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Interesting snippet looks like the alt. battle poses will be done in metal not plastic hybrid kits oh no!

Yes there is an alt pose for Malya. It is a separate metal piece that KS backers will receive.

Makes sense- I don't believe they were going offer them after the kickstarter anyway. Metal is fine by me.

Well the stretch goal was for an alternative pose iirc, in its wording it implied it would be included in the box.

Then again, metal or resin will be better than the material in the box.

 DaveC wrote:
Interesting snippet looks like the alt. battle poses will be done in metal not plastic hybrid kits oh no!

Yes there is an alt pose for Malya. It is a separate metal piece that KS backers will receive.

The original large models for the game were resin/metal hybrids.

Now that it's getting close to delivery time I'm getting pretty excited for this game.

I prefer plastic when possible but metal's not a big deal in this case.

My excitement also grows as this draws near. Thankfully summer is here to scorch me into submission!

Interesting - I didn't realise that the alternate poses were Kickstarter-exclusive. In fact, I wasn't aware that anything that Sodapop did was exclusive any more - didn't they backtrack on that for the RK SDE miniatures?

I was probably going to assemble them as the alternates anyway, as they're likely to be a bit more...sensible, but now the choice is a bit more forced. Although I'll miss the oversized bomb from Calico Kate's mech...

I'm glad I'll be getting both of those models.

Soda Pop and CMoN have always had an odd stance on KS exclusives... Nothing they've done has been exclusive to KS, you could buy it from them at a convention but once they ran out they were gone forever.

I guess they want recasters to make money off of the models instead of themselves?

 Wehrkind wrote:
I guess they want recasters to make money off of the models instead of themselves?

Could be... But I doubt it, I don't think the market is really going to be there.

I dunno... are the parts plastic or resin? If they are plastic it makes very little sense, as the molds would last longer than demand I should think. If resin I suppose they might just not bother making new ones when the molds wear out.

 Wehrkind wrote:
I dunno... are the parts plastic or resin? If they are plastic it makes very little sense, as the molds would last longer than demand I should think. If resin I suppose they might just not bother making new ones when the molds wear out.

I thought someone mentioned that the KS Exclusive models would be done in metal.

Ahhh. That makes a little more sense then.

I dunno, just always seems strange to me to just stop making something when all the upfront costs are paid and it is just marginal materials costs going into it. Especially when they are that nice!

 Wehrkind wrote:
Ahhh. That makes a little more sense then.

I dunno, just always seems strange to me to just stop making something when all the upfront costs are paid and it is just marginal materials costs going into it. Especially when they are that nice!

Keeping you word to people who's money you've had for getting on two years is important too...

Oh, yea I totally agree that if they said they were exclusive at the point they took our money that the models should remain as such. I just don't get the point in making that contract in the first place.

Official Ninja Division Relic Knights tournament at gencon

RELIC KNIGHTS: Establishing Order
50pt Tournament
GenCon’s first Relic Knights Tournament is here. Bring your 50pt force to the table throw down against players from all across the Last Galaxy. Prizes awarded for Best Overall, Best General, Best Painted, and Best Sportsman.

Saturday – Sunday

12:00pm-6:00pm

Super tempted for that... But I have an event at 4 on Saturday, and headed out early Sunday... Ugh, guess I could start, and if I'm not doing well drop out. Decisions, decisions...

 Wehrkind wrote:
Oh, yea I totally agree that if they said they were exclusive at the point they took our money that the models should remain as such. I just don't get the point in making that contract in the first place.

Because it's what everyone was doing at that point?

Fortunatly the industry seems to have shifted away from exclusives lately.

 Catyrpelius wrote:

 Wehrkind wrote:
Oh, yea I totally agree that if they said they were exclusive at the point they took our money that the models should remain as such. I just don't get the point in making that contract in the first place.

Because it's what everyone was doing at that point?

Fortunatly the industry seems to have shifted away from exclusives lately.

I agree. The less "kickstarter exclusive" rules and models the better. I don't generally mind alternate models, but I would prefer the opportunity to buy them if I was so inclined.

Shipping is underway well some of it anyway

Asia-Pacific shipping has begun!

Should have more details on US and European shipping soon.

Plus I'm finishing up our first (of two) tournament formats: Establishing Order. Are you excited, because we sure are!

Zippety Do Zippety De

Come on, hurry up and start shipping to me!

So we're probably looking at early June for things to hit our doorstep in America?

So it's started shipping? That's good.

From Deke at the SPM forums.

BLACK DIAMOND


Edit: looks like there're more incoming.

CERCI SPEED CIRCUIT


STAR NEBULA CORSAIRS


DOCTRINE


NOH EMPIRE


SHATTERED SWORD

Some of that stuff seems very hit or miss. I'm hoping paint will help alleviate the ghastliness of the no-face wrench girls(which I pledged for!)

Also, the digital sculptor for some of the models has started a thread in the painting and modeling section.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/597588.page
He's also worked on KD and a few other miniature companies' things.

The pit crew girls look fine from the neck down. The one with goggles is ok, too. The other one, however, looks like she's wearing Peter Parker's mask and I'm tempted to paint her as such.

Marie Claudes face is passable the gun isn't great but the pit girls face is awful no nose or mouth at all. The faces are going to be very hit and miss.

More Doctrine

I forget, are the models supposed to be poseable or do they come in a variety of poses?

and Noh - these look fine(other than Zineda's weird hip but that's part of the original sculpt) and are the faction I wanted most so I hope Kasaro-To and his relic turn out well the big stuff seems to transfer better anyway



Shattered Sword

Ugh.

There seems to be a lot more 'miss' than 'hit' in here...

Well, Alph, it's like my grandmother used to say: "Suffering builds character." And man, have these models got character.


They aren't as bad as they could have been especially when you think back to the test models we were shown back in... in... Hmm, been so long I forgot. But my point stands! Some good, some bad and maybe(?) better in person.