Kickstarter

Slava Ukraini

Story

This project aims to create a symbol for the heroic defense of the Ukrainian army against the Russian invasion. The front will show the tank turret in high detail. The back contains an engraving that says “Slava Ukraini”.

The story behind the pendant is a drone picture taken by Iryna Rybakova a junior sergeant & press officer of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade of Ukraine which was published on April 16th 2022 on the official Twitter Account of “Defence of Ukraine“.

I was heavily impressed when I saw this picture. My first thought had been that this needs to be a symbol. The Twitter community got excited about the picture too and the idea of having a pendant shaped in that Skull-Turret-Form was born. 

It is not quite obvious that it is a tank turret on first sight. The deep meaning of destroyed war equipment and the skull as symbol of death made us think about creating a long lasting pendant to remind the people of the heroic fight of Ukraine. It is a tribute to the people of Ukraine. All profits go to help.gov.ua.

Modelling and Production

The modelling process of the prototype will take around 6 weeks and starts with a successful campaign.

The production takes place at Halder Jewelry and Silversmith in Vienna. Halder is a highly respected family owned business that offers best quality in detailed and handcrafted jewelry with a history going back to 1895. Halder traditionally supplied its excellent pieces – especially hunting jewelry – to the Austrian imperial family and the courts of Europe.

The production process is estimated to take an additional 8 – 12 weeks. The first deliveries are assumed to take place from January 2023 on.

In case that this campaign is successful we aim to increase production capacity to spread the pendant and its symbolic character over the world. This is the main goal of this campaign. We will be able to lower production costs and to increase the amount of profits made.

Future Outlook and project progress

All profits made from future purchases go to help.gov.ua to support the Ukrainian government. We level to reach 250.000$ in donations till the end of 2023. Therefore we aim to sell at least 2000 pendants within the next year with an estimated purchase price of $199 per piece.

Price, calculation and NFT series

Additionally to the pendant each backer in the campaign will receive a numbered NFT of the related series in order of purchase.

1st series “Slava Ukraini” of the “Slava Ukraini” NFT-collection contains 500 pieces earlier backers offer of $99 per pendant.

2nd series “Heroyam Slava” of the “Slava Ukraini” NFT-collection contains 500 pieces early backers offer for $129 a pendant.

The calculation for the project can be seen on the projects Kickstarter and will be published with the campaigns launch. From a financial point of view we would be happy to reach our goal of 999 pendats sold which is 20% above the threshold but allows for donations already.

Just for case that you guys are incredible and demand is way higher than hoped for, an additional offer called “Independence day 2023” is also available. The backers price for this series is $149 per piece.

3rd series “Independence day 2023” of the “Slava Ukraini” NFT-collection contains the amount of pendants sold during the 2022 Kickstarter campaign

This project ends on August 24th.

Ukraine Independence Day. 

Attention

ATTENTION: Each backer receives a free digital certificate on request after the end of the campaign. It will be a numbered NFT in order of purchase that refers to the selected series of the “Slava Ukraini” collection and/or the “Independence day 2023” collection. Due to legal reasons we are not allowed to include the certificate in the Kickstarter campaign itself. NFT are declared financial instruments which are forbidden to be crowdfunded. However in my opinion those NFT are worthless without the corresponding physical good. Therefore you will get it for free after a successful campaign but only on request.

Slava Ukraini

https://kickstarter.com/projects/loveagainstwar/slava-ukraini