Zero Dark Miniatures - Update

Just FYI.  For various reasons - some COVID related, some just, y'know, life - we're a couple of weeks behind schedule, now.  But that's fine because I'm not committed to anything and always assumed there would be slippage at this point.  And having done my homework, it makes sense to push the project back a couple of months anyway.

One of the big factors in a Kickstarter's successful funding is effectively building up interest and excitement before it launches.  Most successful KS campaigns achieve funding in the first week and that's what provides momentum for the rest of the campaign to grow.  But to achieve that, people need to know about the campaign and the products well in advance (but not too far in advance).

So my plan, now, is to get the minis cast in resin and professionally painted before I start the marketing campaign, so the funding campaign will then be a couple of months after that.  Currently, it looks like we could manage to get the minis made in resin by the end of February, so it looks like the campaign itself won't start before the end of April.  This allows time for the painting and then photography and graphics and a budget for advertising all to be worked up.

We won't, then, go to make the moulds for white metal casting until the project passes its funding goal.  Although funding can go down as well as up, this gives me a degree of confidence in making the additional outlay associated with a carefully-managed marketing campaign, as well as with getting the designs for the stretchgoals sorted out.

The picture here is the latest update on the miniature for Kurtz, inspired by the character on the front of Operation Nemesis, illustrated by David Sondered.  He's presented as a sapper, but all of the minis will be multi-purpose, depending on how one wanted to paint them.

If we hit the right stretchgoals, there will be extra kit and alternate weapons as well as new minis.