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I'm definitely getting Tiamat, the latest update today has a painted picture of it. Just can't resist! I'm curious about the painting DVD as well.
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Really, I'd advise you to pass on it. You already have a big gribbly you admit you haven't done anything with, so you can pretty much guess the trajectory on this one too. Especially if you are trying to keep your cost down, you can either spend that $60 on that enormous dragon.... or you could get the base set (30 miniatures, I think?) or get one the regular dragons and the one of the other expansions, or four other small dragons, or... you get the idea. I think its an amazing miniature, but I know that I can get the same outcome by putting a large box in my closet and pretending it's actually in there. Instead I'm blowing my budget on a whole bunch of smaller miniatures that I might actually paint and use.
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May 13, 2016 21:43
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Or you can do what I do: triple your budget, spend it all on the smaller and medium sized minis, and then never paint any of them!
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May 13, 2016 21:50
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The not-Tiamat is the main reason I pledged, no way I wasn't getting that. Sure I could spend $60 on a bunch of other guys, but then I'd just have even more minis sitting around waiting to be painted instead of just 1...
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Ashcans posted:Really, I'd advise you to pass on it. You already have a big gribbly you admit you haven't done anything with, so you can pretty much guess the trajectory on this one too. Especially if you are trying to keep your cost down, you can either spend that $60 on that enormous dragon.... or you could get the base set (30 miniatures, I think?) or get one the regular dragons and the one of the other expansions, or four other small dragons, or... you get the idea. I think its an amazing miniature, but I know that I can get the same outcome by putting a large box in my closet and pretending it's actually in there. Instead I'm blowing my budget on a whole bunch of smaller miniatures that I might actually paint and use. Yeah that's pretty much my guiding principle here. I'd rather have a bunch of attainable-to-paint stuff than one big dream project I'll never do. It's a bit sad to think about but I'm sure I can buy it down the road if I ever do get a wild hair up by rear end about painting something large. Leperflesh posted:Or you can do what I do: triple your budget, spend it all on the smaller and medium sized minis, and then never paint any of them! Like I said before, my rates are very reasonable. 
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May 13, 2016 22:11
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Slimnoid posted:Like I said before, my rates are very reasonable. How much do you charge, to give me the sense of fulfillment and accomplishment and pride of ownership of having painted all my own minis? Also please throw in an estimate for satisfying my powerful nostalgia for a youth spent playing tabletop minis games that never actually happened, but which I wished had been happening when I was a teenager? Lastly, please provide a summary of charges for having people I respect come over to my place and lavish me with peer approval in recognition of my unparalleled and highly valued miniature painting skills?
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May 13, 2016 22:27
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Leperflesh posted:How much do you charge, to give me the sense of fulfillment and accomplishment and pride of ownership of having painted all my own minis? Also please throw in an estimate for satisfying my powerful nostalgia for a youth spent playing tabletop minis games that never actually happened, but which I wished had been happening when I was a teenager? Lastly, please provide a summary of charges for having people I respect come over to my place and lavish me with peer approval in recognition of my unparalleled and highly valued miniature painting skills? About  and a bottle of Dad's Old Fashioned root beer.
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May 13, 2016 22:34
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Well that's a bargain! Sign me the gently caress up.
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May 13, 2016 22:42
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I got not-Tiamat. gently caress knows whether I will ever get round to painting it though, I would need an airbrush to even consider it.
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May 13, 2016 23:21
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If we're talking about the painted not-Tiamat, you've got to post the pictures:  thespaceinvader posted:I got not-Tiamat. I plan on getting a new compressor soon after this should arrive, get some practice in with mine and give it a go. One hell of a project no matter how you look at it.
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May 14, 2016 02:00
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If I had painted dragons don't share then I would have picked up not tiamat. Instead I pledged $60 and picked up God knows what. It'll be a surprise whenever it arrives.
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May 14, 2016 02:09
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Have they said what the actual retail price of Tiamat will be?
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Captain Invictus posted:Have they said what the actual retail price of Tiamat will be? Nothing has been mentioned yet, but Kaladrax from Bones 1 has a $75 price tag for comparison.
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May 14, 2016 04:40
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Is the pledge manager showing screwy order counts for anyone else? Example: The pledge manager shows this:  Note: "You have 2"...but if I click on that to view the actual invoice:  Which is the actual correct value. I would just ignore it and trust the invoice, but if I want to add anything, this makes it sorta hard to see what I actually have.
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Cross-posting since I'm reasonably not-embarrassed at how my oath for this month came outquote:Oath complete! I really like Reaper's giants, they're good stuff. Pretty much perfect for Bones since it makes the big gribbly models affordable and the big size diminishes some of the drawbacks of the material (which I think are often blown out of proportion, but even I'm not going to argue that I'd rather have metal or hard plastic if I'm worried about crisp detail on a human-scale model). Of course, I only got his sword to be reasonably straight by drilling a hole through part of the handle and blade and inserting a metal rod. 
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May 18, 2016 20:46
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and calling it done so I can move on.
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May 19, 2016 04:18
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Went and finalized my order.quote:Kyra and Lavarath x1 It's a little more than I intended to spend ($120) but I grabbed all the stuff that I both wanted, and figured I'd actually paint at some point.
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May 25, 2016 16:17
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Slimnoid posted:Undying Lords x1 Sup pledge choice buddy  I ended up at about that amount too, I also got the Mystic Circle, Mythic Expansion, and Townsfolk group. Less than a week to lock in pledges!
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May 25, 2016 16:31
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I made a fairly basic pledge. 2015 Core Set x10 StoneSkull Expansion x10 Frost Giant Warriors x1 Blackstar Corsairs x6 Paint Set A x1 Crusaders x1 Kyra and Lavarath x5 Paint Set B x1 Undying Lords x1 Space Mouslings x2 Goremaw x2 Ma'aldrakar, Dragon Tyrant x1 Savage Avatars x1 Frost Giant King & Queen x1 Fire Giant Jailor x1 Fire Giant King & Queen x1 Fire Giant Warrior & Bodyguard x1 Purple Weapons x1 Armory of Virtue x5 Armory of the Grave x5 Sophie x7 Going to sell 9 each of the core sets/expansions for a bit more than I paid, and that should wind up covering everything I bought for myself with little problem.
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May 25, 2016 17:05
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I waited too long to lock in my token dollar pledge, and cannot participate in any reindeer games. 
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Just finalised my order: Core Set Blackstar Corsairs Paint Set A Paint Set B Undead Bonesylvanians ShubNiggurath Horror Bonesylvanians Undying Lords Dwarf King's Companions Sledgehammer Mouslings Mythical Monsters Titans of the Tide Space Mouslings Goremaw Dagon Savage Avatars Savage Avatars II StoneSkull Expansion Mythos Expansion Graveyard Expansion Can't wait to be buried under a mountain of bonesium 
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Otisburg posted:I waited too long to lock in my token dollar pledge, and cannot participate in any reindeer games. Even if you only pledged a dollar on the original KS, you should still be able to add stuff now. Unless you mean you didn't actually get to making the token pledge at all.
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I sure hope reaper stops doing these kickstarters soon! 2015 Core Set x1 Frost Giant Warriors x1 Paint Set A x1 Crusaders x2 Paint Set B x1 Ogre Command x1 Undying Lords x1 Air Elementals x2 Cemetery Fences x3 Titans of the Tide x1 Froghemoth x1 Goremaw x1 Ma'aldrakar, Dragon Tyrant x1 Dagon x1 Savage Avatars x1 Frost Giant King & Queen x1 Solar, Angel x1 Fire Giant Jailor x1 Clear, Red, Blue, Green, & Purple Weapons x1 Invisible Heroes x1 StoneSkull Expansion x1 Graveyard Expansion x1 Dwarf King's Companions x1 Fire Giant King & Queen x1 Fire Giant Warrior & Bodyguard x1 Town Extras x1 Statue of Dagon x1 Mystic Circle x1
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I think I went more modest than a lot of you, though in my mind I still spent waaay too much money: Core set Creepin' Crawlings Stoneskull Expansion Mythos Expansion Graveyard Expansion Frost Giant Warriors Paint Set A Paint Set B Mouslings Mystic Circle Undead Lords Kyphrixis ShubNiggurath Ogre Command Ma'aldrakar
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Frost Giant Warriors Kyra and Lavarath Paint Set B Undying Lords Mouslings Goremaw Frost Giant King & Queen Solar, Angel Fire Giant Jailor Ogres Sophie Mystic Circle Dwarf King's Companions Townsfolk Graveyard Expansion $185, not too bad. I tossed in the last four line items on a whim, and based on some goon input. E: I got it sorted. The pledge manager had a bunch of stuff I already paid for selected so I still had a balance owing. I unchecked the You have: 1 stuff and it was all good. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Indolent Bastard fucked around with this message at 16:43 on May 26, 2016 |
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May 26, 2016 16:27
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If you go to the pledge manager, in the top right of the page (where it has Account Details and Logout) there should be a link for Completed Orders. This will show you what you have already finalized in an order and how it was paid for. If something isn't showing up there, then you may not have completed the order properly.
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Ashcans posted:Even if you only pledged a dollar on the original KS, you should still be able to add stuff now. Unless you mean you didn't actually get to making the token pledge at all. Also you can go and add yourself to the pledge manager, you just have to pay a bit more than KS backers do
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I'm really fighting not to tack on a graveyard and mythos expansion. Edit: Anyone got any tips on actually powering through and painting a huge pile of reaper bones btw? I asked in the mini painting thread and didn't get a huge amount of engagement. I figure I need to get the process down to less than 15 minutes a model to leave time for the larger pieces. Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 01:28 on May 27, 2016 |
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I find it helps to lump together stuff that is roughly the same and do it assembly-line. So if you get a bunch of lizardmen, paint them all at the same time - basecoats, then clothing, then details, etc. That really helps me move through stuff rather than doing them individually. Other than that, you can work on finding painting methods that are more time efficient. If you work with drybrushing or lots of washes you can get a pretty good quick paintjob on many figure that is faster than doing regular painting and highlighting. And of course, you can also compromise on quality. There is a definite diminishing return for most people on painting time. Maybe you can get 90% of your top level job in only half the time, and that's probably fine for most bones.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:I'm really fighting not to tack on a graveyard and mythos expansion. I've just painted a couple of bones figures from the 'learn to paint' set and found if you block them out with base colours then do a wash and drybrush to pick out details it doesn't take that long to paint each figure. I imagine a skilled painter could do a tabletop-standard paintjob in 15-20 minutes.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:I'm really fighting not to tack on a graveyard and mythos expansion. I did a big assembly line the night before a Frostgrave demo to a decent tabletop standard by priming the primary color their stuff was going to be, detailing, light drybrushing, and picking out flesh etc, and dipping in that Army Painter dip stuff. A lot of it was bones. It's not going to be display quality but for a single night's work to complete three full warbands and a bunch of treasure tokens, plus some scenic bases, I'm pretty pleased:  More pics here: http://imgur.com/a/4Thu8 Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 04:52 on May 27, 2016 |
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:I'm really fighting not to tack on a graveyard and mythos expansion. Have a reason to use them. Seriously, I basically gave up painting when we stopped our D&D campaign, and only restarted when I picked up x-wing. I may well never get round to painting my Bones which would be a shame 
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thespaceinvader posted:I may well never get round to painting my Bones which would be a shame Just paint up models for the heck of it. It'll keep your skills sharp and prevent you from falling out of practice.
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May 27, 2016 17:33
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After getting today's email I might have to pry my wallet open far enough to include a graveyard set 
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Crusaders ($8)x2 Undying Lords ($8) x1 Mythical Monsters ($12) x1 Titans of the Tide ($12) x1 Goremaw ($15) x1 Frost Giant King & Queen ($12) x1 Fire Giant Jailor ($6) x1 Savage Worlds ($8) x1 Lycanthropes I ($5) x1 Lycanthropes 2 ($5) x1 Townsfolk ($7) x1 Heroes II ($5) x1 Wild West OZ ($9) x1 Creepin' Lizards ($5) x1 Dwarves ($5) x1 StoneSkull Expansion ($50) x1 :mrbonesgetin:
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May 28, 2016 02:55
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Finally put Cthulu on the table last week as a de-leveled Star-Spawn. The players loved the poo poo out of it. https://goo.gl/photos/NDHtxM2bYXunh4K96
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The crypt looks bigger than I expected. I want it but the graveyard expansion would cost $82aud I already got burnt by forgetting the prices were in usd and locking in more than I should have.
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May 28, 2016 03:00
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Latest update vindicates my decision to get the graveyard expansion. I didn't expect the crypt to be in styrene, but that's really cool. I am definitely going to keep it as modular as possible. Opening door!
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May 28, 2016 13:33
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Crossposting from the Oath Thread - a Storm Giant!
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JerryLee posted:After getting today's email I might have to pry my wallet open far enough to include a graveyard set Did the math and I actually cannot drop an extra $50 right now. Oh well, the reason I can't do it is because I splurged on a graphics card last month and I don't regret that! The chief thing I wanted from the graveyard set was the chapel and maybe a few others of the scenic bits, so hopefully I can pick those up for under the $50 mark when it hits retail. Really, not having a bunch of other random ghosts and poo poo that I don't actively want added to my minis pile is as much of an upside as anything. ...Or so I'll tell myself to help me sleep better at night
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