Kickstarter: Albatross No. 5 Playing Cards by A Haines

[A. Haines]

A lost ship, a deck of cards, a dark secret...

We have just launched our latest Kickstarter campaign, Albatross Nautical Playing Cards, we'd love for you to come and take a look! Early Bird offers are available for the first 24h. A lot of time and effort went into this one. Any questions, please just let me know. Thank you for your interest!

[DeepCard]

I love your work! However, I wish there were more pictures of the deck.

[A. Haines]

Thank you, that's appreciated. There are no photos at this early stage, but I will come back and update the thread in a few weeks with photos and more details about the project. Cheers

[A. Haines]

Hi everyone, just a quick update from me, after some delays mostly due to the artwork and campaign growing while we were working on it, we now have a launch date: Albatross Nautical Themed Playing Cards Kickstarter is set to launch on Tuesday January 21st 2025 at 4pm BST / 11am EST / 8am PT . Can't wait to share the project with you all. Thanks!

[A. Haines]

Bump: reason - just launched on Kickstarter (edited first post)

Hope you guys like it

[brownsl]

I always love your work!

[manu]

Looks amazing, this is right up my alley. I'm in for all three, and getting a couple blue Imported decks while I'm at it.

The three editions seem very intentional, as opposed to just having more variants for the sake of it. The ghostly skeleton edition is very fun and gives me Pirates of the Caribbean vibes. I always like to see a worker deck, and the price on this one is very appealing.

Happy to see my fan generator being used, thank you for the Deck Collect shout-out!

I'm excited to see these in person, it looks like you've knocked it out of the park again

[KGthePrince]

Benevolent mods, can we get A. Haines the verified designer designation?

[A. Haines]

Thank you guys for your positive words ! Always appreciated

[GandalfPC]

Such magic requires an Admin - they don’t entrust me with such power

I’ll leave a note regarding it on the admin desk…

[SRO]

I pledged for the #5 and #6 cards, and the coin. Very nice design.

[A. Haines]

Ah, you know you've made it when you get a yellow tick! Thank you UC ! ! And thank you everyone who has pledged, shared and said nice things thus far - it's appreciated greatly

[Honeybee]

Looks amazing, this is right up my alley. I'm in for all three, and getting a couple blue Imported decks while I'm at it.

The three editions seem very intentional, as opposed to just having more variants for the sake of it. The ghostly skeleton edition is very fun and gives me Pirates of the Caribbean vibes. I always like to see a worker deck, and the price on this one is very appealing.

Happy to see my fan generator being used, thank you for the Deck Collect shout-out!

I'm excited to see these in person, it looks like you've knocked it out of the park again

And LOL the joker just had to be Charlotte

[whatwillitbenow]

Finally a deck where the U.K shipping cost doesn’t require me to take out a mortgage

[A. Haines]

Finally a deck where the U.K shipping cost doesn’t require me to take out a mortgage

we took one out for you

On a serious note, we were prepared to give a little ground on shipping to make the campaign more appealing to our international backers, who make up the majority of our support base. We're glad you find our rates reasonable

[Skywatcher]

Wow, that was fast!

Congrats!
Waiting for my decks now, come on!

[Harvonsgard]

Great work on an unfortunately overdone theme for me. I would likely have got me some, if I weren't already drowning in maritime themed decks. I'm more than happy to see these funded though and look forward to your future projects.

[Honeybee]

Funded on the first day - that is a great show of support

[DeepCard]

I love your work! However, I wish there were more pictures of the deck.

As I mentioned in my comment months ago, I’ve always been a fan of your work. However, I don’t feel great about this project. I love pirate-themed designs, like Piracy by T11, EOTO of Stockholm, and Trial of Blackbeard by RoomOne, among others. I just feel that the other decks from you all are stronger, whether in design or the palette you’ve chosen. I may end up getting one or two, but I prefer styles like Goshawk and IMPORTED from you. I gravitate towards more vintage vibes and intricate details.

Good luck!

[Honeybee]

I think I know what Deep is talking about, the ships tend to dominate the card backs and reduce the pattern work which is possibly Alex's greatest strength.
Goshawk for 2024 Back of the Year!

[DeepCard]

100%, can you read mind or somthing?

[Strag]

On a serious note, we were prepared to give a little ground on shipping to make the campaign more appealing to our international backers, who make up the majority of our support base. We're glad you find our rates reasonable

I can confirm for you that the cheaper UK shipping got a pledge from me whereas likely not otherwise. I went for one of each + coin and added a few extra workers.

[A. Haines]

I can confirm for you that the cheaper UK shipping got a pledge from me whereas likely not otherwise. I went for one of each + coin and added a few extra workers.

Thanks for the feedback - appreciated! And thanks for backing

I can understand why fans of our strictly classic style might prefer our previous outings, and that's fine, rest assured we plan on releasing more "strictly classic" decks in the future - but we will also be doing projects like this where we let our hair down a little bit, so to speak. I still feel like this current project is very much motivated by the same classic, vintage style - just perhaps with more of a fun, bold twist to it.

Thank you everyone for your comments and interest so far!

[montenzi]

These are the best vintage decks on the market!

[kevork]

Your line of decks are just too classy to skip out on. I have for long enough. These are No. 5, 6, and 231. How can I buy 1-4?

[Honeybee]

No.4 is the blue Imported and is still a Pre-order but very close to arriving

No.'s 1-3 can be found in Alex's shop

https://www.ahplayingcards.com/pages/shop

or the usual places like Penguin, Vanishing, ......

You will have to become a Yr. 1 Patreon to get the Patreon only decks
but note:

Year 1 runs from June 2024 through to May 2025, the only caveat being, I may have to close paid membership to any newcomers for April/May 2025 depending on how many decks we go to print with, to avoid having less decks than members if we had a sudden influx and didn't have enough decks to cover the new people.

https://www.patreon.com/c/ahplayingcards/posts

The pic is the first of two patreon only decks for Yr.1

[laitostarr777]

Think I will be making Decks List on A.Haines decks at this rate~

[Honeybee]

Hey Alex, manu (see Odds and Ends topic) has found a new range of cheese that would be very popular at your place
[I hope this post is not a duplication as I am sure I already posted this this morning - weird ]

[A. Haines]

Haha I have showed Charlotte and she loves this she seems quite upset that we don't have these in any of our shops however...

Thank you all for your supportive sentiments, Montenzi, Kevork & Honeybee - as always - super appreciated!

And Laito - you were probably only being semi serious but if you wanted a full list plus explanation of the numbering system just let me know I know the 5, 6, 231 has confused some people

Thank you all again for your support with this campaign and hope you are all keeping well!

[A. Haines]

We have just passed 200% ! Big thanks again to everyone on this forum who has supported this campaign, by pledging and/or sharing, and for those that haven't checked it out yet, there's still plenty of time and you would be more than welcome

Catch you all soon!