Cancelled Hangar 18 Pinups KS

[Arkady]

The pricing does seem a little high considering it's Kickstarter, not retail. For comparison, when Kingdom Death - not exactly a cheap, butr a quality manufacturer - does 54mm Pinups, they sell for $40.

 

On the fence thus - they'll have to show more sculpts and preferably prototypes to convince me those prices are fair.

[slidedog]

Hi all we just updated with mini-goal and a freebie. Check out the update when you get a minute!

 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/710406053/hangar-18-pinups-modern-pinup-miniatures-bawidaman/posts

[chaosscorpion]

Wow Photobackdrops, nice I have looked at these a few times.

[Heisler]

The photo backdrops are a really nice add.

[sumbloke]

I'm curious as to the sizes of the photo backdrops. The size in inches listed for the A3 one is American "Ledger" size, not A3 (A3 would be 16.5 x 11.7 to the nearest 0.1"). The A2 one is correct (with rounding).

[Heisler]

They have been busy showing off stuff in their updates for this kickstarter. Since they hit the $15,000 level and added the photo backdrop the value has substantially increased the value. Here are some pictures from their kickstarter.

 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/710406053/hangar-18-pinups-modern-pinup-miniatures-bawidaman

[trystangst]

Potential good news - I asked the creators if the Blackhawk level could be any 3 figures, instead of 1 from each of the tiers. They agreed:

 

Matthew Blecke about 2 hours ago

To follow on with what Scott said, it'd be awesome if Blackhawks could be pick 3, just like Hornet is pick 4.

Creator Hangar 18 Miniatures 6 minutes ago

As Picard would say make it so! If that's the way you want to go we can swing that.

[trystangst]

Well they killed it.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/710406053/hangar-18-pinups-modern-pinup-miniatures-bawidaman/posts

 

Supposed to re-launch in 2 months or so with more production models (some painted), lower prices, and more scale options.

[estrus]

That's encouraging! Will be worth a second look.

[Cassu]

Well they killed it.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/710406053/hangar-18-pinups-modern-pinup-miniatures-bawidaman/posts

 

Supposed to re-launch in 2 months or so with more production models (some painted), lower prices, and more scale options.

That makes sense, it was obvious they weren't going to reach their goal and at least they've learned from their mistakes and can hopefully so better next time.

[Arkady]

I think it's a good call. The original multi-fig pledge levels weren't all that well conceived (there was no real point in taking them unless you liked the Zombie Hunter, because no other Raptor fig was yet unlocked) and in combination with the lack of momentum after the first few days, that really killed the campaign.

 

I think going multi-scale is a great decision, too. 32mm will surely be more attractive to gamers, while I suspect for enticing collectors, they'd be better off with something even larger than 54mm. Looking at companies with succesful pinup lines like Andrea Miniatures or Pegaso Models, it does seem that 80mm is the sweet spot there.