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15mm Scale Rat-Men Miniatures by Mallius Miniatures

Created by Mallius Miniatures

A Series of Hand Sculpted 15mm Scale Resin Cast Rat-Men Miniatures

Latest Updates from Our Project:

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


Less Packaging, More Miniatures
over 4 years ago – Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 12:44:07 AM

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Backer Surveys Have Been Sent!
over 4 years ago – Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 01:15:39 PM

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Backer Survey UPDATE
over 4 years ago – Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 01:46:55 AM

BackerKit has got in touch with me and rectified the "Project Review" Issue.  During the July 4th American Holiday the Review email that was supposed to be sent to me was archived and slipped between the cracks.

They've enabled the Survey "Smoke Test" in which Surveys are randomly sent to 5% of the project's backers to ensure there are no issues with the survey before it is sent to the rest of the project's backers.

Things are back in motion.

Thank-you for your patience,

-Thomas

Backer Survey Delays
over 4 years ago – Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 08:43:29 PM

Anyone who's talked to me over the past couple weeks knows how frustrated i am currently with BackerKit.  Over the past 19 days i've been waiting for Backerkit to enable me to send your Backer Surveys without prevail.  Normally the process of reviewing a project is supposed to take 2 business days (as you can see in the below screen shot) but I've still not received any word from BackerKit.

In response to these delays, and in an effort to open communication with the company, i've sent them three emails over the past two weeks asking what the status of the review is and when i could expect to start sending out Backer Surveys.  BackerKit has not responded to these emails.

(Screenshot of BackerKit Website and How it Currently Looks For Me)

Again, this is incredibly frustrating, and if anyone from BackerKit is reading this update, please respond to my emails.

My best guess is that BackerKit is experiencing a higher volume of projects than usual and are having difficulties reviewing projects within the estimated 2 business day period (or in my case over 15 business days).  There seems to be other Kickstarter projects that are currently experiencing the same delays, (including the  Space Raiders Kickstarter that i backed last month).

I eagerly await any news from BackerKit and as soon as I learn of anything I will pass the word onto you.

Thank-you for your patience, (as even my patience is growing thin)

-Thomas