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[Baphomet69]

some "Card Guards" to fight

Now THAT would be awesome!!

[Bishop Odo]

More 50161: Nine Suns Henchman variants, would be great

[torrenofamber]

I'd like to see some more Marines, they are looking good in my Shadowrun game as Knight Errants!! And if I may add Werewolf (Underworld style) with guns and need stuff to go with them. Later all T

[Jordan Peacock]

Things I *personally* would buy, if they were available:

* Jesse Moonwalker, HUMAN FORM (so I have something for my "Werewolf Tracker" when it's not a full moon ;) ).

* Horse with western tack/saddle. (If a rider comes with it, I'd love it if it's a SEPARATE piece, so I can convert my own riders.) Would also be perfect for the Savage Worlds line (Deadlands). It'd be fine if it were based off of an existing basic horse, but with Old-West-appropriate tack and saddle. (Or, hey, just give me an accessory pack with some Old-West-appropriate saddles, rolls and saddlebags, and I'll start converting some fantasy warhorses. ;) )

* A Flash-Gordon-esque rocketpack as part of an accessory set ... or else as a separate piece on some figure that I could get from the Boneyard. (Dee Dee's rocketpack comes attached to the body sprue, so it's not a separate piece for Boneyard purposes.) Would also work for the Savage Worlds line (Slipstream). Might be nice with some crazy ray-guns (although Futuristic Weapons has that partially covered).

* An animal-head & tail "beastman" conversion set: a sprue of several "beastman" heads and tails of various species types, scaled to work with standard-sized Reaper humanoid figures. That way, if I'm running a Slipstream game and I need a space-battle with Lionmen or Lizardmen or Wolfmen or whatever, and fantasy werewolves/werelions/lizardmen won't cut the bill (as I need them in *space suits* and holding *ray guns*), I can just buy a figure and swap heads. Buying a wolf or lion figure and chopping off the head to swap doesn't really cut it, as the size isn't always right, and the head attaches differently to a quadruped body than it would to a humanoid neck. Could simply be an assortment of heads and tails lifted off of various normal-sized "beastman" figures currently available.

* Steampunk conversion kit. Big gears, gearboxes, levers/throw-switches, boilers, over-sized wrenches, etc. Fiddly bits useful for turning a robot miniature into a STEAMPUNK robot miniature, etc., OR stick them all together and come up with some weird-science device for your mad scientist. Useful for Deadlands or steampunk in general.

[Dr.Bedlam]

Reaper may not be the company to do this, but I'd love to see a 28mm western stagecoach, with or without horses, in one piece or as a kit.

[Baphomet69]

Reaper may not be the company to do this, but I'd love to see a 28mm western stagecoach, with or without horses, in one piece or as a kit.

Dixon Miniatures. Allsimsayin'...

[Brother Jim]

A not Sam and Dean Winchester from Supernatural.

[Dr.Bedlam]

"Not-Sam-And-Dean" is easier said than done. To get close enough to be recognizable, you'd have to dance mighty close to some likeness lawsuiting. I would suggest "modern vampire hunters, with guns," as a substitute. Then again, Bobby Jackson and Gene Van Horne did such a terrific job with "zombie survivors" that if either of THEM got interested, who knows what could happen?

I want more Illyrians. Patrick Keith has blessed us with three, and I could stand a couple more "grunt soldier" poses, aside from the one looking through his monocular. The Illyrian Stripper was fun, but of limited use in skirmish.

[Dr.Bedlam]

So tonight, I found myself assembling and painting cowboys and Deadlands figures. I loves me some cowboys... and it abruptly occurred to me that there are two figures I'd like to see that no one else makes.

1. Undead saloon girl. If only to cause bizarre speculation around the table as to how she makes her money. We've got Walkin' Dead, and we've got Harrowed, and the sculptors have done a fine job. Let's see an Undead Saloon Girl. I want to run a game where I do a surprise reveal on the table about the girl who's been leaning on one of the players...

2. Extremely zaftig saloon girl. Enough of these hourglass figures, sculptors. Give us one who's large and in charge!

I've noted that EVERY medieval and western line has hookers and saloon girls. But nobody carries THOSE, durnit.

[Baphomet69]

Traveller5 minis. Get the license from Marc Miller. Now. Please.

[Bishop Odo]

Traveller5 minis. Get the license from Marc Miller. Now. Please.

Yea, Traveller is the ulimate generic Space Opera, the game won’t die and has so many iconic classes and imagages to draw on. It has a lot of spill over to various properties and predates most of them, BSG, Star Wars, Mechwarrior and other.



Then if you could make 15mm copies of the 28mm miniature you make, you would have so many people screaming to buy then. The web page called the “Miniatures Page”, has a Sci-fi section where many are forced to do one scale or the others, when most want to game in both scales.

[Jordan Peacock]

1. Undead saloon girl. If only to cause bizarre speculation around the table as to how she makes her money. We've got Walkin' Dead, and we've got Harrowed, and the sculptors have done a fine job. Let's see an Undead Saloon Girl. I want to run a game where I do a surprise reveal on the table about the girl who's been leaning on one of the players...

I'd like the second the idea of having a female Walkin' Dead, especially if she's in some frilly garb that would be fun to paint up. Maybe even have some sort of two-pack of "Walkin' Dead" to have one male, and one female -- sans weapons. I also think they need hats. :D I'd prefer if they have "hands away from the body" poses, as that makes for easier conversions and slight bends to the limbs for simple variety. Get a few, do some slight mods for variety, add in some more generic zombies in tattered clothes, and you've got your zombie horde, 19th-century style.

(I suppose I could further supplement it with some normal figures that are just PAINTED to look zombie-like. Pale skin and a bit of purple under the eyes, with random splotches of blood-red here and there can do wonders. On the flip side, I've sometimes painted up some minis that were originally meant to be ghosts or zombies to be living humans, if they were borderline enough.)

[Dr.Bedlam]

What Jordan said.

I do like it when hats are included as a separate piece, though.

And I still want open reaching hands as a separate sprue. Left and right hands. Gimme those, and I can modify my way to a zombie horde with ordinary Reaper figures!

[Jordan Peacock]

And I still want open reaching hands as a separate sprue. Left and right hands. Gimme those, and I can modify my way to a zombie horde with ordinary Reaper figures!

Either that, or a cleverly-designed miniature that provides lots of spare parts. :D I've sometimes picked up HorrorClix/HeroClix minis for spare parts for kitbashing, if I can get the "commons" cheaply. There's one HorrorClix miniature from the "Nightmares" line called the "Flasher" (#16) -- a ridiculous mini that tended to go fairly cheaply when sites or stores would break open packs to sell "singles." The thing is, it's an ugly figure that happens to have lots of reaching hands (left and right) coming out of its coat -- in other words, a treasure-trove for kit-bashing, when I need a replacement arm that isn't clutching a gun or sword, etc.

Just for the sake of crazy brainstorming, maybe a compromise could be worked: A "miniature" called "Grasping Hand Swarm." (I'd say "Undead Rising," but that's already taken by #02043.)

It could be a simple "broken earth" base, with several arms to glue on, as if they're bursting out of the ground. It would be ripe for your zombie conversions ... or else you could assemble it as-is and have something to represent a swarm of undead hands clawing through the earth to grab some unsuspecting victim in the graveyard. That way, perhaps it would be a little less "niche" as the "sprue" would have some use on its own. (And if you DID just use the sprue for zombie conversions, the "broken earth" base could still be useful for giving a Chronoscope mini a decorative base rather than just going with the plain slotted plastic 30mm base.)

[Dr.Bedlam]

Cattle skulls, and perhaps a cactus.

Been assembling and painting Western and Deadlands figures, and thinking, "You know, cactus and cattle skulls would sure spruce up these bases."