Mageknight and Dreamblade minis for D&D?

[Riley]

Another question on rebasing: for the ones I'm going to treat as 'large' miniatures, I'm thinking about just leaving them on the original bases.

Has anyone tried using a solvent to remove the painted lettering from the bases? I'm looking for something that will remove the paint easily, without damaging the plastic or finish.

 

[frankthedm]

Another question on rebasing: for the ones I'm going to treat as 'large' miniatures, I'm thinking about just leaving them on the original bases.

Has anyone tried using a solvent to remove the painted lettering from the bases? I'm looking for something that will remove the paint easily, without damaging the plastic or finish.

Eh, I think painting over with black paint or permanent marker may be more efficient than trying to chem-strip the base's lettering.

 

[Mark]

Eh, I think painting over with black paint or permanent marker may be more efficient than trying to chem-strip the base's lettering.

I'm a big fan of utilizing the fat Sharpies markers to go around the outside of my bases once they are complete, as a way of finishing them off. As always, good ventilation is a must with those markers as much as with chemicals and solvents to avoid headaches or worse.

 

[Riley]

I could paint them, but the white print is on the colored sections of the bases, and the colors aren't the easiest to match.

Oh well, I'll see if something in the basement wouldn't be a close match.

 

[frankthedm]

Thanks for the link, Quantarum! I've been rebasing some Dreamblade minis I've picked up from work,

So was nightfusion the last set produced or did those 'from work' figs include Serrated Dawn figures?

 

[justanobody]

Why not just texture the bases? Put some ground covering on them for the most logical area the mini would be found in and completely cover the base like that.

A black paint pen should work goot to cover any lettering or anything else.

 

[frankthedm]

Why not just texture the bases? Put some ground covering on them for the most logical area the mini would be found in and completely cover the base like that.

A black paint pen should work good to cover any lettering or anything else.

Flocking and ballasting a base works well, but I find that doing that to a prepaint takes more time per fig than I usually prefer. Definitely a good idea to make the base a single colour before applying the basing material though.

 

[justanobody]

Flocking and ballasting a base works well, but I find that doing that to a prepaint takes more time per fig than I usually prefer. Definitely a good idea to make the base a single colour before applying the basing material though.

Paint glue on the base and dip into the ballast or flock. Repeat with finer grain ballast or flock until the base is covered.

 

[CharlesRyan]

Fair enough. Thanks for the responses. I'll cut them off the bases completely as others have suggested and rebase them.

Thanks!

 

[frankthedm]

BTW, metal washers may be seeing some price jumps due to a sagging economy and higher demands on world metals markets. 1" metal washers I was paying 4-7 cents for a few years back launched up to 23 cents each at my local hardware store. By the box price was a bit better though.EDIT: local places were just gouging. Some hardware stores still have good prices on metal washers. (Menards (Chicago Suburbs) is offering 70 1" wahers for just $2)

While I do not advocate harming or defacing any country's currency , I just want to mention again US pennies are fairly close to being 20mm round bases [19.05 mm] and the British two pence coin [25.9MM] is also quite close to being a one inch base Inch [25.4MM]