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Kickstarter Chibi Asian Adventurers
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Spotted this on dakka earlier, depending on prices might get some and proxy them in SDE.

Copy and paste job from dakka as usual- Tongue

I know Chibi isn’t to everyone’s taste but I really enjoy painting them, they make a nice break from the usual grimdark stuff.

Impact! Miniatures will be launching their second chibi kickstarter - Chibi Asian Adventurers in about 2 weeks time (they are just finishing off shipping the previous KS once that’s finished they can go live, the project has been submitted to KS for approval already)

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The full sized artwork images can be found here: http://www.impactminiatures.net/Chibi/AsianChibi.html

(if you click on the artwork it will take you to a Youtube video of the finished sculpt, most links should be working now). The artwork is again done by Lorraine Schelter.

The first 26 are Type 1 miniatures (approx. 30mm) the last 5 are Type 2 (approx. 50mm) the type 2s have been reduced from 60mm in the first KS as they ended up too large in some cases and are expensive to produce the Chimera being the main example. All of the above have already been digitally sculpted by Juan Miguel López Barea at MKUltra Studios. They will all be available to pick once the project hits its funding goal (provisionally $15k). The miniatures have been designed to have less parts and be easier to cast and assemble this time. The kickstarter is required to help fund the molding and casting of the miniatures. Trollforged will be looking after this again.

In addition to the above the Tengu Priest, Monk and Dragon Monk from the first KS will be available to pick. There will also be a Tengu swordmaster and a Chinese Hobgoblin (conversion of the first KS Orc with conical hat and Chinese pole arm).

There will be 5 stretch goal miniatures – Type 2 Bashe and Baku and Type 1 Qilin (Dragon Pony), Chinese Bowman and Hsigo (flying monkey).

They’ve simplified the rewards this time, it’s all miniatures no side shows so no T-Shirts, dice etc. Your reward level lets you make a number of picks. There are 7 reward levels ranging from 1 pick to 50+. A type 1 is 1 pick a type 2 counts as 2 picks. You can buy a pick for $5 each if you want more picks than your reward level but not as many as the next level.

There are also stretch goals that add additional picks to levels 4 to 7 depending on the funding total.

In order to keep everything on time (planned delivery is provisionally May 2014 ) the project will be limited to 40 miniatures. There’s no scope for adding backers suggestions this time and no backer designed miniature level (the sculpting company is booked out with other projects) however they are still open to suggestions for if/when they expand the range after the KS. The last project snowballed to 103 miniatures and shipping was delayed as a result so Chris and Tom want to avoid that happening again. Tom’s health issues during the KS didn’t help either but I must say their communication was excellent throughout and they are very quick to deal with any issues that backers have with their stuff so I have no issues backing again.

Here’s the update about the Chibi Asian stuff in Chris and Tom’s own words http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/6740...3#comments

Finally you can see the finished results of the first KS here: http://www.impactminiatures.com/index.php?option=chibi
(anything that was paid for by Impact! In addition to the KS stuff is on sale now the rest won’t go on sale until all KS backers have theirs so that stuff is currently showing as out of stock).

I’ll update this when the project goes live.

Oh and if this is a success the next one might be Sci-fi chibi (in fact they have a few test sculpts already).
40k- Space marines(5000 pts) Imperial guard (3000 pts) Tau (3000 pts)
Epic 40k-Space marines/Imperial Guard(2000 pts)
Infinity Yu jing (Aprox 1000 pts)
Necromunda Escher Mad capsules Avalanche
Blood bowl Skaven
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