funded Reaper Bones 5: Enthusiasm and Commentary thread

[TGP]

1 hour ago, turbocooler said:

I guess I keep loosing the shipping lottery.  I just quadrupled checked, All I was missing was Rune Wights but maybe they stopped shipping retail boxes given the container will arrive on Saturday.

I think they only rolled half-a-day, so it is possible that they will get to yours tomorrow.

 

(Edit: The counter moved from 7190 shipped to 7556 shipped when the stream ended Wednesday. 

 

366

 

…had gone past the counter when the stream ended but they might have carried on a bit afterward.)

 

 

Edited July 8, 2021 by TGP
Better numbers

[Cyradis]

39 minutes ago, Chris Palmer said:

 

 

I don't know about @Fnordlover ‘s two pieces, but primer isn’t going to help mine. It’s not a translucence issue, it’s simply details that aren’t there. Primer sadly will not add ears back on. 

  The more I think about it, if it’s a chronic problem in all of them, the more I think adding a different cat is the best answer. Like one from the Crazy Cat Lady figure. 

 

Assume it is a hella fluffy cat whose fluff obscures detail? Some cats are kinda blob shape anyway ;)

[turbocooler]

1 hour ago, TGP said:

I think they only rolled half-a-day, so it is possible that they will get to yours tomorrow.

 

(Edit: The counter moved from 7190 shipped to 7556 shipped when the stream ended Wednesday. 

 

366

 

…had gone past the counter when the stream ended but they might have carried on a bit afterward.)

 

 

 

Thank you for the reply, I am not upset.  I can wait.

[Lidless Eye]

6 hours ago, Cyradis said:

 

Assume it is a hella fluffy cat whose fluff obscures detail? Some cats are kinda blob shape anyway 😉

 

I was thinking the same thing.  I've had a fluffy cat with stubby ears.

[DragonWyrm]

6 hours ago, Chris Palmer said:

It’s not a translucence issue, it’s simply details that aren’t there.

I understand what you are saying. But personally, given that this is a tiny detail on a cart that we learnt about during the pledge manager, I always considered it a neat little easter egg. 
From the picture I can recognise it as a sitting cat. It's enough for me. True, I am disappointed it doesn't seem to have bones black detail level. In the end there is enough there that a good paint job will be enough. I am more annoyed at the location and size of the mold line in the picture. But even then that is not too much of an issue. 
I will wait until I get the figure. It may be that the zoomed in picture is giving me the wrong idea.  

 

I am curious how the needle of the sailmaker turned out. 

[TGP]

Fun [?] with numbers:

 

18,587 = total backers

 

2,000 = backers who never locked in an address to send things to (I have yet to hear an exact number).

 

1,500 = Professor Pendrake's Scientifical Wild Acre Guess at the number of OZ or Asia backers (being fulfilled out of Aetherworks.)

 

2,500 = Professor Pendrake's SWAG at the number of UK and EU backers (to be shipped out of Nottingham).

 

7,556 = The last seen total number of orders shipped out from TX, visible on the Wednesday Fulfillment Stream (and it is likely it went a bit higher if they kept going up to lunchtime).

 

Subtracting all the red numbers from the starting total brings it down to….

 

5031 = approximate orders remaining to be dispatched out of Denton Texas. (As of Thursday morning July 8 at zero dark thirty.)

 

 

Big Fat Disclaimer :: [ !! ] :: this is just me doing guesswork, and it is totally not-official, and only the underlined numbers were in any way real data.

 

 

 

Also, I went back and stuck a picture of a fire giant in my post that failed, (for anybody that wants another picture).

[Kro]

18 hours ago, lowlylowlycook said:

Yep.  My pledge which I think was just waiting for RingWraiths just got a shipping notice.  In theory I was quite relaxed about waiting a bit for  more minis, but somehow, once shipping starts, it's a little uncomfortable to be waiting for yours.

 

[edit] Wave 2, FYI

I am Wave 1 with only 1x Dragonfolk and 2x Rune Wrights on the missing list.... no email for me 😞

[TGP]

1 minute ago, Kro said:

I am Wave 1 with only 1x Dragonfolk and 2x Rune Wrights on the missing list.... no email for me 😞

They only did 4-500 orders on Wednesday, it is very possible you were number 537 give it a day or two.

[Divaricatus]

10 minutes ago, TGP said:

Fun [?] with numbers:

 

18,587 = total backers

 

2,000 = backers who never locked in an address to send things to (I have yet to hear an exact number).

 

1,500 = Professor Pendrake's Scientifical Wild Acre Guess at the number of OZ or Asia backers (being fulfilled out of Aetherworks.)

 

2,500 = Professor Pendrake's SWAG at the number of UK and EU backers (to be shipped out of Nottingham).

 

7,556 = The last seen total number of orders shipped out from TX, visible on the Wednesday Fulfillment Stream (and it is likely it went a bit higher if they kept going up to lunchtime).

 

Subtracting all the red numbers from the starting total brings it down to….

 

5031 = approximate orders remaining to be dispatched out of Denton Texas. (As of Thursday morning July 8 at zero dark thirty.)

 

 

Big Fat Disclaimer :: [ !! ] :: this is just me doing guesswork, and it is totally not-official, and only the underlined numbers were in any way real data.

 

 

 

Also, I went back and stuck a picture of a fire giant in my post that failed, (for anybody that wants another picture).

I‘d say probably some more Europeans. And shouldn’t you add late pledges? Those aren’t in the number in the KS?!

5 minutes ago, Kro said:

I am Wave 1 with only 1x Dragonfolk and 2x Rune Wrights on the missing list.... no email for me 😞

Same here, except Wights only 1x.

I guess we play the waiting game some more 🤗

[TGP]

38 minutes ago, Divaricatus said:

I‘d say probably some more Europeans. And shouldn’t you add late pledges? Those aren’t in the number in the KS?!

Maybe I should. But I have never heard anybody give so much as a hint about how many of those there were. Even a SWAG has to have something to go on.

(I would not be surprised if UK/EU was 3500. Edit)

Edited July 8, 2021 by TGP

[lexomatic]

4 hours ago, Lidless Eye said:

 

I was thinking the same thing.  I've had a fluffy cat with stubby ears.

I'm gonna paint it as a deceptively cute cat that gets in lots of fights with bigger creatures. It's the body guard,  and missing ears from scarring.

[Kro]

45 minutes ago, TGP said:

They only did 4-500 orders on Wednesday, it is very possible you were number 537 give it a day or two.

I locked in my first order within 10 minutes of the pledge manager being active, I would have thought that would put me near the front of the line the way they've said they do things. 🤷‍♂️

 

I'm happy we finally have some news on scheduled movement for the container. Hopefully that doesn't hit any snags.

[dwarvenranger]

31 minutes ago, lexomatic said:

I'm gonna paint it as a deceptively cute cat that gets in lots of fights with bigger creatures. It's the body guard,  and missing ears from scarring.

I was going to say the ogre calls the cat Nibbles. And well, you can image what has happened to the ears.

[sinless]

Aww, got an email from UPS saying they can't deliver as scheduled. Sounds like they haven't received the package yet? Eh, it'll work itself out soonish.

[kristof65]

4 hours ago, TGP said:

Fun [?] with numbers:

 

18,587 = total backers

 

2,000 = backers who never locked in an address to send things to (I have yet to hear an exact number).

 

1,500 = Professor Pendrake's Scientifical Wild Acre Guess at the number of OZ or Asia backers (being fulfilled out of Aetherworks.)

 

2,500 = Professor Pendrake's SWAG at the number of UK and EU backers (to be shipped out of Nottingham).

 

7,556 = The last seen total number of orders shipped out from TX, visible on the Wednesday Fulfillment Stream (and it is likely it went a bit higher if they kept going up to lunchtime).

 

Subtracting all the red numbers from the starting total brings it down to….

 

5031 = approximate orders remaining to be dispatched out of Denton Texas. (As of Thursday morning July 8 at zero dark thirty.)

 

 

Big Fat Disclaimer :: [ !! ] :: this is just me doing guesswork, and it is totally not-official, and only the underlined numbers were in any way real data.

 

 

 

Also, I went back and stuck a picture of a fire giant in my post that failed, (for anybody that wants another picture).

From the KS:

You're undercounting the Denton origin shipments by at least 1k based on the KS numbers alone.  

For late backers, I believe Ed or Dave once said that they account for 10% or more of the shipments.  I seem to recall them saying that in one of the Twitch streams that they did during the B5 campaign.   I could be wrong, though. 

 

3 hours ago, dwarvenranger said:

I was going to say the ogre calls the cat Nibbles. And well, you can image what has happened to the ears.

That would mean the ogre's name is Mike Tyson?