"IndieGoGo: Alien Shock Trooper squad" Topic

As seen previously in various bitz and pieces on the Science Fiction board:
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Most recent discussion on the models being crowsourced here, courtesy of our very own Armand AKA Tango01:
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Nice one for getting this onto the crowdfunding board, tnjrp. You beat me to it while I was giving my 3yr old lunch!

To all 28mm sci-fi gamers out there, these are awesome mins with a classic Alien Legion feel, and would find a place as mercs, troopers, or characters in pretty much any game featuring aliens.

I'm in at Squad Leader level.

PF has added an update on the campaign site showing painted troopers with the new variant heads:

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More alien goodness!

They certainly attract me. I like the idea of separate species having uniform equipment.

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Just ten days left on this, and still quite a way to go to achieve funding.

Surely this is the kind of project crowdfunding was designed to support: a highly talented sculptor with an original vision trying to make that vision a reality through mutual support.

Instead, the most successful crowdfunding schemes seem to be by large, well-established companies using them essentially as marketing and cost-benefit exercises to push products they were going to make anyway.

Of course, there are small projects that get well-funded, but the general trend seems best exemplified by the enormous success of schemes like Reaper Bones.

Even if this project doesn't achieve funding, I hope PF still goes forward with his next project. I think it will be more successful because now there's already a large group of potential supporters who could spread the word before the campaign proper begins.