Next Level Miniatures is on Kickstarter (Rappan Athuk, a giant dragon, fantasy minis galore)

[BlazingTornado]

6 minutes ago, Marc said:

Anyone have a way to contact them? I can’t find an e-mail address on their website

 

I did send them a message on Facebook - we’ll see if I hear back

[email protected] is the usual email they provide for support.

[JoeGKushner]

23 hours ago, ksbsnowowl said:

The ghouls and cultists were some of the worst offenders.  I put my cultsits on a bito f basing to try to give them more height.

The 'giant' frogs and spiders are bad too. The frogs worse than the spiders because you can see a human arm out of the mouth of the frog and well, are they eating children? Like infant children?

[ksbsnowowl]

Someone in the KS comments mentioned posting pics to a NLM non-official fan page on Facebook. He made no effort to to take in-focus pictures or light things well, so I only cherry-picked photos that were decent. You can go find the page to see more photos.
 

Teeny troll. I love trolls, of all sizes (yay Half-Troll template!), so I’ll find a great use for these, but it’s definitely not what I was expecting. 
 

 

Tiny ogre. Maybe his name is Ogre Dinklage. 
 

 

 

Bugbear looks serviceable. 
 

 

 

Are you kidding? A weird 5e PC-size Minotaur?

 

 

 

[ced1106]

I like how the cultists have a "Take your child to (the) sacrifice" day. 😄

 

Rumormill on D&L was that they shrunk the adults to fit on the sprue better. Dunno about NLM, as Siocast uses a different mold technique. 

 

Like D&L, the human scales are more noticeable than the monsters. Maybe have the smaller guys fight FFG miniatures. 😕

[ksbsnowowl]

Not my photos, from a Facebook post. He included Reaper, Frostgrave, and Red Box Games miniatures for comparison. The Reaper mini on the left is from the Bones 5 Henchmen set. 
The metal mini’s are RBG. 

 

[R2ED]

Man, I'm just hoping these aren't too small to enjoy working on.  Some of those D&L minis are REALLY small.  

[BlazingTornado]

From everything I've seen, if you've got minis between 25mm and true-28mm they'll mostly work fine alongside those, so I guess it all depends on what scales you favor most.

 

Whenever mine arrives I'll probably just take a whole lot of comparison shots with comparable minis.

[Marc]

I actually reached out to them to see about canceling my order. Haven’t heard back from them yet though …

[ksbsnowowl]

Ouch:

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ToxkmdhVPmI

[haldir]

On 2/24/2023 at 11:31 AM, JoeGKushner said:

The ghouls and cultists were some of the worst offenders.  I put my cultsits on a bito f basing to try to give them more height.

The 'giant' frogs and spiders are bad too. The frogs worse than the spiders because you can see a human arm out of the mouth of the frog and well, are they eating children? Like infant children?

 

Well in some encounters & groups this might be a "plus". 

[R2ED]

This is tough to watch.  I really wanted to see these in large scale. Painting at that small is a real pain. Poop...

[JoeGKushner]

On most of them paint up okay IMO.  

Edited March 2 by JoeGKushner

[BlazingTornado]

On 3/1/2023 at 5:24 PM, ksbsnowowl said:

Ouch:

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ToxkmdhVPmI

The durability issues are heartbreaking to see. Especially given the KS was promoted with durable, bendable materials.

I don't think they ever disclosed in an update that they'd be changing materials to a harder, brittler material.

 

17 hours ago, JoeGKushner said:

On most of them paint up okay IMO. 

Are those print lines on some areas? I know the masters were 3D printed to make the Siocast molds but I didn't think they'd be printed in such a way as to leave visible lines....

[Marc]

I was able to cancel my order / pledge before it shipped and get a full refund. The more I read here, the better I feel about it!

Edited March 3 by Marc

[JoeGKushner]

14 hours ago, BlazingTornado said:

The durability issues are heartbreaking to see. Especially given the KS was promoted with durable, bendable materials.

I don't think they ever disclosed in an update that they'd be changing materials to a harder, brittler material.

 

Are those print lines on some areas? I know the masters were 3D printed to make the Siocast molds but I didn't think they'd be printed in such a way as to leave visible lines....

Honestly I don't know.  My eyes aren't that good I'm afraid.