If anyone wants to get the painted miniatures and sell their unpainted miniatures to me (or trade them at a favorable basis for miniatures from the Reaper Bones kickstarters), I'd be happy to send actual money to people in exchange for a second set of unpainted miniatures to paint with a different color scheme. PM me. Please.
29 minatures, round it to 30, fully painted is entirely worth 150 bucks. Entirely. Even at chinese sweet shop paint jobs. Fully Painted minature lines, sch as HeroClix or others usually are 10-15 bucks for a booster of 5 mini's. Given that they're production costs are going to be a whooole lot less than >G, 5 bucks a minature is not a bad price point at all.
Given that it will probably be unity and her bots as the next two goals, I can bet and expect 36 minatures, painted, for 150 dollars, less than 5 dollars a minature.
That's... really good actually. Really good.
I'll still paint your minatures if you want, but not for that cheap :P
if you care, here is some photo's of some unfinished 40k work
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v687/lynkfox/Warhammer/DSCF1843.jpg (base and weapon still had to be finished)
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/lynkfox/media/Warhammer/Skittari/DSC00182.jpg.html?sort=3&o=11 (base wasn't even built, and still had to wash the black for detail)
iw ould seriously paint them for money, but only semi serious. If you're going to pay someone to paint them, you'll get a much better deal and better end product out of someone else :P
Even better, since the first $60 of that is the cost of the minis themselves, so it's $90 for about 30 paint jobs. As painted minis go, this seems on point with Hero/Horror/Mage Knight Clix.
So now we know everything we're getting and what it costs, and it won't change anymore. Who wants to do the math now =)
I'm tempted.. it's a good value I think but it's a lot of money period.
I'll use $50 as the cost of the core and uprising minis unpainted [1] and $170 [2] as their cost painted.
I'll use $20 as the cost of the add-on minis unpainted [3] and $80 [4] as their cost painted.
Total for unpainted minis is thus $70 and for painted minis is $250. There are 53 minis [5].
That's $1.32/unpainted mini or $4.72/painted mini.
[1] I'm assuming that we're looking at the cost to _add_ minis to getting the core game, not to get them by themselves. Since $100 gets you the Core game and the Core/Uprising unpainted minis, but $50 gets you the Core game, $100-$50 is the additional cost for the unpainted minis. Total is $50
[2] Getting the Core and/or Uprising minis painted is $60 each, so $120 extra dollars on top of the $50 for unpainted minis. Total is $170.
[3] The Add-on including unpainted minis is $40. The Add-on maps alone are $20. The extra required to get the unpainted minis is thus $20.
[4] The Add-on including painted minis is $100, so that's another $60 above the unpainted minis. Total is $80.
[5] 53 minis:
Core (19) - 9 characters plus 10 Citizens;
Uprising (17) - 5 characters plus 6 Proletariats plus 6 bots
Add-on (17) - 6 Blade Battalion soldiers plus 5 dinosaurs plus 5 underbosses plus the Reaper
I 100% agree with the add-on for a single painted mini, Ra
So, as somoene who doesn't normally buy minis, is this a good price for painted minis? Could I fairly get someone to paint them for less?
For a quality paint job you are looking at far more. I can't imagine someone painting fast enough that they could charge that little.
depending on quality of paint your looking at 10-20 dollars per mini. if you look up at mine above, thats a 12ish dollar job.