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 Rezyn wrote:
Anyone know when the KS goes live tomorrow?

No specific time has been mentioned, but they did mention there aren't any early birds so you don't have to worry about missing out on a discounted price or anything.

Loving the terrain detailing stuff. Great to see home made scenery again. Good chance i'll buy some of those sprunes.

 malfred wrote:
People have used junction boxes for necromancy since time immemorial


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Necromunda....stupid ipad

*heads back from the graveyard to return a bunch of junction boxes*

Thanks for bursting my bubble, malf!

The earlier the better.

I don't want to actually have to pay attention at work tomorrow.

3 hour conferences on how to use a computer program I've used all year does not sound enjoyable.

I need me my kickstarter fix!

Terrain is interesting, would be good to have some tutorials about how to combine it with plasticard to make certain buildings.

There are some terrain tutorials planned but I cant speak to timescales just yet. We have all the photos but need to type a lot of stuff up without making any mistakes!

The kickstarter will launch in the morning as we are setting up for Salute in the afternoon. I imagine it will launch between 09.00-10.00 BST (GMT+1). Thanks everyone

Does this mean there will be no one manning the helm during part of the first day?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Does this mean there will be no one manning the helm during part of the first day?

Lego is also initiating DakkaNet, the moderation AI at that time.

Tomorrow is Judgement Day.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Does this mean there will be no one manning the helm during part of the first day?

Not while I'm pooping, but otherwise we'll have access on our phones all day. Long, drawn out responses will be limited to how arthritic our thumbs become.

What, can't take the phone to the bathroom with you?

 GrimDork wrote:
What, can't take the phone to the bathroom with you?

Don't answer that. Please.

I dont want to drag the thread off topic, but when (in the server logs) I see 4-6 minute Dakka sessions with mobile browser headers during the middle of the day, I know what you are all doing and I wish I didnt!

I asked a while back but it got buried amidst the terrain talk; will any upgrades added to the box set during the KS be in the retail box as well?

Glad to hear about terrain tutorials!

Also happy to hear that there won't be any KS exclusives, never liked those and feel like they get in the way of the entire point of Kickstarter, since it's using funds to produce a product which will never be sold... the only point is to to drive backers in a campaign.. and then consequently annoy any retail buyers who come along later and realise they can't get the exclusives.

 Paradigm wrote:
I asked a while back but it got buried amidst the terrain talk; will any upgrades added to the box set during the KS be in the retail box as well?

Yes that's certainly the intention - the kickstarter is designed to underpin our retail focused, long term game, not be a one-shot wonder. I dont want to give an explicit yes/no answer until we have the absolute final costs in place (based on the volumes we get from the kickstarter), but it is our aim to mirror the two.

 RiTides wrote:

MasterSlowPoke, I think the box insaniak used was one of those container boxes that you hang on a pegboard (also cheap and readily available).

Yup. You can find them in the storage sections at most hardware stores, and there's a few different ones floating around cheap on Amazon as well. After doing that blue one, I picked up a box that included a rack and 15 bright orange tubs in a slightly different design for $25 from Bunnings (big chain hardware store here in Oz) ... so under $2 per building.

The one I used is around a 1L box, but you could as easily use smaller or larger ones for different building types. And despite the shape always giving you that awning-style front, it's easy enough to turn them into different types of buildings by putting different front walls in under the awning. The white one Lego showed was intended as a food kiosk. I have another in progress that just has the big garage door from the sprue.


The junction boxes d-usa showed do look perfect as well for more square-front buildings, though.

 Alex C wrote:
Bear in mind the plastic is quite tough on those boxes, you may need a saw to get through it. Especially if you get the hard shell kind.

I don't know if the junction boxes and the storage trays are different plastics (it's possible that the junction boxes would need to be more heavy-duty) but I found the trays fairly easy to cut with an exacto-knife. It takes a little patience to keep it neat, but it's definitely do-able without too many tears.

The doors and windows are designed to be inset, but if you want to avoid cutting plastic, you can easily make a little boxwork around the doorframe that would remove that need... An example of that is one of the things still on my to-do list

I'm guessing you're the sort of high-falutin' folk who actually change out blades in their x-acto knife every once in a while though - alledgedly, that seems to matter

I work with junction boxes every day. They are tougher to cut than you think. It's certainly possible, but be prepared to work at it. I wouldn't want someone slipping and hurting themselves because they thought it would be easy.

Thankfully the terrain sprues make even standard ones look cool for terrain!

Not sure if this has been asked, and might be a bit of putting the cart before the horse, but...

Any plans on having anything similar PP's press gangers? I know it's early but the program seems to work well.

Just want to say the terrain looks incredible!

The concept behind it is amazing, you can spruce up anything rather than having a set kit, this way there are less limitations Also, did I say just how awesome they look?

I will be wanting to get my hands on as many of these as possible, hopefully they are included extensively in the kickstarter.

I would like to get a whole lot of these separately, so like people have said before if there is a pledge for just these (and a whole lot of them) I'll be adding that to everything else I already want. Or if there is a whole lot of them to come with others, even better.

We'll see soon enough I guess, can't wait to see the kickstarter.

Quick question before the KIckstarter Campaign, will you do a massive media blitz, reaching all available miniature and even non-miniature game media?

One thing which has surprised me is the unwillingness of kickstarters to do the media push.

DrRansom wrote:
Quick question before the KIckstarter Campaign, will you do a massive media blitz, reaching all available miniature and even non-miniature game media?

One thing which has surprised me is the unwillingness of kickstarters to do the media push.

'Massive' and 'all' don't feel the same to me in the miniatures gaming media... Where do you normally go looking for news that your not seeing things posted?


TTGN will cover it as long as someone tosses Jason a link, which should get it reblogged by a number of sites, likely including BOLS if Lego & Crew don't have a Gamewire Account. TMP has hoops to jump through if they didn't just happen to be interested in your news to post it themselves. And unless Lego has told them to go feth themselves, BOW will probably cover it too. BoardgameGeek doesn't care if its not a boardgame, and their advertising costs are rarely made back by pledges. Other gaming sites pretty much only care about Video Games.

I'm very late to this party, but those building sprues are going to be perfect to spruce up my already built foamcore city. I didn't even realize I had a problem, and you guys/gals solved it! Great success!

 malfred wrote:
People have used junction boxes for necromancy since time immemorial

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Necromunda....stupid ipad

Please add this to the rotation for the forum headers. It's such a great line.

 legoburner wrote:
I dont want to drag the thread off topic, but when (in the server logs) I see 4-6 minute Dakka sessions with mobile browser headers during the middle of the day, I know what you are all doing and I wish I didnt!

Big Brother is watching...

Is it morning in the UK yet?

Well I work the night shift so I'll be awake for the morning in the UK. So anytime you guys wake up and reveal the kickstarter is good by me! And it'll give me something to look at to keep me awake!

I'm doing the same thing. Only it's Friday in Japan.
Maybe tonight I can see it on Kickstarter.

 d-usa wrote:
Is it morning in the UK yet?

Haha.. yes it is !

Did anyone know about this website by the way? Just noticed it!

http://www.maelstromsedge.com/medge/

I did not notice that, thanks for pointing it ou!