[KICKSTARTER] Ice Age Mammals

[Timbor]

Not sure if this should go in here or the ancients forum, but it seems to have a tie-in to the creator's fantasy game:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dinaandrewswalker/miniature-ice-age-mammal-adventure-set

I always liked mammal megafauna... always nice to see the pictures and appreciate how I don't have to worry about being trampled by one of them when I go outside 

The sculpts so far seem like they should have a pretty nice result too.

[Westfalia Chris]

I'm not quite sure how well those cartoony designs will lend themselves to 3D renditions, but it is interesting, and they might be quite useful with the finer variety of "quaint/older" sculpting styles.

[Vermis]

'Orrible.

[nic-e]

not exactly terrifying beasts to strike fear into the hearts of man. i suppose if you played with more stylized miniatures they could work, but i canny see any use for them myself 

Also are these being traditionally sculpted or rendered and printed? the page seems to have a mix of both. (unless the sculpts are just proof of concept? )

[beefcake]

Not really realistic enough for my taste. Nice looking but too cartoony for me. I'll just wait until I can buy some DeeZee megafauna.

[Garanhir]

Andrewsarchus and Uintatherium, to name but two, are closer to the flippin' dinosaurs than they are to the Pleistocene. I love the beasts of the ancient Cenozoic, but I like some realism in the style (a dire wolf that looks like a genuine dire wolf would be nice, for example; it's only the best-preserved of all prehistoric animals, after all). These are just too Scooby-Doo for me.

A lovely idea I would've loved to back, but I'm not a fan of this kind of execution.

[Legion1963]

Nice idea. But there's not enough reality. They look to much like cartoon characters.

[Vanvlak]

Against my policy of taking a break from buying into 'starters I backed this - with the right paint job they'd be fine I'd say. Pity it seems it might not make it.   

[Doomsdave]

Something about them makes me happy.  I think I will pledge.  I think I can work them into D&D quite easily as we play a more light-hearted version with funny names and all. 

[von der Tann]

It's funded now ... and best thing ... I can get my copy of the cave lion and cave bear ...