sotf
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Post by sotf on Sept 15, 2014 21:50:09 GMT
Ended up helping a friend with a project he's been working on, and one of the things he was using seems like it would be useful here as it's a dead simple candle option.
Basically, you just get some insulated single wire, cut to the length you wish to use and then take a pin to push the wire partially through as a wick. If you want it to be a lit candle, take your hot glue gun to the tip of the "wick" and use a tiny bit and pull up. Once dry, you might need to shave it up a bit if you used to much or were a bit slow on the pull up, but it works rather well.
The other one comes from another friend who I'd pointed towards Scotty's buildings combined with 2.5 stuff, as he was wanting to work on a cave system underneath a hill system as a barrow for a skirmish game table he'd been working on.
If you're careful with it, you can judge the way that foam dissolves with droplets of superglue to make hollow hills. Now, this doesn't really weaken the hills all that much as the melted foam is still there and as the glue evaporates and hardens, it is a much stronger layer, though you may need to be careful in other ways as it can be crushed, but it seems to work rather well for giving space to have at least a partial dungeon setup underneath a hill without needing to have precise care about placement.
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Post by fayegrimm on Sept 15, 2014 23:26:22 GMT
I knew I was keeping that broken charger around for a reason... thanks for sharing!
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Post by sotf on Sept 16, 2014 4:28:52 GMT
The friend who figured out the candles is in the more crazy obsessive at times in how he does things...he's working on his own 2.5d tiles, though rather than the usual materials, he went in for buying a bunch of the dollar store cookie sheets and got out the snips to make the bases of them out of metal, because he wants to put magnets in his minis...
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Post by sotf on Sept 23, 2014 5:13:28 GMT
For another bit, if you're using cloth for things that's been cut and don't have the skill or desire to stitch in the ends, you can use hot glue over the edges works well for a longer term use in protecting it.
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Post by lordbryon on May 28, 2015 17:47:10 GMT
I like the metal tile for magnetic heroes concept. I think a dnd travel set is in the making.
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Post by tauster on May 28, 2015 18:17:57 GMT
I use poker chips with metal cores for magnetic bases. I even use them when magnets don't play a role at all because they're uniform in size, easy to work with, heavy and cheap. They work great as bases even for standard-sized minis because there's more space around the mini to decorate. Of course you'll have to live with having your encounter map a bit more crowded than with standard-sized bases.
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Post by runningwolf on Jun 18, 2015 18:06:23 GMT
I use poker chips with metal cores for magnetic bases. I even use them when magnets don't play a role at all because they're uniform in size, easy to work with, heavy and cheap. They work great as bases even for standard-sized minis because there's more space around the mini to decorate. Of course you'll have to live with having your encounter map a bit more crowded than with standard-sized bases. I actually saw some magnetic tape at a surplus web page I go to. Made me wonder of some uses for it.... now I am thinking something along what you are saying. Would be awesome for some type of wall crawling fig.
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Post by rhikdavis on Aug 23, 2015 15:09:31 GMT
I use poker chips with metal cores for magnetic bases. I even use them when magnets don't play a role at all because they're uniform in size, easy to work with, heavy and cheap. They work great as bases even for standard-sized minis because there's more space around the mini to decorate. Of course you'll have to live with having your encounter map a bit more crowded than with standard-sized bases. I actually saw some magnetic tape at a surplus web page I go to. Made me wonder of some uses for it.... now I am thinking something along what you are saying. Would be awesome for some type of wall crawling fig. What could be more disconcerting than the enemy wizard standing on the ceiling of his lair when the party stumbled in?
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Post by Sleepy Hollow Mike on Aug 23, 2015 20:53:40 GMT
"Disconcerting" Ya thats a good word. I would be crapping my draws! Lolol
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Post by DnDPaladin on Aug 23, 2015 21:22:48 GMT
the players looking up at the wizard while they notice the whole furniture is up there with him including the up side down torches ?
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