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Yeah, its not a problem. I was mainly looking for the minis anyway.

New concept art for some more of the bonus figures

Here we have The Outlaw Clinton Wales (may change his pose to "Do ya feel lucky, varmint?" or "Get off my tumbleweeds"), Doc Emmitt, Father Al and Nevada Dave

Where is Doc Emmett's sidekick, Morty MacSky?

That's Fox McFly. We'll get to him soon

Got the last of the new concept art .. here's an updated Clinton Wales along with Marshall Stewart and Fox McFly

I think the timing for this has just been a bit unlucky with the Kingdom Death juggernaut, and of course the holidays, and having it be a shorter Kickstarter run.

However, it'll still outpace the previous campaign, which is good! How long till the other gangs are made (if not all of them unlock) since you'd said you'd be having them made anyway, just not as quickly?

Will watch the last week with interest...

Not sure when the others will get done, but we'll see how it goes. Want to focus on what's unlocked first But I'm hoping we'll have our new sculpts by the end of January, so we'll probably hand out the next round soon after.

We brought in some new sculptors for this new batch, I'm excited to see what they can do

James Van Schaik will be doing the entire Tranquility Crew
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24546626@N04/

And Doug Hamilton will be doing the Widowmakers (our first 3D gang!)
http://necromancer120.deviantart.com/gallery/

And good ole Bob Naismith will be coming back to do the Dockside Drifters (he did the Bloodwolf Tribe)

Ian Mountain will be handling most of the bonus figures.

So, hopefully everyone will be able to get their projects done all around the same time. If that happens, we can have the production figures done and sent out to Kickstarters around April, and retail in July since it'll take a while to do the boxes.

From now on, we're going to ship naked figures to the backers so they can get them sooner. Waiting for the boxes to be printed is what delayed the first campaign so bad, and people are just gonna throw the boxes out anyway. But if people really want to wait for the box, they can We're also going to be using color artwork for the character cards instead of a photo of the model, so we can get them printed up sooner to go out with the loose minis.

 Necros wrote:
From now on, we're going to ship naked figures to the backers so they can get them sooner. Waiting for the boxes to be printed is what delayed the first campaign so bad, and people are just gonna throw the boxes out anyway. But if people really want to wait for the box, they can We're also going to be using color artwork for the character cards instead of a photo of the model, so we can get them printed up sooner to go out with the loose minis.

Sounds like a very good idea!

 Necros wrote:

So, hopefully everyone will be able to get their projects done all around the same time. If that happens, we can have the production figures done and sent out to Kickstarters around April, and retail in July since it'll take a while to do the boxes.

From now on, we're going to ship naked figures to the backers so they can get them sooner. Waiting for the boxes to be printed is what delayed the first campaign so bad, and people are just gonna throw the boxes out anyway. But if people really want to wait for the box, they can We're also going to be using color artwork for the character cards instead of a photo of the model, so we can get them printed up sooner to go out with the loose minis.

So the character cards will come with the figures? That would work for me.

Yeah, in fact if you download the Widowmaker cards on my website, they're pretty much what the final cards will be unless we do some art tweaks between now and when we print.

For the first campaign, we had the actual figures and bases early on, but it too so long to get the figures painted, photographed, boxes designed, proofs made and evaluated and made again and then the final boxes printed.. it was like 3 months just for a bunch of boxes that people are gonna throw out anyway

So we'll do the pretty boxes for store shelves, and this way the Kickstarters can get their minis earlier. But if people really want to wait for the actual box set they can. I'm hoping we can have all greens done by the end of January, and if that happens we should be able to have the figures around April, and then in stores around July.

I applaud the decision to put the artwork on the cards. I appreciated that much more than a painted mini when Confrontation did that.

So that would mean we'd get ours before stores, right?

Yep! A couple months before stores actually. Just based on the last time around, it took about 3 months to get the minis painted & photographed & boxes designed & printed. Will hopefully be faster this time now that I know what I'm doing, but still.

We're still going to keep the official date as July 2013 though, that way when people get their stuff early they'll be happier And just in case something crazy comes up along the way... but i'm hoping we'll have the minis ready to go around Aprilish, hopefully even sooner.

2013 is going to be so shiny! January Dreamforge Stage 1, March Dreamforge Stage2, April BWG and then May Dreamforge Stage 3.

Not a single GW purchase necessary!

Just got past $20,000 .. Tranquility Crew unlocked

Cool I'm in for the Tranquility crew then - trying to finish my Calamity crew they seem to scale fairly well and even if they don't it's a nice set anyway.

Well I resisted and resisted

but to paraphrase my KS quote

'Tranquility made me do it'

thanks I hope we can get to $30k now for the next gang

I was thinking if we get to 30k, but not 40.. maybe we can do a poll for the zarconis, secret fist and rangers, and unlock the gang that gets the most votes.. the remaining 2 would still get done eventually but the one that wins would get included as an option for the kickstarter orders.

...you might want to have such a poll well before reaching 30K, lest folks who would have liked another unlock descend into primitive rage

Good point

It's GOT to be the Rangers, right? Heck, there's even a vague possibility I could pledge if it was the Rangers... and I am ALL KICKSTARTED OUT

I think most people will vote the rangers. I am torn between them and secret fist, personally.

TRANQUILITY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to... 20th? the Rangers.

Rangers. Hell, I'm not sure which other gang I'd even want; I originally pledged assuming tey'd get unlocked...

Well ya never know, we might get lucky

We could just move the rangers up to 30k.. we already have the gatling gun 3D model done so it might be better to get the rest done.

Another vote for Rangers.

 Necros wrote:
Well ya never know, we might get lucky

We could just move the rangers up to 30k.. we already have the gatling gun 3D model done so it might be better to get the rest done.

Bingo...! And instant excitement generated

If you blow past them, I don't think it would hurt you to have moved them down, and it would Definitely help as it gives folks hope they can be unlocked in the final 5 days! I certainly think they will be at 30K. That gives you more time to get in more backers who were after the rangers and their gatling gun.

Honestly, I found the clown gang rather silly! The asian-inspired one is neat, but if the clowns didn't get reached, I don't think you'd see too many people lose sleep over it. The rangers on the other hand, people would miss... and the secret fist gang.

I so very much wish I could support this more(it really does deserve it), but at the moment all i can "stretch" to is a pair of colt 45 dice... :(

I'll say clowns

(but I'm tapped out now anyway so feel free to ignore the vote, LOL)

The clown gang could have been very neat, if painted in a very sinister way (a little bit à la Carnival of Chaos), with a support pack of degenerate hirelings, but later. The Rangers have a gatling gun...

Yeah, I like the clowns but I just asked them to move the rangers up to 30k. maybe ninjas and circus freaks will go better with the weird west stuff

*sees Tranquility Gang... takes out wallet* Damnit.

Also, no Blazing Saddles figure? I demand a black sheriff!

Or Gene Wilder.

Either works.