And the time has come! As we mentioned a few updats back, we're giving you a free STL mini and holding a painting contest! And it's live RIGHT NOW! You can click that link to head to the contest page and download your free STL of Valdeer, the human bard protagonist from Lost & Found.
The painting contest will run from March 25 (today) to April 7th, and the winners for first, second, and third prizes will be chosen by the Sordane Publishing team and announced after it's closed.
The winner will receive a complete set of Lost & Found miniatures, in physical and digital formats, valued at $90. The second and third prizes will be full STL sets of the Lost & Found heroes, valued at $25 each.
How To Enter:
It's dead simple to enter: follow this link to the MyMiniFactory competition page, and then download the Valdeer STL, 3D print it, and paint it. How you do all that is up to you.
When you're ready, photograph your finished work and then upload it to the competition page! You should be able to enter any number of photos/angles of your work, but there must be at least one image where we can see the front of the miniature.
Rules:
Custom bases are allowed, but the main miniature must be the free Valdeer STL. Other, secondary minis are allowed if making a diorama, but they must be a Sordane sculpt (for instance, one of our free monthly STLs).
You can use a background, but not anything digital. Everything must be physical.
Only 1 of your entries can win, even if you enter multiple times.
No digital painting allowed. All painting must be done on a 3D-printed miniature.
No edited photos, and no AI use. No amending the painting or images or using a mini to look like it's painted. All suspected images will be disqualified unless you provide proof.
Good luck, have fun, and thanks for being such a great community!
Congratulations! Y'all did it! We've unlocked a copy of the Valdeer short story for everyone, and are moving our way into the Grone one. We need $10k to blow past it, but I know we can do that in no time, right, folks?
Every single person who backs the project will get access to the digital version of the Valdeer short story, going into the background of the character before the events that get him and the other heroes tied up in the fight for Forastad.
Hey, hey, everyone. I just wanted to drop a quick message and give y'all some pretty cool news. We're the featured project on BackerKit's homepage today! How cool is that?
Also, we've added a new RPG Only tier for those of you who were interested in getting just the miniatures, cloth map, and dice together. You can check it out at this link.
Also, if you're interested in some specific add-ons but not any of the bundles we have, remember you can always pledge at the ebook level and then include any add-ons you want to essentially make your own pledge tier!
Thanks for being a fantastic community, and don't forget to download your FREE Valdeer STL for the painting contest we're opening up soon (we're still waiting on it to be approved).
Hey, everyone! I hope you had a fantastic weekend and that your week is starting spectacularly.
I just wanted to quickly give you an update on the production process of Lost & Found. Meaning that we've started it!
The book itself has already been edited and formatted, so it's ready to go, and the minis are sculpted and triple-checked. With that handled, we've sent the files off to the manufacturer and are just waiting on final verification so we can greenlight the whole thing.
What this means for you is that, provided everything goes right, you will be able to get your rewards sooner rather than later.
One of our big priorities is remaining transparent with everyone, so we wanted to let you know where we are with things.
And speaking of transparency, I know I promised a mini painting contest in this update, but it's still being approved over at MyMiniFactory. As soon as that is done, I'll post here with another update with full details.
That said, the FREE miniature of Valdeer you will be painting is already available to download. So you can go over to MyMiniFactory right now, download the STL, and start printing and painting for when the competition starts up fully.
We are almost there, y'all! As of this writing, we are just a couple hundred bucks from the first stretch goal. It's taken a bit longer than I'd hoped to get there, but getting there at all is what matters.
Rob is hard at work making this story (and all the others) the best they can be. This one is going to give a lot of depth to Valdeer's character and help understand why he makes some of the choices he does in Lost & Found.
Think of the achievement short stories as what would go into the Backstory block on an RPG character sheet. By hitting these achievements, you get to know why the characters are the way they are, making them even more exciting to read about.
Thanks for your support so far, and be sure keep an eye out for our next update, where I will be announcing a miniature painting competition with some really great prizes!
