Listening to Paint Dry Podcast Youth Awards:

1st, 2nd, and 3rd place trophies for youth

Bombshell Miniatures: 

Gold, Silver, or Copper Dog Tags for any Bombshell entry.

Gold,Silver, and Copper Maelee awards for the top three Babes, appropriate 75 or busts, Chibis, and misc.

Gold, Silver, and Copper Counterblast awards for the top three Counterblast entries

Gold, Silver, and Copper Doom Bunny award for the top three Sidekick and Kritterkin entries

Miniature Monthly: 

The zany gang at Miniature Monthly is sponsoring a Manufacturer's award this year for Best Painted Pez! The prize will be the elusive and highly coveted Golden Pez trophy! Be sure to use the tag #paintapez when posting online!

Midnight Heroes: 

Anyone who enters a chibi in the MSP will receive a free mini from Midknight Heroes while supplies last.

Adult Chibi - Gold, Silver, and Bronze level rewards

Youth Chibi - Gold, Silver, and Bronze level rewards

Kawna Miniatures: 

32 MM painter 1st, 2nd, 3rd

70 MM Painter 1st, 2nd, 3rd

Diorama 1st, 2nd, 3rd

Each place will get a Kawna Miniature Crowphy. In addition, 1st place winners will get their choice of 3 miniatures from the Kawna booth.

Daedalus Studios: 

This award will be given to models purchased from Daedalus's extensive selection of 3D-printed models.  Entrants will need to let registration know if their model was purchased through Daedalus (https://daedalusstudios.com/) to ensure consideration for the vendor award.

A trophy and a 100$ gift card to Daedalus Studios for the best entry in each category!

Painter: single miniature

Open: sculpted or converted miniature

Diorama/Vignettes: telling the story with miniatures

Armor/Ordnance: machines of war

The Golden Maggot: 

A judge's choice award sponsored and judged by Jenn "Kwindylarue" Bland and Cara Curley, celebrating entries that toe the line between creepy and cute. While any entry is eligible for the award, entrants who want to make sure their models are considered should let registration staff know. There will be only one first-place trophy awarded.

Dark Sword Miniatures: 

Dark Sword Diorama Category:

1st Place - $150 in Dark Sword Online Store Credit + $100 Cash + Trophy for best Dark Sword Diorama

2nd Place - $100 in Dark Sword Online Store Credit + Trophy for 2nd place Dark Sword Diorama

3rd Place - $50 in Dark Sword Online Store Credit + Trophy for 3rd place Dark Sword Diorama

Dark Sword Single Miniature Category:

1st Place - $150 in Dark Sword Online Store Credit + $100 Cash + Trophy for best Dark Sword Single Miniature

2nd Place - $100 in Dark Sword Online Store Credit + Trophy for 2nd place Dark Sword Single Miniature

3rd Place - $50 in Dark Sword Online Store Credit + Trophy for 3rd place Dark Sword Single Miniature

Dark Sword Critter Kingdoms Anthropomorphic Animals Open Category:

Can be either a single miniature or a diorama

1st Place - $150 in Dark Sword Online Store Credit + $100 Cash + Trophy for Dark Sword Critter Kingdoms

2nd Place - $100 in Dark Sword Online Store Credit + Trophy for 2nd place Dark Sword Critter Kingdoms

3rd Place - $50 in Dark Sword Online Store Credit + Trophy for 3rd place Dark Sword Critter Kingdoms

Dark Sword Young Painter Category (Age 17 and under):

Can be either a single miniature or a diorama

$100 in Dark Sword Online Store Credit + Ribbon for best Dark Sword Young Painter

$75 in Dark Sword Online Store Credit + Ribbon for 2nd place Dark Sword Young Painter

$50 in Dark Sword Online Store Credit + Ribbon for 3rd place Dark Sword Young Painter

The Dark Sword Miniatures Manufacturer Awards are open to all painters. To be eligible for the prize support listed above, the entries must be new entries, never entered into any other painting competitions. In addition, no entries can be commissions from Dark Sword Miniatures for painted studio models. This means Dark Sword studio painters can enter if they so desire, but their entries must be brand new creations not commissioned from Dark Sword and must also adhere to the eligibility requirements above. Please note - Dark Sword entries will also get the coveted "double dip" from being part of the overall ReaperCon painting competition as well. So one entry can potentially win multiple prizes/awards!

Ignition Core: 

An award for anime-style characters (like our Magical Girl Assault line, or Kingdom Death minis), video game-style characters, chibi minis (particularly chibi minis with an anime aesthetic, like our ignition:core line), or minis painted in an animation style (e.g. cell cell-shaded or similarly bold color scheme). 

These awards are not manufacturer-specific.  The awards will be:

1st Place Entry Trophy

2nd Place Entry Trophy

Best Youth Entry Trophy

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there, and especially to all the new mothers! We’ve had a couple of new additions to families here at Reaper, so we say congratulations to all of you!

We’ve been hard at work on the website and updating our figure tags and on some other projects, too! Lots of awesome figures are being sculpted for ReaperCon, which is coming up on Labor Day weekend. We’ve had a special guest come by the factory this past week (wink wink), and there are new releases still coming out regularly! Definitely check them out and get excited for all the things we’ll be releasing at the convention in September! There's not much else to report this week. Hopefully, you’ll hear about more of the things we’ve been brewing in future updates…

Until next time, we hope everyone’s been having a wonderful spring!!

~ News Update Team

Hope everyone is having a good week so far! We're sure many of you are looking forward to receiving those tax refunds in the next few weeks if you haven’t received them already! Not too many exciting updates this week from us, but nonetheless, we are hard at work making sure things keep trucking along smoothly!

You might have noticed a couple of individual paints and other paint products are out of stock. We’re currently waiting for a shipment of pigment to come in. We apologize for the delay, but rest assured that we don’t expect this to last very long, and these products should be back in stock in no time. Check back again in a few weeks!

In the meantime, we have a few new releases for sale now in our Dungeon Dwellers line. Come and get ‘em while they’re hot! (My personal favorite is 7149 Burnardo, I love his little hat, it reminds me of a gnome. - Bonita) Our Bones 6 box sets are also for sale! Check under the #Kickstarterremaining tag or click the banner on the front page for those. We’ve got some Bones 5 leftovers that have been popping up, so keep your eyes peeled for any future additions to that page. Remember: each SKU has a very limited stock, so grab them before they're gone!

For those of you who might not be aware, we host a quarterly figure painting contest called the 90-Day Challenge. It's a great way to push your painting skills to the limit and an easy entry point if you're uncertain where to begin. Submissions for entries and the rules of the contest are posted here: https://woobox.com/awgzk9

It seems like that’s going to be all from us. Make sure to tune in to Reaper Live this Thursday, 4/17, on our Twitch channel (and maybe we will talk about some of the progress being made on ReaperCon and other fun projects…). Catch you next time!

~ News Update Team

Happy April, folks! We’ve managed to infiltrate the newsroom and wrest control of the Reaper printing press, so we’re going to start regularly releasing some news updates for you guys here on the website! You can expect to hear about new releases, current events at the factory, and other types of tidbits from time to time. The goal is to update every couple of weeks, so without further ado, let’s get started!

What better way to start than to tell you about all the new production things we’re up to right now! Some of you may have noticed that we have a new Dire Gummy Bear figure, but what you might not know yet is that a small number of these Gummy Bears were printed in a limited edition jelly-colored resin! Place an order for one and see if you’re one of the lucky few who get a fun “flavor” variant! On that note, we do want to emphasize: please, please, PLEASE don’t eat the Gummy Bears. I’m begging you. Be kind to your body, don’t eat the resin figures, not even as a prank.

For our April Promotional figure, we’re releasing a cute Easter Dragon painting an egg! We think he’s absolutely adorable. We can’t wait to see what kind of designs people will paint onto these eggs! We will also be turning on some paints that haven’t been individually released before! These are paints featured in our High Seas Horror and High Seas Adventures Fast Palettes that will now be available for purchase as individual bottles.

We’re also slowly starting to transfer some classic Bones DHL favorites into updated Siocast and 3-D printed figures. You might recognize some of these figures as they enter the Reaper Legends line, such as the Iron Golem, the Dire Wolves, the Coffin and Corpse, and the Werewolf! All of these figures are currently featured on our New Releases page and are available now for purchase! You can expect to see familiar faces as we transfer more and more of our figures over.

Well, that’s going to just about do it for this update! We hope this was a fun and informative update about some of the things we’ve been working on lately. Until next time!

~ News Update Team