Mageknight and Dreamblade minis for D&D?

[justanobody]

I haven't even seen the 4e condition markers yet!

Enjoy, they are great little things there for many purposes beyond just minis. I just wish I could afford to order more custom from them.

Nuke Blast Marker, Large

That is actually a Gargantuan Flumph with jaundice.

 

[Quantarum]

I recently bought a ton of Dreamblade minis on the secondary market for cheap. I like them so much they have inspired me to create the first campaign for my redesigned homebrew for 4E. The Faceless King was the main inspiration (King in Yellow anyone).
Stabbed myself in the thumb five times debasing them, the weave of my Kevlar gloves is separating from wear. -Q.

 

[Kunimatyu]

I also have a scar on my index finger from an overzealous exacto knife from rebasing figures.

I've since figured out a safe way to do it.

Put down the Exacto knife and get a box of safety razorblades.

Get a small "mat" of cardboard and set it down on a table.

Place the miniature on the mat so that the base is at a 90 degree angle to the mat.

Holding the base and miniature such that no fingers are below the path of the blade, put the safety razor at one end of the base and slowly work it down through the bottom of the mini.

If it starts cutting faster, the blade will embed itself in the cardboard below the mini and your fingers will be safe.

 

[Mark]

The Gale Force Nine Store

Want to try some take-out

Econo-Bases are a good deal.

 

[Morbid Angel]

So I just picked up some GF9 bases. I have a bunch of old Mageknight figures I've been wanting to rebase. What sort of glue would you guys recommend? I've never really done any rebasing before. Also any other tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Mark]

So I just picked up some GF9 bases. I have a bunch of old Mageknight figures I've been wanting to rebase. What sort of glue would you guys recommend? I've never really done any rebasing before. Also any other tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

I use cyanoacrylate (Maxi-Cure (tm), locally) for most things, including anything I base on masonite (like the GF9 bases) or hard plastic (like GW bases). But after I glue the fig on, I water down some white glue to attach the flocking.


While we are on the subject, though, I am looking for a better method of using hard foam rubber bases under hard or soft plastic figs. Anyone got ideas?

 

[Riley]

So I just picked up some GF9 bases. I have a bunch of old Mageknight figures I've been wanting to rebase. What sort of glue would you guys recommend? I've never really done any rebasing before. Also any other tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

I remounted a bunch of these on Warhammer bases with super glue (aka cyanoacrylate) and it worked just dandy.

The nice thing about rebasing Mage Knight minis is that they are pretty easy to remove cleanly from the old bases. It's pretty easy to 'pop' them off their original bases just by sliding a flat razor blade under the minis' feet.

Every time that I've let a DM raid my minis, I've soon found myself battling a pair of these critters:
Mage Knight 2.0 Skull Golem 073 Weak DC - eBay (item 200263395845 end time Nov-12-08 16:23:36 PST)
http://img.mercadolivre.com.br/jm/img?s=MLB&f=66402658_8681.jpg&v=P

It's happened three times now.

 

[CharlesRyan]

Hi, all--

Count me among those who have recently come into some Dreamblade minis I'd like to use for D&D.

Has anybody tried removing the coloured "outer" base (the part with the writing) from the inner base (the part that's physically connected to the mini itself)? If so, any tips for doing it successfully? The "inner" base is just a hair over an inch square, so it would fit a battlegrid fairly well.

 

[Nebulous]

Has anybody tried removing the coloured "outer" base (the part with the writing) from the inner base (the part that's physically connected to the mini itself)? If so, any tips for doing it successfully? The "inner" base is just a hair over an inch square, so it would fit a battlegrid fairly well.

I've been utterly unsuccessful removing the square inner base from the outer base. The risk of seriously cutting yourself is just too high, and i wouldn't recommend trying. You're better off trying to removing the mini by the feet and gluing to a new base.

And yes, i do think that many of the DB minis make excellent D&D (or Cthulhu, or Star Wars) monsters.

 

[Riley]

Has anybody tried removing the coloured "outer" base (the part with the writing) from the inner base (the part that's physically connected to the mini itself)?

I pulled this off once, but it wasn't easy, and it really wasn't worth the effort. The inner base has five prongs in the bottom that are almost more of a pain to remove than the figure is from the top of the base.