"Old Dreamblade figures" Topic

I went to an odd little CCG store in North Austin and they had a lot of old Dreamblade minis in storage. I got them for $.25 USD a piece!

The savage ogres are awesome. The Berserker is gonna make one DANDY Frost Giant. There is a HUGE Rhinoheaded guy, and another HUGER guy with one giant arm and three heads who wields a hige axe. There are several C'thulhu tentacle-type jobbers and some bug things, and some clawed wraith guys, a couple of badgers in armor, and stuff so weird I have no idea what to do with it.

The only problem is the big square bases.

I'm planning to use them for a dungeon/skirmish game of some kind. It's sad when a game dies but there are some benefits.

The had some D&D prepaints too.

I got a serpent cultist(a claoked guy who carries a staff abd has his face hidden by a green hood ) and lots of beetle swarms from the D&D prepaint line (I think I'll make him a "rot priest", sort of an extra gruesome druid who hates corporeal undead and other dimensional horrors that mutate things because they interfere with natural decomposition. Now I just need to find some giant rat swarms or maybe giant maggots. Fot "Rot priests" do not prosper by beetle swarms alone.)

I also got a chaos beast (another c'thulhu beastie thing) and a lot of beetle things called Rune spuiral demons. They were a nickle apiece and came with 4th edition cards. Apparently they are very very common figures.

Some of these prepaints are actually pretty good wasy to a fast cheap army.

Dreamblade figures can be cut off the bases easily. I've filled a drawer with bases cut off figures I've used for all sorts of conversions, then used the now-spare bases for a different project,and filled the drawer once again! I suppose I must have used over 100 Dreamblade figures for all sorts of other games, either "as-is" (well, repainted), in some cases as scenery (statues etc) or just to cut up and use for parts.

I've read other posters on TMP complaining about how difficult they are to remove – eh? All you do is cut under the feet (or tentacles, or whatever) of the model, seperating it from the base at the point where it is most tenuously joined. You have to use a Stanley knife – Exacto blades, surgical scalpels etc etc will not be any use to you. But really, it's dead easy.

I *think* where others are going wrong, perhaps, is in trying to remove the black rubber "inner base" from the hard plastic "outer base". No need to do that, and it really will give you conniptions if you try, so just don't!

I second Static Tyrant's comment. Just cut slowly and carefully with a sharp blade. It's really not that bad, and the effort is definitely worth it, as these figures look much much better on decent bases (and especially with new paintjobs).

Jason

Dreamblade figures for a quarter each?

(violently obscene statement deleted to avoid dawghausing…)

some of the figures are easy to remove…the ones with low contact areas beteween the feet/claws/pseudopods and the base. Lots of them, however, are almost all contact area. I've found it easier to cover the base and paint it as is, especially with the larger figures. The bases are proportioned well for larger figures, and the smaller ones tend to have smaller feet anyway.

What's the name of this store in Austin?

The store is a Magic the Gathering store called "Pat's Games" on Hancock (off of Burnet Road).

patsgames.com

I pretty much cleaned the store out of what I considered "the good stuff" buying about half of the stock, but there were still several promos(alt colors) of the infernal preacher, the Decapitrix, Janus Mage, and there were some slaughter boots and the spellbound Scissors, a jack in the box, some treacherous concubines, two zungar bodyguards, a blight rat, a book of nothing, a few crysalis spinners, a shard troll, some faceless stalkers,a gun possessed killer, a heart render, some hawk eyed instigators, an inspired samurai, knight of strife and sorrow, knight of pain and sorrow, a couple of night queens, a rain forest shamman, a savannah dream hunter, a temple lion, a few walking worms, a dryad, an alluring succubus, an ungar sword master, a cannibal pariah, a doomsinger, and maybe some other figures left.

I didn't find an Ekkyon Wayfarer which I was hoping for but I did get lots of ther cool stuff.

They also had a D&D minis "Gargantuan Black Dragon" marked for $25 USD on top of their fridge.