Nolzur's Wave 19 & Deepcuts

[Lingeringsoul]

I'm beyond stoked to have an enlarged duergar coming, it's a cool sculpt too. I like to have variety in my minis so I'll probably pick up the stone giant as well, it stands out enough from the existing sculpts that I feel like it could be a good thane. Giants are one of my favorite monsters to use so I'm usually a sucker for them anyway.

[Clint]

Stonegiant - I’ll probably get it on sale. It’s definitely based on the same digital asset the frameworks stone giant is. The same thing happened with the new hill giant.

Yeah...why are they doing this? It just seems like a really strange marketing choice: "Hey, we'll sell you this miniature in Frameworks for $50...and then sell you the same miniature in Nolzur's for $15." Like, I get that there is a bit of customization in the Frameworks option, but $35 more? Seems like a weird choice - you would think that they would want to make Frameworks sculpts exclusive to Frameworks.

And we already have a Nolzur's Stone Giant. Plus the PPM Stone Giants are super cheap - like as little as $2. We get so few Nolzur's these days that I really, really wish the few precious huge slots weren't spent on creatures they've already done. If that was an Awakened Tree folks would be going nuts for it.

Honestly, if I was Wizkids, I would just look at the singles market and then do Nolzur's versions of the most expensive singles. Fire Giant Skeleton, Awakened Tree, Mindwitness, etc. Since that will tell them what's popular, and they don't make extra cent off the singles anyway.

[Yeenoghu_it_is]

I know I’ve said before, I really prefer them to put out Nolzur’s that I don’t have, which is entirely selfish, but a Mindwitness would beat another Stone Giant hands down.

[jmpowell]

The Enlarged Duergar is great, and it perfectly matches one of the two nonenlarged Duergar minis from wave 18—but in a different pose. That's a nice touch.

[Cusm]

Stonegiant - I’ll probably get it on sale. It’s definitely based on the same digital asset the frameworks stone giant is. The same thing happened with the new hill giant.

Yeah...why are they doing this? It just seems like a really strange marketing choice: "Hey, we'll sell you this miniature in Frameworks for $50...and then sell you the same miniature in Nolzur's for $15." Like, I get that there is a bit of customization in the Frameworks option, but $35 more? Seems like a weird choice - you would think that they would want to make Frameworks sculpts exclusive to Frameworks.

And we already have a Nolzur's Stone Giant. Plus the PPM Stone Giants are super cheap - like as little as $2. We get so few Nolzur's these days that I really, really wish the few precious huge slots weren't spent on creatures they've already done. If that was an Awakened Tree folks would be going nuts for it.

Honestly, if I was Wizkids, I would just look at the singles market and then do Nolzur's versions of the most expensive singles. Fire Giant Skeleton, Awakened Tree, Mindwitness, etc. Since that will tell them what's popular, and they don't make extra cent off the singles anyway.

With the upcoming Pathfinder series, they could be experimenting with non-blind buys. The only bad thing is for us trying to get multiple of generics. As you stated I think the areas they should concentrate with Nolzur's is expensive rares, unreleased or rare released characters - Nothic, Beholder, etc, and multiple required, goblins, kobolds, stirges, etc (multiple sets of these with alt poses) and printed adventure specific minis. It is great to get a Saltmarsh, Ravenloft and Dragon Heist minis in the pre-painted line, but lets have them in Nolzur's. And add Lost Mine, Icespire Peak and other adventure minis. A mini for Harbin Wester is great for LMoP and DoIP, but they are a great generic townsfolk for other adventures and can release as a generic mini like they did with Strahd, Drizzt and Minsc.

I need 5-7 violet fungus, but they have not released one in the Icons series, Pathfinder has a good alternative, but it is $7. Release a 2 pack and I will grab 4, versus going to CSI/MM/T&T and me spending more and WK making less off of me.

[Mattnuke]

I need 5-7 violet fungus, but they have not released one in the Icons series, Pathfinder has a good alternative, but it is $7. Release a 2 pack and I will grab 4, versus going to CSI/MM/T&T and me spending more and WK making less off of me.

Reaper has a set called ‘Killer Fungi’, if you can find them in stock anywhere. You get 2 for $5.

Unfortunately, restocking bones post pandemic and/or swapping many skus over to Bones USA (siocast) has made finding many popular bones minis near impossible.

[PanoramaPanda]

Just sitting here. Waiting on nothics for my wave 18 preorder that’s been out for weeks. Got all the time in the world.

[Mattnuke]

Just sitting here. Waiting on nothics for my wave 18 preorder that’s been out for weeks. Got all the time in the world.

Miniature Market?

I’ve been waiting two weeks for my Wave 18 order to ship. I might check up next week and make sure it didn’t get lost in the move.

[PanoramaPanda]

Yeah. It’s not MM’s fault. We will get them eventually but I wish their policy was to go ahead and ship your order if you’re waiting on 1 item AND you’ve got another pending preorder (in my case for wave 19)

[berk the black]

Yeah. It’s not MM’s fault. We will get them eventually but I wish their policy was to go ahead and ship your order if you’re waiting on 1 item AND you’ve got another pending preorder (in my case for wave 19)

I’ve worked with them via emails to customer support to shuffle things around in orders, or even to split an order. (You may have to pay additional shipping if you fall below the free thresholds, but they get the job done). Their customer service is actually quite good.

[Mattnuke]

It looks like they’re fully involved with this move.

I now have one order that hasn’t even gotten postage for almost three weeks and another one coming up on two. I emailed customer service on Monday and no reply yet. It’s definitely not like them. I’ll wait until they’re back up and functioning before I grab the new unpainted critical role stuff.

[Yeenoghu_it_is]

Picked up the Murder Hornets, Dead Warord, and Headless Monster today. They look good.

[Kualan]

Random question, this seemed as good a place as any to ask -

Nolzur's and Deepcuts say they come "pre-primed"; do the painters among us generally prime them again anyway or get straight to slapping paint on them?

[deadsmurf]

Random question, this seemed as good a place as any to ask -

Nolzur's and Deepcuts say they come "pre-primed"; do the painters among us generally prime them again anyway or get straight to slapping paint on them?

Most use the existing primer, a few people strip them and reprime them with a thinner coat. The primer is decent quality, but painted on a little thickly for some's taste. Older printings (say from the first 5 waves or so) tend to be on the thick side for the more delicate sculpts even for people who don't care too much.

[Imbalance]

Random question, this seemed as good a place as any to ask -

Nolzur's and Deepcuts say they come "pre-primed"; do the painters among us generally prime them again anyway or get straight to slapping paint on them?

Most use the existing primer, a few people strip them and reprime them with a thinner coat. The primer is decent quality, but painted on a little thickly for some's taste. Older printings (say from the first 5 waves or so) tend to be on the thick side for the more delicate sculpts even for people who don't care too much.

This. I haven't regretted painting over their primer, but it does tend to off-set the "deep"ness of the "cuts," as it were. I haven't done a full-on strip and reprime, myself, but in the case of one that I modified I attempted to "spot-thin" some precise points in hopes of giving glue a better chance to bond, then applied a layer of my own primer to blend at those spots. Um, I achieved what I meant to, to the best of my amateur ability, but have no idea if any of it was because of the experiment.