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 streetsamurai wrote:
No, it's only. A gut feeling. I have

Yeah, I think this is the one project where "gut feelings" are far overridden by the upfront delivery of pretty much all news.

And it's the only project that I've been a part of thats been delayed because they are making everything significantly better.

I'm cool with it.

Yeah, IIRC Adam actually stated he was moving it back to Q2 because while he *MIGHT* have been able to squeak in a Q1 shipment date he was concerned that pushing for that would cause issues and so to side-step that problem entirely he was just going to change to Q2. Now, he's maybe used up that buffer with some other issues, but Adam's Type A personality makes me doubtful there will be significant delays.

Might we see a "shipping starting in June and not finishing until August" where particular overseas backers don't get their stuff for months (see also: Reaper Bones One)? Maybe, but given his communication record thus far where delays are announced long before they're obvious to everyone anyway I'm not going to be doom-and-gloom. We'll see what we see in the May timeframe though.

Hmmm... I might be moving by then... I could end up having to send it to my parents house instead.

Dammit, Poots! Of all the things you could have done, you're going to make me actually go and visit my parents. There's a line, and you just crossed it!

 Krinsath wrote:
Yeah, IIRC Adam actually stated he was moving it back to Q2 because while he *MIGHT* have been able to squeak in a Q1 shipment date he was concerned that pushing for that would cause issues and so to side-step that problem entirely he was just going to change to Q2. Now, he's maybe used up that buffer with some other issues, but Adam's Type A personality makes me doubtful there will be significant delays.

Might we see a "shipping starting in June and not finishing until August" where particular overseas backers don't get their stuff for months (see also: Reaper Bones One)? Maybe, but given his communication record thus far where delays are announced long before they're obvious to everyone anyway I'm not going to be doom-and-gloom. We'll see what we see in the May timeframe though.

I'm certain shipping will take an age loads of backers, loads of different things to pack, many countries to send to

but that's just par for the course, and taking it slower and getting it right is something that certain other projects would be well advised to do

(I do hope he sends in reverse order of travel distance though if it all ends up shipping from the US as getting stuff to everybody at roughly the same time means less moaning and emails to deal with)


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 Fafnir wrote:
Hmmm... I might be moving by then... I could end up having to send it to my parents house instead.

Dammit, Poots! Of all the things you could have done, you're going to make me actually go and visit my parents. There's a line, and you just crossed it!

You can still change your address in the pledge manager

https://kingdomdeath.com/address/login.php

(in case you weren't aware of it)

 Fafnir wrote:
Hmmm... I might be moving by then... I could end up having to send it to my parents house instead.

Dammit, Poots! Of all the things you could have done, you're going to make me actually go and visit my parents. There's a line, and you just crossed it!

Just hope your parents don't open the box. Visiting is bad enough, but doing it so that you can pick up a large case of plastic pin ups and penis monsters will be... awkward.

I can almost smell the coffee from the intervention now...

 Wehrkind wrote:
I can almost smell the coffee from the intervention now...

The voice of experience...

And Orlando, while the "far to near" shipping plan would certainly be the fair thing to do, I will play my "selfish git" card at this point since I want my shinies so I hope he sends it to US backers first because I'm a US backer. I would also support a "in order of money paid (including shipping) from most to least" model, as I'm pretty sure I'd be decently near the top there too. Heck I'd even drive up to NYC if there was a pick-up option. Visit some friends in the area, pick up a sizable box of boobs and penis monsters. You know, like ya do...

Ok I'll compromise on most money spent, I'm probably high enough up that list

but you have to tell Adam

I too would settle for most money spent gets them first. At $1168 I must be fairly high on that list!

But thankfully, this isn't done through the measurements of digital dicks, though it does nicely homage the theme Kingdom Death has going on.

The remastered Pin Up Twilight Knight is now in stock as is the experiment of death and 2 54mm minis

http://shop.kingdomdeath.com/

That completes my Twilight Knight collection (well it will if I ever receive the rest of them!) I've been waiting for the remastered version before buying it.

Thanks for the heads up. Got another White Speaker myself.

Pinups of Death - Hard Plastic
The original pinups remastered!
I am thrilled to introduce the very first Kingdom Death hard plastic kit. As a big thank you to our fans we have decided to launch the kit at an optional discount for the first 48 hours.

Hard Plastic Pinup Collection
Packaged in a deluxe kraft wrapped box printed with original artwork by Lokman Lam. Each box contains remastered hard plastic versions of the first 8 pinups ever released by Kingdom Death and a matte black envelope with an art card for each pinup and a promo Kingdom Death: Monster settlement event card and gear card. Players of the upcoming game may optionally add these fun promo's to their campaign if their gaming group agrees.

A lot of love and care has gone into the translation process moving this figures into plastic. This includes a Brand new Pinup Forsaker and parts to create the popular variant Pinup Savior.



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and the Resin slender man (no cards/game rules)

White Speakers whisper stories of the walking water. An entity capable of making people vanish without a trace, like the water of an unwatched urn. It's motives inscrutable and it's description warping with each new telling. Little is known of the Slender Man as it leaves nothingness in it's wake.



they've also got Flower Knight and Illuminated Lady resin restocks in http://shop.kingdomdeath.com/collections/in-stock

So...

Anyone interested in my KD Resin Pinups if I decide to get the Plastic Boxed set?

If I bought those pinups I'd be afraid to put them together.

Then I'd be afraid to paint them.

I'm sure I wouldn't be able to do them justice.

Yet the greedy part of me would want to buy a set or two and just hold on to it for a bit to flip. Which would be the ultimate lesson in frustration of not being able to build those ladies.

Dear awesome projects, please stop taking turns on my wallet..... *orders collection* At least the exchange rate is fairly friendly.

And there's a fairly awesome KS update which I can't post from work

I'm Phoenix is amazing, the plastic version is very close in detail to the original resin. It gives me great hope that the plastic Dragon King will share the same level of detail. Incidentally, I only recently realised its startling resemblance to the Dragon God boss in Demon's Souls.

I'm definitely going to pick up the plastic Pin up box set, I only want five out of the eight pin ups so I will probably sell the three I don't want on Feebay.

I kinda wanna get it. Since I didn't get any of those models with game....Stupid internet...

Every time I see a KD update in my mailbox, it re-energizes me towards KS. I forget that it's been so long since this one funded and don't care when it arrives; I just have faith this one is going to be awesome. Weird Jedi mind trick going on here.

I've never actually seen any of the pieces in the flesh and I know my painting won't do them justice yet, but went and bought a flower knight to get an idea of what I'm store for.

Adam said he'd got 3000 boxes of these pinups in so it's unlikely they'll have the same re-sale value as the resins (although with the bonus game content who knows)

New update from KS. Looks like everyone knows about the plastic pin-ups. The plastic Phoenix looks mind blowing. Really excited for this to ship.



Update #82 from Kingdom Death : Monster

Mar 11 2014
Marching in March!
Things are really starting to heat up here at the studio, despite the climates foolish attempt to thwart us with it's never ending cold. Be damned polar vortex!

Schedule ( Estimated Fulfillment start still Q2 2014 )
No updates at this time. Things are moving smoothly, planning for logistics, applying pressure to partners to maintain timelines. Next update should have the crucial information we have been waiting for.

Pledges Re-Opening
Let me just say thank you to all the people interested in more plastic via the kickstarter! We will re-open pledges but it has to wait until we have bandwidth to devote to your needs.

The Phoenix Story
This monster was hand sculpted by Jacques-Alexandre Gillois. We agreed not to rush the project to completion and slowly, it was crafted. An immense effort went into every stage of its design.

When the resin's finally arrived, I was shocked. It was truly gorgeous. I was nervous to even hold it! I knew it was something special and so I squirreled it away like a dark secret waiting to reveal it publicly for the first time during the kickstater.

The challenge of manufacturing this incredible sculpt was a major factor in bringing us together with our plastic manufacturer. We agreed that if we could capture 80% of what the original resin was, we would be happy.

And so we set out to work. The physical master was scanned, not once, but 3 times by various machines. And the cleanup process was nothing short of intense, changing many different hands and yes, I might have driven the factory a little bit crazy over my laundry lists of small changes and adjustments.

The last challenge was cutting the model so it can meet the rigid standards of hard plastic production. We wanted to make it as few pieces as possible, but retain its detail and majesty.

Last Thursday I received a large but lightweight package. Inside, plastic sprues and a bonus fully assembled phoenix. Put together by the boss of the factory himself! Yeah, he was that excited. We were shooting for 80%, but this is more like 97.9%. It's nearly an identical clone of its hand sculpted counterpart! Consider my mind blown. I knew we'd get some great looking hard plastic. But I didn't expect it to be this GOOD. In fact a second box arrived on friday with a 2nd assembled one from the bossman again!

I owe a tremendous round of thanks to the backers, the artists, the technicians and the factory for bringing this into reality. It looks amazing, I can barely believe it's hard plastic. In fact the original hand sculptor himself was blown away when I showed him! I have yammered on enough. Here are the photos:

The Lion, The Butcher and the Loin Cloth


Finally! The starting survivors! The number of play test hours these 4 brave little survivors has seen is staggering and the number of times they have died at the hands of both the Butcher and the White Lion... it just brings a beautiful tear to my eye!

I present to you dear backers, their plastic incarnations!
And yeah... We have made the White Lion much bigger then his original resin form!
Bwa hahaaha!
( and the butcher a tiny bit bigger too! )

Final Game Board
Here is the final game board. We decided to include some spots on the side for terrain cards to live and not clutter up the battle. A lot of thought went into this game board, and we had it printed many times in different colors and variations. I really wanted it to have a strong focal point and that trails off into darkness but for gameplay purposes we didn't want to lose the lines that delineate spaces. I am quite pleased with the final result! The print comes off a little purpleish in the photos, don't worry. It is not purple.

Everything looks great on it!

Rulebook Thumbnails
I am super duper anti-spoilers. So I apologize that you cannot read anything and this is a total tease, but here is a sample of some of the spreads that grace the rulebook! The rulebook... got really big! lol

I recall someone on the comment section asking about Spidicules?

Pinups of Death
On a totally separate timeline and with a budget outside of the funds raised from the kickstarter I can finally share a project with you all that was very important to KD:M.

The 8 original Kingdom Death Pinups. Although these were not featured or available during the kickstarter, we can thank them for carrying the project before the kickstarter and helping fund so very much of it. They have been lovingly remastered into hard plastic. This project is relevant to KD:M as it set some very important manufacturing benchmarks and helped establish our hand sculpt to hard plastic work flow. Basically we ran ourselves thru the gauntlet with these and used what we learned to improve the KD:M manufacturing process.

The release of the plastic pinup box will provide us with some crucial internal data on packaging and handling orders. This will benefit us once we do begin fulfillment of the kickstarter rewards. Basically, it will help us calculate how many extra hands to hire and what our workflow will be.

Although both the budget & timeline were outside of the domain of the KD:M kickstarter, it is true that without you backers I would have never gone to China and the really fantastic relationship that has sparked with our manufacturer would not have come to pass. As a way to say thank you, we have decided to reduce the price of the collection for a limited time in your honor.

If you are interested in checking it out, here is the direct link to the KDM store with more details.

Thank you
I just wanted to say it again. This opportunity has been amazing. The hard plastic sets have been amazing. The positive feedback from play testers has been amazing. All of you backers are amazing. How often do you really get to work as hard as you possibly can on something so very important to yourself? I honestly don't know. But I do know... its amazing!

Soon we will watch our survivors die terrible tragic deaths together!

That Pinup Plastics set is tempting - but I'm having trouble remembering the specifics on what was available in plastic during the campaign, what I ordered, and what is 'worth' getting if it is playable 'in game'!

That Phoenix is amazing! We get two of those right?

 Alpharius wrote:
That Pinup Plastics set is tempting - but I'm having trouble remembering the specifics on what was available in plastic during the campaign, what I ordered, and what is 'worth' getting if it is playable 'in game'!

These pinups were not offered during the KS as plastic or resin

None of the box will be playable in game unless you use them as proxies, 3 are pinups with overlap with minis that could come with your KS order the (White Speaker and Twilight Knight and Forsaker)

The promo item is the 'Belt of Gender Swap'

The promo event is 'A Strange Spot' where a survivor returning from a hunt stumbles across something (roll on table you can't read here)

so if you're going game (or have all the resin pinups) only probably best to give it a miss

 Alpharius wrote:
That Pinup Plastics set is tempting - but I'm having trouble remembering the specifics on what was available in plastic during the campaign, what I ordered, and what is 'worth' getting if it is playable 'in game'!

Reading comprehension fail for me - these all all plastic versions of miniatures that were NOT available during the campaign!

EDIT:

Thanks Orlando - I just realized that myself, but your additional info is also very helpful!

The event that comes with the set looks to be a "Hot Springs Scene" I'm guessing. Just ordered mine....

It is going to be hard to resist it...

But I am work-blocked from the KD site - go figure!

I'll probably order it later tonight though!

 Alpharius wrote:
It is going to be hard to resist it...

But I am work-blocked from the KD site - go figure!

I'll probably order it later tonight though!

I was surprised when I found it wasn't work blocked........

Important point to make note of;

As a thank you to our fans, the Pinups of Death will have an optional discount for the next 48 hours. Thank you so much for supporting us, we hope to bring you many more high quality offerings in the future!

Don't allow yourself to wait too long here, you might find you've lost out on 20% off.

Typical I wait ages for the remastered Twilight Knight Pin Up buy her and then a plastic version turns up 10 days later

Nice set I ordered one at the $80 price shipping is good at $15.75 as well (rather than the $16+ some companies charge for 1 mini ), I'll get stung for VAT on these but the discount should cover that.

The box set contents are looking really nice I'm glad I stayed with just plastic as they are really great models.

Small complaint and it's not aimed at Adam he had the resources and the means to get these done so fair play but Wargames Factory don't have the spare capacity to be producing these at this time with KD:M itself late and Mr. Justin from SWM suffering from further delays in manufacturing without any firm finish date WGF should really be prioritising other things.

I'll go on and say it.

This has to be one of the best Kickstarter games ever made.

The stuff here is top notch and amazing!!!

Still jonesing for a few more of the basic survivors. We're going to need around 20 or so locally.