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Thursday, May 2, 2013

ReaperCon 2013 - The Loot

I am more or less recovered from the convention and willing to start painting again. So I started out working through the miniatures I picked up while I was at ReaperCon. With my current distraction deep into the wild west I figured I should pick up as many of Reaper's western style miniatures as I could. Apparently everyone else had the same thought as the bins were pretty empty of unpackaged metal, so I had to resort to pulling actual packaged minis off the shelf and I'm still missing a few. These minis are from both the Savage Worlds (Deadlands) and the Chronoscope Lines. Of course by now I have completely forgotten which ones I need so I will have to sift through the catalog again to figure it out.

That package at the top of the first picture are the Sci/Fi 40K Beastmen Trench Raiders from Victoria Lamb. I should have made her sign the back of the slip.

I just finished filing these and now they need a quick rub down with steel wool to remove  some of the scratches. I'm beginning to detest dusters, almost every figure has one and I haven't even painted one yet. Yes, I do already have that female huckster but two is always better than one!
Contents of the swag bag. The rolled up piece of paper in the cup is a small print  version of the Sophie Artwork for the convention.
Included were three bottles of paint, the convention Sophie, the convention Mousling, a Dark Sword mini, a plastic dinosaur, a mini from Miniature Building Authority (I would put this one in the mascot category). The Reaper catalog was not part of the actual swag bag loot though. I also have a dark blue con shirt. Dark blue was for guests, painters and sculptors, a nice chocolate brown for Reaper Staff, and black for con goers that purchased a shirt. Oh and the bag.



6 comments:

  1. Some great looking figures Kris!

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    1. There are some nice ones in there. I'm sure some of them will look better when they are painted. I'm actually more excited about the Victoria Lamb stuff than anything else. I don't even have a use for those. Maybe its time to have a give away.

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  2. I like that collection Kris. I'm painting up Ellen Stone right now. Dusters are not my forte so far!

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    1. I realized when I got home that I already had at least one copy of Ellen, I'm thinking there may be another too! The duster is such a wild west icon I guess its tempting to sculpt it on to every figure. I would be much happier if it was only done on 1 out of 3.

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  3. i didn't realize, that reaper have old west figures! thanks for this posting! i am thinking about to start a legend of the old west posse. but i am not sure which miniatures i should take - foundry, artizan, etc. now with this new information about reaper i have a new option :-)
    alex
    http://wuerfelsindgefallen.blogspot.co.at/

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    1. There are a lot of options out there now for western minis. I really like the Reaper ones but they will fit in with just about any of the other lines. A smidge taller than most but not nearly as tall as Black Scorpion.

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