Reaper Miniatures' Bones figures has a Kickstarter

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**RoninXiC**

holy cow batman

**Eilif**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:We got another green!
One of the pair of fire giant warriors
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Nice! I added those to my order as an afterthought since I had already picked the Fire Giants (royalty). Now I'm really glad I did. The four of them would make quite a formidable warband for song of blades and heroes.

Wehrkind wrote:I suspect that shortly after the models ship you will be able to find lots of them on eBay and in the Swap Shop, as almost everyone wanted far fewer than they actually will get. Of course, we may all want the same stuff...

Yeah, it will be quite interesting to see. Of course there will be a glut of some models that will drag down prices for a while. However, if some of the bones aren't released to the general public at exactly the same point as the kickstarter packs are delivered, I'm sure we'll see a few popular figs that may even fetch quite a bit more than retail until they appear in stores.

**SilverMK2**

RoninXiC wrote:
holy cow batman

I don't know... I was expecting something bigger*

*Not really, it is pretty damn huge

**Azazelx**

Not a bad model for Ten Bucks!

**H.B.M.C.**

I'll say.

I didn't get any of the dragons, because dragons really aren't my 'thing', but they are quite impressive and way bigger than I thought they'd be. I have high hopes for my Frostwyrm and Hydra!

**adhuin**

scipio.au wrote:
Not a bad model for Ten Bucks!

It's only skin and bones! Hardly worth the same as meatier dragons.

**yxalitis**

adhuin wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:
Im going to have to somehow fit Cthulu into 40k.

Fit? Anything big and nurgle would work. For comedy option, use it as replacement for new CSM dragon. It got wings you see

Isn't that funny,those two are the WORST, UGLIEST Cthulhu sculpts ever.
In my opinon.

The thing is, people base the look of Cthulhu on the statue, which is a caricature of the real thing,
When he rises from the sunken city of R'Lyeh, he is NOT described, except as "gelatinous green"
But the wings being described as "vestigial" is clearly ONLY in relation to the statue.
Quite frankly, I am very disappointed by the sculpt, I think the concept art was better.

**Herzlos**

I'm going to need a lot more space to store/display this stuff than I thought. That dragon is flippin' massive!

**timd**

Picked up this dragon and the big undead one with plans of converting them to Nurgle Heldrakes.

**Lt. Coldfire**

I'm starting to wish I got more of the addons at this point. The only two I got was the dragon above (luckily) and the demons.

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timd wrote:
Picked up this dragon and the big undead one with plans of converting them to Nurgle Heldrakes.

Looks like you're gonna be throwing down some big targets.

**General Seric**

yxalitis wrote:
adhuin wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:
Im going to have to somehow fit Cthulu into 40k.

Fit? Anything big and nurgle would work. For comedy option, use it as replacement for new CSM dragon. It got wings you see

Isn't that funny,those two are the WORST, UGLIEST Cthulhu sculpts ever.
In my opinon.

The thing is, people base the look of Cthulhu on the statue, which is a caricature of the real thing,
When he rises from the sunken city of R'Lyeh, he is NOT described, except as "gelatinous green"
But the wings being described as "vestigial" is clearly ONLY in relation to the statue.
Quite frankly, I am very disappointed by the sculpt, I think the concept art was better.

What other Cthulhu sculpts are there?

Anyway, that is all he is described as right at the opening of the cavernous portal, but parts of him are described during Johansen's flight.

He is described as an "eldritch contradiction of all matter, force, and cosmic order", but his form is elaborated later on. He has "Flabby claws", and more importantly, he is described as having a "awful squid-head with writhing feelers".

Though the description is still quite sparse, the resemblance of the description of Cthulhu's head and that of the statue's make me think Lovecraft meant the statue to be more similar to Cthulhu than a caricature.

**timd**

Lt. Coldfire wrote:

timd wrote:
Picked up this dragon and the big undead one with plans of converting them to Nurgle Heldrakes.

Looks like you're gonna be throwing down some big targets.

Quite possibly, but won't know until the Bones models show up. If size is a big problem, the dragons are likely to get chopped up and downsized a bit...

**Makaleth**

I hope they don't make them smaller, the sheer bulk adds to my amazement at this range.

**jmurph**

No chance of smaller- being huge is the whole point.

**Eilif**

Wow! The XL dragons certainly are big. Actually makes me glad that I only added one large'ish creature (ebonwrath).

I've got enough trouble finding space to store terrain that gets pretty frequent use. I'm not one to decorate my home with gaming items and don't know where I'd store a few huge dragons that will likely never see the top side of a gaming table.

Sure do look cool though...

I wonder if they'd sell the base of the skelly dragon separately as a piece of scenery? Now that I could use.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Info from Reaper Bryan (paraphrased by me)

Kaladrax is going back to the sculptor for a few tweeks to make it even more awesome (the prototype was so good they felt they had to show it to us as a WIP which is very unusual for reaper)

1. the mouth will be open not closed as it is now (it's easier for a modeler to close an open mouth if they want to)

2. The 'fill' in the neck and chest (needed for casting strength) will be jazzed up with rotting organs/skin/muscle etc for a better undead dragon vibe

two changes that will make an awesome huge undead dragon into and even awesome-er undead dragon

**SilverMK2**

These are good things

**timd**

Eilif wrote:

I wonder if they'd sell the base of the skelly dragon separately as a piece of scenery? Now that I could use.

I would imagine that there will be a few loose ones floating around when people don't use the base for whatever reason.

**Hatemonger**

Herzlos wrote:
I'm going to need a lot more space to store/display this stuff than I thought. That dragon is flippin' massive!

Yeah, you got me looking at my shelves and wondering...

Keep in mind, this one was supposed to be the smaller of the two undead dragons they're making. And this one is almost silly big.

- H8

**lucasbuffalo**

Got my UL Sophie in today :3

**chris_valera**

All this stuff looks great.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

**General Seric**

New Update:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1513061270/reaper-miniatures-bones-an-evolution-of-gaming-min/posts/359829?ref=email&show_token=1803651e7743b920

Everything is becoming clearer!
Update #78 · Nov. 30, 2012 · 52 comments
If you are a domestic backer, and you didn’t option for a combined shipment, you should already have your Sophie models, t-shirts and caps by now. There may be a few of you in very outlying areas that may still be in transit, but for the most part they should have all been delivered by now.

It looks like we are still on schedule to ship everyone’s Bones (along with everything else) in March of 2013 as planned. We’ve gotten about 2/3s of the prototype castings and they are all looking great. We are hoping we can post pictures of the complete Vampire Level very soon with the extras options to come a bit later. We are feverishly pumping lots of paint now getting ready for that part of the rewards. And, we are waiting for the foam inserts to start show up so we can start stuffing the miniature cases. We’ve got all of the case on-hand now, it’s just waiting for the foam to be finished up and sent to us.

In the meantime, here’s something interesting for you...

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Please not that these transparent minis are photographing BADLY so the detail is better than it shows

(Brian is even appealing for suggestions on how to improve it on thre reaper forums)

**Azazelx**

Kinda like the Skeletons and wraiths from the D&D Ravenloft game that came in clear plastic. Detail is fine - you just can't see it!

**Kid_Kyoto**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Please not that these transparent minis are photographing BADLY so the detail is better than it shows

(Brian is even appealing for suggestions on how to improve it on thre reaper forums)

A bit of black ink maybe?

**BobtheInquisitor**

One of their painters said something to the effect of washes not working very well on this material.

**Justyn**

I wonder how they look in person though. I'm sure the detail is there. But do they look cool in the translucent, or will they look better painted. I know the painted large fire elemental on the reaper site looks fantastic.

Either way they will be at the end of the to paint list when the miniatures finally arrive as they are at least useable.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Just to check, I did not join this (though I was sorely tempted) but these models will someday be available for retail yes?

If not I suppose ebay will be awash in a few months.

**Buzzsaw**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Just to check, I did not join this (though I was sorely tempted) but these models will someday be available for retail yes?

If not I suppose ebay will be awash in a few months.

I believe everything will be available retail (the point of such a campaign, properly run, after all!) with the possible exception of Mr. Bones.

EDIT: Oh, and the Sophie, of course.

**BobtheInquisitor**

How can they not release Mr Bones? He's their mascot!