15 bucks can get you a bunch of dungeon nasties for early-level adventurers. The Kickstarter has lots of options, so do check it out if you’ve the slightest interest. Certainly, there’s nothing like the heft of solid metal in the palm of your hand, but when I think about the international shipping costs of a box full of metal versus one much lighter… Well, there’s something to be said for being not so dense and heavy. (There are a couple of Youtube videos where you can skip ahead to the end where people poke at ’em and bend ’em.) Not as good as metal can, but the quality of the already-created Bones minis are pretty damn decently close, in my opinion.Įspecially with the talent of Reaper’s sculptors and popular metal lines to replicate. I might think it closer to the type used in prepainted D&D miniatures, but it looks slightly harder and looks like it holds shape and detail a little better. To be cynically realistic, as far as my research goes, the polymer or plastic that the Bones miniatures are made up of is of the soft variety ( so says this review), so I wouldn’t be imagining something like GW’s hard plastic. Look at that heavenly variety of beautiful sculpts, going for less than a buck each! One look at what Reaper Minis is offering and I’m going back to the dark side when all the goodies ship in March 2013. I haven’t painted minis in ages, probably over ten years now, though I still have an inordinate fondness for Warhammer 40k and Games Workshop related fluff (they’re so colossally expensive though, an MMO habit or three is way cheaper). The Kickstarter has completedly exceeded their original target and they’re on to fairly insane stretch goals now with crazily tempting figures and extra freebies for the Vampire level. They’re launching a Kickstarter to ramp up production of their new line of plastic miniatures, called Bones. It turns out I must have an alarm system built into my head or something, because visiting those blogs clued me into something spectacular going on at Reaper Miniatures. And I’ll definitely be around for GW2 as long as Gamestop doesn’t screw up my CE and leave it adrift on a container ship somewhere.) (Don’t worry, I’ll be back to video games shortly, once the urge is sated, I get new longings very quickly. One knight's errant attempt - noble of heart, wanting of prowess - to master medieval methods of social science, by wielding a Bohemian Ear Spoon.I don’t know how many of my readers would be interested in this, but as I mentioned, I’ve been diving back to tabletop gaming roots (RPGs and wargames) and scouring solo RP/wargame blogs in the search for some kind of narrative that fulfills my current craving. Probably three-quarters of the box remains yet to be painted. The first week of painting is over, and a huge chunk of miniatures received their coatings. Khar painted the treasure heap but I did everything else o the floor here, including our visiting white rat. I love accessories! I am always looking for more, and the few that one with the Vampire kickstarter reward are pretty cool. This arch wizard looks impressively iconic. I wish I were able to make it look like veins running through, but I went for a mottled look instead, due to you guessed it, laziness and lack of skill.Ī friend did the base colors of this one and I finished him up. He is blue all right! But I think he turned out good.There are about five different shades of blue on him. I wnted this miniature to look like he was carved from some kind of blue stone like cobalt. I was also experimenting with an orange and grey theme which I might use with my future warriors set. One time I had this dream about huge naked blonde women with hair and swords as long as their bodies, and the image has stuck with me, so women with big swords have become a theme I am drawn towards. This was another miniature I just really had to paint. What’s up with the crazy blue owl eyes? He must be in the middle of a spell… I tried to make his feather look like a peacock quill. My favorite part of this miniature are the purple robes with gold and silver stars and moons which Shannon did with a toothpick. The psychadelic wizard was one of my favorite miniatures in the set and I had to dissuade many other from painting this one so that I would get the chance. Both the dragons in the set are fantastic, and the other one might be my next project. After painting the dragon was given a satin varnish. He is a fine scale, stands up well, and will look good on any battlefield. I used platinum gold for an accent, such as on the inner wings, but it is very subtle. I think it came out pretty well, although I wish I could have used more variations f color. This silver dragon is the shadow dragon model from There Be Dragons, and my first to paint. I have been excitedly awaiting the six dragons that came with my Reaper Kickstarter package the most.
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