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Miniatures Adventure => Old West => Topic started by: Gutbukkit on 21 January 2013, 09:51:58 PM
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Remember that Kickstarter from last year? Figures now available in the UK from Ainsty:
From Dags' post over at Frothers:
Ainsty are now selling the Weird West figures:
(http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z174/Dagenhameast/WWAinsty.jpg)
Pack 1 - the 3 'Good' guys - £7.50
Pack 2 - the 3 'Bad' guys - £7.50
Pack 3 - all 6 - £14.00
Going up on the site now....
http://ainstycastings.co.uk/
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nice!
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While I'm always glad to see more miniatures come out - these are pretty bad. Or I suppose I should say...rather underwhelming. Nothing about them makes me want to go and buy them. Shame, as I remember that Kickstarter.
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While I'm always glad to see more miniatures come out - these are pretty bad. Or I suppose I should say...rather underwhelming. Nothing about them makes me want to go and buy them. Shame, as I remember that Kickstarter.
I think you need to put your glasses on LoL!
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Axe Lincoln is pick of bunch,like it a lot!
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Axe Lincoln is pick of bunch,like it a lot!
Yeah, agreed, he is the only one i have wanted, just have to decide if he is worth paying the $15AU to get
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I really like "the bad" ones.
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So when are we Kickstarters getting ours?
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So when are we Kickstarters getting ours?
From TMP
Ainsty Castings releases the first of their Weird West miniatures range - six 28mm white-metal miniatures, sculpted by Ian Mountain.
This range was born from an Indiegogo campaign which ran last year. Ainsty have acquired these prior to the launch, and will be sending out all of the campaign pledges over the next two weeks. All those who contributed to the campaign shall receive their minis shortly.
For the rest of you, these are now available to buy for £7.50 GBP for each set of three, or £14.00 GBP for all six.
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These are really nice. All of them I would find useful. I like the zombie the most.
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I backed this and must say I am fairly shocked that the backers paid over the odds for the minis, to get all 6 minis cost a backer $65 and you can now get them for £14? I'm I readint that right, there seems to be something very wrong with that!
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Our plan when we ran the IndieGoGo campaign was to sell them for a much higher price -- more in line with what you see from places like Otherworld Miniatures and Crooked Dice. Ian Mountain, our sculptor, has done miniatures for both of those companies so that felt like a reasonable way to price the miniatures. Ainsty does casting, distribution and now owns the figures -- so they can afford to offer them at a lower price than we would have been able to.
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So if I'm understanding this right, someone was prepared to pay you $10 a figure? :?
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So if I'm understanding this right, someone was prepared to pay you $10 a figure? :?
This IndieGoGo campaign was done by someone who lives near me and was going on at the same time: http://www.indiegogo.com/darkpotential/x/219445
The finished miniatures are available for sale here: http://www.darkpotential.com/miniatures/product.php?catid=1480&id=24582
I think Ainsty has an outstanding deal for 6 of Ian Mountain's sculpts. :)
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If I paid $65 up front for $35 worth of miniatures I'd be pretty pissed off...
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I like Abe and the Squaw.
The rest I can happily live without - especially as I don't need another Werewolf.
BTW, what or who is banana fingers sculpt in the bottom pics on the left supposed to be? :o
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Dracula...of sorts?
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Is he Abe's nemesis from the riverside dock from a certain film?
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If I paid $65 up front for $35 worth of miniatures I'd be pretty pissed off...
And How
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I'm assuming the Indiegogo didn't succeed or I'd expect a riotous amount of bad press though. If, in the end, miniatures were produced and sold for less - then good.
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I'm assuming the Indiegogo didn't succeed or I'd expect a riotous amount of bad press though. If, in the end, miniatures were produced and sold for less - then good.
Oh no, it succeeded. I was a backer & I'm still trying to figure this out....I'm trying to figure out how this seems to work out better if you never backed at all.... :?
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At this point, I'd expect them to ship you either double the minis or some additional minis or something. That's a pretty crap deal. I'll refrain from saying any more since I'm not involved, but screw that noise. :-[
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So, just to get it right, did they sell the greens before they actually produced any minis to Ainsty?
How much money did they got funded?
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The IndieGoGo campaign was successful: http://www.indiegogo.com/weird-west-miniatures
and everyone who contributed to that campaign will get the rewards that they contributed towards. These are going out in the mail this week and they should be receiving them soon.
Now that this is wrapped up, the figures have been acquired by Ainsty Castings. Ainsty can make different choices about what to charge for the miniatures.
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...wow...
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Sure thing, Ainsty can do what ever they want regarding pricing.
Just wondered if you ever produced minis by yourself before line/greens got sold?
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We had them sent out to be cast (we don't have a spin-caster to do that ourselves). Here they are coming out of the mould: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151296967714732&set=a.429956639731.204777.5549814731&type=1
We tried to keep everyone updated on the post-campaign progress via IndieGoGo, Facebook, G+ and Twitter.
It was only in the last couple of weeks that we made the decision that the numbers didn't add up* for us to do this in a sustainable way and made the decision to sell them to Ainsty.
* IndieGoGo Fees + Sculpting + Moulds + Casting + Bases + Art/Design + Printing + Packaging + Shipping(Canada Post Sucks!) + Website + % for distribution/retailers + Misc (PayPal etc) adds up to a lot more than we thought for us to do this as we'd planned when we launched the IndieGoGo campaign. The idea was that profit would go back into paying for more miniatures to be made -- but those numbers weren't going to work for that (what profit? :)) so we decided this was a better idea.
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Ok, now I understand, thanks for the explanation :)