Finsterbones 2: Kickstarter läuft

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Finsterbones 2

Finsterbones goes modular! Modular Skeleton Infantry! Lots of parts! Presupported digitial STLs & printed physicals!

Sculpting the undead army I never could afford as a child. 

One model at a time.

Skeletons built with this set (incl. stretchgoals)

Hey I’m back! After last years Kickstarter campaign I continued to work on more Undead models… and I wanted to make my first modular set.

So I focused on modular Skeleton Infantry! In the process I made more than 150+ Parts! Enough to build huge Regiments with lots of variety! I made the models with Rank&File army sized games in mind, like Hobgoblin (by Mike Hutchinson, published by Electi studio) but I also use them for skirmishers like Necropolis28 (by Peter Vigors aka @owlshield) or the „city of the damned“… I also made a custom Army list for Hobgoblin in the amazing hobgoblin app by Indie Tabletop Club! See below in the Armylist tab 😀

With this Kickstarter you get the chance to help me create my own undead themed army step by step, and as a reward for the pledge you get either the STLs (presupported & tested) for resin printing or the a boxed set of Physical models to build your own 16 skeleton warriors (printed in resin).

I try to re-create the childhood joy of building from a boxed set!

The physical pledge: the boxed set with all Strechgoals unlodcked (on the left)

And Backers of the digital „All in!“ pledege will get some awesome cross promo models to accompany this miniature set! KZK minis shared some amazing character models.

For the physical backers Iam cooking something with @macdungeon, lets see where this goes 😀

Starting with the Core Set with 85+ parts via Stretchgoals getting the massive set to 150+. On purpose I set the funding goal and the Strechgoals very low as I really want to make this happen and Iam still unkown… so even I hope for a little skyrocketing I don’t expect it.

Funds will be used to cover all the cost of miniature making, which is mostly my unpaid labour but also material, hardware, software and studio rent, health insurance etc.
I neither have a proper tablet for sculpting nor a computer capable of running the software yet. So thanks for supporting a Indie Miniature Maker 😀

the very frist bits I made: roundshield & spear

The finsterbones 2 – Modular Skeleton set:

The funds raised with last campaign helped me to rent a little shared studio space… it had a huge impact on the process making this set. I made some modular parts, printed them, tested and builded them, shared them with my Patreons & MMF Tribers to get feedback. Then I made more of the bits I liked, replaced the ones I didn’t and so on.

And most important: I painted them and played with them. I wanted to create a set that brings back the Joy of building allot of different models from a boxed set. Back then when I was 17 a „new“ skeleton plastic box came out, and I had huuuge fun to build the models… but I wanted more models and more parts and different ones and so on. So years later I try making that myself.

„So now I try to sculpt the Undead army I could’t afford as a child… one model at a time!“

Finding the joyful spark of building modular models and kit-bashing! I decided to go for a ball joint shoulder on the models, increasing the variety of the set, as you can rotate the arms in different angles. I wanted to create a Set with allot of variety to create large regiments (40+ models) with allot of different Skeletons. So I made 10 bodies, 20 if you mirror them etc.

Also one of the first models I build and painted 😀

Also I pushed the set in the direction I liked: rattling skeletons… with bent knees, hanging arms, stumbling forward. I focused on the bare boned style again… but as one of my patreons requested: modular armour… as some plastic skeletons of the 80s had this feature… So I spent again some time testing… and yes! Now we have modular armour! Breastplates, neckplates! Legs and arms too! Its amazing: Build a heavy Infantry with allot of armour or spread different party across a whole unit: neckplate there… leg piece here etc. Then I went for my favorite helmlets styles: Bat wings and horns! Its the coolest Strechgoal!

I built a full heavy infantry unit with the modular armour strechgoal!

And of course I included two-handed and Ranged weapons: the Bows and the Scyhtes are my favorite!

Also meeting John & Mathilde from VaeVictis Miniaures at Kamping Kitbash in Belgium last year had a huge impact, as John shared his insight on modular sets with me! Thanks, its a huge help, and improved this project allot! 😀

And also special thanks to Jona aka @mitdemall for making this awesome campaign video!

Feel free to follow me on instagram to see some Updates & behind the scenes!

Physical pledge: Boxed Set – 16 Skeletons        (Now 20 via unlocked strechgoals!)

The physical will give you a fine selection of parts to build 16 models. To simplifiy production the parts will be randomized but you get

From the Core Set above:

16 bodies (incl. 25mm square bases), 16 weapon arms (incl. spears, swords, axes and maces), 16 shield arms; 8 empty arms, 16+ Skulls 

I will print them in Resin in my studio for you, by now Iam testing „tough“ resin, which is giving a bit extra flex to the models, if everything goes well they will come in that „tough“ resin, if not in regular ABS-like. I will let you know in the updates.

Via Strechgoals as seen below more parts will get added and the variety of the parts above will get increased!

Update 2nd Wave: allot Strechgoals unlocked!

So you will get way more: 

20 bodies (incl. 25mm square bases), 20 weapon arms (incl. spears, swords, axes and maces), 16 shield arms; 8 empty arms, 20+ Skulls, 8+ Skulls with helmlets, 4 sets of modular armour; 4  ranged weapons, 4 two-handed weapons, 3 Command bits (Music instrument, Banner, Champion Sword)! And the variety of the bits is incerased!

2nd Wave:  I needed to adjust the price and delivery date of the 2nd Wave – sorry… but as a solo creator I need to keep it an a level that i can realize it, I got way more pledges than expected.

Die Kampagne läuft noch 4 Tage.

Quelle: Finsterbones 2