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TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
These arrived from John Morris today! SO BEAUTIFUL!


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lilljonas
May 6, 2007

We got crabs? We got crabs!
Those are some top notch sculpts, yeah. :)

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
NEARLY 24 HOURS LEFT!!!
http://kck.st/3EZ4rDZ


Mata Hari is unlocked!


Animal Bundles!


🍂💀🎃WE'RE INTO OCTOBER!👻🧛‍♂️ 🧟‍♀️

Spooky season! Let's do some spooky stretch goals!

We've unlocked....the spooky gang!


🧟‍♂️⚡️🧬

We had a fun live stream last night , we were discussing next stretch goals and I showed off the following, asking what people thought of this in this Kickstarter. It was an overwhelming YES and fits brilliantly with the minis above, and yes, SPOOKY SEASON so let's go! At time of writing, we are mega close to unlocking it!


Assembling these bundles and photoshopping like an eccentric scientist has taken me all day, so that's all for now!

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
FINAL FEW HOURS. Fully funded with everything unlocked. Some wonderful 28mm minis and scenics.
❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜
http://kck.st/3EZ4rDZ

Thank you everybody!


EDIT:

THANK YOU!!!!

TheDiceBagLady fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Oct 3, 2021

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
Wahey! From now til 1st November, if you use the code "FEELNGSPOOKY" at the webcart section, you will save 15% on everything from the Spooky Season category. The link for all the goodies is here, and of course you can add non spooky things to the cart too

https://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Spooky-Season/c/121176518

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
After SEVEN years, we figured it's time to finally grace UK Games Expo with our presence!* It is time! Please do share among your RPG spaces and friends etc. We're well known in wargaming land but this is our proper launch into the world of TTRPG. We now have a HUGE range of fantasy and sci fi miniatures (as well as our flagship historical) and an immense range of quirky scatter scenics.

Bad Squiddo Games specialises in Believable Femme Miniatures - they're equipped to actually deal some damage!

Come and see the painted minis in the flesh (well, metal and resin flesh, not actual human flesh), meet founder Annie and her merry band of long suffering helpers as well as guest helper (with a range of their stunning anthro animals) - Fenris Games.

We also have our well loved colouring table where you can sit and colour til your heart's content and get a cheeky sit down too. This features the wonderful artwork of Martin Whitmore.

NEW RELEASES! LOADS!

We're a bit nervous so please do come over and tell your friends!


*(we had a bit of a stand a few years ago with Sarissa when there was a last minute dropout, but not full Squiddo)

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
Eeek, this launches TOMORROW! Please do join the "Notify me" gang to super duper help out. This project is going to be [mostly] Women of Horror. We have Vampires, Vampire Hunters, Werewolves, Mummies, Ghouls, Zombies, Scientists, Constructs and more! All hand sculpted by Shane Hoyle, Jo Brumby and Alan Marsh.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/badsquiddogames/my-last-sunrise-2


There will also be splendid bundles with our existing horror minis and scenics as well.

Here are some sneaky peeks.....



Ralph Plowman has sent me this lovely pic of his painting on our sorceress, with a stunning Jon Hodgson backdrop


I'll be adding more pics before launch as well, I'm just running around at the moment doing all the last minute tasks :D

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
I'm totally in love with this mini, the lil hand! She's Shegor, from the All Woman Victoria Frankenstein set.

Launches 6pm, not long to go!

Commissar Canuck
Aug 5, 2008

They made fun of us! And it's Stanley Cup season!

Thanks for the heads up on this, always been a fan of your stuff :toot:

moths
Aug 25, 2004

I would also still appreciate some danger.



This seems just in time for Silver Bayonet, very exciting.

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
IT'S ALIIIIIVE!

http://kck.st/3TxGT0J

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
Hecks yeah! Thank you! Lovely to wake up to her all funded, and dang I needed that sleep last night.

I've added captions to the images of the minis now, saying how big the monsters are, and how many pieces, metal or resin etc - which I just ran out of time for yesterday, it was very much typing and photoshopping frantically right up to launch. I'll be doing more tinkering and tidying today on there as well double checking for typos and clarity and all that.

So what new goodies are there......

TURKEY MAN!



1 x Pewter Miniature, one piece. Sculpted by Phil Hynes. 43mm from base to top of head.

Not all constructs work out. Some end up twisted, distorted and longing for the sweet release of death. Not Turkey Man of course, he has a wicked time.

He's currently being cast, and with a painter lined up, we should see him in grisly flesh colours next week. Why Turkey Man? He makes a great construct or encounter and you've definitely never seen one before. Now when I work late, I imagine Turkey Man prowling the corridors. Thanksgiving is forever ruined.

How big is he?


At 43mm to the top of the head he towers over standard 28mm miniatures but not to a mega gigantic level. He can still fit into cupboards, ready to leap out at you.

How do I add Turkey Man to my pledge?

You just increase your pledge by £8, you do this in the "manage my pledge" section. You can do this as many times and at any point before the end of the project to add whatever you like. If you are in at the Pick n Mix Level, this is especially important for helping unlock more minis. Basically you just add up the total of what you want, then it's afterwards you let me know, and you'll be guided through that at the time.

What's the next stretch goal?

MUMMIES!
3 x Pewter Miniatures, all single piece. Sculpted by Shane Hoyle.
https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/04...8b70572f53aacc4

Currently the centre mummy is cast and in a painting queue, we've had her a while [unreleased] but I like to release some minis with friends, so Shane is currently finishing off her friends to make a pack of three.

Here is an artist's impression of how the far left one will look....

It's very sophisticated behind the scenes here!

Painted Goodies

I had an ogre in my pocket at Vapnartak trade show last month to slip out and show people who had been good, one of which was Ralph Plowman, who has previously painted for us. He was very enamored by her and convinced me to let him take her, as well as one of the standard minis.

They arrived yesterday and I took this quick picture to show the scale of the big girl Luda, as well as the lovely paint jobs. The others we have so far are with the painter (John Morris) but I can play with these and the existing horror minis to make some nice scenes for future updates.



Scenics and Animals


Did you know we make a whole heap of scary scenics and ...alarming animals?

I'll be making some bundles for these as well today and adding them to the add on section. We even have a lab to build Turkey Man in.

Thank you!

Keep spreading the word, Bad Squiddo Games is just one person (meeeeeeeeeee) so there's only so much promo I can do by myself - hence using KS to help get the word out there - Hello people of the internet - we have great minis!

Annie

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
A whole bunch of pics from the KS to tempt anyone who didn't click! Just had the cossack painted image - wow!
http://kck.st/3TxGT0J

Also I added a bunch of scenic and animal deals to the page too, I won't put them here or it really will be picture overload.











TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
I promised you guinea pigs, and guinea pigs there will be. If you're new to Bad Squiddo through this KS...I really like guinea pigs. They are the best and I fit them in the ranges where I can. These are my four peegs! (Oh yeah we call em peegs around here).


In our current range of models we don't really have any of the fuzzies like Carole, so I have fixed this! Behold the next unlock after the Elite Mummies.....


Size wise they are similar to the Peegasi (you can add these to your pledge if you want some angelic counterparts for these to fight, also £8 for a pack of three)


Talking of the Elite Mummies...

They are NEARLY unlocked, come on! So close! Also we have an updated pic of the mummy on the far left which Shane is furiously sculpting. They're fantastic.
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https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/04...bfe0a4aacc4a46d[/img]

Dragon Fossil

All the vampire activity has stirred something in the deep. What are they planning with this? Do they know what they could unleash?

It's a huge resin set (9 pieces) and I've been taking some pictures to show the scale of it, so one of the vampire Queens down there shows it up! You can add this to your pledge for £30.


Cool Photos

While I don't have many photos of the new minis in situ as they're with the painter, some are arriving tomorrow! So expect lots next week! As a starter though, I do have the two painted minis from Ralph and lots of the existing range which is in the add ons. Also I decided that every photo is made better by angry ogre in the background.


See what I mean!



Don't forget us over the weekend! It's been really hard to have the posts seen on social media as EVERYTHING is happening this weekend, so it quickly gets drowned out by other news. So sharing and boosting really really helps!

Thank you so much for your support. I am so happy with this range, my inner child is elated! I get to bring spooky peegs (if they're unlocked) and cool spooky ladies to the world, YAY!

[The first wargaming mini I ever got brand new, as opposed to from the second hand market, was The Black Coach, and the undead have been my happy place ever since!]

Annniiie

PS: LIVE STREAM

I'm thinking of doing a live stream talking through the minis and a Q&A - I'm not sure when yet, potentially Sunday Morning to correlate with the regular Sunday Morning Coffee stream - 10am, on our Youtub

TheDiceBagLady fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Mar 24, 2023

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
Elite Mummies are Unlocked!
Pic not updated yet as I need my laptop for the editing, but just pretend it's green!
Linky > http://kck.st/3TxGT0J



And after Vampeegs, it's Vampire Hunter time! Here is one of them, looking very COOL, the other will have a picture very soon, probably tomorrow. They will be £8 for the two. The other lady is jumping in the air with a stake, ready to assassinate a vampire....or a ..... bat vampire. [spoilers]


There's still some minis being sculpted that I would love to unlock and add to this campaign, but it's going to need a boost! Boooooost.

On the workbench is currently a lovely necromancer (to raise the mummies and such!), her assistant, two vampire hunters, a bat woman (pics soon of her!), two freshly bitten vampires....!

The painted minis from John have arrived so I will be having a photoshoot with them on Monday, which I am looking forward to!

Here's one of the figures from the existing range (add ons) having a nice cup of tea.

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
Wheeep! The vampeegs will have their feed! They're arriving with the casters tomorrow so there *should* be lil metal ones by the end of the campaign to show off (and better pictures!). If there is enough time, I'll paint some myself, as I can never resist some peegs.

More good news! The Vampire Hunters Anya and Nina are also unlocked. I absolutely love these, they'll be extra useful in games like The Silver Bayonet. What other games do you have in mind?



To add the Vampeegs and/or Vampire Hunters just adjust your pledge accordingly.

Next Stretch Goal:
Bat Vampire!


Another brilliant sculpt from Shane Hoyle and with a real classic horror theme. She still needs some tidying and the wings finished in this picture but you get a good idea. Shane is frantically sculpting away, so send him thoughts and prayers!



Sculptors often work across a few models at once, so another thing he is working on is an assistant for this necromancer (and finishing her!). The helper is going to be a mummy holding a spell book open for her, and I'll show you soon!



The next bunch of stretch goals after this are Zombie Annie, Freshly Bitten Vampires and.....some NAPOLEONIC CONSTRUCTS. You heard that correctly!

More lovely photos

I've been taking more lovely photos, especially based in this modular dungeon by Tabletop Workshop. No affiliation, they're just nice people and the dungeon is cool! All the scatter and minis are Bad Squiddo, and available in this campaign. Yeah the lil frogge is getting around!

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
The Vampeegs have gone to the casters, but not before we got this photo of them following around Zombie Annie. This helps you see the scale of them, as well as a better picture.

As with all Bad Squiddo Kickstarters, everyone involved has Alive Annie being extra demanding on them. So the painters and sculptors are toiling away, and I've insisted to the casters that I get copies of these ones to paint myself before the KS ends. Also that means toil on me as oh cripes I actually have to paint something! I can't wait though!



The Bat Vamp is unlocked, unleashed, woohoo! There will be more pictures of her soon looking more complete. I have let Shane rest for a few hours though, he's earnt it.

The necromancer & assistant are also unlocked - and also needing names!

Also, welcome little assistant. He's still in progress but he's being refined here, you can see the lovely face. Struggling with all those books! He's forbidden from reading aloud any of the incantations though...



Zombie Annie

Oh no, here she comes! The next unlock is our very own Annie (meeeeeeeeeeeeeee) in zombie form. To add to your collection of Annies. or zombies. I finally got to immortalise my Little Egg (the guinea pig that truley melted my cold vampire heart) so we can prowl the earth together in undeath. She's a bit different to the others as she is in modern clothing (for games such as The Walking Dead or Last Days) though easily converted to a number of eras through the paintjob.

I was going to add a description about her plugging this KS into the endless void even after death but decided it was too meta!


also has anyone seen Luda the ogre?

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
Latest Update!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/badsquiddogames/my-last-sunrise-2

Good Afternoon! Firstly, thank you to everybody who has pledged so far. Kickstarter is getting more and more difficult for smaller creators, with substantial investment having to be made upfront, and without a team. I've been doing all these updates, graphics, photos, managing painters, sculptors, casters and calculators throughout while running the day to day Bad Squiddo Games outfit. Without including this past cursed week of missing work due to boiler repairs, fence repairs and multiple vets appointments - suffice to say I'm extra tired and emotional from all the late nights so I love you even more than usual.

Extra thanks for having faith in us where some parts the sculpts aren't 100% finished or photographed as clear as they could be - it means you know the complete ones are cool and that these will be too! Minis are being sculpted mid campaign because the

Onto the lovely pictures!


John Morris has been painting furiously on the first lot of models, the ones we have master cast. I have a feeling the crossbow lady is the only multi part mini in this KS - though I am very tired so I may be wrong! She just has the end of the crossbow to glue on, so it's nothing too wild.


Aimee at Warpfiend has joined in the painting gang on this (also part of the regular Squiddo Painters) and squeezed in Turkey Man and the ghouls on her busy schedule. Turkey Man and The Ghouls, what a band.

He's so beautiful is he not. I've probably done him a disservice with the name "Turkey Man", he does have a lot of uses as a mutant horror, creature of chaos, hell beast, man harpy and more.



Here are the ghouls, sculpted by Jo Brumby. Yes this means the ghouls and turkey dude have been master moulded, hooray! They're happening! You can't see from this angle but the middle ghoul is holding a head.



More Ghouls


More ghouls you say? It's no secret, I am a ghoul fiend. A collector. An obsessive! I must have every ghoul! I believe I have one of, if not, the biggest personal collection of ghouls. Not so much size, but variety, as I keep just one of each type. We all have hobbies right!

So since running a miniatures company and being able to make anything... it's shocking the range isn't 90% ghouls really.

Probably the most famous ghoul king is Paul Muller, he's responsible for a lot of the ghouls out there, including our ghoul mothers pack. He's recently emerged from a slumber to make us some more.... However he still needs to stretch and awaken from this slumber so they probably won't be ready in time for the Kickstarter. I don't like taking money for uncertainties so what will mostly happen is that they will be available in the pledge manager after (I did similar in the Amazons & Dorfs KS), I'll keep you updated, but that is exciting!
The master wants you. Throw away your cross, face the master.

I had a bit more fun taking photos...can you tell? The vampire hunter is one of my all time favourite models and available in the add ons with the other Male Vampire Hunters. Sculpted by Gary Morley!



Metal Peegs

The next stretch goal is Zombie Annie, which we are very near! I'm going to paint her and the peegs, possibly on stream on Saturday but possibly off stream,, with photo updates (depending how I'm feeling!) It's too late to get a professional painter before the KS ends for these, so you'll have to make do with me. I'm alright though! Also the pictures of the sculpts aren't that clear so I'll make sure I have inked metal pics as well as my paint jobs. Metal is so hard to photograph and look good! They look good though!



This is possibly the hardest part of the campaign to push through, but word has it that lots of people get paid tomorrow so I'm hoping for a big surge then. I've been saving my mailing list update for then too so I don't annoy people too much in their inboxes - so just one shout out... on pay day. Yes I am evil.

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
Eeeek we're coming to an end soon and there's still a few minis yet to unlock! We can do it!

We're close to the Freshly Bitten.... does she look familiar? Yes these are what happens to "The Allured" if they're unlucky. So they're early vampires, still figuring out what they are and in shock, before they go to Hot Topic and get "the look" like the acolytes. Shane is still sculpting the second one but there will be a picture soon.



Next up....The Eternal Bride by Juan Montaño, because you always need a zombie bride. Even if someone decided to marry a zombie. You could paint this really easy in ethereal blue if you wanted to as well - ghost bride.



and something a bit off the wall! This is a bit of a side project we've been discussing and so these are a taster, and to see how popular they are. Nap-punk! MECHA NAPOLEON! They have more of a sci fi feel but can still pass in pulp and horror as robotic constructs, and the piper could even be alive under there if you wanted.



PAINTING PEEGS

Tomorrow I will be painting the Vampeegs - possibly a bit on stream - if I do it will be on the Facebook page, though it depends how I feel. I had to say goodbye to my precious peeg Nini today so I'm not feeling that perky - but if I don't stream, I'll be updating around social media with pictures and onto the KS page when they're finished. If they look any good! I'll also be having a go at Zombie Annie if things go well! I don't get to paint much lately so it might be cathartic.

Right, time to get to it, I'm hoping to get a little lie in tomorrow as a treat! As always, see you 10am Sunday on Youtube and remember the KS ends at 7PM BST SUNDAY.

Thank you all, and let me end the update with a picture of my beautiful Nini. <3

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
Last day now! It's been a blast! I recommend anyone interested goes and looks to see if there's anything they've missed along the way or forgot to add. Just a few more cool things to show at the moment:

EVERYTHING IS UNLOCKED!
Hooray! So as well as everything from the start, there is also now Turkey Man, Elite Mummies, Vampeegs, Vampire Hunters, Bat Vampire, Necromancer & Assistant, Zombie Annie, Freshly Bitten, Eternal Bride, Napoleonic Constructs, and Hungry Ghouls!

John Morris has painted the bounty hunter and wow.


And I erm... also painted! I just wanted to get some paint on them and only had a few hours to do it, but they were an absolute joy, and show what they look like painted by mortals! Zombie Annie and the Vampeeegs! Also the home lighting was being rubbish so not my usual excellent photos, yes that backdrop is kitchen roll!



and now we've got Paul Muller on board, we have a glimpse of what he has been working on. Our current Muller ghouls were a bit controversial with the baby eating so to even it out, the one yet to be sculpted will be eating some cute fluffies that could be peeegs... Barbaric. They won't be ready til next week but people can wait and add them on the pledge manager, or just leap in now knowing they're going to be banging.



If there's time before the end, I'll pop back with some of the lovely photos I took the other night, they are lovely!

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
Last half an hour!

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
Thank you so much to every single one of you who backed this; it's so exciting to be able to get these minis into production. It was extra tough this time getting the word out there so extra extra thanks to everyone who shared the posts and showed your mates at gaming club. Cheers folks!

Thats FORTY TWO [at a quick count] brand new miniatures that will be happening. Hooray! Loads! And as well as this Kickstarter, they will afterwards be a permanent part of the Bad Squiddo Games range too, so then accessible to lots more people for many years to come.



Gonna aim to post here on non-KS days too :O

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
Pledge Manager is up here,
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/badsquiddogames/my-last-sunrise-2/posts/3795184

and if you missed it, you can join in as a late backer, just put "late backer" in the order comments, and have a read of the info in the link, ignoring anything about a code.

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Latest non KS release is this tentacle boi

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
Yo, I'm at Uk Games Expo at the NEC this weekend, on Bad Squiddo Avenue! Come say hi, and even buy things (also we're right by the coffee)



TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
New baby squids!

Bad Squiddo is yelling "will you kids pack it in!"

moths
Aug 25, 2004

I would also still appreciate some danger.



That is a lovely pair of sea friends!

Just remembered to do my pledge manager, hopefully I get all my Silver Bayonet / Castle Fier stuff ready by the time that pile of vampires gets here.

I don't know how I missed the pug head-vampire before, but that's a wonderful touch. Is the pug-bearer based on a person I might recognize? She looks so familiar but I'm bad with faces.

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!

moths posted:

That is a lovely pair of sea friends!

Just remembered to do my pledge manager, hopefully I get all my Silver Bayonet / Castle Fier stuff ready by the time that pile of vampires gets here.

I don't know how I missed the pug head-vampire before, but that's a wonderful touch. Is the pug-bearer based on a person I might recognize? She looks so familiar but I'm bad with faces.

Amazing!! She's not based on anyone but I think the sculptor was chanelling Tilda Swinton,


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Launches Tuesday, by Handiwork Games with a lil collab with me (Bad Squiddo Games)

Do you want professional backdrops that you can use on a tabletop with no special gear to make your painted minis look extra great? Hecks yes you do.



https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonhodgsonmaptiles2/jon-hodgson-maps-backgrounds-book

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
I've made a little video of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6NVRKp5v48&t=7s

and Mr Hodgson has made a better one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEkTkyxLjG8&t=2s

and here are some more of the photographs I've been taking. All the minis are Bad Squiddo Games

https://flic.kr/p/2oKCfdq

https://flic.kr/p/2oKEbHj

https://flic.kr/p/2oKHL2P

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
BIG NEWS!
http://kck.st/46sAuKq


So the Kickstarter has launched, funded, and is going absolutely wild. Because it wasn't either of our regular ventures, ie something a bit different, we really weren't sure how big or small this would go! There's loads of news, but instead of typing it all out myself, I'll copy Jon's words from the latest updates.

TO UPDATE THE UPDATE - WE UNLOCKED BOOK 2!

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Hello!
Wow what amazing progress overnight! Welcome all you new backers!

So the photography tips are unlocked! These additional pages will contain tips for “proper” camera photography from a pro photographer, as well as some more down to earth tricks and tips for phone photography. I'm super excited for the completeness this brings to the book.

And indeed, with that, the first book is complete!



The big news is the reveal that at £7000 we will unlock a dedicated book of sci-fi backgrounds! It’ll start off at 24 backgrounds, just like the first book.



These backdrops will be painted by me, and have a similar feel to the first backdrops. I will be using a slightly different process, carefully incorporating some 3d modelling by my incredibly talented colleague Paul Bourne as the foundation for the paintings. But they will still be hand painted, and have "my style". I just won't be able to take reference from the local landscape, so some suitably futuristic 3d help will ensure the quality remains as high.

Here's a first sample of the kind of thing you can expect. This is still a work in progress, but it's almost done.



We'll have a variety of scenes beyond planet-scapes like this one - some industrial stuff, some post-apocalyptic stuff, and so on, all with the aim of sitting behind your minis and setting them off to good effect.
This new book, if unlocked, will be available in several different ways:

• A new pledge level just for the scifi book (for people who hate moody hills and glens)
• A new pledge level for a signed sci-fi book
• A new pledge level for both books
• A new pledge level for both books, signed
• A new pledge level for the sci-fi book with commercial license
• A new pledge level for the both books with commercial license

You’ll also be able to add it as an Add On if you just want additional copies of either book.
Can we make it?

It’s a bit of a hike to £7000, but of course we don’t want to go on fire making two books instead of one!

And that’s where your shares of this campaign come in. We’re going to really need to help spread the word, especially the chance of sci-fi backdrops becoming a genuine possibility.

We can do a certain amount of sharing all over the net, and as you’re no doubt aware, Annie has been doing amazing work reaching all corners of the interweb. But nothing is as effective as real word of mouth recommendations from real backers. (I mean, Annie is a real backer, but you understand what I’m saying here). Your help will be absolutely invaluable if we’re to reach that magic £7000 and leap into making two books rather than one. So please do give the campaign a share on social media, forums and anywhere folsk who might like this book hang out.

A title change

Sharp-eyed folks will shortly notice that the image at the top of the campaign will feature the first book without the big word “MAPS” on it. As mentioned in the campaign page, when I first started this project, my assumption was that most folks would be coming from my little battle maps Patreon, and it made sense to confirm that link. That isn’t at all where we’ve ended up, and the “Maps” word is just a point of confusion now, as Annie has wisely and gently pointed out only four or five thousand times in the last 24 hours. And so it’s gone! We can do that. Hooray for organic product development!



Commercial license


Things are moving really fast right now, but it is still my plan to share a draft of the commercial license this week if humanly possible. Some folks have asked for a bit of detail on how it works, and if they’re a professional photographer, will their clients also need a license?

The license will allow you, the license holder, to make new photographic works, incorporating my backdrops. You will own those new photographic works and be able to sell them as you wish. So your clients will not need an additional license. In summary: only the person making the photos needs a license.

I very much see the commercial license as a courtesy, and a way to make it clear who owns what, and clarify what you can do with a minimum of fuss and confusion. It’ll be written in plain English, and it’s hopefully a nice affordable price, rather than some massive gouge, or a subscription that you’re forever paying.

Hope that helps!
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Commissar Canuck
Aug 5, 2008

They made fun of us! And it's Stanley Cup season!

Backed it for both books. They look great :toot:

lilljonas
May 6, 2007

We got crabs? We got crabs!
Yeah those backdrops look great, I might pick one up myself.

Virtual Russian
Sep 15, 2008

Backed for both books!

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
Awesomeo, thanks gang!

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Ends at 5pm! 90 mins from me typing this!
http://kck.st/46sAuKq

There isn't a pledge manager for this so if you wish to adjust your pledge you need to do it before it ends, you can add additional pledges in "manage my pledge" on KS

Some pics of the unlocked sci fi book - both books now 32 pages!



I sent some painted minis to jon to test these out on test prints



Here's a pic of the first 24 of the first book too at one glance.



THANK YOU everyone who has backed and shared this, or just said it's cool. It's the first time myself and Jon Hodgson have worked together on a project and I can't see it being the list.

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
Jonny is busy painting the sci fi backdrops and additional unlocked fantasy ones, all running well on time. I'll soon be starting my photography guide which is a couple pages in there.

Here are some of the sci fi WIPs, I love all the moon ones but bottom right one is making me most inspired for some scavenger/ghoul schots.



If you missed the KS you can pre order them through here, also direct through Handiwork Games if you prefer.

https://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Photo-Backdrops/c/152681785

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


Bad Squiddo were briefly shown on the latest Rogue Hobbies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3wsyEhHG8s

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Virtual Russian
Sep 15, 2008

TheDiceBagLady posted:

Jonny is busy painting the sci fi backdrops and additional unlocked fantasy ones, all running well on time. I'll soon be starting my photography guide which is a couple pages in there.

Here are some of the sci fi WIPs, I love all the moon ones but bottom right one is making me most inspired for some scavenger/ghoul schots.



If you missed the KS you can pre order them through here, also direct through Handiwork Games if you prefer.

https://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Photo-Backdrops/c/152681785

Very excited to get these, they are looking great.

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!

Lamuella posted:

Bad Squiddo were briefly shown on the latest Rogue Hobbies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3wsyEhHG8s



I know right, I was watching and got the best jump scare of "oh wait that's my stuff YAY!" I love Louise so much.


Virtual Russian posted:

Very excited to get these, they are looking great.

Soon! Jon is shipping them all himself, I can't remember if he's said they're here or on their way, but I'm glad I'm not involved that end! (I would help tbf if he wasn't all the way in Scotland as I'm nice like that) He's juggling LOADS at the moment and I'm trying to get a copy each early, or those sample books, so I can take loads of pics for my ghoul campaign!

talking of which.....


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Hello!

If you've known me at all over the years, you'll know that aside from my passion for good femme representation and guinea pigs, I'm actually a massive fan of ghouls. I collect ghouls! And things that look like ghouls! All the ghouls!

Paul Muller is my number 1 dream ghoul man, he's made all my favourites.

About 4/5 years ago I got in touch with him and we released the first set of ghoul mothers, which are....very horrifying - in the best ghoul way!

The last horror campaign we did, we added some more Muller ghouls, and he got ghoul fever too and has sculpted us a whole bunch of them since then, that we're going to Kickstarter for a very short time, 5 or 6 days I am thinking (very little in terms of stretch goals - just all there up front!).

Aside from ghoul ladies which I'm obviously a fan, we have ghoul men, ghoul children and even some ghoul teenagers. And ghoul pets! Fun for all the family!*

*I've actually put a warning at the start of the Kickstarter as Bad Squiddo are known for our family friendly lovely things, and this campaign does have some dark themes as it's very much an Annie campaign, so if that's not your thing, there are ghouls eating babies and guinea pigs and things, so best not to scroll further.

I don't think any are as grim as the ghoul mothers (the original pack) so there's that!


We've got artwork from Patrice Rameau and lovely paintjobs from Andrew Taylor and John Morris.

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/badsquiddogames/ghouls

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
A few more pics for you!

SIGN UP LINK THINGY IS HERE

I've got an early copy of the Hodgson background books, so I took a quick shot, and tomorrow I am going to be taking a lot more!


John Morris has been super busy getting the last of the ghouls painted, which arrive tomorrow, in time for the photoshoot!

Here are some more!

TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
I've been taking photos all day, heading back now to upload them all as my office internet is rubbish, then back tomorrow to sift through and see what's good, and then try not to show them all at once - there are some crackers!

Me earlier going "wooooo photos!"



And one of the pics, I love them! I've been photographing them in all different settings to show how you can have a ghoul for all occasions!

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TheDiceBagLady
Aug 2, 2015

Annie, Owner of Bad Squiddo Games. No longer a Garbage Dick. Buy my things, they're great!
It launches tomorrow! I'm mucking about with some more photos which I'll be dribbling out (ew), but in the meantime.... Paul has finished The Ghoul Matriarch and she's the most wonderful thing I've ever seen!

Here's a tease!

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