Kickstarters of Note
Hello, fellow Portalites!
I have another batch of kickstarters for you all to drool over; mostly specific to builders and painters this time. Some models for painting, some clever covering material and some 3d designs for printing – these might not be a few of my favorite things, but they could be yours!
Kabuki Studio Presents: Mother of Dragons
I keep telling myself, I don’t paint for display, but these are /very/ tempting.
“The concept for Mother of Dragons was born a few years ago.
I still recall seeing the beautiful illustration made by Stéphane Wootha. Richard posted on his Facebook profile and I fell in love with her immediately – I knew immediately that I wanted to bring her to life in miniature form.
Fortunately, Stéphane was also very excited about the idea of a collaboration.
We were inspired and driven to start working on the project that we both felt so passionate about and now, with much pride we can finally share this project with you all.
What you see here required 2 years of committed development, during which time, our team has created and implemented many variants until we made of it a full range, indeed in addition to the varied scale of the main subject , you will find unique versions such as the bust or the lovely “super deformed” miniature. In fact, this is the characteristic of all of our Kickstarter campaigns — we always enjoy experimenting with new products and offering you something you’ve never seen before.
Every successful kickstarter campaign enable us to share our dreams with the most supportive community in the world. ”
… I appear to have missed the piece of art they are referring to, but if the sculpt is even half as nice as the pictures, oh … well. Perhaps you should find out for yourself.
Hobgoblin 3D Presents: Raghaven Hamlet – 3d Printable 28mm Terrain
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hobgoblin3d/tavern-borntm-raghaven-hamlet-3d-printable-28mm-te
If you have access to a 3d printer, this may be of interest to you. If you don’t, there’s a risk this will prompt you to amend that. I’m looking at pictures and whatnot for what appears to be a very nicely appointed tavern that you can set up for your players, with a handful of optional additions, including interior furnishings.. even food.
From the looks, there is also parts of a village available. I’m intrigued.
Happy Seppuku Presents: MagRelief
For those of you unfamiliar with Happy Seppuku; they make silicon stamps that can be used to texture modeling putty or other clays for bases, walls .. .really, anything
This, however, this is a new thing they’re doing. In their words: “MagRelief is a great new material Happy Seppuku came up with to help gamers and model builders add modular elements to their projects. MagRelief is a light duty flexible cloth like material that that is MAGNETIC RECEPTIVE, meaning while not a magnet itself you can stick magnets to the surface. We also textured it using patterns from our stamp line to give MagRelief sheets a realistic surface, so even if you do not take advantage of its magnetic qualities you can still use it to quickly surface your terrain pieces.”
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m interested. Happy Seppuku makes some nice stamps, and my brief experience with their people at Reapercon was overall positive. I’m looking forward to seeing how this goes.