Reaper Creates Miniatures For The World Of Numenera
June 20, 2014 by brennon
Reaper Miniatures have put together a selection of miniatures for the role-playing world of Numenera by Monte Cook Games and it looks like quite the vibrant and indeed different world. The Kickstarter they ran was incredibly successful too so it has a lot of support. See what you think of the miniatures...
First up we have these four interesting characters. Glaive, Jack, Nano and Varjellen. As it stands I don't think the miniatures are too bad but they are certainly new and original which is nice. I think of the first four Nano and Varjellen are the best of the bunch and I like the idea of Varjellen in some sci-fi capacity as well as in something like their role-playing game.
The last four in this first round of releases are for Lattimor, Flesh & Steel, Murden and the Aeon Priest. Once again not overly sold on the miniatures as a whole but Flesh & Steel and Lattimor are pretty good figures for a range of different role-playing games as well as Numenera. I have no idea what's going on with Murden but it's very creepy!
What do you think of these miniatures?
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I remain unconvinced by the paint-job on some of those…
Some of the sculpts are quite good. They could definitely use a better paint job though. To be fair, it’s hard to capture the spirit of the original art in that book (especially all the translucent glowing objects and surfaces). Those illustrations were meant to fantastic and not design comps for a sculptor/painter.
I think the biggest obstacle for sales is that combat in Numenera is very theatre-of-the-mind. There’s really no need for minis in that system so these are just extras for the devoted collector, which means they really should be of the highest quality.
agreed Romain the jack girl in red with the wight hair looks like a wizards of the coast prepaint
I’ve bought a lot of Reaper figures over the years, mostly for PC’s, and I’ve been quite happy with them. But lately when I look at them I can’t help thing they are starting to look… dated. There are just so many other great figures out there.
I still like the Bones stuff, mostly the bigger sculpts, as there’s a bit of a loss of detail with the polymer. But I can afford to build units of giants and ogres with those, which is nice.