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RPE’s (Ral Partha Europe) are running their third Kickstarter, and like the others, they’re keeping the scope quite small. A 14-day campaign with a £1,000 goal, with £2,048 pledged so far at the time of writing, so it's funded and they've hit their first stretch goal, at £2,000.



It’s a crew of pirate dwarves - 10 so far. 9 models at base with an additional freebie stretch goals at £2,000 and £3,000, and (possibly) more if it gets higher. Delivery is set for August this year, so a plan for (roughly) a 4-month turnaround from completion to delivery.



















Plus the stretch goal guys - Unlocked:



Next one at £3,000:




I personally had a good experience with their previous campaign, the Dwarf Veteran Warband, with it delivering on time(!) and producing quality models – the sculpts being a nice throwback to the characterful “Oldhammer” Citadel style of the late 1980’s and early 1990’s and that of the satellite companies where ex-GW sculptors like Kev Adams and Tim Prow ended up.

Having said that, delivery was a little rougher for some others who backed as they had it set up for a la carte additions and such which they have said complicated matters on their end. To stop that from happening again, they’re making each pledge reward a set group of models – 1 of each without add-ons and duplicates and so forth.

It's a pretty niche campaign, but it's the sort that I'm still happy to fund - since I personally like the models, their track record of delivering, and the fact that they're keeping it really small and tight - so it won't be blowing up and taking an extra year or three to deliver. So if piratical dwarves seems like the sort of thing that floats your boat, go and have a look at the Kickstarter campaign.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/550360615/captain-redbeards-pirate-dwarves/description