kenosis
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Post by kenosis on Sept 1, 2017 2:42:23 GMT
Hello friends! I picked up the [Fiskars 1 inch circle hole punch] from Michaels with coupon, with hopes of easily creating 1 inch mini bases. Does anyone know how to create viable miniature bases using this gizmo (i.e what material works best)? At this point I was considering trying thick Silly Winks foam sheets. Further, can you comment on additional useful uses for this hole punch? I feel like this is a tool with potential. Thanks muchly!! (It looks similar to this.)
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Post by margaret on Sept 1, 2017 3:15:06 GMT
According to the manufacturer, these work with 65 lb cardstock or anything thinner. If you are using standard weight office paper, you can punch up to 3 sheets at a time. I haven't used this particular punch, but I have used the kind you press on a central button to cut out monster images printed in circles on cardstock to make monster tokens.
I used standard white glue to glue the cardstock circles onto 1-inch fender washers to make the tokens.
I am pretty sure that this type of punch won't work right and/or last long if you try to cut anything other than paper. But you can always give it a trial. By "work right", I mean you may not be able to get a clean cut.
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Post by grandinquisitorkris on Sept 1, 2017 12:01:59 GMT
ya , this wont really work for that unless you want to do A LOT of gluing sheets of card stock together . if your too hard up for cash to buy bases , you could just cut some out of plastic lids and such , otherwise you are pretty much better off either buying bases , or buying wooden circles from the woodsie section of hobby lobby .
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Post by sgtslag on Sept 1, 2017 15:06:28 GMT
I would suggest 1" fender washers: steel, heavy, can be used with magnets for storage/transport. Buy them by the box, at a DIY store. Here in the USA, the lowest price I've found is Mills Fleet Farm. Again, in the USA, hardware stores are the highest priced suppliers to be avoided.
I prefer E6000 glue to attach mini's to their bases: good, strong grip on most materials and mini's, flexible, and it takes paint well. I've used it on metal, resin, and pre-painted plastic figures from WotC and Paizo, as well as Reaper's Bones figures. I've even had success bonding green plastic Army Men figures using E6000, and not much will stick to them... Cheers!
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sotf
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Post by sotf on Sept 2, 2017 20:38:29 GMT
Actually, the 1" punch is a great tool for making some pretty good, finished bases.
Unfortunately, doing so still requires a lot of actual bases for that process.
Basically, you can make a massive pile of great cobblestone or similar ones if you buy a roll of the textured wallpaper that looks like cobbles, use the punch to cut base toppers with it and affix them to a normal base or even a 1" wood round.
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Post by kgstanley81 on Sept 3, 2017 2:23:00 GMT
I have used one similar to that one, and I have used it to punch out thin card (cereal box) and used a glue stick to glue 3-4 together as bases, and with my paper miniatures I printed out different terrain graphics on 110lb paper and glued that to the top of those
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sotf
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Post by sotf on Sept 3, 2017 2:49:05 GMT
Another thing that it can be useful for is tokens of various types.
With some traps, it isn't that difficult to just find a pic of one and print it to the right scale before punching it out. Something like caltrops or the like that certain party members might have available to use that aren't something that's easy to model anyway.
Hell, for a lot of status effects, find some symbols or something to represent them and print a bunch of them out to hand out and collect as they come into and out of play.
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kenosis
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Post by kenosis on Sept 3, 2017 14:40:47 GMT
Thanks for the feedback!
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Post by adamantinedragon on Sept 4, 2017 0:14:18 GMT
I've used circle hole punches on thin cardstock to make bases. Mostly for quick and dirty stuff that I really don't want to spend any money on a base for. Mostly what I do is use white glue to laminate three or four circles. If you can figure out the grain of the paper, you can cross-grain the laminations and that makes it a bit stiffer. But for the most part, these only really punch paper, and paper doesn't make great bases.
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