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Aww yiss, sounds delightful.

My GF *really* wants me to do a small warband of female warriors and full clothing and a Viking theme would preferred,so I hope the shieldmaidens wear full outfits and fund. If they'd wear swan masks like the one I made her for Halloween it'd be even better

After that Goblins should be next, I never got to buy all the Nosebiter ones or whatever the buff ones are called.

I believe the word you're looking for is "Bonebacks"

And I have... well, let's just say a rather large stash but will hopefully finally have them on the table for a Kings of War army in 2016!

Yeah, that sounds right. I always wanted some, but my Orcs n Gobbos are pirate-themed. Arrr.

And my stash of minis I have left to be worked on, oh well

But I'd still get some great shieldmaidens and stuff to make swan valkyries. Which I will paint. To my usual quality, so I'll finish one or two a year, but they'll look lovely.

Looking forward to this.

Glad you're gonna iron the kinks out before going for the Big Project, even if it means waiting a while longer.

Yes please for orcs and/or goblins! Either way, I'm backing this. Very excited to see where it goes, good luck!

Interesting redbox is making miniature games now

Just one, I think and it's really welcome because then it's not about trying to fit his models into other systems, but using them in their own. A simple skirmish ruleset with a bit of magic would be awesome!

Any word on a launch date? We were told January, but that's nearly over...

Binabik15 wrote:
Yeah, that sounds right. I always wanted some, but my Orcs n Gobbos are pirate-themed. Arrr.

And my stash of minis I have left to be worked on, oh well

But I'd still get some great shieldmaidens and stuff to make swan valkyries. Which I will paint. To my usual quality, so I'll finish one or two a year, but they'll look lovely.

I had a batch from a clowns on Indiegogo...

If they could get together, I know we wouldn't be disappointed.

Are you sure that was meant to be posted in this thread?

hey guys, sorry this is taking so long. The super modularity does not work the way i wanted it to so I have had to go back and resculpt the figures intended for the offering.

So rather than dividing them into 5 parts these will be divided into 3 parts, body, head, and weapon hand. The super modular Njorn required far too many compromises in the quality of the figures themselves as Norse design typically do not have completely separate layers where you can make a divide. Too many over lapping elements.

The first goal will seek to fund a box which will have 5 semi modular footmen with weapon and shield repeated twice in the box, and one archer repeated twice. The archer won't be modular unfortunately. There will also be a KS exclusive female magic user cast in resin.

The campaign WILL be live by the end of the week. I had been also waiting to have all of the still remaining KS rewards packages shipped this week as well.

Sorry this is taking so long yall.

But speaking to the original intent of the thread the SDSP is STILL coming. This KS is primarily a test for the process and format. The offering for the SDSP will depend largely upon what I learn from this KS. I am very very eager to get to it but I want to be certain that I get it right. It is goign to be a much larger project and I think it wise to get a first hand experience in plastic production and distribution with a " smaller " project before launching the SDSP.

I will be SO glad when I can finally start calling the SDSP by it's actual name.

Well whatever name you use, the initials had better spell out SDSP - I've got used to saying that...

Looking forward to the plastic footmen; it's pretty exciting stuff! I'll be backing for sure.

Thanks man! and Best fo luck with your HiSS KS!

Still excited for this - this will be my main KS this year I believe unless the SDSP releases in 2016 as well.

I am (probably unlike most customers) happier with "semi modularity" or even monopose in a nice plastic medium than with true multi part sculpts. My favourite thing about your line is the dynamism and purpose of the sculpts - you get so much expression into the posture and bearing of your stuff that is not at all easy for a mediocre modeller like me to replicate with multipart stuff, and there's always a compromise anyway.

So I am honestly MORE interested after hearing the changes (which I know were probably frustrating as hell for you) than I was before. But I may be in the minority there!

Thanks boos!!

 Da Boss wrote:
Still excited for this - this will be my main KS this year I believe unless the SDSP releases in 2016 as well.

I am (probably unlike most customers) happier with "semi modularity" or even monopose in a nice plastic medium than with true multi part sculpts. My favourite thing about your line is the dynamism and purpose of the sculpts - you get so much expression into the posture and bearing of your stuff that is not at all easy for a mediocre modeller like me to replicate with multipart stuff, and there's always a compromise anyway.

So I am honestly MORE interested after hearing the changes (which I know were probably frustrating as hell for you) than I was before. But I may be in the minority there!

That's a great point, Da Boss! And I agree, Tre's sculpting (awesomeness) definitely lends itself to dynamic poses, and makes true multi part sculpts somewhat impractical and even a waste. I am totally fine with semi modularity, and will definitely be pledging for your next project for you to try out the medium. I am looking forward to seeing the results, and if it works for you, bigger things to come in the material!

I will say that I think any of these plastics lend themselves to slightly beefier models, so I hope you don't go too "lithe" with them, again just due to the material. But results have looked better and better in these previously shunned plastics, and I am hoping that having a masterpiece of a starting model will help the end product turn out on the high end of the results spectrum, too

Hey, not to necro, but I am wondering if there is any news on this? I can imagine there were some hiccups with getting started, but I'm looking forward to backing this and we're well past January by now.

Hope everything is alright!

Had a long spell of burn out and artist's block, on top of all the difficulties wrapping up fulfillment on my last KS has just put me long off schedule. i have however mostly finished the first offering figures and now only need to finish editing the photos and tidying up the KS page and get on the first stretch goal figures.

The campaign will launch on the 25th of February at 3:00 pm US eastern time and will run to the 18th of March at 4:00pm eastern time.

Finally!!!

Woo hoo!

Exciting!

*falls over dead*

So is this the ACTUAL super duper secret project launching on the 25th? Or is it the test project for the new material launching?

Test I think, 'warbands of the cold north' so Norse or Helsvakt...or both?

Yep, just the test project for now. The SDSP will get a bit more front loading before it's launch..

and JUST the Njorn for now. I will have the Halsvakt ready but there are a few items ahead of a second warband.

As long as it's in the new material, that's awesome . Looking forward to the launch!

Great news! Can't wait to put my money down.

Sorry about the burnout dude! I hope I'm not contributing to it by nagging about the project - I'm just super excited for the next RBG thing!

Yep new material. The boxed sets will contain 15 figures and sell for $45 during the KS. The boxes will contain 4 footmen with weapon and shield fitted for universally interchangeable heads and weapons and one ranger fitted for universally interchangeable head. these will be repeated in the box 3 times.

as funding allows I will hope to add a few figures to the KS box either replacing repeats or expanding the offering with additional figures.

IF the funding really goes berserk I will begin adding either booster sets of ally figures or I might add a new Theme set to the offering.

That is a narrow if though. I MUST make the funding goals to afford the expansions in plastic. There is zero room for adjustment.

Oh no not at all Boss!

Ever since the first KS I have been fighting varying degrees of burnout. It has been worse before, but this year was partly more difficult due to trying to wait out the delviery of the last KS. stretching resources as thin as I have had to to do that has meant concentrating on work and being creative has been VERY difficult if not all together impossible at times.

This is no small factor in the reason that delivery ont he last KS has dragged out for so long. The KS money itself was gone before the fulfillment began and I have been using my income to supplement the fulfillment and pay off the production debt. During the KS I unlocked more than was wise depending on the post KS sales to pay me for the sculpting and effort. The problem is that the longer it took for those items to become available for sale through the store the less impact they had and the further I had to stretch my income in the meantime. Add to that that most people who were going to buy the stuff had already done so during the KS.

It has been difficult to say the least but we are nearly there now. just waiting for a restock of a few items to cover the last of the orders sat waiting to deliver.

I hope you set funding at a level that's enough to do things comfortably for you Tre.

Happy to keep supporting!

15 guys sounds like a perfect pile of guys to use in Frostgrave for the time being too...

Well I love the target goal, and also want you to avoid more burnout! Keeping this manageable to test the material and be a simple-to-have-cast offering is the way to go, I think. Will definitely be backing!

That was pretty much the aim. Until I can get the rules for my own game finished that is.

and yeh the initial goal is $40K, that will cover paying for everything; sculpting, art assets for the KS and packaging, tooling, casting, postage from China, customs fees, taxes, kickstarter's fee, printing and shipping the packages, sorting and processing orders, storage of the items, the purchase of extra items to replace any mispacks or missing items or miscasts, a restock of the product sold ( VERY important ) and give me a small amount of incidental cash to cover anything I might not be able to foresee.

$40K seems like a lot, and it certainly is, but it gets gobbled up REALLY quickly.

Even with this KS being successful though I will still need to rely on more regular metal and resin releases for an income So that route is not entirely abandoned.

Well, like the others I am hoping for a nice tight KS that makes you some money and irons out the kinks in the production!

I can totally understand burnout in your position. The market is really saturated with Kickstarters promising the moon and gobbling up a lot of available money and then souring people when they don't deliver. I know you've had your share of bumps and lumps with KS, but you've always delivered and I really respect that. All the same I can really imagine it taking a toll. I hope you can keep the chin up and make some decent money on this - an artist of your talent does deserve a living!

I've just started painting my RBG norse that I got from one of the previous KS and it just makes me so excited to get some more because they are just gorgeous minis. I'm even more excited by your next project and will be waiting to support that too.