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You have my money
Looking forward to the 5th

Drat -- forgot to suggest for the tokens alone VP counters and other colored number trackers or objective markers (eg. Zombicide).

Since you're now familiar with how the tokens are etched, you could make inexpensive flat sf interior bases for miniatures!

 RiTides wrote:

And some answers!

plastictrees - Yes, the red was intended for "rebel scum"
Vanguard - That is a great idea for a banner, thanks! I may try my hand at tweaking it this weekend, but hadn't gotten to any yet, so I really appreciate it!
Alpharius / Piston Honda - I think purple and orange are a nice pairing . Blue is certainly coming, but may not be in the initial / base goal offerings.
MasterSlowPoke / Dark Severance - Yeah, I personally plan to mix and match cubes halves, I love it but I know it's not for everybody!
Snrub - Anpu-adom has it right, it will launch on Tuesday!
Solar_lion - Thanks, and thank you so much for your help at AdeptiCon

Regarding early birds, I actually have figured out a way to offer them that I personally really enjoyed in the projects I've backed - a "first to ship" tier! It gives folks who have been watching and patiently waiting for launch a bonus for jumping in, but doesn't make the deal worse for anybody who comes after. There will be two early bird tiers at the two "sweet spots", $55 (2 ModCube sets, which with the Kickstarter bonus is 18 cubes!) and $100 (4 ModCube sets, or 36 cubes counting the bonus cubes).

Well, count me in on the $55 level, and I'll be working tons of overtime so I can afford the $100 level in the future!

RiTides. I am more then willing to work on the banner for you if you've got any changes you'd like. It's your banner of course, but I'm willing to help out!

I'm in at the $55 level, even though I wish I could go deeper. As much as I like the colors, I'm going with the black. Just want them to fit any of my armies.

I'd like to see a shot of the same.. say 40k tiles in each color.
for comparison and contrast.

If you're the type of person who doesn't like mixing their cereals... close your eyes





Of course, you can also get them all as a single color! But if you get more than one color, or get the Kickstarter-exclusive extra cube frame in a different color, you'll have the option to get a little crazy


Varag - What kind of green would interest you - does an olive / military green make sense for orks, too, or would they want a more traditional / primary green color?

Ramos - These first articles fit together very smoothly, and can be pulled apart really nicely! I am talking to the moldmaker about a small tweak to the latch tolerances, as I would like the final production run to be something in between my prototypes (too difficult to open) and these first articles (slightly too easy to open). This is common with injection molds and is a very small tweak. It does mean that my elaborate failure testing may wait until later on in the campaign when I get the next round of first articles, though (they will keep sending me them until I fully approve the mold and final production run - but these are 99% there!)

ced - Could you describe more of what you mean for panels that would work for something like Zombicide?

Vanguard - Thanks, I will do that once I get a chance to breathe!

Anpu-adom - Many people will want just black, I may want it myself as it just makes the border a non-entity at that point. But honestly, I'm probably going to mix and match . I particularly like any cube I have configured differently to have a different frame color, so it's easy to know which cube I'm picking up.

Solar_lion - I will do that, good suggestion!

Oh man! I was just thinking of getting Black and Purple. They would look good together.

Now I know it does look good!

Edit: Doh! that's the Dark Red / Maroon color. Not purple...


Still looks good though!

Ah yes, I should get some pics of all the combinations - I also like a "Halloween style" black and orange although the black and maroon are perfect for my flesh tearers (blood angels that use a darker red) army!

I may actually have the maroon color darkened just a bit for the production run - I've matched it to a set of pantone colors and it is exactly what I'd specified, but because the material is somewhat glossy (which makes them look really good) it feels brighter than I was aiming for (a dark, Rebel maroon color).

My thought for the next two colors is a sky blue and an olive / military green. What do you guys think of that? It's been suggested to me to avoid duplicating the panel colors / shades, which I think is a good idea. If the campaign goes well, I'll likely have 12 colors total, but I want to prioritize the more popular ones first!

I like being able to mix the colors. That way in x-wing when your flying a tight formation you'll be able to differentiate which tie has which markers attached.

As for future colors I'd say try matching them to the colors of your inserts instead of by game system colors.

I hate to say it but maybe a pink?

for the women & girls (sorry don't hate me, etc, but it does seem to sell), and for those intending to annoy/niggle their opponents

(please come up with some better alternatives)

Oh, I just meant that since you were making these flat plastic squares, gamers may want them without the cube frame itself, since they're blingier than cardboard tokens.

LITKO is best known for its plastic tokens, although I don't like how they look -- not sf enough??

Have you considered making any of the imagery in a regular old black and white? Like black background, white text? I was thinking that would look outstanding inside the orange cubes for really high contrast.

Not sure if that color combination has been suggested yet, I haven't read a bunch of the posts above just yet. They look great though man!

Can't wait for the Kickstarter!

Which kickstarter are you using.

Will you be posting a link here?

out of curiosity, and you may have answered this before (too damn lazy) will we be able to have choices in the colored panels?

Really want purple as my first choice. Having orange or yellow panels are great compliments to purple. Really makes it pop.

I want my cubes to pop.

 RiTides wrote:

Varag - What kind of green would interest you - does an olive / military green make sense for orks, too, or would they want a more traditional / primary green color?

I would like olive green. Although I may not be the best person to ask about Orks, because whilst I've played them since 2nd, I've never liked the bright green skin painted by the studio, or other manufacturers. Mine are quite dark. Black primer and Catachan Green (or equivalent dark green) base colour and a dark brown wash. So olive/military green would suit me quite well, but others might like a brighter green. Any other Ork players out there wanting green? If so, chime in with your preference. Help the man out.

shadowfinder wrote:
Which kickstarter are you using.

I'm pretty sure he's using...Kickstarter.

These look awesome!

I'm firmly in the blue camp, although I'd prefer a navy or royal blue vs a sky blue.

Thanks for the color thoughts, guys, it is very helpful! I've taken the day for admin work and then finalizing the content on the Kickstarter page but will try to toss up a few more pics later!


Orlando - Okay, I'll consider pink but I blame you!

Ced - Got it, I will definitely be selling the panels by themselves later on, but likely not through the Kickstarter (since right now I'd like to focus on the full ModCube sets )

Phyr - I have cut some initial black and white panels, and will test it some more, thanks for the suggestion!

Shadowfinder - I'll definitely post a link, the Kickstarter will start early Tuesday morning (US EST zone).

Piston Honda - I won't have a full "choose your own panel color" system, at least I'm not planning to... but I could offer some of the single color panel sets (such as both 40k varieties) in different colors if there is interest. So you were interested in seeing the second 40k set also offered in yellow? The panel material colors I've been able to source are just what's seen here (yellow, red, blue, green) along with purple and white/black.

Varag - Thanks for the olive green vote, if anyone wants a different green, please speak up

MCRobot - I will see how a darker blue looks then, thanks!

I wouldn't mind seeing some Gray looking Cubes. I always love the "neutral" colors.

You could even go with some sort of "Gun Metal"

I know someone earlier was looking into making these into crates. Are there any plans to make texture tiles? ((Com panels, Wood planks, Metal Riveted Plates, etc))

I don't see a wide enough use for these texture tiles, but a few people might like them.

No blue option means I'm totally going to start flipping tables over!!!

 Alpharius wrote:
Where in the flippity funk are the blue frames, so we can get the two best colors together?!?!?!?!?

That wouldn't be possible yet, I'm not seeing Yellow/Gold either.

Here's an assembly video I made for those who will be giving the ModCubes their first test run this weekend! Our own Hulksmash is one of them




Now, I've mentioned in a few places that I am having one small tweak made to the injection mold - this is extremely common with the injection molding process, and is actually the whole point of their sending first articles to test. That tweak is a small increase in the height of the interior catch which helps the two halves snap together, so that they will be slightly harder to pull apart than these very first articles. We're just finalizing the details for that, and I'll update on when I expect to get the next batch of first articles in, which is what I'll do the failure testing on.

Regarding colors, grey, blue, and yellow are all on the list of planned colors.

I'll be testing some pantone colors this weekend to determine what the 6th color will be! The 4 shown above will be the starting colors, then a military green and one other color (TBD!) as the first stretch goal. I don't want anyone flipping tables so I've been leaning towards blue, but you'll just have to wait until Monday to find out!

They have a really satisfying "click" when you put them together...

Awesome! This has made me super excited!

I can't wait to play with a set of these, and to see what the finalized choice of tiles is!

Keep up the awesome work RiTides!

Looking good there

Dang it! guess I'll have to settle for a color now, and then pick some grey/yellow when they come out later. Really pulling a GW on me here Tides! /s

Can the manufacturer of the cubes send you a mix of just colors to show what's available? I know from selling home improvement stuff for many years a lot of manufactures have color chips on the beaded chains to show possible colors. Is that an option?

Also I must refrain from watching videos of Dakka-Dakka-Ites, even pictures of people just thrown me off. I guess it comes from seeing Avatars of everyone and thinking about what they sound like in person, then it being completely different in the "real" world.

Thanks guys, and yeah, the click is pretty satisfying

Whalemusic, hopefully I can get some grey / yellow cubes into this campaign later on in the project, they just won't be in the initial offerings (although grey is neck-and-neck with blue as a candidate for that 6th color!)

Theophony, I do have pictures of color chips from the manufacturer, but the most useful thing is that they match Pantone colors exactly. I'll show pics of the current "actual" cube colors next to a Pantone color swatch, and for additional colors I will be painting the cubes to as close a match to the swatch as I can, and showing both together. I will also post the CMYK values in case you want to check the color yourself, since monitors can display colors a bit differently!

My screen is always right, your product must be manufactured wrong .

I'll have to check out Pantone colors.