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Maybe the order is based on how much you pledged? I dunno, it's kickstarter. I have only backed one project that finished even remotely close to when they said they would (a guy making titanium guitar picks, which, by the way are awesome).

I don't think there's anything wrong with these guys, that isn't wrong with the entire crowdfunding movement. You have a bunch of idea people without a great deal of project planning experience. They now have a medium to put forth their ideas and get their capital, without going through the rigorous scrutiny that would accompany a traditional loan process. Of course there are delays, and hiccups, and miscommunications.

And, if the ideas seem cool, maybe it's worth it. I haven't seen a kickstarter project completely disappear yet, or been unhappy with any of the eventual results, regardless of how long it's taken to get them.

That also crossed my mind, if that's the case, going from most to least, I'll be getting a link somewhere near the end.

How are they sending it again? 'Cause I've got nothing.

I got my notice via email. I'm not sure if that's a facet of kickstarter emailing me the PM, or them emailing me directly, and I already deleted it, so I can't easily check, sorry.

Wouldn't panic I've not had mine yet either and I'm not even a dirty dissenter as such

So, just had all three of my pledge managers come through for this. Just need to get home and sort some paperwork before actually using it.

Got my invite...

Just got mine through also. Not terribly happy about having to spend my $300 based predominately on artwork and renders which may yet be, or may have been, or may not be at all, altered.

Beware.. since you have to "reset" your password.. take a good look into your Spamfolder afterwards.

What a junky design...
Adding all the freebies one at a time is HORRIBLE. Like someone else had already reported... after you add an item, an annoying box pops up you have to close again... moving your screens position back to the very top of the shop.
That is soooo stupidly designed... I'm not surprised at all.

There are so many things they could've have done better besides this.
If I browse through the catalogue, I'd like to see how many of the shown Items I already have put into my cart. The preview pictures insides each item's entry kind of wobble around when you hover over them.

Have got mine too.....still trying to find the amazing-ness that they've obviously built into this as promised. All Ive found so far is a slightly clunky web-store....surely there must be more hidden wonders to access.....

The best way I found to handle that was open each item in it's own tab, then just cycle through adding them each. Not massively elegant but seems to be a 'feature' of their chosen shop.

With regards to the images, I took advantage of the live chat to ask about extra images (specifically of the extras for the JB troopers / command) and was told that they should be up in the next few days. (Confirmed as before the 15th of June ) So there could be more images coming for other things.

Either way, I'm holding fire with mine until I've sorted out the home-drop shipping stuff.

Yeah got mine now, yikes it's not the best system is it, especially having to add the freebies separately 'If you don't add them, you can't get them...' Also more than a little annoyed by the 'locked in by June 15th' line, so much for seeing everything before we have to choose.


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prankster wrote:
The best way I found to handle that was open each item in it's own tab, then just cycle through adding them each. Not massively elegant but seems to be a 'feature' of their chosen shop.

With regards to the images, I took advantage of the live chat to ask about extra images (specifically of the extras for the JB troopers / command) and was told that they should be up in the next few days. (Confirmed as before the 15th of June ) So there could be more images coming for other things.

Either way, I'm holding fire with mine until I've sorted out the home-drop shipping stuff.

Oh and it seem's they've picked up on that suggestion somehow as now the page itself is recommending that you do that.

Edit: Oh and don't forget Drusilla is in a separate category for some reason if you qualify for her don't forget to add her too.

Got my invite but I won't get to check it out till later

RoninXiC wrote:
Beware.. since you have to "reset" your password.. take a good look into your Spamfolder afterwards.

What a junky design...
Adding all the freebies one at a time is HORRIBLE. Like someone else had already reported... after you add an item, an annoying box pops up you have to close again... moving your screens position back to the very top of the shop.
That is soooo stupidly designed... I'm not surprised at all.

There are so many things they could've have done better besides this.
If I browse through the catalogue, I'd like to see how many of the shown Items I already have put into my cart. The preview pictures insides each item's entry kind of wobble around when you hover over them.

This is pretty much what I had typed out yesterday after a rough 10 minutes using the manager.

I think everyone that was clamoring for their invites will be disappointed to know they aren't missing out on much.

~iPaint

Well I got invited,

Struggled through the (slightly clunky) webstore

and now await my 2 shipment waves of leggy ladies with an assorted animal/undead chaser

Can't wait to get it over with, will be interesting to see, the suspense is killing me.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Well I got invited,

Struggled through the (slightly clunky) webstore

and now await my 2 shipment waves of leggy ladies with an assorted animal/undead chaser

How did you know that everything you wanted would be contained in two waves?

I woner how long it'll take for the ones who (like me) pledged later on via PayPal (living in Belgium affects my judgement ). I reckon we could probably win the longest wait list. Still sort of looking forwards somewhat to having the mini's in hand but the talk about the pledge manager makes me dread filling it out.

Good thing is that by the time I do get anything, the backlog of unpainted stuff will be gone, so they are providing a valuable service by being overdue with everything

 Gertjan wrote:
I woner how long it'll take for the ones who (like me) pledged later on via PayPal (living in Belgium affects my judgement ). I reckon we could probably win the longest wait list. Still sort of looking forwards somewhat to having the mini's in hand but the talk about the pledge manager makes me dread filling it out.

Good thing is that by the time I do get anything, the backlog of unpainted stuff will be gone, so they are providing a valuable service by being overdue with everything

C'est pas de ta faute, t'es Belge!

 Gertjan wrote:
I woner how long it'll take for the ones who (like me) pledged later on via PayPal (living in Belgium affects my judgement ). I reckon we could probably win the longest wait list. Still sort of looking forwards somewhat to having the mini's in hand but the talk about the pledge manager makes me dread filling it out.

In all honesty, the pledge manager isn't that bad. It is slow and a little clunky, but that mostly seems to be down to the shop software that they decided to use than any specific design intent. There's an annoying full screen popup when you add anything to your cart that refreshes the page you're on when you click continue shopping. That is, apparently, built into the software as a 'feature' and they're unable to turn it off.

The only thing that is poor, in my opinion, is the way that you have to go through and add all of the freebies individually if you want them. Given that there's no substitutions they could have also added a single item that covered all of the freebies so you could add them together. As I can't see anyone really choosing not to take a free miniature when it's offered.

Their live chat is usable, though if you have a couple of tabs open you see their replies in all of them but your comments only appear on the tab you typed them on. Though Jinx did admit to handling four other chats at the same time as mine earlier this evening,

As for getting access, it probably depends on how busy they are with live chat and email following this more recent wave of invites. The sooner things settle down the sooner they'll send the next batch.

 alanmckenzie wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Well I got invited,

Struggled through the (slightly clunky) webstore

and now await my 2 shipment waves of leggy ladies with an assorted animal/undead chaser

How did you know that everything you wanted would be contained in two waves?

I paid for 2 so I get the stuff that's done now (just in case),

and then wait for all the rest to be done

(I could have opted for 3 waves, but didn't fancy paying another extra $15)

 -iPaint- wrote:

prankster wrote:
I do feel that those of us who 'despise' RH will be the last to get an invite.

I'm a little surprised no one has let the actual link slip yet, given we're over a third of the way through the 72 hour release window and could expect ~1000 people to have been given access.

When asked to not give something away because it could have an adverse effect on everyone's experience down the line, I'll do as asked. I imagine by the end of the weekend everyone will have invites.

The PM closes on the 15th of June, so there's a few weeks to allow people the flexibility to manage their pledge without feeling rushed.

~iPaint

So after a 6 month + delay and endless fething around, their pledge manager will feature lots of concept art and only be open for two weeks? My god these people are fething stupid.

Pssh. Like you lot are getting invited to the real pledge manager.

So invite, simple enough. Got everything from my original selections picked out, now I just need to waffle for a bit if I want to add any troops or not. I'm not doing a full army by any extent, but two ten girl squads (one heavy and one light, each made of a command box and a "standard" box) would give me a ton of bits and modeling options to play with. Letting me make an elite squad of troopers, or a "company of heroines" so to speak, really make them all individuals as I'm not using these for a game any more... at present any way.


Hmmm.

I was going to get a ton of troops with this, make some veterans squads, etc... But in the time between my order and now, I've lost most interest in 40k, and so I went with a ton of the character models, just to have something to paint.

I'm going to use the IE nurse as an Alt McMourning for Malifaux, but who knows if I'll still be playing Ressers by the time I get her?

Before anyone gets locked into troop boxes, I feel it incumbent on me to point out that Dreamforge Games has finally put out the renders of their plastic female trooper kit, the Black Widow.

While they may not have the "dynamic pose" (i.e., oddly pigeon toed stance) of the RH troopers, the Widows have been made to be interchangeable with the male kits with regards to weapons and arms, so there is a truly astonishing wealth of options available. They will not be available until Q3 of this year (which is the same as for RH?), they will presumably be priced at the same level as the 10-man Stormtrooper kit (about $22 for ten).

Spoiler'd for size;

Are the Dreamforge gals going to sell lots of either just heads or just weapons?

If the weapons are available on their own that might solve some of the logistics problems with the troops boxes.

Those bodies are just atrocious though.

EDIT: Followed the link. While the 'regular' troops still look horrible, the heavy troops (the not-terminators) are freaking amazing! I wish I had gotten in on that before the KS was over.


In other news, I got the invite finally! Now Jimsolo is the popular one...

Unfortunately, I'm still waiting to hear back from A) my Drop Ship retailer, since I think I might have asked HIM to pick me up a couple boxes with his pledge and I don't want to double up if I did, and B) my commission painter contact, since I don't know what medium he'd prefer to work with for the characters.

Plus, if I wait till the 13th to order, I'll have $80 extra to add at the last minute!

Went through the PM, but there are far too many figures without sculpts or even renders for me to even consider locking in all of my choices.

If there are not a huge amount of new renders/sculpts shown by the 15th, I will be holding them to their render/sculpt promise and not locking in my pledge by the 15th.

They cannot show us renders for the later sculpts, because they are only 80% done.

Take another good look at the first Jetgirls pictures (the one with just the Silhouettes. Compare that with the Art and afterthat with the finalized renders.

Sure, they are still girls with jetpacks... but the style has changed over and over again. Just look at the jetpacks themselves, their curves, the machineguns etc.

Ronin, are you Jan in the ks comments?