completed Reaper Bones 4: Enthusiasm and Commentary Thread

[Cyradis]

2 minutes ago, Doug Sundseth said:

 

I like it quite a bit. Except where minis are partially assembled in such a way as to make painting or finishing the assembly difficult.

 

Please don't glue the minis if you're not going to do the work to glue them right! 

 

 

 

^^ 100% this. 

[Talae]

3 minutes ago, Doug Sundseth said:

 

I like it quite a bit. Except where minis are partially assembled in such a way as to make painting or finishing the assembly difficult.

 

Please don't glue the minis if you're not going to do the work to glue them right! 

My spider has a broken leg that is going to be a major pain to reattach due to the rest being glued already. Other than that, an elephant tusk and something else that I can't recall right now were my only breaks. Only one of which is going to be more than a minor inconvenience. 

 

I am missing a few things from my order and ended up with two of the aged statues instead one new and one aged for one of the sets. The only other thing I can thing of is the mislabeled, but correct color of paint.

[terminalmancer]

Oof. It gets better and worse! Reaper was more on top of our order than we were. We both wanted a cobra, but only ordered one. And Fire Elemental, lovely spouse that she is, didn't put in her order for wraiths like she wanted. Hmmm. What does that mean?

 

Did we mean to only get one cobra? Whose was it? We could fight over it, or we could just give it to the first person to paint it... which is the probable outcome. 

1 minute ago, Cyradis said:

4 minutes ago, Doug Sundseth said:

Please don't glue the minis if you're not going to do the work to glue them right! 

 

^^ 100% this. 

 

Yeah, agreed. A lot of the assembly doesn't look like it went well. Will have to take a closer look at things tomorrow.

[Cyradis]

Mumlak's ears are going to be a pain in the bum to fix they're glued in so badly. 

 

It is super frustrating to me because the material itself is really easy to work with, and the sprues are well cast such that they fit together great for a hobbyist. Then some stuff got pre-assembled and done badly. What?! 

[Sirithiliel]

i feel like mine's ears aren't too bad, a bit of greenstuff to hide the seams and he'll be good to go

 

and i can greenstuff more fur on him at the same time. Woolly mammoths should be woolly!

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

1 hour ago, pcktlnt said:

I'm undecided about the new material. I have looked at 43 minis so far and I have 3 broken parts. Frost raider hilt broken in baggie, rock troll foot in the baggie, and the jungle king with his tusk, which is missing. The jungle king comes in a box, but the plastic insert was broken inside the packaging. =(

You certainly got the worst of it, I haven't seen anyone else post that much carnage in their package. Perhaps the courier abused it a bit? Either way, since Bones Black is much more fragile, I think there needs to be more care made in packaging the figure.

[Sirithiliel]

I have made my first adjustments!

 

clipping a finger off each hand of both my rexes to make them actually rexes. I did different fingers to make them a bit different

 

their backs fit awfully so time to greenstuff

Edited April 17, 2019 by Sirithiliel

[Talae]

Random fact: Reaper paints fit perfectly in the Lord of the Jungle box (pretty sure it would hold two levels of paint for a total of 48 paints in this box - but I only just got 24 new paints).

 

[pcktlnt]

3 minutes ago, Pezler the Polychromatic said:

You certainly got the worst of it, I haven't seen anyone else post that much carnage in their package. Perhaps the courier abused it a bit? Either way, since Bones Black is much more fragile, I think there needs to be more care made in packaging the figure.

The shipping box's structural integrity was compromised when it arrived. Upper portion was a lot more squishy. Like I could hug it and it would squish a little instead of having the rigidness of a new box.

[Cyradis]

I think some is the nature of the boxing too. The only weak spot I saw in my box was the caribou on the giantess's back, which is really narrow, and they're tossed in the box clunking around. The clunking around with a ton of stuff is going to be rougher than in retail when they're blister-packed, and worse than they'll see when they're being used for even harsh table-topping on average. 

 

 

[Talae]

Everyone: Feel free to join in on the Community Bones Sophie WIP thread I just started. I figured it is as good a place as any to start with for Bones 4 minis.

 

http://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/85901-community-painting-adventure-bones-sophie-officially-unofficial-wip-thread/

[OneBoot]

2 hours ago, Talae said:

Random fact: Reaper paints fit perfectly in the Lord of the Jungle box (pretty sure it would hold two levels of paint for a total of 48 paints in this box - but I only just got 24 new paints).

 

 

This picture pleases me greatly.

 

My box is now in Hermiston, OR, just an hour south of me!

 

 

Huzzah! 

--OneBoot :D 

[Bane Of Humanity]

4 hours ago, pcktlnt said:

I'm undecided about the new material. I have looked at 43 minis so far and I have 3 broken parts. Frost raider hilt broken in baggie, rock troll foot in the baggie, and the jungle king with his tusk, which is missing. The jungle king comes in a box, but the plastic insert was broken inside the packaging. =(

That seems to be the issue with miniatures in general.  The better the detail the more fragile.

[Werkrobotwerk]

7 hours ago, Crowley said:

Peanut butter filled bones!  What else? 

 

 

 

Got through checking the expansions tonight...

 

So many little bags...

Are there any optional bits with the two cyborgs, or are the arms all one piece?

[Crowley]

17 minutes ago, Werkrobotwerk said:

Are there any optional bits with the two cyborgs, or are the arms all one piece?

The only optional bits were for the tiny robots and the bulldog.