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Thank you KK for this thread and continuing the humourously sarcastic tradition. I also just placed a $200 order with Reaper thanks to you, with a few of the above figures in it. So thanks for that as well.
Aha! Now I recall it. That wizard Domur. It reminds me of the Wizard Gremorly. (From the Wormy Comic strip drawn by Dave Trampier. Yeah, it's an ancient reference.)
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
I bought two vamps last week for my Vampire Counts army. Very happy with them.
They will be a pretty boy male vamp for my Lahmians, and a rank and file warrior girl vampire for same. The leaders of this cult will be two recliners left over from my Mortis engine mixed in with bits from Neferata, who I will mount on vampiric pegasi to rule-all from above where they wont get their pretty dresses dirty with grave filth.
None of this is past concept stage yet, but I want a plug in leadership of Lahmians for my army. Meanwhile I have two regular GW vampires, the half bat and the female vampire which came with an eBay bulk lot. They are unassembled so I can make what I will of them. GW vamps tend to be a bit over the top frankly, but I dont want to go all Twilight with my Vampire Counts army so the change is welcome.
Adding to this a Mannfred on steed, these three round out my Von Carstein section. I get my special character bits from the Mortarch set which comes as a casual bonus with the Skeleton Horde getting started box. I hate the Mortarch model and hate End Times in general so I factored them in as bits.
Later I will search out some Necrarch models, to add to my plastic Strigoi for a truly disgusting amount of Vampires for what is only a 3K army.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
Reaper has taken a bold pro-PETA stand and I, for one, respect them for it.
With all the kerfluffle going on regarding fur on miniatures, we here at Reaper Miniatures would like to issue a brief statement regarding this deeply troubling issue.
We take this matter very seriously. We love our animal friends very much. This is why we have never, ever sculpted real fur onto any of our models. All fur depicted on any Reaper miniature is 100% synthetic "faux" fur. Any other type of fur depictions would just be irresponsible and unethical.
In the same vein, none of the leather textures on our models should be construed as leather, rather they should be interpreted as Naugahyde, or simply pleather. Nor should any flesh be considered flesh, but Soylent Green.
Again, we appreciate your time and thank you for your support.
That being said I will continue to cover all my Space Wolves with the pelts of heavily mutated humans.
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Kid_Kyoto wrote: Reaper has taken a bold pro-PETA stand and I, for one, respect them for it.
With all the kerfluffle going on regarding fur on miniatures, we here at Reaper Miniatures would like to issue a brief statement regarding this deeply troubling issue.
We take this matter very seriously. We love our animal friends very much. This is why we have never, ever sculpted real fur onto any of our models. All fur depicted on any Reaper miniature is 100% synthetic "faux" fur. Any other type of fur depictions would just be irresponsible and unethical.
In the same vein, none of the leather textures on our models should be construed as leather, rather they should be interpreted as Naugahyde, or simply pleather. Nor should any flesh be considered flesh, but Soylent Green.
Again, we appreciate your time and thank you for your support.
That being said I will continue to cover all my Space Wolves with the pelts of heavily mutated humans.
Seriously laughed out loud at this...
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"All GW will gain is my increased contempt for their business practices." - AesSedai
"Its terrible the way that conversion kit is causing him to buy 2 GW kits... " - Mad4Minis
"GW are hard to parody, as they are sometimes so stupid that the best in comedy couldn't beat them at their own game..." - Paradigm
No. I saw one for faux fur once. I'll poke around for the link.
Perhaps Reaper Minis should now come with the disclaimer
No animals were harmed during the sculpting and production of the miniature.
I think I know their angle here. Reaper wants a License from PETA to produce miniatures of those *celebrities* who go naked rather than wear fur. Look for a line of D-list starlets sculpted in the buff. I think that they'll call it the Skin line. ( as opposed to the Bones line.)
I think I know their angle here. Reaper wants a License from PETA to produce miniatures of those *celebrities* who go naked rather than wear fur. Look for a line of D-list starlets sculpted in the buff. I think that they'll call it the Skin line. ( as opposed to the Bones line.)
Presumably they'll make them in metal first. Then when they do them in plastic they'll be known as the Skin 'n Bones line.
Quick Update: (TL: DR; ) For those of you not interested in long explanations, here's the short version:
We have 2 containers left to receive. Once those are in, we will send out an update announcing fulfillment shipping timeframes. We estimate, based on past experience, that fulfillment will begin in mid-to-late April, and will take 2-3 weeks to complete. We will continue posting updates throughout this process.
If you're interested in the details, read on.
Okay, people will say that this was waiting to happen, so sorry, but first time backer here of Reaper, not happy at all with these delays.
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From the comments: "Ma'al Drakar alone took more containers than the Vampire Sets from Bones 1, which we ordered 4 times more of."
I'm still behind my painting queue, so I'm keeping busy. I think CMON's you only other alternative if you want bulk plastic miniatures. (EDIT: And they've just announced a delay for their Massive Darkness KS.)
EDIT: "@Khell, Excelsior, Pinky, etc: We get about 3 emails a week from people telling us that they don't like to argue in the comments, but they wanted to stay they weren't mad. We get about as many people complaining. We get about one every 2-3 months whose tone is ... beyond angry. And yes, During the Bones 1 KS I (Bryan) received what I believed to be a credible death threat (when we were cresting on 6 months late) from a backer, threatening to "burn down my house while my kids were asleep". We filed a police report and my family stayed in a hotel for a little while. We currently believe it to be resolved. What disturbed me most was not the threat, but that it had become personal - they weren't "coming after" my business, but my family.
Compared to that, you guys are a dream. We may never be able to make you support us again, but at least you aren't threatening my life, personally."
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I think it's really an extension of the expectation/entitlement that human society is rapidly developing. We are (myself included) the generations of "now", and sadly the generations of "blame X!" for anything which upsets our delicate lives.
Being upset over some late toy soldiers shouldn't register on anyone's radar...I'd argue the fact that it can or does indicates how damn good our/your lives are to start with. If you have the luxury to be pissed that you blew $200-300-400 on toy soldiers and they're a few months late - life is frikkin' good.
I'm sitting on a couple of high dollar Kickstarters that are years...YEARS late and probably won't ever actually occur. I gambled and lost. Says right there on the Kickstarter page that it's all a big risk. It sucks and I won't be buying anything from those companies in the future...but that's about it. What good does it do me to get in a tizzy over it? I can warn people off about the companies (Gamezone and Palladium - to no one's surprise) but threats and pouting like a child? Pointless.
If you're not comfortable with the risk - don't do the Kickstarter. End of story.
If waiting is a poison, then I've build up an immunity over the many childhood purchases I've made through catalogs, with their "six to eight weeks to arrive". Thanks to Kickstarter, the next generation will also learn this skill.
Elbows wrote: I think it's really an extension of the expectation/entitlement that human society is rapidly developing. We are (myself included) the generations of "now", and sadly the generations of "blame X!" for anything which upsets our delicate lives.
BobtheInquisitor wrote: If waiting is a poison, then I've build up an immunity over the many childhood purchases I've made through catalogs, with their "six to eight weeks to arrive". Thanks to Kickstarter, the next generation will also learn this skill.
Exactly what I was about to say.
It's late, meh, it's a good value KS with lots of backers and order variety. It's bound to be late. I have more serious things in life to stress about than plastic toys. It will get here when it gets here.
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I've at least *started* painting every one of my Bones 2 minis, and probably finished most of them... but you know, whenever 3 arrives, I'm still not going to get round to painting most of 3 till I've already backed 4. No biggie. Part of the reason the deal is so cheap is that it's a KS (therefore late). And part is that it's shipping from China (therefore not only even more late, but late in a manner that is essentially unpredictable and uncontrollable even for Reaper).
It would be lovely if Reaper had learned about giving more realistic shipping dates by now, but lots of things would be lovely -- I'd rather try to be realistic too, than worry.
Elbows wrote: I think it's really an extension of the expectation/entitlement that human society is rapidly developing. We are (myself included) the generations of "now", and sadly the generations of "blame X!" for anything which upsets our delicate lives.
That and a global shipping catastrophe.
True enough...did that huge shipping company ever get rescued? (The one which is like the 8th largest in the world and recently stopped their whole fleet?)
Yeah, well....look around any game store, and then magnify that by the internet.
"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
" - Mad4Minis
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