"Do you want to live forever?" Topic

Today, I got my new Fantasy figures, well, some of them, out to try a provisional set of Fantasy rules I am writing.
If you want to see how the day went, please go to this link

As promised, these are some of my Conan figures, I actually have, I think 5 figures of the eponymous hero himself, so I am sure they will appear here sometime!

Nice little adventure! Thanks for sharing and good luck with the rules.

They sure are kicking up a lot of dust!

LOL Gozerius, yes, flock is great outdoors, but they should have cleaned their shoes before they came inside!

Thanks for the Kind comments Stryderg, I have made several adjustments so hopefully the next game will be better!!!

I guess that you can never have too many Conan figures.

Cheers Joe! I actually just sent off for one of the Reaper Miniatures Conan figures, the Traeg, Barbarian.

I only wish you could get real models of the 1882 film baddies!!!

Have you tried Forge of Doom miniatures. Right up there in the marketplace on the left. March 20th listing by Paskal. Advertised as 1982 Conan figures.

Now that looks/sounds fun! Love the terrain.

I was gifted a starter box of DF years ago. Realized that I would want another 4-5 boxes, to build the dungeons I wanted… Sold it off.

I went the 2.75D route. I bought PDF's of 'cardstock' dungeons. I printed them on full sheet label paper, cut to size, peeled and attached to 2mm thick cardboard. I cut grid pattern slots into foam rubber mats, so I could slot in the wall sections.

It looks good, IMO, and it is relatively easy to build dungeons with it, but the production effort involved, is horrendous…

I also bought 2D Dungeon tiles (same concept, but for a wooden fortress, above ground). I printed them on regular paper, cut to size, applied them to peel-n-stick vinyl floor tiles' glue side (floor tile pattern goes down on the tabletop). I cut the floor tiles to size and shape. They work superbly, and they're inexpensive, but the labor involved is… Horrendous, again.

One of the hidden costs of printing terrain, is the ink/toner. It is expensive! I bought a color laser printer, thinking it would be much cheaper… It's around the same cost as inkjet cartridges, in the long run, as you go through $80 USD-$100 toner cartridges (four: black, cyan, magenta, and yellow) quickly, when printing color graphics.

I covered them all in Clear Contact Paper (translucent peel-n-stick vinyl cupboard liner), so they are very durable. More work, of course, but I can mark all of them, if necessary, with water erase pens. Good stuff, but loads of work, both to make, and to use for a sizeable setup. Worthwhile, for occasional games, but not something I would want to do every week. Cheers!

Thanks for the comments! Sgt Slag, I feel your pain! – I went the Warlock route as it was so easy, and with careful purchasing, not too expensive. Saves a lot of time painting the walls and floors too. I looked at Dwarven Forge but the pieces, though very pretty, are free standing blocks, where with WL you can lift a whole room onto the tabletop in one go!

I am going to try a rematch (solo) this Easter weekend if I can, with the modified rules. Looking forward to it!

So I bought a ender 3 and have printed up a lot of Openforge dungeon tiles and magnetized them all, its the magnets that really ad to the price of the tiles, but I cant imagine using the tiles if they are not magnetized. of coarse, my ender 3 sits for months at a time waiting for me to fix some minor thing on it but the tiles completely changed the concept of dungeon crawling, and I still havent worked out all the details to my complete satifaction.

Now to 3d print (AND PAINT) a complete set of all the minatures I need for compete encounters. ( its the painting part thats the real bug-a-boo but I do have some Conan look a likes painted, both 28mm and 15mm also.

Albus Malum, I would suggest simple block painting, followed by The Dip Technique, brushed on, not dunking the figures into the mix. This is one of the fastest painting techniques: 10 minutes per figure, including block painting, The Dip application plus a matte clear coat when dry. They will look decent at arm's length.

If you want to be even faster, with better results, invest in SpeedPaints 2.0 (Wyloch's Armory review video): around $100 USD for a complete set with sufficient colors. These will turn out much brighter, and much faster: around 90 seconds per miniature! The bitter pill to swallow is the paint cost. Cheers!