Reaper to produce pre-painted Plastic minis - Non-random
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Jefe Bergenstein
Legend
JoeGKushner said:
From what I gather, yes. They said you could use them in warlord tournaments, so I'd expct square bases.
WhatGravitas
Explorer
Prices are okayish. Highly dependant on the quality of the paintjobs - if they're DDM-like, then I'd say "Snatch it, grab as many as needed!".
ShinHakkaider
Hero
MerricB said:
Hah! what's really funny is that I just bought a Cygnar Starter Box from the Warmachine Line and assembled all of the included metal minis. Now typically I have alove hate relationship with metals, I love the way that some of them look, but I hate pinning. Now that I've gotten ahold of some sculpy / putty, I don't mind pinning nearly as much so I went on a pinning spree with a bunch of the older metals that have been sitting in my closet.
The metal version of the Minotaur of the Maze was the first thing I pinned and I gotta say that's a good looking sculpt. If they are actually using the same sculpt, even if it's a halfway decent paint job, it's gonna rawk.
Really looking forward to what some of these paint jobs are going to look like. Now that the prices have been revealed I can easily see myself picking up pack after pack of plastic orcs and skeletons. As well as some of the other monster types, If WOTC had been the one doing this they would have gotten my money, but since Reaper is doing it and thier sculpts are lightyears better than WOTC's in general I'm more than glad to give Reaper my money.
ShinHakkaider
Hero
MerricB said:
Also, just from a quick comparison, these plastics are $2.00 - $1.50 cheaper than thier unpainted metal counterparts. Which is fine, I'll still buy metals for certain things but I think this is a fair price for plastics if they are using the same sculpts. All we need to see are the paint jobs on these things, if they are closer to the recent HeroClix paint jobs (Supernova, Armor Wars) then great, if they are closer to WOTC's DDM paint jobs, then well...that would actually suck.
Pbartender
First Post
ShinHakkaider said:
Assuming that the plastic scupts will be based the metal minis of the same or similar name, here's some of the current unpainted metal versions...
Skeletal Warriors:
Skeletal Archers:
Orc Archers:
Orc Spearmen:
Cave Troll:
Ogre Chieftain:
Minotaur of the Maze:
Holy Bovine
First Post
Oh crap. i forgot they like those boar headed orcs over at Reaper. I never liked that version.
The prices are fine, as far as I can see; though, like so many others, I'm going to wait to see what the sculpts/paint jobs are like. (If the Ogre Chieftain is anything close to the sculpt from the metal mini pictured above, I'll be all over it.) I anticipate picking up several sets. The larger ones (except for the ogre) aren't that interesting to me, as I already have a bunch of DDM trolls, and never use minotaurs (or pretty much any other Greek Myth-ish critters).
I was also wondering about the bases. Square is fine by me, so long as they're one-inch squares on medium-size critters, and scaled upward from that point, so they match up with my DDMs.
Regards,
Darrell
I was also wondering about the bases. Square is fine by me, so long as they're one-inch squares on medium-size critters, and scaled upward from that point, so they match up with my DDMs.
Regards,
Darrell
Pbartender
First Post
Holy Bovine said:
Well, to give them credit, those aren't the only style of orc they've got over there... though the boar heads do make them look distinctive.
There's also Sandra Garrity's black orc style:
And Bob Olley's slightly goblin-ish style:
I just picked the photos for the skeleton and orc multipacks... They don't actually have anything listed as "orc swordsmen" or "skeleton spearmen" or the like. It's mostly "orc w/ sword" and such.
