Meridian Miniatures: Gothic Science Fiction Terramortis Kickstarter Cancelled - Sculpts Being Altered

Meridian Miniatures: Thanks to all of you that have given your support to me over the last few days and previously on Facebook and elsewhere online. Unfortunately this campaign has stalled sufficiently for me to decide to cancel. Up to this date I have found Kickstarter to be an excellent way of launching new miniature ranges to the general public without interfering with my schedule of freelance sculpting but in my excited rush to bring these figures to the public found myself barely stopping to listen to feedback. I would rather have my supporters wait for the figures a little longer while I revise them and broaden their appeal than barely scrape to target and have them moulded and cast prematurely (as it turns out) in the range's development.

Across the various forums I have received some helpful constructive criticism, points being that the figures seem too "wide" and that the legs appear short in proportion to the bodies. This is due to a combination of factors. Firstly I tried to emulate the dynamic posing of some of my favourite figures, due to the foreshortening affect of photographing them from certain angles the legs of some figures ended up seeming shorter than they really are. This was exacerbated by my overladening the thighs and midriffs of some of the figures with too many belts and other accouterments, thus obscuring the true outline of the figure's limbs.

Designing a good figure is as much about designing a figure that will look good in a photograph as in the hand, I unfortunately made some poor design choices in that regard. One other design choice that didn't find favour with many were the weapon designs. I tried for something too "over the top" and so will be toning them down a touch too while providing more options for gamers and collectors. So see here the figures awaiting surgery, for the avid fans don't be saddened, these figures will return in new and improved form. Some figures will be disassembled and cannibalised into new versions, some will receive just minor tweaks and some will be entirely resculpted from scratch.

I will try to get the first figure released within a month and have at least one release each month from then on but having learned my lesson I won't be rushing anything! I will be using a new blog to document the progress both in regards to the figures and also game design, background development plus general painting and modeling posts.