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The insane level of detail on Reaper's Horsemen, though... I dunno. I have the originals, and I dunno that they could retain that detail. But if they could, all the better!

 

Xherman1964 does have some pretty awesome suggestions, but I don't know that Reaper would want to tackle anything that BIG. Sure, I'd love to have a steampunk submarine suited to my 28mm Reaper Captain Nemo, but you're talking something better suited to a vinyl model kit, not a miniatures company. Still, if Reaper wants to tackle it, I know I'd buy it.

I WILL, however, wholeheartedly support the idea of reissuing all the giants in Bones form. Regrettably, I think someone at Reaper has already taken that idea to heart, judging from a lot of the new releases...

A thing I would dearly love, though, would be Typed Multipart Giant Packs. To elucidate: I wanna battle group of four Fire Giants, for example. Fire Giants are squatty things, like giant dwarves. So I go to the online store or my FLGS, and buy 4 Bones Fire Giant Kits.

This kit would have ONE torso, with customizable bits, perhaps. It would have two legs, but positionable, so my battle group won't all have the same stance. It would have three or four different arms, so I can mix and match positions and arms. And lastly, maybe three heads.

One torso, two positionable legs, four arms, three heads. Using this, I can put together a customized set of four very different fire giants for the encounter I have planned, or the diorama I want to build, and Reaper simply has to make one kit. Everybody wins. Citadel used to do this with their giants, but those giants were ridiculously expensive in metal, even at the time.

Ideally, there would be a Fire Giant Kit, a Hill Giant Kit, a Frost Giant Kit... hell, as long as I'm dreamin', throw in a Female Fire Giant Kit, a Female Frost Giant Kit...

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Well, I just hacked up some Bones for the weapons; they're MUCH easier to superglue than metal, even when gluing to metal. But they're currently slightly more expensive than metal since you can't buy a dozen on a sprue :(

 

C'mon. Please. Try a mini-KS for Bones weapon and/or conversion bitz sprues.

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A big (say at least dragon size) living shadow creature made of translucent smokey Bonesium. I'm picturing something vaguely like the sandstorm face from the Mummy but instead of a monolithic wall like that sandstorm, more like a ragged, shadow sand dune shape with the forward edges having claw like tendrils reaching for the party. Think a giant animated surf like wave of shadow with a gaping maw and empty eye sockets crashing down on a party. Big enough to fit 3 or 4 figures between its 'wings'.

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 Anything from the classic old Gamma World races - four-armed two-headed orlens, hissers (standard snakemen, but with sci-fi weapons), dryad-like grens -

 

 

  EVEN BETTER - Conversion kits for both Sci-Fi and animal-man races...

 

 Sci-Fi :  Clawed or multijointed arms with blasters or post-apoc melee weapons (i.e., stop sign battleaxe or shield); non-human heads with goggles; cyborg parts...

 

 Ani-Men : Non-human heads such as a hawk, boar, frog, or snake; arms with wings attached (both avian and bat-like); clawed hands; a variety of tails...

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More giant miniatures in the 4" tall range (though try to keep the feet within a 2" base).  Since a certain popular RPG has boosted their giants to that size and has licencee that wants 25 bucks a pop for said giant minis, a lower cost alternative may find a market.

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 Anything from the classic old Gamma World races - four-armed two-headed orlens, hissers (standard snakemen, but with sci-fi weapons), dryad-like grens -

 

 

  EVEN BETTER - Conversion kits for both Sci-Fi and animal-man races...

 

 Sci-Fi :  Clawed or multijointed arms with blasters or post-apoc melee weapons (i.e., stop sign battleaxe or shield); non-human heads with goggles; cyborg parts...

 

 Ani-Men : Non-human heads such as a hawk, boar, frog, or snake; arms with wings attached (both avian and bat-like); clawed hands; a variety of tails...

Yes. All this.

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The insane level of detail on Reaper's Horsemen, though... I dunno. I have the originals, and I dunno that they could retain that detail. But if they could, all the better!

 

Years ago, when I first heard of Reaper Miniatures, the original four Reaper Horsemen were the first figures I purchased from them.  I've never used them in any game; they were just too cool not to get.  ^_^

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I've been following this thread for some time, only to end up missing a lot of pages after about the fifteenth page. So I'm sure that my ideas have been said already earlier on for suggested minis. But here's my idea for Bones Three.

 

I'd call it 'Where the Wild Things Live' because I'd make this mainly a Bones Kickstarter for animals. We've already got quite a few monsters in the two prior Bones, but few real animals. Here's how I'd like Reaper to put it together.

 

First, a main line of nothing but Rangers, Druids, elves, gnomes, halflings, etc, plus some monsters in the first 30 minis to get the whole package started. And eventually as the line expands, more wilderness monsters.

 

A series of smaller side lines would each be built up for the different environments of the world.

 

An example of the artic would include polar bears, penguins, seals, etc...

 

Forest would have wolves, skunks, bears (grizzly and black), some elves, loggers, lean-to pieces, squirrels, rabbits, etc

 

Jungle includes tigers, jaguars, Aztec or Mayan pyramids, parrots, jungle natives and so forth

 

Mountains could have another batch of dwarves, gnomes, bears, wolves, mountain lions, snow leopard, etc.

 

Savannah - lions, cheetahs, wilderbeasts, giraffes and so on

 

Desert - crocodiles, camels, jackals

 

Swamp - aligator, lizard men, serpent folk

 

I know I'm forgetting some other good ideas, but I do hope that people will be willing to make their own suggestions.

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