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Post by dodobot on Mar 13, 2016 14:19:04 GMT
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sotf
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Post by sotf on Mar 14, 2016 5:01:07 GMT
Unfortunately, the best way I'd been able to get the bases, GW ones at that, is now gone with AoS...find someone who plays chaos in Fantasy and get their extras. Couple hundred at a time for $5...
There is also something said for uniformity in bases for your minis
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Post by teazia on Mar 14, 2016 6:08:37 GMT
Its time to short GW stock, cause 3D printing is gonna kill their business model. A Dwarven Forge Dungeon Tile equivalent tile costs about $0.05 + a bit of electricity for me to print. How much cheaper is a base? Or figures even?
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Mar 14, 2016 8:21:14 GMT
Anything that screws GW is good with me.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Mar 14, 2016 18:05:59 GMT
3D printing didn't kill the industry, its actually what made the industry what it is today ! look at dwarven forge. it costed them next to nothing to do their pieces and yet they sold it for over 300% of their values. thats how the world works. people want stuff and they want it now so they buy it as they seee it even if its costing them 5 times the price.
3D printing still isn't for everyone. because of that people will continu to make money off of it.
though i do agree with sotf... i dislike my beholders bases. i dislike the bases off some of my minis. i just dislike the fact that my bases are not all the same really. so unfortunately there is a market for bases and i dont think it will change soon.
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Post by tauster on Mar 14, 2016 21:31:16 GMT
for large bases, buy round poker chips: they're uniform in size, heavy (--> low center of gravity!) and some are even magnetic due to the metal core.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Mar 15, 2016 4:51:59 GMT
well depends on much you willing to go for... the cheapest here are like 30$ for a case with like 200 or so chips and they aren't really metal.
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Mar 15, 2016 9:36:54 GMT
Another method would be to make a homemade silicon mold of a base and use resin or super sculpey with something for weight embedded into the bottom.
Lead fishing weights could work.
But like I said anything that screws over GW is a good thing to me.
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Post by tauster on Mar 15, 2016 12:43:04 GMT
well depends on much you willing to go for... the cheapest here are like 30$ for a case with like 200 or so chips and they aren't really metal. New sets on amazon.com with 200 chis sell for about 15$, and if you look for used poker sets on ebay, you'll get 'em at a fraction of that price. I haven't looked, but there should be plenty of offline-opportunities to get them cheaper than 30$ for 200 pcs.
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Post by adamsouza on Mar 15, 2016 13:07:31 GMT
I made molds for 25mm, 32mm, 40mm, and 50mm bases for my 40K forces. Casting them in Dental Plaster makes them durable and gives them a satisfying weight.
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jubbs71
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Post by jubbs71 on Mar 15, 2016 13:26:13 GMT
Somewhere on the forum someone posted a video about using sculpey. I tried this yesterday.
Take a washer with an inner diameter on the desired size (in my case inner diameter of 1 inch) and with a rolling pin (or another comparable tool) roll out the putty into the washer. Texture the putty in any way you desire and bake.
The bases are slightly pliable when finished and incredibly inexpensive (minus the initial cost of the washers)
I used a cork to texture mine and I liked how they turned out.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Mar 15, 2016 19:52:14 GMT
well depends on much you willing to go for... the cheapest here are like 30$ for a case with like 200 or so chips and they aren't really metal. New sets on amazon.com with 200 chis sell for about 15$, and if you look for used poker sets on ebay, you'll get 'em at a fraction of that price. I haven't looked, but there should be plenty of offline-opportunities to get them cheaper than 30$ for 200 pcs. i'm in canada... cause of shipping from amazon, it will get back to about 30$ used chips may be the better options. but then again metal chips are much higher cost then regular basic chips. i contacted a few months ago a seller of poker chips because i wanted real ones. the difference in chips and use are so much greater then people there is.
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Post by baravakar on Apr 7, 2016 21:48:24 GMT
I found a new way to make bases for myself. I purchase a 1" round hole punch from a craft store. I used it on cereal boxes to get some disks. I used hot glue to stack three together with the graphic sides hidden. I then use these as bases for any model I want.
Outlay price was around $5 for the punch. Leftover boxes and hot glue for the rest. Cheap easy bases, unlimited supply. I also went back and bough two more punches for smaller disks. Kobolds don't need large bases to mount.
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Post by tauster on Apr 10, 2016 13:01:21 GMT
I like the holepunch solution. I've bought myself two holepunches some years ago for exactly that reason, but I didn't wanted to have to glue layers together so I'd have to punch through some stronger and thicker material. It turned out that this didn't yield the results I wanted (at least not with the materials I tried), so I turned away from that solution. I still have the hole punches, but very rarely use them. You just motivated me to again go actively looking for suitable materials.
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Post by baravakar on Apr 10, 2016 13:26:14 GMT
The video Dodobot posted mentioned using plastic lids from raisin packages. I had no problem with using the hole punch on one. I only had one to try it on. I will continue the search for better materials. Keep me updated if you find something useful
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Post by adamantinedragon on Apr 11, 2016 4:21:02 GMT
Bases, bases, bases... What have I used for bases...
Coins, obviously. The USA is trying to stop minting pennies because they cost more than a penny to produce. So that's a built-in bargain right there! With no markup! Plus you can find them all over parking lots and sidewalks because people have decided it's not worth the thermodynamic investment required to bend over and pick one up. They're wrong, it still is, and plus, we all need exercise...
Sorry... a little sidetracked...
When I was rebasing my thousand or so MageKnight minis a few years ago I purchased a crapload of wooden circles from a wood supply store. I don't remember what I paid, but I remember it was cheaper than pennies. I bought various sizes and still have quite a few left that I still use.
I also bought a bag of plastic poker chips from a party supply store for, like, a buck. If you're going to flock the base anyway, it doesn't matter much what kind of base you start with.
For a lot of my Sculpey and Super Sculpey minis I just made bases out of Sculpey (Not Super Sculpey, that stuff's too expensive to make bases from... )
I also have used makeshift "molds" (like an old 35mm film tube cap) and filled them with Hydrostone to make surprisingly sturdy and cost-effective bases.
Before I bought all those wooden disks, I was making bases for my MageKnight minis from cardstock and some 3mm foam. I cut them out with a 1" craft paper punch I have. I glued them together, then coated flocked them. They work fine.
Oh, and all those rebased MageKnight minis gave me a box full of old MageKnight bases that are too big for "medium" minis, but work just fine for a lot of "Large" minis, so I use them. Again, with some flocking, who knows?
I've never bought a commercial "base". I can't imagine why I would, frankly.
My weirdest base is probably the one I made out of a flat rock...
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Post by adamantinedragon on Apr 11, 2016 4:29:37 GMT
I found a new way to make bases for myself. I purchase a 1" round hole punch from a craft store. I used it on cereal boxes to get some disks. I used hot glue to stack three together with the graphic sides hidden. I then use these as bases for any model I want. Outlay price was around $5 for the punch. Leftover boxes and hot glue for the rest. Cheap easy bases, unlimited supply. I also went back and bough two more punches for smaller disks. Kobolds don't need large bases to mount. Hey! I did that too! Except I glued the cardstock (cereal box material) to some craft foam instead of more cardboard. But the same idea. Works great, except not very heavy. But if you flock them with pebbles, they get plenty heavy.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Apr 11, 2016 5:36:24 GMT
My biggest problem is that i dont really flock the bases. i actually think its a cute thing to do, but really doesn't warrant me taking the time to flock a base. i preffer to just leave them black. personnal choice. so my biggest problem is that what i use actually matter since we're gonna see it all the time.
that said, i just asked my local store guy if he could get me bases for cheap, like not those GW bases he sells. and he told me he actually could. have not received answer on that yet. though. but i wonder how cheap he can get.
for now i'm trying washers, which is fine for medium minis. but my minis are mostly large and huge sized. and washers actually cost a ton really.
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Post by sunfishh on Apr 13, 2016 9:20:16 GMT
This is a fantastic video Great suggestions and the humor was amazing
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Post by Sleepy Hollow Mike on Apr 13, 2016 22:18:59 GMT
Very cool video!
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