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I painted up Tinley the wizard as part of my sheer fabric training. I used Crysania from Dragonlance as a sort of color palette reference and I think the whole thing went fairly well. She only took a few hours, start to finish, so I'm speeding up a bit (not having to extensively blend a lot of armor helped, too). I still need to get more adventurous, darker flesh tones, different colors of fabric. Luckily I picked up about a half dozen models that suit the technique pretty well. Comments and criticisms are welcome.

I will admit that I never consciously noticed the propatagium before, but now I can't unsee them! Here are the dragon wings I have been making from scratch. I guess I have some anatomical fixing to do!

Personally, I like oval bases, and have been using them for individual creatures in games where a round base would be too big. My mass battle figures are generally mounted on rectangles, but I like to avoid the 90 degree angles on figures intended to be used alone. This scene, from a game in 2019, has rectangular group bases, an older “upright” figure on a round base, and a vintage Superior styracosaur on an oval. But, it’s a taste issue, so nobody else is obliged to like them.

30th Anniversary Dragon - Oval base is 9 inches long.

yay! now none of us have to green stuff it in

I figure Reaper knows what they are doing. Today’s update was amazing, and it was great to see folks get excited. I hope the energy stays like this the rest of the way!

This is what I just thought too! I've been popping on here a couple of times each day this week and seeing nothing new, then today there was 5 pages of comments - and pics of all the new stuff. I'm very happy to see the momentum pick up again! Fingers crossed it's now just awesome reveal after awesome reveal. I'm also very happy to see the new previews, and loving everything up there, the Tombs expansion will push me to get into more desert setting writing, Denizens is looking solid (and who doesn't like a giant slug?). I'd already pledged for one of everything, assuming (correctly it turns out) that I'd be happy with each expansion, but here's to hoping it pulls a few extra dollars out of a few more hesitant backers.

We used to go to church on Easter Sunday when I was very young, but we've become pretty secular over the years. A few Easter activities stuck though. From family gatherings, to Easter supper, to sugar shacks, and Easter treat hunting for the kids. Despite many last minute cancellations from relatives who got COVID, we did manage to go to the sugar shack. I haven't been there in over a decade, so I missed the lumberjack style breakfast, and I finally got some maple taffy on the snow. For those who don't know what it is (most Canadians and some New-Englanders do know about it), it's maple syrup boiled down and poured over fresh snow. It instantly cools down on the snow, and you roll it up on a Popsicle stick and eat it. Be aware that any ice crystals caught in the taffy will drip down the stick. Pouring the still hot maple taffy on the snow: People rolling a line of taffy (my aunt and mom at the back) Me about to roll my own taffy: The end result: Again, me about to enjoy my treat (I went four times altogether): The next day, we had a big Easter supper with my mother some of my aunts. Needless to say I gained quite a few pounds over the long weekend.

As I head to bed before work tonight, I leave this tidbit for tomorrow's work day:

New laptop is nice. The tech said he and his team lead dug into the archives for my old machine. It was supposed to be replaced just a short time ago. Is five years a short time ago?

Keep your fingers crossed on them relenting and deciding to split out the core set. There are several figures I'd like multiples of (besides the ants), but definitely not enough to get more than 1 core set.

A good long while, at least. At some point the glue would run out, and then the paint, but I have books on how to make Stuff. I’ll figure it out 👍

Seeing as how much stuff in my kitchen manages to stain permanently... Cheetos fingers, NOW is you time to shine!

At 52, I likely would have enough for the rest of my life. Paint might start running thin in 20 years or so, but I'd just have to get creative and make my own at some point.

I have 1,5 liters of resin left, so I can print some more minis. My cabinet/drawers are full of unpainted minis. I do have about 450 bottles and 20 tubes of paint. I paint slowly so I think I can paint till I die. Of course...the last batch might be a bright pink dino and a copper skeleton but who cares..

While my recent purchases have been .stl files, I do have quite a few traditional minis in boxes. I would run out of paint before I ran out of minis.

As a slow painter, my collection is already beyond what I can paint within my remaining lifespan (And yet I still buy more...). So I'm fine until the paint runs out.

Tawaret is supposed to be quite rotund. She is a pregnant hippo and guardian of pregnancy and childbirth. If you understand how destructive hippos can be, you'll understand why. I have the coolest statue of her I found at the dollar store of all places. She holds up my historical fiction Egyptian books. I'm glad we're getting uncommon deities. There are at least a dozen 3D print versions of Anubis out there, but not of the others. I'd also really like to see Isis, who is surprisingly rare as a mini. She's kind of the goddess of magic and she is a manipulative being, kind of like Loki. If you want followers for your deities, check out Crocodile Games.

Put duct tape over your mouth if you want to see how eager they are to pursue the deal. GEM Wal-Mart survives on volume. Same with the other chain store retail grocers. Note that the 6% is on "most" of their products. They make significantly more on a small selection of products while having their overhead spread across those large number of low margin items. You will be dealing with one, maybe two items so you need to have a much higher margin on each unit, particularly if you ever intend to take it beyond the hobby stage. Since you are talking "if" and already have a commercial kitchen spotted I'm assuming that there is at least a glimmer of an idea of moving in that direction eventually. So build a solid foundation for your business, run it like a business from the beginning, and lets hope you become the Mrs. Fields of the Chicken Pot Pie world! GEM

Wadjet 75mm tall

Paranoia alert: Seconds after the last update dropped, I got 2 different email offers for new credit cards, a pre-approved personal loan, and a mortgage refinancing offer.

Needed some more basic wolves so these were quick and easy to paint.

ok fine Siri.. i guess i'll get it again since you got them to modify it 🙂 Sanjay

Curiosity finally got the best of me, and I looked at the original art versus the sculpt and I was practically light-blinded at the glaring omission. I’d never really examined dragon wing anatomy before, and now that I’ve seen what you were asking for…I’m thankful Ron agreed to get that straightened out. Thank you for crusading to get it fixed!! 😇

No, but now I have to go back and fix EVERY OTHER DRAGON EVER. Thanks a lot for ruining my ignorant bliss...

????? (yes I know who Primus is, btw) Honeythorn Lancer vs Roderick & Glitter diorama commence!!!!

Yah that guy was a pain in the butt to print out for some reason, pre & supports I did myself. I ended up turning him on his side & went that way. Of course, after I get him printed out & I sprayed a dark brown basecoat on him. I got my Bones 5 Core Set. Speaking of females, I find it odd that the giants from Nolzur's (minus the hill & storm) are all female. Since they are re-doing a bunch of older sculpt/combos, I've love them to swap the genders out next time around. A all female expansion would be interesting. Give use some creatures like you said but also, give us some creatures that are only female. Give us something like the Ruskala:

Id like to see more Female monsters. Not nymphs/Sirens or half nekkid Succubi (my apologies to Sophi) but run of the mill Monster manual 1 typers that everyone uses but there is a lack of female monsters goblins/orcs/Trolls/minotaurs/undead etc. I have 6000 minis but I'm always searching when it comes to female. There are SOME but just not enough variety and choices... and please NO CHAINMAIL BIKINIS need apply. Make an expansions of this and Id by 10. BTW after posting I search for Bones and females Giants and Half orcs DO show a fair number .... so OK those two races are represented AJ

I had a look at the Bones You'd Like to See to compare to the offerings. Fae, ants, bee-people - check. Doing okay there. What is something regularly asked for that is generically lacking? More female sculpts to match what the male characters get. More active poses, more armor.

😁 As old as I feel today, probably til Tuesday after next....😁

Several years at my maximum output. At the rate I painted the last couple of months, decades? How many mls in a drop? I think I used about 20 drops of paint since January and have over 200 15+ ml bottles. Many of which are nearly full..

While I had no knowledge about wing anatomy until this thread, I can totally relate to having weird hangups that nobody else seems to notice. 🙂 I hope this is a small enough change that It can make it into the final model.

It’s why I haven’t looked it up! Can’t unsee or unlearn it. 😅

@Cranky Dog, That maple/snow concoction is awesome. I've known how to make syrup since I was a kid but never in my life have I seen something like that. Very cool. If I'm painting at my current rate then I probably have enough miniatures to last four or five years. But in the apocalypse I suspect I'll be busy with avoiding the roving bands of cannibals and you just know my duties at the Thunderdome are going to be taking up a lot of my time. So I may be able to stretch that out to six or seven years. The paint is a bit of an issue though as I don't stockpile nearly as many bottles of paint as I do minis. But that's okay. I imagine during the apocalypse I'll be able to find other substances to paint with. Like the blood of my enemies, perfect example.

I think I figured out why this is bothering me more than usual: Most times when a propatagium is left out, it is because they don't know it is supposed to be there. I can understand that, most fantasy dragon depictions don't use it because they just don't realize it is missing. THIS situation, it was intentional. The concept art had it, it was a conscious, intentional choice to leave it out in the sculpt

I’m in this camp. I’m also not married to base sizes being mathematically perfect, or the same. I don’t care if your hero’s base doesn’t conform to the 1” square on the battle mat. I love the snake-lady. I’d love to have her in humanoid-sized scale for purposes of using her as a Yuan-Ti but I have a feeling she’ll be large-sized in scale. Doesn’t mean I can’t still use her as a more powerful Yuan-ti cult leader or snake god avatar.

Today I learned what a propatagium is. Personally I don't find it a problem either way. These are fantasy models which means "anatomically correct" is whatever the artist wants it to be. There is no reason anything has to be based on how things are in our reality. That being said I can understand why some may prefer it visually. I've just never noticed one way or the other before.

You are absolutely NOT the only person who prefers anatomically "realistic" dragons! The beauty of Julie Guthrie's dragons has always been her ability to include the little touches of musculature and anatomy that make you believe this thing could really exist somewhere. (I don't mean to imply that Julie is the only one who sculpts beautiful dragons, but I do tend to like her sculpts quite a lot.) Like you, I see "partial" wing structure on a creature and I think, "Oh no! Poor baby! Get him to a rehabber!!"

Given that the printer still works and I have 3L of resin, I'd be able to print for a while... I'd be more worried about running out of paint, but since this apocalypse apparently won't affect my airbrush or the ability to acquire more paint, I suspect I'd be able to go for quite some time with what I have. ...I also suspect that my GW stuff would be some of the last things I paint, as everything else would be more interesting to me than a bunch of random Skaven units...

I really like the Norkers. It's the kind of Reaper warband I really enjoy: cohesive in their species, but everyone with different weapons, poses and a bit of a twist. And whimsie, character and detail in spades. I learned Norkers are actually a thing that exists in D&D, but to me they can easily be eternally grumpy little fey with those faces of them. Boggles maybe? Like the troglodytes since they go with those I already own from Bones IV. Hyena and Giant Slug are great. I don't really need more spiders, but I like those everytime. Only thing I'm not convinced is the Minotaur, they're everywhere in Bones already. Not sure I'll get the Hakar one. I like that they're doing more/different gods than just Anubis, scorpions are neat, but I'll have to wait and see. Though the bf might want to get this set for the terrain and we could split.

Got some paint on the dragon today! Primed the base and the body black. While I was priming the body I suddenly decided I wanted to keep the wing membrane translucent. This started an evening of overthinking and testing. I hit the wings with matte clear spray and brushed on white paint over the areas I intended to paint opaque. This was a recommendation I had seen to help make the model cleaner when viewing those areas through the translucent spots. With the priming done my brain began turning and stalling out. I've always avoided painting transparent minis. I don't really like the way they usually look so I just paint over them. So I don't have any experience or any recommended paints on hand. I didn't want to wait for new supplies to come in the mail so I tested some things I had on the translucent cap of a spray paint can. Nothing seemed to be going right so I asked facebook and eventually realized I was overthinking it. Grabbed paint and an airbrush and a few minutes later I had the result I was looking for. Pinkish wings that gradient to a more opaque purple. They also look good with light shining through them. I think the color will look good next to the pink crystals as well. Debating whether or not I should paint some white on the edges of the wings and the folds. I'm leaning towards no though. Excited to keep chugging along on this beauty!

for the Anubis guards to chase?

Since I didn't see it posted yet. This update was also sent out recently: "2022 is the 30th anniversary of Reaper Miniatures! We started out in a garage in Fort Worth, Texas, and have grown into one of the biggest privately owned miniatures companies in the world. And we could not have done this without you, our customers, fans, and Kickstarter backers. So, THANK YOU for your support over the last 30 years! For this special occasion, we commissioned noted fantasy and comics artist Max Dunbar to design this amazing dragon for us! We wanted something cool, something different, and something that would get your attention - and we think Max did just that with this design!"