MAKE 100, Savage METAL MINIS for gaming.

Quick update: Only 3 American pledges left to ship. We had dragon problems!
about 4 years ago – Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 02:37:51 AM

Hi hope you are all well?

Yes only 3 pledges left to ship and all KS pledges will have been fulfilled, thanks Josh @Zombiesmith.

A  note for U.S. backers with pledges that had a Black dragon.

  Zombiesmith had a problem with their Black Dragon mold, so rather than  send Black dragons that aren't up to standard, I sent the metal master (from here in New Zealand) to them again for re-molding. 

It hasn't turned up in the U.S. yet :(

 So we decided to send out the pledges minus the dragon and will ship it as soon as we have the new ones available (at no extra cost to our backers). 

Thanks for your patience. Apart from this last-minute dragon problem we have shipped all pledges (assuming Josh gets the last 3 out today) in Oct as estimated in the Campaign...

Thanks for your patience and I'll get back to with a longer update next week.

Cheers, stay safe, Gary.

The First American pledges to start shipping on Monday. And Dust devil Vampire stats.
about 4 years ago – Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 05:18:41 PM

The first of the American pledges will start shipping from Zombiesmith (Oakland, California) from Monday...

Mainly the Hero set pledges as they are quicker to pack.

The more complicated American orders will follow shortly...

Another pic of cast minis from Zombiesmith....

Hopefully most if not all of the R.O.W/NZ backers now have their pledges.

Ok, now that some of you have received the Vampire and the rest aren't too far off, it's time to share the stats for the Dust Devil.

Flight rule: Able to fly across the battlefield, fighters with this ability ignore all terrain difficulties and obstacles while moving. 

While participating  in battle they must remain close to the ground and are treated as a  normal fighter for melee and ranged attacks. However, their defense  increases with a further -2. Flying models may spend a point of froth at the beginning of their  activation to increase their altitude. Mark them appropriately. 

This  model may not be targeted by melee or ranged attacks while at altitude.  At the beginning of their next activation, if another point of Froth is not spent, the model is no longer considered to be at altitude and is  treated like a normal fighter.

I'll be adding this to the rules PDF, but for now, feel free to copy this page and give it a go. The first part of this flight rule comes directly from Zombiesmith's Shieldbash https://www.zombiesmith.com/products/war-of-ashes-shieldbash-rulebook 

ruleset and the second part has been added specifically for Beestwars. https://www.garyhuntminiatures.com/_fantasyWarr-beestwars.html

Just a quick update today!

Stay safe out there.

All the best, Gary.

NZ and R.O.W pledges all shipped. American pledges being cast and packed.
about 4 years ago – Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 03:46:43 PM

Hi folks. Hope you are all well.

58% of pledges have now been shipped leaving only the American pledges which Zombiesmith are working on.

NZ and R.O.W. pledges.

I'm aware that some (probably all) NZ parcels have arrived at their destinations and some in the U.K. Europe and Australia also. Although some look like they may have been delayed due to the pandemic. I'll try and check in with you all but It would be awesome if you could let me know that your Heroes have arrived safely...

U.S pledges.

Josh from Zombiesmith (based in California) has let me know that casting is unfortunately a little on the slow side at the moment due to only being at the office a few hours a day. He believes they will ship the majority of the American pledges by the first week in October or so. A little later than expected so apologies.

For those of you that have received your parcels, I sincerely hope you are happy with your purchases and look forward to seeing the painted versions and games that they have been used for.

I'm planning on launching another Kickstarter by the end of this year depending on how many extra minis I want to sculpt and how much time I can find to prep it otherwise it'll be early 2021.

As you may know I am seriously contemplating selling digital stl or obj files of the minis as well as the Pewter.  Some companies that we support have decided to safeguard their metal sales by releasing the stls at the same time not in advance. If anyone has any thoughts or advice we'd like to hear from you. 

We may send out a survey in a few weeks time.

Don't forget to tell your friends that the late pledges Backerkit is still open :) 

https://make-100-savage-metal-minis-for-gaming.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Post Your Pictures, Painting and General Discussion

We are really looking forwards to seeing these on your gaming tables  and collections. For those on social media please feel free to post  pics, painting progress and give feedback on Beasts, Beests and Beets  https://www.facebook.com/groups/690873924717480/ or Gary Hunt Miniatures  https://www.facebook.com/Gary.Hunt.Miniatures . These sites are also a  great place to see Gary's current works in progress and notices about  new figures and game details.  Your feedback is valued, especially on  figure creation and ideas for the expansion of the various Beestwars  factions.

If you need any tips on how to paint why not check out some videos by  Sloane ranger studio  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTDGVo2AseycZWrck4sqOMg or James Wappel  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7wvg0wzWwA . and check out painters  who have also worked on my minis such as Mary Profitt https://www.facebook.com/mary.profitt , Carl Lum https://www.facebook.com/carl.lum.3 and Charles Radford https://www.instagram.com/crateeight/?hl=en , 'eaviermetal FB group https://www.facebook.com/groups/eaviermetal/ is also another good source of inspiration.

Future Campaigns

We have really appreciated the support from this campaign, and we  have learnt a lot through the process. We are thinking about possible  future campaigns but would really love to hear from you as to what you  would be most interested in. Current possibilities include:

- Expanding on the Beestwars range, with additional faction sculpts and new factions. Stls and pewter options.

- Release and some re-sculpting of Gary's early classic figures..  this may include throwback to some, late 80's, early  90s stylised  figures.

- a mix of the two, something totally different?

Print and play.

When the hero minis arrive, feel free to print their stat cards and  have a bash. They work best with a 150-200 point warband so why not  download the free Beestwars skirmish pdf from my website and give the  quick-start rules a go. http://www.garyhuntminiatures.com/_fantasyWarr-beestwars.html

If you need extra rules we will be transferring them over from Zombiesmith's "Shieldbash" game available from their website. https://www.zombiesmith.com/products/war-of-ashes-shieldbash-rulebook

I'll be sharing a short story soon, probably the next update.

District 9 Boardgame sculpts.

The minis that I sculpted for the District 9 boardgame by Weta Workshop have had their 1st plastic test runs and are looking great. It was such a relief to fell the quality of the plastic. Hard, therefore retaining a lot of sharp detail and the spindly legs will be fine.

There have been a few delays with manufacture but looking to be shipped by the end of the year. You can checkout the old Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wetaworkshop/d9-the-boardgame

Shipping Underway
over 4 years ago – Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 11:36:50 PM

Hi Everybody, We are very pleased to announce that:

We have started shipping and "It feels real good!" 

We are slightly ahead of schedule for the NZ pledges, with about 30% of NZ / ROW packages sent as of yesterday. The balance will be sent over the next couple of weeks as they are cast, quality controlled and packaged. 

USA production is underway, with what is looking like some really great results (see last update # 27). We envisage the casting to take a couple more weeks. So we should still meet our September shipping date (but more likely the end of September).

We are hearing varying reports related to shipping time frames due to Covid, hopefully you won't experience any big delays. Jon had a parcel take 6 weeks from the UK so we would expect you to get parcels by late October early November at the latest.

Shipping addresses have been locked.

We have locked shipping addresses, sending out notifications with 48hrs notice. No-one made any changes so we are assuming these are good-to-go. If you have moved or need the parcel delivered to another address please tell us and we'll re-address them.

Print and play.

When the hero minis arrive, feel free to print their stat cards and have a bash. They work best with a 150-200 point warband so why not download the free Beestwars skirmish pdf from my website and give the quick-start rules a go. http://www.garyhuntminiatures.com/_fantasyWarr-beestwars.html 

If you need extra rules we will be transferring them over from Zombiesmith's "Shieldbash" game available from their website. https://www.zombiesmith.com/products/war-of-ashes-shieldbash-rulebook

Post Your Pictures, Painting and General Discussion

We are really looking forwards to seeing these on your gaming tables and collections. For those on social media please feel free to post pics, painting progress and give feedback on Beasts, Beests and Beets https://www.facebook.com/groups/690873924717480/ or Gary Hunt Miniatures https://www.facebook.com/Gary.Hunt.Miniatures . These sites are also a great place to see Gary's current works in progress and notices about new figures and game details.  Your feedback is valued, especially on figure creation and ideas for the expansion of the various Beestwars factions. 

If you need any tips on how to paint why not check out some videos by Sloane ranger studio https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTDGVo2AseycZWrck4sqOMg or James Wappel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7wvg0wzWwA . and check out painters who have also worked on my minis such as Mary Profitt https://www.facebook.com/mary.profitt , Carl Lum https://www.facebook.com/carl.lum.3 and Charles Radford https://www.instagram.com/crateeight/?hl=en , 'eaviermetal FB group https://www.facebook.com/groups/eaviermetal/ is also another good source of inspiration.

Future Campaigns

We have really appreciated the support from this campaign, and we have learnt a lot through the process. We are thinking about possible future campaigns but would really love to hear from you as to what you would be most interested in. Current possibilities include:

- Expanding on the Beestwars range, with additional faction sculpts and new factions. Stls and pewter options.

- Release and some re-sculpting of Gary's early classic figures.. this may include throwback to some, late 80's, early  90s stylised figures.

- a mix of the two, something totally different?

 The decapitator! Work on a large Clovis Minotaur with dual handed blade

 And I've started work on a Croc-man warband. Here's the first guy. he'll be printed about the same height as Troth the wildebeest. I'll sculpt some smaller slimmer guys and maybe some Barbarian crocodile handlers for the Hyenamen faction. I think the Croc men (need a cool name ------suchus?) would be neutral but highly territorial and dangerous, would they side with the Clovis to get one-over on the Geladan?

In the meantime if you have any questions, please contact Gary via the kickstarter message system or post in the comments.

Now... back to packing parcels :)

The new metal- it worked! (very well)
over 4 years ago – Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 02:03:41 AM

 Just a quick update. 

Hurrah! Here in New Zealand, the new pewter metal worked a treat (meaning a lot less rejects being dropped back in the melting pot) we'll be using this from now on. Ian and Alan from Regal Enterprises were as excited to see it working as I and delivered a bunch on Saturday.

 Regal will cast the remaining hero set pledges next week.

And in America, Zombiesmith have molded the minis and have been getting great results.

So I'll be sending out a reminder to lock or change your shipping address in the next couple of weeks, it will come from Backerkit, check your emails and spam just in case.

If you feel like adding any more minis to your backerkit pledge (to save on shipping in the future) now would be the time to do it.. The orders were locked and charged but I'm sure we can make changes. If you need any more minis let us (or Backerkit) know.

On to other news.

I took a quick photo of the two heroes battling it out.  Minotaur painted by Sloane Ranger Studios, Gnoll painted by Carl Lum.

Mary Profitt has been painting Geladan again. This time it's a Geladan archer on warbeest.

Carl Lum has been painting Hyena

and The mighty Clovis standard.

I wish I'd had a stall at the Wellington Warlords, Call-to-arms this weekend but due to family commitments didn't have time to prep. I made it along on Sunday to meet a mate (who is making bespoke trees) and check out the tables.

I bought some model grass tufts and bushes at the show but on the way back stopped at a beach and found some interesting dried-out roots that might well make some small twisted dead trees. 

I've been sculpting some new stuff for the next Kickstarter adventure, i'll share the w.i.p.s in a future update..... Stay safe and well out there, cheers, Gary.