"Bones II Shipping Nears End" Topic

With only a couple hundred left, looks like they'll wrap up today; getting everything shipped before March. Pretty amazing feat getting out the thousands of packages they did in just a couple weeks, including a couple snow days thrown in.
See the countdown here:
forum.reapermini.com/bones2

Got my Wave 5 yesterday: it is awesome!

Expecting mine Tuesday or Wednesday. Wave 6

I received mine. Very happy with them! My only regret is not spending a lot more money on the Kickstarter. Reaper was pretty late but they did not disappoint with quality.

Got mine last week. I too regret not getting more. I've already bought some off ebay that I did not order in the kickstarter. It's a sickness.

Xin

Got mine today. There are some things I definitely want to get more of. Now I need to sit down and sort through everything and figure out what I want to do with it all.

Xintao, you're not alone in your sickness. The main thing stopping me from ordering more soon is that I spent my current hobby budget on the Mantic Dungeon Saga kickstarter. Really need to get some painting done before I buy more…

Got mine, too. Now my lead and plastic hill is high enough to keep me busy for several years…especially as, unfortunately, I wasn't doing much hobby stuff last year…
I'd say Reaper has improved the quality of cast, think I have only 2 minis with awful faces, while in Bones I there were like a dozen of them, if not more. Large stuff (I have 2 dragons in Bones II) is where the material shines – you will never get the model of this quality and size at reasonable price level made from resin or metal. The ruins in "Dragons don't share" are very nice, too – may be Reaper should be making more terrain…

Got and sorted mine. Hope to meet with some friends to trade.

I got mine, having not gotten Bones 1, and I'm not sure why people are offering up gushing, uncritical praise about the quality. About half were indeed truly excellent, and I'll buy more of these at retail. Overall, I certainly got more than my money's worth.

However, about a third, typically the smaller ones, are so hatefully bad that I'd never waste my precious life-force to paint them. They are like flat, shallow-detailed board game pieces. I'd bury them in the back yard except I don't want to paint a bad picture of our technological skill to future archeologists. Sure, they are cheap, but at retail that third would be overpriced at 2 bucks a pop.

I have core set, expansion II + heroes&villains +dragons. There's a difference between casting quality (it improved) and simply offering a poorly sculpted figure (true for the stuff like sceletons in my choices.).
First Bones had little % of the figures made specifically for the release, Bones II has more. I guess sculptors started taking into account less detail you're getting when you change from metal to soft plastic.
That's why I think that normally I'm still buying metals from top level sculptors like Klocke, Garrity, etc. but dragons, ruins, monsters are quite nice in Bones, too,

In most cases you are right, Barin.

Looking at the ones I've set aside as being very poor, many are either the Bones I castings included in Bones II (the gnolls), figures specifically sculpted for Bones which are poor sculpts (the skeletons as you say, the new male barbarians, and half of the baby dragons), were just poor sculpts in metal (those beastmen), or some which are more than one of the above (those poxy Bones I mummies and ghasts).

Some, however, I suspect are nice in metal but just too tiny for this plastic (the pulp range, some of the Pathfinder miniatures, the other baby dragons, and anything with small hands and faces).

Holding the passable Bones I bugbears next to the nice Bones II examples, you can see that they have improved the firmness and crispness of the material. This too is evident in that pointed bits like weapon tips seem much sharper. So, if your theory is correct, it's a shame that sculpters have felt the need to make undetailed, flattened blobs because they know it's going to Bones.

And, as I said, half of the Core (mostly either big things or previously good metals) are gorgeous.