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Post by teazia on Jul 19, 2014 23:00:16 GMT
I got a bunch of junk Mage knight figs for about $0.20 per fig a few months ago. Some of the larger monsters are fine on their original bases but the demihumans need a smaller base. I picked up a tip from somewhere that plastic quarters make perfect bases. And I have to agree, cheap and at ~25cm a perfect size. Give em a shot! Also a few Warcraft figs. Cheers!
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Post by teaman on Jul 19, 2014 23:36:59 GMT
I use poker chips and then flock them. This works well for larger figs.
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Post by adamantinedragon on Jul 20, 2014 4:29:36 GMT
Back when I bought a lot of about 400 Mage Knight minis for about $75, I needed to rebase all of them, so I found this online wood supply distributor that sold bulk wooden circles. I bought three or four different sizes and I've used those wooden disks for bases for a lot of my other minis I've made. But I also use cheap dollar store poker chips as bases, especially on my simple animal or dinosaur minis.
I keep telling myself that bases are the next thing I really need to do.
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Post by teazia on Jul 20, 2014 5:47:05 GMT
400 for 75 is an awesome deal! When was this?
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Post by wildagreenbough on Jul 20, 2014 8:37:20 GMT
MageKnight didn't take off in the way that its creators hoped and for a while there retailers were selling off MageKnight figures in bulk for very cheap just to get rid of them. I rebased quite a few MK Orcs for Warhammer Fantasy which made for a very cheap and reasonably good looking army. After repainting it was often difficult to tell that they were MK figures and I was always being asked where I'd got 'those cool figures' from. Some MK figures were based on old Ral Partha designs with nice detailing and after cleaning them off and repainting they really did look good.
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Post by sgtslag on Jul 21, 2014 3:02:48 GMT
I use vinyl floor tiles, $0.39 per square foot. I peel and stick two together, then I cut them into the needed base sizes: 1"-square, 1" x 2", 2"-square, 1" x 3", etc. After I Hot Glue the de-based MK figures to the vinyl tile piece, I apply PVA, and dunk into a mixture of different sands: fine green, medium brown, and 'gravel' bits; coat that with Scenic Cement, to secure it all in place. Easy, fast, and looks good enough at arm's length. Cheers!
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Post by okumarts on Jul 21, 2014 3:11:49 GMT
I found a bunch of cheap Horrorclix minis and I have been having a great time modifying them for my Traveller game. The step by step page.
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Post by Jason on Jul 21, 2014 13:07:00 GMT
What a great deal! They look great.
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Post by sgtslag on Jul 21, 2014 17:07:25 GMT
Nice! Would love to get into Traveller again, but it's hard enough to find time for my D&D games... Life gets in the way of fun -- Again! LOL. Cheers!
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Post by adamantinedragon on Jul 22, 2014 2:01:53 GMT
400 for 75 is an awesome deal! When was this? Two years ago now. I got lucky, I found an eBay auction from a guy who was so fed up with the MageKnight game that he didn't even count his pieces, he was selling it by the box. After I won his first auction, he just asked me if I wanted to get the rest of his minis too so I could save on shipping. It ended up being about $75 for over 400 MageKnight minis. Now, to be fair, a LOT of those minis suck. But a lot of them are really great too. I'd say that about 100 of them are equal to any D&D mini, 200 of them are perfectly acceptable and look fine next to D&D minis, and about 100 of them are mostly useful for spare parts or mash-ups. But that's still an awesome deal. I also bought a bunch of Ceasar miniatures for about $8 or $10 per box of about 30-40 each. They are 25mm instead of 28mm, but they also work fine. And I made a bunch of minis myself. The result is a pretty nice collection of miniatures. By number, weight or volume anyway.
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Post by sgtslag on Jul 23, 2014 2:04:54 GMT
I've been using MK figures for a number of years. They make some awesome figures, as well as bunches which I can't use, period... They provided me with Centaur Zombies which I could not get anywhere else! Their Bone Golems are perfect Giant Skeletons. I've built up some fantastic fantasy armies using MK figures. I can typically buy them, fully painted, ready to use aside from re-basing, for an average of $2-$3 per figure! Un-painted, plastic, resin, and metal figures, sell for that, and more. The MK lots on e-Bay sometimes go for a pittance. It is worth searching, or even putting an automated search on e-Bay, to find good deals. Cheers!
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Post by robagd on Jul 23, 2014 3:46:35 GMT
Humm are poker chips really any smaller than the current bases?
I have about 75 I want to re base but I really want a heavy base for the figs.
I picked up some washers but I was kinda Meh on them.
I picked up a 100 ct bag of skeletons and Dogs for my Goblin horde that I'll be throwing at the group soon. Not sure how much paint work Ill put on them...
-R
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Post by wildagreenbough on Jul 23, 2014 3:49:36 GMT
I've been using MK figures for a number of years. They make some awesome figures, as well as bunches which I can't use, period... They provided me with Centaur Zombies which I could not get anywhere else! Their Bone Golems are perfect Giant Skeletons. I've built up some fantastic fantasy armies using MK figures. I can typically buy them, fully painted, ready to use aside from re-basing, for an average of $2-$3 per figure! Un-painted, plastic, resin, and metal figures, sell for that, and more. The MK lots on e-Bay sometimes go for a pittance. It is worth searching, or even putting an automated search on e-Bay, to find good deals. Cheers! MK Bone Golems are win all the way
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Post by adamantinedragon on Jul 23, 2014 3:50:55 GMT
My experience with Mage Knight, Ceasar and my own sculpts has made me very unwilling to spend more than a dollar or so per mini. In fact my current average cost per mini according to my best calculation is somewhere between a quarter and thirty cents per mini. Not counting my dragons anyway. I've spent $20 on a single dragon.
Stupid dragons.
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Post by teazia on Jul 23, 2014 6:14:15 GMT
20 to 30 cents is also my target, but willing to go a bit higher and also pick up a few special cases. The only thing.is that the cheap ones tend to get repeated, so over time you end up with enough of them.
Don't forget about Warcraft minis. They are also painted and quite large. I picked up 125 random commons (really about 5 of each) for $30 shipped!
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