Campaign Wrap-Up and Whats Next!
over 4 years ago
– Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 03:30:49 AM
Things here on the campaign have been very quiet over the past three months but a great deal has happened since the last update so i wanted to fill you in on some of the details.
Firstly, a huge Thank-You! Not only for your contribution to this project, but your moral support along the way and your patience through the casting process. At this point most everyone should have their miniatures. Over the past couple months over 6,000 individually hand made miniatures were cast... that is the most miniatures I've ever cast for a single range of miniatures and it has been a huge learning experience. Some things that work for small batches of say 100 to 200 miniatures are not quite as feasible for larger scale production. Despite a few challenges that needed to be overcome I've never felt more confident with my casting capabilities than I do now.
A big part of the improvements are due to some new casting equipment afforded to me by the Kickstarter Campaign. I've reinvested a great deal of the campaign funding into acquiring some better equipment that will further improve the quality of my castings going forward. Again, Thank-you, I couldn't have accomplished this without you taking a chance on my little project here.
So what is next? More miniatures of course! It will still be quite some time before another kickstarter campaign, but I will have lots of new sculpts to show you along the way.
Before i do that though i want to i want to remind anyone who hasn't completed their backer survey and wishes to receive their miniatures they must do so before November 15th, 2019. After that point i will no longer be able to fulfill your backer rewards. In the event you've lost your link to complete your backerkit survey, you can find it at https://mm15mmratmen.backerkit.com . Please complete your survey if you have not already done so, so that i can send you your miniatures!
Alright, with that out of the way onto the pictures!
First a Ratmen model i finished sculpting after the campaign had concluded, and didn't get a chance to include it along with the others. I will be casting this miniature up and making it available when i can with some more Ratmen goodies.
When i wasn't casting miniatures (usually due to it being late at night and i'm sure my neighbours would love me running an air compressor in the middle of the night when i'm having trouble sleeping) I've been working on a series of Goblin miniatures. These guys are small, like 1cm small, if you have the halfling exclusive miniature, than these are just a little bigger than that. Currently I've finished five of them, with more on the way.
A little more recently I also started working on a 15mm scale Ogre Miniature, this guy is about 2cm from feet to eyes.
I hope to have these cleaned up and get some masters cast over the next couple weeks, so hopefully i'll have some painted pictures to show you sometime soon. Talking of painted pictures, i want to see pictures of your painted rat men! If you want to send me pictures of your miniatures either send me a message here on kickstarter, or tag your photos with #malliusminiatures on instagram.
Hope you all enjoy your Ratmen minis!
-Thomas