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The swarm of frogs is adorable! This is my son's favorite mini of campaign so far.

And I concur with Bob on "He's got a gun!" That's a must have. Perfect Planet of the Apes mini.

Will the 'swarm of frogs' translate OK from render to PVC though?

 Mysterio wrote:
Will the 'swarm of frogs' translate OK from render to PVC though?

You never know until you see the final product. But in my opinion -

I have Mantic's excellent Veer-myn Piper figure, who comes with two swarms of rats, and I can tell you that those came out very well. Here's Mantic's official pic:



Mantic's gotten pretty good with PVC in general, and Hellboy is a high-budget / high-profile game for them, so I personally doubt there will be a problem.



You can see on the render above that the space between the frogs becomes solid amorphous filler, as if they were emerging from a smooth column, so if that's conspicuous in the final model, it's inherent in the design, not a casting flaw. Considering that we're looking at a blown up digital image of something that will become very small, though, those spaces will be teeny tiny, and probably inconspicuous to all but the most nit-picky.

That has to constitute miniature release of the year

 Vermonter wrote:

 Mysterio wrote:
Will the 'swarm of frogs' translate OK from render to PVC though?

You never know until you see the final product. But in my opinion -

I have Mantic's excellent Veer-myn Piper figure, who comes with two swarms of rats, and I can tell you that those came out very well. Here's Mantic's official pic:



Mantic's gotten pretty good with PVC in general, and Hellboy is a high-budget / high-profile game for them, so I personally doubt there will be a problem.

Thank you for that - much appreciated!

Looks like they will turn out just fine, so that's good to hear. This campaign is a great value and remarkably....affordable and restrained, at least to date.

I imagine there will have to be one or two 'must have' add-ons before the end though?

Some more pictures of the sculpts.

The Nazi War Ape and the Conqueror Worm are massive. Lot of people gonna want that Ape LOL.

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Argh can’t seem to get these up using the iPad still the link should be valid.

Here you go

You the man thanks DaveC.

You may want to post some of the others also, simply great sculpts on the whole and paint jobs on the ones painted up.

OK the rest - although the clear material makes it hard to see the detail

Thanks again and ain’t Hellboy with horns just a great mini.

Overall this KS is shaping up nicely. They just need some killer add ons and SG’s to add at least another 500K on

Let’s hope they get a few more painted up so we can see them in all their glory.

The painted ones look great - it was a VERY smart move to get Angel to paint them!

 Mysterio wrote:
The painted ones look great - it was a VERY smart move to get Angel to paint them!

I wonder if they were contractually obliged to do that? their in house painter Dave is a great painter (and a Golden Demon winner) maybe they just didn't have the time for Dave to paint everything on his schedule and had to outsource it and Angel is the man you want to outsource to.

Inspired and If Mantic get the production values right post KS they could go up in a lot of people’s estimations including mine.

Nice to see some interest from local press
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 DaveC wrote:

 Mysterio wrote:
The painted ones look great - it was a VERY smart move to get Angel to paint them!

I wonder if they were contractually obliged to do that? their in house painter Dave is a great painter (and a Golden Demon winner) maybe they just didn't have the time for Dave to paint everything on his schedule and had to outsource it and Angel is the man you want to outsource to.

Agree, have been following Angel for years through his Infinity work and lucky enough to see some in person as well. The guy can most certainly paint and in this case its showing the minis in the best possible light.

Interesting the Nottingham Post note 15000 games ordered. Does this mean their are 5000 retail orders?

Will these come in at the end and boost the SG’s?

Its more likely that they have to commit to a minimum order of 15,000 units if they need more based on how well the KS does they can up that order then.

Here's my suggestion for a campaign wondering how to reckon with it's own success and trying to come up with stretch goals:

Dashboards for organizing item cards, hit points, experience, you name it, all in one place. CMON has being doing these for their recent Zombicide editions, and they are great for accelerating play and reducing clutter. (And not nearly as complicated or expensive to design as a digital miniature.) The only problem CMON has with these is giving backers more of them than they need during kickstarters. As gaming tools, they're fantastic.

Agree - those dashboards are an absolutely fantastic idea. Think they're useful in the functional sense as well as looking cool (and the Invader one looks like the best yet!)

£950k was the last goal posted here

New stretch goal added


And another teaser of what I'm assuming is a Hellboy in Mexico pack for today's Add-on Wednesday to go with the Luchador we had last week

Hellboy's lunchbox isn't as impressive as I'd imagine. There's got to be a reason Liz stays with him, right?

Liz isn't with hellboy in the comics

Because of the lunchbox?

The above Hellboy in Mexico expansion is £35 and, while not KS exclusive, is a one print-run and done job. This means that they will be getting enough to cover all the Ks orders and some to sell at conventions, but it will not be going to retail.

thanks to this we've just blown through the Fire token upgrade and Pancakes hellboy Agent card stretch goals and are nearly at Kate's card as well.

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Kate is now passed as well

That is such a zany add-on. I can't decide whether I love it or if it is too weird. I really like the enemies...

Hopefully a later stretch goal will double up the minions in the same way as in the base game and other expansions

I've realized that every single game of Hellboy will look very similar up until the very end with either Frogmen+ boss, Nazis + boss, or Woodland creatures + boss. The vast majority of the stretch goals have been really uninteresting to me, as they add very little to the game experience. I don't understand the fascination with backup agents for example. They have already said that next week the stretch goals will largely be the same (more backup agents, more linen finish, more one-off Nazis). The campaign has just become really boring. All of the additional boss types have all been Nazi variety types, which is my least favorite foe that Hellboy faces. There has been a lot of requests in the comments for more minion diversity, but to no avail so far. I'm getting bored with the campaign.

The game is starting at the first Hellboy stories and working their way forward (with a lot of additional releases planned to go straight to retail) similar to how the Walking Dead game started at the beginning of the comics with each expansion covering the next phase of the comics. Hellboy does start with very similar enemies but expands more as the comic progresses so we will see the same happen with the boars game. The Mexico expansion being added as an early side release was a way to help mix things up with a side story.

I like the backup agents as they also operate as full agents so allow you to play the game with a team of minor character agents rather than always having to play as the main stars.

I would like to see at least a couple of types of extra minions added during the campaign so hopefully that does happen.

Sounds like there is an additional addon this Wednesday on top of the promised resin models.

I'll partially agree with Gallahad in that the campaign has become a bit boring.

Most of the add-ons have been easy passes.

I'll also admit that upgrades to the box (Linen finish and spot varnish?!?) and stuff like that are...lame.

Mixing things up more ala the Lucadores Expansion stuff would be great.

A better box is certainly worth having (as some Mantic boxes have been thin and easily torn), although i'm less interested with in the finish

but at least they're keeping an eye on making it deliverable, the sheer nonsense of the request lists in the comments are crazy (I can understand asking for a fav character or villain, but so many have a list of about 20)

(and I want the minions in the Hellboy in Mexico expansion doubled up like the rest)