This Kickstarter is intended for us to form a viable business that we can grow over time. Giving away tonnes of free figures wouldn't be a practical way for us to do this.
The figures work out at around £2 a figure and slightly less at the top levels. You also get a free rule set and a free Kickstarter exclusive figure for backing at the 'Big Man' level or above. We are considering a couple of additional free figures to say 'thank you' for the overwhelming support to those that have given it to us.
I'm merely saying, as a potential customer - now that you're funded, I get no benefit from backing the Kickstarter unless I'm just dying the have the figures immediately upon release.
Usually weapons tend to be oversized in miniature, and people seem to view them as being bigger then they actually are. These seem to get it about right, I think they could perhaps be a tad fatter, but only a tad.
Oh I much prefer realistically scaled weapons. When I played Warhammer 40,000 I once looked at some historical miniatures and thought "woah, those are some weedy guns", but now I've grown out of that filthy habit. Unfortunately as Games Workshop sets the bar for these things, many manufactures make weapons that are equally as chunky as there's. It would nice to see Spectre Miniatures releasing sets of loose weapons, as quality modern ones (hell even 28mm historical guns if they weren't common) are a rare thing in the market. Hey they have enough spare guns handy to make fancy little piles out of them (which when I'll probably go in for), it'd be nice to pick up some separately as well. Pretty please? *Bats eyes* :)
Oh I much prefer realistically scaled weapons. When I played Warhammer 40,000 I once looked at some historical miniatures and thought "woah, those are some weedy guns", but now I've grown out of that filthy habit.
Empress and Spectre appear to be doing it right. Toss in some of the WGF weapons from the survivors sprue for conversions and I think some cool things could happen.
The trend toward more realistic proportions (Red Box, Infinity, WGF, etc) has really affected the way I perceive older figures and the 'chunkier' style. I can barely stand to finish my Crusader Gladiators and even the Perry plastics are starting to feel like bobble-heads.
Any ideas for vehicles to go with this ? Would it just be technicals and light amourd vehicles??
I'm still holding off on throwing money at this Kickstarter (though I definitely will), but I like those new pledges. If you don't make those stretch goals will limited edition models be made available after the Kickstarter? Heh, and wasn't that technical £30 when it first went up? ;)
Well if you were a backer or followed our Facebook page you would see our updates ;)
Oh, I do have a gander at your Facebook page every now and then, but I'm not all consumedly interested that I can check every update unfortunately. So, for the benefit of those asking the same question on the Dakka Dakka thread about your Kickstarter, will Kickstarter Exclusive miniatures, like the Technical, be available at any point after the Kickstarter (notably where stretch goals aren't met too)? As the point has been posed that, at least in the case of that particular vehicle, it would seem a bit odd that they wouldn't be available in any form (not necessarily how you have the vehicle outfitted at present) in the future.
I don't know anything about the sales of vehicles by similar manufacturers, so that's difficult for me to judge beyond my personal opinion.
Bit of a random request but I would really like to do some anti-poaching operations (ala Skirmish Sangin's 'Rhino Wars' scenario). I would love to see some models in that vein! Although I imagine that lots of the existing sculpts could be used for rangers/poachers.
Seems like the Nigerian's have been unlocked this morning as well.
Best of luck guys.
Any idea how long it will take till the orders are dispatched?We are aiming for a 3 month turn around from the end of the KS to the miniatures being dispatched. All the sculpting is done, so the only wait time is the moulding and casting - which may take a little while as there are about 22 moulds to be made!
We are aiming for a 3 month turn around from the end of the KS to the miniatures being dispatched. All the sculpting is done, so the only wait time is the moulding and casting - which may take a little while as there are about 22 moulds to be made!
Anybody having problems sending emails to spectre with the rewards sheet thing?? :'(
So are you guys saying that you have not been able to send in your list yet?
Yup, tried twice and gave up. Since the guys seemed to have gone MIA, I guess I wont see anything from my pledge...Ok just to verifier you guys sent them to this E-mail info@spectreminiatures.com.
Ok just to verifier you guys sent them to this E-mail info@spectreminiatures.com.
I have had no problem communicating and with them, and if the problem persist. I will let them know.
I don't get the impression. (not yet) that they are charlatans.
Don't forget, that this is a small company with less men-power. I wait since two month for my AlienvsPredator-Stuff and they are over the time. SPECTRE is in time, I think.
Hi Guys,
I've just been made aware of these comments. Please make sure you are sending emails to info@spectreminiatures.com. We are only waiting for about 10 feedback forms. If you have sent your backer form to this address we will have it - we havent sent confirmations out unless we have been asked to.
I think it is unfair to say that we haven't communicated with backers, we have posted updates regularly to keep everyone informed of what the progress is. Delivering pledges isnt expected until September remember and we are still on track for that.
We have just had the last of the master castings back from Griffin and the PMC technical has just been printed and delivered.
If you are still having trouble contacting us try through our Facebook page, or leaving a comment on the KS. Posting complaints on a forum isn't the best way to let us know of problems - we cannot check as often as we would like and we were only made aware of this by another backer who had contacted us through KS and FB.
Well, to be fair, after two failed attempts it's not really our responsibility as your customers to track you down and make excuses why you have not been available or returned messages.
That's more than a bit harsh. Bounced emails could be an ISP issue and they wouldn't know about it until someone contacted them via another channel.
In fairness I haven't been at all worried that I wouldn't get the figures.
I'm hopeful this KS will be seen as a success as I'd like to see where they will go next. For example I definitely think there is a market for South East Asian stuff. I'd do it myself if I could a) sculpt b) afford to pay someone to sculpt for me, and c) afford the moulds and casting! I'm actually intending on using the Spectre figures for SEA.
Now have tried to send the form from three different locations, all of them have bounced back / not gone through. Now I will send the list as a PM here, hope you at Spectre can get the info from that....
My email to them is still undeliverable... I give up.
My email to them is still undeliverable... I give up.
If you are emailing info@spectreminiatures.com it will go through. We own the server it is hosted on and there is no problem with the address - if your email is not being deilvered it would most likely be a problem on your end.
There are many avenues to contact us if email is a problem: via the Kickstarter messaging system, Facebook or as a last resort via PM on here. You could PM me your backer id and I'll email you too.
If you are emailing info@spectreminiatures.com it will go through. We own the server it is hosted on and there is no problem with the address - if your email is not being deilvered it would most likely be a problem on your end.
There are many avenues to contact us if email is a problem: via the Kickstarter messaging system, Facebook or as a last resort via PM on here. You could PM me your backer id and I'll email you too.
We've had confirmation of about 150 parcels arriving now. We aren't sure on delivery times to the EU and rest of world, so when you guys get them it would be really helpful if you could let us know.
If any UK orders have not arrived by the weekend we will assume they have gone astray and act accordingly.
Thank you all for your patience!
Dear Spectre
I received my parcel today - thank-you very much.
The figures are very good - even better than they look in the photographs.
The quality of the castings is superb.
The sapeur with the leopardskin jacket had broken off his base but I think I can easily fix him.
I am a bit concerned about some of the gun barrels which appear to be quite delicate.
I will probably brace them with thin stiff wire and superglue to ensure that they stand up to play.
I received an SAS Recce patrol which was not on my list but is a nice set so a happy accident.
According to your note, there are a few items to follow. I shall look forward to them - well done.
Mick
Rules *should* be online this weekend :)
Yep, your order should be with you by the weekend. I will message you the tracking need.
We have had issues keeping a consistent stock level, but we are getting there now.
We will be thickening up some of the weapons and trying some new packing methods. We haven't ever had any break in game, it seems to be in transit.
There will be about 30 new sets and at least 3 new vehicles on sale by salute
:)
30 new sets? Can you give us any hints on what these might be?
Am I right in thinking that you have a few pieces still to send out following mold (mould? I never get that right!) issues? Maybe they could be dropped in with backer orders for new stuff if we still have our 10% discount? We could order some new stuff! :D
..."Rules have also been previewed on the FB page and will be going online later today."
...what is the FB page?...a link?
Oh, by the way, for Kickstarter backers, what is their discount?....i can't find that detail on your web store.
Happy Wanderer
As backer I wonder about the missing packs. Send you a PM here and via Kickstarter. No answer. What happened to the missing packs???Hi,
Hi,Ok, thank you. The rules look very good at the first view. Go on with your beautiful stuff and release more of it.
All has been covered in the past few updates and comments on the KS page. Missing sets are being sent out this week :)