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Could be taken during quality control.

Or are they parting the various pieces of the various minis out so they can be packaged efficiently?

You guys are a lot more hopeful than cynical ole me.

In regards to the blog, yes the writing is godawful but if you go to a random Internet blog expecting Shakespearean prose you're generally disappointed. He more or less states that he has no prior experience with backing a KS project and, in comparison to the abusive relationship that most gamers are coming out of with GW, Raging Heroes IS a great deal better in terms of taking feedback and suggestions. However, in terms of responding to feedback GW doesn't so much set the bar as it digs a trench that the bar is then thrown into; nearly any company can lay claim to being more responsive than GW so long as they have ever listened to a consumer's opinion.

If you've not dealt with any of the better KS projects, RH will seem like the bee's knees and even accounting for a wider experience base they are not a bad company. However, they are also a long way from the gold standard in this arena, and I'd rate even a stellar production run as only moving them to silver (which is still a good deal better than many companies *cough*Defiance*cough*). A solid final production will bring in tons of new backers any overall "hit" to the brand could easily end up overshadowed, but they've alienated a good chunk of potential customers for no particularly good reason with their, at best, muddled communications strategy.

 cincydooley wrote:
You guys are a lot more hopeful than cynical ole me.

Hope nothing it's just logic. We've seen the stuff comes in mass bags not parted out. Let's say that's Yoko and she has three sprues. The best and most efficient way to make sure Yoko gets packaged with all three of her sprues is to lay them out like that then package them as needed.

Yea, I agree with KM. When I was making models for Cyporian I discovered that I had zero ability to count to 5 reliably. After a while all those parts start to look the same and it is super easy to make mistakes packaging. You have to be really deliberate and methodical about it (or have your OCD wife check your work, like I did.)
Especially if you are doing QC at the time of packaging.

I agree.

In one of their pictures, they had a mat with boxes drawn onto it, I was kind of expecting the same, writ large, for this part of the process. Haven't been able to check my emails in almost a week. Anyone got a delivery tracking thingy?

wait ...what? I am currently thinking shipping it out is going to take longer than 2 months. I am now more jaded than Mathieu!
I think the world stopped moving... nope that was RH picking and packing because they decided the boxes the miniatures are packed into are the wrong size to be aesthetically pleasing and also someones' cousins dog had a litter.

Bullockist wrote:
wait ...what? I am currently thinking shipping it out is going to take longer than 2 months. I am now more jaded than Mathieu!
I think the world stopped moving... nope that was RH picking and packing because they decided the boxes the miniatures are packed into are the wrong size to be aesthetically pleasing and also someones' cousins dog had a litter.

While the first part I agree with (I think I even said the same thing ), the latter was a bit unnecessary.

Bullockist wrote:
also someones' cousins dog had a litter.

That...seems a little over the line...

 Jimsolo wrote:
That...seems a little over the line...

Not really. They're a company with a million dollar contract, paid in advance, and they're a year behind schedule. But you wouldn't know that from the amount of faffing about they've been doing.

 AlexHolker wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:
That...seems a little over the line...

Not really. They're a company with a million dollar contract, paid in advance, and they're a year behind schedule. But you wouldn't know that from the amount of faffing about they've been doing.

And insulting them is just fine, I suppose. But calling an uninvolved individual a dog, and referring to her children as a litter? Seems pretty over the top. I understand we all like to engage in humorous hyperbole now and then, but there should be a limit imposed by good taste. And the act of referring to newborn children as dogs seems to be squarely outside of those limits.

I think in this case, they are referring to an actual dog as in animal and not calling a person one.

Yeah, I also got the impression it was hyperbole for humor not an insult aimed at people. However I still don't expect my jailbirds and Pureblood Warpwolf (Kurganova wereshewolf) before my birthday in late October. It may be shipped by then but I doubt it will be at my lovely FLGS.

It was still a little distasteful. I like poking fun at the company as much as anyone here, but let's keep it at the company itself, rather than individuals?

 BrookM wrote:
I think in this case, they are referring to an actual dog as in animal and not calling a person one.

That's a possibility, I suppose, but it sure didn't seem that way.

I personally read it as a hypothetical dog giving birth to imaginary puppies.

Right about now Raging Heroes needs to post something stupid and whimsical to lighten the mood again.

They are just waiting for the right moment to announce all the packed parcels have been destroyed as they wanted to go back and rework the packing as part of their patented top secret workflow.

Orrrrrrrrrrrr they are waiting for the new boxes to arrive. You know, the ones they designed especially for this moment.

Well, you must understand, in the interest of being true to the spirit of the project and the highest requirements of art, rather then being packing in common cardboard each package is being carefully sourced in the Styrofoam clam-shell box of a 1974 McDonald's Big Mac.

That we even question these decisions ever increases the concern that we may simply be unworthy of this genius.

Delicious.




P.S., I also interpreted the jibe as a reference to a real dog having puppies.

 Buzzsaw wrote:
Well, you must understand, in the interest of being true to the spirit of the project and the highest requirements of art, rather then being packing in common cardboard each package is being carefully sourced in the Styrofoam clam-shell box of a 1974 McDonald's Big Mac.

That we even question these decisions ever increases the concern that we may simply be unworthy of this genius.

Delicious.

P.S., I also interpreted the jibe as a reference to a real dog having puppies.

Same here.

I think it is a bit of a stretch to interpret that as referring back to the uncle and his nephew's birth and then calling them dogs and puppies.

I think it was more of something along the lines of "What will happen next to delay this project?"

 Alpharius wrote:
I think it was more of something along the lines of "What will happen next to delay this project?"

Bac! Bac! Bac! Didi mao!



PLACE YOUR BETS!

You're Walken on thin ice, there.

Or what, going to go all McBain on me?




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Then again, I am already Walken the thin line as I've chosen a mini for which as of yet, nothing outside of concept art is available. For all I know they'll be giving Wolfenstein a new pigeon-toed pose and a different set of weapons.

 BrookM wrote:
Or what, going to go all McBain on me?




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Then again, I am already Walken the thin line as I've chosen a mini for which as of yet, nothing outside of concept art is available. For all I know they'll be giving Wolfenstein a new pigeon-toed pose and a different set of weapons.

Please stop jinxing. :(

So, no one got a shipping notification yet?

I GOT ONE!!!!






no I didn't...I'm just lonely and want friends.......

 rayphoton wrote:
I GOT ONE!!!!

 rayphoton wrote:
no I didn't...I'm just lonely and want friends.......

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 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
So, no one got a shipping notification yet?

And damn it.. should've gone with this one again!

Did we really expect anything else?