The Campaign starts off with 2 standard and one mini enamel pin! unicorn and gryphon
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The first stretch goal is a fiery wyrm! this pin is a basic black nickel plating but has sandblasted areas with yellow-orange transparent fill to give it dimensionality and sparkly red and gold glitter on its fiery mane. It's all topped off with some silkscreen details and measures at a hefty 2.5" tall
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Goal 2 is a funky little friend, the Margin Snail Creature! Based off of medieval margin drawings of some odd little fellows, this tiny guy measures shy of one inch wide at 0.85"
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Goal 3 is a classic dragon! It's plated with a shiny blue-green chrome finish and has shimmering horns and eyes. It is 2.5" wide
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Goal 4 is a tiny but mighty manticore mini pin!
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Goal 5 is the last full size deluxe pin, the ghostly black shuck! This one is a bit experimental for me and a little difficult to preview, it will be using a special matte black chrome finish with soft enamel (recessed) fills. The red eyes will be tiny domed plastic gems stuck into place and the light grey parts you see on the image above will actually be a transparent "stained glass" fill. printed on the backside there will be a dark coloured silkscreen that will show through that transparent fill in places. It will be 2.7" at the longest side
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the very last pin the in the campaign is the phoenix mini pin! measuring at just under 1 inch tall, it's more like a mid-mini and will have 2 fasteners
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The rest of the goals are extra colour options! community voted for the black dragon mini pin and voting is currently underway for unicorn
Fantasy Creature Collection is cross collaborating with RAT KING - pins and etchings! Back both projects to get a set of pins from both of us for free! Sizes are not final but will be approx 1"W for the rat king mini pin and 1.5-2" W for the dragon king
Above is a very rough timeline of the campaign! Manufacturing should take roughly 2 months and I'm allotting two months to make sure that everyone is happy with their surveys and orders before locking things down for production. Pins should be in hand sometime late summer or very early fall at the latest!
Shipping costs are calculated and collected AFTER the campaign finishes in the pledge manager! *Unfortunately, due to recent GPSR requirements EU countries must be shipped via proxy and will have inflated costs and travel times
Hello and thank you for looking! My name is Marla, I'm an artist and animator living on the southwest coast of Canada! This will be my second crowdfunding campaign after my successful "Expanded Knifecat Selection" project i ran in 2024- a technically ambitious campaign where dozens of pin variants were designed and brought to life! With pins in general I've been designing them for close to 7 years, making my first design in 2018. Since then I've expanded to using different special effects and techniques!
Some fun and funky mini pins with silkscreen
A neon tetra pin using sandblasting and transparent filll
For Fantasy Creature Collection I wanted to dip into making more deluxe pins. This means bigger pins with things like glitter, chrome plating, pearl effects and more to make them really sparkle! I have also designed some mini pins for each tier to give a more cost efficient option for backers! Given the expensive nature of these effects, crowdfunding is likely the only way I will make pins at this scale, so thanks for taking a look!
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