funded Reaper Bones 5: Enthusiasm and Commentary thread

[Doug Sundseth]

13 minutes ago, StarFyre said:

 

i see this issue a lot, when people discuss the ship, or when i would bring up larger models - i take it most people are not driving themselves?

since its actually fairly easy to transport larger stuff in a car safely.

 

sanjay

 

I used to have a miniatures club meeting weekly, in a local-ish community center. IME, big terrain pieces are not at all easy to transport in a car. Terrain and large models tend to be quite fragile, which means that you can't pile anything on top of them, that you can't allow them to move during the trip (even if somebody pulls out right in front of you), and that you can't put them in a place where other stuff will slide into them.

 

That usually means in the cabin and secured from movement. The floor wells can work pretty well for some things, since stuff doesn't usually fall off the floor.  And there's always the option to build a custom travel case for whatever, but that is often as much or more work than the piece itself, so not what I'd call "easy".

 

This is exacerbated if you have more than one person in the car, since that will remove one or more seats worth of space.

[PaganMegan]

We have a smallish, shallow, under the bed style plastic box for transporting KoW terran.

 

But there is a reason we run wargames at home when we can.

[ksbsnowowl]

18 hours ago, Disciple of Sakura said:

I wonder if we can convince Reaper to make the "Everliving Flame" from the Dwarf's Crypt encounter in translucent plastic, so we can engineer glow effects or other fun things we can do with translucent figures...

Fairly certain I reported from one episode of Reaper Live that the plan was to make the flame* translucent.

 

*I'm unsure right now if that was the pillar for the flame as well, or just the flame.

[Disciple of Sakura]

1 hour ago, ksbsnowowl said:

Fairly certain I reported from one episode of Reaper Live that the plan was to make the flame* translucent.

 

*I'm unsure right now if that was the pillar for the flame as well, or just the flame.

Yeah, I was quoting you. I'm just wondering if that's still part of the plan...

[Disserrma]

3 hours ago, Doug Sundseth said:

 

I used to have a miniatures club meeting weekly, in a local-ish community center. IME, big terrain pieces are not at all easy to transport in a car. Terrain and large models tend to be quite fragile, which means that you can't pile anything on top of them, that you can't allow them to move during the trip (even if somebody pulls out right in front of you), and that you can't put them in a place where other stuff will slide into them.

 

That usually means in the cabin and secured from movement. The floor wells can work pretty well for some things, since stuff doesn't usually fall off the floor.  And there's always the option to build a custom travel case for whatever, but that is often as much or more work than the piece itself, so not what I'd call "easy".

 

This is exacerbated if you have more than one person in the car, since that will remove one or more seats worth of space.

For us it is two people in the car, which means backseat only plus then there are all of the other books, miniatures, tech for electronic only books, etc.  Add to all that the loading and unloading of everything each time from an apartment and anything that large or bulky is impractical for us. 

[StarFyre]

6 hours ago, Doug Sundseth said:

 

I used to have a miniatures club meeting weekly, in a local-ish community center. IME, big terrain pieces are not at all easy to transport in a car. Terrain and large models tend to be quite fragile, which means that you can't pile anything on top of them, that you can't allow them to move during the trip (even if somebody pulls out right in front of you), and that you can't put them in a place where other stuff will slide into them.

 

That usually means in the cabin and secured from movement. The floor wells can work pretty well for some things, since stuff doesn't usually fall off the floor.  And there's always the option to build a custom travel case for whatever, but that is often as much or more work than the piece itself, so not what I'd call "easy".

 

This is exacerbated if you have more than one person in the car, since that will remove one or more seats worth of space.

 

i transport forgeworld dragons, greater demons, large contest entries etc.  what i do that may work. put them in large boxes and fill the boxes with tissues, those round amazon air packs, packing peanuts, etc

 

it stops them from moving. as long as the box has a high enough sides, should be good.

 

Sanjay

[Doug Sundseth]

1 minute ago, StarFyre said:

 

i transport forgeworld dragons, greater demons, large contest entries etc.  what i do that may work. put them in large boxes and fill the boxes with tissues, those round amazon air packs, packing peanuts, etc

 

it stops them from moving. as long as the box has a high enough sides, should be good.

 

Sanjay

 

Reasonable for a convention a couple of times a year, and similar to what I do when I need to do that sort of thing. But for your regular Saturday gaming session, the packing, loading, unloading, unpacking, repacking, reloading, re-unloading, and re-unpacking gets to be a bit tedious.

[StarFyre]

3 hours ago, Doug Sundseth said:

 

Reasonable for a convention a couple of times a year, and similar to what I do when I need to do that sort of thing. But for your regular Saturday gaming session, the packing, loading, unloading, unpacking, repacking, reloading, re-unloading, and re-unpacking gets to be a bit tedious.

oh no, i mean the dragons and large monsters would be for all my games.  all the models are at my house, but we used to play else where. Since i used to play warhammer, i have my extra large warhammer army case, so all smaller, medium and large figures go there . BUT all our larger stuff wont fit in that, so that i would transport along with a giant knife etched dry erase marker board, books, etc.   BUT we also played much longer each session than most ppl so it was worth the effort. hehehe (most sessions were 12 + hours with some into the 20 range).  Recently, longest sessions we've done are 8, but most are 6.

 

now we play here, so not an issue :)

 

Sanjay

Edited February 5, 2020 by StarFyre

[PaganMegan]

This week begins the long process of adding stuff on. I think the first step is going to be Brinewind, it's the addon we are happiest with.

[ksbsnowowl]

The only new previews from tonight's Reaper Live.

Both are only about 90% finished, so there will still be minor alterations.

 

[TheUncannyAK]

I kind of need those axolotl in my life.

[Glitterwolf]

I'm happy I went for the fan pack, those Axoloti will appear in my Lost World.

Love those little buggers already!

Edited February 7, 2020 by Glitterwolf

[ksbsnowowl]

Bones 5 Live episode this afternoon.  All this will be in the Update later today.

 

They showed off the Wildfolk Ranger again (from Fan Favorites).

 

 

A collected picture of the Brinewind Doxies:

 

 

The concept art of the Axoloti Adventurers:

 

 

And a collected shot of the 3D renders:

 

 

Concept art of Nessie (from Dark Depths?)

 

 

And the newly-revealed 3D render:

 

 

And lastly the Slithe from the Dark Depths expansion:

 

[Disciple of Sakura]

26 minutes ago, ksbsnowowl said:

And the newly-revealed 3D render:

 

 

Thanks for doing this all the time.

 

Did they happen to mention if "Nessie" will be removable from the rocks? I imagine some folks might like to mount the beast on a flight stand so that it looks like it's swimming...

[Chris Palmer]

These were posted a couple hours ago on the Bones 5 Facebook page.  While I’m pretty sure the Beastmen and Demons have been posted here before, I think this is the first time I’ve seen the campground stuff posted with a price...  I could be wrong..