Me too!
Heating the base actually does dilate the hole, though I it's a little bit counterintuitive. This isn't a perfect analogy, but imagine that you have a flat sheet of silly putty and you draw a circle in the center of it. Then you stretch the sheet to be 10% bigger. The circle stretches with it, also becoming 10% bigger. This is what would happen with the hole. You are probably imagining that the material at the outer edge of the plastic expands out and the material at the inner edge of the hole expands inward, but that isn't what happens. Everything expands outward.
I have to agree that the miniatures are not as high quality as I initially expected.
$40.00 for a box of miniatures is quite steep, especially considering the size. To have them made out of such soft, flexible material was really disappointing. They are going to be very hard to paint, because pretty much every part of the mini will flex and bend, cracking or otherwise separating the paint.
The bases being transparent, I can understand. The bases being very roughly fashioned so that they aren't so much transparent as translucent, I can't.
To the players saying it was necessary to make the bases out of clear acrylic in order to see through them, can you actually see through yours? They aren't completely obscured from the manufacturing process/scratches/imperfections?
I have to say that this is the first time I've been disappointed with a Greater Than Games product, and it's not a huge problem, but I do feel a bit let down with the miniatures considering their price point.
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Me too. I can see right through mine and they have no significant scratches or imperfections in them.
First of all i tired the freezer trick last night and it worked...well enough. the figures now stay in the base, but the holes in the base do not seem to be wide enough for the character to fit perfectly, but it works. In response to eric.d.m.miller's post, i do have to say i love this game one of my favorites, but the minis just seem a little on the low quality side. i kinda under stand the removable base thing, but i see it as a minor downside to them. the sculpts themselves are fine. Anyways i will hold my judgement until i get the painted ones, but so far the minis are not worth the money i gave toward the kickstarter, but the game defiently is.
That’s exactly what I’m saying.
I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed.
After years of dealing with Gamesworkshop and their idea of ‘quality’ minis, I have no complaint of these. I may just be jaded. But the flexibility is a plus to me, given how rough play time can be. No chance of accidental snappage of say, proletariat s hammer top, or some of the citiziens appendages/ weapons.
Detail wise I’ve seen better, but for the price it’s not bad at all to me. Several unique sculpts in one box is pretty on par for what I’m used to.
Dozens of people have painted the Sentinels miniatures, and hundreds if not thousands have painted Reaper Bones (that are made from the same material at roughly the same level of detail), and I've never heard any reports of paint cracking when the miniature was flexed. I know I bent the energy fields repeatedly on Citizens Truth and Dare while I was painting them, and looking at the figures right now there aren't cracks in the paint.
They're 90-95% translucent to me. I can totally see through them and haven't noticed any scratches or imperfections from the manufacturing process.
Perhaps you should try painting the miniatures or playing the game with the figures on the bases before complaining?
(As a side note, the first Reaper Bones boxed set I saw was $43 for 21 figures, including a large figure about the size of Omnitron. Reaper Minis has better economies of scale than GtG, so getting 24 figures for $40 seems like a good deal to me.)
Perhaps you should stop making condescending assumptions.
Bones minis are twice the size. Probably 3 times the volume of material per miniature.
Bones are 25mm heroic scale. Which is about the standard. Not seeing where the Tactics minis are on the small size in comparison.
Calm, people.
I just scrubbed my first box of minis tonight with the hot soapy water thing, so I'm hoping to start some painting soon, myself. I'm just wondering: has anyone completed any minis, and are you going to post pictures? :)
Also, what are you folks using for color ref? Just the colors on the boxes?
See this thread https://greaterthangames.com/forum/topic/painted-sentinel-tactics-minis-5840 for examples of what has been done
Has anyone found a good primer for the minis? Because my Krylon Colormaster resulted in me having to take a toothbrush to Omnitron.
I just used white krylon from Michael’s, worked pretty well.
In this topic I describe my horrifying experience trying to primer my minis with what's essentially white glue in a spray can, and go on to find the bestest primer in the world.
Yep. Citadel Fo Life.