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Well, here is another re-paint of a fairy sculpture, also a commission. Since the last one was done up in such warm, almost autumnal colors, I went with a very different feel here. Also, I wanted to get as far from the original color scheme as I could. This time I had the foresight to measure her height before I mailed her out and she is a little under 150mm scale- yes, that's very big for a mini. I find there are some advantages to having larger minis to work with, but getting smooth blends takes forever this way. I've posted her on Cool Mini for anyone who cares to vote.

Hello Gamers, Just wanted to introduce myself and say how much I love Reaper miniatures, they are the best! I've decided to learn how to paint miniatures and started with an easy one; Ardellen, Ranger sculpted by Bobby Jackson. It's all drybrushing, no where near ready for things like layering and blending, but I really enjoyed painting this guy. Let me know what you think and what I can do to improve, later.

Finally, the last of my pre-Kickstarter kobolds! Now all I have to do is wait for the additional 24 coming in my KS shipment. In retrospect, doubling up on Dungeon Attack may have been overkill.

It's due to backscatter. Basically, the plastic is slightly translucent. Light penetrates a short way into the figure, and is then reflected back out, scattered slightly. This makes the surface look softer than it is.

I'm currently playing in 2 different 4E campaigns. When I was invited to the second one, I was told that most players were going out of their way to play not only classes that they might not normally choose, but races that were unusual. As a result, we had a Gnoll Monk, a Dragonborn Bard, a human druid whose animal form is a litter of kittens, and me, a revenant, gnome fire elementalist sorcerer. I realize that the OSL on his back is a little goofy, but it's my first-ever attempt at OSL, and first attempt at flame at all. Overall, I'm pretty satisfied. I honestly never noticed the bubble on the back of his neck until I took this pic, and now it's driving me NUTS.

Has nobody been in touch with you about this very thing yet? One of us was going to send out an email to let you know we weren't trying to cheat you by changing the rules mid-game. I'll follow up on that today. Not yet. Thanks, Kit! I didn't for a second think I was going to feel cheated by Reaper, there has been nothing but a consistently high level customer service since I started doing business with you folks. Except Martin. That guy (THAT GUY) is clearly holding out on us. Where are the painted Nethy and Kaly? Better check his shackles again.

He might then quit for a better job, unless they paid him in company stock. There's another idea, have Reaper sell shares to raise funds. I'd buy in. --Chris www.chrisvalera.com No, no dear gods above and below NO! That is what has made GW what it is - giving up control to a board of stockholders is a bad, bad BAD idea. There is a reason that companies started by ex-GW folks don't go public. The Auld Grump

This is the goblin war band that the adventure group encounters in my RPG adventure game (they are fun for me to play and control)...the figures are a mixture of metal figures from the old Citadel fantasy line & plastic figures from a boxed set of Dungeon Quest...These are all game play figures.

This is a goblin wolfrider hunting/scouting group that my adventure group encounters in the RPG adventure game...Small group, but very effective (used in fast attack on the table top, flank ambush attacks, rear attacks...and for night raids on the adventure camp). These are metal figure from the old Citadel fantasy line. These are game playing pieces.

This was a quick 3-hour paint job, for my Mutants and Masterminds character, Gale Force Fury, Master of Wind. "When trouble calls, G.F.F. is your B.F.F" - yeah, she's that kind of superhero. "Gale Force Fury, Away!"

Hey Gang, Been a while since I posted. Back to real life and teaching for me, so very little time to paint in the past few weeks. However, I did manage to get one figure done. This is a commission piece. The client was happy, so I'm happy. Though truth to tell, there are a lot of little things that I'm not wild about on the finished product here. Oh well, next time. Pez:zombie:

Your box will look like this! +----------------+\ | From: | \ | Reaper | | |----------------| | | TO: | | | Dadcubed | / +----------------+/

No! Not the pitchforks! Here is the initial stuff... Big box of awesome! Six plastic bags, each filled with more plastic bags... This one is big and hard to miss so I'll put a pic up of her first before moving on to the other million or so minis. She wants you, Buglips. She told me so. She can overlook that you are a goblin (very big of her) and your stanky shoe collection, as long as you're not Canadian... oh wait... I'll put some more pics up as I open the packs.

Got the shipping notice yesterday, or the day before, just received it today!

Hi, first post here. I haven't painted anything in about nine years, but for some odd reason I got excited by the Bones Kickstarter and bought in. So I'm kinda re-learning how to paint, which isn't easy for lots of reasons. One of the last things I painted before shelving my paints was this guy, which I think is a Reaper mini; So to ease myself back in I picked up an Asylum pre-painted bugbear and re-acquainted myself with dipping, matte coating, and textured basing; Pre-painted plastic has come a long way since I quit painting. So once my Bones arrive I hope to show off my own paintjobs. Thanks reaper for getting me back into painting. :)

I'm out of Dark Age Stuff. Brom is one of my fav artists, so I may pick up some more in the future. Most likely I will go back to a few of the reaper minis I have. Being fairly new at this, I have started noticing that people mention quite often that they tend to have hundreds of unpainted minis, I'm trying real hard for that not to be me, but I can see them building up fairly quickly already. I hope you enjoy :)

This is the enemy Squig band that my adventure group encounters. These are metal figure from Warhammer fantasy. These are playing pieces in my RPG game.

This thread just cost me $88...10 days sooner than expected. I got impatient and got L2PK3/4/5...and 2 more minis.

This is any enemy Slayer Skeleton band that my adventure group encounters in RPG play. These are plastic figures from an old box set of Dungeon Quest.These are game playing pieces.

I'll officially endorse Laoke. I have four projects left I have to get completed before ReaperCon. Once I'm done with those (and ReaperCon itself), then a progress ticker is next on my list.

So the only possiblities for a successful company in this day and age are to lose their soul or to sell out to a larger company and... lose their soul? That seems like an endorsment to live in a commune or move to the woods and be a nekkid hippy to me. I mean, if you pour your heart and soul into a business, only to lose in the inevitable public offering or sale to a huge souless corperation, just because you become successful, wtf is the point of going into business in the first place? Is it not possible to maintain control of your company as you grow, not go public and have to please your blood-sucking shareholders, and do what's right for your customer base, as well as for yourself? Like I said, seems like an endorsment to be a hippy, though I prefer to be clean and warm personally, no offense Buglips I am not at all convinced Dadcubed's assertion is true. According to an article I ran into in Forbes, one-third of all US businesses are privately owned. Some of those are biggies like the Ford Motor Company or Cargill, although I will grant you those are hardly examples of non-soulless corporations. There are many large and successful privately-owned businesses, including M&M/Mars, Lego, and Ikea. I don't know where they fall on the friendly ethical scale though. EDIT: Oh, hey, Trader Joe's. The point is that there is no such thing as inevitablility, not even in business. Successful businesses are not fated to be taken over by shareholders, and business owners have a myriad of options. EDIT EDIT: Oh, and speaking as someone born to hippies and familiar with communes as they then were, I would gently request that the old Nixon-era stereotype of the unwashed dirty hippie please be put to rest.

You know, I never thought about it . . . but if I have to wonder whether my mad rush to grab the first 29 did make me, for a little while, the person with the most Bones? I mean, it's only 100 . . . but how many other people bought as many multipacks? We may never know. I bet I'll be the first one to finish painting the Kickstarter, though. I was thinking the same thing!! Lol. You're definitely the quickest boneser. Pity I ran out of paint. That's holding everything up while I wait on a resupply. This is the first time I've run out of paint in like 8 years or more, not something I'm used to. So from now on I'll keep a closer eye on it so I can plan out logistics better. And lo, all was lost in Bonesville, for want of a bottle of Earth Brown.

Personally I'm absolutely disappointed with this KS due to the fact that my order has not yet been hand delivered with an accompaniment of singing, ice cream, and cake. I don't think fireworks would be too much to ask either. Thanks for posting the pics of this. Just makes me happier with what I'm getting.

A big problem with KS in general. My guess is that because these companies are run by gamers and not accountants they have an awful case of Gamer ADD. Potentially unlimited money plus lots of ideas isn't always a good idea.

This is a zombie group that the adventure group encounter in the RPG adventure game. These are metal figures from the old Citadel fantasy figures line and are game playing pieces.

I spent about 2 hours each on the first 2 elementals, they will all be used on the tabletop. I had just bought the 3 Army Painter inks, so I tested them on these. I like the results. I love this one from Lance and Laser "Elementals - Earth and Water" set. Its partner is somewhere unpainted in our figure stash. Ral Partha elemental from 11-426, very classic pose on this one. Here is the complete set, the Fire elemental was painted by my husband around 1990, using enamel paints. Sadly, he doesnt paint anymore , but he does help me with gluing, assembly and basing . The ugliest earth elemental ever is definitely this one by TSR, part of the "Elementals Air and Earth" twopack from 1983. I didn't think he deserved more than an hour of paint time. Here he is with his partner Air elemental that I painted in April of 1994, this air elemental was why we bought the set: Group shots are always fun:

Speaking as someone who was always about a foot and a half shorter than all the others in my gaming groups (okay, a slight exaggeration, but I was shorter than all of them except for one adorably petite woman, and some of them were more than a foot taller than me), I do not mind variations in scale at all. On my WiP shelf (okay, paper plate on the sideboard) I have that Reaper Rex Future Hero, and he looks big indeed next to the Hasslefree Space Marine Libby. But she looks heroic too. It works for me.

basicly, if it has the words 'Sandra Garrity and Dragon' attached to it, I want it in bones

Has nobody been in touch with you about this very thing yet? One of us was going to send out an email to let you know we weren't trying to cheat you by changing the rules mid-game. I'll follow up on that today.

After seeing the video, and seeing the pics of Big-K and Cthulhu, I'm thinking 1 3x6 table may not be enough of the unboxing ceremony... (on the other hand, I'm happily surprised to see that my spell check now knows how to spell Cthulhu. )

Re: RangerThief Noface - I saw it as "no face" as well when I first saw it and had a brief, crazy thought that he had to be censored to keep the surprise. Then I realized that I'm ridiculous. That's not terribly difficult. He only has 20, after all.

That looks exactly like my bf's knife and he pulls that out to cut everything! Suffice it to say I'll be banning that knife from the "unpackaging party" when mine arrive! He won't like it, but those are my minis, so I won't let my babies get disfigured by it! Am I being too overprotective?

I found a unboxing video of the vampire box. Enjoy it!

box arrived! yay!

Hey guys... look what I got today! Wait for it.... Wait for it.... BAM! Looking these over I'll definitely be picking up 3,4,5 in the very near future. Really nice resource. Damn if that little guard mini did not have a lot of flack and flash on him. And a rather large mold line. I think the mold might have been misaligned a bit. Meh, still fun for practice!

You've become my favorite poster catdancer!! Old models with paint and used on a table. I need a moment to regain my composure. I'm not crying, I swear.

This is a Ripper band enemy group the my adventure group encounters in RPG game play. These are metal figures from War Zone and are game playing pieces.

Here's another mini I painted as a Christmas gift but only just recently got around to photographing~ Mini #4 was painted as a gift for my mother, who isn't really into geeky things, but loves my artsy hobbies. I went with something classy that I thought she'd enjoy (who doesn't like pretty ladies on horses?) and that wasn't too obviously D&D related. Fun fact: Because of how I had to base her to fit her inside of the baseball display case, when you look at her from behind she looks like she's about to fall off of her horse~

A big problem with KS in general. My guess is that because these companies are run by gamers and not accountants they have an awful case of Gamer ADD. Potentially unlimited money plus lots of ideas isn't always a good idea. And fortunately, Reaper is run by guys who are both.

It seemed like the unboxing video guys didn't really look too much into the minis they were getting - which is a fun way to do it. xD I too, worried for knife-guys fingers. Having two younger brothers, one of whom gave me an emergency room visit because of being too young to play with a sharp object and me being too derp at that age to not reach for the pointy end, I'm kind of paranoid about sharp things, though. But, you guys. You guys. .... I just saw the way they laid them all out and started to get mildly panicky. I have more than twice what they showed in that video. What have I done??? (From the perspective of a complete and total newb.) [i don't regret my purchase at all, but, holy cow.]

More minis mounted on arthropods. Praying Mantises. Centipedes. Wasps. Seriously, imagine a warrior mounted on the back of a praying mantis and tell me it wouldn't be several distinct kinds of awesome.

Yeah, I'd say something like that. They were probably working their butts off to get things done in time, and all the minis are white - if I was packing the kits I'd probably get the first one or two correct and then progressively get worse as the shift went on. Then I'd go home and have nightmares about little white plastic people. Millions of them.

Keeping Reaper a family business works fine for me.

If there's a mistake, then nobody should feel bad about contacting Reaper to sort it out. I think they'd much rather know they could make you happy than for you to not be happy but just not want to say anything. They back their product, they know mistakes happen.

Yes... counting... Pew pew! Hack hack! Die black orc scum! Rawwwwr!

So my parents are showing symptoms of benzine poisoning, (bloody nose dizziness vomiting and so on) Exxon has agreed to cut them a check for $160 a day for a hotel/food for them and their cat + any and all dr bills for the moment without any forfeiture of future compensation rights. On the bright side my daughter seems 100% fine so that's a load off.

Bag four is up! Lots of goodies including some sexy evil type ladies... Possible problem! Two undertakers means twice the player character deaths, but also that I either got an extra, or the package had two of one mini and zero of another put in! Hopefully it is just an extra. If so I'm happy to mail it back to China for redistribution... ok not really.

Bag two! I should note, the bags aren't numbered.. I'm just numbering them as I go for reference. Bag three as well! Note the wings are not attached to the Griffon, finally something to put together! The griffon is leaning a bit too far to balance with his wings attached. The wings fit snug without glue, but I can't think of any reason not to glue them eventually. This bag also has the cool ghosty bits.

The entirety of the first bag... The fiery stuff, some chronoscope and Sci-fi goodies... Some fantasy stuff with big lizards and they ain't scared to put a bunch of familiars on one big sprue! So far everything looks really good. Flash seems fairly minimal. The are definitely some that will need a hot bath and re-bend though! On to bag two...

Orcs with swords!