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Reports today of APAC backers getting shipping notices.

One EU backer managed to get something out of CMoN via facebook

their response

"EU pledges should be shipped out within the next few weeks. At this time we do not have an exact date. But, I should be sent out soon."

Weeks! seriously enough is enough, CMoN seem to have washed their hands of this they are even recommending following up EU shipping directly with SPM but what can they do?


I'm now expecting to get Rivet Wars wave 2 which the factory in China have started to pack before RK arrives.

I'm guessing the comment on the EU stuff was via PM as I couldn't find it....

with Gencon so close I'm hoping all the folk who might be able to make sensible comments are busy/away and this is just nonsense from an intern or similar,

but I wouldn't be surprised if it's true. The factory can clearly pack stuff (since APAC stuff is going out), although what the error rate is we'll have to wait and see

so is the EU stuff packed ?, Is it in a container ? at the airport? (or a port?)

I fear you're right and we might even see forgotten king first




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Oh for those that picked up the Candy Heart 'apology' mini instead of using the store credit on forgotten king I've just got a shipping notice for mine

A few pages back I showed some pics of the unpainted Pit Crew. They were pretty horrifying with blank faces.

Anyway i put some paint on them and they're not as bad as I feared, so I wanted to give you guys some second impressions. I don't have any metal versions of Relic Knights to compare with, so it may be that the range in general has always had flat anime style faces and its not just the new plastics.



I clearly need to do some touch up on these

They take a LOT of work to clean up for paint though, and the detail is pretty flat on some figures like Marie Claude. I'd rather paint the stripes freehand than try to match lines that sometimes exist.

Mold lines are really hard to see until priming, and in some cases they run along other sculpted lines (on the Belles bikes for example) and that's a real pain.

Final impressions is that I like the figures, at the Kickstarter price

Great work there, you've really got the look down

Fine work, Mathias. Thanks for the re-review.

Not having done work on anything other than Noh so far, it's good to see that there's more to be done with the models than previously thought. I'll agree that, even the bulky Noh, are a pain to prep.

Good lord those look nice! Hopefully I can similarly use my full palette of fantasy paints on them. As you say though, the careful brushwork is presumably doing the work that sculpted detail should be, which isn't going to go so well with less-experienced painters.

I also really like the overall aesthetic look of Cerci, I just wish it wasn't so insanely booby. Or even just not as homogeneous. I suppose some of it could it be masked as skin-tight bodysuits, given the abundance of chokers/scarves.

From twitter about Gencon:

You'll notice Candy Heart and two new Noh models. At least, I haven't seen them before.

Those new Noh Empire models look nice - thanks for sharing those pics!

 GiraffeX wrote:
Has anyone who's received their minis played the game yet?

Is it worth looking into or would you recommend to stay clear both from a rule/mini front.

I'm assuming the retail version wont have all the missing parts.

Just started playing this a few days ago. I bought the Shattered Sword Paladins starter box and it has been a blast.
Models look nice, but I especially love the gameplay. I like the pace of the game with all the movement and action. Imagine this scenario that happened earlier.

Typical skirmish type terrain with my Knight(Mallory) about to grab an objective in the middle and my opponent has a squad of mages up on the rafters across from me throwing spells at Mallory.
My solution?
I fly my Paragons (jump jet infantry) right in front of his mages to get into melee range. Then I use my Shield Bash, which I press(Some abilities have "Presses" that do additional effects if you pay more) to do more damage AND push them off the rafters killing 2 out of 3. (1 from the melee damage, the 2nd from him taking fall damage). Afterwards, I fly my guys away behind a wall nearby, so I am out of LOS from his mages.

The rulesets and character cards are actually posted on their website if you are interested. The game plays out like some over-the-top anime action sequence. Its really a lot of fun. The best part I liked about it, is that the starter sets by themselves has EVERYTHING. A 30ish point army, rules, character cards, tokens, dashboard(playmat), esper cards (resource).

Cool sounds like something nice and different, will check it out when funds permit.

Dentry's mini pics look great, I wonder if they are the same plastic you get in the box or resin.

I would assume they are resin models on display from gencon.

Nice to see my knight Mallory and his cypher Quill there. I wish i could paint as good as those on display.

Due to seeing the actual models at GenCon, my brother has emailed SodaPop asking for a refund.

All the actual production models are flat in detail and rely on the pro paintjobs given to them to look good. It was really disconcerting to see the resins in the front of the SP/ND booth that look fairly decent, and then see the actual models in the cases inside the booth, which are 10% smaller and lack any detail that wasn't painted on.

The end may be in sight from Facebook

Soda Pop Miniatures - We were told shipping for EU and AsiaPAC has started, and have confirmed because we have backers showing off their things - As we are just coming back from Gencon, and so is CMoN, we will get a final tally on the progress for all regions
3 hours ago

Other reports are coming in that the shipment has actually reached Germany and courier shipping to backers has started. No actual word from CMoN yet though.

Other reports are coming in that the shipment has actually reached Germany and courier shipping to backers has started. No actual word from CMoN yet though.

And you won't see any update from CMON. Quote from the Last update on the KS page 4th August:

"If you are a backer outside of the US, Cool Mini or Not will continue to provide updates on the status of shipment."

And given this and the rest of the update, there will be no more updates on the KS page as only CMON as the Project Creator can update the KS page. As a UK backer myself I can confirm that I have yet to recieve anything, either physically or a shipping notification. I can confirm that Wayland, a UK retailer, does have physical stock as my mates have recieved shipping notifications from Wayland for stuf they have ordered from them.

So confirmed that Sodapop have broken their word as Retail have this before the people who provided the funding for the project nearly 2 ears ago.......... Yes, I am suffering from Nerd Rage.

Yes, haven't heard anything about shipping either (although am also in the UK).

Hey, at least take solace in the fact that the retail prices for these things are horrific, so the KS was the only way to own a decent amount of it! Apart from all of the models developed after the fact of course...

It's interesting on just how major the discrepancies in price ended up being too - 'Betty & Lug' and 'the Diamondback' were both $35 options (with a couple of bonus models each). The former retails for £17 (substantially cheaper than $35), the latter for £34.

Well it seems to be clear that the EU stuff has shown up in Germany and EU pledges are being sent

a couple of reported arrivals in Germany, and one in the Netherlands in the comments and second hand reports of others from twitter/facebook

However it seems that you may well not get any trakcing info until after stuff has arrived as CMON has to update/post that, and they can only do that after they are sent the info from the German shipper (which will at best be done at the end of each working day)

so keep and eye on your post boxes

Plenty of reports of EU parcels getting delivered now. They are missing the Hells Belles torso and have the Valeria with the twisted foot so the extra delay wasn't used to resolve those issues.

I see Wayland games have the Dahon on preorder for £14.70 - cheaper than I was expecting given the size.

I can confirm it, my friend just gave me a call that his pledge arrived. So Slovenia is currently at 50% delivery completion

It's a real puzzle that they didn't bother throwing in the hells belles torso and a fixed valaria given the time they had to do so

it will probably cost Soda Pop a good $4-5000 in postage to sort everybody out now, sigh

(I sadly suspect by the time the problem was known about CMON had given up on the whole thing since the knew they'd passed I over)

Probably because the packages were on the slow boat by the time they found out about the error.

Delivery service just called, I'll have my junk in 30 minutes.

Well mine has arrived in the UK,

Love the rule book, impressed with real signatures on the lithograph, lots and lots of nice boxes to inventory

My stuff has arrived not had a chance to open the box yet.

Lots of people in the UK seem to be receiving their stuff this morning. Can't wait for this game to become widely available!

Has there been any word on fulfilling mispacks and such? I contacted Ross about five weeks ago, and he said they'd get right on it... I still haven't seen my torsos or gaming mat. I sent off an email last week, and haven't gotten a reply there either(checking both inbox and junk), but I suppose they could just be swamped right now.

I'm sure they're swamped (a fair few folk seem to imply they are sending daily emails),

Plus gencon (and the other cons they are going to) seem to involve the whole company getting in a big lorry and driving cross country

A few people have reported replacement bits (Valaria/Hells Belles) arriving so some of it is being done (at least in the US)

We've not seen any official presence on the forums for the last couple of weeks either which tend to reinforce the impression that they are run of their feet as they Deke especially does usually post (even if he doen't answer questions)

so long you should wait after you first email to try again I'm not sure (Depending on what's missing it could be they need to wait for China to do another production run, it all depends on what CMON actually managed to pass over

So has anyone played a game yet? My friend and I tried a 35 pts match, Cerci vs Black Diamond. It's a very interesting system.

I like the objectives, there is a lot of tactical variety there even though the base system is really simple.

I must admit I felt "mana screwed" most of the time, which was frustrating.

Reports trickling in on the official forums of people receiving the missing Hell's Belles torsos and Prefect.

So might want to keep an eye out for this as it's showing up unsolicited.

Anyone else hear that Soda Pop is basically redoing a lot of the sculpts?

I think they had some of the new sculpts at Gencon.

I really like the game in concept, but with anime stuff, getting the core sculpts looking good is problem enough since there's such little detail. You need to get those shapes perfect.

Haven't run across that particular rumor but are you sure the Gencon models aren't simply resin masters? Or old models that were done up before final tooling?

A lot of the ones they had on display at gencon were the original resins. They did also have painted plastics on sale.

Additionally, ND/SPM is at PAX this week, so I wouldn't expect a ton of correspondence back for a week or so.