Shadzar wrote:Well, maybe? can't see the hips well enough to tell if it is female or not, and i haven't asked its gender prefer... NO, NOT DOING THAT! its a skeleton it doesnt get a gender choice, its SEX is identified by science, and all Skeletons are neither male nor female, they are undead!
Aside from the Rack, Abominations, freaky Goblins, and ugly Orcs, i have little worry about any other minis because the prototypes from the campaign were good enough for me. And the gargoyle... i will always be unhappy it seems no matter who makes a gargoyle for HQ because of the base-combat thing. The only good gargoyle would have been the unlock that we dont get.
I wish you wouldn't talk about sex on these family friendly forums! (j/k)
I'm joking around but the hips are hidden because it's a skeleton of a female humanoid and it would follow the pattern of the other characters!
I'm no chemist (or alchemist) but I think the popular plastic choice for model kits in the past is called polystyrene (someone please correct me). It's stiff, and easy to paint but you can bend it, and this causes discoloration stress marks. Keep bending and it breaks off leaving a white flaky jagged surface.
This compared to resin where it is hard, almost like porcelain, but when broken splits clean off, almost like crystal glass.
There was this other type of plastic I grew up with, many toys (like army men or dinosaurs, not the big vinyl rubber ones but the little plastic ones you got in bags at the grocery store or the Invicta British Museum replicas sold in gift shops) had it, where it was hard, solid, you could see the wrinkle lines sometimes where it was injected into a mould. It was like super hard wax, and if you scrapped it enough with your fingernail you could make a mark or scratch off little white flaky bits. But it could stand up to a lot and it was really hard to break.
The polystyrene (?) model plastic would give a little "tink" sound when you clink them together, whereas the dinosaur plastic (which often had a kind of waxy, crayon smell to it when new or heated up) made a dull kind of "thud" noise if you hit them together.
These seem to be, from the demos we've seen so far of the Dwarf figure, to be very similar if not the same as the material used for the Reaper Bones (not the "Dark Heaven Legends" which is metal, or the harder plastic "Black" which is a bit closer to the dinosaur plastic above), a hard rubber-like polymer plastic. Capable of a lot of detail, and very hard to deform without tools (and can be boiled in water to soften but it doesn't melt it).
I have no idea what they are actually using, this beige stuff we see, but I imagine "breakage" is the least of our worries. If its what I think it is, then it will require a knife to modify, or a really determined child (or dog) to chew parts off of it. Bends would be more a worry than breaks. I'm guessing of course they're prototyping in the same material, but that's still just a guess. Metal looks cool and it can be more detailed and I have never actually used these type of miniatures (though I have some cheap pewter toys from my youth somewhere). From what I've read they are great for display, and require priming and all of the usual fussing that collector hobbyists love, but are more prone to breakage (especially thin bits and glued parts) just from clanking around or being dropped.
If I'm wrong, then I'm wrong, but "it's going to break, oh no" is not my thought here. Yes, the classic design looks better, but that's mostly nostalgia talking. At this stage I'd be shocked if they changed the designs, but they still have time, since they haven't gone into full production and are still doing "not final" prototypes. Why bother showing us this if it's already 100%?
So yeah, the skeletons should be "naked" no need to have any extra gear piled on. Are they afraid they'll be too bendy without the added bulk? A creative sculpt could still be done around the sickle so it has support. I don't like the thick round base, as I've said before.