Showing posts with label Reaper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reaper. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Reaper Clown Miniatures

 

Some more figs from ten years ago, this time a pair of metal Reaper minis from their hodge-podge Chronoscape range.

This is sold as Bonzo the Killer Clown, but comes with spare parts that let you make a non-psychopathic versions as well.


Four-part model with separate hands, head and body, based on a 1" metal washer. 


IIRC you get two or three heads to choose from and maybe two each left and right hands, although Reaper can't be bothered to show the actual parts on their store any more.


There was a time when Reaper's catalogs (both in print and online) were excellent resources for a minis collector, but those days are long gone.


Their current online catalog is fairly dreadful, with far too many minis having only a single small image and only a few showing multi-angle shots or unassembled part layouts. 


Did an awful job on the liquid in the seltzer bottle there, my painting's improved quite a bit since 2013.


And this is Zonkers, this time assembled as a proper killer clown.


Pretty sure I mixed parts between the two kits to make these, but after a decade I can't swear to it.


The bodies are very similar to each other but do have minor differences in the details.


Reasonably happy with this one, especially since it was a quickie paint job for sale on ebay.


The local game store downsized their Reaper section years ago, first disposing of the metals at deep discounts and later selling down the Bones range when it became clear Kickstarter sales had effectively reduced demand to near zero.  


It's a sign of the times I suppose, but even five years before Bones first came along a store that didn't stock Reaper was cutting its own throat with all the lost sales. 


And here we are in 2023 and Reaper's been largely shoved out of retail, with Wizkids happily moving in to take their place.  Kind of sad really, but hardly the most surprising turn of events we've seen in the industry over the years.

Sunday, July 2, 2023

Reaper Gallery: Merchant, Bodyguards & Assassin

 Another set of minis painted back in 2015, all from Reaper Miniatures.


The merchant and his henchmen were sold in one pack, while the assassin was a separate model. 


Everything here is a single-piece casting with integral base, no assembly required.


Not the most sophisticated paint jobs ever, but I'm still rather happy with the color schemes.


The pointy shoes on the assassin are pretty snazzy and his pose is very dynamic for a one-piece cast.


The merchant wins the sartorial contest on the strength of his hat, though.


If I still had these I'd probably be using the set in Frostgrave.


With the new rules for cargo transports in the Wildwood supplement I might use these two as a single transport, perhaps rebased on something a bit larger with one or two of the various "porter" figures added on as well. 


They'd also make a nice mobile scenario objective for homebrew scenarios.


The sculpting sells the weight of the chest pretty nicely, although the guy in the lead is going have some sore muscles pretty quickly in that pose.


He certainly doesn't look very happy about it.


It's nice that they're armed and all, but getting to they'll need to set that load down if they want to fight.

One of Reaper's more whimsical packs without being outright cartoony, something they used to do more of back in the day




Saturday, January 7, 2023

Dreadful Things: Squirming Brain-Eater

 


Quick conversion today, using a Reaper Bones Bathalian body and arms with a head swapped on from a Troll Forged Games alien head.


I've done quite a lot of Bathalians over the years, in part because the arms and heads swap easily between the three different Bones sculpts.


It's also very simple to find other heads that can be swapped on, obviously.


They are quite large, which offsets the usual Bones white tendency to flex and bend despite the relatively thin limbs.


This one's mounted on a 60mm base and positively looms over the Frostgrave barbarian here, who's mounted on a 25mm base.






Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Reaper Giants & Ogres Galley

Gallery showcasing some of Reaper's fantasy big boys (and one gal) along with some kitbashed flaming braziers.


Scale shot with ruler and Frostgrave archer.  As you can see, they're pretty big, and posed to be looking down on mere human runts.  The giants are on 60mm bases.






Scale shot with ruler and Frostgrave archer.  The giant's huge, standing on a 60mm base, while the ogres are only a little smaller on their own integral bases.





Probably my favorite hill giant sculpt ever.  The knuckle-walking simian posture and splayed apelike feet really sell how massive the creature is. 




Saturday, August 13, 2022

Fantasy Conversions: Eyes of Gulvoth, the Eldritch Horror At the Heart of the World

Gulvoth lurks at the heart of the world, an eldritch horror from before the dawn of time.  Here we have three of its thousand eyes, burrowing up to the surface to bring woe to all they gaze upon.  Built quite a few of these over the years, although if I've kept count properly I still need to do another nine hundred and seventy-nine before I'm free from my dark bargain Gulvoth is fully represented. 

Eye of Gulvoth #1 with Kroot & Bowman for scale


60mm base, custom conversion using Bones plastic figs




Eye of Gulvoth #2 with Kroot & Bowman for scale


60mm base, custom conversion using Bones plastic




Eye of Gulvoth #3 with Kroot & Bowman for scale


60mm base, custom conversion using Bones plastic