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Adams on Eastern Standard Time he posted this morning that he generally sleeps 6am to 3pm EST but that was at 8am EST it's now 15:18 EST so I'd give him 2 or 3 hours to get going again today.

Ah, that's useful information okay, I'm sure he's going to have boatloads of msgs to wade through every time he wakes up for the next month-and-a-half; I'll be patient

I am based in Brooklyn NY, so I am in the EST. However I run vampire hours so, I'm usually asleep at around 6am and up at around 3pm EST.

And feel free to ask as many questions as you like.

@Tannhauser42, The reaper kickstarter scares me. It's not easy living in the shadow of that beast, I honestly have no idea how they are turning a profit. I guess they are a very old company and have the info structure in place to handle that kinda volume but… just wow. I actually meant to jump in as I am a Pathfinder fan, but i missed the cutoff while I was traveling. Thanks for the concern tho, it shows me that some people have a sense of what is reasonable and what is borderline impossible for a 1 person company ( like myself ) to pull off.

@Alpharius, It ends up being like 10k for the mold and $1 + per injection. This varies a ton of course, ( the damn phoenix takes up nearly 3 molds! ) So I am certainly doing my best to be cautious, but I would be lying if I said I didn't feel a certain pressure to push for a "can't so no" kickstarter deal. Thank you very much for the vote of confidence tho!

@The Flower Knight has been added! But the Wet Nurse will not make it into this campaign, I apologize.

@Bolognesus, Right now I have a 2'x3' board illustrated but not painted. The entire thing was unique and was put together the extremely talented artist that handles the majority of the concept art. ( Not the Pinup Stuff ) I plan on having it printed and mounted to a proper foldable game board so that you can use it when its time for a showdown with a monster! I can also so it being used for any popular grid based game as a board, however I will mention that the squares are a little larger then 1". I prefer the extra room and it doesn't feels better from a design standpoint when a model can fit in a square with a little breathing room. Your more "in it" then kinda on it.

Thanks so much for posting here with all the info!!

New monster around 300K as posted in KS comments sounds great! I hope to see more White Lion armor at some point later and maybe Forsaker and Twilight Knight...!

NEED MOAR PINUPS

Seriously though 9actually, the above is serious) it's quite exciting to see this begin to develop so well. I am curious to see what you could possibly keep adding to the pot for the next forty days though. Might I suggest... more pinups?

I have to say also that I really like the switch-out armor/gear options. Seems like a neat potential concept for a miniatures game! Why have to have 3-4 versions of every fig when you can play dress up with your little miniatures/dolls!

-C6

 kingdomdeath wrote:
@The Flower Knight has been added! But the Wet Nurse will not make it into this campaign, I apologize.

Probebly best to leave stuff like this out for non-kickstarter funded expansions, after the Tentacle Bentai debacle.

 kingdomdeath wrote:
@Bolognesus, Right now I have a 2'x3' board illustrated but not painted. The entire thing was unique and was put together the extremely talented artist that handles the majority of the concept art. ( Not the Pinup Stuff ) I plan on having it printed and mounted to a proper foldable game board so that you can use it when its time for a showdown with a monster! I can also so it being used for any popular grid based game as a board, however I will mention that the squares are a little larger then 1". I prefer the extra room and it doesn't feels better from a design standpoint when a model can fit in a square with a little breathing room. Your more "in it" then kinda on it.

Ah okay, that explains why there's no board in sight yet.
out of curiosity, might I inquire what those tiles in the picture are?

Actually you can magnetize even those minis, but you need quite some experience and very calm hands.

It can be done but it's too fiddly, IMO. with big components I can use the kind of magnets which take significant force to dislodge; something this size parts could feasibly get knocked off and lost. I'll take pins for this stuff any day, but to each his own

Just a little less than $1000 until the Primal Huntress unlocks!

 RiTides wrote:
Thanks so much for posting here with all the info!!

New monster around 300K as posted in KS comments sounds great! I hope to see more White Lion armor at some point later and maybe Forsaker and Twilight Knight...!

I'd like those too!

Here's the quote, tantalizingly short of details as it is! :

Im up! But I am cheating by running off to dinner and to see Wreck it Ralph! But I shall return, maybe in time to put together the next stretch goal. If we hit 300k, i am thinking new monster. A big time new monster!

Also, saw Wreck It Ralph with my daughter this weekend - it was great, especially if you're like me (old?) and grew up in the 80's Video Game Beginnings!

I may have to see it. I'm sure we'll get the next stretch from KD soon, or wake up to it, since Adam's a night owl / vampire / etc

Currently at $287,000, if there is going to be a new "big" monster at $300,000 its going to take no time at all to hit it at this rate. I wonder just how high this Kickstarter will go,
I could easily see it hitting the 1mil mark and topping Dreadball, Sedition Wars, Relic Knights, not so much Reaper Bones mind you, that was pure insanitiy, although I would
be happy to eat my words on this one.

Can't wait to see the Primal Huntress, she looks like shes going to be a wonderful little pin-up. Oh and I second Cat, more pin-ups please, I honestly believe that Kingdom Death
make the best pin-ups in the miniature industy, I've yet to see anything better, at least in my humble opinon.

I absolutely love the look of this, amazing stuff as always. I'm so broke right now though! Maybe my student loan for next semester will be in before this ends....

Update, might have a buddy going in halfsies with me. Possibly survivor level.

 kingdomdeath wrote:


@Tannhauser42, The reaper kickstarter scares me. It's not easy living in the shadow of that beast, I honestly have no idea how they are turning a profit. I guess they are a very old company and have the info structure in place to handle that kinda volume but… just wow. I actually meant to jump in as I am a Pathfinder fan, but i missed the cutoff while I was traveling. Thanks for the concern tho, it shows me that some people have a sense of what is reasonable and what is borderline impossible for a 1 person company ( like myself ) to pull off.

Reaper don't need to turn a profit from the KS, and I doubt it's their intention. It's more like a large, interest-free loan that allows them to get an awful lot of tooling done and accelerate the moving of Bones production from China to Texas. If they break even financially but get that many new figures sculpted/molds ready for Bones, then they've achieved their goal. Once that's all done, the actual production costs for Bones figures is tiny. Hence the extraordinarily low RRP.

Same market and all (miniatures) but a different goal/outcome/business plan.






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 Rolt wrote:
Currently at $287,000, if there is going to be a new "big" monster at $300,000 its going to take no time at all to hit it at this rate. I wonder just how high this Kickstarter will go,
I could easily see it hitting the 1mil mark and topping Dreadball, Sedition Wars, Relic Knights, not so much Reaper Bones mind you, that was pure insanitiy, although I would
be happy to eat my words on this one.

Can't wait to see the Primal Huntress, she looks like shes going to be a wonderful little pin-up. Oh and I second Cat, more pin-ups please, I honestly believe that Kingdom Death
make the best pin-ups in the miniature industy, I've yet to see anything better, at least in my humble opinon.

I expect this KS to slow down dramatically very shortly. It's to be expected given the longer timeframe and the reason for the longer timeframe (Christmas/New Years in the middle.) It'll be interesting to see how much it slows down - The RBG KS had a huge surge initially when all of Tre's fans got on board, then slowed right down after that. The use of "early bird specials" also front-loads pledges even more dramatically as people take on high pledges with an "I can always drop out later" mentality. I'm expecting to see a broadly similar to RBG pattern here. The big KD fans are on and in, and so the surge will slow right down. After that, it's more casual types (like me) deciding if they want in or not. Which will be based on the sculpts and their perceived value for money.

 Rolt wrote:
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Can't wait to see the Primal Huntress, she looks like shes going to be a wonderful little pin-up. Oh and I second Cat, more pin-ups please, I honestly believe that Kingdom Death
make the best pin-ups in the miniature industy, I've yet to see anything better, at least in my humble opinon.

It' the zaftig-ness that makes them so awesome! (At least in design terms. The execution, in sculpting and casting terms, is also important, of course).

-C6

Only one question! You guys are taking it easy on me!


@Bolognusus, The tiles are a little prototype I made at home. If there is enough interest maybe I can add them as an option. They were digitally sculpted by the same artist that worked on the white lion and were printed. There are 4 different tiles and I made the board by casting them several times, painting them grey and mounting em to a piece of foam board.

I thought it made for nicer presentation since when I started the pitch video I didn't have much artwork for the game board yet. At this point and time the line work is done, there is a little shot of 1/6th of it towards the end of the video.

Ah, okay that explains
You know what would be great? Selling HirstArts like molds for them (not gonna happen, I know )

scipio.au wrote:
I expect this KS to slow down dramatically very shortly. It's to be expected given the longer timeframe and the reason for the longer timeframe (Christmas/New Years in the middle.) It'll be interesting to see how much it slows down - The RBG KS had a huge surge initially when all of Tre's fans got on board, then slowed right down after that. The use of "early bird specials" also front-loads pledges even more dramatically as people take on high pledges with an "I can always drop out later" mentality. I'm expecting to see a broadly similar to RBG pattern here. The big KD fans are on and in, and so the surge will slow right down. After that, it's more casual types (like me) deciding if they want in or not. Which will be based on the sculpts and their perceived value for money.

If Adam can start pulling in miniature fans, board game fans, fans of his various artists (the pinups in particular) then the inevitable lull might be mitigated somewhat. If the "lull" is 8-16k a day prior to the final week surge then that's pretty awesome.

Honestly, even if the kickstarter were to stop completely at this point, it would still be an incredible success.

I won't be happy until I'm swimming in fifty stretch goals worth of nightmare boob maidens and nightmare boob monsters.

This kickstarter makes me extremely sad.

I am serious, I finally saved up enough cash to buy most of the pinups I wanted, all in stock on CMON as of Saturday. I went to order them...

.....

.....

All except like 3 models are sold out, there is almost nothing left. I've been wanting to buy a Twilight Knight Pinup forever and kept waiting on the KD store to restock, then found out CMON had them on sale two weeks ago. Started putting cash aside to do one big order....

So, thanks to all the bandwagon jumpers, I can't get these models I wanted, likely ever.

Did I mention I'm seriously pissed?

Adam, please offer all of the sold out stuff on the Kickstarter so I can buy the items I want and while you're at it, please find a better cost for shipping to Canada. Between the shipping cost of the KS & all of these minis selling out, I'm in need of another bowl.

P.S. - Re-release all the pinups with good production runs, I've never been this annoyed about something selling out after it initially sold out.

@IdentifyZero: I totally hate it when that happens bro. That kind of bums me out. There's been KD stuff that I've wanted too prior to the kickstarter starting... now it'll be tough to get stuff.

 IdentifyZero wrote:
This kickstarter makes me extremely sad.

I am serious, I finally saved up enough cash to buy most of the pinups I wanted, all in stock on CMON as of Saturday. I went to order them...

.....

.....

All except like 3 models are sold out, there is almost nothing left. I've been wanting to buy a Twilight Knight Pinup forever and kept waiting on the KD store to restock, then found out CMON had them on sale two weeks ago. Started putting cash aside to do one big order....

If one of the pinups you were looking for was the pinup Survivor, you can blame me. Got the very last one. Was on the fence for a while, but the sale combined with the kickstarter and low stock pushed me to grab it.

while you're at it, please find a better cost for shipping to Canada. Between the shipping cost of the KS & all of these minis selling out, I'm in need of another bowl.

This I can't stress enough. The money saved on shipping costs would only get redirected towards more Kingdom Death stuff.

 djphranq wrote:
@IdentifyZero: I totally hate it when that happens bro. That kind of bums me out. There's been KD stuff that I've wanted too prior to the kickstarter starting... now it'll be tough to get stuff.

Yep, now it's basically impossible. Everything on his website is sold out and everything on CMON is going to be sold out. Just tried to buy the 3 items I could get and want but nope, having an error with checkout. Guarantee they will be sold out by the time I go to another PC today!

 Fafnir wrote:

 IdentifyZero wrote:
This kickstarter makes me extremely sad.

I am serious, I finally saved up enough cash to buy most of the pinups I wanted, all in stock on CMON as of Saturday. I went to order them...

.....

.....

All except like 3 models are sold out, there is almost nothing left. I've been wanting to buy a Twilight Knight Pinup forever and kept waiting on the KD store to restock, then found out CMON had them on sale two weeks ago. Started putting cash aside to do one big order....

If one of the pinups you were looking for was the pinup Survivor, you can blame me. Got the very last one. Was on the fence for a while, but the sale combined with the kickstarter and low stock pushed me to grab it.

while you're at it, please find a better cost for shipping to Canada. Between the shipping cost of the KS & all of these minis selling out, I'm in need of another bowl.

This I can't stress enough. The money saved on shipping costs would only get redirected towards more Kingdom Death stuff.

Thanks... it was one of several. Most important was Twilight Knight Pinup, I should have just bought them all when I had the chance. At least you got one, I was really hoping to get the Twilight Knight pinup and now I'm sulking.

Edit: Yeah, I'm ranting about $25 a pop models when most of the world lives in poverty. So what.

The Twilight Knight pinup is really good. Intimidates the hell out of me though. one day I'll paint it. One day. Maybe when I get some free time for once.

Just ordered the Great Game Hunter Pinup, mostly to see how much I like the resin casts before I make my final pledge decision in January.


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Also, 300K stretch = Dragon King.

@IdentifyZero, is that a holiday wish? I like the idea of making peoples holiday wishes come true! I am waiting on a restock of the pinups, when I get them in I will add them to the site. Are you on the mailing list? I'll give everyone a nudge once they are available.

If my resin partner gives me the thumbs up, I will add more resin stuff to the kickstarter. Right now I am trying to keep the campaign focused on new stuff that is related to it.

Thanks for letting me know tho!

 kingdomdeath wrote:
@IdentifyZero, is that a holiday wish? I like the idea of making peoples holiday wishes come true! I am waiting on a restock of the pinups, when I get them in I will add them to the site. Are you on the mailing list? I'll give everyone a nudge once they are available.

If my resin partner gives me the thumbs up, I will add more resin stuff to the kickstarter. Right now I am trying to keep the campaign focused on new stuff that is related to it.

Thanks for letting me know tho!

Yes dude, that is definitely a holiday wish.

I should be on the mailing list currently to! I will have to see if I registered with my new email, the old one got horribly hacked. :/

Really looking forward to seeing what else you have in store for your line and the kickstarter.

Dammit IdentityZero! Why didn't you make your holiday wish cheaper Canadian shipping?!! Selfish!