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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Frostgrave => Topic started by: bandit86 on 10 April 2017, 11:18:33 AM
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I bought a bunch and they are really nice. They are a plastic and a bit harder than bones with really nice detail. They would be nice fro frostgrave games and $4 for 2 miniatures that are already primed and ready to paint is a deal ( the human female wizard would make a great sigilist wizard. Anyone else get these?
http://wizkids.com/dnd-unpainted/
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I bought the human male wizard pack, but I have not painted it up yet. I considered using these for Frostgrave, but I love the multi-part Frostgrave plastic kits too much.
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Wizkids also put out some minis for Pathfinder in the same format.
http://wizkids.com/deep-cuts-unpainted/ (http://wizkids.com/deep-cuts-unpainted/)
I like the human fighters, and the human female cleric would make a cool elementalist Wizard and Apprentice
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Hadn't even heard of either of those but they look pretty good. I'll have to look into getting some.
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I would like them to do more monsters. I prefer higher quality miniatures for characters, but for monsters those might be ace! From the YouTube reviews it appears that those miniatures are better than Reaper's Bones range.
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My problem with Bones is that they are quite soft and very "bendy". I've heard that Wizkids minis are stiffer than Bones. In your opinion where do they fall between GW polystyrene stuff and Reaper's Bones?
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My problem with Bones is that they are quite soft and very "bendy". I've heard that Wizkids minis are stiffer than Bones. In your opinion where do they fall between GW polystyrene stuff and Reaper's Bones?
Bones also has some issues with detail, especially for ones where they still have the metal versions of. I'd gotten their early minotaur only to later discover that there were a lot of flat areas that the metal one didn't have since it had engravings and raised bits...
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I am surprised that there haven't been any postings of some of these painted up yet. The quality is very good. There is some flex in the plastic so it is not nearly as hard as GW plastics. It is way better than Bones IMHO. If I wasn't playing a non-fantasy rpg or working on my Shadow War Armageddon minis, I would definitely pick more of these up for Frostgrave.
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My problem with Bones is that they are quite soft and very "bendy". I've heard that Wizkids minis are stiffer than Bones. In your opinion where do they fall between GW polystyrene stuff and Reaper's Bones?
They are stiffer than the smaller bones minis but are still a bendy plastic, just not as bendy. Closer to like the later Zombicide minis.
I am surprised that there haven't been any postings of some of these painted up yet. The quality is very good. There is some flex in the plastic so it is not nearly as hard as GW plastics. It is way better than Bones IMHO. If I wasn't playing a non-fantasy rpg or working on my Shadow War Armageddon minis, I would definitely pick more of these up for Frostgrave.
I just finished one of the Halfling thieves for my Summoner warband. She is drying from the glosscoat. I should be able to get some non-shiny shots tomorrow or monday.
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The figures themself are firm enough, but thin items like sword blades are bendy. I am sure that if the line is successful, they will add more monsters. Pathfinder just dropped their 6th Bestiary-that is about 2500 monsters! And WizKids is about to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their Marvel clicks line, so we know they like to release models!
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How do they compare size-wise to the Northstar minis?
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Quick shot on lunch break
Wizard and a FG Witch Apprentice
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/X_lgShLbRTXtGgS84QFjyCv76JqVM5vOuReB-C6uvODmCRChh6vieBoDZWeAHsEtH95mLab9SHrNWQMdJQw7K97e1BwKk05E-YRHXpu4VpJPps9E-jChuh6c-G80R4U-CteVXdjp9RMzVtdMqXd71OExDwwi8_hDMK2uj5kwDOAbgRi3hwJhFL7TUGmaJ1u2fYqxm-Rs-C2fTLHJBABYZw8Ppb43ubtzueeugSjIDHD6xhJgYg4VQA80c_ZFaS8NwgSVQwk-tDm-Af1tiNLfJByddLuMmXyqQvi3VAv9MoQFuo0s2IG9WbYx1PR-ttpbIgikFXQRBeB9Z6x6n6bgr7W8N-QFO8OMfQf5Oa7Fol_NPCd-aLtbTlgdFdf70ipTBaON5SYj4oUZNRjQCfiivOJyaD5411cECtdiVH0VSFQx5Ylq2GxDYLXqmyS8WlME_l9W82E3ENwG8eLVwPlOGjtVRoIyxxXbObMfnuxINizzQ-tYBG5GO7vJRPCH8LYv5LpoEffX9_a9Uy35cQucs0hHlh-X4auvFzlN99nmM0EgG0t00wXZjRlEKSFWtiS7tAYsutbVDw8cPelfoZrYWPlv1WFGIDES2BL58ds-JE-pzH4VBLQC6g=w1202-h901-no)
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They are all over the place. Some of the "hero" minis are 32-35mm scale, and some are just at 28mm. The smaller ones are more "naturally" proportioned. And the larger ones more "heroic". So bring a figure with you to check scale. The D&D goblins are tiny, the orcs are huge, the gnolls tower over the northstar gnolls, but the bugbears are about the right size. The Pathfinder goblins look about right, but are twice the size of Paizo's pre-painted Pathfinder goblins, in fact their heads are the size of the pre-paints alone! Not a problem if you don't have any of the pre-paints, which are tiny. I did pick up 4 packs of them, and I have about 80 of the prepaints.
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Quick shot on lunch break
Wizard and a FG Witch Apprentice
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5Pfe_vfjzBefUFrCEbSv-Dz-5-OAvbR3HjX937URDY_fMnAKfdD6SAHhHamq1bYPHLoKR62QUuJbm-GP-3J6ft_ovWBt3Kl2E2LztfqtLZNaddj_2DMMP7SqDRPLdw7timQMmldTTfm-3DV-cLpuNcdPJfO_UMp0gA5tLOzc9AX1N8_lFjyzoh0nyLA9j4kUyWx7oKPlKUvYrLHQhmwnI6ApUwGPz9y8LQy7-H3um4MhXOo-NzFX-k-rhn6bIaQx_jT8I8gElB6PcBJJ9BOoeuoz1umt2MWvdRlTP3lXrvAv_0B-rKdm8QbocSItaUqbLkyGsyrmyo0K6gqq-HV_J_dmRQCoq-WqxZ2h20dIM6sHUvajxrM063IpybzthomfrjuC2u0yhfEXGMlB_XiPq4WZ-p0KtnTdDcfQAIjUKCYR1yLHhLHdlEiJ8UW5kNgfEbb5JY6JkI-WHZcDxAdVyefLWw-euKAvFa01lzp-dLj7vNaZA_SBpwcttIMlzImKyJIyQCjEzQk0eXBwi7hg_Dpo_DQb22Zf0UMgUa6vprIhXhbAtaKXMGUq46Zycvd0ZBbGaCcJAyejxFLxHIUFWxm5bFLgVRXCQCLy_Lm5l_Va2pO1TKLhZg=w1202-h901-no)
I don't see a picture.
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I don't see a picture.
Same here.
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Me too. I'd really like to see how these scale up.
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Big red no entry sign???
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Big red no entry sign???
Yep
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Here is a small comparison set Mostly against Reaper figures. The D&D figures are Blink dogs,Bugbears,dwarf Wizard, Human Fighter, Unicorn some are not finished.
(http://i65.tinypic.com/2dvsgzn.jpg)
(http://i65.tinypic.com/2vxk286.jpg)
blink dogs
(http://i66.tinypic.com/2uyhrsy.jpg)
Bugbears
(http://i65.tinypic.com/e8366b.jpg)
Dwarf wizards
(http://i66.tinypic.com/30keuj6.jpg[/IMG
[IMG]http://i65.tinypic.com/16bdcw6.jpg)
With Reaper dwarf Wizard and Gnome wizard
(http://i67.tinypic.com/x5cdnp.jpg)
Human fighter with reaper Elf wizard and Barrbarian
(http://i68.tinypic.com/24xe97m.jpg)
Human fighter with reaper Elf wizard and Barrbarian
(http://i67.tinypic.com/4qizxv.jpg)
Darkfabel Egyptian
(http://i65.tinypic.com/29opsmc.jpg)
frostgave soldier and old Ral partha bard
(http://i64.tinypic.com/2gtswtc.jpg)
Fighter with Unicorn
(http://i63.tinypic.com/2vijcl3.jpg)
(http://i63.tinypic.com/15nrv5z.jpg)
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Thanks for those. Very useful.
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Anything else you might want to see them against?
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Thanks for the photos - very interesting.
Anything else you might want to see them against?
Northstar Frostgrave metals maybe?
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I just saw these for the first time at my FLGS yesterday. Very nice, and pretty darn inexpensive. I'm pretty much done with the minis I need for my warbands, bit I'm totally going to keep these in mind if (when) I start another one.
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I don't see a picture.
I think I forgot to make it a shared photo. Is it visible now?
Anything else you might want to see them against?
You did a nice job on them.
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Nope, can't see them still.
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Thanks for sharing those comparison pics. I've been looking at getting some griblies.
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Nope, can't see them still.
One last try. They visible?
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Unfortunately still a no. Have you tried uploading them straight to LAF via the Additional options section while posting?
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Happy Matt
Try using tinypic it works well
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Well %^&$ I guess I can try tiny pics. Google photos was working well for me in the past so I am not sure what happened.
While I figure that out here is the link to the shared folder with the pic in it.
https://goo.gl/photos/s3QBQxTko1tBydTf7
Its the beastmaster apprentice from Northstar next to a human wizard from the D&D line
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Found this on TMP has a metal frostgrave pic
http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=451688
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Thanks for the comparison pics! Could we see how the dwarf wizards scale next to Frostgrave humans?
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My local geek shop had these in yesterday, and I picked up a griffon. Some mold lines, but nice sculpt overall and the plastic, while soft, has nice details and should paint up really well. Not sold on all the human sized sculpts, but I really like it as a source of monsters, and I like the feel of them over Bones plastic.