Welcome to the Lovecraft Fantasy Football Pro Stadium Scenery and Dice Towers post-campaign page. After our successful campaign in Kickstarter, we wish to present an opportunity to all those backers who missed the initial campaign to pre-order and buy our products. We've designed and hand-crafted two complete sets of stadium scenery, compatible with the new(2016) and old 'Blood Ball' games and re-invented the Dice Tower. These sets are molded in high detail resin and include multiple modular components which are easily assembled / dis-assembled using OpenLOCK interlocking widgets.
Dice Tower
Our project brainstorms allowed us to come up with many innovative design elements, but amongst the most outstanding are our incredible Dice Towers. We needed a dice mechanism for our fantasy football game that would integrate well with our scenery options, but at the same time perform their required function. To this end we racked our brains and came up with a completely new dice tower mechanism, the Funnel System. Our Funnel System Dice Towers allow for the design of extraordinary towers well beyond what has been seen up to now, whilst optimizing its mechanism for even better dice rolling results.
The science behind it.
Stand Alone Dice Towers
We thought it would be unfair to create such wonderful Dice Towers and limit them to fantasy football, so we then decided to go one step further for our backers and created Stand Alone versions for them. These Stand Alone versions come with beautiful inlay wooden bases that allow for a larger dice capacity and to be used with any dice rolling game.
The wooden base is around 25cm in diameter and will have a Walnut/Sapeli base and Oak/Pine inlay finish. Material and finish depends on availability but the renditions above demonstrate the planned finished look we propose for our product. Dice are not included and model comes unpainted in resin colour as demonstrated above.
The inlay shown above on the Dice Tray, the Triquetra, is the Default inlay, but there is the option for no inlay on their base.
Scenery Themed Bundle
Assembly
We have opted to use OpenLOCK as our system to interlock all pitch scenery modules. We include with the bundle a widget pack which contain 20 pieces of OpenLOCK widgets that allow to fit or release the modules together.
Workshops, Production and Shipping
We will try to produce orders were possible, in our Europe and USA workshops respectively. This will reduce the shipping cost for our customers on both these continents. That give us different options and we are confident we will be able to provide fair shipping rates, that will be calculated and charged when the production is finished.
We still don't have enough information on packaging and total weight of the project to be able to issue shipping rates. Shipping rate will be made available to our backers as our project progresses and we receive quotes and information on the best logistic deals for your area.
Risks and challenges
We have already created all the master models for the project and associated molds, but we want to invest time and resources in creating superior high resolution molds that will allow us to mass produce the product effectively. We have a lot of experience in this field and this should pose no problem at all.
Backers have to take understand that this product is essentially hand crafted. The products go through a machine process where the parts are molded, but then each piece is reviewed and modified were needed by our craftsmen. We file away burs, assemble parts and make sure each part meets our quality standard. The fact that the parts are finished by hand means that there might be slight variations between parts which are a reflection of the artisanal work which makes each model unique. Although this is true, all measurements are kept to less than a 1mm precision tolerance were needed to slot or fit.
The parts come unpainted although some parts require a finishing coat of acrylic to homogenize and protect the assembled product. This protection coat serves for a better visual finish of the product and in no way will affect the application of future paint works by the user, on the contrary, it will help and aid as a primer increasing adhesion and protecting the surface.
Models will be cast in grey pigmented resin as default, which is a nice neutral colour to paint on. Some parts may show very slight variations of this grey according to the process the particular part has undergone.
In some circumstances, it will be possible to match the resin colour to other hues other than the default grey. For example, wood coloured objects, such as barrels may be presented in brown pigment to reflect the wood material they are trying to simulate as a model. We will try to do this if and where possible.
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