"15mm Cold War British..." Topic

In the production queue!

All part of my grand kickstarter :)

Light mortars, SLR's, Stirlings, Gpmg's and the good old Anti Tank Carl Gustav……

armiesarmy.com

Looking great. :-)

Keith – While I did not support this particular Kickstarter (I supported your sci-fi Brits), I can really appreciate your efforts and enthusiasm. And if you expand this into West Germans I may be tempted! Really nice!!!

thank you :)

I've a few other plans first

like the …….

…..East Germans???????

my God. Can't anyone do anything without kickstarter? Its like no one thinks enough of their product to make it without crowdfunding.

Here Here
burn them all

Yes how dare these multimillionaire fat cat companies not just produce figures willy nilly on the off chance someone will like them.

Hey, if ArmiesArmy wants to use kickstarter to make my life better, I'm good with it.

Kickstarters have been good news for new ranges. Instead of the handful of packs we used to get, as that was all the firm was willing to risk until they saw what sales were like, we get a complete range – vehicles, support weapons, command, the lot. Problem with the produce a few packs and see how it goes was it put the firm and the potential buyers in a catch 22. Do I buy in and hope they finish the range and risk being stuck with figures for a range that never gets completed and for the firm if the initial range doesn't sell do I produce more in the hope it will stimulate sales or cut my loses and abandon the project. It also seems to have stimulated interest in ranges that would never have been done without a guarantee of getting at least your investment back. Win, win all round IMHO.

+many Irish and Fred

+1 gunnerphil & Fred

I am doing my best to avoid a KS (and I don't think we've done too badly with what we have coming out) but if people want full ranges from the get go then unless you have very very deep pockets, some form of crowdfunding option is difficult to avoid.

Dan
mikebravominiatures.com

It is indeed a catch 22. I'd suggest most mini companies in 15mm with exception to battlefront are one or two man , part time in it for the joy type setups. On average it takes 2 years to recover your costs. Some quicker and some slower. To release everything at once I'd be Living in my mates shed as the Mrs would Kick me out!
Kickstarter brings the funds in and markets interest. It's a good way off calculating 'crazy or sane'. It costs me 10% and on 15mm margins that's a lot lost, however it drives interest and people are happy as they get a full range and are not left wondering as Fred said.
Finally kickstarter allows you to be involved as a customer. We'll the way I run mine does. Ask anyone of my backers if they felt like they helped ? Many provided information, ideas, real hand ecperiance and most if not all was fed back into the models.
Will I do another absolutely yes, will I also simply release lines without absolutely yes. It all depends on costs, market and interest

Ta

Keith

Mike with the sort of ranges you are producing I'm guessing you can keep people happy with a smaller start. As long as you can field a squad for skirmish type games most people would buy in. For Keith's 15mm you are looking for a company level force. So you need support options, mortars, tripod MG's, AT missiles, command and the vehicles to carry them in. Same goes for most horse and musket ranges, infantry, cavalry and artillery and several variants of each plus the command for each type.
Kudos to all you guys who put the time and money in to develope the toys we all need to play our games with.

@ Keith,
I certainly felt I was involved in the process, and that you were receptive to criticism and corrections, and suggestions too, without getting carried away. I enjoyed it all, and look forward to receiving the hardware. Well done Keith.

thankyou:)

I'm ones of Keith's sci-fi Brit supporters and I'm very pleased with the product. It allowed me to help him fund a full line of miniatures so I didn't have to wait months or years for the range to be rounded out. There have veen a lot of times where I jumped in and supported a line of miniatures only to see it wither on the vine with only the most basic of troops released. So to me it's a win/win for both the producer and the consumer.

Nice addition idea for Team Yankee,BAOR and other Commonwealth troops.

Looking good.

Can i point out that the kidney pouches seem slightly over scale compared to the ressie case. Also you are missing the bum roll(poncho), which was sometimes carried on top of the kidney pouches.
I assume the two guys we can see with there backs to us, one of them is a Radio operator? If so he would be carrying a PRC 351, the section commander should have a PRC 349 on his front. usually radio operators had a SMG but sometimes swapped it out for L1A1 to hide fact you are the RO except of course you had a 1m whip antenna sticking above you.
As a point to note the radio Operator would use a headset with mouthpiece not a hand set, a hand set was attached to the radio set to allow the platoon commander to come on Net as and when he needed to.
Garl Gustav operator would have a Sterling SMG as main weapon.

Thanks for the input

all feedback well received :)

Correct the guy with the stirling is a radio operator

Keith

The SLRs look weird, real ones look a lot thinner, especially the barrel which looks like a torch has been stuck to the end of the gun on your models! :)

Hi

Its for casting

Its not for the production model. It has been removed

cheers

Keith