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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frankthedm" data-source="post: 4950772" data-attributes="member: 1164">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 fliesVery good small sized plastic antsvery good small/medium plastic spidersDecent medium rubber spider, that would have to have it's feet glued onto the base to fitVery good, if flat, large red tinged rubber roach. It's antenna almost look like hornsMediocre rubber centipede. Maybe wrapped around a column it could work.Decent rubber pincer beetle with an extra set of legsDecent huge rubber spiderUp 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.<img src="http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8254/crittersza9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />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.<img src="http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8316/crittersszd4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> 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<img src="http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/4397/battywp1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />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.<img src="http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7738/flightbasekw3.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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