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Yeah, the bonebacks fit right in with GW-scale goblins. The runty gob spearmen are tiny, but I kinda want some tiny ones to mix in

I'm hoping that once I see them in-person I'll like them even more. Tre's stuff seems to be so small that it's hard to photograph well, and I don't think he's the best photographer . When I saw the bonebacks in-person, I liked them SO much more (Love them!) and I am betting the same will be true for the regular gobbos.

Oh, I know they're tiny, I have 36 metal spearmen. But they're so good; I haven't gone ga-ga over sculpts in such a long time. There's just something super special about his goblins that make me just happy owning them. Maybe they're coated in drugs or something. I want more. MORE! Giant hordes of RBG gobbos...

Yep, I've seen that reaction a lot

His new goblin footmen are really good. Love 'em.

I'm excited to get some of this swag, but I'm a little concerned about the Goblin Spearmen. Those spears are going to have extremely thin hafts, and I could easily imagine a lot of them breaking en route in resin. They'd need careful packing and even after they get to you, they'd need careful handling to avoid any breakage during use. I may just pick up the footmen and archers instead.

Yeah, I asked about that in the comments. The footmen weapons will be metal, I can't imagine he won't see the need to do those spears in metal, too (or the whole tiny model ). Hopefully Tre will confirm about that.

Whoops! I must have deleted that fromt he description. Yeh the Goblin spear hafts will be cast in metal There will be a socket at the top of the leading hand where the shaft will " plug " into.

Cheers guys!

Tre'

What a fast response thanks Tre!

Hmm of you're doing them that way then it should be fairly simple to re-do them as a unit of Runty goblin 2-handed axe wielders

That means an excuse to get 2 units of them

excellent (ebay permitting)

Awesome!

Man. Now I have to decide how much to drop on this. I like the models enough to drop a sizeable chunk, and this news makes me even happier. Oh dear.
I also want to keep something back for the Dwarf stuff, when it comes along.



Edit: I think I want 24 of each type of infantry, and 8 of the wolf riders, with whatever's left over in heroes and stuff. I already have Crowbiter in metal (and lovely he is, too).
So. If I got the $165 pledge, that'd get me:
-24 Spearmen
-12 Footmen (when Funded)
-15 Archers
-24 Bonebacks (when Funded)
-4 Wolf Riders

So I'd have to add another $60, $10 for shipping, and then I'd be up to what I want, pretty much.

Are the wolf riders currently available anyhow? Or are they a stretch goal?

RIght now they are stretch goal number 6, after the troll brothers. No dollar value assigned to them yet.

Ah, okay. I was confused by the lack of dollar value so I thought maybe they were already available.

Yep, that looks like a nice distribution for the $165 pledge Da Boss . I think that's why Tre has done it this way- being able to know most folks will get a range of things, since that's the best deal, helps him estimate quantities. I think I've been convinced and will get a variety, since who wants to paint the same models over and over...

He will be adding a specialist (or perhaps bonebacks-specific) pledge level later for those who just want those, though!

 tre manor wrote:


Whoops! I must have deleted that fromt he description. Yeh the Goblin spear hafts will be cast in metal There will be a socket at the top of the leading hand where the shaft will " plug " into.

Cheers guys!

Tre'

Wait. I thought the KS was intended to move to plastic, right?

 Scottywan82 wrote:

 tre manor wrote:


Whoops! I must have deleted that fromt he description. Yeh the Goblin spear hafts will be cast in metal There will be a socket at the top of the leading hand where the shaft will " plug " into.

Cheers guys!

Tre'

Wait. I thought the KS was intended to move to plastic, right?

Speaking from experience, Spears/Pole Weapons are terribly difficult to cast properly in resin/restic.

Yep, and the goblins themselves will be trollcast, just not the spear shafts.

Past 10K! Although the thread title edit beat me nice to see it being kept current

I think I've worked out what I want to do with these guys. I'm going to put little magnets under their bases so that I can attach them to "diorama" style regiment trays for WFB or KoW or WOTR, and get some 25mm circular mantic bases to slot them into for LOTR SBG. Then I've got a force that can be used across 5 systems!

Da Boss wrote:
I think I've worked out what I want to do with these guys. I'm going to put little magnets under their bases so that I can attach them to "diorama" style regiment trays for WFB or KoW or WOTR, and get some 25mm circular mantic bases to slot them into for LOTR SBG. Then I've got a force that can be used across 5 systems!

You sure? It looks as if the 15mm you'd have to base them on to fit round mantic bases might be a bit small even for these models "and feet overhanging edges do not mix well with textured trays/outer bases).

 Scottywan82 wrote:

 tre manor wrote:


Whoops! I must have deleted that fromt he description. Yeh the Goblin spear hafts will be cast in metal There will be a socket at the top of the leading hand where the shaft will " plug " into.

Cheers guys!

Tre'

Wait. I thought the KS was intended to move to plastic, right?

Brass rods and plastic heads would be ideal.

 Scottywan82 wrote:

 tre manor wrote:


Whoops! I must have deleted that fromt he description. Yeh the Goblin spear hafts will be cast in metal There will be a socket at the top of the leading hand where the shaft will " plug " into.

Cheers guys!

Tre'

Wait. I thought the KS was intended to move to plastic, right?

After some problems with breakage for the Helsvakt weapons of the last KS, the weapons will be cast in metal while the rest of the figure is plastic.

 Bolognesus wrote:

Da Boss wrote:
I think I've worked out what I want to do with these guys. I'm going to put little magnets under their bases so that I can attach them to "diorama" style regiment trays for WFB or KoW or WOTR, and get some 25mm circular mantic bases to slot them into for LOTR SBG. Then I've got a force that can be used across 5 systems!

You sure? It looks as if the 15mm you'd have to base them on to fit round mantic bases might be a bit small even for these models "and feet overhanging edges do not mix well with textured trays/outer bases).

"Diorama style" regiment trays I believe means not packed together but in a formation/scene/spread out/ etc. This is perfect for KoW since you don't have to remove casualties- a player at our store did this with his elves and it's great

I kno - i multibase all my kow stuff. I mean those feet wont sit flush with texture on the base. I found the idea a big hassle for my daemons idea back then. Still, if it works for you

Wait, is Trollcast a different kind of plastic? Is this not just the same type of plastic as GW and the new DFG figures?

Totally down with metal weapons, by the way, provided that they are easily attached. The issue with hybrids from GW and other manufacturers has always been that it's tough to get them to go together.

 Scottywan82 wrote:
Wait, is Trollcast a different kind of plastic? Is this not just the same type of plastic as GW and the new DFG figures?

No, its closer to the Restic that Mantic uses rather then injection molded hard plastic.

Little bit OT, but has RBG ever expressed an interest in fleshing out their dwarves to a full range?

I like true-scale dwarves, my current favourites are the LotR dwarf models, and RBG's seem very close to those in terms of scale.

Most manfacturers tend to make fat-barrel heroic scale dwarves, and that's the polar opposite of what I'm looking for.

I just came to the realisation that if this was a dwarf KS I'd be super-happy with the pricing on these since I wouldn't need a bucket of minis to make the army.

If the KS hits the dwarves, or if he does KS3 with dwarves, he has modular dwarf militia already. Shouldn't be too hard to get that to 6 or so different figs.




I also think there are a number of dwarf models that exist, but aren't on his webstore (because he sold out of them in metal) that could bulk out the line if turned into plastic. So his line is bigger than it looks on the website. Not sure how many figs are out of production though.

For ex, this guy:

I don't have any money to support this project, but I wish I had! Incredible miniatures, nice price and all in all a great thing to support!

Yeah, he has a lot of Dvergr sculpts- he needs to compile / post pics somewhere for things no longer in his webstore (most things!). They may be next in this KS, too, he is torn between them and the rest of the Aenglish.

I am beginning to think that the Aenglish may need their own dedicated campaign as so many people seem to want Aenglish Cavalry and archers and such.

As for Dvergr..... yes they are going in to this campaign if the funding goes over the Crowbiter mark. but we have to get there first.

There are 25 dwarves in the line right now and I intend to expand them through the KS campaign. Ideally this campaign would fund a set of 6 modular unique Dwarf footmen, a set of 4 berserkers, a set of 4 cavalry ( not silly at all to my mind ) and a set of 4 archers and a few new characters, plus all of what is in there now.

I recieved 122 more copies of Yrsa yesterday and there are some 200 more on their way today. So by the time the KS ends almost everyone who backed SHOULD have at least most of their KS reward.

Hmmm. I love your Dvergr models, and would definitely be interested in a kickstarter involving them.

Whether I'd have the money to commit at this point would be another thing. Jan\Feb is a lean time for a lot of people and I'd probably want to get all the Dvergr.

I think I will bite the bullet and back tonight when I get home.

I know this is your own world and vision, but I think it is really fortunate for you that GW just released their Hobbit SBG in the same scale, for drastically OTT prices. I was doing price comparisons on your Goblins vs. GW's moria goblins, and it really doesn't come out in GW's favour, especially considering the difference in quality. It's always nice to have a game to plug the miniatures into!

I will certainly be recommending RBG for Middle Earth skirmish players.