Potbelly Miniatures: Emishi Kickstarter

Potbelly Miniatures aus Neuseeland bringt via Kickstarter eine kleine Reihe nordjapanischer Reiter.

Emishi, the horse warriors of northern Japan

A small range of 3D printable warriors for wargaming

Long before the Samurai, Japan was home to the Kofun culture, famed builders of huge burial mounds. While they occupied the South and East of Honshu in the Japanese archipelago, the North was home to the Emishi.

In the first millennia the Emishi were feared horse archers, tribesmen who fought the Kofun to a standstill in the 8th Century until their tactics were copied by the Japanese, giving rise to what we now recognise as the Samurai horse master.

Potbelly Minis is chuffed to bring you a small range of 28mm Emishi horse and foot archers for use in wargaming, roleplay, or diorama. These detailed and lively minis can be gained by backing this kickstarter, and are available either as STLs for printing on your home machine, or as 3D printed resin miniatures shipped world-wide.

Like our previous range, the Emishi are a real gap in the markets for miniatures. We’re excited to be using a different sculptor this time, and think the range is looking pretty great, more robust, and just as much fun to paint.

You’ll be able to order the types of figures you’re interested in at a special reduced rate for the Kickstarter. While the Emishi line is relatively limited, we’re expecting them to slot nicely into an expanded range in the new year.

You’ll be able to order:

• Horse archers, with eight types on four different types of horse

• Foot archers, again eight types.

• ‚Noble‘ horse archers, four types on the same four horses as above

• ‚Noble‘ foot warriors, four types armed with a combination of sword and bow.

What do you get with resin figures?

Resin miniatures are the new frontier of table-top gaming. Over the past two years Potbelly has shipped literally thousands of figures to happy customers across the globe. Our miniatures are printing in plastic-like semi-flexible resin, that gives them greater resilience to shocks, and you’re less likely to see weapons falling to bits.

The figures are printed on 9K machines for incredible detail. They’re provided without bases, but it’s easy to glue them to a puddle base, or even small squares of plastic card. But remember!! Resin and superglue aren’t a great combination. You’ll want to use contact adhesive.

What are the rewards!!

We’ve tried to keep it simple by providing two types of reward: STLs-only, and physical 3D prints. If you buy the STLs you’ll have non-commercial rights to print or rescale as many minis a you like for you, your family, or your friends. But! There are no commercial licences to print.

If you buy physical minis you’ll be provided with the stated number of models, carefully bubble-wrapped and shipped to where-ever you are.

Quelle: Potbelly Miniatures auf Kickstarter