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Seperate guns and equipment have been decided on, thanks

Hey everyone, due to the amount of requests, I've decided to unlock the headsprues as pledge levels and as add ons.

So first up I have created some "compilation sprues", take a look below.


These should appeal to anyone wanting to convert their existing miniatures or add variety to the ones that they are pledging for here.

Secondly I've updated the main selection of heads with the update additions.




Each variety comes in multiples of 6. If you've not pledged yet and were holding out for heads then I've added 2 separate pledge levels so you can get your sprues (minimum of 3 on the head only pledges). Should any of you want more or to add them onto your existing pledge then you can increase your pledge by £3.30 per additional sprue or multiples of £30 for multiples of 10, it is best to do so now as it will raise the total pledged and bring us all closer to our goal of getting the project funded. Know anyone that might be interested in the separate heads? send 'em on over.

Thanks again everyone.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2004599158/meridian-miniatures-steampunk-army

just a suggestion... i would make a headsprue consisting of 30, 31 and 32...for those chaos players...

Count me in for C and F sprues.

I thought they'd be the two most popular.

You weren't wrong

As a side note, I've posted about this on my Tumblr. I can't say I have a huge following or anything, but hopefully it will get some new people interested.

Thanks very much Lenny.

Hi guys, those of you that visited Garry's blog http://wp.me/p3yUK6-12 yesterday will have seen one of these already but I've another one to show off.


Just to show again, how versatile the figures can be. Half of these figures have already been posted to my brother for painting, they should be ready soon, maybe even later today if we're lucky. The rest are on my desk, I'm going to have a go at them tomorrow but being so busy you might have to wait a few evenings before I've got anything to show.

FULLY FUNDED!!!
What a great thing to wake up to! Thanks so much to everyone. Lets see where we can take this now, plenty more up my sleeve!

This is such a great looking set. Great to hear you're funded.

My brother, Stephen has been hard at work with the paintbrushes.

congratz!

I've just finished adding variation to the figure's heads. Most of the "bare faced" heads are here, to which I've added moustaches, frowns, square chins, wider noses and all sorts to prevent you from having an army with all the same faces!



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Great news tonight, we've passed our first stretch goal. These figures will be sent out for free to anyone pledging at colonel level or higher. Anyone else can add them on by adding £5 to their pledge.

Thanks so much everyone.

Today I've got some new add ons for you, body sets.


Either of these in whatever quantities you like can be added to your pledge for £5 per set, I will find out which sets you have pledged for when I send out the surveys. If you want them, increase your pledge now, it'll help to get us closer to our next stretch goal.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2004599158/meridian-miniatures-steampunk-army

New update
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2004599158/meridian-miniatures-steampunk-army/posts
Painted figures or see gallery here.

This is shaping up to be awesome.

Where were you 3 years ago?

Sigh...

Those body sets look quite good!

Hi everyone, I've put together an accessory sprue as an add on. Just treat it as the same as a head sprue add on, and let me know that it's what you want on the survey after the campaign.

From left to right we have: pouch, water bottle, harpoon gun, neutral arms (L/R), open hand for rifle (the fingers are staggered at an angle not jumbo!), rifle arm (fits open hand or cut away gun for conversions), flask, spade, pouch, rifle (no strap), rifle in hand.

I'll be posting more pictures and updates through the week, with the reorganised and unlocked stretch goals on Wednesday.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2004599158/meridian-miniatures-steampunk-army


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This is shaping up to be awesome.

Where were you 3 years ago?

Sigh...

Never too late to start a project anew!

Man, those of us looking for different versions of guard-type models are totally spoiled for choice these days! Which is great, of course

Hi everyone, we're nearly there with 7 days remaining!

I took some time to review the project over the weekend and did some calculations so I can give you guys as much as possible. I had initially planned out the rewards to cover the best/worst outcome, what I envisaged was taking lots of small pledges with any and all goals unlocked being added on unevenly in different quantities across a random spread of backers, thus potentially costing me lots in mastering with many production moulds.

What has actually happened is lots of you have pledged the higher amounts, allowing me to put most of the stretch goals in moulds together, with many of you getting them for free so I'll be able to send them out in "sets" with only a few of you adding on random lots (so far).

So, I've unlocked all of the finished specialist sets, so that all of the higher level backers will really be getting their money's worth with 9 free figures included in your reward, even those pledging at sergeant level getting the casualties pack free with your reward.






The rest of the goals in their WIP state have had their goal level reduced too so there's every chance that even more freebies will be heading your way.

As always, those that have pledged below Colonel level can still get your hands on the unlocked goals by adding £5 per specialist set that you wish to add to your pledge

Thanks to everyone involved, go out and spread the word, let's see what we can achieve in the next 7 days!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2004599158/meridian-miniatures-steampunk-army/posts/521589

It's really great to hear that you'll be able to do a bit more stuff than you originally planned.

Can't wait to get my hands on them.

We've had a slew of pledges last night taking us well past the £8K stretch to unlock the Chaplain and Medic and over the course of today we've nearly reached the next goal! This brings the total to 11 free figures to the higher level pledgers.

These figures are works in progress, I'll keep you up to date with their completion as and when I get them finished (I still work as a full time commission sculptor).


If things carry on course you'll be seeing another goal unlocked by this time tomorrow.

Thanks so much everyone.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2004599158/meridian-miniatures-steampunk-army

Hi everyone, I've put together a rifle and harpoon gun sprue as requested (obviously these are photoshop mock-ups) as add ons. Just treat them the same as a head sprue add on, and let me know that it's what you want on the survey after the campaign.


I'm sure these will be a real boon to all of you converters out there, especially the harpoon guns. Either use them in conjunction with the bodies add on or chop and change the barrels of your troops to make some real undersea fighters!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2004599158/meridian-miniatures-steampunk-army

Over £8.5K now and half way to £9K!


Again, these are work in progress figures so I'll keep you up to date as to their progress.

Thanks everyone, keep the pledges rolling in at this rate and we'll soon have a General to add to the ranks.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2004599158/meridian-miniatures-steampunk-army

Well, here we are. All done, all goals funded with many freebies headed your way in the coming couple of months! No more stretch goals will be announced but as said elsewhere, I'm looking into putting a few thank you bits together to go with your rewards. Maybe stickers or prints or similar on top of your minis. All of you pledging at Colonel level or higher will be now getting 14 free figures!

Again the general is a work in progress sculpt, a few decisions need to be made regarding his final appearance but he's in the bag


If all backers could take a moment to review their pledges and add on anything else that they require it would be much appreciated. Anything else after the campaign ends will have to be sorted out via privately Paypal, the final amount given in the last couple of days will influence what I decide to add in to your pledge rewards.

Thanks again to everyone that's contributed so far and to those that may come on board in the final days.

Just a quick update today. Here are the last of the head variants, bar one last possible requested bearskin variant.


And here is the complete grid of all your choices.


Pay particular attention to no.40, the long neglected head from my initial promo shots of the British soldiers!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2004599158/meridian-miniatures-steampunk-army

I'm happy to say that the first batch of master castings for my Kickstarter miniatures arrived today. It includes all of the standard troops and 75% of the head sprues. Griffin moulds did a fantastic job as ever so I'll be sending back some masters to make production moulds from while I get the greatcoated figures finished.