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I see these and go "Oh I should get those, I hate basing" but then I release I have like hundreds of Secret weapon bases laying around I got from the Bags o' Crap that I don't use as I'm too lazy to even paint a base now days and just flock.
   
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They covered a bit more on base boss on Reaper Live they are doing 32mm sized bases and inserts and up they won't be doing 25mm or 28mm bases. They showed off some very large bases in round and oval upwards of 160mm by the look of them.

The other theme shown is urban rubble. Shipping is direct from the factory in the US so that's a factor for non-US based backers.
   
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32mm and up? All I can think is Games Workshop decided to show non-marine armies some love so now Reaper has to take up the slack and neglect everything on smaller bases for them.
   
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Watching people try and straighten a 120mm PVC base topper will be a hobby in itself.

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I have the Renedra bases, they're thin disks, I use them as toppers on taller bases. They're also only in 25mm which in today's madness of base sizes just isn't enough.

I also have the Champ Industries/Rezolution 25mm urban bases which I love but again, are only in 25mm.

So yeah I think Reaper would fill a new niche.

 
   
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32mm bases right there looses any interest I have in the KS as I don't play GW games and I'm just in need of the increments of 10mm sizes.

Post Kickstarter some of the very large ones could be something I'm interested in depending on what's actually in those sizes.
   
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Just base toppers?
I’d have preferred if they were actual bases.
Toppers give a little lip.
Lack of 28mm may run some of my things I’d have potentially got some for.
Maybe not though, as everything is going 32’s..
   
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Central Cimmeria

Yeah, lack of sizes makes me unlikely to back.

I feel that 32s are just too large for most of the miniatures I like

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Anyone know what happened to the Gingerbread guy? He's nowhere to be seen on Reaper's site (though curiously the pic ITT is still live on it), even searching for the product number, found in the filename of the aforementioned pic turns up nothing.

Did they backtrack and make him Chrimbo only again?


Games Workshop Delenda Est.

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 Grimtuff wrote:
Anyone know what happened to the Gingerbread guy? He's nowhere to be seen on Reaper's site (though curiously the pic ITT is still live on it), even searching for the product number, found in the filename of the aforementioned pic turns up nothing.

Did they backtrack and make him Chrimbo only again?


https://www.reapermini.com/miniatures/reaperlegends/latest/30033
this one?
   
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Werkrobotwerk wrote:
 Grimtuff wrote:
Anyone know what happened to the Gingerbread guy? He's nowhere to be seen on Reaper's site (though curiously the pic ITT is still live on it), even searching for the product number, found in the filename of the aforementioned pic turns up nothing.

Did they backtrack and make him Chrimbo only again?


https://www.reapermini.com/miniatures/reaperlegends/latest/30033
this one?


Only available in the US it seems. I set my region to UK and he disappears. That'll be why.


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From last weeks Reaper Live base boss should go live in 1 or 2 weeks.

They showed a tech base and field of skulls also mentioned a ruins theme. The tech base was done on a 1 foot square rendered plate and they cut base designs from the plate. Ron mentioned casting the full plate for their own use no mention of releasing it.

10 new base sizes planned - oval and round.

Bones 6 scheduled for March.

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New month, new minis.

Reaper's next KS is Base Boss 2, coming... soon I guess? We can sign up for info.

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



This month's freebie (with $40 purchase) is another historical model, in this case a shopper circa 2020 hoping to score some toilet paper or "white gold" as it was then called.

Then there is a slew of METAL models. Now you all know how I feel about METAL , or God's Own Casting Medium as we call it here.

But then you see the prices...



Very nice Elven sorcerer, or perhaps sorceress, but is it $9 nice?



A dwarf. I see he has an axe, and a beard, and a hat with horns on it and everything you could want from a dwarf. But $11?! I could get 5 Bog Skeletons for that kind of money!



Another human wizard (or possibly 2 dwarves in a bathrobe) but $12? I think you get my point.



An Orc fighter, should you need someone to fight orcs.



Some drunken pirate skeletons, which raises all sorts of philosophical questions...

I note they are more reasonably priced than the various PC models, I can only assume this is because of lower costs since the sculptors don't have to sculpt flesh and can stop at the skeleton stage.



While for this halfling rogue they had to sculpt all that treasure which costs a lot more than sculpting barrels or bottles. It's just economics.



And finally Human Sorcerer Evil Erebus!



Ha-ha Matthew Anderson! Human Sorcerer Evil Erebus laughs at your grammatical conventions! He laughs!

There's more METAL on the site, some monsters and such, feel free to check it out.

Over on the Bones side we have more cheap and cheerful monsters.




Zombies and skeletons, for about what you'd expect to pay for an Elven Sorcerer.



Giant Tomb Rats for any Giant Tombs you might have in your campaign.

Can also be used for Cyclops Tombs, if you're willing to drill out an eye on each one.



Doggies!



And finally Reaper intrudes into GW's turf with a spikey chaos steed.

So yeah, nothing too odd this month (barring the METAL prices) but some good standards for your fantasy games.

The next Bones campaign is due this year, when it gets announced let's start a new thread and keep this one for standard releases.

 
   
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Portland

If his name/title is Evil Erebus, then I'm pretty sure it's correct


My painted armies (40k, WM/H, Malifaux, Infinity...) 
   
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The Battle Barge Buffet Line

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:


Then there is a slew of METAL models. Now you all know how I feel about METAL , or God's Own Casting Medium as we call it here.

But then you see the prices...

Spoiler:


Another human wizard (or possibly 2 dwarves in a bathrobe) but $12? I think you get my point.
Spoiler:


And finally Human Sorcerer Evil Erebus!


I do actually really like the two wizards. I'm a bit more conflicted about them melting down new GPUs for their base metal to use in casting them though. It seems like there should be a better way...

In all seriousness, Reaper has held the line on prices for decades now and I can't fault them for going up. I understand some of that price savings was due to the type of sculpts (one piece limited poses), scale (not cranking it up to 40mm+ like so many other companies), and material (bones) but I'm glad that they exist as an affordable entry into the hobby along with the wizkids unpainted figs.

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Baseboss is with KS for approval so probably starting this week and Bones 6 announced for March 24th - Tales from the Green Griffin (Tavern) theme.

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Base boss is live- all sets are $5 each. Looks like they are doing 25s and 28s after all. Only 1 design per size (for each theme) will get very samey very fast - cheap enough to cut up for variation but it kind of defeats the point.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reaperbones5/base-boss-2-new-bases-and-base-top-inserts





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Glad there's all the AoS cavalry sizes but then again you can get exact copies of GW bases (except cast in hard ABS) on aliexpress for even less.

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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Glad there's all the AoS cavalry sizes but then again you can get exact copies of GW bases (except cast in hard ABS) on aliexpress for even less.


I'm looking for the toppers, not the bases themselves. Less time flocking is always good.

There's also this...



Make of it what you will.

 
   
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Houston, TX

Dear lord, those wolves are bad. Someone take em behind the shed and put those sculpts out of their misery.

Did metal prices spike recently? That orc fighter is almost $12! I guess there's a reason I only see bones on shelves nowadays. The bones rogue looks good... I assume the new USA Bones dont droop under their own weight?
   
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The Battle Barge Buffet Line

 Bossk_Hogg wrote:
The bones rogue looks good... I assume the new USA Bones dont droop under their own weight?


Did the old ones do that? If so, only for really big figs or figs of all sizes?

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UK

Tin seems to be almost twice the price it was this time last year

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/tin

 
   
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Beyond the Beltway

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

And finally Human Sorcerer Evil Erebus!

Ha-ha Matthew Anderson! Human Sorcerer Evil Erebus laughs at your grammatical conventions! He laughs!
Lol, no. There are great dragons which are green and there are green dragons which are great. How, prithee do tell, does one distinguish them? Ah, green great dragons and great green dragons respectively. People can mess with word order to their heart's delight. A fool this guy obviously is. A silly old fool or an old silly fool. Not sure which. Maybe both.

Tomb Rats are okay, but I want to see a Death of Rats mini. C'mon Reaper, make it happen.

Nice offerings. Shame about the METAL prices, but as noted tin prices have been going nuts.

 
   
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The March Freeby is a one of the lil people, in honor of the Annual Reinforcing O'da'Stereotypes celebrated on March 17.



 Red Harvest wrote:
Lol, no. There are great dragons which are green and there are green dragons which are great. How, prithee do tell, does one distinguish them? Ah, green great dragons and great green dragons respectively. People can mess with word order to their heart's delight. A fool this guy obviously is. A silly old fool or an old silly fool. Not sure which. Maybe both.


I'd say the closer to the noun, the more intrinsic a quality is. A green great dragon, is a great dragon who happens to be green. "Great" whether it means size or status or age is the important quality to that sort of dragon. A great green dragon is a green dragon who happens to be large. So there is a difference. Moving adjectives around does chance the implication.

So my big German car, is different from my German big car. And a writer will sit there and wonder which is better for whatever is being said.

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A quick release in response to "recent events".

$10 bird-bard with $7.50 going to UNICEF.

https://www.reapermini.com/search/01650

I've said before that when you want to give to charity, it's better to give to charity, but I won't begrudge any act of goodness in these dark times.

https://www.unicefusa.org/

Good to see Reaper doing something, war belongs on the tabletop, not real life.

Also interesting this is plastic, which means the turn around time for creating new Bones USA models must be super short.






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Reaper Ukraine relief miniature

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The Battle Barge Buffet Line

I feel like a small bear in an overcoat and hat would have also been a good choice.

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Beyond the Beltway

The encyclopedia of Ukraine, " The nightingale is commonly invoked in Ukrainian folk songs and folklore in the image of a creator of sweet sounds, a builder of homes, and a harbinger of spring. The word soloveiko is a term of personal endearment." Seems fitting. I'll also point out that the song, "Where have all the flowers gone?" by Pete Seeger was based on a Ukrainian Cossack song. So you can imagine the mini playing that song. Listen to the version with the additional verses by Joe Hickerson.

Siocast uses many of the same casting techniques as METAL so it should be fairly quick to go from a digital render to a production run.

 
   
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I'm curious as to the scale - it might work out nicely for Burrows & Badgers, for example.

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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...

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> I see these and go "Oh I should get those, I hate basing" but then I release I have like hundreds of Secret weapon bases laying around I got from the Bags o' Crap that I don't use as I'm too lazy to even paint a base now days and just flock.

Same here, but playground sand. Unfortunately, Happy Sepuku is out-of-business, and I really like their rubber texture stamps. At $5, they're cheaper than texture rolls, and you could just place the epoxy on the stamp, then press a recessed based into it. Before the epoxy fully dries, cut off most of the miniature base, then stick it into the epoxy. Being lazy, I prefer this to pinning.

> I've said before that when you want to give to charity, it's better to give to charity, but I won't begrudge any act of goodness in these dark times.

A little OT, but, if you're familiar with the Song of Blade and Heroes game designer (you may be using your Reaper Bones with his games!), Andrea Sfiligoi, he's actually a Ukranian resident who has had to abandon his studio. Funds through his Patreon will be for his new studio in Italy and in-laws. As Andrea's Patreon member, you receive game content for games from Ganesha Games. Of course, now that we are weeks into the war, there may be other charities you may prefer to support.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/63935273102/posts/10160251189218103/

Back to Reaper, another pic of the bird, and some fuzzy upcoming Bones soldiers in the background...



And here's one of their encounter sets, basically a thematic package deal.



EDIT: ksbs on the Reaper forums posted this screenshot of the core set. I don't need more zombies (and already have a mausoleum), but we'll see what the KS has to offer...







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Crimson Scales and Wildspire Miniatures thread on Reaper! : https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/103935-wildspire-miniatures-thread/ 
   
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You know what they say, March roars in like a Triceratops and goes out like a Fairy Dragon.

So too do Reaper releases!

First off we have...



"Thunderfoot Behemoth (Dinosaur)" which already sounds like a GW name, at least it comes with a parenthetical note to tell you what the heck they are talking about.

I know Reaper used to sell a line of prepainted dinos to museums under the name HobbyQ but I can't find that anymore so it may have gone away. This is (another) case where Sir Forscale or a ruler would be really handy, I think the B is supposed to be a half inch on a side but it's not that helpful.



Then we have a bog witch. I assume one of her skills is the potion of mosquito repelling cause otherwise that bare midriff is gonna be covered in bites like 5 minutes after she steps out of her chicken-legged hut.



While Tara the Silent she has a bare midriff so uh, her shirt doesn't make noise when she's sneaking. Yeah. That's it.





Familiars and animal companions fill out a good part of the new releases, mostly real world animals but with some fantasy creatures sneaking in. I can see these being popular with RPGs and the 'just to paint' crowd.

Random thought, my kids would LOVE a set of nothing but Good Boys and Kitties, different breeds and such. Anyway...




Some goblins round out the month, a good bread and butter type offering.



I like how the goblin warriors really remind me of the animated Hobbit from the 70s.



The goblin skirmishers should be good for a lot of games, I like how they reflect the concept art.



And finally the goblin pillagers, these guys are just too funny!

So there we have it, another month, another bunch of cool stuff. The dino for me is the clear winner, I really want to just cover him in boxes and make a pack dino being led to market.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Oh Bones 6 opens March 31, but let's keep that news here:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/804189.page

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