Mad Jack Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 (edited) Scored some cheap Heroclix at the New England Super Megafest Comic Con this weekend, partly (lol) for spare parts... Marvel Comics' Wasp (clear wings) Mirage from the New Mutants (with a clear yellow bow and arrow, decent wings on the horse although the rest isn't all that great), Doctor Strange (clear spell effect) Ragman and Storm are getting repainted, most likely. There's also some clear orange plastic flying fire guy and a Dwarven Berserker. I also picked up a Dreamblade figure, a Murderous Berserker. It's 55mm tall to the top of his helmet without the horns, so it's actually a bit small for, say, a frost giant - but it doesn't really matter since I just picked it up to paint. Because I ended up buying most of them in the last hour of the Con, it only cost me $7 for eight figures. However, while I was digging through the buckets of figures, I was explaining that I was gonna repaint/repurpose them for fantasy stuff, and the guy at the table says, "Well, we do have this ogre guy here... You can have it for free." I looked at it and thought to myself,"Hey, that's not a bad looking ogre for a Herocl...wait, that's not a Heroclix." It was a DDM Hill Giant Barbarian... #49 from the War Drums set - A promo figure that they'd sent him 20 copies of. Not knowing what to do with them, he'd been giving them away. I suggested he might want to go look them up online and see how much they were selling for. Turns out he'd just given me an $8-15 figure (not including shipping). In non-mini news, I also got my copy of the 25th anniversary Rocky Horror Picture Show dvd signed by Barry Bostwick and Patricia Quinn at the Con. Because I paid for priority seating to the special meet 'n' greet session, I also received a limited edition (#85 of 100) commemorative poster - which, unfortunately, I didn't have the money to get signed... Edited April 20, 2015 by Mad Jack 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitterwolf Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 That beserker is great. Could be a nice unit filler in a Viking army Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishnjeeps Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I was at aldis yesterday and they had an ultrasonic cleaner on sale for $9.99. Not sure that all aldis have them though. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lochar Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I almost acquired a nice curio cabinet this weekend. Then had to refuse delivery of it because they didn't unbox it at the warehouse and it was broken. I have the worst luck with furniture. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowRaven Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Just got 4 Celtic Woman CD's and a t-shirt in the mail. I've already been forced to use them as inspiration for a bard character... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ub3r_n3rd Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Sympathy like, Lochar. It does sound like you have bad luck with furniture. Perhaps you need to make a blood offering to the furniture gods? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowRaven Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Make a sacrifice to ÃĶÊÄ Ancient Scandinavian god of cheap furnishings. It sounds as if you are cursed 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lochar Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 That's the hilarious thing. If I go with a cheaper place, it works out fine. It's just when I'm willing to spend extra money that this crap happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Jack Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 (edited) That beserker is great. Could be a nice unit filler in a Viking army The Murderous Berserker is kind of in a weird spot - it's 55mm to the crown of his head... It's about twice as tall as a medium-sized human, which means it's a bit small for a frost giant, a bit too civilized-looking to be a hill giant or ogre, and just a bit too large to double as a Goliath... But, fortunately, I mainly paint for painting's sake and not for using them in a game, so it doesn't really matter all that much if it's basically off-scale. it's definitely a damn cool sculpt with a lot of nice detail, although I'll probably have to un-attach the up-raised right arm (seam's at the shoulder) and reposition it, maybe even need to boil it, since the haft of the axe has a noticeable S-curve to it just beneath the right hand. They had a whole plastic storage tub full of Dreamblade minis for a buck, but it seemed at a cursory dig-through that a lot of the ones that might look good in a game were just a bit too much off-scale size-wise and the ones that were the right size just weren't all that good sculpt-wise. I didn't have time for a thorough dig-through, though. The tub of one-dollar HeroClix had some other relatively on-scale superheroes that were borderline naked or equiped close enough to a fantasy look that I was considering picking them up (Raven from DC Comics or Shaman from Marvel Comics for example), but since I was already way over-budget for the Con I limited myself to just the handful i picked out. I wouldn't pay reseller or internet prices for any of the Dreamblade, Heroscape or HeroClix figures, considering they don't generally have the same level of detail as I'm used to with gaming minis, but I don't mind dropping a dollar on one if I find something interesting or useful for cannibalization, i.e., it has a translucent spell/magic/power effect or gear. Most of the merch at these Comic Cons I could care less about, although the actual comic books and movie memorabilia are cool to look at and I might buy something if I wasn't perennially on a tight budget/dead broke, but I do like to give a more thorough once-over at the booths selling stuff I might find useful for my minis or just to paint/convert on its own. Aside from minis I've also done a few conversions of action figures and plastic models over the years - back in the day I made a few Car Wars-style vehicles with car models modded w/ tank, aircraft and battleship weapons and bits. Edited April 21, 2015 by Mad Jack 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marineal Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 (edited) I got my awesome bookcase mimics from Goblyn yesterday!!! I can't wait to paint them! The Midget is so excited about these!! ETA: Gah! Stop it! Cooperate! ETA: fine. go check out my latest blog post for pics, the interwebs hate me. https://pewterresinandmagic.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/reapercon-diorama-wip3/ Edited April 22, 2015 by Marineal 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcktlnt Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I got my awesome bookcase mimics from Goblyn yesterday!!! I can't wait to paint them! The Midget is so excited about these!! ETA: Gah! Stop it! Cooperate! ETA: fine. go check out my latest blog post for pics, the interwebs hate me. https://pewterresinandmagic.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/reapercon-diorama-wip3/ Something happened to your pictures on your wordpress, when I click on pictures 3 and 4 (blue cape dwarf), they give me picture 5 (armor dwarf). And if I click on 7, 8, 9, and 10 (the less armored dwarf), I end up with picture 1 of the mimic bookcases. :P 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marineal Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 (edited) I don't know why it does that sometimes.. I'll go fix them. Thanks! ETA: fixed! should work now. Edited April 22, 2015 by Marineal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aku-chan Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Got on the Internet just in time to see Twisted selling master copies of Carter, there's only 25 so I hope I managed to snag one as he's looking awesome! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ub3r_n3rd Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 (edited) Got on the Internet just in time to see Twisted selling master copies of Carter, there's only 25 so I hope I managed to snag one as he's looking awesome! He is a pretty neat figure. The sculptor should've made his face more oval/longer to get more in line with the artwork IMO though. Edited April 22, 2015 by ub3r_n3rd 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aku-chan Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Got on the Internet just in time to see Twisted selling master copies of Carter, there's only 25 so I hope I managed to snag one as he's looking awesome! He is a pretty neat figure. The sculptor should've made his face more oval/longer to get more in line with the artwork IMO though. I agree, I would've also liked the gun holster and walking stick to carry over to the sculpt as well, but I'm still looking forward to seeing if I got one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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