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I got mine on Monday, and my kids promptly ran off with Undead Lords and Townsfolk. I managed to retrieve them after bedtime. My daughter had tucked them into a makeshift bed for the night. So far this Bonesium stuff holds up really well to rugged use, and it's nice to not have to worry about my kids handling stuff because 1/ its really tough and 2/ its not expensive to replace if something does break.
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food court bailiff posted:Why did I think I needed so many lizardmen Well, what I'm trying to do with my Bones (assuming work ever allows me time to paint them) is put together some warbands sorted by species. I've already got a warband of orcs:     (Obviously these are not all Bones, but you get the idea. Picture #2 is all Bones, including the guy on the far right who's been converted from a spearman to a crossbowman.) My next projects include groups of halfling/gnomes, dwarves, dark elves/high elves, and humans with a sinister necromancy-esque vibe to them. I'm also considering doing a band of lizardpeople, now that I have like 30 of them. I probably just need to convert a couple to be holding staves to act as casters. All a Frostgrave warband really takes are 1-2 obvious caster types (to represent the wizard and apprentice), and the other figures can be sort of counts-as X if they look the type. (This guy with the two-handed sword is a barbarian; this guy with the club is a thug, etc.) That's one of the benefits of a miniatures-neutral game like Frostgrave--you don't have to have any specific models for your characters. Dr. Gargunza fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Jun 14, 2017 |
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I ordered two extra Creepin Lizards packs, apparently, even though I actually have some lizardmen in bones already, enough for 99% of the kinds of encounters I run in my games. I want to say at one point I might have hosed with the pledge manager with the intention of getting into some kinda wargame but I have no idea what the wargame hotness du jour was when I ordered - what games would shitloads of lizards be good for?
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Yeah, I decided to get a bit weird with it. My wizard is going to be the villainously androgynous lookin' Jean-Luc Picard looking spear dude who I have named Lucius von Trigger, with the spear modified into a sorta steampunky staff. His apprentice is Hungry Boy Billiam, the barefoot halfling cook from the Townsfolk Bones III (whose ladle is obviously sharpened and counts as a sword) - after all, it would be a foolish expedition to not bring along a decent cook. The half-orc looking Townsfolk with the treasure chest and barrels strapped to his back is a treasure hunter, the hero lady holding a scepter and potion is an apothecary, some random mook is an infantryman, and a noir-lookin' dude with pistols is a crossbowman (because von Trigger is a chronomancer, you see, and he really really likes a restaurant in 1930s Chicago where he met the guy.) For treasure tokens I shoved some spare sprue weapons into some fake rocks and put 'em on bases, they look much better than I feel they should for the <20 mins of effort I put into them. Pics of everything when it's got at least a few highlights n such.
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I put together that ship golem and drat, he's pretty big.   He's about 5 1/2" tall and pretty easy to put together. Only 6 pieces, too: legs, torso, two arms, face plate, and tiny shoulder cannon. The arms were pretty bent and had to do the hot/cold water reshaping trick to get them into place, but other than that assembly was a breeze. Fauxtool posted:hey this giant dragon i bought is way too big. I knew it was big from the pictures, but jesus christ its too much If you're in the US I might be interested.
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"See that anchor up there? Guess where it's going to go."
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Fauxtool posted:california PM me so we can discuss details. JerryLee posted:"See that anchor up there? Guess where it's going to go." I'm gonna use this line for my next D&D-ish game.
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 Getting started on my pile o' Bones.
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Huh, Base Boss is shipping soon. Would have been nice to do the pledge manager, but looks like I'll be getting a dollar's worth of nothing in Wave 1 before everybody else.
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Wow, I wonder if Bones 3 will even be delivered before they start Bones 4
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NTRabbit posted:Wow, I wonder if Bones 3 will even be delivered before they start Bones 4 It's supposed to be. Possibly they will accept sent and not require it's all delivered as some places have really lovely postal service.
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I haven't seen confirmation that the Australian group has reached the distributor- although the EU group has. I agree it would be kind of lovely to launch the next one while people are still waiting on theirs.
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Indolent Bastard posted:It's supposed to be. Possibly they will accept sent and not require it's all delivered as some places have really lovely postal service. Australia has good postal service, Reaper has lovely service
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NTRabbit posted:Australia has good postal service, Reaper has lovely service Then maybe don't back the next Bones KS?
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But then who will subsidize my shipping costs!
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This is dumb, but I haven't painted poo poo in a year. Can I just slap Vallejo paint on primer on a dragon and go to town with it, after I've given it a good wash?
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Bones tend to have residual mould release on them, so a good detergent wash is recommended. After that, primer may be optional depending on how well the line of paints you use agrees with Bonesium. I tend to do a thin coat of Vallejo polyurethane primer (using mostly Vallejo game color).
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I like to skip priming and just base coat with the reaper HD paints, they go on super well and it only takes a single coat no matter the color. And you can put 'em through an airbrush (with flow improver and all that.) After that, it's business as usual.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Then maybe don't back the next Bones KS? I happen to think people should know Reaper is a shady company that pulls dodgy poo poo with shipping charges before deciding whether or not to back the next one
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Bad Munki posted:But then who will subsidize my shipping costs!
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NTRabbit posted:I happen to think people should know Reaper is a shady company that pulls dodgy poo poo with shipping charges before deciding whether or not to back the next one This has not been my experience. I'm not happy you got hosed around, but your experience won't keep me from looking at and likely backing Bones 4.
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Then perhaps someone who attends Reapercon can explain to them how shady they looked, how much of a colossal gently caress up they made, and how much trust they pissed away by accident, and tell them to actually talk to AU and NZ backers for once in their lives before doing it again. There's more loving communication on it from the AU fulfillment place than there is from Reaper. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jul 8, 2017 |
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I will still buy the little dolls, here, in the US.
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I will probably also back the next one because I am a US person, but I also believe that its good for people in other regions to know what they should be expecting. I do think that Reaper should have explained their plan properly ahead of time; even if that didn't result in any actual savings for people it would have been better to have that clear when people were backing (I realize they may not have had the agreement in place, but hopefully they can do it properly next time). NT, did you ever manage to get in touch with anyone about it at Reaper?
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No I did not, because they answered the question for someone else
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itshappening.gif Just got an email from aetherworks saying shipping Aus and NZ pledges has begun. They're not being shipped out in any specific order and larger orders will be shipped out in 2 or more boxes so if you get a delivery that's only some of what you ordered, don't stress the rest will probably turn up later 
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Amusingly despite reapers fuckery with sea shipping I'm going to get my order before estimated delivery (Oz resident)
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I know the feeling... but I'm still waiting for my stuff for Bones 3 though (UK Wave 6). Hopefully 4 won't be as much of a shipping shitshow. Really hope the legs on that hut are optional and can be easily plugged in/removed as it'd make a nice lil hut even without them.
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Yea, without the legs that would be pretty cool as a piece of scenery for general use.
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I mean that's a pretty easy fix, bonesium sure ain't mithril.
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And then you could slap giant chicken legs on ANYTHING YOU WANT! It's win-win!
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Captain Invictus posted:And then you could slap giant chicken legs on ANYTHING YOU WANT! It's win-win! 100% putting those things on my Slann mage's palanquin.
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There's no cost effective way to mold that in one piece. You'll all get your loose chicken legs to do what you want with
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I'm wave 1 (and in the UK) and haven't got poo poo yet. It's a bit loving cheeky to start teasing about Bones 4 when half the world hasn't got Bones 3 yet.
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headlor posted:I'm wave 1 (and in the UK) and haven't got poo poo yet. It's a bit loving cheeky to start teasing about Bones 4 when half the world hasn't got Bones 3 yet. youll back it and you'll love it
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Cat Face Joe posted:youll back it and you'll love it Oh no doubt. And then in a year I'll get hacked off that they have hosed up the shipping of bones 4 in a spectacular fashion. It's still cheeky.
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I will buy more dolls, probably. It sucks for people in the ROW that they have doll logistics problems, but hey that's what you get for being a foreigner. Amusingly a lot of my hobby stuff comes from Quebec (my rubber larp swords) and the UK (my ww2 dolls) and india (larp armor and stuff) and I really don't encounter any problems the other way around. Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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