Tag / FAQ

by badsquiddogames

Wave One has Shipped!

It’s true! It is such a good feeling that these are out in the wild, and already arriving!

Look, proof!

Also, if you’re not in our FACEBOOK GROUP, then where you at?

You can buy the minis here.

The cards were the last part to get sorted, and I am so glad I took a bit longer with them, same as Julie D’Aubigny’s face. I went with Print Co. in the end, my office neighbours! They kindly gave me a tour of all their facilities, and I was very excited by their mega corner punch. I even touched all the different types of paper like a connoisseur until I decided on what I deemed perfection. You’ll notice they are so nice and soft! On collecting, they will make a lovely deck.

REMEMBER the really cool Collector Cards are only included in the first 100 orders. There are still [at the time of writing] some left!

THANK YOU to everybody who has supported this project, primarily through all the slow bits when I’ve been juggling a bunch of other things. Now we have some momentum, I’m hoping it can really ramp up now, and the space between voting the figure and it being in your hands will be smaller.

I’m putting the following rambles in an FAQ form, enjoy!

Which minis have shipped?

The first six. Julie D’Aubigny, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Ching Shih, Black Agnes, Zenobia and Harriet Tubman. All shipped!

What about the next four?

Ada Lovelace, Audrey Hepburn, Joan D’Arc and Mary Fields are considered Wave 2. They were first aimed to be shipped in December, but it’s now looking like late January/February due to sculptor and caster timelines. As well as me, I still need to design the next three – but we have Alan Marsh booked in for December so I will have to have the designs ready by then! Eep!

Why has my Wave One pre-order not shipped?

It’s probably because you have Wave Two minis in it. If you’ve changed your mind and want the first wave before the second, pop me an email and we can sort it, you will need to pay a second load of shipping though (unless you pop a new order in and ask for them to be added into that)

I ordered from both waves at once, I’m happy to wait until Wave Two is shipped, but I am worried about the collector cards for my Wave One, will I still get them?

You will! You have a box in the office with your order number and I have picked your minis and cards.

How do I know when ordering if there are collector cards left?

I’ll make a note in the product description, so far we have cards left for all.

Nooo I missed the cards

It’s ok! The minis are still lovely and the full colour packaging with John Morris and Andrew Taylor’s painting on are also lovely. The cards are an extra bonus to help get the minis out there sooner.

Can I get these from retailers?

Yes! It’ll be a bit longer than other usual releases, and they won’t have the cards, but they will have the Community Minis. It’s taken a while to figure out the best way to do this as I want to support the retailers but not make it EVEN MORE confusing, so them having the “standard” version works best, as the cards won’t be all over the world like a Willy Wonka quest. So the first 100 sold DIRECT will be the only way to get the cards.

When are we voting for minis 11, 12 and 13?

Maybe over Christmas! The designs for 7, 8, 9 and 10 will be ready then, so we can use the Christmas break to think about the next bunch. I’m gonna change the voting AGAIN as well. I haven’t 100% decided yet but one aspect I am considering is limiting each person to ONE nomination.

Can I give you money for future minis?

I can’t stop you, but I am advising against it until the new year, as I want to be caught up so we can “relaunch” the project more streamlined and less confusing… I hope. If you have a subscription and are happy to keep it going, that’s super cool, but it’s also ok if you want to pause it. I hope this makes sense, it may feel counterintuitive but I want it to get back to being vote, then pay, rather than pay, then vote. It makes sense to me! I want us to vote for only one or two minis at a time too. TLDR: Wait and all will be clear!

I want some of these minis but haven’t contributed to any voting or pre-payment or anything, can I…. have some?

You can! They are for everyone! You can buy them through the shop as you would any other mini. I am hoping with the “relaunch” it will be less confusing. This has been very much a project of figuring it out as we go along, hence why I am extra chuffed you’ve been so supportive.

by badsquiddogames

Latest update on Community Minis Project

I KNOW THIS IS A LOT OF WORDS, BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO READ, THANK YOU!

Hello! The project is garnering more interest as the sculpts have been shown (though not here yet funnily enough, I need to properly edit the pics and write a new post for all those!) so I wanted to update on how it’s all going! Also to be useful for new people – hello!

  • The project started off much bigger than I anticipated, and following a long pause where I wasn’t able to give it the attention it needed, we had unlocked THIRTEEN minis. Incredible!
  • Because of the popularity though it’s changed how I initially approached it, which is ok as I expect this to grow, evolve, and adapt.
  • I haven’t advertised that this is a thing for a while – though I couldn’t resist sharing those sculpt pics – as I don’t want it to get too much attention while it’s still teething! Oops!
  • The nature of the project means I have to sink a lot of time into researching and designing each miniature. This I LOVE. This is what I live for, I love it! When it’s one or two a month it is very manageable, but when I was first hit with the popularity I was very daunted, as it’s a lot of time. I jokingly call The Community Miniatures Project my second job, as, although it’s still part of Bad Squiddo Games, I tend to work on it on weekends and evenings as it takes all the weekdays to do the standard Bad Squiddo tasks.
  • What I am trying to do at the moment is… catch up! So we can get to a nice rhythm of them happening regularly alongside Bad Squiddo standard releases and Kickstarters, rather than taking anything away from those plans (WW2 French is the latest project btw) I am more than happy for this project to go on forever – there is so much we can do with it!

So what does this mean?

It’s all good! Basically, if you are a blogger or anything, I’m politely asking you to hold off posting about it yet (though when we’re ready, that would be immense) I still want it to be on the relative down low while we’re in “Early Access” which is what it would be if it was a videogame! No doubt there will be a few tweaks along the way, which is easier when there are fewer people. For example, I might switch platforms from Ko-Fi if it doesn’t do what I need, but I won’t know til the first batch of fulfillment.

Don’t give me any more money!*

What?! I know right! of course you can really. If you have a subscription that you’re happy to keep plodding on, I won’t send you off. *And of course buy things from the web shop!

Essentially I want to get caught up to the point that there’s only one or two minis ahead. It was originally supposed to be “choose mini, THEN crowdfund” for each one, but you all went wild – WHICH IS GOOD. I just want it to be less frantic.

So I know you’re desperate to support, and you will get the chance! If you want any of these minis, either the ones who win this poll or the ones heading off to the casters – they have already been paid for by the crowdfunder – so when they are cast, they will be in the shop and you can buy them as normal. The collective pot is for future minis.

“Hello I am new and have no idea what is going on, help!”

No problem! You’re best to have a look around this blog and the FAQs, it’s where I keep all the information for the project so it doesn’t get lost around social media. In a nutshell, we vote for a lady we’d like in 28mm, chuck in a fiver each til we’ve hit the target, and voila she is made. Payment is via Ko-Fi (usually, just hold off at the mo!) which than then be “cashed out” at any time, and turned into a shop voucher. This means if you’re overseas and want to wait til you get a bunch of minis, you can do, rather than having to pay shipping for each one separately.

“Hello, I have money in the Ko-Fi, when do I get my voucher?”

Whenever really! If you can hold off til the first 6 are in the shop it would be super as I’ll have some sort of system in place then. And if you want to “leave the money in” for longer and say grab a year’s worth at once, that’s cool too. if you’ve forgotten how much you’ve paid in, let me know and I’ll check for you (you will also have Paypal receipts). What I will do is once the first 6 are ready and in the shop (not long, I was going to wait until they were painted but might not this time, if you’re ok with that, so they can be in people’s hands sooner), I’ll message everybody, like with a KS, and let you know how much credit you have and a link to a blog post with the info.

Thank you so much!

I really appreciate you sticking with this, especially as I am making it up figuring it out as I go along. Once we’re vaguely caught up and have the first wave in people’s hands, I’ll be able to streamline it…. probably!

Also, I want to make sure you know how blown away I am by the popularity of this! I definitely don’t want to sound like it being too popular was a bad thing, I just want to make sure you all know what’s going on with it, and why it’s a bit all over the place at the moment. Another side effect is that I am researching every nominee (only briefly) so my own knowledge is going up even with those. I LOVE RESEARCHING. It’s the best bit of the job. I have a huge collection of books on women in history and getting a good stack out to cross reference brings out the biggest and best nerd in me.

Facebook

Facebook, our group “Baggy’s Cave” is where the polls and suggestions take place. I know this is a big bummer for those without Facebook, but it is currently the biggest place to have a captive audience and a record of all the votes (ie so nobody bot spams or anything). Anything outside of the polls (you can send suggestions anywhere!) won’t be counted, to keep it as clear as possible.

What next?

I have another blog post to make on the minis we have just sent to the casters, squee!

Voting for the next 4 minis (usually 1, but this is to catch up!) starts tomorrow, more info and pics here!