Reaper Miniatures is throwing ReaperCon right now, and one of the attendees snapped an excellent picture of some of the first few releases: Legendary Encounters preview photo.
By way of Jeff’s Gameblog (where I first saw the above photo — thanks, Jeff!) comes this extra tidbit: “The next 2 sets of Legendary Encounters Releases will include Goblins, Zombies, A Gnoll[s], An Ettin, A Demoness, Kobolds, A Bathalian, Ghosts, A Succubus, and A Giant Worm.”
When I first posted about Reaper’s upcoming prepainted, non-random plastic minis here on TT, lots of readers (myself included!) were very excited about the prospect. Having now seen this photo, all I can say is: Fuck. Yeah.
Nice. Anyone know what they used to paint them, and what we’d need to touch them up? I think the Orcs could use a nice dark olive/brown wash.
Prices?
Inquiring minds want to know…
Telas
Heh… follow the link first, Padawan. Got the prices (from the link, but they’re not firm), and will be putting a little more in my GenCon budget this year.
The preliminary prices seem OK to me, especially given the quality of the paint jobs. The missing ingredient is the range of minis offered — orcs and skeles are nice, but I really hope they do lots of singles heroes and BBEGs, too.
The thing about Orcs and skeletons though, is that when you need them, you need A LOT OF THEM. I agree that Heroes, and Big Bad Evil Guys, and NPC’s, and themed NPC’s, etc. are all things that I really hope they come out with like this. I would so buy someone’s old mage knight collection or DND miniatures to get a set of nice plastic minis and have no care for the wargaming aspect of it.
(neo)
Kobolds. Lots of Kobolds.
(/neo)
(John Arcadian) The thing about Orcs and skeletons though, is that when you need them, you need A LOT OF THEM.
No argument there — I’m glad Reaper is covering this side of things, too.
But those bulk baddies aren’t too hard to find as DDM singles, and they can be pretty reasonably priced. It’s the stuff like good hero and villain figures that I don’t think DDM covers well — they have the models, but their price as singles is determing by their rarity and utility in the game. Which sucks for those of us who don’t play DDM. 😉
rock out. i’m probably going to buy a thousand of these things. damn them. damn them to hell.