Star Hat Miniatures for DuckQuest Fantasy Role Playing Games
Created by Darcy Perry
A fantastic new range of heroic miniatures: ducks, crows, turtles (and more) for your tabletop RPG (Rune/Dragon/Hero/Duck) Quest games.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Wandering Monster: Painting Another Mummy!
over 4 years ago
– Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 12:59:00 AM
Greetings Delvers!
Its Father’s Day here in New Zealand and so I am enjoying some family time after yesterday’s action-packed sculpting workshop at the Game Centre in town. It was great to see people getting to know the power of greenstuff and having fun pimping some Orks.
What’s better than one mummy?
I have also had a relaxing couple of hours at the painting desk this weekend. Here is a new miniature that will join the Minions of Mordux. She just needs a name...
Thank you for supporting DuckQuest! Please keep sharing this campaign on your social media. There are more miniatures coming this week!
Darcy Perry
Star Hat Miniatures for DuckQuest Role Playing Games
1 September 2019
WIP Droll (Duck-Troll)
over 4 years ago
– Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:04:26 PM
Greetings Delvers,
Here is a work in progress photo of the Droll, a giant duck-troll. He’s a tall fellow! I think I will call him Tre.
Welcome to all the new backers. Thanks for supporting DuckQuest!
Darcy Perry
Star Hat Miniatures for DuckQuest Role Playing Games
30 August 2019
Something Big Is Coming...
over 4 years ago
– Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 11:01:45 PM
Greetings Delvers,
Just a quick (quack?) snap from the workbench:
I hope you're enjoying your week.
Darcy Perry
Star Hat Miniatures for DuckQuest Fantasy Role Playing Games
29 August 2019
In Memory of Rick Loomis
over 4 years ago
– Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 01:16:30 AM
Greetings Delvers,
I asked Steve Crompton if I could share this with you. The impact Rick Loomis has had on the world of gaming can not be understated.
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By Steve Crompton
Loss of our friend: By now many of you may have heard the sad news that Rick Loomis, President of Flying Buffalo and a gaming industry legend, passed away on Aug 23rd, just a few hours before his 72nd birthday. Rick created and ran Flying Buffalo for almost 50 years, and was also President of GAMA (Gaming Manufacturers of America) on several occasions.
Rick's loss leaves a huge hole in our hearts and Flying Buffalo. Rick was our mentor, our friend (a brother for his sisters) and the intermediary between the high-flying goals of the creative team and the real world. He helped us stay on track and reminded us of the limits of our budgets. Rick also made sure that whatever we created would be something that players would want. And many, many times he made suggestions that made a game more playable or an adventure more usable. We will miss Rick every single day, and we plan to honor his wishes and hopes for the future of Flying Buffalo going forward.
SoWhat Happens now?: While Rick was fighting cancer and was unable to attend to his work on processing the Kickstarter orders, he did manage to teach me how to do that, and I have been doing so since early July. (Rick did everything before then.)
Rick's sisters and the entire Buffalo team are committed to continuing to process and ship out your Kickstarter orders. In fact just today I did another 25 orders and they are now in shipping, ready to be packaged up. And tomorrow we'll be taking 40 finished orders to the post office. As of now, we only have about MSPE 175 orders left to ship out of the original 675 we started with. And we will continue to ship out your orders until all of them have gone out. We have everything in from the printers and everything that Mike was supposed to sign has been signed, so its just a matter of continuing until we are done.
Down the road there will also be new products for T&T, MSPE, Nuclear War, and Catalyst books like new Traps and Citybooks. They may not come as quickly as we'd like right now, as there is a lot to do in regards to taking care of Rick's estate and Flying Buffalo. But rest assured, we are soldiering onward. That's what Rick wanted us to do - and we plan to do just that. So you don't need to worry - your items will be shipped out.
Please feel free to post you comments below and if you want to contribute to help with Rick's Medial bills, funeral arrangements and other outstanding bills that have accrued due to Rick's illness you can contribute to his Gofundme campaign.
Thank you all for your concern, your patience and your belief in Rick's dream - Flying Buffalo.
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In Memory of Rick Loomis
In January 2017 I sculpted a miniature for Rick Loomis. We never did get around to creating the whole Tunnels and Trolls miniatures box set but his gentle manner, advice and encouragement left a lasting impression on me. I would like to offer Buffalorick to all miniature pledge backers as a special gift in memory of Rick.
Romilly Brown painted the miniature in the photo above. There are many details here; The Boojum Sword (named after the backyard Boojum tree that Rick was fond of), a cup of mountain dew, "as I am seldom seen around the office without a mug of mountain dew", The Carving Knife of Destiny - for carving out your destiny, Angelica the cat at his side and the wizard hat with "a wide brim like Gandalf."
The horns were an unusual idea that hit me while I was running my dog. When I sculpted them, I almost chickened out. It seemed weird. I'd never seen buffalo horns on a wizard's hat before but it seemed too cool not to try. I am glad I kept them. Rick's response was, "I wondered why the horns. I didn't like them at first, but they seem to be growing on me. (Pun intended)."
There is also a Bundle of Holding that features a great collection of Buffalo's Catalyst supplements that work with any fantasy RPG. Please check it out also.
Blessings,
Darcy Perry
Star Hat Miniatures for DuckQuest Fantasy Role Playing Games
28 August 2019
Thanks Beasts of War!
over 4 years ago
– Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:15:09 AM
There's probably some inappropriate sexy Gaul content in the first hour but at about 1:01 they get excited about the ducks, crows, turtles... well EVERYTHING really. Thanks Warren, Ben and the Beasts of War crew for your support!
Darcy Perry
Star Hat Miniatures: Duckquest for Fantasy Role Playing Games