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Yes, you can skip the core set and spend your pledged $100 base wherever you like.
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Foolster41 posted:Oh, can I buy add-ons without having to buy the core set and mix and match? Because a lot of these in the core set don't interest me as muich, but I'd like to get a bunch of the heros and some monsters. You are not required to get a core set, even if you picked that option in the KS. You just get a pool of money to allocate as you see fit.
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Aug 27, 2015 20:21
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Bad Munki posted:Yes, you can skip the core set and spend your pledged $100 base wherever you like. I didn't pledge before. I'm a late comer. Could a late comer not buy the $150 core still but pick up the add-ons?
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Aug 27, 2015 20:29
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I'm sure that if the pledge manager lets you do it, you're golden. Can you set the core quantity to zero and pick other stuff? Then you're good.
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Aug 27, 2015 20:40
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okay cool. Wasn't sure what would happen when I hit submit. I haven't commited myself yet anyway, I'm trying to decide between the core or not, or if I really
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Aug 27, 2015 21:09
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Well, you better decide soon, this thing closes in June! 
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Aug 27, 2015 21:40
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JerryLee posted:I made the mistake of rattlecan priming an unpainted Bones once, and after stripping as much of it as I could with Simple Green and then letting the rest sit for a while, I was able to paint over it and now you can't tell it was ever tacky. So I wouldn't give up on it just yet. I just got around to doing this and it worked like a charm. Thanks for the tip, JerryLee.
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Aug 27, 2015 22:13
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Hmm. I'm seriously considering buying up some NOVA/modern figures and putting together some armies for the Fallout miniatures game (Fallout:Warfare). I want to try it out, but I'm guessing playing with paper figures is going to get annoying real fast. I'm not sure what would be a good stand-in for a Brothrhood of Steel Elder or scribes. I've found a few interesting options for Elder. Scribes are people in platemail with a tunic, so I think I'd have to find a fantasy one and remove the weapon and add a modern weapon. How hard would that be to do? It's surprising how hard it is to actually find these, since I want something simple that doesn't look too fantasy/wizardish. How difficult is it to swap weapons for figures? Any recomendations for putting details (the Brotherhood of Steel logo) such as with a stencil onto the figures? I'm not sure if it can be really done on flowing capes where the surface isn't flat. Then again, maybe I should play the game with paper first to see if I like it, though I've heard good things, and the rules look pretty good.
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Aug 30, 2015 20:17
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Bones are stupid-easy to convert if the weapons are modelled free of the body. They cut like butter and drill easily too.
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Aug 30, 2015 20:37
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Springfield Fatts posted:I just got around to doing this and it worked like a charm. Thanks for the tip, JerryLee. Glad to be of help  thespaceinvader posted:Bones are stupid-easy to convert if the weapons are modelled free of the body. They cut like butter and drill easily too. The problem is when they aren't  but yeah, for any given molding configuration, Bones is going to be much nicer to convert than the same piece in metal, resin or I daresay even hard plastic.
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Aug 30, 2015 21:25
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Definitely easier than hard plastic; hard plastic deforms when bent and is difficult to put back to its original shape without permanent damage or snapping, bones you can bend any which way without worrying too much.
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Cross-posting from the Oath thread. Proof that Bones sometimes do get painted:  I'm getting set for our long-overdue Bones II draft in a couple of weeks. A group of friends and I went in on the Kickstarter, separate them into piles, and play games. The winner of the game gets to draft first for a pile. When that piles been sorted, we play another game, then start drafting the next pile. Last year's draft involved much drinking and a game of play-dough monsters using whiskey bottles as terrain. If you took a swig from a bottle, you could move it. Often onto an opponent's monster. Good times!
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Cool paintjob, Germ. And that sounds like a fun game. I'm gonna be in a speed-paint contest next Saturday. Each contestant grabs a random mini from a box and has an hour-and-a-half to paint it.
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Any suggestions for a good deathclaw stand-in in the bones line? Looking I don't see anything very close.
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Foolster41 posted:Any suggestions for a good deathclaw stand-in in the bones line? Looking I don't see anything very close. http://www.miniaturemarket.com/rpr77377.html https://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/62112/latest/62112 Closest I could find, friend.
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Otisburg posted:http://www.miniaturemarket.com/rpr77377.html Both of these are pretty good (I could just say it's a mutation of the original deathclaw). Thanks! Edit: Crosspost from minitures painting thread. Yesterday at the game shop I picked up a few new figures, and today did more painting done, (while watching some people play D&D appropriately enough).   An Iconic Barbarian. Eyes obviously missing. I tried to be somewhat simple on details because I don't have many colors yet.   I did as I mentioned planning before and I got some guys for the fallout miniatures game. A minigun paladin (IMF: Reggie Van Zandt) and some SMG paladins (Nova Corp Soldiers). I think the minigun guy turned out well, but I had trouble picking good details for the soldiers and keeping the lines neat. Foolster41 fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Sep 5, 2015 |
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Sep 4, 2015 06:46
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Crossposting from the minipainting thread.JackMann posted:
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 I was thinking mixing paints would be a lot harder, but I'm trying to not spend money if I feel I don't have to, so I used a Army Painter Alien "Purple color" which is a very deep purple and mixed with white. Mixing is a easier than I thought! (i also mixed the silver with black to get the darker black for the minigun guy's gun and backpack above, The color scheme is based on Winry Rockbell. I think I've stumbled upon a theme for my raiders faction in fallout, warfare. I already planned on painting a female sniper in the color scheme of Yoko Littner from Gurren lagen, and now I've been collecting pallets of other characters.  I wish there were more shirtless modern dude figures with a cape or coat, I might have to do doubles for Kamida and Simon. Now that I've been doing this a bit, I see painting figures is not as hard to do as I thought it would be. I don't think I'm very skillful, but even someone with little skill can get, I think pretty fair results. The edges on the figures makes it very easy to get the colors to stay where it should for the most part. Foolster41 fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Sep 12, 2015 |
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Sep 12, 2015 19:20
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Crosspost from the Mini Painting thread:Iris of Ether posted:I just finished painting a huge figure of my own:
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Sep 12, 2015 20:54
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Crosspost!JackMann posted:Linen white is one of the only paints where I've actually finished off the bottle. That and Walnut Brown.
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Iris of Ether posted:Crosspost from the Mini Painting thread: loving amazing.
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If folks are looking for cheap Dragons Don't Share, Khanjira, etc, I'm liquidating my Bones 2 stock at the moment. Lots of stuff can be had for basically a dollar or two above the kickstarter price, and prices on the Bones 1 stuff has been dropped too. Khanjira's 35 bucks, and DDS is 50, most things are cheaper than even TheWarStore. The Core Set and Expansions are pricier since they go for quite a lot on Ebay, but I'm selling them for a bit less than Ebay prices, shipped. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3699976&pagenumber=1&perpage=40#post441380143
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Yes, this is exactly what I want.  Clearly female, clearly feminine, without tits falling out or whatever, complete with a real badass stance and tons of details. Hell, even Sophie's cleaning up her act a bit.  No thong bikini, she seems to actually be wearing a full-body flowing dress. The Modern Succubus, she is.
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Sep 18, 2015 23:25
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That Oni is loving dope.
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They really got the look of the art down on that oni. I'm loving it.
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Captain Invictus posted:Yes, this is exactly what I want. Cat Face Joe posted:I ordered another pretty deadly cause that lady oni
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Foolster41 posted:
You need to work on making sure your coats and coverage is even - just on that figure I can see several patches that are missing paint, or where colors have overlapped. Part of it is brush control, part of it is making sure the lighting is good (I always miss bits and make mistakes when the lighting is bad). Also, I know you don't want to spend money, but pick up some washes, you'll see an immediate improvement for little effort.
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Guess what showed up in the mail today!  I had totally forgotten about our little wager here on the kickstarter final tally, and wasn't reeeaaally expecting to see anything in the mail, so I was a bit confused when a small package showed up with something about goons as the sender. Signal is the man of the hour, though, and comes through with a nice little fighter dude! He'll fit right in and will certainly see time on the table. As always, the camera is harsh, it looks nicer in person. All you other deadbeats can feel bad now because you are deadbeats! 
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Wait, so yours is missing a chunk of his head too? Is he supposed to be like that?
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The head's just a bit parallelogramish, looks like. The detail is all there, it's just squished one way. Looks like a conversion of one of their older sculpts. Also, that upped my painted bones count by 8%! I think I'll put him.......riiiiiiiiiiight......HERE. 
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:You need to work on making sure your coats and coverage is even - just on that figure I can see several patches that are missing paint, or where colors have overlapped. Part of it is brush control, part of it is making sure the lighting is good (I always miss bits and make mistakes when the lighting is bad). Yeah, I usually have spots like those show up, and I go back and have to repaint again. I noticed this, but I'm waiting until I paint another figure to do more painting. It took a few passes with my other figures to cover them. It looks like i'm hitting all of the areas that turn out white later, but when it dries it just disappears, particularly on ridges. I'm not sure why. I have a home-made wash (though I did't wash this one yet), though I think I got the formula wrong, and I have to start over with it, or just buy one.
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Bad Munki posted:All you other deadbeats can feel bad now because you are deadbeats! I haven't forgotten, I've just been drowning in schoolwork since the beginning of the semester. Plus, commission work, which takes priority. also I can't find the terrible model I wanted to paint for you so I have to settle on a non-awful model, ugh
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Slimnoid posted:also I can't find the terrible model I wanted to paint for you so I have to settle on a non-awful model, ugh No, this is important, give me all the terrible.
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Bad Munki posted:No, this is important, give me all the terrible. Are you sure you want the masterpiece on the left? 
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Bad Munki posted:The head's just a bit parallelogramish, looks like. The detail is all there, it's just squished one way. Looks like a conversion of one of their older sculpts. I'm glad I could contribute even a little to helping that wall of shame 
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Foolster41 posted:Yeah, I usually have spots like those show up, and I go back and have to repaint again. I noticed this, but I'm waiting until I paint another figure to do more painting. It took a few passes with my other figures to cover them. It looks like i'm hitting all of the areas that turn out white later, but when it dries it just disappears, particularly on ridges. I'm not sure why. Are you priming your figures?
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Are you priming your figures? That may be my problem, I hadn't because I was told reaper figures don't need priming. I'd been just doing a coat of black on the crevices, as I was shown in the workshop I went to.
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You don't need to prime, but do make sure you wash them before you paint, and leave each layer enough time to dry before handling, and don't thin your first layer. Acrylic can be a little fragile for a couple of days after first application.
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thespaceinvader posted:You don't need to prime, but do make sure you wash them before you paint, and leave each layer enough time to dry before handling, and don't thin your first layer. Acrylic can be a little fragile for a couple of days after first application. You may find spray priming easier anyway, generally it gives a nicer "tooth" for paint to adhere to than just the bare resin. Just aim for a thin, even coat of primer.
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