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Post by Baja Blaster on Jun 30, 2013 16:26:52 GMT -5
Last night I assembled and completed my first base. My group is going gridless. The base is made out of a thick felt pad, a 1/2"washer, a some cardstock, and a 2x1 pip for the Lego to stand on. Currently my group uses Lego figures for their mini, it just worked out that way. We play on a whiteboard, so my DM and I decided on the felt bottom so we don't end up scratching anything, and the washer is meant to weight the mini down just a little better. We've previously had a big issue with tablecloths being moved on accident and half the people fall. When we had originally decided to go gridless we couldn't find any bases in our area in short notice so had decided to construct our own. To get the textured effect for the cobblestone I took a 3x5 card, then cut 5 one inch circles out of it. With my trusty gluestick of +1 adhesion I clued all the layers together. I used a pencil to roughly sketch out a design then used the scissors of sundering to cut out the pieces, and trim them down so there would be gaps. I hit the whole top and side with a basecoat of black, and once it dried I painted the raised bits a light gray, Once that dried I went in with a darker gray to make some random blobs here and there, and finally I took the thinnest brush I had with some white paint and accented the some of the edges.
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Post by dm1scotty on Jun 30, 2013 22:24:53 GMT -5
Looks great
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Post by kyral on Jun 30, 2013 23:29:03 GMT -5
very nice.
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Post by caveman on Jul 4, 2013 10:45:22 GMT -5
Lookin' good! Nice idea with the felt.
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Post by belatucadras on Jul 4, 2013 14:42:35 GMT -5
Using Legos is epic! With all the themed sets and vehicles available, they can be used for every genre. I wish I had thought of that.
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Post by Baja Blaster on Jul 4, 2013 17:39:16 GMT -5
We don't have a lot of individual minis, but the current DM, and I, have a ton of them. Between our collection we believe that you should be able to find some sort of combination of legs, torso, head, and accessories to get close to what a character looks like, or at the very least a distinctive figure that is very indicative of what it represents.
Yes my Dwarf Paladin is being represented by Thorin Oakenshield, and our human wizard is 3/4s of a Gandalf, but when you look down at the field you know who is what. The short guy with the large axe clearly is the guy that runs up and hits stuff. The guy with the witch-looking hat, cape, beard, and staff is a wizard. We allow other types of minis to be used if you want to bring your own.
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Post by danielc on Jul 4, 2013 23:54:59 GMT -5
The very first table top wargame my son played was with lego armies. I still have my orcs, trolls, and green dragon knights. It was a blast.
If you really want to get into it, there is a ton of third party weapons, armor, and equipment out there as well.
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Post by Baja Blaster on Jul 5, 2013 0:13:20 GMT -5
We've looked into the third party stuff, we just haven't been able to justify getting one or two things. At the end of a campaign, for a big treasure pile, or something else we might do it though.
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Post by belatucadras on Jul 5, 2013 7:57:41 GMT -5
I am seriously looking into starting a Lego collection now. My group wants me to run a Shadowrun game and with all the sci-fi and fantasy sets, I think I can make it work.
Build temporary terrain to be used for the current session then break it all apart to be recycled for the next session. How cool is that?
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Post by Baja Blaster on Jul 6, 2013 1:34:42 GMT -5
Sounds very cool!
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