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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/584137481/tag-dwarf-empire-knights-on-foot



Over the last five or so years the White Knight's Miniature Imperium has been building a comprehensive range of Empire Dwarves for classic Role-Play and Old School gamers. This huge range has been only available in a very small way, through personal contact with White Knight's blog.

Now, The Assault Group, a historical wargames manufacturer with over a decade of experience, hope to bring these fantastic 28mm sized multi-part metal miniatures to as wide an audience as possible, through Kickstarter.

DEM052 Dwarf Imperial Knight Command on foot (4)
DEM053 Dwarf Imperial Knights on foot with swords & shields I (4)
DEM054 Dwarf Imperial Knights on foot with swords & shields II (4)
DEM055 Dwarf Imperial Knights on foot hammers & shields I (4)
DEM056 Dwarf Imperial Knights on foot with hammers & shields II (4)
DEM057 Dwarf Lieb Knights on foot with scythes I (4)
DEM058 Dwarf Lieb Knights on foot with scythes II (4)
DEM059 Dwarf Lieb Knights on foot with swords & shields I (4)
DEM060 Dwarf Lieb Knights on foot with swords & shields II (4)
DEM061 Dwarf Lieb Knights on foot with hammers & shields I (4)
DEM062 Dwarf Lieb Knights on foot with hammer & shields II (4)
DEM063 Dwarf Boar Knights on foot with morningstar & shields I (4)
DEM064 Dwarf Boar Knights on foot with morningstar & shields II (4)
DEM065 Dwarf Boar knights on foot with swords & shields I (4)
DEM066 Dwarf Boar knights on foot with swords & shields II (4)
DEM067 Dwarf Boar knights on foot with hammers & shields I (4)
DEM068 Dwarf Boar knights on foot with hammers & shields II (4)
Initially we have 17 new packs of Dwarf Empire multi-part minis to release through crowd-funding, These are dismounted knight versions of all the mounted knightly orders that White Knight already produces.

But this is not all, if we can Fund, and hit our 1st Stretch Goal (£500) then we will be able re-release the whole White Knight Dwarf Empire range to Kickstarter Backers at these special discounted prices.
FREEBIE miniatures!
TAG have a long running scheme where for every £39 spent through our Shopping Cart, we add an extra Freebie miniature from the huge number of limited edition miniatures we have... We intend to carry this idea through to this Kickstarter campaign. So for every £39.00 Pledged we'll add one off these Dwarf Freebies;
DEM-a Dwarf Maid
DEM-b Dwarf Floozy
DEM-c Dwarf Spearmaiden
You'll be free to choose which one of these you would like added for free, or you could choose from any on the TAG Freebie List, or you could exchange them for more minis for the Dwarf Empire range



Shipping

We will deal with the payment for the shipping of the the finished minis away from the Kickstarter, through a Pledge Manager, but the cost will be as follows.
All Pledges of £52 or over, will be post FREE WORLDWIDE!
All other Pledges are an additional £4.00 for UK & European Backers, and £5.00 for Backers in any other destination, worldwide.

Update #2 Dec 15 2015

Stretch Goal One achieved

Morning All,

Great News this morning is that the first Stretch Goal has been achieved.

At this £500 level, we will be able to remould all the minis for the current Dwarf Empire Range and make them available to Kickstarter Backers at the prices shown on the KS rewards.

The full range, with many of the packs fully pictured, can be seen here on the TAG site. There are literally 100's of variant minis to be made up from this range so no two Unit need look the same.

So please, keep Backing the Project, and Sharing this Updates, and we'll keep pushing towards more Stretch Goals.



Dwarf Knight with Hammer

Stretch Goal Two is double freebies, so once we get to the £1000 level, we add an Extra for every £20 Pledged.



Update 3

Update #3 Dec 15 2015

Size Comparison picture

I've been asked a couple of times for a size comparison picture so you can see these miniatures along side other Old School type minis.



Dwarf Empire-Marauder-Dwarf Empire

This shot comes for the WK blog and shows the Dwarf infantry along side an old Marauder miniatures equivalent. Just to give an idea of where we are style and size wise.

I'll be back in the morning with a steel ruler for some more pictures, but until then i hope this helps.

Shouldn't there be pictures of the packs?

Previous customers of White Knight's Miniature Imperium might have a good idea of how they look but isn't KS partly about reaching out to a bigger audience?

There's a link to a lot of the stuff here

http://www.theassaultgroup.co.uk/index.php?p=247

(it probably didn't come across properly in my copy/paste)

But I'd agree more pics of them on the KS page would be good


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First pictures of painted Dwarf Knights

Thanks to 'Here Be Dragons Painting Services', these are the first few Dwarf Empire minis I've had painted for my collection.

There are loads of variations, of each mini type, these are just a few...

Dwarf Knight mit Hammer
Dwarf Knight mit Hammer
Dwarf Knight mit Hammer
Dwarf Knight mit Morningstar
Dwarf Knight mit Morningstar
Dwarf Knight mit Morningstar

Dwarf Knight mit sword


Dwarf Knight mit Sword

I hope you are impressed, I'll be back before the weekend with complete break downs of all the new pack content.

Update #5 ℹ Dec 17 2015



Hey All,

Firstly thank you to all the new people that pledged in the last two days, its great to have you as Backers, and you've pushed the Project on nicely to just over £2K. 8)

So on to the Stretch Goals...

Well you busted the Second Goal completely out of the water yesterday so I'm very pleased to announce that all Pledges will now have DOUBLE FREEBIES!

Thats one extra mini for every £20 Pledged, and don't forget that you can choose any of the Dwarf Freebies shown on the Campaign page... OR... any of the 80+ minis shown here on the main TAG site... OR... just swap them for more basic minis from the Dwarf Empire range... the choice is yours...

The next Stretch Goal will be at £3000. When we can get that far, I'll give every Backer at the £8 or over level, a FREE Exclusive Kickstarter mini... more of which later...

So please, Like&Share the Project, tell your Friends, mention it at the Gaming Group, or do whatever it takes to get the message out... and lets push on to FREE EXCLUSIVE MINIS at £3000

Details of Kickstarter Exclusive mini... and the next Stretch Goal.

Posted by peter brown



As promised, and as you crashed through my £3000 Stretch Goal with ease...

TAG will sculpt and produce, for free, a brand-new Limited Edition Kickstarter Exclusive Dwarf miniature, to give away to to every Backer that has Pledged at £8 level or higher.

This new miniature will be a genuine Kickstarter Exclusive, and limited to to the number of Backers Pledging Funds to this Kickstarter only, which looks like it might be between 40 and 60 castings. After, the mould will be destroyed, and the mini will never appear in TAG range, or anywhere else, EVER AGAIN!

What will the mini be? Well lets just say he's... 'Mr Festive'... and hopefully he'll be making a appearance here for me, and millions of other children worldwide this week...

And the next Stretch Goal, well at £4000, I'll make that Triple FREEBIES, one for every £13.50 ish Pledged... So please, up those Pledges, tell your Friends, Like&Share the announcements, and lets get this little project pushed as far as possible in the week or so left.

Making progress, sword in hand..

Update #17 Dec 29 2015

£5000 Stretch Goal Unlocked...
Thank you for that Ladies and Gentlemen, this afternoon we burst through the £5000 Fund Level and opened Quadruple Freebies!!!

Quadruple Freebies is 4 Freebie miniatures for every £39.50 Pledged, or 1 for every £10 (ish).

You'll be free to choose which one of those shown on the Campaign page, or you could choose from any on the TAG Freebie List, or you could exchange them for more minis for the Dwarf Empire range.

And dare I suggest a £6000 Stretch Goal?

...well at £6000, we'll commission and produce, another Limited Edition Kickstarter Exclusive Miniature, to add to all Pledges at £8 or over...



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Update #18 Dec 29 2015

Foot Knights all scanned.

Finally, what for most is probably the most keenly awaited Update of this or any Kickstarter, the first pictures of the actual products, and so with no more mucking-about here are the scan images of all the Dwarf Empire Foot Knight parts Funded by this Kickstarter.

Initially we had hoped to have only one Command Group for all the Foot Knights we have planned, but after further, long and hard discussions, between White Knight and myself, we have decided that I was plainly wrong and foolish to put all the parts in one pack, and we would be much better off have one for each of the Knightly Orders as White Knight suggested.

So this is, DEM052 Dwarf Imperial Knight Command on foot



Dwarf Imperial Knight Command on foot

and I'll be adding two new Packs to the end of our very long list of codes, one of Leib Knights like these; DEM069 Dwarf Leib Knight Command on foot


Dwarf Leib Knight Command on foot


and one for the Boar Knights, like this DEM070 Dwarf Boar Knight Command on foot;



Dwarf Boar Knight Command on foot

These two new packs will be added FREE of Charge to All those Pledging at the £115 'One of Each Level' making that Level 19 pack or 76 miniatures, and off course, will be available for anyone to choose as part of their normal Pledges.

Other than that, its as you were with the release as shown in Update 8, with these 8 bodies...


Bodies without hands


Bodies without shoulders

being combined with these 5 heads for the each of the Knightly Orders;



Imperial Knight Heads



Leib Knight Heads



Boar Knight Heads

and your choices of weapons and shields...


Dwarf Sword with hand

Dwarf Swords with arms

Dwarf Hammers with hand

Dwarf Hammers with arms

Dwarf Scythe with hand

Dwarf Scythe with arm

Dwarf Morningstar with hand

Dwarf Morningstars with arms

Imperial Shields

Leib Shields

Boar Shields

So hopefully that give you a good idea of what you've Pledged for and Funded, and you can now start to plan ahead for the arrival of the Pledge manager early in the New Year.



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Final 36 hours

£6000 Stretch Goal Unlocked

Posted by peter brown



Wow, thanks to pretty much one top level Backer we shot though the £6000 Fund level and you will all get another FREE LIMITED EDITION KICKSTARTER EXCLUSIVE MINIATURE.

We'll add these to EVERYONE'S Rewards at the £8 Level and above, so that's now at least two FREE limited edition exclusive miniature dwarves for everyone backing Project above £1.

And these will be genuine Limited Editions, as it looks from the projects that we will have less than 90 backers so only that number will be made, and these mould will be destroyed once the casting is complete.

... for £7000? Well talk about Glass-sealing, but I hadn't even planned to get above the £5K Fund Level, so I'm lost as to what to do for the next Stretch Goal, I cant just keep throwing free minis at you can I? Can I?

Right, I'm off the rouse a sculptor and get this new Dwarf made quickly... We mustn't slow down delivery because of this one little addition...

pete