Raging Heroes [official] Toughest Girls of the Galaxy Kickstarter - $698,548 Finish!

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**Minx**

Just in case someone missed the following information in the quoted update above:

And the Paypal option is almost ready to go, so stay tuned...

and also

earlier KS LnR comment wrote:Paypal has been tentatively set up, need to lift my limits before it goes live. It's barebones right now, but it'll do the job. I expect you'll be able to add to you pledge for a short while afterwards, but we will make that official via an update, though.

**Barzam**

Ick. Can't say I like the bikes at all for any of the factions. Thankfully, they aren't anything I was looking forward to anyway, so not that big of a deal for me. I suppose the next big thing is just going to be the mechs since the other bikes are probably pretty much going to be the same.

**alanmckenzie**

Jimsolo. Well done, congratulations. Nice work.

Alan

**Jimsolo**

Thanks, and congratulations to Morathi's Darkest Sin! (My own contribution only came after his, so credit for the idea rightly belongs with him.

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I'm kind of hoping that the other two bikes for each faction are some alternative type of bike (such as a light bike, or an extra heavy bike, or a trike, or a bike with a sidecar).

**prankster**

Well, having looked at the images on the front of the KS again, we could see heavier / lighter bikes. Single person trikes are also a possibility, though I think sidecars are a bit of wishful thinking as the images all state single crew for all 9 bikes. Not fully ruling it out, but I think more of the same is most likely.

Fingers crossed for trikes still though

**Buzzsaw**

Is it just me and my non-motorbike riding sensibilities, or are all of the bikes... wildly improbable? I mean, could that arraignment of struts in the front actually allow the bike to turn?

There doesn't seem to me to be any sort of a pivot point that would allow you to steer from the front.

Granted, having said all that, motorbikes seem like a terribly stylized thing to actually see on the battlefield. It's basically an attempt to have mounted cavalry (except, of course, real armored cavalry isn't exactly riding bikes...).

Don't get me wrong, the riders are very well realized, but the bikes themselves just seem to thick and heavy, they look like they came out of a steampunk setting where they run off of coal.

**BrookM**

It's a mini wargaming thing, I feel the same way about some of the Infinity range bikes. But hey, it's all just a game right?

**Tannhauser42**

It's because they use special secret materials in the construction and design of the bikes. They don't just use plastic, fiberglass, and steel; they use plastic, fiberglass, and steel FROM SPACE!

**somewheresomehow**

Tannhauser42 wrote:
It's because they use special secret materials in the construction and design of the bikes. They don't just use plastic, fiberglass, and steel; they use plastic, fiberglass, and steel FROM SPACE!

So they are grand heretics!? They must burn!?

**Melissia**

I was thinking that the Kurvanova might be good from the concept art... but then I saw the Kurganova minis and... wow. that's bad.

I guess the sculptor decided that the concept art didn't emphasize their breasts enough or something? Sad. Was thinking of getting them.

**Eggs**

They have said themselves one of the areas they will adjust before final production are the breasts. The prints aren't the final draft as it were.
I have some of their blood vestals, and while they are total cheesecake, they are proportionally accurate in the chest area. Its the legs that are a bit over the top.

**Vermillion**

3 more unlocked, Mortaria Noctis, Yoko the Psycho, Necro Priestess Nephahrya!

Today we are unlocking 2 Heroines: Jailbirds's Pyromaniac Yoko the Psycho, and the Iron Empire Hitwoman Mortaria.

Yoko the Psycho, Pyromaniac

There is no doubt that many of the Jailbirds are a bit of crazy loose cannons... But when you meet Yoko, you wouldn't expect her to be one of the craziest of the bunch... With her childish laugh and her cute demeanor, she looks a bit like a teenage girl.

But Yoko only has one burning interest in life: fire!

Whether using a tiny box of matches or a heavy flame thrower, nothing makes her happier than dancing flames and... dare we say it?... the smell of napalm in the morning...

Mortaria Noctis, Hitwoman

The arcane and lore uncovered by the Iron Empire are particularly deep and complex, and it is believed that only a very small part has yet been understood. One of the darkest secrets of the lost Aegyptian civilization are the death scarabs. Discovered by the high Necro Priestess Nephahrya herself, these creatures instantly turn the body of any living thing they enter into some kind of undead puppet at the command of their necromancer master.

When Nephahrya heard about the astounding prowess of a young sniper named Mortaria Noctis, she hatched a crazy scheme. After several years of complex research, the two deadly women have been able to create a bullet that contains one of these scarabs...

This feat made Mortaria instantly famous among the Iron Empire's high society, and turned her into some sort of dark heroine capable of taking control of the highest ranking enemy officers and thus, of their troops, with just a single shot.

Nephahrya, Necro Priestess of the Iron Empire

And in case you missed her, here's a full-size image of Nephahrya:

Enjoy!

**Buzzsaw**

*Cough*

Spoiler:

I think I would take a few of the extraneous gubbins off, but damn I love those articulated arms...

**Azazelx**

KalashnikovMarine wrote:
TalonZahn wrote:
KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I hate that sniper on the right's pose. It's NOT a stable shooting position in the slightest! [/gunnerd]

Five bucks you can't even get in that pose without the rifle.......

Challenge accepted.

This is the best I can do with my M1 Garand standing in for a sniper rifle. (Sadly I don't own an M82 Barrett for a proper stand in XD)

Keep in mind I'm old and have busted up knees from the Marine Corps, so maybe one of you whipper snappers with actual cartilage in your joints can do better.

http://imgur.com/a/VVDyg

Impressive try, but your feet bave to be pointing backwards, and your butt has to be sticking sexily out past your foot. In skintight spandex.

**KalashnikovMarine**

No one wants to see me in skin tight spandex XD in fact I am accepting bribes to ensure that never happens for the good of the world.

**H.B.M.C.**

Mechamechamechamechamecha! *deep breath* Mechamechamechamechamecha!

I like the latest unlocks. I'll be getting them.

**AlexHolker**

As is so often the case, Noctis would be much better without those Iron Empire helmets.

**somewheresomehow**

AlexHolker wrote:
As is so often the case, Noctis would be much better without those Iron Empire helmets.

I can't exalt your post enough. Take all my exalts!

**Jimsolo**

AlexHolker wrote:
As is so often the case, Noctis would be much better without those Iron Empire helmets.

Actually, for once we're in agreement.

I have a dislike for the gas mask look that makes me unable to truly love the Iron Empire. (Still, there are a few of them I plan on getting anyway.) However, I think that the appeal of other armies with the gas mask look indicates that there is a customer base for that sort of thing, even if I'm not part of it. I know I'm not going to like every army, or even every model in the armies I do like, so I'm okay with a few things that are outside my personal comfort zone.

**AlexHolker**

Jimsolo wrote:
Actually, for once we're in agreement.

I still don't get your antipathy towards making a couple of plastic kits in addition to the restic kits. More options are better, not worse.

**gargant**

I would be getting SO MUCH of this stuff if it were in plastic. Resin is just meh. I'll still get some of the metal heroes, but it's a pale shade of the money I'd spend on plastic.

**Widdershinz**

Same. I'd go bonkers for plastics.

**Jimsolo**

$450,000 passed.

I'm unfamiliar with Kickstarters, to be honest. I'm assuming a half a million isn't out of the question. That would be pretty sweet!

**prankster**

It all depends on how they handle things over the next week.

I can certainly see it passing $500k, unless they do something of epic levels of silly. Though how much past that depends a lot on how they communicate over the next 8 days. There's still a number of unanswered questions, ranging from what their final decision on scale is, paypal pledges, post KS additions and freebies/upgrades. (Probably a couple of others, depending on PoV)

I know they've briefly touched on some of these subjects, but it all seems like a case of jam tomorrow in some cases. They've been talking about the paypal pledges option for some time with no real progress. Similarly with the upgrade/freebie SGs, we're $25k past the last one and they've only said that there are more coming. That itself took them a couple of days to confirm and we're rapidly running out of time if they're planning more SG unlocks for them.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

The paypal issue is that if you're going to have any sort of substantial amount of money going through an account you need to provide Paypal with a whole bunch of documentation thanks to recent changes in money laundering regulations

Last time I looked these have to be originals sent by post. Paypal then need to authorise the whole thing both of which RH will have no control over so if they hadn't known about it in advance (this seems the case) they are probably stuck waiting

**Alpharius**

Jimsolo wrote:
$450,000 passed.

I'm unfamiliar with Kickstarters, to be honest. I'm assuming a half a million isn't out of the question. That would be pretty sweet!

I'll say!

This one will have NO problem going past $500k!

**WolfStark**

Mortaria is one of my favorites so far, so unbelievable sleek, a contrast to the other heroines and figures with much more decoration and aspects. And I do like the gas mask/helmets. The whole IE wouldn't have the same vibe and look without them. Of course alternatives are great, I would like to have some for the one or another but all in all I wouldn't pass on the Darth Vader look. It's what makes them so special.

**kendoka**

-iPaint- wrote:
I'll repost what I said on the update:

I'm still of the opinion that there's too much leg and not enough torso, especially for such an upright pose. Closer to 1/3/3 should be the near-ideal proportions with relation to head, torso, and legs.

The prints are closer to 1/2/3, which makes the model seem like it has no lower abdomen, just a (rather large still) chest. At 1/2/3, the hips are basically right below the lower ribs, cutting out the equivalent of about 4-6 inches (in scale) of musculature that makes up the lower abdomen. I don't think the solution is a wider chest, but rather a taller torso and slightly shorter legs.

I think if RH can achieve the above proportions, the models will fit in with the current Blood Vestals, the TGG Heroines, and all the while adhering to a more realistic human body proportion than the rather stunty GW models. They'll also seem less leggy, which I think would help a bit.

~iPaint

+1
I vote for "taller torso, shorter legs, smaller bust" for the rank and file girls
- and make them slightly taller than IG. As RH minis are more realistic in proportions, scaling them to be as short as IG would mean that their heads, arms, hands etc. would look way too small.
Nothing wrong with having amazon women fighting alongside the men.
I wouldn't mind having them in GW Dark Eldar Wych size. Especially the character models (who benefit more from being tall and leggy).

**Crimson**

The model with lengthened mid-section has freakishly long torso. It would be even more apparent if she hadn't the gun in front of her. I wish that people who have no clue about anatomy would stop making suggestions how to 'correct' anatomy of the models.

**PsychoticStorm**

Crimson wrote:
The model with lengthened mid-section has freakishly long torso. It would be even more apparent if she hadn't the gun in front of her. I wish that people who have no clue about anatomy would stop making suggestions how to 'correct' anatomy of the models.

Ok then why don't you stop?

Edit
In any case we want this

And not this