The minis are impressive, and for the most part the paint jobs are well done. I picked up four at Gen Con Joe, Mandy, Zoe and Jim and of the four I only looked at multiple copies of Mandy to find the one with the best eyes. Zoe was great, with the blood splatter on her outfit.

Retail stores will be able to carry these direct from FFG, and our store plans to get in the line. Should be available retail in September. I plan to get all the minis when they release, but wanted some to bring back from Gen Con to show off.

I bought them all and found the painting and sculpts to be well worth $4.

Hopefully they will make pre-painted monsters too!

Bashkar said:

I'll echo both these statements and add that a lot of D&D minis owners would love to buy pre-painted Arkham Horror monsters for their D&D campaigns.

The paint jobs on the new minis are terrible. Everyone is brightly colored and quite cheesy looking. Doesnt do any justice to the arkhm horror experience.

Give us an option to buy cheaper unpainted sets of minis. $64 for 16 low quality plastic minis with poorly chosen color schemes is not worth it IMHO.

The new minis dont belong on an Arkham game board anymore than these do: www.annastoydepot.com/dollhouse-families-and-people

As I said in an earlier post, I would be embarrassed to use these minis for a board game as classy as Arkham Horror.

Heh, now I want to put together my own set of minis using lego men.

Dave99 said:

Sheesh.  Get over it.  It's a game... all of the components are essentially little toys that represent make-believe things.  The minis look just fine to me, and one big advantage to having them is that they take up a good amount of less space than the stand-ups.  Less space cluttered on the board is a very good thing for AH.

Dave99 said:

I completely disagree. Looking at the 48 minis on the table in front of me, they don't come across as brightly colored, much less cheesy. The minis fit well with the Arkham Horror / Call of Cthulhu / Lovecraft feel.

Now, are they as dark as the pictures on their stat cards? No. But that's because of the heavy shadows on all (or almost all) the pictures. If you really want all your miniatures shadowed like that, you could dip the minis into a bottle of black wash for 2 minutes then pull them out and let them drip dry. I'd never do this with the excellently painted AH minis, but it should give you the heavy shadow look you seem to want.

well, i guess ill have to see them for myself

if u have all 48 of them could u post a few close ups in good lighting?

the pics ive seen of the display case at gencon looked pretty bad

Thank you FFG!!!!!

I am seriously looking forward to these and want to thank the powers to be for going ahead with these.  They will be a great addition to a great game system.  I have been playing miniatures for years now and $4 for a painted miniature to me is a good deal.  Consider 1 set sold.

Brian

Avi_dreader said: