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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ledded" data-source="post: 1329854" data-attributes="member: 12744">You've obviously never met a man with the power of Mad Miniatures Disorder (tm), a saw, a pin vise, some putty, and a bits box <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Seriously, I'm a big fan of 3 dimensional minis, but that is often the problem: finding that 'perfect' mini.   However, most of the time I will get a mini that is very close to what someone likes for their character, and convert it somehow using a variety of Mad Mini Scientist techniques.  I've got nothing against counters or 2-D shrinky-dinks, but I've got a serious hobby neurosis;  we play Modern with a variety of 3D buildings, street layouts, real-looking trees, nice little accessories (I've even got *mailboxes*, I tell you), and bunches of scale model diecast cars (and planes, and helicopters...).  We've got a pretty expansive room full of scenery that we have gone with, especially after 2 of our group got into Hirst Arts homemade buildings. I'd post a list of the miniatures that we like the most for modern, but we've done that before so I'll just direct anyone interested to the following threads: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=70273" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=70273</a>  (a good discussion of modern miniatures and usage) <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=65349" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=65349</a> <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=68216" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=68216</a>  (Dana's near-comprehensive list of stuff) My personal favorites are Chinatown (great modern oriental minis), Copplestone (affordable and good sculpts), Foundry (some of the BEST sculpts but pricey), and em4miniatures (good sculpts, *very* affordable even though they are a UK company). O-Scale train diorama stuff works well for modern, things like plasticville buildings and street accessories you can pick up fairly cheap. Most dollar stores sell the diecast cars in 1:64 or 1:48 scales, both work fairly well and you can often get them, well, for a dollar or two <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> <a href="http://www.pjcc.com" target="_blank">www.pjcc.com</a> sells clix minis in singles, sometimes incredibly cheap (20 cents or less).  Yeah, clix dont often compare to a well painted metal, but you can often short-cut your mook hordes that way, and occasionally you find a few that are surprisingly well done.  I like them the most for picking up strange critters and monters for under a couple bucks that would cost 7-10 bucks to get in metal (and then ya gotta paint 'em and hope they show up on the table one day <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) Also, check ebay for deals on all these manufacturers... I almost *never* buy minis at retail, and occasionally you can get great deals on lots of unrelated minis or clix. Most of the conversions I did for some Star Wars gaming we were into, basically taking minis and parts and mixing them up to make races that you just couldnt get a mini for.  Some of it worked out fairly well.  In modern, I did a mini for Fludogg/Joe in our group (took a guy on a skateboard, added a big fat belly to him, and then painted him up like he wanted).  I'm still trying to figure out how to make/get a Stetson on a miniature for Pierce's Brother Cooper. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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