Post by indigo777 on Aug 5, 2013 16:48:54 GMT -5
Check out your local Dollar Trees they've started putting out Halloween merchandise.
They had 3 different packs of creatures for sale at my local one. An 18 pack, a 24 pack, and a 36 creature pack. The main difference between them appears to be the size of the monsters in the pack. For example the 18 pack had large Centipedes and skeletons in it while the 36 pack had smaller creatures. I picked up the 24 pack as I saw several spiders I wanted to make mini's out of.
Here's a pic of the pack:
The pack I got contained the following:
1 ant
2 snakes (Both are different sculpts from each other)
6 flies (All the same sculpt, One of which is in horrible condition from a bad mold seperation)
2 Spider Rings
4 Large Spiders (3 of these are unique sculpts)
2 Large scorpions (Identical sculpts)
1 huge bat
6 Skulls with arms (all the same sculpt)
Here's a pic of the creatures on a 1x1 inch gridded D&D tile with a human mini to show scale:
The ant, large spiders, and scorp I plan to base and paint into monsters.
The flies I might base or use to decorate spider cocoons with.
The Huge bat looks perfect for a wizards mount.
The snakes look to be perfect scale for anaconda/boa minis.
Not sure what to do with the skulls. They might make good tile decoration or maybe put on a door or wall piece.
The quality of the plastic is surprisingly good on the creatures, especially the larger creatures. Its a solid yet slightly flexible material similar to what the official D&D minis are made of. They shouldn't break unless you purposely try to and should hold paint very well. The spider rings are really cheap thin plastic though, I don't see the rings working for minis at all.
The only bad quality item in the pack was the mold damaged fly. Even so the plastic is still sturdy on it, its just missing legs and part of its torso. Should still make a good decoration on a tile as a spiders partially eaten food lol.
They had 3 different packs of creatures for sale at my local one. An 18 pack, a 24 pack, and a 36 creature pack. The main difference between them appears to be the size of the monsters in the pack. For example the 18 pack had large Centipedes and skeletons in it while the 36 pack had smaller creatures. I picked up the 24 pack as I saw several spiders I wanted to make mini's out of.
Here's a pic of the pack:
The pack I got contained the following:
1 ant
2 snakes (Both are different sculpts from each other)
6 flies (All the same sculpt, One of which is in horrible condition from a bad mold seperation)
2 Spider Rings
4 Large Spiders (3 of these are unique sculpts)
2 Large scorpions (Identical sculpts)
1 huge bat
6 Skulls with arms (all the same sculpt)
Here's a pic of the creatures on a 1x1 inch gridded D&D tile with a human mini to show scale:
The ant, large spiders, and scorp I plan to base and paint into monsters.
The flies I might base or use to decorate spider cocoons with.
The Huge bat looks perfect for a wizards mount.
The snakes look to be perfect scale for anaconda/boa minis.
Not sure what to do with the skulls. They might make good tile decoration or maybe put on a door or wall piece.
The quality of the plastic is surprisingly good on the creatures, especially the larger creatures. Its a solid yet slightly flexible material similar to what the official D&D minis are made of. They shouldn't break unless you purposely try to and should hold paint very well. The spider rings are really cheap thin plastic though, I don't see the rings working for minis at all.
The only bad quality item in the pack was the mold damaged fly. Even so the plastic is still sturdy on it, its just missing legs and part of its torso. Should still make a good decoration on a tile as a spiders partially eaten food lol.