No Bones About It

Finally... It's ARRIVED!

I spent most of last night plumbing the depths of this herculean box. Turns out I ordered a ton of miniatures...

But how do the figures look? Well, let's take a look at one figure that I've decided to paint first, the humble blacksmith.

Not bad. The detail is very soft on these figures, but it is a lower-quality material they're working with. I believe the original intention behind the Bones campaign was to provide an inexpensive miniature to consumers. While I really like what I ordered, and have no qualms about my purchase (a fantastic deal no matter which way you look at it), I hope that Reaper still makes the majority of their figures in pewter.

Here's a picture of the henchman in pewter (the one on the left), and the henchman in Bones form (the one on the right).

The pewter henchman is primed white.

I also found out that this new plastic glue I've been working with lately (plastic weld by Plastruct) works on these figures! Though most of them are pre-built, there are a couple larger figures that require some wings to be glued on.

Overall, I'm very pleased with the Kickstarter, both how it was run, and what its result was. Bones will definitely do the job so far as gaming pieces for D&D are concerned, but it's definitely not a replacement for pewter, or even polystyrene plastics on sprue (à la Citadel Miniatures). I'll post some pictures and thoughts on the painting of the figures once I get around to doing that.

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Warzone Kickstarter

I know, I know, I promised that my next post would be a write-up about my game of Warhammer against my friend's Ogre Kingdoms army, but this is more important.

The Warzone Kickstarter.

Now I don't care how anyone here feels about Kickstarter; this isn't about that. This is about Warzone... And you can say whatever the hell you want about me, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna sit here and let you bad-mouth Warzone. What's that? Still not convinced? Just do it... C'mon... You can afford it. What else were you gonna do with that money? Thought so. You sicken me.

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Kickstarters To Rock To

I'm gonna pull on your coat for a bit here, and give you the low-down, Brown on some interesting stuff happenin' on Kickstarter and Indiegogo.

1. Beyond the Gates of Antares

Rick Priestly's new game. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a Rick Priestly fan. I pledged to this. You should to, so we can play together when it comes out (*Note: Does not include plane tickets to play together).

2. Mummy: the Curse

New "New World of Darkness" game. Mummy's have never interested me, but the World of Darkness interests me greatly, so I pledged to this. I would've liked the name "Mummy: the Wrappening" better, but that's why I'm not a games designer. I'm terribly excited by this game.

3. Drake

A local (Vancouver, BC) development that I got a chance to playtest/consult on. It's lots of fun, and a pretty unique (surprisingly so, considering the ubiquity of its subject matter) concept for a wargame.

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