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Made in in
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Otiose in a Niche






Hyderabad, India

New year, new thread!

I've noted before that Reaper does 2 things really well. The first is covering fantasy standards and staples. Orcs, werewolves, bards, all that, filling ever-smaller niches. OK we have a catfolk rogue (male and female) but what about a catfolk bard?

The other is the stuff you never thought you needed but once you see them you do... Yeah weresharks are nice, but have you seen our dwarf pirate wereshark?

And this month we have both!

First up some news, free shipping will not start at $50 rather than $40. Sign of the times.


New Free Shipping Rate Starts January 1, 2022
December 30th, 2021
Effective January 1, 2022, our new minimum for Free Shipping in the USA will be $50. Canada is $80.

UK shipments are raising to £50, and shipments into the EU from the UK warehouse are €60.

However, free promotional minimums will remain at $40 for the time being.

Please contact us if you have any questions! Thank you!




This month's freeby (with$40 purchase, that didn't change) is a Gnoll Ravager, so you've got gnolls in need of some ravaging he's you man. Dog. Hyena. I forgot which.


One of the Christmas minis gets a regular release. I dunno how many of these they'll sell from January to October but I can definitely see myself picking up this lil boy come November.




Undead get some new stuff, a rotting skeleton and a rather nice ghost.



Barrow Rats are a good staple for any dungeon, but the $6 for 2 price worries me. Are they like really big or something? Titanic Rats? Cause they already have 6 Dire Rats for $4.50. I miss the size indicators.







Humanoids also get some staples, goblins, kobolds, wolves. Stuff just about any fantasy player would find a use for.

So that's the staples, now for the WTF section.


75mm cyberpunk.


Looks a lot better painted.



A chibi demon, standing in front of some monitors. Apparently a mascot from the Reaper Virtual Expo, so I mean, yeah, that at least gives it some context. But it leaves me wondering how many of these they could possibly sell.

And finally...

BONES 6 announced tonight on Reaper Live, scheduled launch date of March 24th


Per "I dunno, Orcs I guess?" on Facebook. He sounds like a credible soul. So warm up your wallets now.

 
   
Made in ca
Skink Chief with Poisoned Javelins




Michigan

Yeah, that's a fun ghost, I could see a few different uses for it.
   
Made in pl
Horrific Hive Tyrant





Chibi demon rocks!
   
Made in us
Decrepit Dakkanaut





The Battle Barge Buffet Line



That is probably the first fantasy rpg monster encounter that I, as a person and not my character, could confidently defeat in real life. The gingerbread golem ain't got nuthin' on me!

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We Munch for Macragge! FOR THE EMPRUH! Cheesesticks and Humus!
 
   
Made in us
The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

 warboss wrote:


That is probably the first fantasy rpg monster encounter that I, as a person and not my character, could confidently defeat in real life. The gingerbread golem ain't got nuthin' on me!


I don’t know. He’s got that candy cane licked down to a pretty good shiv.

   
Made in us
Blood-Raging Khorne Berserker





I don't even KNOW anymore.

Reaper's getting a lot of milage out of that ghost sculpt.
   
Made in us
Decrepit Dakkanaut





The Battle Barge Buffet Line

 Nevelon wrote:

I don’t know. He’s got that candy cane licked down to a pretty good shiv.


Pastry, please! I grew up in the 80's. I know exactly how to disarm him. Hint: it's how you get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop in only four licks.

We Munch for Macragge! FOR THE EMPRUH! Cheesesticks and Humus!
 
   
Made in in
[MOD]
Otiose in a Niche






Hyderabad, India

 warboss wrote:


That is probably the first fantasy rpg monster encounter that I, as a person and not my character, could confidently defeat in real life. The gingerbread golem ain't got nuthin' on me!


Yeah but the diabetes would get you in the end.

 
   
Made in us
Decrepit Dakkanaut





The Battle Barge Buffet Line

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
 warboss wrote:


That is probably the first fantasy rpg monster encounter that I, as a person and not my character, could confidently defeat in real life. The gingerbread golem ain't got nuthin' on me!


Yeah but the diabetes would get you in the end.


I've been practicing my entire life for that encounter. Ever since I defeated my first gazebo...

We Munch for Macragge! FOR THE EMPRUH! Cheesesticks and Humus!
 
   
Made in us
Orc Bully with a Peg Leg





NJ

Kid_Kyoto wrote: Barrow Rats are a good staple for any dungeon, but the $6 for 2 price worries me. Are they like really big or something? Titanic Rats? Cause they already have 6 Dire Rats for $4.50. I miss the size indicators.


Those rats are really big. I bought them years ago to use in frostgrave so unless they shrink them down for the rerelease…

Ork and the Primaris for scale.

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Made in ca
Skink Chief with Poisoned Javelins




Michigan

Beefy Rats.

Definitely bigger than I was expecting.

But not in a bad way, mind.
   
Made in pl
Longtime Dakkanaut




Germany

One could say they're of... Unusual Size

"Tabletop games are the only setting when a body is made more horrifying for NOT being chopped into smaller pieces."
- Jiado 
   
Made in ca
Skink Chief with Poisoned Javelins




Michigan

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
One could say they're of... Unusual Size


I don't think they exist.
   
Made in us
Krazy Grot Kutta Driva





I had to shoot one of them out in my back yard a couple of months back.

 
   
Made in us
Legendary Master of the Chapter





SoCal

I formed a symbiotic relationship with mine, where I feed him raw coffee beans and he provides the enzyme that brings out their robust flavor.

   
Made in us
Combat Jumping Ragik






Beyond the Beltway

You may have a civet. No worries. People routinely mistake rats for other things... see that Fawlty Towers episode with Manuel's pet 'hamster'.

I have bushy-tailed tree rats. They routinely attack my house (not even kidding. One tried to break into my kitchen by chewing through the window frame. It wanted the peanuts I had on my kitchen table.) There were other incidents. Now I have a pair of Jack Russell Terriers. So far, terriers 20, squirrels 0.

The Gingerbread Knight is a fun little mini. I've just started to paint mine. I'm thinking about giving it chibi eyes. The candy can is a two handed weapon, one end for stabbing, the other, hooked, end for all sorts of mischief.

 
   
Made in us
[DCM]
Longtime Dakkanaut





So reaper announced that Bones USA is actually Siocast. This is good to know as other companies start looking at termoplastics and Siocast itself as reaper will be way more available to a lot of people to try out the material.


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Made in in
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Otiose in a Niche






Hyderabad, India

Cheap textured bases will be a good thing.

 
   
Made in gb
Decrepit Dakkanaut




UK

Could be a good fit, Reaper a big enough to be able to afford the optimisation time this new kit will almost certainly need, in a way i fear some of the smaller companies picking it up might not be

 
   
Made in ca
Skink Chief with Poisoned Javelins




Michigan

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Cheap textured bases will be a good thing.


For certain.

I could easily see myself picking up a few sets of them.
   
Made in si
Foxy Wildborne







Pretty sure the public already knew it was siocast? I got one Bones USA thing, cast is sharp but mold lines are in the most obnoxious possible places.

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Made in us
Combat Jumping Ragik






Beyond the Beltway

It's nice to see official confirmation but we've known for a while that Bones USA was SioCast. It's been discussed openly on the Reaper forums.

Base inserts are an interesting thing considering Reaper minis come pre-based in the old school style.

 
   
Made in no
Fresh-Faced New User





Norway

I have several of the Bones USA models, from the earliest up to December releases. They have IMO become better in many respect, not the least of which are mould lines. They used to be more prominent on older models, but some of the newer ones have almost not had mould lines at all.

I believe this indicates they have been testing and refining their mould making and casting to a point where they now are mass producing enough to support releasing most new releases in this material.

Reaper has said they now have three siocast machines in their Texas factory.

The infrequent blog: At the Mountains of Minis 
   
Made in tw
Longtime Dakkanaut





what is siocast?

   
Made in us
Decrepit Dakkanaut





The Battle Barge Buffet Line

Carlovonsexron wrote:
what is siocast?


A newish all in one resin injection molding system.

https://www.siocast.com/

We Munch for Macragge! FOR THE EMPRUH! Cheesesticks and Humus!
 
   
Made in ca
Skink Chief with Poisoned Javelins




Michigan

I know I must be getting old, because I've been reading it as "slocast" this whole time.
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut





 warboss wrote:
Carlovonsexron wrote:
what is siocast?


A newish all in one resin injection molding system.

https://www.siocast.com/


ya. Thermal plastics aren't new but this one is really targeting models by basically using molds made more or less the same way you would for metal. Big appeal for people that already have that knowledge set as it's easier to transition. The end goal is for this to replace PVC for probably everyone but the boargame makers as you can make it locally on demand way more affordably then you could plastics. Reaper isn't the only big name starting to use it as it's being used for a few models in Infinity now.
   
Made in in
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Otiose in a Niche






Hyderabad, India

Per Reaper's Facebook


You may have seen some new bases floating around on social media, it's true, It's coming! Base Boss 2 Kickstarter is just around the corner and if you want to be notified when it goes live sign up here.

https://www.reapermini.com/ks/baseboss2

We'll even throw in a little sneak peek here!


Cheap ready textured bases would be an auto buy from me.

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Made in us
Legendary Master of the Chapter





SoCal

It depends how cheap they are. They’d have to compete with Renedra’s plastic bases.

   
Made in us
Longtime Dakkanaut




Houston, TX

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
It depends how cheap they are. They’d have to compete with Renedra’s plastic bases.


Renedra's are nice and cheap, but only come in flagstone and cobblestone. Which admittedly covers a lot of fantasy gaming needs. If they cover other types they could have a hit, particularly given that Renedra's arent widely available.

   
 
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