This weekend I got my Reaper Miniatures order in the mail. I ordered the PC figures and a few monster/NPC types from Reaper, and was able to take advantage of both their free shipping, and their special October "Trick-Or-Treat" offer. Here is what I got in my Trick-or-Treat bag:
We have a bag of candy, the Pink color paint for Breast Cancer awareness, four bottles of paint as samples, a pack of CAV branded playing cards, and my Trick-or-Treat figure.
The real Trick vs. Treat aspect of the bag was the chance to get a "treat", a figure, or a "trick". I got the trick, which was a packaged rock. Maybe it will be a future collectible? It is after all a one of a kind figure...
As I have mentioned before I really like Reaper figures, and I like how useful their website's figure finder feature is. (although it would be nice if there were more keywords for each figure). Unfortunately, at least in terms of this project, most Reaper figures are more in the 32mm range than in a 28mm range. Some are even pushing that, since the Dark Heaven range is fairly free form, and different sculptors have different ideas of how large a figure ought to be.
Pictured between "Franz" and "Jean" our comparison figures, we have Red Box Games, Perry Miniatures, Ebob, Reaper elf, and Reaper Gnome. Sort of a motley crew, but I think basing and paint will draw them together a bit more.
Now I am just waiting for bases from EM4, and we can start seeing some real progress here, and not just shots of bare metal.
Also, a warm welcome to new follower Bogus Gasman, who has a D&D blog titled "My pants are Haunted".
2 comments:
I ordered a minimum for this event and received a trick rock. Free paint & shipping only makes up for full price minis. The search feature is nice - sorting by sculptor name can help uniformity. For example, getting Tre Manor designs to match purchases from his Red Box offerings.
Yeah, the sculpter name thing is useful sometimes, but just being able to troll through the massive listings for "pouch" or "knife" is really great sometimes.
Unfortunately it is less useful for finding monsters or other large categories, but at least the server is quick when you need to look through 200+ figures.
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