(KICKSTARTER) Deadzone Kickstarter - Funding Successful

[rwwin]

They're being tooled in hard plastic is why

Ah, I had thought they were coming out in restic.

[tnjrp]

Has it been officially confirmed that they'll be hard plastic?

[eMills]

From what I've heard, all of the Deadzone 3D renders started as traditional sculpts which were scanned then touched up by their digital team. It looks like they scanned the same Marauders they showed off and all the changes were to the digital models.

That is true of the Enforcers, but not the Marauders.  They mentioned in the comments that the Marauders are resin casts in these pictures, and are not digital sculpts.

Has it been officially confirmed that they'll be hard plastic?

There has been no official statement on "hard plastic" other than the scenery sprues.  They mentioned that if the campaign goes high enough they would like to do more, but they gave no iron-clad promises on what that would be.

~Eric

[rwwin]

That is true of the Enforcers, but not the Marauders.  They mentioned in the comments that the Marauders are resin casts in these pictures, and are not digital sculpts.

So that was either an incredibly fast resculpt and cast or they must have started work resculpting the marauders before everyone complained.

[eMills]

So that was either an incredibly fast resculpt and cast or they must have started work resculpting the marauders before everyone complained.

Not necessarily.  The resin casts would be relatively fast and easy to make.  And the sculpts were seen and photographed in person at their Open Day on May 11th, which is what caused the furor and subsequent resculpt.

~Eric

[obsidian3d]

Damnit I'm in for this one too...

Why do I have no willpower?

Ooh shiny!

[Giger]

Damnit I'm in for this one too...

Why do I have no willpower?

Ooh shiny!

Welcome to the fold

New stretch goals are now in' I'm happy to see the camaign in print and can't resist getting some Zombies at that price:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/deadzone-the-sci-fi-miniatures-board-game/posts/490657

[Vermis]

New Marauder/Orx pictures. They're certainly better than they were, but they still look too goofy for my tastes. Not unusable like the other ones, but certainly nothing that gets me excited that I'm getting em in my pledge. The chainsaw dogs are just right out. I know they'll appeal to some of you guys (and I won't judge you TOO harshley for it )

A man after my own heart.

I still kind of like the ripper suits myself, but for one thing: those faces. When you say goofy, I completely agree - right down to the hyuck-hyuck...

http://www.youtube.com/#/watch?v=KRmgQPfmigw

Trying too hard to recapture a look whose, IMO, time has past. Or at least does not mesh at all with the 'slick sci-fi' style Mantic otherwise seem to be going for.

I think GW was the first to start doing it within the gaming industry, but it's now become pretty standard for hard plastic. All the Wargames Factory stuff is done this way, including the dreamforge stuff coming out and I think the same is true for the Defiance USMC stuff and AFAIK it's how the Relic Knights and Robotech figs will be done. It's faster and gets you FAR more detail in the plastics than traditional mold making.

Oh poo. I think my daydreams for any scale of fantasy plastic almost guffed out my right ear.

[Elbows]

I haven't paid much attention to this thread - but I like some of those Orks, only because I think they'd fit really nice in a 2nd Gen 40K themed setting...old Stormboyz/Kommandos etc.

[Giger]

Nastanza is now unlocked and will be going in all pledges of Recon and up (excluding terrain only) for free!  Next up is the printed compendium.

[Commander Vyper]

Liking those sci-fi zombies. Very useful.

[Giger]

The compendium is now in so on to the zombies!

[tnjrp]

Yep, and they are going to be done in Real Plastic...

[Giger]

The zombie rules are in so next up are the hard plastic zombies themselves and we have new stretch goals:

$650,000 - FREE new Asterian and Forge Father Specialists added to faction starters
$665,000 - FREE Wrath, Judwan Mercenary

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/deadzone-the-sci-fi-miniatures-board-game/posts/492412

[tnjrp]

I've been informed that there is no reason to be in it for the minis alone, 'cuz Warpath stuff is cheaper. Never mind it's not quite the same stuff, apparently you'll need to want the game too. Or something.

I think the terrain pledge I'm in for is decent if not super duper great tho.