Guess Who I saw at my Local Target Store Today?
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frankthedm
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Halloween is a good season for cheap minis.
Most won't be worth painting, but sometimes swelling the ranks of the DM's monster minis means going with the next best thing. This time of year, that gets easier since a good amount of cheap Halloween favors will make decent minis.
Just today a $3 bag at a corner drugstore netted me a lot of bugs including multiples of;
Some iffy looking plastic flies
Very good small sized plastic ants
very good small/medium plastic spiders
Decent medium rubber spider, that would have to have it's feet glued onto the base to fit
Very good, if flat, large red tinged rubber roach. It's antenna almost look like horns
Mediocre rubber centipede. Maybe wrapped around a column it could work.
Decent rubber pincer beetle with an extra set of legs
Decent huge rubber spider
Up at a Party supply store I found a nice bag of Large bats with enough detail to hold a tabletop level repaint along with a bag of just barely large size rubber rats with noticable mold lines. Still the rats would look kinda nice with skaven riding them.
The huge snail is from wally world's toy isle.
Other recent finds were a bunch of glow in the dark tiny ants and flies at a Ma' & Pa' drug store. The ants will be used in a swarm base, the flies I want to convert into stirges.
Also found a bag of cheap sea critters with some possibly salvageable crabs and stingrays. That store also had a boatload of plastic animals too numerous to note, and in the Halloween section they had two versions of huge rat toys that would work on the battlemat.
Got the bats based on some home made flight bases
The bases are 40MM bases [aka pokechips]. a nail with a round bulb head was inserted by drilling into the chip so that the top chip would hold the nail immobile.
First drilled a bit the with of the nail that almost all the way though the chip, just so the other side of the chip beveled slightly.
Second, drilled 3/4th the way though with a bit as wide as the nail head.
Then punch the nail though and glue one chip beneath to hold the nail in place and for weight.
Most won't be worth painting, but sometimes swelling the ranks of the DM's monster minis means going with the next best thing. This time of year, that gets easier since a good amount of cheap Halloween favors will make decent minis.
Just today a $3 bag at a corner drugstore netted me a lot of bugs including multiples of;
Some iffy looking plastic flies
Very good small sized plastic ants
very good small/medium plastic spiders
Decent medium rubber spider, that would have to have it's feet glued onto the base to fit
Very good, if flat, large red tinged rubber roach. It's antenna almost look like horns
Mediocre rubber centipede. Maybe wrapped around a column it could work.
Decent rubber pincer beetle with an extra set of legs
Decent huge rubber spider
Up at a Party supply store I found a nice bag of Large bats with enough detail to hold a tabletop level repaint along with a bag of just barely large size rubber rats with noticable mold lines. Still the rats would look kinda nice with skaven riding them.
The huge snail is from wally world's toy isle.
Other recent finds were a bunch of glow in the dark tiny ants and flies at a Ma' & Pa' drug store. The ants will be used in a swarm base, the flies I want to convert into stirges.
Also found a bag of cheap sea critters with some possibly salvageable crabs and stingrays. That store also had a boatload of plastic animals too numerous to note, and in the Halloween section they had two versions of huge rat toys that would work on the battlemat.
Got the bats based on some home made flight bases
The bases are 40MM bases [aka pokechips]. a nail with a round bulb head was inserted by drilling into the chip so that the top chip would hold the nail immobile.
First drilled a bit the with of the nail that almost all the way though the chip, just so the other side of the chip beveled slightly.
Second, drilled 3/4th the way though with a bit as wide as the nail head.
Then punch the nail though and glue one chip beneath to hold the nail in place and for weight.
Mercutio01
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Not yet. I work at Target, though, and have all the good stuff picked out.
Lord Mhoram
Hero
Going on a tangent - how long have you had your pun fund. We've had our "punny bank" going for something like 18 years in our group. It's cool to see someone else doing the same thing.
I've been with this group for almost 15 years and the fund was part of the group when I started. Puns cost a dime for years, but to account for inflation, we voted to raise the cost to a quarter a few years ago.
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