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heh. 4chan up in arms about depictions of women.

Is it known if the weapons are integrated into the miniatures or if they will be separate bits? Since these are metal, and likely very delicate, I am wondering how difficult it will be to convert the models if the weapons are attached to the figures' arms.

I just realized. RH's girls + Mantic's zombies = Sucker Punch the Tabletop Game. o.O

Sucker Punch Nazi Zombies Part 1
Sucker Punch Nazi Zombies Part 2
Sucker Punch Nazi Zombies Part 3

 PsychoticStorm wrote:

Javin wrote:
They did mention in the Faq that if they get enough money Injected plastic is a possibility. I would be very very happy if this goes plastic.

I wouldn't, except if they mean resin plastic, plastic does not take undercuts well or at all, it would greatly undermine their quality, or vastly increase the parts count.

I feel the "OMG plastic" is something the community has been fed and been brainwashed its the best thing ever, it has its uses and it can be good for a variety of things, but I do not think its good for this project.

Yes, plastic takes a bit more design and may result in more parts to get round the undercut issue, but what it generally results in is cheaper mini's that are light and easy to convert. I'd happily go plastic and take a bit longer to assemble figures if it knocked the cost down to the point where an army is achievable.

There'd also be a lot less casting work for RH, so it might speed production up too. We're already at 1000 backers, so we're already into the tens of thousands of mini's needing to be spun-cast, which is still somewhat time consuming.

 Azazelx wrote:
heh. 4chan up in arms about depictions of women.

I know right?

Wait, what? 4Chan don't like this? Hilarious.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
The Kruganova and Iron Empire girls are about as cheesecak as women in full combat gear would be, unless you have a spiked helmet fetish, even the jailbirds, the most sexualized of the factions, aren't very cheesecakey, I'm not really seeing the KD comparison.

One distinction that often gets lost is that it's possible for someone to appear impressive or appealing without it meaning they're sexualised. On the one hand, many of us have rolled our eyes when a certain artist assumes that where a male character can dress plausibly, the woman next to him has to have armour with high heels and cleavage, because they can't think of a way to make a woman stand out other than looking "hot". But it also seems to go the other way, where any attempt to make a female character look visually attractive & distinct will be read as sexualisation. And for some, nothing less than removing all visual signatures that "this model is a woman" will do. It's worth noting that scantilly clad men (your typical brawny barbarian in just a loincloth with his man-splitting greatsword) seem much more likely to be percieved as "impressive" rather than "sexy", and that men being sexualised is much less likely to be seen as a bad thing.

So....I don't know what my point is, other than there's a lot of very subtle social and perception issues that come into this. It's hard to say "Your opinion is invalid." to someone without being a jerk, of course, so I can just say that in my opinion, speaking for nobody else, this range (esp. the Kurganova) strike a near-perfect balance of non-sexual visual appeal and plausibility as professional soldiers.

 Breotan wrote:
I just realized. RH's girls + Mantic's zombies = Sucker Punch the Tabletop Game. o.O

Sucker Punch Nazi Zombies Part 1
Sucker Punch Nazi Zombies Part 2
Sucker Punch Nazi Zombies Part 3

Thanks for that, Breotan, I had solidly decided on going Kurganova. And now that I've watched that again, I'm half way to "needing", at minimum, a squad of the Rambettes. Though they might need to get de-'Nam'd a bit.

I just know all hell is gonna break lose when I use certain Iron Empire heroes as count-as crypteks / lords in my Necron army

Sorry if this has already been answered but how exactly do add-ons work and how do you edit your pledge?

Dat shipping...:(

I admit that I really dig the nurse...but it shows my age when I also admit that I immediately recognized Tania Tanker:



Well this must have been the original art:



You gotta love it!

...is actually pretty bloody cheap for an international purchase.


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Yeah, it's clearly Rosie and was an instant spot. Not sure how much it shows your age, unless you were around during her prime?

 Gitkikka wrote:
Dat shipping...:(

Dat shipping that they have spoken about before the KS went live. I don't see why people are getting upset about having to pay for boxes of stuff to be shipped internationally.

Yeah. The shipping seems quite reasonable. Maybe a bit high, maybe a bit low, but I've spent more on domestic shipping before.

And their shipping is with tracking and insured, so it's not the "stuff it in a box/envelope and hope it gets there ok" variety of shipping.

It pushes the cost up too high for me at the "I just want a handful of miniatures and not a bulk purchase", but it's not unreasonable shipping.

 Azazelx wrote:
...is actually pretty bloody cheap for an international purchase.

Yeah, twenty bucks shipping is nothing.

 Azazelx wrote:
Yeah, it's clearly Rosie and was an instant spot. Not sure how much it shows your age, unless you were around during her prime?

Yeah, I picked it immediately. I'm not that old either.

 Squidbot wrote:

 Gitkikka wrote:
Dat shipping...:(

Dat shipping that they have spoken about before the KS went live. I don't see why people are getting upset about having to pay for boxes of stuff to be shipped internationally.

Ease up, Sparky - I haven't been paying very close attention to this KS until I knew for sure that RH was actually going to get it out within the decade, so I wasn't paying attention to previous discussions about the high shipping costs. Seriously, you guys don't have to act like it's an attack on the company and it's product whenever somebody gets "upset" about their policies, shipping or otherwise.

In a lighter post, for those who want to make a Sucker Punch game out of the Rambettes, Reaper happens to make not-SP minis that can lead them - my favorite: http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/Chronoscope/sku-down/50229

Kind of hoping the soon-to-be-shown RH mech looks like it needs a bunny painted on the front...

Is it around 3PM in France right now?

Shouldn't there be some more info coming out of RH central, either via the Kickstarter or the Heralds?

They really should announce what the goal for Plastic miniatures is soon, as a way to maintain the momentum of a great start.

Having $20K and $30K 'stretch goal' unlocks for paid-ons is a bit of a buzz kill.

As is being $275K into this without the first 'free' miniature add-on.

Some of these milestones are beginning to have the infamous 'fake stretch goal' whiff about them.

I'm still surprised that they got caught with their pants down after all the extra time they took with the advance planning too.

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
Sorry if this has already been answered but how exactly do add-ons work and how do you edit your pledge?

You can add more post campaign via PayPal.

Yeah, I'm not really liking the way this kickstarter looks, I'll give it a couple weeks and if it still seems off I'm going to back out. To me it looks like they realized they could make more money than they thought and are trying to stretch it out further.

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
Sorry if this has already been answered but how exactly do add-ons work and how do you edit your pledge?

It took me a minute to figure this out too, but:
Go to the page and hit "manage pledge".
Select the pledge level you want.
Scroll back up, input the amount for the pledge level + shipping.
Hit continue.

If you don't edit the pledge dollars at the top, it just constantly kicks you back until you do.

Anyone noticed this resemblance?

$275,000 + on a 12k goal.
Obviously everyone in that other thread who said there was no call for GW female minis was making a well-reasoned argument.

I'm gonna give this kickstarter a miss I think. While the art looks incredible I have already used up my funds for the Mantic ks! Also the fact that RH have already surged past a quarter of a million bucks and there isn't a free model in sight is a bit of a downer.

 Commander Cain wrote:
I'm gonna give this kickstarter a miss I think.

I'll probably stay in for the duration. Although if they don't move to hard plastic, I'll likely reduce my pledge by a lot. As cool as these are, I've already got a #$%@-ton of hot babes coming from Poots.

I agree, the unlocking of additional characters seems to be going really slowly for the amount that they exceeded the stated goal by. They're well over 2000% funded, I'd have hoped to see a lot more unlocked.

I mean, at the top of the page, they show "One-Shot Blondie" and "Mad Nurse Bernadette", along with miniatures of both. In the "What's Coming Next", where it says "below you can review what's been unlocked and what's coming...", they're still blacked out.

So, we've seen two figs that aren't even unlocked yet, at 2000% funding, and they're not even shown in the next three.

Seems that $30k between stretch goals to unlock single figures is extremely stingy, when there are 38 heroines to potentially unlock.

 Azazelx wrote:

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
What I love most in this



Is how well it catches its inspiration

Um.. I was going to post this last night, but I went to bed instead. I'm sure someone has already beaten me to it, as I'm posting as I'm catching up on the thread, but just in case..

shamikebab wrote:Anyone noticed this resemblance?

Yeah, I guess so!

Commander Cain wrote:I'm gonna give this kickstarter a miss I think. While the art looks incredible I have already used up my funds for the Mantic ks! Also the fact that RH have already surged past a quarter of a million bucks and there isn't a free model in sight is a bit of a downer.

Yeah, it is...

chaos0xomega wrote:
Yeah, I'm not really liking the way this kickstarter looks, I'll give it a couple weeks and if it still seems off I'm going to back out. To me it looks like they realized they could make more money than they thought and are trying to stretch it out further.

It does seem that way - but I think I'll have to give them the benefit of the doubt for now and go with the fact that, despite all the extra time they took to prepare, they will still unprepared.

 Alpharius wrote:
Having $20K and $30K 'stretch goal' unlocks for paid-ons is a bit of a buzz kill.

I agree completely. Im really hoping that Raging heroes are only starting off with high stretch goals so they can gain the most money possible from the initial KS surge, and that the rest of the character stretch goals will be much lower when the KS starts to slow down over the next few days. Otherwise i can see this campaign becoming very boring and drawn out, especially if we have to spend the next few weeks struggling to unlock a few of the 25k-30k stretch goal characters...

Well, I think the 'motorcycle' and 'mech' reveals will cause another flood of pledging and upgrading of pledges!

As would a bar for us to reach for plastics...