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Reaper's Bones II Kickstarter Campaign is live.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1513061270/reaper-miniatures-bones-ii-the-return-of-mr-bones



What you can get



Rewards calculator:

http://duelgrounds.com/

Lets you add in your options and figure out what your pledge amount needs to be in order to cover them. Also provides a running total of all the miniatures which are in the various sets.

Figures List with links to metal miniatures:

http://www.reapermini.com/forum/index.php?/topic/51663-ks-bones-ii-list-of-miniatures/

Greg Botch's Graphical link list:

http://greg.botch.com/bones2/

And finally, Reaper's Pledge Calculator

https://ks.reapermini.com/

This will allow you to calculate your shipping based on your choices as well as the total pledge amount.

Posting to say I've backed, so that it subscribes me to the thread. Gonna be fun seeing how much stuff gets added on.

May I ask, How do options work? Lets say I want blightfang. Do I take the 1$ option, then ad the option money for it?
Or the 50$ option, do I recieve all of those?

You can subscribe to a thread without posting in it!

Anyway, thank you VERY much for volunteering, Sean_OBrien!

You just earned 100 Dakka Dakka™ Points®!

I am now watching Bones Thread number II..

This is going to be a fun one- almost at 1 million on opening day.
Also, here's a scale shot of Narthrax:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
May I ask, How do options work? Lets say I want blightfang. Do I take the 1$ option, then ad the option money for it?
Or the 50$ option, do I recieve all of those?

You choose a pledge level(say $1 or $100), then you just add the cost of your options to that. Say Narthrax added to the $1 pledge. You pledge $13. When the pledge manager comes in after the kickstarter comes in, you select your $12 Narthrax. Easy as that. You can subtract or add to your pledge at any time.

 Alpharius wrote:
You can subscribe to a thread without posting in it!

Anyway, thank you VERY much for volunteering, Sean_OBrien!

You just earned 100 Dakka Dakka™ Points®!

We should really make that subscribe button more noticeable. I didn't know it existed until you forced me to go searching for it.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
May I ask, How do options work? Lets say I want blightfang. Do I take the 1$ option, then ad the option money for it?
Or the 50$ option, do I recieve all of those?

They actually have color coded it.

The base package ($100) is in purple. Anything on the purple background is free with that pledge level.

The Orange are options. You can add them into a $1 pledge or on top of the $100 package.

The Expansion is a bit like the base package in that it will have stretch goals that get added into it increasing the value over time. It is not included in the base package though and has to be taken like an option. It can be taken on it's own though - you do not need the $100 package to get it.

Using that information, Blight Fang is a $10 option. $1 backing level and $10 pledged with get you Blightfang. The hatchlings from the $1 million dollar level are added into the base package.

Reaper Bryan had stated earlier today that they may introduce the option to include extras of the various Freebies later on during the campaign - though it wasn't clear whether they were going to be doing that as something which could be done for everyone or just those who are backing at the $100 level.

There's a subscribe button?

Now I need to look for it too.

Curious as to these expansion boxes. We get it for 50, and then stretch goals get tossed in that expansion? Kind of a neat idea. We'll see what ends up in that.

I'm hoping some of those big things end up with some kind of a base attached to them (or to plug in to)- I really don't want to fiddle with that Balor's legs or that Dragon Turtle's little pods on his feet.

They usually end up having a standard Reaper-style integrated base, at least for the wobbly bipedal models. The dragons and other quadrupeds tend to come baseless.

I was, I believe, backer #73 on this. Definitely some cool stuff so far! I've got to say I'm not too excited about the expansion though, aside from the dragon turtle. The addons are a bit hit or miss for me too....I like the demons, dragons, the transparent stuff, and the kraken, but I'll likely pass on the rest. There's certainly plenty of time for more cool stuff.

The heroes and villains set just strikes me as a very odd batch of minis, and I don't think I'd actually seen them before on Reaper's site. The castle-armored dude is especially weird, but he could end up being a really weird paladin of Abadar sometime maybe.

Anyone know anything about that figure tray that is a $30 option?

Yay new thread. This will be fun to watch, though I don't think I'll be checking it as often as I have in the past.

That scale shot of the 750,000 goal dragon is... well the size of the dragon for $12 is amazing. I may have to consider some of the bigger add-ons...

The sculpts for many of these are downright pitiful IMHO, especially the skeletons... like GW stuff from the 80s... but there are gems here and there. More than I saw in the 1st campaign, so I'll stick around until the end to see what pops up.

If nothing else, might be good stuff for my kids to paint.

I am very worried though about shipping and customs. I would be more than willing to pay shipping but customs, no. I doubt it would be much of a hassle to use the same Canadian distributor as they used for the 1st campaign, eh?

The Balor and the Hill Giants are the ones I'm most worried about being baseless. That stone giant too in the Expansion set.

I've tried to steer clear of baseless dragons after having an uncooperative hydra to deal with- he's been boiled alive practically and he still doesn't want to straighten his legs so that at least three are touching the ground at once. Once I get him to a close approximation of standing on the ground he's getting glued to a base of some sort.

Considering the sheer amount of stuff they've already thrown at us, there's no telling what's in store over the next few weeks.

I still hope for some giant reptiles that aren't dragons. Unless we end up getting a massive Tiamat style dragon, which would get a free pass.

The Stone Giant from the expansion and the "balor" will most likely have a base - either integral or as a separate part. The one Hill Giant Chieftain will have one as well, but the other will probably not.

I have that odd one out for the hill giant and his 3-point stance is pretty stable as is, so I don't think you should have too many issues with him.

I have taken to pinning through the base into the legs and then gluing them. While a lot of Reaper's customers like the integral bases or no base at all - I tend to use them most for things like war gaming as opposed to RPGs so, bases are part of what you need...plus that gives you something to throw the dead bodies on. They have enough flex in order to allow you to bend them down - and the pins of choice for me on some of the bigger stuff (like the Hydra) have actually been wood screws with a dab of epoxy on them while I screw them in. Solid enough that I have bounced him off the floor and they haven't popped loose. And by bounce - I do mean bounce - intentionally spiked him like a football just to test the methods durability.


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I doubt it would be much of a hassle to use the same Canadian distributor as they used for the 1st campaign, eh?

RAFM handled a small portion of the first campaign, the bulk was handled by Reaper. Even with items which were shipped through RAFM - Reaper still had to pay the GST on those items. I believe that RAFM has determined that they will be too busy with trying to expand and refresh their miniature lines in order to act as a clearing house for Reaper - and if Reaper were to act as their own import agent, they would need to pay the GST for all the orders. Depending on how well the campaign goes, their profit margin in general will get pretty tight and trimming another 8% or so (I think that is around what your GST is) can turn an amazingly successful KS campaign into an amazingly expensive give away.

Postage has also increased a lot to ship to Canada, so I can't really fault them on opting out on the free shipping to Canada. I would be more inclined to push to have the exemption limit raised to something more reasonable. Right now I think it is only like $20 for you guys - which to be perfectly honest might as well be nothing at all. I can't recall the last time that I have bought anything online where my total was less than $20.


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 Phobos wrote:
Anyone know anything about that figure tray that is a $30 option?

The case is the same as the first campaign (which was well received). They have adjusted the foam used, the size of the compartments and are using a different manufacturer. They have taken feedback and complaints about the first round cases and used that to adjust them. Apparently they have been well received by the people who have seen the prototypes over at Reaper HQ.

I haven't seen detailed break down of what everything is, but they look to be roughly 2x2.5 or 2x3 and about 2 inch thick foam. Each case has 4 trays with 16 slots per tray for a total of 64 slots per case.

Woo! 3 more dragons!
Pledged for $200, which hopefully will get me through all the dragon addons.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
There's a subscribe button?

1 Now I need to look for it too.

2 Curious as to these expansion boxes. We get it for 50, and then stretch goals get tossed in that expansion? Kind of a neat idea. We'll see what ends up in that.

1) Bottom Left of the page.

2) That is the plan. Depending on how high it goes, they have at least 2 other "Expansions". Not sure what are in those or where the switch will be. It will be interesting in a week or two when we have three or four different stretch goals, one for each of the Expansions and the base package going at a time. It should be useful to go ahead and prevent the lag that can occur when you get up to the higher funding levels where you need to space out the stretch goals far enough to pay for them (and the rewards to 10,000 some odd backers).


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Trasvi wrote:
Woo! 3 more dragons!
Pledged for $200, which hopefully will get me through all the dragon addons.

Always hard to tell if it is sarcasm or not (really - some people seem to think there have been too many dragons).

Right now there are two large dragons on the radar, Narthrax which has been funded and Blightfang which is the $1 million option. You also have 2 medium dragons in the Expansion (well, one dragon and one dragon turtle). We also have 4 small dragons as the $1 million freebie. Also a chimera - which some people seem to have issue with as being too close to being a dragon. You can get all those for $172 - plus you get a bunch of other stuff which isn't too bad either.

 Sean_OBrien wrote:
The Stone Giant from the expansion and the "balor" will most likely have a base - either integral or as a separate part. The one Hill Giant Chieftain will have one as well, but the other will probably not.

I have that odd one out for the hill giant and his 3-point stance is pretty stable as is, so I don't think you should have too many issues with him.

I have taken to pinning through the base into the legs and then gluing them. While a lot of Reaper's customers like the integral bases or no base at all - I tend to use them most for things like war gaming as opposed to RPGs so, bases are part of what you need...plus that gives you something to throw the dead bodies on. They have enough flex in order to allow you to bend them down - and the pins of choice for me on some of the bigger stuff (like the Hydra) have actually been wood screws with a dab of epoxy on them while I screw them in. Solid enough that I have bounced him off the floor and they haven't popped loose. And by bounce - I do mean bounce - intentionally spiked him like a football just to test the methods durability.

Do you have any WIP pics of what you're describing? It sounds interesting.

I'll have to see about snapping some photos. Right now it isn't anything special - just the base and figure, I am still ho-humming on the color I want to paint it and whether or not I plan on integrating the hydra into an army or just go ahead and do it as a stand alone and use it as needed.

For now though, I am a pumpkin and have to get some sleep so that I can wake up and update this again.

Only $13K to go till $1 million and almost 9 hours left in the first day of the campaign.

That Balrog and Orcus (the Demon Lord add on) are new sculpts right?

Really wondering how big they'll be. My kids'll be happy having a bunch of demons to play with, and some big ones to boss the rest of the lot around. I caught my daughter playing school in a ruined tower today with Cinderella, Ultraman Taro, Ariel, some random squinkies, and a Pit Fiend. From what I gathered the Pit Fiend didn't want to play with Ariel at recess. Maybe Orcus will play with her instead?

That Balrog (Balor) looks a lot nicer than the pre-painted D&D ones I've got, or the old metal ones I had when I was a kid. I had been checking out the Pathfinder one that's coming in the next set, but why settle for a crappy paint job done in some workshop in China when I can do the same thing at home, and just as sloppy?

 Sean_OBrien wrote:

Trasvi wrote:
Woo! 3 more dragons!
Pledged for $200, which hopefully will get me through all the dragon addons.

Always hard to tell if it is sarcasm or not (really - some people seem to think there have been too many dragons).

Right now there are two large dragons on the radar, Narthrax which has been funded and Blightfang which is the $1 million option. You also have 2 medium dragons in the Expansion (well, one dragon and one dragon turtle). We also have 4 small dragons as the $1 million freebie. Also a chimera - which some people seem to have issue with as being too close to being a dragon. You can get all those for $172 - plus you get a bunch of other stuff which isn't too bad either.

Haha. No, I'm serious, I love dragon minis and made sure to pledge for one of each of them in the last Bones kickstarter.
At the moment I'm counting the two 'large' dragons (Narthrax and Blightfang) plus the dragon in the core set addon - its hard to tell how the scales relate to each other. Not counting the turtle.
I'm looking through the rest of the Reaper catalog at other dragons, and I hope that a few more of them will be made available as addons later on. But as I think you may have said in the other thread - I'm putting my best pledge forward to being unlocking of more stuff early. In the worst case scenario, at least I can get some mouselings

On that note, it's time to start lobbying Reaper for a live version of Kaladrax....

Nice stuff. I considered pledging, but waiting at least 14 months for the stuff? way too gruelling for me.

This could just about hit 1,000,000 before i finish work in one hour. Exciting!

The expansion set looks interesting butat the moment seems to be filled with fugly models

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
Nice stuff. I considered pledging, but waiting at least 14 months for the stuff? way too gruelling for me.

Not to mention the shipping costs, which we have no clue what they will be, since everywhere except America pays "actual shipping costs", which to the UK or Europe could be extortionate even at the current rates and those could easily go even higher by the time they actually start sending stuff out. And of course if they mark the package as a commercial product which I would suppose they have to, the customs duty will be madness.

If they can sort out worldwide free shipping, or at the least fixed-price shipping costs, I might go in, otherwise I'll have to pass on this one, which is a shame as there's some interesting stuff in there.

Someone in wave 1 must have gotten cold feet so I have now managed to promote myself from wave 3

There are a couple of extras i am thinking of going for but i want a better indication of postage before i go in for any more. I dont want to excitedly go in for extras tp then find out it is too expensive and have to use my extras cash just to pay the shipping...

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
Nice stuff. I considered pledging, but waiting at least 14 months for the stuff? way too gruelling for me.

Not to mention the shipping costs, which we have no clue what they will be, since everywhere except America pays "actual shipping costs", which to the UK or Europe could be extortionate even at the current rates and those could easily go even higher by the time they actually start sending stuff out. And of course if they mark the package as a commercial product which I would suppose they have to, the customs duty will be madness.

If they can sort out worldwide free shipping, or at the least fixed-price shipping costs, I might go in, otherwise I'll have to pass on this one, which is a shame as there's some interesting stuff in there.

I don't think they want non-American pledgers this time. International shipping was a bear for them last time, and they've come up with a way to minimize the chances of Europeans getting in on the action with less fan backlash than a more honest policy of US ADDRESSES ONLY.

There goes 1 million. I guess we'll have to wait till they wake up to get the next stretch

There's the devil option at 1,086,000