These are now funding on Kickstarter.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/910678389/top-aces-of-wwii-playing-cards?ref=7w1464

KICKSTARTER LAUNCH MOVED TO MONDAY!

The Kickstarter launch for The Iron Horse has been moved to Monday May 8, 2017 10am MDT

One of the things I wanted to do with The Iron Horse was pay homage to one of my most successful decks, which was the Golden Spike Black Ink Edition. The Iron Horse Standard Edition (which might be cool to call it "Black Ink edition") will be very similar to the Golden Spike Black Ink. Using either black foil or UV spot for the train and robber. Difference will be the tuck paper. Better paper now in my opinion. Also, I like the look of a 90% black tuck, not a full 100%. The black will show better.

The reason for not putting the names on the respective cards is because it will take away from the artwork. I will do the same as I have done the last couple projects and put the names on a separate card in the back of the deck. This project will come with a $5 pdf download that you can add-on that will have all of the character backstories and the short story of the "Attack on the Iron Horse" written by Ricky Cassford.

It was great to meet many of you at the 52 Plus Joker this last weekend! I learned so much from all of you! For many of you who could not make the convention, be sure to put it on your calendar for next year in Cincinnati. It would be great to meet you all!

So, I had to hurry back to Colorado and make some final tweaks to my next project on my next Kickstarter project, Titans. This will be launching at 10am (MDT) this morning (in a little over an hour).

I have some great Early Birds and like last time they will last for the first 24 hours. I will only be making 600 of the Signature Series packs (3 deck pack) and 400 of the Leather cases with the limited deck inside. The limited deck will only be a 1000 print run.

I have included the changes I made to the design. Please let me know what you all think.

On April 12, 2016, I will be launching The INCEPTION Playing cards. I have been working on finishing all of the artwork and getting the information out there and could use your help in my final few days. I am going to post the link to my Kickstarter page and would love your feedback. This is also to give you a sneak peek if you are looking to back my project. I am trying something different with my early bird specials, rewards and add-ons this time around. There will be 3 basic rewards with 3 early birds (6 reward tiers total). I am planning to keep the early birds up for 24 hours to give everyone a chance to get in on the better prices, including internationals. Your add-on prices will be based on the reward tier you decide to pledge for. Remember, if you have any questions and special requests, please don't hesitate to message me during the funding and we can work something out.

Here is the link. Please drop a line to let me know your thoughts and impressions: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/910678389/1142027783?token=da16269c

I'm not sure about selling Innovation with Devastation yet. I have not done that before. I will have to figure out the details and see if I can do it. Otherwise, no worries Don, you should be able to purchase some on my website: http://blackinkplayingcards.com sometime in October. I will let everyone know if I decide to put Innovation onto the add-on list.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Hi everyone, I just wanted to say thanks to you all for helping make Innovation have such great start. I thought I would show you the stats on my project dashboard.

Thanks!
Jody

Hey everyone, I just wanted to show you my Joker for the Golden Spike Bicycle branded deck. I can't believe they actually made a bike that rode the rails.

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I don't know about anyone else but I'm liking the look of these. Do you have any plans to add some colour to the courts or other cards?

Well, I am liking the no color work so far. If I decide to put color in, it will be very minimal. Of course, Red will be shown for the Hearts and Diamonds.

I sold the rights to the artwork to a guy who I met through my Kickstarter campaign. I could not do these projects without those who back me on Kickstarter. When I put my projects out there, the only way my decks get printed is through my backers on Kickstarter.

Ok, so I have been working on some new designs based on some comments I received. The new face card designs will now match the backs. I decided to do one (1) quote for the whole deck (this will be for the Bicycle branded deck and the unbranded limited deck) and that will be at the top and bottom in the border, making it not so distracting. I also saw an opportunity to play on the more humorous side of this, by putting Hipster jokes on the joker cards. There will be a total of 4 different jokers that will have Hipster jokes on them. I am also working on the other four ad cards. I am trying to figure out how to make them unique for the two decks.

Please give me your honest feedback.