caveman
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Post by caveman on Aug 30, 2013 12:45:25 GMT -5
Hi everyone, I know there's a thread on this topic in here somewhere, but I can't find it. Anyway, here's my solution for a height marker / elevation indicator. The base is basically just a dowel rod shoved into the hole of a wooden spool, and the platform is just a wooden disk hot-glued to a spring-type clothes pin. I got all this stuff (except for the washers) from the wood-craft aisle at Joann's. Because I'm a no-account, low class, varmint-plinking hillbilly, (spelled "I suck at getting my minis painted"), and because I didn't have enough pirate minis for the Skull and Shackles AP, I am using mostly paper pawns. I mention it because this contraption works fine for paper minis, but not so much for metal or plastic minis UNLESS you weigh down the base (as I've done here with washers from my moonshine still). So, the only mod you high-class city-folk would need to use this with your store-boughten minis is a heavier base. It would be easy to glue a bunch of washers to the contraption's base and adjust the dowel's black and white "measuring marks" accordingly. The contraption: Clip closeup: Base closeup: Side view (now including focus): If you had enough weight on the base, you could also stack multiple platforms on the same dowel rod to indicate two characters at different elevations in the same x-y space. Thanks for looking!
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caveman
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Post by caveman on Aug 30, 2013 12:51:10 GMT -5
Dad gum. I just realized that if I had glued the platform's disk farther back on, and more to the center of, the clothes pin's ends, it probably would be more stable and not much harder to adjust up and down. Note to self: Next time, less corn-squeezins and more skull sweat.
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Post by agsupernaturalfe on Aug 30, 2013 13:05:50 GMT -5
Cool idea Caveman This gives me an idea it's just a thought you could use a long anchor bolt or some such threaded rod painted in measured segments, & weighed down at the base just like yours then just add the right sized nut & a wide base with a center hole like an old CD the weighed down base should hold up the rod & the nut should hold up the CD & mini then all you have to do is spin the nut to the right measurement when the character's altitude changes
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Post by ashrothedm on Aug 30, 2013 15:06:36 GMT -5
I like it. Very nice for an aerial encounter, which is usually a pain in the butt to deal with.
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 30, 2013 16:14:51 GMT -5
Nice!
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thedmg
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Post by thedmg on Aug 30, 2013 17:36:10 GMT -5
Excellent idea!
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sgtslag
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Post by sgtslag on Aug 30, 2013 22:41:42 GMT -5
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Neil
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Post by Neil on Aug 31, 2013 1:17:57 GMT -5
Cool idea
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