2nd Dynasty has a long history of crowdfunding. We rely on our community a lot, not just to help support our endeavours by buying awesome 3D printable starship designs, but also to let us know what they like and are looking for. Ever since our first Kickstarter in 2017, we have campaigned several times a year with our new releases, expanding our initial offerings with stretch goals and milestones, and every time we have kicked our funding goals out of the park. This page records our crowdfunding history from latest to oldest.
Expendable & Exoplanet – Frontier & Kickstarter
It started in the summer 2025 with the Cocytus Station and some surrounding terrain that were released as Expendable, a Frontier campaign at our distributor Myminifactory. But soon we realized that the Cocytus Station had so much more potential. In the fall our Kickstarter campaign GridForge: Exoplanet Colony grow Cocytus into a massive colony base on a desolate planet.
Not only is Exoplanet a love letter to some of our favourite horror/action scifi films, we’ve leveraged our nine years of experience designing for 3D printing to venture into the world of colour FDM printing.
Supporting this campaign not only got the backers access to all our STL files for this incredible terrain, but also the 3mf print files we used to print in colour.
Aesir Fleet – Backerkit
The Aesir Fleet campaign was launched in the Spring of 2025 at Backerkit.com. Four new starships, a refit of our Sleipnir and an official Sleipnir variant, the Fenrir Gunship, where the main focus.
Externally, the original Sleipnir and the Refit look almost identical, but on the inside of the Sleipnir Refit a lot of changes can be found. Wall features are integrated into the hull, providing additional floor space that should let you get a miniature into every cabin. The floors are now GridForge compatible, allowing you to customise the interior layout on the fly. Additionally we’ve given a round of polish as we redesigned everything.
Fenrir Gunship is previously a configuration of customisations to the base Sleipnir and known under another name. Just as the Sleipnir refit Fenrir have the same changes like integrated wall features into the hull, GridForge compatible floors and the interior layout can be customised on the fly.
GridForge – Frontier
In December 2024 we launched our own revolutionary gridsystem GridForge. It makes it easy to swap out tiles even in our largest ships. Our earlier ships are all designed to work with OpenLOCK tiles, which has worked out fine until you want to change something. Sometimes you must disassemble an entire deck just to swap out one or two tiles.
GridForge swaps out a integrated floor base tile for a tile frame and a separate friction-fit floor insert.
This Traveller campaign launched at Kickstarter in the fall 2024. This time we focused on the troops doing the fighting and the Flashpoint Travellers caught in the crossfire! There’s also a whole bunch of additional characters, both prominent and more general. Do you want to know more about our Fifth Frontier War Kickstarter campaign click here!
During the campaign a lot of stretch goals where met and we could release more than 90 brand new 28mm character miniatures as well as ten new vehicles, based on the Mongoose art from the Fifth Frontier War. The STL files are 28mm scale, however the STL files can easily be rescaled and printed in a wide variety of common scales.
Sole Survivor – Kickstarter
The shuttle Erebus launched in our Kickstarter campaign Starship VI: Sole Survivor in Spring 2024. The campaign also included the surviving engineer Maddy Walker miniature in multiple poses. Learn more about Maddy here.
Tansport Delta 2400-Series – FronTiers
The 2400-Series of Transport Delta launched on FronTiers the 6th of February 2024. The 28-mm ship has similarities with the original Delta, which was released 2019, but this design is rebuilt from the ground up, using all the knowledge we’ve acquired in the last five years as we’ve honed our craft. Read more about it here.
Traveller Small Craft – Kickstarter
Our fourth Traveller campaign, the 28-mm Traveller Small Craft, launched on Kickstarter in Autumn 2023. It includes the 20-Ton Launch, the 30-Ton Ship’s Boat, the 40-Ton Pinnace and the 50-Ton Modular Cutter. The pledge manager is still open at MyMiniFactory.
Operation Maelstroem – Kickstarter
The Operation Maelstrom campaign launched on Kickstarter in the Summer 2023. It is a collection of eight 28-mm 3D printable aerospace craft. Each Aerospace Vehicle is highly detailed and customisable. In this campaign we also featured a ton of new exclusive add-ons and chief among them is the Modular Outpost and Modular Control Tower.
The Odyssey – FronTiers
Odyssey is a 28-mm scaled starship design from 2nd Dynasty based on an original concept for what became Starship Chimera. Initially envisaged as a minor update to add curved hull pieces to the Chimera line of starships, the muses struck, and Odyssey was born! Read about the Odyssey FronTiers here!
Traveller Free Trader Beowulf – Kickstarter
In the Autumn of 2022 we launched our third Traveller campaign, this time on Kickstarter. The iconic 28-mm scale Type A Free Trader Beowulf is massive and it’s three decks makes it an ideal player ship for adventuring in the far future.
Shuttle Alpha MKIV – Kickstarter & FronTiers
In the Summer of 2022 we redesigned our best selling Space Shuttle Alpha and the Shuttle Alpha MK IV is the result. After the Kickstarter campaign we had a short second campaign on FronTiers to unlock some extra stretch goals.
Starship: The Next Generation (TNG) – FronTiers
In the Spring of 2022 we did a reimagining of our original Starship (see below) tiles, updating them to 2022 standards and beyond! This was released in the FronTiers campaign Starship: The Next Generation.
Traveller Starship Miniatures – Kickstarter
In the Autumn of 2021 our second Traveller campaign took place on Kickstarter. A series of 26 ship miniatures, both at 1:270 scale and tactical scale (sized to fit on a 1″ hex), was a result of this campaign.
Traveller Type S Scout/Courier – FronTiers
Our very first Traveller campaign launched at FronTiers (well, technically it was not called FronTiers then, it was MyMiniFactory’s first dip in the crowdfunding waters that later became Frontiers) in the Summer of 2021. The iconic Type S Scout/Courier (28mm scale) was the main ship, but there was also character miniatures, air raft vehicles, our own 28-mm Beta Centauri and much more.
Starship V Sleipnir – Kickstarter
In Autumn of 2020 we launched a vertical ship of a harder sci-fi design and her dedicated crew at Kickstarter. Starship V Sleipnir is a 28-mm scale highly detailed ship with eleven decks from bridge to engineering and modular interior and exterior.
It has many add-ons to alter the external appearance, with additional PDCs, Rail Gun, Torpedo Tubes, and a larger, single engine if you want it to look more like a certain Martian gunship.
Starship IV Chimera – Kickstarter
Our biggest and most versatile ship at the time was the 28-mm Starship IV Chimera which launched on Kickstarter in the Autumn of 2019. The campaign also included the Pathfinder, a smaller ship in the Chimera series.
Since then, Odyssey, Cerberus, Pegasus and Ataphoi have all been developed from its modular parts.
Starship III – Kickstarter
In many ways 2nd Dynasty started with Starship III. Despite it being our third Kickstarter, this is the first campaign in which we offered complete starships. In January, 2019, the 28-mm starships Space Shuttle Alpha MKII, Scout Ship Beta and Transport Delta were introduced. See our Kickstarter page here.
Starship II – Kickstarter
Our second Kickstarter launched in the Spring of 2018. Once again we focused on 28-mm sci-fi terrain tiles for tabletop games, this time it included corridor, hangar and engineering tiles.
Starship I – Kickstarter
In September 2017 our first Kickstarter, Starship, premiered. It all started with the love of tabletop role-playing and 3D. We had noticed that there were limited options when it comes to sci-fi themed 3D printed tile sets, especially for spaceship deck plans. Packed with 28-mm terrain tiles like walls, floors, habitation rooms, engineering equipment and control panels this Starship took 2nd Dynasty on a path through space we keep exploring.
