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Traditionally Valkyries went about nude...

Just saying that the chain mail bikini is modest by comparison.

 Maniac_nmt wrote:
Traditionally Valkyries went about nude...

Just saying that the chain mail bikini is modest by comparison.

Well it is her father .

 Theophony wrote:
You know that the Black Library was hiring right

They couldn't afford Kyoto's witticisms Best thread on dakka period !

( loved the ninja story )

Blue being the old black, here's May's "free with $40 webstore purchase" miniature of the month!

ced1106 wrote:
Blue being the old black, here's May's "free with $40 webstore purchase" miniature of the month!

Oooo tempted. If he had katars he'd totally be my old D&D character.

I just want to know how to paint leather like that! Guessing "painstakingly" is the answer.

June's mini of the month!

Featuring dragon who's had too much fiber in its diet and surprised owner.

"Starting June 1st, 2017, you'll receive a free 25th Anniversary Trista the Loremistress for each qualifying order of $40 (in your purchasing currency - USD, GBP, Euro, AUD) or more placed right here on www.reapermini.com! And what's more, for each $40 you spend, you'll receive an additional 25th Anniversary "Trista the Loremistress" miniature - $80 for two sets, $120 for 3 sets, etc. there's no need to place multiple orders on the same day! The FREE 25th Anniversary "Trista the Loremistress" is automatically added to your cart when you hit $40...you don't have to to anything else. Or, if you prefer, you can just purchase her directly here. : http://www.reapermini.com/

Her other hand looks like it might require ice.. too bad it's not a white dragon :/

*Probably* gonna sit this one out for the Dwarven Forge KS, but, if you want your terrain in resin, Reaper's part of the CROM miniatures game starting on the 15th.

(Whoever pledges, start a new thread and maintain it.)

https://www.facebook.com/pg/conanminiatures/photos/?ref=page_internal

So, not at all interested in the game and felt the figures look kind of meh, but I love the terrain. Still looks undersized for 25mm+, but will work great for some imposing 15mm terrain! And not in crappy bonesium.

I think Bones would have worked fine for those. It sucks for small figs, but works well on bigger stuff. I'm bummed they went with resin... more expensive, less durable, and basically tripled the price.

The Bones terrain has been pretty universally excellent.

Enough detail, sturdy, easy to paint.... Sturdy enough that I let nine year olds use it to play Kings of War.

The Auld Grump

 jmurph wrote:
So, not at all interested in the game and felt the figures look kind of meh, but I love the terrain. Still looks undersized for 25mm+, but will work great for some imposing 15mm terrain! And not in crappy bonesium.

I've seen some photos of that snake statue next to 28mm figures for comparison, and its quite big. I believe the masonry platform itself is 28-30mm tall.

Yeah, the prices are a bit high. The Oasis is $35 for a rough terrain piece and 2 trees. The Statue of Set is $50 for a plinth and a big snake. It does seem to be pretty big though. At $20, the standing stones is more than the old Scotia Grendel Standing Stones, which got you 2 that seem comparable in size and quality.

The Temple for $30 doesn't seem too bad, though it was the one I thought looked undersized for the figs. Seems comparable to the old SG Ruined Acropolis. Likewise $40 isn't terrible for the novelty of the Tower of the Elephant, though I feel like a Ganesh idol on a plinth could probably stand in for much cheaper...

Really seems like the Conan brand is upping the price on these.

The Ross near my house has f-huge Ganesh lawn statues for $13. In resin. I guess I won't be needing Reaper's Bonesless services.

Reaper has a new Bones monster out.

Ma'al Drakar is a Reaper Bones Heroic Scale Boxed Set model. Stands over 12" high with a 13" wingspan. Comes in 16 easy-to-assemble pieces.

Some sort of winged hydra I think...

Had an idea though paint each head a different color and use it as some sort of five-headed dragon, with the powers of each dragon color!

Damn that'll catch the players totally unaware!

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Reaper has a new Bones monster out.

Ma'al Drakar is a Reaper Bones Heroic Scale Boxed Set model. Stands over 12" high with a 13" wingspan. Comes in 16 easy-to-assemble pieces.

Some sort of winged hydra I think...

Had an idea though paint each head a different color and use it as some sort of five-headed dragon, with the powers of each dragon color!

Damn that'll catch the players totally unaware!

$150 is insane. There's a 5 headed resin (I am pretty sure it's resin) statue of similar size from one of those furniture companies that sells crazy dragon tables and similar for I think $85 plus they almost always have a 20% or similar discount coupon if you spend 2 minutes in Google looking for it. I raised the notion that some of the prices in the Kickstarter weren't exactly that great of a deal compared to market alternatives.. or in some cases even normal Reaper models and Bryan kinda scoffed at it.

Don't get me wrong.. some of the stuff is okay and a decent price but I feel like they've lost the plot on what the supposed point of Bones was in the first place. In the meantime Monolith, CMoN, and others are using the same concept to sell boardgames.. Can't tell you how many of those I've backed just for the minis. Just got Swords and Sorcery in yesterday (oh.. and it has a 5 headed dragon).

Anyway, I'm sure people will keep backing Bones KS but the value fell off as bad as it did with Dwarven Forge IMO.

Glad I got mine for $60 during the KS. It's a lovely model, but not $150 lovely...

Glad I got mine for $60 during the KS. It's a lovely model, but not $150 lovely...

Same here, it's an absolutely huge model, but I expect low prices with Bones.

I liked that they sent it to me in the retail box though, IIRC they'd been floating the idea of just sending the parts wrapped up.

Wiz kids' Nolzur line is primed to swoop in and snatch away Reaper's customers. $4 for two wizards, each at least as well sculpted and more crisply cast than a single $4 Bones wizard? Wiz kids gets it. Hope they go for a range of medium to large monsters and create some real competition.

WizKids line is okay, they don't have the depth of choice that Bones does. I have enough room for both in my hobby.

The WK stuff is pre-primed and it is layer on thick, there is a lot of detail that is obscured. Bones may not have deep detail, but it is there.

I like both, but Bones just has more. WK is good for character archetype figures and a few monsters, but Bones has more monsters and the character figures have more character than the WK offerings.

Yeah, the WK priming makes them pretty junky. But I got fed up with Bonesium, too. The quality is very spotty and while they are fine for cheap minis, as a centerpiece, it is a poor material and definitely not worth $150.

Comparing line depth is a little unfair at this point as Reaper has had their lines going for a lot longer and had multiple Kickstarters. Hopefully WK will hang on and expand the line. I agree that the competition will be a good thing.

xraytango wrote:
WizKids line is okay, they don't have the depth of choice that Bones does. I have enough room for both in my hobby.

The WK stuff is pre-primed and it is layer on thick, there is a lot of detail that is obscured. Bones may not have deep detail, but it is there.

I like both, but Bones just has more. WK is good for character archetype figures and a few monsters, but Bones has more monsters and the character figures have more character than the WK offerings.

I admit I dont have any of the KS 3 bones, but the 2nd KS ones essentially had "No Face-itus" that the first generation did. Wizkids is the far superior product for man sized figures. Crisper detail, weapons with edges, NOSES, etc. Other than some primer getting on a clear spell effect, I havent noticed any issue with the primer being too thick. They've been on par with Black Plague/Monolith's Conan figures, which is fair for the price point.

The depth of the range should grow, they released safe standards as their first waves, which makes sense. The next waves are stated to have tieflings, dragonborn and more monsters. Save the half orc bard with xylophone for wave 3.

Part of the issue with the Wizkids figures is that, not only is it limited, but the two figures you get are supposed to be the same character. From what I can tell, each blister is supposed to be a hero with one veraion being a low level version and the other being an advanced version. The details are seriously soft on them, too.

Having received my Bones 3 stuff, I can confirm that the quality seems much improved. At the very least, the Mythos set is well improved. Every figure in my set has very sharp, crisp features. The sea captain in particular came out well.

My Bones 3 minis are about as soft as previous waves, which doesn't really bother me until I go to buy a Bones figure at retail and see the price has nearly doubled over what a comparable mini from Bones 1 would have cost. Bendy swords and fetal noses can be overlooked for a bargain of a figure, but once the price per mini passes that of a more premium product the flaws sure do glare a whole lot more.

So, while the Wizkids line may not be for everyone, I'm glad it's out there to give Reaper some (hopefully) sleepless nights.

 Barzam wrote:
Part of the issue with the Wizkids figures is that, not only is it limited, but the two figures you get are supposed to be the same character. From what I can tell, each blister is supposed to be a hero with one veraion being a low level version and the other being an advanced version. The details are seriously soft on them, too.

Do you have any pics of the bad ones? Hasnt been my experience at all, or any of the reviews I've seen online. I was thinking of grabbing some of the gnolls, so if there's some to avoid, it would be good.

The gnolls are the only ones I have atm. Maybe the detail is crisper on the others, but a lot of the details on the gnolls were hard to make out. I'm on my phone right now, so linking is difficult to do, but I have a pic in my gallery of one of the gnolls painted up. The teeth he has on his belt were just blobs and it's almost impossible to tell which details on his torso are supposed to be shirt, skin, or armor. Plus, the sculptor apparently made the odd choice of having ghe bits of metal armor he is wearing just kind of floating on him. Most of it isn't attached to anything and bits of it just appear in random spots on his upper arms. It's really odd.

OT, but Funagain is selling the D&D Nolzurs at 1/3 off:

https://www.funagain.com/control/catalogsearch?&LIST_TYPE=list&VIEW_SIZE=100&VIEW_INDEX=1&SEARCH_CATEGORY_ID=SALE_20170619&S_UNAVAIL=N#listcontent

I just buy plastic by the bucket (: at a Reaper or a boardgames KS. I don't paint beyond advanced tabletop, so the better quality stuff is lost on me, and don't know what miniatures I'll be using, so a library-o-mini's works in my case.

Thank you for that link, Ced. I was just thinking about buying more of these minis for my son and I to paint together when he gets out of school. We have some big Bones monsters ready to go, but Nolzurs are primed and don't need to be washed, so they are easier to bring to the table when we get a sudden case of painting ADD.

 Barzam wrote:
The gnolls are the only ones I have atm. Maybe the detail is crisper on the others, but a lot of the details on the gnolls were hard to make out. I'm on my phone right now, so linking is difficult to do, but I have a pic in my gallery of one of the gnolls painted up. The teeth he has on his belt were just blobs and it's almost impossible to tell which details on his torso are supposed to be shirt, skin, or armor. Plus, the sculptor apparently made the odd choice of having ghe bits of metal armor he is wearing just kind of floating on him. Most of it isn't attached to anything and bits of it just appear in random spots on his upper arms. It's really odd.

I see what you mean about the floating armor on the torso it does look weird. I think you did a good job painting it and that mitigates the problem. I have the Frostgrave cultists are their gnolls much smaller or is the wizkids gnoll giant sized?