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 Forar wrote:
It doesn't seem so to me either. I mean, even with just 3 or 4 people working, 50-65 boxes per person across a day isn't exactly a back breaking pace.

Maybe not back-breaking, but that is a good pace. I used to work in a 3-4 man warehouse (depending on the day), and 200 packages would be considered a decent day's labor. We could hit upwards of 400/day if we got busy, but we'd have to move people over from the office side to help meet demand. (Actually, that was usually me, I'd work in the office most days, but do time in the warehouse when things got busy or someone called in sick.)

I found my backerkit number, and you guys' heads are gonna asplode.

#2594

So, it's starting to look like they're going by KS Backer #, rather than Backer Kit #.

So much for me getting mine anytime soon...

Blitzkrieg Early Bird pledge shipped va UPS Ground, eta Tuesday.

Definitely by backer number, as I was one of the first!
Can't wait! Think I'll take a half-day Wednesday so I can get all my minis assembled!

 Spartan-Kun wrote:
As badly as I want my minis, the upside of this taking so long is that at least I can get painting done before hand.

Does anyone know where I can get custom transfers made? I plan on making all the Joint Fighter Wings from Strike Witches (anime) into veritech squadrons, and want to put the JFW number (501st, 504th, etc.) as well as their symbol on the wings. I was gonna put transfers of names under the canopies but that's just too small @.@

If you've got access to a good laser printer you can get paper allowing you to print your own water slide decals, a good (US) source is

http://www.papilio.com/laser%20water%20slide%20decal%20paper.html

That's a clear paper, you can also get white (as you can't print it on most laser printers)

a decent basic guide on dakka

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/How_to_make_custom_waterslide_decals

as to getting stuff printed it by an external company it always worked out too expensive for me, but if you try asking in a us model railway or military modelling forum yiu might get some suggestions

Thanks!

So looking at the pledger's being done by end of Oct and general prders for the rest of us in Nov?.....Serious bank saved up for this nut roll...

Maybe.

I wouldn't hold my breath.

 judgedoug wrote:
Blitzkrieg Early Bird pledge shipped va UPS Ground, eta Tuesday.

Definitely by backer number, as I was one of the first!
Can't wait! Think I'll take a half-day Wednesday so I can get all my minis assembled!

My backerkit number is in the 200's and my backer number on KS of less than 50... and I don't have a shipping notification as a US blitzkrieg backer. Did you get *anything* beyond just the battlecry pledge in wave 1? I'm sure they'll get around eventually to me after NMI flags us trouble makers to be delivered last.

Also got a shipping notice. Pledged for Battlecry with no extras, backerkit number 2200+.

:/ I just realized I'd probably be getting mine sooner had I just gotten 3 Battlecry, instead of a showdown and Battlecry. Or do you think it wouldn't matter?

 Manchu wrote:
Also got a shipping notice. Pledged for Battlecry with no extras, backerkit number 2200+.

What's your backer number, Manchu?

Either they're skipping International folks entirely, or they have decided for whatever reason to go with Backer Number (from KS itself) instead. I've seen another guy comment on having a KS# in the 200's and a BK number around 2000 which is making me think that either they changed their distribution order, or they don't actually realize the difference between the two.

The good news for my group is that I'm backer #31, and backer kit #308.

The bad news is that they seem to be skipping international boxes for now, and/or larger orders. Being Canadian and having 8 Battle Cry's coming may have us waiting a container or two (or more).

How do you find your backer number?

Go to the KS site, click on your profile on the top right, click "view all" scroll down to RRT and click on it, and it'll take you to a little info pop up which will include your backer number beside a cog just below the creator's name.


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 Spartan-Kun wrote:
:/ I just realized I'd probably be getting mine sooner had I just gotten 3 Battlecry, instead of a showdown and Battlecry. Or do you think it wouldn't matter?

I don't think it would've mattered unless you'd ordered them across 3 separate accounts. BC+SD or 3 BC are the same number of boxes, and if box count is holding people up a bit, those 3 would be in your way regardless of how you broke them down.

As an 8 box backer with my friends, believe me, I'm kind of wishing we'd gone with 2 orders of 4 instead.

Well, I really wish we'd kept to 4 or 6 boxes in general, but here we are.

Actually I am ahead of a few individuals here. Seems Robotech is on the same scale as Battletech mini's....I've a lot of Marauders, Warhammers, Riflemans, Crossbows, Wolverines,.....plus I still have all my terrain from the the days lol

Couple Ceasars to..

My backer number is 323

 Jihadin wrote:
Actually I am ahead of a few individuals here. Seems Robotech is on the same scale as Battletech mini's....I've a lot of Marauders, Warhammers, Riflemans, Crossbows, Wolverines,.....plus I still have all my terrain from the the days lol

Couple Ceasars to..

Kind of. The "Destroids" (Warhammer, Rifleman, etc analogs) are apparently roughly the same scale.

The "Marauder", however, is somewhere approaching 3 inches tall, which is (from what the BT fans tell me) rather big for even a Marauder II, or whatever that Assault class variant was.

Anyway, my point of the "maybe" wasn't your preparedness, assuming that's what you're 'actually, I am ahead' statement was about. I was referring to the delivery estimate. Their plan is 'backers in Oct, retail after that'. The reality is that they have around 6,300 "battle cry" boxes to ship out, and hope to be up to around a thousand by the end of this week. Depending on whether or not they can keep up that pace, how their containers arrive (timely fashion or not) and other factors, 'maybe' they'll be done with backer boxes in the next month and change (let's be real, barring a minor miracle this is probably going into November), so 'maybe' it'll be at retail in November. Obviously that's what they want, what with the holiday sales period approaching like a freight train, but I wouldn't hold my breath either.

That said, I'd keep an eye on ebay and whatever trading forums you might use. I imagine there'll be some boxes showing up for sale/trade there in the coming weeks.

You'd be welcome to buy some of mine, but I'm planning on at least starting with selling locally, cut down the time, effort and outright hassle dealing with ebay, paypal and shipping stuff around.

 Manchu wrote:
My backer number is 323

Huh. Seems like the theory that they're using Backer number of Backer KIT number is holding water pretty well, at least with the limited data points we have so far.

 Forar wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
Actually I am ahead of a few individuals here. Seems Robotech is on the same scale as Battletech mini's....I've a lot of Marauders, Warhammers, Riflemans, Crossbows, Wolverines,.....plus I still have all my terrain from the the days lol

Couple Ceasars to..

Kind of. The "Destroids" (Warhammer, Rifleman, etc analogs) are apparently roughly the same scale.

The "Marauder", however, is somewhere approaching 3 inches tall, which is (from what the BT fans tell me) rather big for even a Marauder II, or whatever that Assault class variant was.

Anyway, my point of the "maybe" wasn't your preparedness, assuming that's what you're 'actually, I am ahead' statement was about. I was referring to the delivery estimate. Their plan is 'backers in Oct, retail after that'. The reality is that they have around 6,300 "battle cry" boxes to ship out, and hope to be up to around a thousand by the end of this week. Depending on whether or not they can keep up that pace, how their containers arrive (timely fashion or not) and other factors, 'maybe' they'll be done with backer boxes in the next month and change (let's be real, barring a minor miracle this is probably going into November), so 'maybe' it'll be at retail in November. Obviously that's what they want, what with the holiday sales period approaching like a freight train, but I wouldn't hold my breath either.

That said, I'd keep an eye on ebay and whatever trading forums you might use. I imagine there'll be some boxes showing up for sale/trade there in the coming weeks.

You'd be welcome to buy some of mine, but I'm planning on at least starting with selling locally, cut down the time, effort and outright hassle dealing with ebay, paypal and shipping stuff around.

 Manchu wrote:
My backer number is 323

Huh. Seems like the theory that they're using Backer number of Backer KIT number is holding water pretty well, at least with the limited data points we have so far.

From what I read from satellite sites its geared at Battletech scale. The "Unseen" which I have quite a few of have are not matched to exactness being copy right laws. Process of breaking out my terrain for Battletech and scaling it a promo model I bought on Ebay (paid a lot to be expected but figure I make it up by selling some scale terrain and 40K sets )

 Jihadin wrote:
From what I read from satellite sites its geared at Battletech scale. The "Unseen" which I have quite a few of have are not matched to exactness being copy right laws.

Far as I know it has nothing to do with copyright law. Simply the raw size of the 'mechs' in question (ie; the Zentraedi stuff is huge compared to the RDF stuff).

Example; a "Warhammer" (Tomahawk in RRT) and a "Rifleman" (Defender) are around 1.25-1.5 inches tall in these models. The "Marauder" ("Glaug" officer's pod) is around 3 inches tall. The latter is not, by any means, 'in scale' with other Battletech stuff.

But, as I said, the 'rdf' mechs should be at least close.

@Forar: I tried following your directions to find my baker number but can't seem to find this "vew all" of which you speak.

 Spartan-Kun wrote:
@Forar: I tried following your directions to find my baker number but can't seem to find this "vew all" of which you speak.

If you go to the KS home page, and then click on the icon (your profile avatar image) on the top right, you get a drop down with options to check your profile and view the last few campaigns you backed. At the bottom you can "view all", assuming that RRT isn't in the last 5 campaigns you've contributed to.

Click that, scroll down, find RRT, click on it, and it'll bring up a brief synopsis on the campaign.

Only if its not one of the last five? I've only backed two.

Oh, then just click "Backer History" in the column on the left of that short list. It'll take you to the same place.

Backer # 1934
Backer Kit # 2584

Yeah, that plus the 3 BC's means you'll probably be waiting a while.

At least as a US backer you shouldn't be waiting as long as the EU folks, and might even snag yours before us poor ROW fethers. Key points will be to see how much action we get this week, and what the status of C3 is.

That thing gets held up by customs or whatever and it could put the whole line back.

Where are folks finding their backer kit number? I'm not seeing that anywhere in the confirmation email or currently in backer kit. I'm ks 2865, so not expecting anything for a bit.

Triple9 wrote:
Where are folks finding their backer kit number? I'm not seeing that anywhere in the confirmation email or currently in backer kit. I'm ks 2865, so not expecting anything for a bit.

Log into the BK site from the email they sent you last year, hit "next" and it'll say "congratulations, you're #____" blah blah blah.

Though given the folks we've seen with KS#'s in the hundreds and BK#'s in the thousands, I think the BK# is effectively worthless, contrary to what we were told initially.

Which, of course, is SOP for this project.

Thanks, 3246. Either number, I'm in for a wait. Gives me time to paint some more deadzone I guess.

 Forar wrote:

Triple9 wrote:
Where are folks finding their backer kit number? I'm not seeing that anywhere in the confirmation email or currently in backer kit. I'm ks 2865, so not expecting anything for a bit.

Log into the BK site from the email they sent you last year, hit "next" and it'll say "congratulations, you're #____" blah blah blah.

Though given the folks we've seen with KS#'s in the hundreds and BK#'s in the thousands, I think the BK# is effectively worthless, contrary to what we were told initially.

Which, of course, is SOP for this project.

It's Palladium, whatever set of rules they came up with wouldn't have worked, Kevin would have started making things up on the fly...
Better hope the packers roll high on the package contents chart if you want what you ordered.

Not too high. Hit 99% and all hell breaks loose.

And for the love of all that is holy, don't try to auto-dodge an issue.

That thing is a mess from start to finish.

Backer number #138
Backer kit number #1566

But I'm Australian, so I'll probably be last.