Usually this is the biggest problem I have with big things but I am genuinely impressed with how this material holds the paint. What I did quickly discover which makes me think their claim is good is that whilst handling this, I only rubbed off paint in a single place – the tip of one spine. I opted to undercoat using Army Painter dark green – call it a base coat if you prefer. Bones claims that you can paint directly on to the models without undercoat. The next question was whether to undercoat. The flexibility I mentioned above encouraged me to glue the entire piece before painting it, not something I usually do on large models.
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Painting larger models can be a challenge for a number of reasons.
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Painting the model was going to be an interesting experiment and I think a key part of this review. The tentacles and wings move, but this has saved them from breaking off as they might on a plastic or metal figure. It’s a little bendy, especially on longer, thin extremities but I’ve not found this to be a problem on this figure at all. I’ve read this material is a kind of vinyl and super glue works wonders on it, very quick to dry and holds strongly. Same again, from the side so you can see some head details. This shot show’s old tentacle face with a Heresy Trooper for terrifying scale purposes. There are a few mould lines on this, but they are really minor. You can also see the nice base that comes with the kit, including a carved stone covered in themed runes. Here’s a shot of the components laid out, with 1cm grid for scale behind. The box exclaims that this beastie is 9″ and 9″ long, much bigger than I realised when I pledged for it, but I’m really not complaining.
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The figure comes in a fair size cardboard box – it was the first thing I fished out of the larger box my order arrived in (well actually there were two, Rusty Dice was lucky enough to get one of these as well). Hopefully I’ll look at some of the other figures I got over time, but today we’re going to look at the iconic Cthulhu figure that was one of the add-ons I chose. What seems like an age ago now I backed the Reaper Bones kickstarter campaign and very recently I received a big box of goodies in the post. Neil of Orange here with a miniature review.