the page so far isn't necessarily over the top. One thing we've always needed was a good photographer. Consensus so far is better photos, any info that stands out as weird to you guys?

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rgdgaming wrote:
Looking for critiques and feedback on the kickstarter page preview for now. We are awaiting samples in February, so updates are inevitably due. We want to hear how we can step it up a notch for you. Delivery times aren't set in stone yet, and we want to show mold samples on the page.


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rgdgaming/1482710497?ref=736381&token=80ddeecc&fbclid=IwAR3rCkncRipodQXF5JEITNBEtqSUoegfCS7M5n0-2OXUWxP3gR9Cja1QOS8


I don't want to come off wrong so forgiveness in advance but mate those photos are awful, do yourself a favour and spend a few extra bucks to hire a professional with rig. They are the showcase of your talent and hardwork as well as being the main draw for your project and you really shouldn't skimp here. Renders are great and can sell projects by themselves but if you have actual miniatures to show then they need to be seen in the best possible light, for clarity/detail/hype the photos need to be as good as you can get including dressed sets etc. Further to this, the photo labelled the mini that strated it all needs to be front and center, it is well painted and looks fantastic, furthermore it makes much more sense to show first than the centaur which is a stretch goal, so why is the centaur shown first in the model stage? I would ask you to cut out from "Resin, Pewter and 3D Prototypes" to "*lead free pewter at 34.5mm" and add that to the end (just before goals). If the text starts with the Faun that began it all and ran through to the Centaur/Minotaur the story makes sense and show cases the initial goal.

Second, your shipping means nothing. Whats a LB of sprues? I don't know and am not going to go and weigh my sprues to find out. I could, but if I am going to give you money you should make it as easy as possible for me to do so. Estimate how many boxes that comes too per tier, round it out and add a slight margin and list that as the price (ie. four boxes of Fauns costs tier 1 shipping to EU rather than a LB).

Third, solely as a matter of taste but I found it read as rather clinical... it lacks jazz/hype. It lets me know what you are doing, why and what it costs but it lacks a certain excitement.

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 ingtaer wrote:
rgdgaming wrote:
Looking for critiques and feedback on the kickstarter page preview for now. We are awaiting samples in February, so updates are inevitably due. We want to hear how we can step it up a notch for you. Delivery times aren't set in stone yet, and we want to show mold samples on the page.


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rgdgaming/1482710497?ref=736381&token=80ddeecc&fbclid=IwAR3rCkncRipodQXF5JEITNBEtqSUoegfCS7M5n0-2OXUWxP3gR9Cja1QOS8


I don't want to come off wrong so forgiveness in advance but mate those photos are awful, do yourself a favour and spend a few extra bucks to hire a professional with rig. They are the showcase of your talent and hardwork as well as being the main draw for your project and you really shouldn't skimp here. Renders are great and can sell projects by themselves but if you have actual miniatures to show then they need to be seen in the best possible light, for clarity/detail/hype the photos need to be as good as you can get including dressed sets etc. Further to this, the photo labelled the mini that strated it all needs to be front and center, it is well painted and looks fantastic, furthermore it makes much more sense to show first than the centaur which is a stretch goal, so why is the centaur shown first in the model stage? I would ask you to cut out from "Resin, Pewter and 3D Prototypes" to "*lead free pewter at 34.5mm" and add that to the end (just before goals). If the text starts with the Faun that began it all and ran through to the Centaur/Minotaur the story makes sense and show cases the initial goal.

Second, your shipping means nothing. Whats a LB of sprues? I don't know and am not going to go and weigh my sprues to find out. I could, but if I am going to give you money you should make it as easy as possible for me to do so. Estimate how many boxes that comes too per tier, round it out and add a slight margin and list that as the price (ie. four boxes of Fauns costs tier 1 shipping to EU rather than a LB).

Third, solely as a matter of taste but I found it read as rather clinical... it lacks jazz/hype. It lets me know what you are doing, why and what it costs but it lacks a certain excitement.




(no offense taken on the photos, I need place holders)

This is the kind of critique I was looking for. When it started out, it was an idea for price ranges in shipping. When the actual set got put together, we could weigh it and give people a better response. So going with the pewter faun up front, leading to the eventual sprues/painted models, letting it transition to the centaurs going down I could see that being more natural to people going from one end to the next.
   
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This is what you guys would probably expect.
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Tim also has photoshop, this a bit better?
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I would look at some of the big miniature kickstarters for some inspiration. CMON always have very bright and energetic pages for every game they churn out that I would recommend looking at.

No amount of photoshop is going to save those pictures though, better to stick to just pictures of renders unless you have the actual models professionally done I think.

Maybe a 360 degree video of an individual faun would be a good addition as well?

   
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Effectively, emblem, intro, photo of products, kickstarter pledge goodies, goals, shipping info. Bordered pics.
   
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You don't need to hire a photographer, thousands manage perfectly decent photos every day. You really need to get this sorted asap.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/03/06/the-model-photo-how-to-photograph-models-for-display/

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 Huginn wrote:
You don't need to hire a photographer, thousands manage perfectly decent photos every day. You really need to get this sorted asap.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/03/06/the-model-photo-how-to-photograph-models-for-display/


This is good stuff.


Reworking the page strategy, condensing and focusing. I don't expect it to be the level of Cmon, but ill take some inspiration from their layout.
   
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So, this is amazing, and exactly why I love Dakka, despite not being around for a year or so. Love it all, thank you so much for taking the time to share it in so much detail!

Fauns and centaurs have been a project I have been messing with for a while, and you are doing a great job, so much so that I will probably just buy these and not mess with mine anymore

One idea for the two handed weapons, to add variety, is to make 2-3 different arm sets holding shafts, then have a handful of different tops that can be added. If each head has a small hole or divot where the top of the shaft can nestle into it will be plenty secure, and allow either a lot of uniformity or variation in weapon types and sizes for a minimal amount of sprue space.

Very much looking forward to this launching.


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 Wehrkind wrote:
So, this is amazing, and exactly why I love Dakka, despite not being around for a year or so. Love it all, thank you so much for taking the time to share it in so much detail!

Fauns and centaurs have been a project I have been messing with for a while, and you are doing a great job, so much so that I will probably just buy these and not mess with mine anymore

One idea for the two handed weapons, to add variety, is to make 2-3 different arm sets holding shafts, then have a handful of different tops that can be added. If each head has a small hole or divot where the top of the shaft can nestle into it will be plenty secure, and allow either a lot of uniformity or variation in weapon types and sizes for a minimal amount of sprue space.

Very much looking forward to this launching.





Really cant say this is a one man thing:


You need talented sculptors, designers, and folks specialized in particular softwares to get you from A to B, and even then the molders available are not going to be what you expect after you talk for weeks getting details back and forth. The learning curve is immense, but surprisingly not as bad as it could be.

I believe I got the priorities people are vibing out there, so currently revamping from top to bottom.

The one thing about these models is that they are different in style and design vs other companies, but on par with height and feel. I don't think it will come across until people have it in their hands. Hence we got to double our efforts .


   
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Tim Barry has started playing with the centaurs. Thickened the legs, added hair, line of draft already
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Those proportions seem better to me, for a tabletop figure.
   
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 kestral wrote:
Those proportions seem better to me, for a tabletop figure.


Effectively he scaled it up 10%
   
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 kestral wrote:
Those proportions seem better to me, for a tabletop figure.


I agree, much better.
   
 
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