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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frankthedm" data-source="post: 3832896" data-attributes="member: 1164">Yep.[imagel]http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/747/safead6.gif[/imagel]Dreamblade are harder to slice off though it can be done. Take a normal #11 Xacto blade hold the Dreamblade against a wall.Slice into where base meets foot, keeping your finger out of the way at all costs.Cut the foot flush from the base using as much force as needed.The blade will cut into the wall due to the required force.Mind that this really only needs to be done with the smaller dream blade figs. The dreamblade base is a 1.5" square. The proper size for a large critter in a lot of games.Halloween toys can make good figs<a href="http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8254/crittersza9.jpg" target="_blank">[imager]http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8254/crittersza9.th.jpg[/imager]</a>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 <a href="http://www.partycity.com/cgi-bin/parties/favors.cgi?parties=Halloween&productstype=Creatures&products=51596&&zoom=1" target="_blank">nice bag of Large bats</a> with enough detail to hold a tabletop level repaint along with a bag of just barely large size <a href="http://www.partycity.com/cgi-bin/parties/favors.cgi?parties=Halloween&productstype=Creatures&products=105728&&zoom=1" target="_blank">rubber rats </a> with noticable mold lines. Still the rats would look kinda nice with skaven riding them.The huge snail is from wally world's toy isle.[imagel]http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8316/crittersszd4.jpg[/imagel]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. 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.</blockquote>

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