I backed Sally 4th's Classic Movie Miniatures Episode 2 Kickstarter last July. These are always interesting KS for me because Chris at Sally 4th keeps making figures from some of my favorite movies of all time - The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca for example. Plus backing this KS also allowed me to grab some of his excellent museum and bazaar terrain pieces, more on that in a future post.
What was really neat about this particular KS was that the backers were able to vote on an extra pack of figures and whichever one won the popular vote they would be sculpted and added into the rewards.
Well, I immediately thought back to my old Agent Carter Historicon game, where I wanted the scenario to be set in late war Europe with the Howling Commandos (and The Star Spangled man with the plan, above, if things went south for the good guys 😃). At the time I was unable to find any proxies to work for the Howling Commandos so I had to change my original idea a bit and use post war SSR agents instead, which was a huge disappointment.
Fast forward a year and incredibly my suggestion for the Howling Commandos won the overall vote and I now finally have a Dum Dum Dugan miniature, which I couldn't be happier about!
Jim Morita.
And Pinky Pinkerton. Chris had said that Mark, Tin Shed Gamer on LAF who sculpted these guys, was going to work on completing the rest of the group so hopefully that is still in the works so I can get a Bucky figure, wink wink, nudge nudge 🤣
I can't remember if I posted a photo of this "not" Johann Schmidt before, but it seemed appropriate since I had the Howling Commandos finally finished. A fantastic model from Warlord Games.
I would also like to welcome new followers Michael Awdry, Carl Packham, and Tales from Shed HQ. Really appreciate you guys hitting the follow button 😃
Until next time, thanks for looking!
Ivor
Those look brilliant
ReplyDeleteCheers mate!
DeleteWell done, beautiful miniatures and scenery!
ReplyDeleteMuch appreciated Phil!
DeleteGreat looking figures - will you be making the trek to HCON this year?
ReplyDeleteThanks Miles! As of right now no, it's been a pretty rough couple of months personally - and why the blog has been so quiet - but I have looked at hotels in the last few days as my wife thinks it would be a good thing for me to get away for a bit for myself... so fingers crossed and we'll see what happens here in the next couple of days.
DeleteMore new stars Ivor, I don't know who you manage the wage bill :)
ReplyDeleteCracking paint job as always.
LOL! Thanks a lot Frank!
DeleteAbsolutely tremendous! What a great unit and lovely to see the idea realised.
ReplyDeleteMuch appreciated Michael! Very happy to finally have the right figures for my original idea :)
DeleteSome nicely painted figures there and the traditional impressive terrain. You seem to doing miniature purchases just through KS, a good way to get some unique figures. 😀
ReplyDeleteThanks Stew! You know what, you're absolutely right - I hadn't thought about that at all but a majority of my figures these days are coming from Kickstarters. I actually have a whole bunch more finished from Knuckleduster that I need to post up, and then I just got notification today that my Crooked Dice KS is on it's way, so that's another whole new set of figures coming 😀
Delete... and I just backed this really neat Jurassic Park KS that has all kinds of really neat dinosaurs, vehicles, and figures that should make for an interesting game!
Some cracking looking figures there Ivor. It must be great to get your figure selection manufactured. Very nice photos, the backgrounds are lovely.
ReplyDeleteCheers John! Yeah, a bit mad to think my choice was actually made into models?! Hopefully Chris has sold enough to at least make back what he had to put into having them made - otherwise I'm going to feel pretty awful.
DeleteCracking job on them all mate. Lovely brushwork!
ReplyDeleteMuch appreciated Simon!
DeleteExcellent stuff! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteCheers Michal!
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