Bones, A Ready-to-Paint Range From Reaper
March 9, 2012 by brennon
As the video above will show, there was a time when you could walk into a gaming store and come out with a nice handful of miniatures. Well, Reaper Miniatures are trying to bring back that feeling of value but twining it with detailed sculpts. Check out the Bones range below...
These 25mm Heroic Scale figures are ready to paint right out of the blister pack. No primer required on these which could save you a fortune on sprays...
A good price point on entry coming in at just a few pounds for a handful of miniatures. Could this be a fantastic way to populate your dungeons and find those great hero miniatures to make your armies stand out?
Let me know what you think below...
Those are looking very nice.
KOBOLDS!!! I want Kobolds… hundreds of them!
At around £2 a pop for a handful that’s a distinct possibility!
BoW Ben
I wonder what they are doing differently than GW’s Fine Casts that they can charge so much less?
That’s a huge price gap and it has to be more than GW wanting to charge more.
They have less detail, but that’s because the originals were less detailed too.
It’s because unlike GW, they don’t have a fleet of stores to pay rent for at the end of every month. That’s more likely the main reason they have no choice to have high prices.
Nice models BTW.
In a business if you don’t have a choice…you don’t have a business much longer.
As for the new casts – SWEET! Perfect for painting practice for new hobbyists (they may not be Rackham quality but they still look pretty good) and DM’s can rejoice at the hordes they can afford to send against players.
Very good news here. 🙂
They do have more overheads in regards to premises and all the wonderful things that entails like public insurance, business rates, wages for the staffers, percentages of stock lost from their own premises, refitting, staff training programs, utility bills for hundreds of stores and a multitude of other unpredictable factors chewing in to their profit margins each year. I guess it all does start to add up when they are so proactive about supporting their own brand of hobby on the highstreets worldwide.
This is great news!. I do love the old school design of a lot of existing Reaper minis. I will be very interested in seeing how this range pans out and how fast it expands if it proves popular.. Potential win-win situation for Reaper and dungeon gamers.
The worm is awesome and so cheap I’m tempted to get a load for a Chthonian force.
I’m gonna get a load of them there worms and stick pink horror arms on 😉 instant flamers
Ah, that’s a very good idea! allthough the Flamers are actually some of the few GW sculpts that appeal to me, but yeah they arent exactly cheap hehe
Loving that Gnoll. I want an army of them and Kobolds
Some of these look quite nice! The werewolf and ogre chieftan in particular and for a little over £1 you just can’t go on. Just when seeing the Pathfinder box was giving me nostalgia over the old D&D (that’s real D&D, not AD&D rebadged! lol) red box as well…. These would definitely make for excellent game pieces for a good old fashioned mindless dungeon romp!
Ok, I just looked at reapers site.
Kobolds are really £2.27 for 6?
Thats astounding.
And you know whats better, plastic monsters and moulded in bases just make me think of one thing.
heroquest.
Anything that makes me think of heroquest is by definition, good.
awesome,some of those worms with spawn spares added,hey presto,beasts of Nurgle at a fraction of the price
I would think someone would have noticed, but no one has pointed it out so maybe some people haven’t, these are all the same sculpts as their “Legendary Encounters Pre-Painted Plastic” range, presumably cast in a different material and of course unpainted, and around half the price or even less. Maybe they are so cheap because they already had quality molds they could use from the pre-paint runs.