Caleb

I was so confused when I tried to pledge about 20 minutes ago and there were no options. Then suddenly waves 5-8 were there AND someone dropped their wave 3 pledge so I grabbed that! Dang so now I am in on Wave 3! Good times.

"Your Bones 4 Kickstarter shipment has received postage!" Oh man. I am really looking forward to the Dreadmere expansion. Really goes well with the campaign concept I have in mind.

I have a great deal of enthusiasm towards Reaper Bones Miniatures.

Update video on waiting for the Reaper Bones 4 Kickstarter. https://youtu.be/xvz4balCnxk

I was very happy with the earlier dungeons and doggies Kickstarter so I backed this as well. I recently did a video about the dogs. https://youtu.be/6gEwd22j3dI

I have had mine primed and painted for a couple of days and there has been no issues. Here is my full video review. https://youtu.be/SR-g8mifZRM

Kringle the puppet is very helpful, you just gotta ask in the right way.

I take a look at different methods of priming Reaper bones for durability. And there is a puppet. https://youtu.be/ZaqOulF6tm0

Ooooh it's time to start speculating! All that PVC sitting in my living room is gonna be worth millions! I missed out on Bean Babies but I am gonna be on the ground floor for this one!

Has anyone talked about cleaning the Bones off with 90% rubbing alcohol after normal washing? That has been the process I have been using lately and it's worked out pretty great! For far either Vallejo Surface primer or just plain Reaper HD seem to work the best for durability. I still haven't had a chance to test out some primers but I have just not had any luck with spray primers and I am going to limit any further tests to Brush on. I did a video on it!

Hello! So my YT channel was really focused on cheap miniature videos and whatnot but I think I need to expand my base a bit. I know I am not the best at painting but I could try some painting videos now that I have my Reaper Bones 3. Also I have been doing more vlogging stuff lately. Not as popular as my miniatures content but still a mostly positive response.

With Bones stuff my priming experiments have pretty much shown that liner, no primer or Vallejo brush on primer work best. I had one really nice spray day with Army Painter grey that worked out well but that was under optimum weather conditions that I haven't been able to replicate. I have also had good luck with slightly diluted Vallejo brush on sealer matte sealer to help protect the minis.

3rd thing I tried. 2 different spray conditions. Did not work. First attempt seemed to work fine and I painted. Paint flaked off by merely picking up the minis. 2nd attempt in letting it dry for several days it just flaked off with a handling test. Other spray primers included Testors Dull Cote, Krylon Primer, Army Painter Primer and glossy outdoor furniture primer from the hardware store. I honestly think anyone who says they painted these specific skeletons without the paint flaking off are simply lying or barely touched them after painting them. Or they might have gotten skeletons from the same mold made from different materials. Legit I tried every cleaning method, and regular priming method I had access to. Maybe PVA or Modpodge, or car primer might work. Maybe sanding them down and using midwax would work. But honestly it's just not worth anymore time or effort for me anymore. Frankly I could sculpt giant skeletons from green stuff and it would take less time than trying to paint these damnable toys.

Wow thanks for all the great responses! It was just such a weird suggestion I briefly wondering if there could be anything to it. I doubt hairspray would be useful in anything I would want to do. And certainly I wouldn't recommend those God forsaken Tim Mee skeletons to anyone. They are most certainly made out of something that won't take paint and I don't feel like sandpapering them. I think a lot of the people who have said they painted them didn't actually try to handle them for use in D&D or simply omitted the fact that the paint easily flaked off them. I am really happy that there are forums like there where you can get actual informed answers to questions like this rather than people telling you that stuff that you already tried (and know doesn't work) "works fine".

Hey! So I did a video awhile back discussing the issues with using very cheap minis in terms of not being able to prime them properly. (My point being that it's sometimes better to just spend a bit more money to get miniatures that were made to be painted than to waste time with cheap miniatures that will never be able to handled without the paint flaking) I got a batch of those Tim Mee skeletons where I used EVERYTHING to try to paint them. Literally everything I ever heard of excluding car primer and minwax. I assumed they must have had mold release in the actual plastic because nothing worked. So that being youtube I got several haughty responses suggesting different methods. One VERY passive aggressive response suggested a heavy dose of Krylon or Hair Spray for Sealing the minis. That literally seems like the dumbest idea that I had to come here and ask if anyone has actually heard of anyone doing that? A quick google search resulted in some uses for texturing with hair spray. But SEALING? Is there any merit to this at all? Sometimes the internet throws stuff at me that I have never heard of. Video in question.