"So WHAT Could These Cubes Be Used For???" Topic

I'm usually pretty good at seeing the terrain/scenic potential of weird and ordinary things alike.

However, when it comes to these little cubes, I cannot come up with anything:

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But I am sure one, or some, of you will look at them and say, "hey, they would be perfect for . . .", and then suggest the most amazing and practical idea ever. The kind of idea that makes the rest of us wonder why we were not the first one to come up with it.

So . . .

CC

Wow. Looks like there are all sorts of fake ice cubes out there:

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CC

An entire army of gelatinous cubes?

LOL. With these for eyes?

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CC

The square ones are elderly gel monsters, like the ones recently posted devouring a skeleton, that were cylindrical, rather squat, and a bit mis-shapen.

They are square, since they are old, and hence considered to be "square" by the hip youngsters.

TGA,

He, he.

And I assume that one of these will be called "Chip"?

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CC

Superman movie fortress of solitude ?

Scenic bases for the Seven Seals (as in satanically possessed marine mammals)

Ice hotel featured in a James Bond movie ?

Mammoth hunting decor ?

Lol CC yeah a whole army of those with stick on googly eyes, I like it!

Or how about in every onre of your 40K games you place one of those with the googly eyes on the table when your chaos space marine gets possesed?

So WHAT Could These Cubes Be Used For???

Strange icy/crystalline terrain like Mongo's Frigia or the Hyborian northlands.

Bricks of the wicked Ice B!tch's castle. Need a lot to finish that job.

Igloos for that expedition to discover the north polar opening to Pellucidar.

Props for your gamers to handle when they find those rare colorless diamonds, dilithuim crystals, eyes of the god Skelos, etc….

Coat them with various washes, apply varnish finish – vo la – different gem stones of monstrous sizes.

If you feel up to it you can carve away bits & pieces to make miniature ice sculptures.

PS – Yeti scat!

I would take them build ice pillars of assorted sizes then around the bases I would make christaline ice spikes out of cheap hexagonal shaped pencils cut to varying height.

or add texture paint and make them into ancient ruins of some sort.

Oh, and they might make for some interesting lighted elemtets to a board. Think having a blue light on a ice board or a green one on a necron board.

Glue a bunch of them together to form an ice fortress?

Building an Ice Castle is the first thing that comes to mind

I have considered gluing them to the ceilings of multi-level mazes to illuminated the lower levels. I planned to use the red or green ones rather than the white ones.

I bet if you paint the bottom's a light blue, and then use them as a floor of a cave, it'd look pretty fantastic…

Religon, red or green? Going for the X-mas look? :)

Warrenss2, the blue floating ice would definitely work for the North Pole opening to Pellucidar:

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I wonder if there's a similar manufacturer/distributor in the US (with all the cool choices – pardonn the pun – at this website):

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CC

They are a bit pricey to build anything with. You would be better off casting your own clear blocks for that. If you had just a few spare they could be used for a "Fetch the Ice" scenario. Ranging from early man fetching ice to preserve food to Cowboys transporting ice from the Ice Lodge to the Saloon.

An Ice Lodge terrain piece would be cool (groan!). The cubes wouldn't be the right shape to recreate the Ice house scene from that Bruce Lee movie…but you could look there for inspiration.

To be honest the best gaming use I can think of is to use the cubes as the body and pseudopods of a "blob" monster.

Example: on the gaming table (a classic small town square) the blob starts to appear from the manholes, corner street drain/runoffs, storm drains…one cube in round one, then 1D10 in cubes each round and just have the cubes touch each other…chaining out the great gooey gelly goodness!

Break the chain and it either rejoins or coninues as the remaining cubes (1+) looking for movement.

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For space ship gaming, use the cubes to represent the newest alien threat…Borg stand down…the Splorg are taking over!

Splorg absorb all matter and convert it over to living space gel.

Each cube represents the "ship" and then other cubes could be used once the vile organics are converted to the way of the gel!

Are you gel'n?

:)

The Star Trek novel "Doctor's Orders" (Diane Duane) featured a planet with three intelligent species:

* the Ornae, the friendliest of the bunch, who look a lot like those cubes;
* the Lahit, who look like ambulatory trees;
* the ;At, who resemble monoliths and who are not to be trifled with.

Add some bad-tempered Klingons and a powerful Orion raider, and you've got quite a mix for a Star Trek landing party, or any other universe' landing party, for that matter.

I use small acrylic cubes (1/4" to 1/2") for mounting GHQ 1:2400 WWII aircraft. Paint the plane, glue it to the clear cube, then I glue the cube onto an ocean-colored metal strip with aircraft ID printed on it. I haven't lost a Zero or Wildcat yet in several fleet games.

If I had a bunch of lumpy cubes like that I'd be tempted to paint 'em gray/stone and make a miniature quarry to fight in.

I used them to make ice terrain out of. I did my usual scenic treatment on a piece of illustration board. Then I liberally coated that with some acrylic snow medium like you get for ceramics in the craft shop. When that was dry, I used a hot melt glue gun to affix the clear ice crystals to the base till I achieved a shape I was pleased with. If anyone is interested I can post a picture on my blog of the finished product. As soon as I charge my camera up.

Cheers.
GeorgeD.

Iced tea?

GeorgeD,

Yes, please. Post a few photos of that!

Thanks.

CC

Terrain for a fight in Mr. Freeze's hideout?

I will post as soon as my camera's charged up.

GeorgeD.

Could you use them to do the Cube-In Missle Crisis?

….dude….cube-in missile crisis….how droll :)

Ice or some kind of alein clear building material. Or a crystal structure.

"Wall of Ice" spell effect markers.

Wyatt

Otherworld Miniatures has a couple of cubes now!

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CC

Actually, I took some of the smaller 'flower arrangement' acrylic chunks and glued them together into a credibly humanoid shape for use as a massive Crystal Elemental, capable of picking up and throwing a 25mm horse with one hand.

CC, start here.
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then go here.
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I would color them with ink and use them as "Energon Cubes" for my transformers games. These are very nice thank for the links

How about antarctic versions of Mayan temples?

Instead of blocky pyramids of stone covered with creeping vines, you could make blocky pyramids of ice partially covered with snow or frost.

Alternatively, you could do an icy version of Stonehenge by stacking the cubes into stacks and structures 2-3 high. Put the structures into a circle, and voila--Icehenge.

You could even etch runes into each surface to really give them a mystical appearance. If you wanted to increase the "creep" factor, you could take Thieses' idea one step further--you could make a sacrificial altar in the middle and use some ink to give it a reddish tinge…

In scifi, how about using them for cloaked ships?

And I'd spray them with artificial snow to use for snow terrain.

Yep. Add googly eyes and make them the northern cousins to this rock army:

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Dan
BTW, check out this set of rock cubes: link

The ICE PALACE – Die Another Day – KKBB.

Hollow them out and use them as force fields for small creatures/items?

Gracias,

Glenn

Trenches to play out the Battle of Hoth.

Sargonarhes,

Awesome idea! And tunnel walls too!!!

Thanks.

Dan

I would build an ice wall and use it as a Stronghold for my Snowman army.

Check out these ice cavern pieces in clear resin!!!

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Dan