The Best Deal in Gaming Miniatures—Now With More Pathfinder!
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Last week, I posted a blog from the floor of Gen Con letting you know about Reaper's Bones Kickstarter for their unpainted plastic miniatures. At the time, they were just passing $565,000, heading towards the first Pathfinder miniatures stretch goal, adding nine Pathfinder goblin minis to their package, plus the option to buy the Red Dragon from the cover of the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook.
Well, your support blew the roof off their Kickstarter; as i write this, it has just passed $1,500,000. And Reaper's next goal, at $1,540,000, will bring four more iconic Pathfinder characters. Four more? Yep—since my last email, Reaper announced a second Pathfinder stretch goal that was quickly achieved, adding seven of our iconic characters: Seelah (paladin), Damiel (alchemist), Merisiel (rogue), Feiya (witch), Valeros (fighter), Amiri (barbarian), and Seoni (sorcerer). They also added the option to buy the awesome Jabberwock from the cover of the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2 for only $10. And their latest goal adds Bones minis for Kyra (cleric), Ezren (wizard), Lem (bard), and Seltyiel (magus).
The best deal in miniatures gaming history keeps getting better and better. Right now, a $100 pledge (the "Vampire" level) will get you 200 Bones minis and a metal Sophie the succubus. That means the Bones figures cost only 50 cents each! Wow! And if you don't want the metal Sophie, it has been announced that you'll be able to opt out of it for $25 credit to put towards other minis, such as the gargantuan Nethyrmaul the Undying undead dragon, designed for Reaper by Wayne Reynolds!
There are only three days left to back this Kickstarter, so don't hesitate. This will be the last time that I send you a friendly reminder, one gamer to another. I want to see Reaper succeed with this Kickstarter because bringing cheaper miniatures to the hobby benefits the whole industry. But I particularly wanted to let you, my gamer friends, know so you can get in on the minis deal of a lifetime.
And as more of us get involved, the deal gets better for everyone. If this Kickstarter behaves like most, we could blow through quite a few more stretch goals before all is said and done, meaning we'll get even more miniatures for our pledges. All you have to do is get involved. I've been told that they have more Pathfinder stretch goals waiting in the wings!
Many of the staff members here at Paizo have already backed this Kickstarter, and I'm expecting we'll have quite a few painting parties around the office once they arrive. Join in the fun and get involved with the Reaper Miniatures Bones Kickstarter. People will be talking about this one for years to come. Are you on board?
This is what i do with my plastic miniatures that i don't care about as much as my metal ones.
1) Spray them with white primer (haven't painted any bones yet but supposedly you can skip this step with them (although i probably spray them anyway))
2) Put on a basecoat
3) Blackline
4) Dip in one of the Army Painter Shades
5) Shake, brush of excess and let it dry
6) Seal with matt varnish
This doesn't produce rockstar results, but they are decent enough for table top and it's sooooo fast and thanks to the quick shade also gloss varnishes the paint stays on. The time i spend on each mini is something between 10 - 20 minutes.
Those minis look awesome! I do the exact same thing and the results are more than adequate for the RPG tabletop. And it doesn't take forever. Just put on a base coast and dip. Boom! Pretty nice minis. I am planning on taking a couple of minis that I base coated today and take some before and after pictures to show how great dipping can be. I will then put them up on the Paizo blog. I am hoping that with this Kickstarter, folks can learn to paint decent minis without having to spend a ton of time. I want people to get over their painting minis phobia.
-Lisa
Thank you. I'm very pleased with how they turned out and especially how easy it was to get that result.
Just went and bought Army Painter's Strong tone Dip. I made few tests with my old Blood Bowl orcs which I've never bothered to paint, and the results were pretty decent =). I strongly recommend it for everyone involved in this kickstarter!
I may have to pick up quite a few of that Medium Fire Elemental. Besides being an awesome mini, it will make an awesome wreck marker for my Warhammer 40K Sisters of Battle tanks.
I really love the Trista sculpt. That's one I was particularly looking forward to. Somehow it didn't seem to get much notice in the huge wave of amazing that the Reaper Kickstarter created.
I really love the Trista sculpt. That's one I was particularly looking forward to. Somehow it didn't seem to get much notice in the huge wave of amazing that the Reaper Kickstarter created.
So I opened up the update email and saw the dwarf and thought "ooh thats a really cool mini." Then I scrolled down and saw one of my favorite minis ever. So few sculpters can get female faces right, then adding on the fact that it is practical and not fanservice armor and I want it.
She will be painted as a crusader for my 40K Sisters of Battle army. THen I may pick up a second to paint not purple and pink.
