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From the Kickstarter comments section:

Creator Jody Siegel 2 days ago

Hey guys! We finally got our internet up! Moving was rough! Everything was loaded and unloaded twice since it had to go into storage while we waited for our place to be carpeted and painted.
Hmm You're right about the website. I'll fix it asap.
Next up is the death knight and a commission (because I need a new alternator)
Tim, so far we've been able to get by these last couple of months without my gal working. If she's home and not working then I don't think the baby will interrupt the sculpting too much. I should still be able to get in a full day's work and raise a kid, it's not like I'm a single parent

It is going to be a while still...

At least he's still communicating to some extent with us.

Good luck ever getting your figures, guys....

He needs a new alternator?

Of all of the pathetic excuses for the delay that Jody has given us so far, this is the worst.

Even worse than "I have a cold, so I can't do much work".

He really is a lazy

He would've been better off by not telling us any of that, but points for honesty, I guess.

At this point, I think it is 50/50 on whether or not most of these models ever get made.

I should stop checking the comments section there for updates, and then either be pleasantly surprised when something shows up, eventually, or I just end up forgetting about it completely.

 Alpharius wrote:
From the Kickstarter comments section:

Creator Jody Siegel 2 days ago

. If she's home and not working then I don't think the baby will interrupt the sculpting too much. I should still be able to get in a full day's work and raise a kid, it's not like I'm a single parent

Bwahahahahahahahahahah! I think I burst a ventricle laughing.

Someone sort of reminded me to check on this one, so I did...

Creator Jody Siegel 4 days ago

Sorry about the lack of communication the last few weeks guys. It's been very hard to get buy the last few months. The fiancee had lost her job and as you can imagine, nobody really wants to hire a pregnant woman so I've had to work to cover her share of bills. I know you already know that a good chunk of funds set aside to pay for living expenses during this kickstarter are instead going toward paying for metal so it would have been impossible to feed and shelter the two of us on just my kickstarter budget.
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I know it sucks and it's only added to these horrendous delays. At the end of the month it looks like we'll be able to support ourselves again and that means I can set aside most of my commission work.

I am really going to try hard to forget all about this one now.

IF anything ever shows up? Great!

I'm certainly not counting on it.

Goodbye Imbrian Arts!

Just switch to completed sculpts, imo. That's my go to method for getting something, rather than nothing, out of troubled campaigns- cash out with whatever they've done. They'll almost always work with you on it, and the shrikes and fungiens I received from this are absolutely great!

As he says, it's clear much of the funds here went to cover his living expenses, and I wish he would've worked more diligently on This project while he still had funds. But that's water under the bridge now, so best to cash out while you still can! Again, I really think he'd work with you on it if you message him (I made a small swap with my pledge when he fulfilled it, and it was no problem).

The problem being I don't want anything else other than what I pledged for.

I wouldn't have pledged for the other stuff.

I'd gladly take a refund, but yeah, that's clearly not happening.

At this point, I've resigned myself to getting 'nothing' here.

 Alpharius wrote:
Someone sort of reminded me to check on this one, so I did...

Creator Jody Siegel 4 days ago

Sorry about the lack of communication the last few weeks guys. It's been very hard to get buy the last few months. The fiancee had lost her job and as you can imagine, nobody really wants to hire a pregnant woman so I've had to work to cover her share of bills. I know you already know that a good chunk of funds set aside to pay for living expenses during this kickstarter are instead going toward paying for metal so it would have been impossible to feed and shelter the two of us on just my kickstarter budget.
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I know it sucks and it's only added to these horrendous delays. At the end of the month it looks like we'll be able to support ourselves again and that means I can set aside most of my commission work.

I am really going to try hard to forget all about this one now.

IF anything ever shows up? Great!

I'm certainly not counting on it.

Goodbye Imbrian Arts!

Did...did he just say we kickstarted his baby?

 Alpharius wrote:
The problem being I don't want anything else other than what I pledged for.

I wouldn't have pledged for the other stuff.

I'd gladly take a refund, but yeah, that's clearly not happening.

At this point, I've resigned myself to getting 'nothing' here.

You'd rather have nothing than swapping? You could at least resell it and get a partial "refund" that way.

You read me right!

If I can't get what I actually paid for, I'd rather have nothing!

 Alpharius wrote:
You read me right!

If I can't get what I actually paid for, I'd rather have nothing!

If a couple of certain miniatures get made, I'll buy your pledge off you.

The latest:

Jody Siegel 2 days ago

I'm currently working on the death knight so that leaves about ten miniatures left to complete. Time frame wise it's very hard to guess. While I don't need to do commissions anymore I've got about 8 weeks left until I become a dad and then things will change again once my gal is ready to go back to work so life is very unpredictable at the moment. But I can say at the very least that I should have this death knight done in a couple weeks and perhaps enough progress for some wips early next week.

Yay?

Was considering 'upping' my pledge to resin a few months ago, because, at this point, why not?
Then I realised that I couldn't even remember what miniatures I'd pledged for and that this whole thing was a bit of a joke at this point.

I've got no idea where I'm up to, last I heard I was just waiting on two sculpts which were "almost finished"? That was early this year.

Plastictrees and Joyboozer - After I'd asked about folks swapping for completed minis and a few folks had chimed in, he posted this:

Jody Siegel wrote:Creator Jody Siegel on October 1
Sure guys, anyone is welcome to change up their order if they want. Just shoot me a message.

I highly recommend swapping out for completed items well before his significant other's baby is due (8 weeks from now as stated in his latest comment). A few backers are trying to list all the unfinished sculpts in the comments- I'm not sure what they are as I stopped tracking this closely after receiving my (excellently sculpted) goblins long ago. But it should give you an idea of what's available that you can swap to.

I agree with RT on that.

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I already tried but had no idea what was/ is available and he put me off by saying the stuff I was waiting on was almost done. FFS, how hard is it to put up a fething list of where he's fething up to? The guys a complete fething slow! Then has the fall to pimp a new fething game then feth off again!


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Lay down and have a rest, swear filter, you've earned it.

Try finding the list RT references in the comments, or asking there. I agree it's more fething about than you should need to do, but if it'll actually get you some of your stuff. I wouldn't put too much stock in Jody saying that something's "almost done" at this stage - and there's always retail if he actually produces some "must-have" stuff.

I get the feeling that aside from a few star fethers, and "he's an artist, and you can't rush art" types, Jody's done his dash in terms of running his own business or KSing as opposed to commission work.

Baby would have done that, anyway. Unless....


Jodi's son was born just the other day.
Came into the world in the usual way,
But there were models to sculpt and shipping to pay.
He learned to walk while Jodi was away.



Yeah, you get where I'm going. Excuse me while I wipe my eyes.

Yeah, the money is gone as far as I'm concerned, if I get anything at all I'd rather it be the minis I wanted.

Just noticed that 81 people paid for the 'complete Imbrian package'. Yikes.

 plastictrees wrote:
Yeah, the money is gone as far as I'm concerned, if I get anything at all I'd rather it be the minis I wanted.

That's where I'm at too.

I don't want anything else - I want what I pledged for, and what I paid for.

 plastictrees wrote:

Just noticed that 81 people paid for the 'complete Imbrian package'. Yikes.

Curiously enough, these 81 people don't seem to be too vocal about this anywhere that I can see.

Jody's lucky there, I suppose.

BobtheInquisitor wrote:


Jodi's son was born just the other day.
Came into the world in the usual way,
But there were models to sculpt and shipping to pay.
He learned to walk while Jodi was away.

Ha! That had me literally laughing out loud, have an exalt.

Alpharius wrote:

 plastictrees wrote:
Yeah, the money is gone as far as I'm concerned, if I get anything at all I'd rather it be the minis I wanted.

That's where I'm at too.

I don't want anything else - I want what I pledged for, and what I paid for.

 plastictrees wrote:

Just noticed that 81 people paid for the 'complete Imbrian package'. Yikes.

Curiously enough, these 81 people don't seem to be too vocal about this anywhere that I can see.

Jody's lucky there, I suppose.

I'm in the same boat, I want what I paid for. My righteous anger will not be placated by miniatures that I have no interest in.

Regarding the 81 people who backed the "complete Imbrian package", I would imagine that they are too ashamed to show their faces around town any more.

"Righteous anger" aside, it would make sense (simply from a financial point of view) to get some of the minis you wanted while available - if, for instance, only one or two of the ones you wanted aren't sculpted yet.

You have every right to go down with the ship... but personally I'd get on the life raft

An analogous situation I just experienced in another campaign - the creator ran out of funds to ship all the rewards, and posted up saying as much. He gave people the option - pay for shipping, or choose to wait until he could try to get the funds together to ship (which may be never). Mine came out to $7 to ship my pledge... so, I paid another $7, and got my items a few days later. Call it protecting the original investment, I guess, but I have found that it makes sense to get out while the getting is good! Campaigns like this tend to be never heard from again after a while...

The man makes a very good point.

Yes and no?

I do not want what I did not want earlier.

I'll roll the dice and hope that Jody eventualyl makes good on his word and maybe a year or so down the road I'll get a nice surprise in the mail.

Again, none of the other miniatures currently available appeal to me in the slightest.

If that was all that was offered in this campaign, I wouldn't have pledged.

I'm not in this for a ton - 'only' $60 I think, so I guess I'm OK with waiting this one out, and hoping that Jody's car continues to run well.

Yeah, I hope he doesn't have any more problems with his car too.

Or any more bouts of colds or 'flu.

Or problem with his apartment.

Or any more random pregnancies.

And I sure as hell hope that he doesn't spend any more time sculpting mediocre Beer & D6 figures, or doing commissions, until his KS obligations are fulfilled.


Regarding the whole "cashing out" issue, I understand RiTides point perfectly; it's better to have something than nothing at all. Despite this obvious logic, I will continue to wait, at least until the Death Knight is completed. Partially because I am stubborn, partially because I feel that cashing out would somehow absolve Jody of his sins, or in some way validate this whole experience.

I'm waiting because, as far as I can tell, the Death Knight (currently being worked on!) is the last miniature that needs to be done before my order can be sent!

Fair enough - good luck with it, guys!