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Launches tomorrow at 12PM CDT (6PM BST).



Apparently there are no waves this time as it didn’t work well last time.

I’ll be a la carting some of those Mausoleums and some other bits but I’ve yet to see a Bones core set that interested me.

Yea don't spend more on Made in China KSs than you can afford to lose, seriously.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Yea don't spend more on Made in China KSs than you can afford to lose, seriously.

Don't spend more on anything than you can afford to lose.

Do they have one of pre-campaign pages set up?

 warboss wrote:
Do they have one of pre-campaign pages set up?

No, just a sign-up for email notification on launch.

At any rate, woo! Heavily discounted plastic crack!

I’ll keep an eye on it. I’ve backed all five so far but not the core sets since 2. But cheap dragons etc are hard to pass on.

Deeply regret not getting the boat last time out.

It’s a shame they will still be out sourcing to China, given how much in house production they do these days. The bones USA line is pretty good and expanding by the month.

 Tamereth wrote:
I’ll keep an eye on it. I’ve backed all five so far but not the core sets since 2. But cheap dragons etc are hard to pass on.

Deeply regret not getting the boat last time out.

It’s a shame they will still be out sourcing to China, given how much in house production they do these days. The bones USA line is pretty good and expanding by the month.

Yeah, I would pay more for less to not have China involved. I want my plastic crack homegrown.

It is LIVE

(and backed of course)

With absolutely zero information for non US backers.

Link https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reaperbones5/bones-6-tales-from-the-green-griffin

The ants look nice. That's about all that have caught my eye.

The volume of miniatures for this KS prohibits them from casting KS miniatures locally. However, reprint numbers are lower, so expect retail reprints to be cast locally in SioCast. You can already pick up some Reaper miniatures in SioCast in their Bones USA lines.
Review: https://truelineofsight.wordpress.com/2022/03/03/reaper-bones-usa-product-review/
Reaper: https://www.reapermini.com/bonesusa

amuller33 did some crunching, and found the cost per mini in the core sets. Bones 1 was a steal, especially since you could trade in a limited metal miniature for additional credit to get more plastic. Bones 5 had the price increase from $100 to $120. I think some of the CMON non-IP KS were better deals, although you obviously needed to like the sculpts (eg. undead gunslingers, mutant Care Bears). Shipping prices are expected to go up, yet retail still offers free shipping.

I had a count of 188 for Bones 4 .. if you counted all the little skulls, orbs and gargoyle bits indivdually

So excluding the bits from 4...approx Price per mini is
B1 41 cents
B2 50 cents
B3 65 cents
B4 61 cents
B5 79 cents

INCREDIBLE VALUE for all 5 and I expect B6 to be no worse. Sure they have gone up a touch BUT they are better quality IMHO and well inflation dude. Every time I say I have enough I think under $1 per mini... I can not miss this oppertuinity.

Looking forward to seeing the stretch goals, I've backed 4 of the last Bones kickstarters but I am left wondering

....why does the ant queen have wings?

ced1106 wrote:The volume of miniatures for this KS prohibits them from casting KS miniatures locally. However, reprint numbers are lower, so expect retail reprints to be cast locally in SioCast. You can already pick up some Reaper miniatures in SioCast in their Bones USA lines.
Review: https://truelineofsight.wordpress.com/2022/03/03/reaper-bones-usa-product-review/
Reaper: https://www.reapermini.com/bonesusa

amuller33 did some crunching, and found the cost per mini in the core sets. Bones 1 was a steal, especially since you could trade in a limited metal miniature for additional credit to get more plastic. Bones 5 had the price increase from $100 to $120. I think some of the CMON non-IP KS were better deals, although you obviously needed to like the sculpts (eg. undead gunslingers, mutant Care Bears). Shipping prices are expected to go up, yet retail still offers free shipping.

I had a count of 188 for Bones 4 .. if you counted all the little skulls, orbs and gargoyle bits indivdually

So excluding the bits from 4...approx Price per mini is
B1 41 cents
B2 50 cents
B3 65 cents
B4 61 cents
B5 79 cents

INCREDIBLE VALUE for all 5 and I expect B6 to be no worse. Sure they have gone up a touch BUT they are better quality IMHO and well inflation dude. Every time I say I have enough I think under $1 per mini... I can not miss this oppertuinity.

The older Bones kickstarters were long enough ago you have to look at inflation. So unless those numbers have that taken into account they're off when comparing to Bones 6,

Bones 1 $100 in 2012 is $123.57 today.

Bones 2 $100 in 2013 is $121.79 today.

The Red Hobbit wrote:Looking forward to seeing the stretch goals, I've backed 4 of the last Bones kickstarters but I am left wondering

....why does the ant queen have wings?

Because for a lot of species queen ants do have wings.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
With absolutely zero information for non US backers.

Yup, no idea if they even ship to the UK or how much it will cost. Helpful

There are some fun minis mixed in, but not enough so far to pledge. The ants are the big winner for me.

I wonder why they have a gnoll expansion without (re)using their iconic Tre Manor gnoll sculpts?

I thought the Tre Gnolls were moved to bones years ago

I wonder if it will meet its funding goal.

/joking.

I found this pretty interesting:



...but not enough for me to risk a KS. I'm still wary of them in general because I'm an old Luddite.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I found this pretty interesting:



...but not enough for me to risk a KS. I'm still wary of them in general because I'm an old Luddite.

At this point you could just buy a Frostgrave kit?

 Monkeysloth wrote:
I thought the Tre Gnolls were moved to bones years ago

at least some of the (5?, 6? ) were during bones 1 as i remember painting them among my first bones figures?

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I found this pretty interesting:



...but not enough for me to risk a KS. I'm still wary of them in general because I'm an old Luddite.

At this point you could just buy a Frostgrave kit?

Ideally, this would get released separately for me to buy in addition to a Frostgrave kit

They've been playing with this more recently--the IMEF bulldog power armors come with an alternate arm for each side now. The gnoll set looks interesting, core set has maybe two interesting things for me, so thats likely a wait for retail.

The brinewind pirates look good and I always tend to pick that setting stuff up.

 lord_blackfang wrote:



At this point you could just buy a Frostgrave kit?

These should, hopefully, be a larger scale then the frostgrave stuff which are too small and overscaled hands/heads for my taste. Got one kit and they just look like tall halflings net to most of my minis.

For what it's worth the current core set.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I found this pretty interesting:



...but not enough for me to risk a KS. I'm still wary of them in general because I'm an old Luddite.

At this point you could just buy a Frostgrave kit?

Do they offer all of those options for each of the minis? If not, they are well over $2 a mini, which makes fantasy plastics like Frostgrave, and especially historical miniatures, cheaper and more versatile.


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 Monkeysloth wrote:
I thought the Tre Gnolls were moved to bones years ago

Yes, in old Bones 1 Bones. They even had another sculptor rework Tre’s gnoll a for the second campaign to give them new weapons and poses while keeping them in the same design lineage. This is an opportunity to port them over to Bones Black/USA, and have a better quality product to match the higher prices. Why make a Bones Black mini of a, frankly, mediocre gnoll?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I found this pretty interesting:



...but not enough for me to risk a KS. I'm still wary of them in general because I'm an old Luddite.

At this point you could just buy a Frostgrave kit?

Do they offer all of those options for each of the minis? If not, they are well over $2 a mini, which makes fantasy plastics like Frostgrave, and especially historical miniatures, cheaper and more versatile.

But there's something nostalgic about the men-at-arms. Is it the fact that they have limited poses?? Or that even then they're stiffly posed? Or that there's only a single body? The goofy helmet and proportions?
I can't tell, but they make me feel like a kid looking at those old monopose GW Warhammer Fantasy boxes, but with options!

Yeah, even at kickstarter prices, $14 for 6 multipart models that are pretty bland and only have a single body and three head choices, that just doesn't seem like a good deal at all.

Even the fireforge northmen, which are similarly basic but have a lot more options, are less per figure. And these reaper ones will presumably be even more expensive at retail.

 Albino Squirrel wrote:
Yeah, even at kickstarter prices, $14 for 6 multipart models that are pretty bland and only have a single body and three head choices, that just doesn't seem like a good deal at all.

Even the fireforge northmen, which are similarly basic but have a lot more options, are less per figure. And these reaper ones will presumably be even more expensive at retail.

Fireforge are like 25mm tall though. So useless for people who mainly collect Reaper.

Looking at kicktraq Bones 6 looks to be tracking more with Bones 4 vs 5 (which is the highest earner of all of the reaper campaigns). This is notable as every campaign as grown some, even if marginally, and while we're just through day 1 the first 2-3 days are pretty important.

Bones 4 brought in almost the exact same it's last 2-3 days as it made in it's first 2-3 days. Bones 5, on the other hand, followed a more standard Tabletop model with it's last few days pulling in about half what the first few days earned.

Neither of these projects got many new backers the last few days as almost all that money came from existing backers checking for what was unlocked and upping pledges.

If B6 follows B4's model we're still looking at a very good chance of 3million. If we're seeing a campaign similar to B5 then we're looking at half that number.

$527k from 4,222 backers for Bones 6 https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/reaperbones5/bones-6-tales-from-the-green-griffin/#chart-daily

$1 million from 9,294 backers for Bones 5 https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/reaperbones5/reaper-miniatures-bones-5-escape-from-pizza-dungeon/#chart-daily

$556k from 5,388 backers for Bones 4 https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/1513061270/reaper-miniatures-bones-4-mr-bones-epic-adventure/#chart-daily

Earlier bones KS campaigns don't have daily data on Kicktraq so sadly it's hard to see what the common trend data for these are.

 Bossk_Hogg wrote:

 Albino Squirrel wrote:
Yeah, even at kickstarter prices, $14 for 6 multipart models that are pretty bland and only have a single body and three head choices, that just doesn't seem like a good deal at all.

Even the fireforge northmen, which are similarly basic but have a lot more options, are less per figure. And these reaper ones will presumably be even more expensive at retail.

Fireforge are like 25mm tall though. So useless for people who mainly collect Reaper.

You must be thinking of a different Fireforge, Fireforge is GW scale.