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NO!!! The pledge manager has to come out on the 15th! Otherwise I have to wear the penguin suit!

Certainly can't fault them for the quality of the sculpts/renders. Some really good lookin' models there.

What material are people going to go for, metal or resin? I'm really not a fan of metal so I'll be going resin, though I'm unsure how suitable for conversion they'll be.

I'm tempted to go resin, just not to have to repaint edge every few years because of paint chips.

There's a lot of legs akimbo on those bases. I'm a bit worried about the scale, but if it's a few heroes, or unit sergeants, I guess it won't be too odd.

Glad to see the were-she-wolves. Looking forward to picking those up!

The jet girls look cool. The Sisters concept art continues to look like crap.

Everything looks incredible! Especially the wereshewolves.

I always expected the completed models to be excellent, so I'm not surprised at all there. I find the Wereshewolves to incredibly ...amusingly naff. No offence to those who like them, but they just don't work for me at all. Easily fixed, though, since I simply won't get any.


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 Yonan wrote:
Certainly can't fault them for the quality of the sculpts/renders. Some really good lookin' models there.

What material are people going to go for, metal or resin? I'm really not a fan of metal so I'll be going resin, though I'm unsure how suitable for conversion they'll be.

Metal all the way. I can see all the fine resin pieces on these being incredibly fragile. At least they pack their retail stuff well, so hopefully the KS stuff will have the same care.

So, the pledge manager has been pushed back again then?

One thing I wish they'd do is add some alternate head packs. Would really like to get some extra variety for the troop kits. Would be nice to see some more "winter kit" heads for the KST's since both Svetlana and Ivanka have a snow/winter theme to them.

Apart from that, once again, I managed to initially skip over the text of this update and go straight to the TGG Photobucket account for pictures.

So one more month 'til figures in hand if you opt in for Wave 1 shipping.

~iPaint

 BrookM wrote:
So, the pledge manager has been pushed back again then?

They had to fill the update with pictures, so the pledge manager was excluded for something of higher importance.

I'm leaning towards metal--I don't plan on converting any of the characters, so I'd prefer the sturdier material.

However, I'm going to have them all professionally painted, so I am going to contact the gentleman I'd like to have do it and see if he has a strong preference one way or another.

EDIT: And when I initially pledged, I was positive I wouldn't want many of the IE models. But the 40's silent-film-star heads have made me seriously question that.

Fair play to them, when they actually pull the finger out and show their work, it looks fantastic. Perhaps even good enough that I'd be able to look at the models on my painting desk and not get so pissed off I want to puke, in which case I might just keep the models afterall, we'll have to see.

Although, did anyone else see this...

There will be a lot of info on how to use the Pledge Manager...

...and groan aloud? I hope they've not built this bloody pledge manager so that you need to be on an absinthe-fuelled trip to understand what the hell you're supposed to be doing.

 WarOne wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
So, the pledge manager has been pushed back again then?

They had to fill the update with pictures, so the pledge manager was excluded for something of higher importance.

T-that's okay I suppose, s-silly me, thinking that we would get something as promised on time.

As a 30 year old male, I have not seen that high school love drama anime with Inaba, Brook. *cough*

Lot of metal fans here, the thinner pieces are definitely a selling point for metal. Grrr.

I just Googled sad anime gifs.

But seriously: "Wolfbewbs," amirite?

Gotta pander to the furries somehow, amirite?


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I'm actually more curious how the Jetgrrrls will be mounted on a base.

... and now I'm curious how the wolfgirls would be mounted.

Yeah...not a huge fan of wolf-nipples. Tad unnecessary.

Well, the images look good, as usual. Though there's still little content in the update for how long it took to put together.

Most of the text is waffling on about the differences between the materials available, after telling people that the hand poured option is sold out.

BTW, the Pledge Manager is not included in this Update on purpose. There will be a lot of info on how to use the Pledge Manager, and we want to make sure that it does not get lost amidst all the pretty images Also, I've been waiting for the guys to be done with this round of sculpts so that when the Pledge Manager goes live, we are all available to answer your questions. Once they've done all the renders that you see in this Update, they still have several hours left of work on each sculpt (and a few other essential chores as well), so expect the Pledge Manager to be up sometime next week.

I've a feeling, that even if all of the sculpts were finished, the masters approved, production in hand and everyone back from two weeks holiday, they'd still not actually answer all of the questions that come up with the pledge manager.

As for the time frame provided, we were told last update (23rd April) that that there'd be an update in 'a few days' with the pledge manager. Given that it's now 10 days since then and they deliberately excluded the pledge manager because it's not 100% complete yet, I still think it'll be June 4th at the earliest for the pledge manager to be released.

Render wise, things look nice. Though there's less that interests me in this update.

The wereshewolves look ok, probably not something that I intend to pick up,but they're not bad miniatures as such. The furless look reminds me of the Wælwulfs from Mierce so if they scale correctly I may have to pick a couple up for variety.

I do like the alternate parts for Sigrith, so she's probably going to end up getting added in somewhere.

The rest of the renders are pretty much as expected at this stage. Though the JB bikes still look impractical with the way the front wheel connects to the rest of it. Possibly fixable at a later stage, depending on how many parts its in.

The wave 2 prints are interesting, gives us an insight into what might make it into wave 2. Though Drakkan's ammo belt / back plate thing just don't look right in the 3d print. It's possibly just an assembly thing, but it's off for some reason.

So, couple of speculations / predictions based on the behaviour we've seen from RH to date

1) Pledge manager on or after June 4th. (Because of $reasons)
2) Troops get pushed back to wave 3 (Because it's all about the heroines. The troops were just to draw IG players in for counts as armies to get pledges up)
3) Wave 2 will only contain 3-4 heroines that were available at the start of the campaign. (Flavour of the wave is uber stretch goal unlocks)
4) Surprise wave 4, just for troops, after they get pushed back again.

That last one's probably a bit of a stretch, but it could happen once they see people spending more money through the pledge manager. Thinking that the longer they hold off on the troops and churn out the other figures, the more likely people are to add extra heroines.

So looks like nepharaya won't make the second wave either.

 Jimsolo wrote:
Yeah...not a huge fan of wolf-nipples. Tad unnecessary.

File or some green stuff can fix that. You know if you're a twitter weened malcontent who can't handle the primal, sensual nature of feminine sexuality that the artist is representing with this piece *adjusts monocle, sips wine* plebeian.

Snapdragon wrote:But seriously: "Wolfbewbs," amirite?

At least they didn't go the 'actual dog route'. Then they'd have like... six. It'd be like Total Recall.

Yonan wrote:... and now I'm curious how the wolfgirls would be mounted.

Giggity.


In all seriousness I just think they look like badass werewolves, like I would expect from a White Wolf game. They're gonna be excellent conversion fodder for me (as soon as I figure out how to sculpt stuff... time to practice).

I guess they are count-as Ogryn or something?

Ogryn stat lines are waaaaaaay too wimpy for something that looks like that.

 BrookM wrote:
I guess they are count-as Ogryn or something?

I'm gonna add some gear to em' and use them as the dog warriors in my Ariadna lists for Infinity. They already have some excellent werewolf sculpts, but I think some female wolves would be fun. I got some extra chain rifles and stuff to use, but I'll have to greenstuff some gear... maybe a wolf-sized flak vest, and some extra little equipment here and there. I mean... they're not in super-rage-mode aaaall the time. Usually.

 Yodhrin wrote:
Although, did anyone else see this...

There will be a lot of info on how to use the Pledge Manager...

...and groan aloud? I hope they've not built this bloody pledge manager so that you need to be on an absinthe-fuelled trip to understand what the hell you're supposed to be doing.

I've backed enough Kickstarters that used pledge managers to know that, no matter how simple and easy the pledge manager may be, there are still people in the comments section asking stupid questions about what to do.

Soooo, pledge manager, eh?



~iPaint

I think we're supposed to look at the purty pictures and forget all about it for now.

UNCLEBADTOUCH wrote:
So looks like nepharaya won't make the second wave either.

Stop trying to make me cry

Really not a fan of the wolves, but then I wasn't a fan at the concept stage, there's a rather large part of me torn on adding more money into this, I love almost everything that appears but if they're selling wave 1 at retail as soon as backers have theirs if they dropshipped or paid out the backside for extra shipping then I might as well just wait for retail since I'll probably be opting for one big package once it's done.