Miniatures and Maps
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Krail Stromquism
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Depends on the room youve got!
if youve the room to do it, head straight for home depot!
buy the following:
1- 8'x4' sheet of tile bord, this is a sheet of masonite with a flat white on one side. price= 8 bucks
1- 8'x4' piece of plywood, price will depend on the thickness, we use a 1 or 1 1/4 inch thick piece, 20-30 bucks
2-3 rolls of CLEAR contact paper, 6-8 bucks
2-3 three sharpies, 5 bucks (you could use drafting or artist markers that come in different values of grey or any color instead of black)
If you didnt have any of these supplies, you'd be around 50 dollars for the big table, but if can find some good partical board or other way to hold up the tile board your at around 25 bucks. Say an average group has 6 people in it, thats only 4-8 dollars a person! less than a movie ticket! unless that movie is the The Two Towers then that ticket is priceless! anyhow...
So, using your plywood your making a table top, you can make legs for this table, use saw horses, set it on an existing table, or whatever. This is your base.
Get a straight edge, yard stick or whatever works, and use the markers to put down a 1 inch grid on the white side of the tile board.
then apply the CLEAR contact paper, this is like plastic lamenent, just make sure you smooth it out as you go avoiding any air bubbles and that the strips, that are about a foot wide, dont have any gaps between them.
Now you've got a 8ft x 4ft gaming table that you can use with dry erase markers! *remember dry erase markers will remove permenent marker, hence the need for the contact paper*
if your cramped for space, just get the tile board, have Home Depot cut it in two 4x4 pieces (costs 50 cents or $1) and youve got a piece big enough for the dinning room table! its very light and could hide behind a book case or hutch. Plus it be right around the 20 dollar mark. Not bad.
Right now we have a big 8x4 table and we are going to make the table into 2 layers with 2x6s to create a space for books and stuff.
We have a dedicated room for our game so we are very spoiled. We're about to paint the walls with a map of Faerun! cool anyway.
ps-maybe invest in a bottle of ispropel alcohol to remove stubborn marker.
if youve the room to do it, head straight for home depot!
buy the following:
1- 8'x4' sheet of tile bord, this is a sheet of masonite with a flat white on one side. price= 8 bucks
1- 8'x4' piece of plywood, price will depend on the thickness, we use a 1 or 1 1/4 inch thick piece, 20-30 bucks
2-3 rolls of CLEAR contact paper, 6-8 bucks
2-3 three sharpies, 5 bucks (you could use drafting or artist markers that come in different values of grey or any color instead of black)
If you didnt have any of these supplies, you'd be around 50 dollars for the big table, but if can find some good partical board or other way to hold up the tile board your at around 25 bucks. Say an average group has 6 people in it, thats only 4-8 dollars a person! less than a movie ticket! unless that movie is the The Two Towers then that ticket is priceless! anyhow...
So, using your plywood your making a table top, you can make legs for this table, use saw horses, set it on an existing table, or whatever. This is your base.
Get a straight edge, yard stick or whatever works, and use the markers to put down a 1 inch grid on the white side of the tile board.
then apply the CLEAR contact paper, this is like plastic lamenent, just make sure you smooth it out as you go avoiding any air bubbles and that the strips, that are about a foot wide, dont have any gaps between them.
Now you've got a 8ft x 4ft gaming table that you can use with dry erase markers! *remember dry erase markers will remove permenent marker, hence the need for the contact paper*
if your cramped for space, just get the tile board, have Home Depot cut it in two 4x4 pieces (costs 50 cents or $1) and youve got a piece big enough for the dinning room table! its very light and could hide behind a book case or hutch. Plus it be right around the 20 dollar mark. Not bad.
Right now we have a big 8x4 table and we are going to make the table into 2 layers with 2x6s to create a space for books and stuff.
We have a dedicated room for our game so we are very spoiled. We're about to paint the walls with a map of Faerun! cool anyway.
ps-maybe invest in a bottle of ispropel alcohol to remove stubborn marker.
Krail Stromquism
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oh yeah links.
http://www.brookhursthobbies.com/
http://www.fantization.com/
http://www.reapermini.com/
http://www.dragglestown.com/
http://www.albinorhino.com/hobby/
http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/
http://empireminiatures.com/
http://www.dark-age.com/
http://www.hirstarts.com/
http://www.wegotgame.net/jen/main.html
links-a-go go
uh yeah, always be on the look out for Jennifer Haley and her amazing brush! great painter!
http://www.brookhursthobbies.com/
http://www.fantization.com/
http://www.reapermini.com/
http://www.dragglestown.com/
http://www.albinorhino.com/hobby/
http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/
http://empireminiatures.com/
http://www.dark-age.com/
http://www.hirstarts.com/
http://www.wegotgame.net/jen/main.html
links-a-go go
uh yeah, always be on the look out for Jennifer Haley and her amazing brush! great painter!
KnowTheToe
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Now, you need to live near a big city, but we hire homeless people to act out our battles. It adds a whole new dimesion to the game.
Ashrem Bayle
Explorer
KnowTheToe said:
ROFLMAO!
talmar
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maddman75 said:
I have to agree. I fellow DM turned me on to these guys. When they had their sale going on I purchased 270 total counters for $50. I think they are awesome. The art on many leave something to be desired but they get the meaning across. Drawn to scale, color, lamenated and on 20 mil plastic. A great way to start off without forking out tons of cash for mini's.
Another alternative to mini's are those plastic mage knight figures and even hero clix. Cheaper than mini's but still useable.
As far as mats go, I love our mat. It's one of the mats you get from Chessex. I feel they're definately worth the investment.
Kershek
Sci-Fi Newshound
I got that same deal. I do love the counters, but I really wish they would have stuck with 3E size rules for the monsters. For instance, the Ogre counter is 5' x 10' instead of 5' x 5' as per the MM. It's really annoying. I don't want to cut up my counters, so I end up centering them in the middle of a square and let them take up half of the squares around them. Gets really difficult when there are several of them.talmar said:
I agree. I have one of the double-sided ones. We use hexes for outdoors and squares for dungeons.
I would suggest going to:
www.fortressfigures.com
They have reasonably inexpensive resin minatures that paint up nicely. I'd suggest buying 1 pack of "cave goblins" they come in a bag of 20 for $10, and you can use them for all your cheap humanoid horde needs. Best $10 I ever spent.
Then I'd suggest getting a bag of "Hareballs" these are demonic-looking rabbit creatures, and they come in a bag of 12-15 for $10. They are great for "generic monsters" anything from wolves to Otyughs.
www.fortressfigures.com
They have reasonably inexpensive resin minatures that paint up nicely. I'd suggest buying 1 pack of "cave goblins" they come in a bag of 20 for $10, and you can use them for all your cheap humanoid horde needs. Best $10 I ever spent.
Then I'd suggest getting a bag of "Hareballs" these are demonic-looking rabbit creatures, and they come in a bag of 12-15 for $10. They are great for "generic monsters" anything from wolves to Otyughs.
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