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Heya folks!
These tents were some of the first things that I ever had cast up. Cacique Caribe sculpted them and posted the pictures to Theminiaturespage.com, and they were a big hit.
People encouraged him to have them cast in resin, and a light bulb went on over my head. I had already decided to start my own miniatures venture, and after seeing a dozen people tell him to cast them up, I thought, “waitaminute! *I’LL* cast them up!” So, I asked Cacique Caribe if he was interested in selling me the greens, he was amenable to the idea, and away we went!
I had fifty of each made up – I sold them for $8.50 each, or $30 for the set of four.
I was very happy with the quality of castings, but, it took me years to sell all of them.
It was mostly my fault they sold so slowly – I still don’t have much of a web presence (mainly Facebook), but back then it was almost nonexistent, I was only on TMP and the old Excelsior forum.
I’ve been content to leave them indefinitely out of stock. The caster still has the molds, I can have more made pretty much whenever I want… but it’s not cheap.
I need to sell about 25 sets to break even on having more made. Lately I’ve gotten a handful of inquiries about them, but, in my experience, only half of the inquiries like that lead to sales. There are some cool new prehistorics on the market that weren’t out when I first had these made, though. The Lucid Eye Neanderthals and apes, the Eureka Denisovans, a few new rules sets, etc…
SO – I’m making this post to test the waters. Would there be any interest in these if I were to re-release them? If I can get interest in 15-20 sets (and I can keep the prices the same as they were in 2008 – $8.50 per tent, or $30 for the set of four), I’ll have another batch made.
I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts on the subject.
-Alex Bates
-Forge of IceEye of the Cyclops pre-orders now available, for a short time only:
https://eyeofthecyclops.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Fair enough, no fumes from resin though.
I always find that when trying to sell a product that is a bit less mainstream is to show it in use in a game.
Helps people to see how it can used.
Anyway, tell us more of this miniatures venture you want to get up and running.
Here they are being used for either Chronopia or Frostgrave (I forget which)
Eye of the Cyclops pre-orders now available, for a short time only:
https://eyeofthecyclops.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Those Merchants were cool.
I think I joked at the time about getting back into Conan, well I am a step closer by dropping hints about the old Conan Xbox game for Christmas.I think if I ever did (not likely mind you…) get away from 6mm it would be something Conany.
Very cool news.
One thing, not everyone here is a paying member, so not everyone will be able to use the messsage feature.
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