Impact! 17 Football Team KickStarter - LAST DAY!!!!!

[goldbaek]

Oh yeah, that is a great miniature - or should I say, bigature - and like Darkson, I can definately see these for my new Ogre team! Excellent stuff

1) ZN Games has agreed to a license with us to convert the Ulfhedner into Trollcast! This is a large figure ... easily Big Guy sized.

This means we'll be able to offer the team in Trollcast for $35 as well with 6 Ulfhedner, 5 Werelings and 5 Werepoodles:

I can't help but thinking Beast of Nurgle...

REALLY looking forward to this KS, but I'm not sure I'll tell my girlfriend about it until AFTER I've pledged...

[GalakStarscraper]

The Calasain sculpts are finished and I'm very happy with the old school 2E feel to the team now. So these will definitely be part of the KickStarter. 4 Blitzers, 4 Catchers, 6 Bare Head Linemen and 6 Helmet Head Linemen + one Big Guy.

[Stout Youngblood]

Those are perfect. Will definitely pick up a team.

[Chris]

So less frogmen more turtle sorta heads?

[BillyDee]

Less frogmen, more ancient space alien. I like them.

[GalakStarscraper]

So less frogmen more turtle sorta heads?

If you look at the one piece of 2E art for the team ... it was more alien looking than frog looking. The team is trying to capture that look more than the frogman look. Since the team is stranded aliens in the fluff ... seemed to make sense to go with that look.

Tom

[Lychanthrope]

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[Chris]

So less frogmen more turtle sorta heads?

If you look at the one piece of 2E art for the team ... it was more alien looking than frog looking. The team is trying to capture that look more than the frogman look. Since the team is stranded aliens in the fluff ... seemed to make sense to go with that look.

Tom

I went and had a look - yes I can see what you mean. I guess I had assumed they would be like the old GW slann (which admittedly were pretty dire but had comical faces!).

[goldbaek]

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During the last year or so, I've followed many fundraisers and if I - as a potential buyer - can give you, Tom (and all other companies for that matter), just a few pieces of advice on running these things:

1) Size comparison pictures.
One of the things that bother me most is when I can't determine the size of the minis in the fundraiser. And this has often stopped me from pledging - even though the models looked awesome. Take a picture of the new models next to some old, well-known ones. Everyone in this community knows the size of Ripper Bolgrot. Or one of the plastic minis from the BB starter set. Or 2-3 Block dices on top of each other. It really helps me (the potential buyer) to make an informed decision before funding the campaign and thus saves me from disappointment when the packet arrives and I find the minis to be either too large or small.

2) Pictures of the models during the WIP-phase as well as both unpainted and painted.
Sometimes a paintjob pic can prevent me from buying a certain mini. Maybe it's not painted well. Maybe it's not a color scheme that appeals to me. Or maybe it's painted too well (yes, this can happen too). To have pics from all three stages helps me (the potential buyer) to see all details of the minis in all conditions. So if the paintjob doesn't appeal to me, I can just look at the unpainted pic and say "well, the paintjob really makes a cool model look bad" etc.

3) Free shipping.
Everybody loves free stuff. And even though it might not be completely free (as in: "we've raised the price of the pledge levels just a bit in order to give you free shipping") we still want it. What we definately don't want is to calculate the shipping costs in an overly advanced shipping calculator or read the text in small saying "please add £30 for shipping outside our own country - unless you live in some other country where you should add $35". Make it as easy as possible for the funder - free shipping FTW!

Oh, and one last piece of advice - which of course won't be an issue for this particular fundraiser... Write in English! No matter how bad you think your written English is - don't write in Polish, Spanish or some other language that only a certain percentage of your target audience understands. Please don't. I've seen waaaaaaay too many fundraisers written in Spanish (both on KS, Indiegogo, the companys website and their facebook page) and I just don't get it. Do they no want customers from outside of Spain? Keep it in English and sell more stuff.

[Rolex]

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[GalakStarscraper]

During the last year or so, I've followed many fundraisers and if I - as a potential buyer - can give you, Tom (and all other companies for that matter), just a few pieces of advice on running these things:

Never turn down free advice.

1) Size comparison pictures.

I'll do my best to have this for real or digitially mocked as close as possible. With 17 teams ... some of this might be through off-site links to keep the KickStarter from scrolling on forever.

2) Pictures of the models during the WIP-phase as well as both unpainted and painted.

I'll do my best for this as well. Part of the reason why you go with painted and that is it is because people lose interest in a crowdfunding description that scrolls on forever. So I hear you but I also slightly disagree. I'll try to do off-site links to some raw images.

3) Free shipping.

All our KickStarters are always done the same way. Shipping in the pledge amount to the USA and a flat rate to everywhere else. International shipping is just too much these days to have it be free and included in the price.

4) Write in English!

That one I can handle.

Tom

[Chris]

One publishers view of shipping...

http://www.deadlyfredly.com/2013/10/bre ... -shipping/

[DinoTitanedition]

I never thought I`d use that damn shortening but...OMFG! I MUST HAVE THOSE CALASIANS! Just friggin LOVE how they have an oldschool 2nd ed. Slann look and their poses work great. Only thing I`d rather have kept, is the chestplates from the conversion-set and "socks" on some of the miniatures. But that`s nothing a little clay can`t fix.

[goldbaek]

2) Pictures of the models during the WIP-phase as well as both unpainted and painted.

I'll do my best for this as well. Part of the reason why you go with painted and that is it is because people lose interest in a crowdfunding description that scrolls on forever. So I hear you but I also slightly disagree. I'll try to do off-site links to some raw images.

Oh yeah, continuous scrolling... Absolutely hate it!

3) Free shipping.

All our KickStarters are always done the same way. Shipping in the pledge amount to the USA and a flat rate to everywhere else. International shipping is just too much these days to have it be free and included in the price.

Sounds very reasonable. Shipping costs across the pond can be... well, insane.

[mzukerman]

Probably too early, but I'm very interested in seeing the price structure of the Kickstarter. What the different levels will get you.