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More stuff from our nordic girls :-)

Painted version of the Army Banner Bearer (most pledges got this as a freebie)







And Work in Progress from the Shieldmaiden Chieftess





Next we reveal... Goblins!

The banner bearer is a total miss for me, unfortunately.

OTOH, the chieftess pose, detail and expression? All stellar, love it. I'd love her even more with other kind of armor, but that ship sailed.

The KS launches on Tuesday September 13th, time of launch to be announced on Monday 12th.
In the meanwhile all this experience we are accumulating on plastic tooling gets implemented in each new kit, here's how ball-point joints will allow large variability even if using the same pieces (and we'll try to get as much goodies as possible on the sprues once again!)




Thanks for reading.

One last teaser before the final announcement with the exact time of launch :-)

Spider head versions

Are those helmets? if so I think I may have to dive on this despite my long standing agreement to not buy more from a company that I am still waiting on product from.

Looking good so far.

I like the Goblin but can't help but think the Spearhead is a bit too Heroic for my tastes.

Will smaller Spearheads be available?

Got My Mammoths today - they look ace

thanks and well done!

@ingtaer
Glad you like them! We have contacted Renedra to send us a picture of how the manufacturing progress is proceeding, HIPS tooling takes time and there's not much else we can do about it :-)
@StygianBeach
I'm afraid not. Most people want these to be compatible with products from another range plus this scale is the one we use for our range anyway, so I can be straightforward in telling you that smaller weapon sizes will not be available. If you need smaller tips, I'm afraid that's going to call for conversions/cutting from your part :-)
@Mr Morden
Thank you!

Also, time of launch as seen below, suitable for some, less suitable for others, we try doing our best "-)
Main target is the funding of the infantry's plastic kit, all other goodies are candy on top! :-D

Yaaaaaas, spiders. Hopefully the campaign will run to the end of the month as chipping in before then would be annoying.

It would be a bad move to have the campaign end before the end of the months considering most people receive their paycheck then.

 Zywus wrote:
It would be a bad move to have the campaign end before the end of the months considering most people receive their paycheck then.

We have taken that under consideration. Even if the CC payment connected to the KS account isn't covered, the crowdfunding platform still allows for 7 days to cover the amount pledged for. So no worries on that argument.
The project will last some 15 days... :-)

Ready to rock and roll with this, mind you I will be at work so might have to take a "cough toilet break cough"

Also got my KS battle born mammoth head yesterday and it looks amazing as did the complete mammoth of course, however it was surprising how cool it actually looks I wish I had got two know though

Not backed a 'Shieldwolf' kickstarter previously but looking like I may go in for this one.

Is it likely or not that other Sheildwolf armies will be available as add-ons?

@CBRFigs
We are looking forward to having you, hope you'll like what we have prepared!

The only other army available is going to be the Orcs just to help with the funding, we don't connect them but fits with T9A aesthetics so seems some people will welcome it.
If that doesn't suffice and taking into consideration the project is being cofunded, then the plastic Forest Goblin Army maybe aren't meant to be... We feel very positive that their time has come though! :-D


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Time has finally come to change the signature, lol... hopefully I'll remember to do so swiftly enough!


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Yep, it is live! :-)
Thank you for your support! :-D

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1273312680/war-is-coming-forest-goblins/description

Kickstarter looks exciting. I am tempted by Early Bird pledge but would like an opportunity to pledge for all the available plastics - orcs, new goblins, shield maidens and any new HIPS beasties.

I'm so easily led..

@feugan
Thank you. Commencing with a HIPS beasty would have sky-rocketed the funding target and killed off the campaign at the very start. We have decided to follow the advice we received from our KS-2 and take it one step at a time, momentum is what's going to attract more backers and allow for something BIG in HIPS to happen. :-)
@Orlando
Appreciate the faith and support :-D

MMMMM that Forest Brutgoth

Bring on the bacon!

Backed! Hope we can get to the SG to unlock the short bows

100 gobbos 100 bucks, why not. And free shipping, like Kickstarters from olden times!

@Ritides
Update #1 is all about the Brutgoth (since it's the, er, special guest in the house!) and we think you are going to find it very interesting. Since this is Dakka and people here are usually more familiar with the hobby/details than others, it might please you to know that Olivier Nkwetti has been commissioned for this. It's a concept we really loved and spared no expense, we have been surprised that no-one had ever created anything else like it for the Goblins (and Orcs for that matter), since it only makes perfect sense to me that little guys would use a BIG thing in battle... well, bigger guys (the Orcs) would bring something bigger as well! "-)
@willb2064
Thank you! Yes, we do too, it's the reason we revealed and pushed forward this SG so people know what to expect. I think you can tell what the next sprue upgrade will be too...
@ArtIsGreat
We tried being as competitive as possible by keeping logistics in place, we think all pledge levels offer really great value for money. A win-win situation, just like crowdfunding is meant to be in my opinion :-D

Thank you all for your support, it means a lot to me and my Team! :-D

I missed that on the shipping, that's great! And just $5 on other levels. If we want add-ons only (like a Brutgoth ) do we just add $5 if selecting the lowest pledge level - so $65 + $5 = $70 for the Brutgoth alone?

@RiTides
I'm afraid that's a negative, for those at the $1 add-on level shipping will be calculated according to actual costs. The $50 level does stand at $5 for EU&USA ($8 for RoW) regardless of whether you add the beast or not, whilst everyone else doesn't have to worry about shipping as it's already included.

Those look cool, but given that I'm still waiting on my stuff from the last KS I'm going to have to pass.

 TheWaspinator wrote:
Those look cool, but given that I'm still waiting on my stuff from the last KS I'm going to have to pass.

Glad you like them. :-)
We have already been messaged from other people that follow your point of view. We naturally respect that, but if you allow me I'd like to point out that communication and progress of the Shieldmaiden project (in our opinion) has been constant and partial delivery (wave-1 has fully shipped) has already been made with Shieldwolf covering all P&P costs in advance.

We too would like to have the plastics delivered to our HQ today if possible but HIPS tooling is what it is. We have contacted Renedra and they are going to send us a picture of how the tooling looks like (please don't expect anything too fancy at this stage!), other than that there's nothing else we can do about it.
Also, we have admitted that there might be a very slight delay but delivery isn't due until December this year as stated in the campaign, so we trust it all falls under "acceptable" as we cherish our reputation a lot.

As I said however, point of view is certainly respected, hopefully we will have changed your mind before the project ends :-D

I did't realize at first they come with ball and socket arms.
Pretty neat design to have those bands/straps around the shoulders to obscure the join where the ball of the arm goes into the socket of the torso. Although can't really see what their function is in-universe?

They're a bit too chunky for my taste but they do hold up well to any of the other plastic gobbo offerings on the market so I really hope you're successfull.

I like them but I don't need them urgently and I would prefer to wait and see the quality of the plastic shield maidens from the last KS - which I backed.

I think I will wait this one out until retail.

plessiez wrote:
I like them but I don't need them urgently and I would prefer to wait and see the quality of the plastic shield maidens from the last KS - which I backed.

I think I will wait this one out until retail.

I respect your stance and again thank you for your support on the Shieldmaiden KS. I'd only like to point out that these won't hit retail ever if the project doesn't fund, we genuinely need the additional funds to make this happen. We have already invested in this and like we said prior to the launch, this is a "make-it-or-break-it", we don't use crowdfunding just to bulk sales, we truly need the trust and funds in order to create and bring to life. :-)

@Zywus
The ball-pointed versions were suggested by the sculptor, we trust in his expertise and agreed. It's not exactly ball-pointed but we call it like that, you'll see what I mean.
This was meant to be explained in Update #2 but I might as well place a picture here to explain myself better :-)

The illustrated render below was an early concept which we changed. We are not in favor of having people greenstuffing all the joints of their miniatures in order to conceal and make them look good, let alone a horde of goblins!



One cannot dream of one day producing the best plastics worldwide if we don't constantly improve. We gather the know-how as time goes by and we are eager to implement it in actual production. :-)

I'm in a similar boat re: waiting for the Shieldmaidens. I don't own any of your kit yet, so already took a bit of a gamble on that project. Plus, like many others, I'm finding the 14-day timescale to be tricksy. I'm already pledging for Hasslefree this month, and probably Gods War too.

We are backing this project at the 'Campaign Army' level, as I have said above I haven't previously backed a Sheildwolf KS (unfortunately).

One of the first things I did after backing was to ask whether we would be able to add to our pledge after the kickstarter funding period closed in the post-funding survey (we like most people have other kickstarters we are backing, and of course there is that little horrible thing called 'Real Life' that eats away at our funds ). Anyway glad to say the answer was 'Yes'.