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The campaign is live at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jeremyglen/creature-caster-first-wave

Hey guys. Jeremy here, formerly of Ultraforge. I am here to humbly pitch the Kickstarter campaign for my miniatures company called: Creature Caster.

After researching, following and supporting a few Kickstarter campaigns, I found that I am not a fan of complex campaigns with confusing stretch goal maps and pledge calculators. Tho there is a story behind each miniature, I didn't write pages of fluff. I also don't want to explain too much about my personal life in my campaign. Instead, I spend my time trying to sculpt and manufacture the best miniatures I can, and with feedback and practice I can hopefully make gains and improve with each one.

I love this hobby. My best friends are the people in this hobby. I wanna make models that people appreciate, and it is really that simple.

Most questions you have regarding the sculpting, manufacture and sales of the miniatures can be found on http://www.creaturecaster.com/ . If anything is not covered on the site, just post your questions here and I will be glad to answer it as soon as I can. I also posted some more information below.

Most importantly, thank you very much for your support.


Jeremy







UPDATE

The Kickstarter launch date has been announced: April 19th. That is Easter weekend. I will hit the launch button at 12:00 noon Eastern standard/daylight time (New York).

These all look amazing. It's going to take a fantastic feat of will power to keep me away from one of those dragons.

Best of luck, I'm sure this will be a huge success.

The sculpts are all at least as good (actually they're better but goddam even those were great), as the stuff you did while running Ultraforge, very much looking forward to how the package deals look so I know how poor I'll be by the end of February.

Will the models be stuck to the rock bases or are they separate and you glue them onto them?
So if I wanted to I could switch out the rock base with say a slayed enemy or such?

I've bought all the please and plague demons Ultraforge put out and I'm looking forwards to these but I'm worried about the size.

Sure you have the measurements on your website but that doesn't exactly give a good picture. Would it be possible to have one of your models next to an Ultraforge one or a 28mm heroic model?

I'd like to see Arushnee next to the Pleasure Demon and Ganadhar next to the plague demon.

Next to a GW daemon prince would be cool as well as not everyone owns the above mentioned minis.

From the size picture I get the impression these are extremely big, more like the Greater Daemons from Forge World rather than the normal daemon princes GW makes.

I will probably pick up 1 of each of the ones I've talked about. It would however be really cool if you made 28mm or 32mm versions of them. If you did that I would probably pick up 3-5 of each. Then again it all comes down to price.

You did touch on the subject of making smaller models, can you say anything else on what scale you have been thinking about or is it too early to even talk about?

Will there be any dynamic to the models? They all look very static, I assume Arushnees mantis arms can be posed somewhat as it seems they might be ball jointed and maybe the arms can be posed up or down.

How many parts do the minis come in? Any alternative parts for any of them?
Will the hands holding the weapons be one piece or will we get open hands you put the weapons in?
I assume the hands holding weapons will be one piece, would you consider adding alternative hands as stretch goals or simply include them in the kickstarter?
Simply an empty hand so you could add your own flavour without having to cut and drill out the standard weapon.

I know it's annoying to cast empty hands but please consider it, just 1 extra hand can add allot to customization of a model.

If there's one thing I hate it's when my big expensive super model I've spent days painting looks exactly the same as my opponents but with a different paint scheme.

Hope you have the time to answer some of there.

Great googley moogely these look STUNNING!!!!.... I have all the FW Daemon Lords but i REALLY want these....

Ohhh,,,, Kickstarter you bad bad thing...

Will the models be stuck to the rock bases or are they separate and you glue them onto them?

The models are attached to the rock base.

I've bought all the please and plague demons Ultraforge put out and I'm looking forwards to these but I'm worried about the size.

Don't let their size intimidate you

Sure you have the measurements on your website but that doesn't exactly give a good picture. Would it be possible to have one of your models next to an Ultraforge one or a 28mm heroic model?

We could certainly take more photos of the models we already have printed, next to familiar scales, for sure. We will update the thread, our social media and the website when we have these shots to show you.

From the size picture I get the impression these are extremely big, more like the Greater Daemons from Forge World rather than the normal daemon princes GW makes.

Exactly. Our demons, in some cases, are Forge World sized, often a touch smaller.... but our miniatures are much more playable due to their small footprint.. You can actually put them on a 50 x 50. Since they are so huge on such a small footprint, we require a counterweight in the form of the rock base. These are all conscious decisions that were made in order to optimize the balance between work of art and wargame miniature.

I will probably pick up 1 of each of the ones I've talked about. It would however be really cool if you made 28mm or 32mm versions of them. If you did that I would probably pick up 3-5 of each. Then again it all comes down to price.

We could make smaller version of these models, but this would require a re-design since narrow parts become far too narrow and fragile one a mini is scaled down. These particular models are designed to be the most massive and visually impressive models you can fit onto a relativity small base (50 x 50, or in the case of the dragons 50 x 75)

You did touch on the subject of making smaller models, can you say anything else on what scale you have been thinking about or is it too early to even talk about?

We have had a lot of demand for a regiment of models as sexy as Arushnee. We have had a lot of demand for Demon Prince sized models. That is most probably what we will work on next.

Will there be any dynamic to the models? They all look very static, I assume Arushnees mantis arms can be posed somewhat as it seems they might be ball jointed and maybe the arms can be posed up or down.

I am surprised that you find our models to be lacking dynamic. All of them are balanced compositions, in asymmetrical poses, most of them are on angled surfaces, have energy and direction, some even have tensed muscles in the limbs that are working and relaxed limbs for the ones hanging. They are certainly more dynamic than the models I sculpted for Ultraforge. I don't know what more I could do.

Will the hands holding the weapons be one piece or will we get open hands you put the weapons in?

All models come with their weapons and there will be no variations available from us in the future. The weapons are specific to the creature, and are important to us as artists as another means of explaining the creatures character. With the time it takes to make weapon variations, we would rather just make an entirely new creature.

If there's one thing I hate it's when my big expensive super model I've spent days painting looks exactly the same as my opponents but with a different paint scheme.

In terms of originality, even if thousands of people bought these models, you will still be the only person in your hobby store with one.

If your opponent ALSO has a Creature Caster miniature, all respect due, but those are the kinds of problems I WANT to have. jk

Thanks for your questions and comments, and most of all your support.

Yeeeeahhh... I'll be putting a Dark Elf Dreadlord on that Prothero dragon... Beats the frack out of GW's Black Dragon, plus it also gives that look of landing on a rocky outcrop on a beach head in Ulthuan..a dreadlord directing his forces into the melee.

I will be pledging - need that plague lord!!

Thanks for signing up and I look forward to seeing pics of the ones you have printed, along with a mini for scale, as you mentioned

Quick question; will you be adding some more detail to the feathered wings of the bird-daemon? From the pictures they seem a little flat and featureless, especially when set against the excellent details on the rest of the creature(painting all of those eyeballs is going to be fun, hah).

I understand you might want to leave the feathers fairly flat to allow people to paint interesting designs on them, but frankly some of us aren't good enough painters to make feathers look convincing without some texture to help.

Those are seriously awesome. I'm in for at least the bug chick or fatty plague guy.

I do hope there are some less "foot on rock" guys. I get that it adds counterbalance, but leads to everything feeling the same in a lineup.

Will the retail prices of these creatures roughly match those that were in Ultraforge? (Just trying to get a price gauge to see if I can afford it)

Cool Beans!

Welcome to Dakka Jeremy and congratulations on some great sculpts.

And a great, well-reasoned post too

These are simply brilliant.

I have no use for demons in my armies, but I'll be getting at least one just to paint it up...

Best of luck, but I'm sure you will do well!

You there sir, everything you are doing is good!

Well I'm drooling over those.

If they are in the right price range they will be very hard to resist.

These all look fantastic. The only thing I fear is the price!

I guess these are the same as from that leak thread yesterday?

Well, I have a little time to be saving up some dough!

I need the 4 GDs (minus the bewbed one) and maybe that Treeman or a dragon if the price is right!

 MadCowCrazy wrote:
If there's one thing I hate it's when my big expensive super model I've spent days painting looks exactly the same as my opponents but with a different paint scheme..

You don't have to leave that up to the company making them... I already have some very tempting conversion ideas floating around in my head for a couple of these...

those are magnificent, count me in boss.

Oooohhhhh!

THAT is what a Great Unclean One is supposed to look like!

The Auld Grump

I have gotten a few requests for a signature banner that you can use to help us promote our campaign. Just copy/paste this code into your signature and thank you very much for your support....

Looks awesome. One notthirster pledge incoming.

Definitely gonna have to get in on for a Pyre. Maybe both dragons if they aren't too pricey.

 CreatureCaster wrote:
I have gotten a few requests for a signature banner that you can use to help us promote our campaign. Just copy/paste this code into your signature and thank you very much for your support....

Done & done.
Now just start the ruddy thing - I need that plague demon!!

None of the models I've seen are anything I have a need for. So I doubt i will be supporting the KS. I just wanted to say, though, that I support YOU in this. I have a couple of them old UF models, and the work you do is incredible.
I'll be keeping an eye on you guys and for what you come out with in the future.

Eric

Personally offended by the implications of the original poster's post.

As far as I can tell, it's a sculptor saying, "I refuse to let minor concerns like playability constrain how I design a model, even though I'm selling war gaming models."

If the price isn't too bad, that GUO is going to get it.

"It" in this context is purchased.