Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

VonDan · Legendary Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 3249

and dont forget the Dollor store. Y-day I bought 5 bags of insects now I have to add an encounter with mutant 6 foot long locus in my pulp game.

OJ · Seasoned Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 154

Dollar store, and Party City are good for bugs, critters and random stuff. I buy a lot of Horrorclix from Strikezoneonline.com. I usually get about a dozen minis at a time from them, pay more for shipping than I did on the minis. They also carry a ton of D&D, Heroclix, and Star Wars.

VonDan · Legendary Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 3249

OJ · Seasoned Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 154

I always check the Game Store first, but they can't always meet my bizarre needs. Still, I just ordered a set of ten Indy Heroclix for use with Iron Dynasty. (From the comic Shi).

With shipping, I'm paying like, $15. I'm okay with those prices.

VonDan · Legendary Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 3249

and this week the dollor store had little ceramic figures the scale of D&D minis that were people like from a berl and ive christmas card.

ha now in my snow deamon side adventure in my pulp game the caroloers will be in danger

Vinzent · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:35 pm Post subject:

You could always use some celophane tape to coat figure flats and make them stain resistant.
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warrenss2 · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:12 am Post subject:

Wibbs · Seasoned Joined: 02 Jan 2011 Posts: 409 Location: London

Friendly local game store?

kronovan · Veteran Joined: 01 Mar 2011 Posts: 679

I used to be able to buy single miniatures at a few LGS's (actually collected a complete SWMini Clone Strike set that way), but that hasn't been the case for about 3 years now. There's a still a few monthly tournaments for SWMini and D&DMini's being run at LGS's and you can often trade or buy from the players - takes a lot of coordinating though. Sad

Heroclix singles for some reason seem to be much more available, which is fine by me because as someone already mentioned they work well in a number of settings.

I've bought online a number of times. The already mentioned miniaturemarket.com has been good, but I've dealt with coolstuffinc.com more often because they have buy back lists which can really help cut down on costs. I haven't tried paper figs yet, but those displayed here look more than decent so I might give that a go.

ValhallaGH · Legendary Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 4475

warrenss2 · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:41 pm Post subject:

Ornimancer · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 3:47 pm Post subject: Paper Mini Techniques

I really like paper figures, whether they are tri-fold or tent-type. Here's the construction technique I use (using all acid-free materials):

1) print them out on quality ink jet paper

2) spray the sheet with a workable fixative (makes it pretty water-resistant)

3) glue the sheet (with a spray glue) to a sheet of Bristol (a heavy drawing paper); let dry

4) trim them out with an x-acto & straight edge, lightly scoring the fold lines

5) fold and crease folds with a burnisher

6) glue tabs with Best-Test One Coat rubber cement, with a final crimping/pressing with flat pliers

This results in a nice solid cardboard kind of feeling for them.

P.S. To really make them beer-proof, one could also add an optional step:

3.5) spray both sides with an acrylic varnish, let dry

warrenss2 · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 10:05 am Post subject:

Vinzent · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:13 pm Post subject:

The sad thing is, I just can't carry around minis for every occasion, even the pogs start to take up considerable room in my pack. In an effort to make my gaming more mobile, I'm thinking of creating 20 generic pogs for baddies and 10 for good guys.

Maybe I'll use generic pogs for mooks and just have wild card pogs that represent the baddies.
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