Space guys (Painted squads page 15)

[zemjw]

Backed at Squad Leader last night, so fingers crossed.

It made TGN and I've seen at least one blog post on it. Looks like word is getting out

[PF]

Thank you for your support.

Chambersofminiatures: I had thought it would work as tnjrp described. I'll try to see how it works.

[Chambersofminiatures]

I will go back in and add another 5 euros. There will two payments.

I am not as familiar with Indiegogo ( first time user) as I am with Kickstarter. All of the Kickstarters that I have done have had free shipping in the USA. I never had to think about additional shipping with Kick starter.

Great minis and I look forward to you making the goal.

Thanks.

[tnjrp]

It made TGN and I've seen at least one blog post on it

BOW don't seem to be in a hurry to post a news item about it tho.

[PF]

Hello,

I posted an update with a few quick paintings of some of the variant heads:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alien-shocktrooper-squad/x/6453404?c=activity

[PF]

Hello,

For those interested, I posted a couple of more loors on my blog:

http://15mmspaceopera.blogspot.fr/2014/03/loor-auxiliares-4-5.html

Thank you for your time.

[hubbabubba]

 
Gimme gimme.
Can't wait.

[mcfonz]

PF - if this Indiegogo doesn't work out, I think you should try one with the Loors.

I can see those being a massive hit.

[former user]

finally the loor.
these are a must have

[tnjrp]

PF - if this Indiegogo doesn't work out, I think you should try one with the Loors.

I can see those being a massive hit

I somewhat doubt that but a "racially pure" unit/force would seem to be an easier sell, certainly. I'm not at all sure about the true popularity of the "Alien Legion" approach, despite some people enthusing about the subject on some forums time and again.

All the same, the total for the Shock Troopers is still going up and there is more than 20 days left so it's not quite @ sure to fail yet.

[zemjw]

a "racially pure" unit/force would seem to be an easier sell

Definitely agree with this. I have a bunch of aliens from other manufacturers and, while they're very nice, I struggle to think of things to do with them other than the Cantina scene in Star Wars. Being able to put together a cohesive unit with ten or so with different poses would be much more useful.

Hopefully the Indiegogo campaign will fund, but there seem to be plenty of small companies out there who manage without it. Effigy Miniatures springs to mind - one guy, small range of figures (granted, he's closed, but that was only because he found full time work as a sculptor with another company ).

The figures look very nice and are sufficiently different to what's out there that there should be a market for them without the Indiegogo route (personally, I'm in for a set of the loors when they appear).

If it doesn't fund, have you considered trying to sell the masters to someone like Hasslefree?

[cheetor]

Its the variety of species all wearing a uniform armour type that appeals to me about this project.  Granted, I dont know if that makes the range more or less likely to sell to the market as a whole, but if this project was a set of nicely sculpted and designed mono-species alien troopers I would have been a lot less likely to pledge.  The Loors do look fantastic too though.

I dont know what part of the market I represent at this point, I do seem to end up painting more oddball stuff on the periphery of the projects that I engage in.  I do know that I will be disgusted with the community as a whole if a small, cool project like this doesnt fund  Im sort of joking about that, but Im sort of not joking too.

[former user]

"racially pure"

sorry to be a pain in the ass, but these are two words that should never appear in a sentence together (not even in SF unless used critically). Besides, it is also technically wrong (and scientifically debated too). If useful at all, the term "race" is only used for the human species.

please do us all a favour and change it to something like "multi-species", please

[PF]

former user: I hope tnjrp won't mind me answering to you but I think we're all on the same page. I mean he used " ".

Well, we'll see if the project fails or succeeds and what happens to the loors but I tend to think people are more into units/ armies/ teams of the same species too.

As a painter or gamer, I think it's cool to have different things to paint (and well, my Bronzed Flesh is empty) or different profiles to play with.

Hopefully, I'll find enough people with the same tastes and the project will succeed.

[former user]

just to make my point:
I did not want to imply we are on the other side, I know that we all think the same here about where racists can go (preferrably to hell) - sorry if my post allowed for this interpretation
I am also not on the "political correct"  side either

I simply makes me sick to imagine what visitors this word combination in a search engine would trigger, after all we are in the open on the internet....