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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 17:31:10 GMT -5
Saw this while browsing Amazon for something else. I don’t know if these are high-quality, but if you use miniatures at your table these may make for some nice redshirts and spear carriers. NPCs: [ Click Here] Monsters: [ Click Here] The link takes you to a collection of plastic fantasy figures: 90 to 100 pcs. |
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Post by ripx187 on Feb 25, 2018 20:51:19 GMT -5
Exalt! This is good stuff. I am always picking up bugs and dinosaurs from the Dollar Store. I love these cheap little things, and this one is awesome! For Christmas a couple of years ago my wife game me RISK Lord of the Rings Edition, which is fun, but also has lots and lots of orcs and elves, and I've used them for when we have to do play on a grid. They weren't to scale, but I don't own enough metal orcs to have a decent battle, I've got 3. I love painting those things too  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 21:05:35 GMT -5
I am always picking up bugs and dinosaurs from the Dollar Store. I love these cheap little things, and this one is awesome! Check out Michael's arts and crafts stores. They have a lot of neat dinosaur, animal, monster-y type packs of critters. I seem to recall about 10-20 in a pack. |
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Post by ripx187 on Feb 25, 2018 21:38:13 GMT -5
The wife just bought 2 sets of the monsters.
I wish that somebody made some decent ink stamps so that we could make tiles. The thing that bugs me about miniatures is that people get caught up on them and quit using their imagination. I could build these fancy sets, but I don't like what they do to immersion. I could use a computer but that would totally violate the no-tech rule which is far worse to me than playing with figures.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 21:50:42 GMT -5
The wife just bought 2 sets of the monsters. I wish that somebody made some decent ink stamps so that we could make tiles. The thing that bugs me about miniatures is that people get caught up on them and quit using their imagination. I could build these fancy sets, but I don't like what they do to immersion. I could use a computer but that would totally violate the no-tech rule which is far worse to me than playing with figures. It's a font, not ink stamps, but check this out: www222.pair.com/sjohn/flagstone.htm |
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Post by ripx187 on Feb 25, 2018 22:56:58 GMT -5
You can do some fancy things with a word processor, but that requires glue and extra steps. Just a ink stamp on balsa tiles would be amaze-ballz!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 23:20:19 GMT -5
You can do some fancy things with a word processor, but that requires glue and extra steps. Just a ink stamp on balsa tiles would be amaze-ballz! I would just bet you get some custom stamps done. I've never priced them, so I don't know how cost effective they are, but I've seen that service advertised. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2018 13:26:13 GMT -5
Or you could pay ten bucks to one of any number of companies that make PDFs of dungeon floors and print them out.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2018 13:26:38 GMT -5
Also, playing with "bags full of plastic monsters" is ultra old-school.
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Post by ripx187 on Feb 28, 2018 20:19:08 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2018 23:14:27 GMT -5
 Got them in. They are a bit bigger than I'd prefer but they'll do. Nice! Big though they may be? They're still better than the cheap game piece "pawns" and pennies I usually use! |
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Post by raikenclw on Mar 6, 2018 1:03:00 GMT -5
I usually use printouts glued to cardboard, then folded over and glued front to back. Some of the printouts have different front and back views, others just have a black silhouette for the back side. Sometimes I even spring for color printouts. For bases, I glue the cardboard to pennies. You have to clean the pennies of skin oils really good first or they'll come loose in use.
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Nov 26, 2022 10:32:09 GMT -5
I stumbled upon a source of cheap miniatures with my latest trip to the FLGS - the used game section. Browsing through the rulebooks with my son, he came upon a box with some Khorne Berzerkers from Games Workshop. The box contained over 30 miniatures for only $25! If you've ever even glanced at a GW pack of miniatures then you know they don't even sell a single miniature for that cheap. A few of the mechs were already painted (or in various stages of being painted) but everything else was primed and waiting for paint. My son wanted them, so I bought them to paint up for him. There were a few (3 or 4) that had missing pieces but it's no big deal. Obviously, someone took on a bigger project than they could handle or the experience/patience to successfully undertake the number of miniatures at one time. I'll post some pics when I get some of them completed...
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