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 gunslingerpro wrote:
Female Paladin as a constance blaize stand in?

Me gusta.

For anyone (like my self) who was wondering who Constance Blaize is...

Constance Blaize from Privateer Press


Trista, female Warrior from Reaper


Definitely alot of similarities. Almost like a younger version of the same charachter

Looking at the selection of KS figs, It seems there are alot of miniatures that are a bit PP'ish in their styling. I don't know exactly how to describe it, but the boldness of detail and facial styles seem similar to me. I don't play any PP games, but I wouldn't be surprised if alot of folks who do see proxy possibilities.

Eilif wrote:
Looking at the selection of KS figs, It seems there are alot of miniatures that are a bit PP'ish in their styling. I don't know exactly how to describe it, but the boldness of detail and facial styles seem similar to me. I don't play any PP games, but I wouldn't be surprised if alot of folks who do see proxy possibilities.

The similarities can also be due to the sculptor. I know of at least one sculptor who has done work for both Reaper and Privateer Press (Werner Klocke). I'm sure there are others. PP used to list the name of the sculptor for each model in their gallery, but it looks like they don't do that anymore.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:

Eilif wrote:
Looking at the selection of KS figs, It seems there are alot of miniatures that are a bit PP'ish in their styling. I don't know exactly how to describe it, but the boldness of detail and facial styles seem similar to me. I don't play any PP games, but I wouldn't be surprised if alot of folks who do see proxy possibilities.

The similarities can also be due to the sculptor. I know of at least one sculptor who has done work for both Reaper and Privateer Press (Werner Klocke). I'm sure there are others. PP used to list the name of the sculptor for each model in their gallery, but it looks like they don't do that anymore.

Patrick Keith (the sculptor of Trista above, as well as the guy behind Bombshell Games) has worked on some PP stuff before, but I don't think he worked on Constance. I had seen a green of her, but can't seem to find it at the moment... But there does seem to be a lot of cross-polination with sculptors. Patrick does a lot of work for Reaper as well.

EDIT: Found it, turns out Constance Blaize was sculpted by Yannick Hennebo.

Wow, that angle is much better than the original one. Can see the arm shaping and detail. Very nice

Would it be too weird if I preferred the reaper version?

The PP version is very nice and there's no denying the talent of the sculptor. However, the 40k'ish shoulder pads and the covering of every conceivable surface with filigree is not to my taste.

Not that I'm surprised, this does seem to be the way that GW and PP are heading these days.

Those two don't look all that similar in their details. The broad strokes sure: female, plate armor, sword + shield. Other than that, I just don't see why the comparison was made.

~Eric

I think the comparison was pointing out that the Reaper model makes a great cheaper proxy. Also, stylistically, it is easy to see why someone would prefer the Reaper offering. While both are excellent sculpts, the PP is way overdone with the enormous shoulder pads, ribbons blowing everywhere, oversized bludgeoning blade, etc. IMHO, PP sculpts have almost become self caricatures with the beyond cartoony pads, weapons and undersized jack legs / oversized beast hands that seem to typify their style. Kind of like GW and skulls/ bald screaming men.

I have to say I am really looking forward to getting my stuff from Reaper

And just to ease my mind; I've not missed the questionnaire on what we want for extras etc have I?

 SilverMK2 wrote:
I have to say I am really looking forward to getting my stuff from Reaper

And just to ease my mind; I've not missed the questionnaire on what we want for extras etc have I?

Nope, end of this week was the latest estimate...

Does reaper actually make any games to go with their models? If so are the games any good? I know they supply models for people to use in various games and such but I was wondering if they made any specific models for actuall tabletop games.

I think they have one, but can't mentally place the name.

Wasn't a PDF of a game system part of the stretch goals ?

 Ascalam wrote:
I think they have one, but can't mentally place the name.

Wasn't a PDF of a game system part of the stretch goals ?

'Their' game would be warlord (they have two others, but that's the fantasy one).
the game system you're thinking of is swords and wizardry, AFAIK an AD&D type 'nostalgia' system.

I like the reaper one much better. But then I've never liked the super-sized shoulder pad look. And almost all Warmachine swords look terrible too.

Why are those shoulderpads growing like that?

Back when they started, they actually had pretty good sized pads that were on par with armor.

If anything on that reaper one, I would grind that one down and add in a WFB shoulderpad, or work one out with some greenstuff to make it a little more "Armor" and not just something pretty.

WIth that PP Out of scale one, she's going to get her head crushed if she tries to swing that weapon. ( Not that she can handle that weapon in the first place.)

I'm not sure how the topic shifted to Constance Blaize but as someone who owns her I can offer some insight to her shoulder protection. She has fairly normal shoulder pauldrons for the precursor knights with only more detail. The problem is that she is rather small and the normal precursors are large.

It is a case of a realistically scaled 28mm model wearing a heroic scale 32mm model's shoulder pads.

I like the reaper paladin, but Constance has some unbelievable detail in person. She might make a great alternate precursor officer if you swapped that sword for a mace.

As an aside, I did not bring up the comparison to take anything away from either sculpt. Just speaking to the proxying ability.

Indeed, most of mine will be used for the IKRPG.

 Grot 6 wrote:
Why are those shoulderpads growing like that?

I wonder if shoulder pads come and go in fantasy and Sci-Fi miniatures like fashion?
A rough timeline:

-Back in RT, the SM shoulder pads were fairly large.
-Then in 2nd edition they got bigger.
-Heartbreaker/Target games got in on the fun by putting HUGE shoulder pads all over their Warzone (SciFi) and Chronopia (Fantasy) games' figures.
-The pendulum swung back a bit with the shoulder pads shrinking a bit through Void and then Urban War and nearly disappearing entirely in games like Infinity.
-Now with the ascendancy of PP, Shoulder pads are coming back bigger and more common and GW marine shoulders seem to be getting more ornamental!

Just one possible explanation/observation.

The RPM is going live Today:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1513061270/reaper-miniatures-bones-an-evolution-of-gaming-min/posts/317789

Some other tidbits of general interest for those who are disinterested though,

Moving Production to Texas Update:

We’re making good progress moving Bones production to Texas. We’ve picked out a beastly beauty of an injection machine, but we have to wait for the final quote for this round of production from China before we can know if we have enough cash left over to cover all the initial bells and whistles. It’ll be awhile before we’re going full swing, but we’re getting there.

Did you know it takes around 3 or 4 months just to get the machine delivered for installation after you purchase it? Apparently, they build them to order and don’t have an inventory just sitting around -- go figure! (...how many do they sell a year, I wonder? Not many I bet.)

The links are going out now - apparently 2000 at a time spaced out every couple hours. If you haven't gotten one already, you should be getting one soon.

Got mine, wrapped up my choices..

and spent more money then I had planned..

Got mine so my paints will be shipped sometime soon

Locked it all in.

Dropped Sophie for the clockwork dragon and one of the other dragons. Can't wait to get it all!

Managed not to spend anymore money, which is good because I am broke.

..... did anyone ever purchase a case fro mreaper? I'd like to buy a few to have a place to store this bloody horde, but not knowing whether the case is reliable or suitable (or, rather, the foam trays inside the case), I'm not sure if I want to throw $50 down the drain


bah, disregard that, with an extra 200 odd models to have to hide somewhere, there's bound to be more than enough that will fit the box.

Got mine.

Traded Sophie for Nethyrmaul, then bout some other dragons, the Jabberwok and some other stuff.

Spent way more money than I intended to.

Woo! I have been locked up by Reaper

Now to play the waiting game...

Reaper's cases are a good plastic and their foam contents are made by Outrider Hobbies, which is easily the equal of battlefoam in terms of quality.

Did anyone else notice that the prices for the add-ons seem to have crept up by a few dollars? Bit cheeky for those of us who budgeted for a certain amount and now will owe Reaper money to get what we planned for.....

The prices I saw and signed up for were exactly the same.

If you went in for less than Vampire before the Kickstarter ended, I think they're higher than normal. Don't quote me on that, though.

Aah, i got it. Hadn't locked in my Vampire pledge, Derp...

Thought it might be something like that.

You had me worried for a second!