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Improvised/home-made minis?
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Three_Haligonians
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Pbartender
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Thurbane said:
I give you the Giant Crab from White Plume Mountain...
...and a close up.
It's easy. Just write "CRAB" on a 3" by 3" Post-it Note:
frankthedm
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I got a whole thread of toys and home made minis
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Gilladian
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I use polymer clay to make and bake my minis.
Here's a look at the bulk of them: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gilladian/sets/72157601082049021/
Here's a look at the bulk of them: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gilladian/sets/72157601082049021/
HelloChristian
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These are all so great! I thought building terrain was hard, but wow, minis look tough to make. You've inspired me to get out my Sculpey to see what I can come up with.
Peace,
Christian
Peace,
Christian
blargney the second
blargney the minute's son
So much mini goodness, so little time...
I hit the discount stores. Plastic dinosaurs, fossil dinosaurs, giant spiders, snakes, frogs, lizards-- for stuff like that you can get an army for a few bucks.
Last game my group fought a mass of Mage Knight and Heroclix monsters, a bunch of large tarantulas from a Halloween party favor pack, a Huge spider from the Little Miss Moffet MacFarlane line, and a Colossal Spider played by Shelob from LOTR. There was even some DDM's mixed in there. The whole battle took place in ruins represented by aquarium terrain and a plastic temple from the old Dark World board game.
Basically, anytime I see something cool in a bargain bin, I nab it.
Last game my group fought a mass of Mage Knight and Heroclix monsters, a bunch of large tarantulas from a Halloween party favor pack, a Huge spider from the Little Miss Moffet MacFarlane line, and a Colossal Spider played by Shelob from LOTR. There was even some DDM's mixed in there. The whole battle took place in ruins represented by aquarium terrain and a plastic temple from the old Dark World board game.
Basically, anytime I see something cool in a bargain bin, I nab it.
Homemade Gelatinous Cube:
http://www.superdan.net/gelatinousCube/
http://www.superdan.net/gelatinousCube/
Torm
Explorer
We use the post-it note method, the cut-paper-to-size method, and we've used "minis" from all over the place - Heroclix, Mage Knight, the Star Wars mini game, the pewter pieces from various editions of Monopoly (especially the Star Wars ones), and for one Modron character in a Planescape game, we used a six-sided die from some game that had stickers on the sides that we removed so it was plain black.
We've had a couple of minis that were painted by players, and we've had DMs print out pictures of creatures at the right scale and cut them out, and that's about as creative as we get.
We had one player who insisted for a while on using a Mr. Potato Head keychain figure that he had removed the keychain from. It was the correct scale, but just didn't look right on the mat, and eventually one of our DMs broke it "accidentally".
We've had a couple of minis that were painted by players, and we've had DMs print out pictures of creatures at the right scale and cut them out, and that's about as creative as we get.
We had one player who insisted for a while on using a Mr. Potato Head keychain figure that he had removed the keychain from. It was the correct scale, but just didn't look right on the mat, and eventually one of our DMs broke it "accidentally".
