Sentinel Games: Total Extinction

[Ajsalium]

The casting on those two troopers looks very soft.

[Predatorpt]

The casting on those two troopers looks very soft.

And there's some air bubbles in both the troopers and the alien.

[tnjrp]

A year on in and it looks like something has been actually delivered (alot of folks gave completely up on this in the meantime):
http://s14.photobucket.com/user/ravenwing1/media/standard2/TE%20first%20shipment_zpss8jqyclo.jpg.html
http://s14.photobucket.com/user/ravenwing1/media/standard2/Stakan%20cleaned%20up_zpsqmfpwdej.jpg.html

Quite a few pledgers opted for "partial delivery" (I didn't) when the option was offered sometime around the new year IIRC so we should start seeing more reviews or the like soonish. For now, a litte more info in the KS project comments section:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sentinelgames/total-extinction-battle-for-karnak/comments

[maxxon]

Let's hope this doesn't end up like that other Kickstarter where backers opting for a single delivery don't get anything...

A little more communication wouldn't hurt either.

[Predatorpt]

Damn, that Stakan looks great  I was one of the guys who opted for the partial delivery - I hope to receive something soon (with Spain just being across the border)!

[rwwin]

I do hope they can make it to retail.

[tnjrp]

I'm less hopeful and will settle for eventually getting my single batch of miniatures...

On a more positive note, the T-94 actually looks quite nice when put together, tho it's reputedly lot of work to get the top and bottom parts of the hull to fit (no surprise there really since they are large solid resin pieces -- prompting IMHO not unreasonable speculation that they have been designed with HIPS molding in mind):
http://s14.photobucket.com/user/ravenwing1/media/standard2/B6E0A8D0-F85A-442A-BAB3-0217343AF319_zpsugdpmqki.jpg.html

[tnjrp]

ATM it is starting to look like that the handful of parcels shipped out to meet the probably fairly large list of preemptive dispatch requests was just about the last gasp of this project. Didn't get it very far.

There have been no public or backers only communication in something like two months, maybe more. The last login from SG on the KS page was May 17 and since it looks like all the known activity has ceased elsewhere as well (even the Twitter account of the man of this one-man outfit has dried up or he has taken on a new one since he was getting too many demands about the project on the known one) I should think the current verdict is "it's dead Jim".

Bummer. I would have loved to get those Glorlon minis as they did represent a token attempt at xeno species originality

On the positive note, the probably no more than half a dozen folks at most who managed to get something out of SG are no in possession of actually rare miniatures. The rest of them are very possibly in boxes somewhere in Spain, gathering dust, but currently it looks like there's a very good chance they never become available to miniature gaming public.

[maxxon]

Everything can't succeed...

...but I still dislike this ostrich -approach to problems.

If it goes awry and you can't fullfil all your promises -- be open about it and try to find a way to deliver at least something. Don't hide your head in the sand and hope everyone forgets.

I'd rather have something than nothing.

I can do without freebies. I can do swaps to other products. I have sure as heck done with giant delays... But we can't find settlement if you're not talking to your backers!

I am NOT singling this out, this behavior is becoming distressingly common in Kickstarters.

[tnjrp]

As a point of minor interest, it looks like failure to deliver on a KS isn't automatically a non-offense.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/biz/ftc-goes-after-kickstarterboard-game-in-first-crowdfunding-case/2015/06/11/c7143d725412008ed9d3a9165572545f_story.html

[tnjrp]

Since I mentioned this debacle in another thread, it should perhaps be noted here as well that one or two further dispatches and deliveries of miniatures have been made in the context of this KS. Not sure how to interpret that -- maybe the threat of a lawsuit some folks claimed (in the KS comments) they were prepping has caused this most recent activity. Or maybe it's something else. I'm not sure even the project runner really knows what's going on anymore.

[tnjrp]

I was completely surprised to see an update e-mail concerning this project in my mailbox this morning

Frankly I was already completely sure Salvador had simply decided to do a runner finally.

Apologetic of course but nothing much concrete there. Includes the usual

• vague references to severe personal and business-related problems, unspecified number of which are still in need of addressing
• promises of improved communication in the future AND
• assurances that all the stuff that can be send out (i.e. is non-defective) continues to be shipped out

In other words, I still think I've been burned by this one. But it would be nice to be wrong about that.

[Predatorpt]

I can't be sure, but it seems that a letter wrote by a Spanish lawyer (a friend of mine) on my behalf, made him do that update. Now let's see if that is enough to get him moving.

[tnjrp]

Good work if so

There's been some talk of bringing up charges by some Spanish backers on the KS comment section as well. Not that I'm sure if even lawyers can shake more intact goods out of this particular wreck. Didn't work with Defiance Games.

[Predatorpt]

Good work if so

There's been some talk of bringing up charges by some Spanish backers on the KS comment section as well. Not that I'm sure if even lawyers can shake more intact goods out of this particular wreck. Didn't work with Defiance Games.

He replied to my lawyer today, saying he would ship my order (Major level - £225) tomorrow, with tracking number and all. Let's see how that works out.

Of course I'm sure I'll get lots of those "defective" miniatures that he talks about in his update.