Unless the funding total is (relatively) high I'd guess under 24 hours to fund - the idea is sound for an RPG system/setting and has really huge potential, Gumshoe is a trusted system, Pelgrane Press have a good rep - and I imagine the PirateCat/K Kulp tag wont really hurt things that much :p
The new stuff was funded via a Kisckstarter - and teh backers have received their materials ahead of retail release. They got a good deal and bonus/extra items as strtech goals and I imagine a few of them were out and out resellers or planning to resell some of their purchases to fund the ones...
Various Kickstarters due to be delivering in the coming months, including - Horror on the Orient Express, Cthulhu 7th Ed, Achtung Cthulhu, Space 1889, and the Dwarven Forge Dwarvenite scenery.
Potentially the bestest most awesome Kickstarter ever of all time ever ever.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/295102457/rpgs-are-evil-dark-dungeons-the-movie
I've backed this to get the Perytons - as long as it passes $25K I'm happy - hoping I wont have to cancel at the last minute if the Peryton sculpt isn't released.
Thanks - and I really hope this KS works out.
But, I think you have hit the nail on the head there - ultimately this isn't a coherent or themed set of minis that I can buy into, or a known set of sculpts (like Reaper), it is a disparate collection of minis of which only the Peryton currently...
Personally I find the KS campaign and the way it is presented a bit too busy and confusing.
Your stretch goals add more choices rather than more minis to a particular pledge value (so it doesn't have critical mass to grow like the Reaper Bones KS did, or the DwarvenForge one seems to be) and...
I bit the bullet and placed an order with Victory Force - ordered six different packs and pleasantly surprised that they arrived US to UK in ten days (and made it past HMRC without being hit for VAT on import which is a nice bonus and makes them much more affordable!).
First impressions - very...
Victory Force Miniatures - Spacefarers range
Postage to the UK is a killer however - I've been chasing them to see if they have a UK or European distributor, but no reply so far :(
The same scale of 'Big' difference to the outsider/unaware/unconcerned as there is between D&D/D20/Pathfinder/C&C/DCC/T&T/CoC/RQ/WFRP/TOR/True20/Conan/Traveller/Fantasy and SF RPGs in general...? Just asking as I'm not clear on how we might draw those boundary lines....
Just wondering. How big, for example, is 'London' in this context - is it just London, or Greater London, or certain postcodes, or is it 'anybody in SE England whose webservice in some way routes via a hub/node that the intraweb calls London'?