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 TheGuest wrote:
Isn't it just a Balor Demon for D&D?

Which is just D&D shifting a few letters to avoid the wrath of Morgoth errr the Tolkien estate.

D&D went out of their way to upscale giants from large to huge with 5E making my Reaper giants look puny in comparison.

Huge giants, and Huge Demons, at Reaper Bones prices will be most welcome additions to my miniatures collection.

 TheAuldGrump wrote:
Is it bad that looking at that figure makes me want a mini for Mighty A'Tuin?

Mind you. picturing a game where I would need a figure for Great A'Tuin... is kind of hard....

The Auld Grump

Battlefleet Gothic? Dang now I want one too................

After doing a bit of reading up on Starfinder, I'm beginning to wonder if Reaper will be doing anything. Maybe it'll be announced at GenCon or something.

I wasn't aware that Ninja Division was going to be doing prepainted figures and ships.

Then again, that didn't stop the Reaper metals and plastics from coexisting with the prepainted line from another company.

Or Reaper could just be cool and give us a bunch of interesting outerspace figures with no game affiliated.

One can dream.

I would have thought Bones was the perfect medium for a bunch of space aliens and pulp heroes. Right now, Mantic seems to be the main if not only player in the pulpy aliens game. Between Dreadball, Deadzone and Star Saga, they've put out dozens of great oddball aliens. If Mantic can do that, imagine what Reaper, with decades of experience and a stable of seasoned sculptors, could do.

Hey, wasn't Reaper talking about doing a Kickstarter for their prepainted line? What ever happened with that?

From reading between the lines of stuff on the reaper boards I believe their research showed the demand wasn't there for normal retail line as opposed to the blind box D&D prepaints,

so while they might be able to get some made they probably wouldn't end up with a worthwhile retail product compared to other things they could put time and effort into

(I suspect the failure of the conan prepaints game will also feed into this view)

I'm curious to see how Ninja Division does with this new line of prepainted figures and spaceships then they're going to have.

Could make Reaper reconsider once again.

Any link to the Ninja spaceships and sci fi?

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I'm curious to see how Ninja Division does with this new line of prepainted figures and spaceships then they're going to have.

Could make Reaper reconsider once again.

Did you say prepainted spaceships?


Man, Reaper's letting everyone else have all the good ideas.

I just googled Starfinder miniatures.



I really don't want prepaints though.

Plus there's alien space lizards. How can I not want those?

Wow, those are really cool.

 Barzam wrote:
Hey, wasn't Reaper talking about doing a Kickstarter for their prepainted line? What ever happened with that?

Reaper said the cost to make a "stencil" to prepaint a miniature was as much as the mold. Not sure why the prefer stencil over hand-painted, although hand-painted miniatures are mostly tabletop quality.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I just googled Starfinder miniatures.

I really don't want prepaints though.

Plus there's alien space lizards. How can I not want those?

Yeah, I like the figures and they'd be a great addition for my Rouge Stars game, but I can't stand pre-paints.

I'll take the prepaints. (Depending on prices and final quality.). Those ships look awesome and the aliens bring me back to the book covers of yesteryear.

Reaper has a page up with the launch date for Bones 4!

http://www.reapermini.com/bones4

I am so excited for this. I just hope my wallet can handle it! I can go hungry for a month, right?

Well, with the CMON KS, it's gonna be two months...

Anyone remember how far in advance they started previewing the core set?

I seem to recall seeing what was in store for us a few days before things launched.

 NTRabbit wrote:
After they deadset stole money from AU backers by charging air mail prices and then sticking our pledges on a boat, and then announced Bones 4 before the boat had even reached the country, I'm sticking Reaper in the shady and deceitful company category with Mierce.

Not as bad as Mierce, but, you know. Not good, either.

Lots of my goodwill burnt there. Not that they give a feth about us.

My Bones 3 arrived this week, and my enthusiasm for 4 has dropped a bit...

I got the core set (or half of it -- my son bought the other half), Stoneskull, Graveyard, Frost Giant King & Queen, Frost Giant Warriors, and the dragon-riding lass.

Most of this was at least OK. The sizing is frequently kind of random -- stuff I expected would be pretty big looking at the previews, like the ragged constructs from Stoneskull, ended up looking small, whereas inevitably a lot of the "ordinary humans" are kind of huge, and made bigger yet by the thick integral bases that I tend to add regular bases too for consistency of base diameter.

Most of the core set was pretty ropey though, I thought. As per Bones 2, my son and I alternately picked from the bigger creatures, then did the same alternate picks from the human-sized-ish ones. Unlike with Bones 2, the process seemed frustating and unexciting, for the most part. I ended up with most of the Japanese style creatures, some of which look OK but all of which will almost certainly look poor compared to the Rising Sun minis that will deliver next year. Once we'd divvied up the big critters, we took a good look at the smaller ones and found almost none of them very appealing. The 16 lizardmen (four each of four poses) were pretty good, and I was glad to be splitting them evenly to reduce duplication a bit.

Most of the rest... eh. Melty-face syndrome was generally worse than Bones 2, not better. I had one pennanted lance (from the dragonrider) break after boiling and cooling to straighten it... and it's still not straight. Scale, as mentioned above, was kind of all over the place but mostly on the big side. Too many "wacky" miniatures that would probably never get used. Too many with odd weapon combos or odd poses. These just weren't as exciting or useful, overall, as Bones 2.

Still, the graveyard expansion scenery is very nice overall. And the giants are pretty good. Though Queen Giant just looks like a tall human, she will probably make an OK statue for that reason. I'm just kind of meh about it overall.

Got my stuff through too, also dulled my enthusiasm for bones 4.

Anyone else's main graveyard tomb room not foot correctly on at the front?

Should the Sledgehammer BFG come with bases for the crew?

The Sledgehammer should come with a bag containing bases for both the crew and the gun itself.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Every so often Reaper does a model I never knew I needed.



Now the dwarf mage on a battle pony is no Leprechaun on an owl, but yeah, I can see myself buying him. Then rolling up a new D&D character just to use him.

I intend to use this figure as a dwarf church cardinal in a 17th Century Pathfinder game - who is a wizard, not a cleric, thank you very much. (One of the bones of contention in the setting is the church's willingness to grant wizards indulgences to practice magic. The orthodox faith does not even bother with indulgences - magic is a gift from God - but the protestant faiths view magic as a sin.)

A nice enough guy, if I can keep from imitating the voice of Guido Sarducci from Saturday Night Live....

The Auld Grump

 TheGuest wrote:
Isn't it just a Balor Demon for D&D?

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Balor has already been done in Bones. I've got one to the left of me right now waiting to be painted, though this guy looks awfully similar and it could just be an embiggening.

August's free w/ purchase miniature:

"From the shadows of the forest, our 25th Anniversary miniature for August 2017 has revealed himself - Elanter, the Lost Prince From August 1st through August 30th you'll receive a free 25th Anniversary Elanter the Lost Prince 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 copy of the 25th Anniversary Elanter the Lost Prince - $80 for two, $120 for 3, etc. there's no need to place multiple orders on the same day! The FREE 25th Anniversary Elanter the Lost Prince is automatically added to your order at checkout when you hit $40...you don't have to to anything else. Elanter the Lost Prince is a metal gaming figure that is sold unpainted. Base not included."

http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/previews/sku-up/01607

Not sure what he lost, but he gained an extra finger!

As much as I dislike Elves...that's not bad at all.

Starfinder looks good.

He even has the extra knuckle on his other hand . Maybe he has the ability to shoot 4 arrows at once.

 Azazelx wrote:

 NTRabbit wrote:
After they deadset stole money from AU backers by charging air mail prices and then sticking our pledges on a boat, and then announced Bones 4 before the boat had even reached the country, I'm sticking Reaper in the shady and deceitful company category with Mierce.

Not as bad as Mierce, but, you know. Not good, either.

Lots of my goodwill burnt there. Not that they give a feth about us.

I've asked in the KS comments, I've asked on facebook, I've asked in email, they flat out refuse to respond. No goodwill left at all for a company that wants to behave this badly.

Did you ask on the Reaper forums? The US delivery thread's digressed to ROW : http://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/74950-reaper-bones-3-us-zone-complete/&page=27