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 Alpharius wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
The campaign includes a naked dinosaur, so arguments they're not being inclusive are... odd.

Exalted Internet Winner for Monday, September 12!

All kidding aside, I do believe 'context' is important here.

Or maybe conflict of interests? Because a certain person who was bashing them repeatedly has/is working for HF?
Anyway i like them but as always i find the lacking of Science Fiction ladies disappointing.

I don't think anyone is legally bound to be fair and balanced - just polite and on topic.

I really like the Shamanic Boudi; I'm going to stick her into either my Empire army (as a Brown Wizard) or into my stuttering-ongoing WFB Chaos army.

As for Frostgrave, I rather figured the flamboyant Mathias de Brum would be most fitting... he looks like the sort of fellow who'd hire a bunch of hardened criminal- er adventurers - to help him dig up RICHES and POWER regardless of the risks (to them)!

 Alpharius wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
The campaign includes a naked dinosaur, so arguments they're not being inclusive are... odd.

Exalted Internet Winner for Monday, September 12!

All kidding aside, I do believe 'context' is important here.

I get to be a winner? Wow - that doesn't happen often...

The Winter version of Matthias unlocked overnight, and you can now add on some merchandise from the artist, if it takes your fancy.

By my count, we're up to 8 characters now, with the three versions of each, along with Trike the dinosaur. Not bad for the first 36 hours or so...

 Jehan-reznor wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
The campaign includes a naked dinosaur, so arguments they're not being inclusive are... odd.

Exalted Internet Winner for Monday, September 12!

All kidding aside, I do believe 'context' is important here.

Or maybe conflict of interests? Because a certain person who was bashing them repeatedly has/is working for HF?
Anyway i like them but as always i find the lacking of Science Fiction ladies disappointing.

It's only a conflict of interest if you are in direct competition for something, we're not. What happened, and is still happening, is a simple difference of opinion

And I'm afraid no Sci-Fi coming, this bundle is all fantasy, mostly because of the way it's structured. If we unlock enough characters people can use the 'Dozen' pledge to get a bundle of all the same type.

Artemis, would the success of this KS open the way to a possible Sci-Fi (etc) equivalent down the line?

Oh, and the next stretch goal is up, btw, with new unlocks at £32k/33k/35k.

 Dysartes wrote:
Artemis, would the success of this KS open the way to a possible Sci-Fi (etc) equivalent down the line?

Oh, and the next stretch goal is up, btw, with new unlocks at £32k/33k/35k.

Outside of the Kickstarter there is always such hope. That's why we spend a 'lot' of money getting all of these dollies mastered in resin first

'Much' more chance of someone getting their wish of 'this character but scifi' if there exists a dolly or a completed naked one first.

That's why we don't take the 'Aaargh nudity!' crowd too seriously, they're incredibly useful to us. We can even use them when we work with other sculptors so that their proportions match Kev's.

But won't someone think of the children!!

I mean, good grief, what ever will happen if a child notices that they have genitals and so does the rest of the planet!?

*weep, woe, etc*

We're going to be adding a 4th variant to a number of our characters, a bit of a hybrid minis made by both Kev and Tre manor of Red Box.

A number of people commented that our Winter variants aren't Wintery enough for them. The placeholder name for the new variant is 'Frost Variant' and will be Tre dressing a dolly/skyclad that Kev has made. We think it'll be the best way to make sure the figures match Kevs proportions and style but will still be imbued with Tre's love of fur, bedrolls and all manner of 'travelling stuff that hangs off you'.

I present to you my amazing concept art for Frost Shaman Boudi! *



*She will definitely have different horns, just something remotely castable in metal

Neat.

love the models so far

 Jehan-reznor wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
The campaign includes a naked dinosaur, so arguments they're not being inclusive are... odd.

Exalted Internet Winner for Monday, September 12!

All kidding aside, I do believe 'context' is important here.

Or maybe conflict of interests? Because a certain person who was bashing them repeatedly has/is working for HF?
Anyway i like them but as always i find the lacking of Science Fiction ladies disappointing.

We had this discussion awhile back, spawned from the Prodos thread.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/681771.page

It's closed now, but I'm sure if you have thoughts you'd like to discuss, the mods wouldn't stop you from opening a new thread rather than discussing it here. Despite being the OP, I lost interest after a few pages, but it's probably worth reading through in its entirety if you feel strongly either way first.

I need to do a HF order sometime soon, but that bastard Arty Black never got back to me on the white decals!

 Azazelx wrote:


I need to do a HF order sometime soon, but that bastard Arty Black never got back to me on the white decals!

You probably won't believe this, but I genuinely have your PM bookmarked as my entry point to dakka, to permanently remind me when we fix our decals you were interested in white ones. I then use the drop down to check out my subscribed threads.

We switched laser printers a while back and haven't had to time work out why the new one doesn't do them right.

I really like the Frost variants, but for my purposes Winter will probably do fine! The Frostgrave addicts will lap up the figures though

I was hoping "Not Elsa" would be in this as a add on - she would be fun for Frostgrave ?

 Mr Morden wrote:
I was hoping "Not Elsa" would be in this as a add on - she would be fun for Frostgrave ?

I have 'no idea' who you mean, but the only minis in the KS will be based on Matt Dixon artwork. There are a few in our range already that might make an appearance but only those sorry.

 Artemis Black wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
I was hoping "Not Elsa" would be in this as a add on - she would be fun for Frostgrave ?

I have 'no idea' who you mean, but the only minis in the KS will be based on Matt Dixon artwork. There are a few in our range already that might make an appearance but only those sorry.

No worries - I meant this one:



but I see its Mr White.

Will see what turns up and see how much to pledge but I have an awful lot of unpainted minis already ;( can't get the staff.

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Artemis Black wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
I was hoping "Not Elsa" would be in this as a add on - she would be fun for Frostgrave ?

I have 'no idea' who you mean, but the only minis in the KS will be based on Matt Dixon artwork. There are a few in our range already that might make an appearance but only those sorry.

No worries - I meant this one:

That not elsa has been on my "when in metal" list from the first wip of her on facebook.

That is one concern with this KS, a lot of HF's stuff has been taking a very long time to show up in metal this year, so the KS metal stuff showing up a month after the resins seems unlikely. But I guess they may have arrangements in place especially for the KS.
Hopefully that doesn't put further delays on resins already on their website getting the metal treatment.

 Tamereth wrote:
That not elsa has been on my "when in metal" list from the first wip of her on facebook.

That is one concern with this KS, a lot of HF's stuff has been taking a very long time to show up in metal this year, so the KS metal stuff showing up a month after the resins seems unlikely. But I guess they may have arrangements in place especially for the KS.
Hopefully that doesn't put further delays on resins already on their website getting the metal treatment.

The Kickstarter won't have any effect on our regular schedule. The resin to metal time simply extended considerably when the owner of our metal casting company suddenly passed away at the end of 2014 and has stayed at that turnaround time. We haven't really caught up, but we still send of the same amount of moulds etc. It just means our metal releases are a long time after our resin ones, if we didn't do the resin masters nobody would ever know

It's probably around 9 months or longer. We release x minis per month, the only way to catch up is to increase that amount, which we 'may' do. We've also spent a lot of money replacing old moulds over the last yr though so those have taken the spots of upping our releases.

Sending off the Kickstarter moulds at the same time as our regular releases won't make any difference to the turnaround.

I am really trying to figure out how I get out of this KS spending under 150$. It just isn't happening, which means I need to either find a new wife, or a new project of RiTides' to do...

... or become RiTides's wife. There's always a third way.

Thought I'd update with our newest unlocks and the current goal...

Well, my little list of figures I'll be picking up is now: Shaman Boudi (£5), Caoimhe (£5), Tryke (£12), and Shayda Diavol (£5). That's my pledge!

Time to get a little more mad than the Ghost/Banshee, how about a cursed female Wight?

Shouldn't the cencered box be lower on the skyclad Wight?

 JoeRugby wrote:
Shouldn't the cencered box be lower on the skyclad Wight?

That just makes it sound like you want to see dessicated naughty bits.

Arrrgh nooo I had a nice pledge that I could afford and now I want the Wight Queen...

 Artemis Black wrote:

 JoeRugby wrote:
Shouldn't the cencered box be lower on the skyclad Wight?

That just makes it sound like you want to see dessicated naughty bits.

You know me so well

Might do this one, though come to think of it there are many existing hasslefree figures I love and could drop my money on instead.

 kestral wrote:
Might do this one, though come to think of it there are many existing hasslefree figures I love and could drop my money on instead.

Nothing stopping you doing both?

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Nudity is that allowed these days? Prodos Space Crusade (or Brother Vinnie) got slammed because of the sexual suggestive nature of the designs, but Hasslefree is Ok?


(i am ok with it by the way )

It's not "allowed", it's just not miniature gaming's turn to be destroyed by SJWs yet. They're doing Magic: The Gathering right now, we'll have to wait our turn.