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I was very, very close to backing this one for a lot of money.

Back when I thought it would make a great 'counts as' Tyranid army.

This is one KS Bullet I was fortunate enough to dodge.

Best of luck to all still waiting to get what they pledged for!

I pledged more than I should have. Having seen the sculpts, though, I am going to want to trade a large part of my order for other things. I don't think any of the humanoid aliens came out looking too good.

Honestly I'm probably just going to trade out most of my aliens and get a bunch of those dreadnought/robot things as the render is looking amazing! But yes, I do slightly regret backing at the queen level now...

 Commander Cain wrote:
Honestly I'm probably just going to trade out most of my aliens and get a bunch of those dreadnought/robot things as the render is looking amazing! But yes, I do slightly regret backing at the queen level now...

this is pretty much where I'm at as well now, I'll swap out the $100 allowed and reallocate the money I added for bases I no longer need and get 6 Dreadnoughts as they are turning out really great and I still have a use for them.

I don't regret backing this as I wanted to support Ed, he just got in a bit over his head but I have full faith he'll deliver (in 2015 most likely)

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I pledged more than I should have. Having seen the sculpts, though, I am going to want to trade a large part of my order for other things. I don't think any of the humanoid aliens came out looking too good.

I think the swarm adults came out OK, but only because I plan on using them as dryads/nasty forest guardians, and I think with a green and brown paint scheme they will really look the part.

That is a great idea Gallahad! I think the hounds will find many other uses, too.

I'm sorry that I only pledged at the middle level - I'm probably going to go to a double Queen pledge once I get the survey.

Well, I'm going to put my Swarm ($140 pledge) up in the market if anyone wants it.

I am in for a Swarm pledge too, but I will wait this out.

Thing is, the longer this is allowed to go on, the more it's going to cost Ed in shipping fees. He already went past the first postage cost blowout that happened last year or so, you don't want to let it go on too much longer.

In case anyone is interested: http://trollforged.com/kickstarter-1/pledge-market.html#savagerobby

I am pretty tempted on picking up that pledge there, as those models look pretty damned nice/creepy. And as I haven't been waiting for almost 2 years now, my wait threshold is still pretty high.

Just a wonder if they will even get shipped at all. I'll have to do some back reading


Yeah I grabbed that pledge. We'll see how it turns out.

@RivenSkull,

I think you are almost guaranteed to get your pledge....it will likely be a while yet, but you will get it.

 Gallahad wrote:
@RivenSkull,

I think you are almost guaranteed to get your pledge....it will likely be a while yet, but you will get it.

Hopefully by then my pile of unpainted mini's will be empty.

Then again, I'm saying the same thing for when several other miniature kickstarters ship.

And I just bought another 10 Reaper mini's today.....


I'm doomed

RivenSkull wrote:
I am pretty tempted on picking up that pledge there, as those models look pretty damned nice/creepy. And as I haven't been waiting for almost 2 years now, my wait threshold is still pretty high.

Just a wonder if they will even get shipped at all. I'll have to do some back reading


Yeah I grabbed that pledge. We'll see how it turns out.

Looks like it just got sold. Hope it was you! I consider that a win-win.

I sincerely hope that you both receive them in a (semi) timely fashion - and love them.

 SavageRobby wrote:

RivenSkull wrote:
I am pretty tempted on picking up that pledge there, as those models look pretty damned nice/creepy. And as I haven't been waiting for almost 2 years now, my wait threshold is still pretty high.

Just a wonder if they will even get shipped at all. I'll have to do some back reading


Yeah I grabbed that pledge. We'll see how it turns out.

Looks like it just got sold. Hope it was you! I consider that a win-win.

I sincerely hope that you both receive them in a (semi) timely fashion - and love them.

Yeah that was me that got it. Toying around with any additional mini's to grab along with it.

These will be great for a long term Fallout PnP project and for a few other games.

Now If I can buy someone's KD:M Kickstarter I'll be golden.

I went in on a lower level, and am considering boosting up to Queen + bases. There's enough minis that I'm liking (LOVE the host miniatures, and in general the sculpting quality has increased as time went on), you can trade out the minis you don't like for the ones you do, and you can always find a use for a ton of cool bases, so value isn't a question. I haven't been out of too much money, so delayed delivery isn't an issue. As there's only a few minis left to sculpt, I see no reason not to believe the project won't be completed and delivered within 6 months.

It was a project that was too good to be true when it happened (look how many minis were funded for and the value in terms of minis for a project raising only ~$55k), so it's not surprising that it hasn't been a smooth ride. I'm impressed with the quality and stickwithittude that's been shown.

That looks like some good quality casting right there.

I also asked Ed about this and he said the stealth swarm has 4 different bodies, and the warrior has 2 (since it is more of a static model). So, along with swapping the arms and heads around, Lots of options!

He said he's going to try to snag some pictures of the queen guard, too- I think those only have masters ready, so harder to photograph. Once he shows those, I think it's just the Drone and Overlord left to be seen complete!

should those pics be spoilered and tagged as NSFW since the alien junk is hanging out there? Totally joking, the models are looking really nice though

Queen Guard pics! Now it's just the Drone and Overlord left to see complete, everything else has been shown

I hope by the time he gets to Queen there's a proper repository of all of the figures sculpted (in finished form) that people can see properly for trade-outs, rather than needing to try and dig through three years worth of half-arsed updates and WIP photos.

He should really have something like that now. I think it's really becoming more relevant as more items get completed.

RT, you seem to be good mates with Ed. Any chance of you suggesting this to him? Might be more likely to happen coming from yourself.

You mean like this?

trollforged.com/kickstarter-1/pledge-contents.htm

Needs to be updated, but has a link to the trollcast update for finished things. Its not super obvious, but its just another tab from the pledge manager.

Azazel, I did suggest that to Ed and Philip, and I think Philip's plan is to update the links of at the page decker just linked to (the pledge manager page).

I'll probably put together a big post here on Dakka of the different views of all the sculpts, so that folks can have more angles than just the one the pledge manager gives

Look on that page I just linked, look at the column "Trollcast", then click on the links, which take you to specific kickstarter updates. You have all the angles linked there for any completed (100% done - so not just master or whatever) models. It's not just the one WIP shot you're thinking of.

By the way, I found this on Ed's Facebook:

Nice find, Malika!

The Host survey is out! Never thought I'd see the day.

Yep, it's awesome! Ed said he's actually hoping to send out all/most by the end of the year. With Host surveys out, Swarm won't be far off.

I'm actually kinda wishing it would take a tiny bit longer, until I can get a little bit more money saved up.