[TenPercenter]

The group buy is over, but these chips can be purchased at retail price at many outlets. Two sponsors sell these chips:

NevadaJacks.net

HoldemPokerChips.com

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Use the "ORDER NOW" Form to buy your chip set

A Sexy New Chip Set:

We are building a unique set of chips with modern yet classic styled pinup girls. The chips with be produced by Nevada Jack using their casino grade composite chips. The original paintings are the highest of quality, and done by one of the masters of American fantasy art, Greg Hildebrandt.

What I was looking for in pinup art was something that could be both classic and very sexy. I wanted the style of a 1940's pinup, but with a touch of modern raciness. I wanted a set of chips that you'd love to look at but are classy enough to use at just about any home game.

I think we found the perfect art for this project, The hard part was narrowing down the 35 choices to eight or so. By eliminating all the nude paintings, we got it down to roughly 18. Now we will choose 8-12 of Greg's paintings for the final set. Each chip will have a different girl and will be a differently themed color.

The Chips!

Nevada Jacks works wonders, printing chips fast! Here are photos of the actual chips! Click on the thumbnail for a larger version.




Ordering Chips:

It's easy, just visit Nevada Jacks and use the "Order Page" to get your chip set.

The chips are all going to be shipped by Nevada Jacks only. Here are the current order details:

• 100 minimum total order
• 25 minimum increment per denomination
• Shipping costs to be determined by retailer at order time

[*]Chips will be shipped two weeks after group buy ends, approximately October 15th.
* Current "Promise Count": 31,410 chips

** Please Use the "Order Form" now to purchase your chip set at the group buy price! After September 30th, 2005 the price rise to retail and your chance is over.


Price:

Group Price is as follows. The chips will be available after the group sale is over. The retail price will be minimum $.75 for each chip due to licensing fees to the famous artist. It's completely up to Nevada Jacks and the market whether the retail price goes up or down.

ALL SHIPPING IS FREE FOR US AND CANADA!

Over 1,000 @ .50 each + FREE COA (Hildebrandt signed Certificate of Authenticity)
500 to 999 .55 each + FREE COA
301 to 499 .61
200 to 300 .67

300 piece set with high quality case, cards, dice $220 including shipping
500 piece set with high quality case, cards, dice $300 including shipping +++ COA


Time Frame:

The group buy takes place between the dates of 9/16/2005 and 9/30/2005. Orders will ship about 2 weeks after that approx 10/15/2005.

Tell your friends on other forums! Without breaking any rules, use the URL to this thread:

http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1540

Here is the code for using the nice banner you see at the top of this post, with the link included: (great for forum signatures)

Polls:

We ran several polls in order to come to the current design. You can visit them and vote, or just read the discussions.

• Pinups - Brighter colors for all chips
• Choose the accents for the new BLACK chip
• Choose the accents for the new RED chip
• Different shades of RED
• Choose the accent color for Purple "Mint Julip"
• Please choose your favorite accent color for the Orange Chip with "Brandy."
• Which of these GREEN chips do you like best?
• Which of these BLUE chips do you like best?
• Which style should we make the American Beauty chip?
• Rays background or Tint-matched background?
• Which American Beauties background is best?
• Which American Beauties design direction is best?
• Pick your favorite Pinup Girl

The Girls:

These are the original paintings that we had to choose from. There are some very nice ones that you won't see here because they are nudes. Visit Spiderwebart.com for more "explicit" images.



Here are the final design mockups that we made prior to printing. The over-bright images were necessary to get the proper prints on the actual chips. Click on the thumbnail for a larger version.



About Greg:

Original paintings are done by Greg Hildebrandt. Greg has started the "American Beauties" series in his retirement. Before retiring he worked closely with his brother Tim on art and film since the 1960's. He is famous for work on Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Marvel Comics and more. We have an exclusive contract to use Greg's American Beauties on high end poker chips!

Here are some great paintings by the Hildebrandts:






Spiderwebart Gallery, owned by Greg Hildebrandt, is the exclusive representative of Greg and Tim Hildebrandt's Artwork.
They are extremely proud to offer his original paintings, sketches and giclée prints for your viewing pleasure and for purchase.

*Note: While this is a collaborative effort among many poker chip enthusiasts, I retain all rights for the designs and decisions. Polls are for gathering opinions and usually the results are followed, but I can change designs at any time. - Greg Cagle

[imthatguy]

I like the direction these are going in. I'd like to hope that the final design doesn't have any "words" on them. I don't mind denoms, or a casino name, but I don't think that "American Beauties" works. It just sounds like a chipset from ebay...

[Novikan]

Originally Posted by TenPercenter

This image was not included in the original offers to you guys because I felt it was not right for the theme. Am I wrong?

I think the saying goes... "Cards are war disguised as a sport."

[Nirvana]

Ten,

I hit the polls for the Pinups. For just raw beauty my vote is for Mint Julip.

Now, I know there's no nudity allowed for these chips, which is great, but if you're going to be allowed to air brush some of those prints I've got say you must also include Zeppelin if you can darken her bra to cover the nipples.

[TenPercenter]

Originally Posted by Nirvana

Ten,

I hit the polls for the Pinups. For just raw beauty my vote is for Mint Julip.

Now, I know there's no nudity allowed for these chips, which is great, but if you're going to be allowed to air brush some of those prints I've got say you must also include Zeppelin if you can darken her bra to cover the nipples.

Mint Julip is a shoe-in, don't worry.

I already asked about airbrushing: Nope. Plus, if nudity was allowed "Top Hat" and "Rendezvous" would have alredy knocked a couple of others down a few notches.

[TenPercenter]

Even at this early design stage people have been asking for details on prices and delivery dates. Keep an eye on the original post for any news and details. Suffice it to say that right now it's very very hard to determine price when we don't have an idea on numbers.

For this particular order, quantity makes a hige difference. Nevada Jacks can produce however many we ask for, but their big labor break is at 100,000 chips. They've promised a pretty deep discount if we can order 100k at once. How much I don't know. We need to start getting a bhead count and see where we stand.

The "Promise to Pay" Form is posted, for those brave souls that have faith in me and Johnny5, please let everyone know you're "All In" and complete the form if you're pretty sure you're going to get a set. This gets you on the email list too, for those of you that can't visit the site as much as some of us do.

100 minimum chips per order, and 25 minimum per seperate design (unless NJ changes that when we get closer to the end... not likely to change).

[drake]

I'm kind of used to pin up girls being only being one girl at a time. I see the Double girls are doing pretty good in the polls. I don't recall ever seeing the old pin ups having two girls?? I guess just use the Vargas pin up girls as the best example of what pin up girls are supposed to be. I'll wait til I see the Mock up before I make a decison. I hope it's not on one of the Primary colors.

[ahopen78]

why isn't this girl on the list: