East Asian Village Kickstarter

[black hat miniatures]

For those of you looking for terrain for Samurai and Chinese Mythos games, Renaissance Miniatures are running a Kickstarter campaign for a new East Asian Village.  It comes in prepainted, laser cut parts.

We are collaborating with Renee and Steve and providing some of our Tales of the Dragon Kings figures to go along with some of the rewards:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1093338811/east-asian-village-for-28mm-gamers?ref=live





Mike

www.blackhat.co.uk

[JollyBob]

Stunning. 

Where was this three years ago when I had to scratchbuild a Chinese village?

[driller]

Just what I'd need, but waaaay out of my price range.

[robh]

Beautiful models, the large Pagoda is amazing.

[Alcidas]

really like that ox-cart...

[FramFramson]

Love to see some pictures of the buildings with the roofs off, showing the interior. Especially that pagoda!

[Stavros Banjo]

Oh come on, play fair. You really shouldn't be teasing me with stuff like that. I watched a couple of episodes of 'Monkey' the other day & now have all sorts of ideas bouncing around. You're seriously not helping 

[Timbor]

That's spectacular!  I don't quite have a use for them, but can see myself trying to make excuses to find one. 

Doesn't seem to be much in terms of stretch goals for backers though?

[Doomsdave]

I really want these; but for those prices I'll be making my own.

[black hat miniatures]

That's spectacular!  I don't quite have a use for them, but can see myself trying to make excuses to find one. 

Doesn't seem to be much in terms of stretch goals for backers though?

I believe the speed of funding has taken them a bit by surprise and that Stretch Goals will go up shortly...

Mike

[Timbor]

Wow, funding has taken off... almost at 20k now!

[Auton]

Any chance you will be stocking the buildings in the UK when they are properly released?

[black hat miniatures]

I don't think that Steve and Renee plan to sell through retailers, only direct but it's something I have thought about.

Mike

[OSHIROmodels]

I'm afraid I'm going to have say that I don't like them in the slightest (along with most of the other MDF buildings that are springing up).

Given it's fantasy, but they don't look thought out very well to me and when I say this I mean the style, not the 'modular' aspect.

Also, along with a lot of the other MDF 'kickstarter' projects I can't see them lasting for more than a couple of years. Demand might be initially high but it'll soon drop off.

This may sound unwarranted but the amount of what seem like fly-by-night is starting to get tired and ever so slightly annoying 

cheers

James

[Timbor]

I'd say that's a valid observation, and I would take your word on the 'style' of the buildings, considering the stellar terrain you produce, James

For the most part, I have not been too keen on most of the mdf terrain, but this stuff catches my eye a bit more, I guess.  It seems more realistic and three-dimensional than many of the other buildings out there, even compared to this company's last KS project which I did not back for those same reasons.

The terrain is cheaper than a resin counterpart though, and the amount of stuff you can get to fill a table from this is good bang for your buck.  It would work out to be way cheaper than going with something like tabletop-world or grandmanner quality resin buildings.  But, you get what you pay for, and if you want something simple that looks decent from tabletop distance, it could work well.