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Just got notice that my Bones 2 stuff has shipped. Its a very small order (for a Bones KS), but I thought I was in one of the very late not-supposed-to-ship-in-December waves….
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Edit: Derp! I was in wave one. I think I picked up a Wave 1 pledge right at the end of the KS when someone upgraded to a different pledge level or cancelled their pledge.
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Mine is here. Dear lord, there's a lot. The box set and expansions are surprisingly small but i'm gonna open them and I'm sure i'll be buried in minis.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Here's a few shots I've taken, mostly of the bigger stuff and expansions, I need to get a few more containers before I spill the guts of the core set!
Spoiler:
Forgot to take one of everything neatly packed in the box but what can you do?
Misc stuff before I opened it.
The core set box seemed pretty small but there was a *lot* in there, 3 bags of goodies!
Expansion 1 adds a bunch of small, medium, and a couple of reasonably substantial gribblies to work with.
I've only opened one of my expansion 2s. The IMEF guys are pretty large, they give space marines a run for their money in terms of the heroicness of their scale. Probably too chunky to look good in the same force as most of my mantic/infinity stuff. Still cool. The little grey spacemans aren't too bad, they're pretty small but they'll paint up really easily and make good lower-tier badguys, or civilians for space games and displays. The shipping container is excellent. The container, large crate, and dumpster next to it are actually in some kind of hard plastic as opposed to bones material. The police box is cool. The UFO is smaller than I expected, I guess it's because I thought the LGMs were bigger than they are. May still steal it for the Martians... just have to reclassify it as a scout or something. The bathalians, scifi door, and computer terminal are all fine and dandy, just didn't wanna de-bag them and lose parts! The kulathi invaders are pretty neat, and you get NINE. The original graphic showed 3 I'll have to see if the second box also has 9. What am I gonna do with 18 of those? I was anticipating 6
This thing is COOL. I'm having a little trouble getting some of the bigger parts of these bones monsters to sit together properly... but I'm sure I can look up a tutorial for sorting out the joins on the bigger pieces.
Holy CRAP. Just as big as I was hoping, Khanjira is a freaking BEAST! I'm actually thinking about building him to stand more upright without the base. He's poised to be bending down to roar at someone with his arms back and all... But I think for a general use it may work out to put him on a different base that's flat, I'd just have to cut the tab off the foot that sits up on the rock. I may leave him stock too, we'll see. He's massive and chunky.
The only single set in this kit that has more mass than Khanjira is the Dragons don't share diorama. The dragon itself is smaller than Khanjira by a bit but the scenery makes up the bulk. Sprinkle in some greedy adventurers to taste I was considering getting 3x of these instead of the scifi sets I got, could have had a collapsed castle rather than just a collapsed tower, but yeah I dunno I think my current distribution is superior. Looking forward to the dragon, and the scenery should be fun to play with on the airbrush.
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For my Wave 1, the UPS confirmation email came a two days after the Reaper "on its way" email. If you look at the script for the Reaper online tracker, it pulls numbers from some internal Reaper database which, I'm guessing, doesn't store the UPS tracking numbers or delivery date information?
Thanks for the pics, Grimdork! How should you inventory the pieces in the core set? Last time, someone posted a spreadsheet of which bags had which mini's.
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I dunno I'm not really going to count. I got all of the big separate things I ordered, the expansions seem right, the core set has enough models whether they're the are ight ones or not... close enough for me I'm more worried about getting them sorted into boxes for easy picking and painting later on.
#111
International Shipping Process Change, Wave Order Change
Posted by Reaper Miniatures
Wave One Complete!
We had some problems getting international packages to ship correctly on Wednesday, but we got it sorted out, and have completed both Wave 1 and Wave 2 International shipments successfully since then. Some Wave 2 domestic shipments went out before the last 400 or so Wave 1's, because we chose to continue shipping rather than pause and wait for an unknown amount of time while we resolved the issue, and we hope that you can understand our decision.
Well, we've now been informed by the carrier that they will only send trucks to us to pick up the pallets of shipments in one batch. Once we call tonight to request the first carrier pickup, we have to continue with Postal shipments until we're done. This was not how had originally understood it to work, so we are having to change our plan.
The net effect will be that we will now process all remaining International (sometimes called ROW, or Rest Of World) shipments next. That is, now that International Wave 2's are complete, we'll move on to International Wave 3, then International Wave 4, etc. Only after all International orders are shipped can we switch back to Domestic. We will then work Domestic orders in Wave Order, until complete.
We should point out that we are including US orders that go through the Post Office - such as orders with PO Boxes or APO/FPO orders - as "Internationals", so you may occasionally see a US order pop up on our Tracker.
At the speed we have been tracking for the last two days (once the early bugs were worked out) we anticipate completing all International packages in less than 3 days - so sometime on Tuesday we should be switching back to Domestic shipments.
When Will We Ship Wave X?
We do not know for certain what day any specific order or specific wave will ship. We are working as hard as we can to get as many orders complete with a high degree of accuracy as possible. We are confident that we will be done will all Waves by the end of February, but cannot be more specific than that.
What About My Tracking Number?
Some shipments are receiving tracking numbers within minutes of a waybill being applied. Others may not get e-mail notifications for several hours. On top of that, tracking numbers sometimes may not be "activated" by UPS or by USPS for hours or in some reported cases, up to two days. Please do not panic if your tracking number is not recognized by the carrier's system right away, or if you do not receive a shipment notice as fast as someone else. If you notice that it has been over a day since you think your Wave was completed, and you still have received no tracking, you can e-mail us at help@reapermini.com, referencing your order number and your e-mail address. Your order number can be found in our Pledge manager.
When I got my shipment, It had an Error. What do I do?
If this happens, send an e-mail to help@reapermini.com. Please include your order number and your shipping address (we need this to send replacement parts, if that is required), as well as a complete description of the problem - the more information you can give, the easier we can determine the correct action we must take to assist you. Please do not send a photograph - our inboxes are tiny and cannot handle too many large attachments.
Be aware, however, that the crew who is normally responsible for correcting shipping errors is working on fulfillment of orders, and will not get to your request for replacements or corrections until after fulfilment is over.
While we are working on fulfillment, we are not paying close attention to Kickstarter Comments, so if you have a question, it is best to send us a Message through the KS Messaging system, or an e-mail to help@reapermini.com.
We appreciate your continued patience through this as we work to get your rewards to you as fast as we can with minimal delay and interruption.
~Reaper
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I just got my pre-shipping message from them. Nice to see them spend a small amount of time shipping international rather than shoving us to the very back of the queue, weeks or months later.
I fear international shipments are harder work for the same actual money for their shipper (so they'd rather not deal with them) and thus make it as tricky as possible
From my read, I think it's a matter of it being more efficient to have domestic stuff grouped together and international stuff grouped together. Perhaps they go to different facilities, or are treated differently, and splitting them up is more efficient than having to separate them again on site?
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Could customs forms have something to do with it? May have to write one up for each package or something? When you have X packages going to Australia, Y to Europe, and Z to Asia in one wave it may complicate things a bit.
Sinful Hero wrote: Could customs forms have something to do with it? May have to write one up for each package or something? When you have X packages going to Australia, Y to Europe, and Z to Asia in one wave it may complicate things a bit.
Should be a fairly simple mail merge to do something like that
Not as bad as restic, but basically the same process, it just happens that the material is easier to cut. Less finger fatigue but just as much annoyance. Not a huge deal, though with the volume of this stuff that I have and the rate at which I could potentially move through it...
Still neat, glad I got what I did.
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If you use a good quality file you can file even the softest bones without getting fuzzies.
Balance in pick up games? Two people, each with their own goals for the game, design half a board game on their own without knowing the layout of the board and hope it all works out. Good luck with that. The faster you can find like minded individuals who want the same things from the game as you, the better.
I probably need to get some more files then. I had a bit of success with filing sticks or needles or whatever you call them... but they seem like they're gonna lose their grit pretty fast.
Also it seems a bit slower.
However.... it'll probably help alleviate the other problem I've been having where it's hard to accurately cut the moldlines on the white surface w/o a strong lamp, which makes it hard to do while watching TV in the living room or what have you.
I'll try the files again, a bit more time may be worth less annoyance or destroying detail with too much cutting.
I do a very thin black wash before I remove the mould lines. Like super thin. And just around following the mould line so I can see it better. And yeah, it's not a fast process.
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Balance in pick up games? Two people, each with their own goals for the game, design half a board game on their own without knowing the layout of the board and hope it all works out. Good luck with that. The faster you can find like minded individuals who want the same things from the game as you, the better.
I thought about doing so, it's probably smart but I'll probably just continue to muscle through... I tried the file for a few minutes but I've gone back to the knife, it's just a lot more familiar and gets everywhere, which the files don't always do. Filing seems like something I'd do on a nice metal or resin piece that I didn't want to risk messing up. I don't think I'll be sparing these bones from the knife afterall.
Still not as bad as restic, even the worst cleanups so far should still take a little longer to paint than they did to clean, if not by much
I found that all files aren't equal when it comes to bones. I have some that a friend bought at a hardware store and they don't really work at all. I have a good set from either Zona or Excel (can't remember) and they work great.
If you've already got slicing down though, keep at it though.
Balance in pick up games? Two people, each with their own goals for the game, design half a board game on their own without knowing the layout of the board and hope it all works out. Good luck with that. The faster you can find like minded individuals who want the same things from the game as you, the better.
Yeah, it's gonna have to be that way, I used to use files and they got annoying back then too. I'm pretty used to it from all of my kickstarter restic lately. Bit easy to take too much and leave weird flat planes behind but... it'll be what it is.
Try an engraving pen. $10 at Harbor Freight, and a craft store might have them.
IIRC, Pledge Future Floor Wax ($6 at Walmart) will not bead on Bones, so try washing Bones with a wash of it and ink or paint, to find mold lines. You can paint over it or clean with Floor Wax then water.
EDIT: Or just paint the miniature in white or pale colors, then slap on a wash.
Is there an inventory list of the Bones II Core Set with pictures by bag like there was last time for Bones I?
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My wash to bring mould lines out is like half future, half water and a drop of ink. After I get the mould lines I take a tooth brush with some grease cutting soap and give the whole miniature a scrubbing. The wash usually doesn't stick around in any way that matters to painting after. It also removes any oils from my hands or whatever.
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Balance in pick up games? Two people, each with their own goals for the game, design half a board game on their own without knowing the layout of the board and hope it all works out. Good luck with that. The faster you can find like minded individuals who want the same things from the game as you, the better.
Their software integration between the KS picking & packing is knackered
so plenty of people are not getting emails from reaper (although reapers software is reporting it as sent)
however most ROW backers are getting a UPS tracking number direct from UPS : they're using some odd method (can't remember the name) that means UPS picks up and then passes the packages over to USPS for the actual delivery
sadly it seems UPS does not actually update the info on this number as everybody's seems to be stuck at 'ready for pickup'
but wave 1 & 2 ROW is out of the door and this has been confirmed by Reaper people
wave 3+ is (I think) waiting to fill a truck which will leave when full (that was a few days ago)
they'll continue until all ROW stuff is sent before returning to the US domestic shipping (trucks will leave when full)
they've already had over 2000 'where's my stuff/when will it ship/etc emails' so if you do email make sure absolutely all the info is in the email (name/address/pledge number/KSid/KS email etc) or you go to the bottom of the pile
and patience is advised as the more time they have to spend messing about with emails the slower it will all go
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I was considering getting 3x of these instead of the scifi sets I got, could have had a collapsed castle rather than just a collapsed tower, but yeah I dunno I think my current distribution is superior. Looking forward to the dragon, and the scenery should be fun to play with on the airbrush.
