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LumberingTroll posted:Clearly kala needs to be put on a custom rectangular base so you can use him in games. I dunno, but as soon as I opened kaladrax I was in love with the material as terrain. It's the perfect weight, heavy enough to stay still but not too heavy to throw in with your bucket of terrain, durable as hell, holds good detail, feels solid and not fragile. I love the Battlefield In A Box stuff for the same reason, but that stuff is pretty expensive (and to be fair comes painted so its worth it)
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You're all traitors if you don't start your vampire pledge with Mr. Bones. Pretty rough because it's the first thing I've painted in at least a year, but there you go.
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Jul 12, 2013 01:03
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Bad Munki posted:You're all traitors if you don't start your vampire pledge with Mr. Bones. Funny, I was thinking he'd be the perfect capstone.
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He led the way through the campaign, revealing new rewards the whole way. Of COURSE he should lead the way through the painting process.
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Tried to get fancy with the object source lighting, and wound up being unable to leave well enough alone until the face was pretty far gone. I'll leave it as a lesson for now, and maybe strip and repaint it once I've gotten things better figured out.
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Jul 12, 2013 02:44
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Would have been nice if my Mr Bones was included.  I can't really do anything about it until I've inventoried everything though, and that's going to take... a while.
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aldantefax posted:
poo poo, fax, I didn't know you went in on Bones too! Come over to my place, I've got paints and brushes and an airbrush etc. we can paint bones and stuff. Also, my wife pulled on your hat today on BART. 
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Jul 12, 2013 06:31
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First Bones figure painted. Just randomly chose this guy. I think I'll just go with pulling stuff out at random until I learn to airbrush for my bigger extras.
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Jul 12, 2013 07:48
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I just started on the Big C...Oh dear elder god it's going to be rough.
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All unpacked, tomorrow I start to catalog.  So far I have only noticed 1 thing missing, and thats the Rats to one of my Dungeon Attack addons. No miscasts, missing parts or imperfections either.
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Jul 13, 2013 06:10
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thespaceinvader posted:... I'm going to need a bigger table. Well the great thing is, you don't have to keep them all nicely arranged, you can just chuck them in a box and not give any shits, it's not gonna hurt them or anything. 
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Jul 13, 2013 14:47
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Finished Cataloging and I feel pretty fortunate. Out of two vampire sets and 18 add-ons the only errors were an extra mis-cast "Deladrin, Assasin", a missing "Elquin, High Elf Adventurer" and no "Mr. Bones". Overall this was an amazing deal and I have zero regrets.
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While I was going through them, I thought to myself, wow, some of these look like absolute garbage. They were 50 cents. Some look amazing. Those were also 50 cents. Really can't complain. I could throw half of these in the trash and still have gotten a great deal on the ones I like.
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JoshTheStampede posted:While I was going through them, I thought to myself, wow, some of these look like absolute garbage. They were 50 cents. Some look amazing. Those were also 50 cents. Really can't complain. I could throw half of these in the trash and still have gotten a great deal on the ones I like. Me too. I de-bagged everything but the multipart models last night. There's probably a half-dozen models with basically no nose. I found a lady whose fingers are cut off at the first knuckle. There's some figures where they glued on a piece, and I really wish they hadn't because it'll be a bitch to paint under a part. But gently caress, $.50 each. I could throw away every model that isn't gorgeous and still have gotten an incredible deal. I'm happy. Well... I am a little disappointed in one of the giants, which I guess I paid $5 for. She looks great from dead straight-on, but turn her to the side and her flesh just goes kind of straight back to her cape, so she looks bizarrely distended. I don't know why they thought this model would be OK to do that, it's a new sculpt.
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From the way they repositioned, weapon-swapped or reduced detail from a lot of the metal originals you can tell that there are limitations on the plastic molding process, which I think is the source of some of the sculpt weirdness. Does anyone think Kaladrax will require wire reinforcement? I'm looking at the joins for the tail segments and wondering if they will hold the weight well once bonded.
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Paolomania posted:From the way they repositioned, weapon-swapped or reduced detail from a lot of the metal originals you can tell that there are limitations on the plastic molding process, which I think is the source of some of the sculpt weirdness. I think that was just a desire to make them single piece models. They could have made the model the same as metal, but would have had to have them multipart, and they wanted to skip that. The ones that look like crap are mostly decades-old models, so they maybe couldn't really hold up to a recasting for another material. Almost all the more recent stuff and the new sculpts are really nicely detailed.
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Leperflesh posted:There's some figures where they glued on a piece, and I really wish they hadn't because it'll be a bitch to paint under a part. On that note, does anyone know if they plan to ship them assembled in general (i.e. non-kickstarter sales)? There are some of these that I'd really like to get unassembled for various reason. Like the big fire elemental, I'd reeeaaally like to have him unassembled.
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Bad Munki posted:On that note, does anyone know if they plan to ship them assembled in general (i.e. non-kickstarter sales)? There are some of these that I'd really like to get unassembled for various reason. Like the big fire elemental, I'd reeeaaally like to have him unassembled. I haven't looked super closely for seams but I think that fire elemental might actually be one piece.
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Nah, the big one is pretty clearly three pieces. You can see the keys inside and the seams.
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Write them and ask them in about three or four months. They may have caught up on their sleep by then.
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Bad Munki posted:On that note, does anyone know if they plan to ship them assembled in general (i.e. non-kickstarter sales)? There are some of these that I'd really like to get unassembled for various reason. Like the big fire elemental, I'd reeeaaally like to have him unassembled. Most will be sold assembled, I'm afraid, unless they're so big that it sin't practical (like Kaladrax). Reaper's done some market research on the subject, and there are a bunch of people who are unwilling to buy unassembled minis, especially on the Bones price point. I know some people have had success breaking off the glued on bits through boiling, so you might try that if you want to do a detach/reattach.
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Leperflesh posted:Well... I am a little disappointed in one of the giants, which I guess I paid $5 for. She looks great from dead straight-on, but turn her to the side and her flesh just goes kind of straight back to her cape, so she looks bizarrely distended. I don't know why they thought this model would be OK to do that, it's a new sculpt. Took some photos so I could illustrate what I meant. From the front, this figure looks alright:  I mean, OK, nipples, but it's an interesting pose and there's lots of cool detail and I like that her facial structure isn't "european white person normative" or whatever. Also you can see that they glued on the braid. But then, turn her to the side...  Her flanks just extend straight back to her cape, without curling inward. It's not even that she's fat, because from the front she has a proportional waist of someone not overweight. So it's a disconcerting thing to turn her sideways and suddenly she's really thick.  Here's a closeup. I think this isn't really limitations of the casting, given that most or all of the other figures of this size had no problem with this. I think it's just lazy scuplting. 
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Jul 13, 2013 23:34
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That's not a new sculpt. First released in 2007.
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Ahah! I don't know why I thought it was! Well. That explains that.
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Based on the labelling on all the packages, can we assume that LDPE is what all bones are made of?
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Zurai posted:That's not a new sculpt. First released in 2007. Though it's not as if that would have looked less silly six years ago.
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Paolomania posted:Based on the labelling on all the packages, can we assume that LDPE is what all bones are made of? I think it was supposed to be a type of ABS, actually.
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Paolomania posted:Based on the labelling on all the packages, can we assume that LDPE is what all bones are made of? The bags are made of LDPE, which has the recycling symbol of a triangle with a 4 in it, which is also printed on the bags.
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Ah, mystery solved. Thanks.
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Sat down and inventoried my order this weekend. 4 extra space marine guys, 1 extra candelabra, 1 missing arm for my earth elemental, and a lot of horrific yoga accidents. Hopefully boiling is as magical as you guys say it is.
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Speaking of boiling, how boiling are we talking? Just starting to boil, rolling boil? Does anyone have a temperate range to shoot for?
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I got an extra candelabra, too. My only missing piece seems to be a bit on the back of one of the snakemen, but I'll probably just fill it with something.Indolent Bastard posted:Speaking of boiling, how boiling are we talking? Just starting to boil, rolling boil? Does anyone have a temperate range to shoot for? A slow boil seemed to be enough for me. I dumped them into a wire strainer basket sitting in the water, let them sit for maybe 15-30 seconds, removed them, formed them with my hands, then plunged them into ice water. If I didn't quite get it right, I'd do it again.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Speaking of boiling, how boiling are we talking? Just starting to boil, rolling boil? Does anyone have a temperate range to shoot for? Just barely boiling seems to work best, they reshape fast and you're less likely to burn yourself.  I've even had a little success running them under a hot faucet.
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I boiled water in a kettle and then poured that water into a glass bowl. I then dipped figures over the next ten minutes or so. I tried a figure at 15 minutes and it worked, but not as well. I used chopsticks to fish them out of the water and was surprised that they weren't too hot to handle briefly before sticking them into cold water. I'm not sure if the ice is really necessary.
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Leperflesh posted:I boiled water in a kettle and then poured that water into a glass bowl. I then dipped figures over the next ten minutes or so. I tried a figure at 15 minutes and it worked, but not as well. the ice is to shock the plastic into a more rigid form. Like quenching a sword. If you dont do the ice you are more likely to get rebent at room temps
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Plastic with an austenite phase! I love it. OK, I may have to re-try a couple, since my giant's sword is still a little, uh, floppy 
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I swear, boiling these things is literally magic. I could watch their little swords and legs and such self-straighten all day.
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Bones #3, painted up tonight after I realized my GM's birthday is this week: I'm a little sad I'll be parting with him, because this sculpt is cool as hell.
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Iris of Ether posted:Bones #3, painted up tonight after I realized my GM's birthday is this week: I painted the lead version for a paint exchange, and I felt the same way. Cyber-gorilla is an awesome miniature.
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