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Kev White does Matt Dixon - Female Fantasy Miniatures

Created by Hasslefree Miniatures

A Bevy of Beautiful Female Fantasy Miniatures designed and sculpted by some of the World's Best Artists.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Nobody Freak Out! :)
over 6 years ago – Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 12:35:26 AM

K, everyone remember those Frost minis, that should be in lovely resin moulds right now?

Uhm ... they're mislaid.

See, that's why I said don't freak out, stop freaking out! It's fine! Stop panicking! Oh wait, that's me. Ok *breathe*

The courier has .. sort of ... maybe .. we aren't sure .. lost them.

the official tracking has them leaving Atlanta and then, well that's it.

Now they are insured etc. but of course that doesn't really help you guys who want them.

The courier is claiming that they aren't lost, which is an odd claim because they aren't here and nobody knows where they are, which is kind of the definition of the word lost. Our courier manager is on them, and to be fair we have never fully lost a courier parcel 'but' we have had lost parcels show up that were lost/delayed because someone drove over them or something. Which is obviously a 'bit' of a worry right now.

So, while I'm researching just how much stress kills you, here's a photo of a cute
puppy ...

 Look how happy he is!

*calm, deep breaths*

Arty.

Pledge Manager & HF Sale
over 6 years ago – Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 01:12:31 AM

Right everyone, there's an update in the new HF newsletter but I'll repeat the important info here before linking it.

Pledge Manager is done, Smoke Test is this week. Frost Minis are on the way to Kev to be checked 'touched up' ooo-er etc, before mastering. Our metal guys and gals are on board to sort those out in short order. The last remaining issue is the Leopards, they are being rejigged, but they're resin so don't need the extra metal casting time so with any luck they shouldn't hold things up.

Pledge Manager will run for a while, right through November at least.

Right, for those of you who are interested in combining with a HF order you have two options. You can wait until your pledge is ready and you'll get a free postage code. Or you can order during this sale but you 'must' write KICKSTARTER in the comments box so we hold the order for you. We'll sort out your postage then.
(Our system annoyingly doesn't handle two codes so we have to do it manually).

I have a surgery on Wednesday the 18th. Barring complications it shouldn't be an issue, it's a small one.

There'll be another update during the next week with any info I have currently forgotten due to the long day of newsletter stuff :)

Oh, almost forgot the newsletter link! - NEWSLETTER

Arty.

Edit: So just to clarify. If you order during this sale you 'will' be charged postage. However if you write 'KICKSTARTER' in the comments box we will hold your order, confirm it matches with a pledge and then sort the postage issue out manually then :)

Frost Variant WIPs! (Shh, this one doesn't count ;) )
over 6 years ago – Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 01:03:31 AM

I'm on pain meds at the moment, and typing everything twice to try and make sure this is legible :)

Quick sneak in to show updated Frost variant WI[p pics, these are the ones that will be on the Pledge Manager as we're not waiting to get resin masters etc. to get it up there (Although we will update 'here' with those if you wanna hold off filling your PM in until you've seen final pics).

Aenglish Glory, Frost Shaman Boudi, Frost Princess Aneira, Frost Queen Katarina, Frost Berserker Shayda, Frost Mage Matthias
Aenglish Glory, Frost Shaman Boudi, Frost Princess Aneira, Frost Queen Katarina, Frost Berserker Shayda, Frost Mage Matthias

 Whadya think?

Arty.

Final Pre Pledge Manager Update!
over 6 years ago – Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 01:14:33 AM

Hey Guys

Just a quick update to let you know what's been happening.

The annoying truth is I am not ok, still, which has been a major issue for HF and of course for this KS. Frankly I've not really noticed how much time has been passing, a side effect of my pain meds and it's now been long enough that 'I'll update when I get the thumbs up' has become kind of stupid.

In the past 6 weeks, from when I was, sadly, convinced we'd squeezed in under the wire, I have worked about 3 of them, and we have a full time business to keep running at the same time or we'll all in trouble. There's been some fires to put out from the time I was really out of it which has drained even the hours I've been able to work.

So I have made the decision to only work on the pledge manager for the rest of the week. There's hardly anything left that's an issue, I believe the next stage is what is called a 'smoke test'.

This means that 5% of backers will get the pledge manager before everyone else, we don't choose those 5% it's random. It's just how the system works and is to cut down on unforeseen disasters. When we get the review back from that, the full pledge manager will start.

As for the fulfillment itself, it still stands as before.For anyone who has not included the 'Frost' variants in their pledge, or the Leopards, fulfillment is immediate. All Kev-related production is finished and just sat waiting, and has been for months now. I was hoping to pull everything out and get a proper photo but with limited work time I haven't, I did stick a camera under the packing desk where most of it is boxed and waiting so there's an amazing quality photo of that below, but we don't lie so you can just take our word that there are many thousands of metal and resin minis sat and bagged (Or you can zoom in on the pic I guess if you are less trusting :) )

Boxed bagged minis
Boxed bagged minis

 There is one last thing I am going to let you know, just to be as open as we can. Part of the reason I am making this decision to make 'absolutely' sure this is resolved this week is that I will be undergoing another operation in 2 weeks time. I cannot postpone it as I already postponed it once to even get this far. So that is our hard deadline now, we will beat it comfortably or I will die trying and leave you all your pledges in my will ;)
(We've also postponed other Kickstarters we had panned for this time of year so we are 'only' working on this)

Practical fulfillment, i.e. putting things in boxes and posting them, doesn't require me btw so everything won't just stop when I do have the op.

I think that's everything. I can only apologise for the delays, the one thing none of us could foresee was my own face deciding to become my mortal enemy. So, everyone say a prayer to the pledge manager gods and hope that the lucky 5% get their emails!

Arty.

p.s Oh, one thing I was asked in a PM was if we could just fulfil outside of the proper pledge manager. And the answer is actually we 'could', but it would be a horrible mess. There's no easy way to exclude you from the pledge manager process etc it'd all be very annoying. Once we'd started our only 2 real options were to get it done or quit it altogether and go low tech with a thousand individual emails. As the pledge manager cost a lot of money, and really does make it a 'lot' easier on those of you with a lot of choices to make, we've stuck with it to the bitter end :)

Bambi in Blue
over 6 years ago – Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:17:30 AM

A longtime friend of HF, Scott 'Iacton/The Black Hand' Hockley, has done us the honour of beautifully painting up Pin-Up Bambi, thought you guys would like a nose...

 

 

 

 

Whadya think?

Arty.