[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

[phatlad]

STILL trying to figure out how many and the breakdown!

[CaptLego]

Originally Posted by phatlad

STILL trying to figure out how many and the breakdown!

If it helps, you can download my spreadsheet from here.

[Dwight87]

Originally Posted by Kalimba

Can't post pictures until I get the chips. I'm expecting to get them early next week.

BTW, I won't actually be posting the pictures. They'll go to Ten and he'll handle it from there.

Thanks Kalimba. Between the red and purple chips, I liked the red chip mockup better but after Ten's posting of the samples, I think the purple turned out better. Looking forward to seeing them up close when Ten puts them up so I can confirm this.

[bhb]

Originally Posted by CaptLego

If it helps, you can download my spreadsheet from here.

Capt,

I just looked at your site. Sweet pics of the Egyptians and Pharoahs. That said, I hope you are retired, because that would have taken me WAY to long to accomplish and my wife would have thought I had gone crazy.

Later,
Bruce

[taylodan]

I am thinking about placing an order but have not yet. Not sure if this is worth while but wondering if any other Canadian buyers want to place our orders together so we raise our order above 500 chips to get the $0.55/chip instead of $0.67/chip deal. When your order arrives piggy-back with mine or vise-verse it can be arranged to be delivered to you. I’m only interested in an order of 300/chips so if some one else falls short of 500/chips as well we would save some money. By doing this I will save over $50 CDN which is only a little but at least it’s some. I’m only interested if the other buyers are in Canada, Ontario Toronto area. I’m actually located in Cambridge so within driving distance would be ideal so no shipping cost either. It may not be worth while but I thought I would at least ask.

[VARoadstter]

Order placed. In the end I just got the "super sample set" (my own terminology for 25 of each).

I just don't have a need for another set of chips. I've got a cash game set and a tourney set. Had to get some of these though as they are so unique. If I did need a set, well then...........

[MacGrad]

Originally Posted by taylodan

I am thinking about placing an order but have not yet. Not sure if this is worth while but wondering if any other Canadian buyers want to place our orders together so we raise our order above 500 chips to get the $0.55/chip instead of $0.67/chip deal. When your order arrives piggy-back with mine or vise-verse it can be arranged to be delivered to you. I’m only interested in an order of 300/chips so if some one else falls short of 500/chips as well we would save some money. By doing this I will save over $50 CDN which is only a little but at least it’s some. I’m only interested if the other buyers are in Canada, Ontario Toronto area. I’m actually located in Cambridge so within driving distance would be ideal so no shipping cost either. It may not be worth while but I thought I would at least ask.

PM Sent.

[mcc235]

Hi,

I just recently found chiptalk and think these chips look great. Just a quick question on this breakdown. Since I only have crappy dice chips and this will be my first nice set, I would like to use the chips for both cash and tourney games. A nice color print out of the denominations should do the trick at any game. I would also want to limit my order to 500 chips. I was thinking of:

150 Pink
125 Red
125 Green
50 Black
50 Purple

If I make Pink and Red both 5 for tourney's I have enough for a 10 person T900 tourney. (I know T900 is goofy but it helps keep one set of chips for both cash and the tournaments).

Here is my question: In cash games will the pink and red be too close together to use? If pink is $1 and red $5 do you think people will get confused? Any other suggestions?

Thank you in advance.