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Honestly I'm more excited that I'll finally be able to order Reaper figs without having to choose between international shipping & customs charges on the one hand, or the awful, awful stock levels and long wait times of their handful of existing EU stockists on the other.
"Your society's broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No, lets blame the people with no power and no money and those immigrants who don't even have the vote. Yea, it must be their fething fault." - Iain M Banks
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"The language of modern British politics is meant to sound benign. But words do not mean what they seem to mean. 'Reform' actually means 'cut' or 'end'. 'Flexibility' really means 'exploit'. 'Prudence' really means 'don't invest'. And 'efficient'? That means whatever you want it to mean, usually 'cut'. All really mean 'keep wages low for the masses, taxes low for the rich, profits high for the corporations, and accept the decline in public services and amenities this will cause'." - Robin McAlpine from Common Weal
Kid_Kyoto wrote: Next step, Reaper (tm) shoppes on every High Street!
Hah - The year is 2022, the Reaper Bones 19 kickstarter is so successful that Reaper buys out GW and converts the entire chain of stores into Reapershoppes(tm); sadly, the price difference is so much lower, many GW customers die of sticker shock on opening day.
"Your society's broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No, lets blame the people with no power and no money and those immigrants who don't even have the vote. Yea, it must be their fething fault." - Iain M Banks
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"The language of modern British politics is meant to sound benign. But words do not mean what they seem to mean. 'Reform' actually means 'cut' or 'end'. 'Flexibility' really means 'exploit'. 'Prudence' really means 'don't invest'. And 'efficient'? That means whatever you want it to mean, usually 'cut'. All really mean 'keep wages low for the masses, taxes low for the rich, profits high for the corporations, and accept the decline in public services and amenities this will cause'." - Robin McAlpine from Common Weal
adamsouza wrote: Reaper Bones Kickstarters are getting to be like my Amazon Prime membership. I fork over a $100 a year automatically and I'm usually pretty happy with the value of what I get.
You must have bucketfuls of unpainted white plastic. I'm still working through my haul from Bones 1 - I only have a fraction of it painted so far.
adamsouza wrote: Reaper Bones Kickstarters are getting to be like my Amazon Prime membership. I fork over a $100 a year automatically and I'm usually pretty happy with the value of what I get.
You must have bucketfuls of unpainted white plastic. I'm still working through my haul from Bones 1 - I only have a fraction of it painted so far.
I think I have at least some paint on almost all my Bones 2 stuff, but I did split my order with my son. I haven't painted the handful of modern/SF minis that came with it because I don't have a need for them, but almost all the rest has at least been started.
adamsouza wrote: Reaper Bones Kickstarters are getting to be like my Amazon Prime membership. I fork over a $100 a year automatically and I'm usually pretty happy with the value of what I get.
You must have bucketfuls of unpainted white plastic. I'm still working through my haul from Bones 1 - I only have a fraction of it painted so far.
Yes. Yes I do.
Although, truth be told I don't keep my miniatures in buckets.
adamsouza wrote: Reaper Bones Kickstarters are getting to be like my Amazon Prime membership. I fork over a $100 a year automatically and I'm usually pretty happy with the value of what I get.
You must have bucketfuls of unpainted white plastic. I'm still working through my haul from Bones 1 - I only have a fraction of it painted so far.
Yes. Yes I do.
Although, truth be told I don't keep my miniatures in buckets.
There once was a man from Nantucket,
Who kept all his Bones in a bucket...
On second thought, any poem involving buckets and Nantucket is better to be avoided....
The Auld Grump
Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
But it was totally fine afterwards.....and that's why we shovel so much money at this stuff
It's the principle of the thing!
If you are the kind of person that trucks your figures around, the Bones are excellent! - for character models, yeah, I prefer metals.... but for mooks and monsters, gimme the Bones!
Painting a Bones dragon is a pure pleasure, let me tell you.
The Auld Grump
Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
They are also awesome for kids to paint and play with. My 3 year old loves sitting with me to paint giants, monsters and "daddy's peoples", the actual plastic/resin models she isn't allowed to play with She carries around Daddy Giant, Mommy Giant (storm giant set) and Mommy and Baby Dragon, plus a random beholder she loves because she can feed it things with its open mouth.
Soon, she will be painting all my bare plastic armies for me. Soon...
Wehrkind wrote: They are also awesome for kids to paint and play with. My 3 year old loves sitting with me to paint giants, monsters and "daddy's peoples", the actual plastic/resin models she isn't allowed to play with She carries around Daddy Giant, Mommy Giant (storm giant set) and Mommy and Baby Dragon, plus a random beholder she loves because she can feed it things with its open mouth.
Soon, she will be painting all my bare plastic armies for me. Soon...
Red Harvest wrote: Give your child a painted mini and she is happy for a day. Teach your child to paint minis, and you are happy for a lifetime
Our baby is less than three months old - and she already has two complete sets of (fuzzy) polyhedral dice.
The Auld Grump
Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
They do make fantastic low-cost learn-to-paint resources. Although my son is a bit older than others mentioned here (16) his painting skills have improved massively since splitting the Bones 2 KS rewards with me a couple of years back. He's a bit embarrassed about some of the painting on the early Bones stuff he did but also really proud of his ability to do decent paint jobs on his more recently acquired Hasslefree minis.
Victoria Lamb was lamenting the fact that Bones had not been available when she was teaching her nieces and nephews how to paint - likewise, I would have loved] having them back when I was running a class on RPGs and another on Mil. Sci..
And I am so looking forward to when Brigid can hold a brush in her tiny, tiny hands. (Right now the Bones miniature would make a quick trip to her mouth....)
The Auld Grump
Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
Red Harvest wrote: Give your child a painted mini and she is happy for a day. Teach your child to paint minis, and you are happy for a lifetime
Our baby is less than three months old - and she already has two complete sets of (fuzzy) polyhedral dice.
The Auld Grump
Those are a great gift. I have some fuzzy d20's that I got for my wife's car, and the little one learned to throw and name numbers up to 20 largely because of those.
Another good thing with Bones for learning to paint, you can strip them down with Simple Green many, many times and not damage them. They seem to get a little more rigid through the process, but I have stripped a few about 10+ times messing with paint schemes, and they are just fine. So if you don't like the way they come out, into the bucket of green they go!
The mouth thing is a problem; mom won't let Olivia have her dragons in the living room because the 7 month old might deep throat one of their heads, which is basically a large, multi pointed fish hook. Plus, anything too pointy is off limits, in case Olivia decides it is time to exact some toddler justice on her little sister. Still, that leaves a lot of good sized models to mess about with, filling out the ranks of Daniel Tiger and Peppa Pig
I would like to see a line of 54 mm Bones models. Maybe just up-scaled versions of regular character models and the like. Probably not too useful for most people who aren't playing original scale Inquisitor type games, but it would be cool to have some monsters and heroes the size/scale of the giants for the girls to play around with.
I guess, for larger models, giants and golems would work for her.
fwiw, Mythic Battles: Pantheon God KS models are of a larger scale than the 28mm humans. Not sure if the pointy swords would be good for her. "One feature of Mythic Battles: Pantheon is the number of large miniatures included in the game. The Gods in particular are all at least 65mm (2.5 inches) tall, and some of the Monsters also tower over normal mortals. We hope to show you some even larger models as the campaign progresses."
Also, of course, arts and craft stores has paint projects for the little ones, with plaster animals and such in the same white color as Dad's Bones miniatures. Don't forget your 40% off coupon!
Oh yea, I am totally in on the Pantheon Kickstarter Those might be a little risky though. I do let her mess about with my Bloodrage monsters, but only during an actual game, before they go back in their hermetically sealed box. I wish they sold just the big models (or just the minis in general) for that game.
Of course, by the time Pantheon is in hand, she will be over 4, so she might be ready for those sorts of models When she is a bit closer to that age I am going to give her some of the large resin models I make at home to paint, but for now they are a little more delicate than she can handle. She has some space ships that survived her tender caress, but a lot more that are now in the "space wreckage" jar
The BF sales were either most popular items at ReaperCon or a new product. They've been selling the ReaperCon swag bags as a webstore item for years, so I guess this isn't surprising that they're offering deals at ReaperCon to those who couldn't attend or purchase at the time.
It's a massive dragon, a foot high all hunched over. Also the resin version is probably the "Special" edition and only being done in small numbers. It's kind of like buying a warhound or reaver from FW.
It's a massive dragon, a foot high all hunched over. Also the resin version is probably the "Special" edition and only being done in small numbers. It's kind of like buying a warhound or reaver from FW.
Gotcha. Just seemed like an oddly high number for a Reaper product.
4000+
6000+ Order. Unity. Obedience.
Thousand Sons 4000+
She carries around Daddy Giant, Mommy Giant (storm giant set) and Mommy and Baby Dragon, plus a random beholder she loves because she can feed it things with its open mouth.
