I have a set of the Cog-o-War tokens, and I'm interested in getting the engravings more clear. Is there a way to fill them in, or do something to the engraving that helps? As it is, some of them don't look so great, but I like the size a lot better.
Jacob
You can always paint the engraved areas with white paint or Liquid Paper. Anything that gets onto the raised surface can be easily scraped off.
Or you can use a sharpie white paint marker with a fine tip. I tried painted mine and it worked well for the shield tokens and special action tokens but the templates didn't take the white paint I used well. I ran into a player who had the same templates as me but his paint really took to the templates so I asked him what he used -> Sharpie white paint marker, fine tipped.
I'll be picking one up this weekend to try it out. I'll post picks when I'm done.
Sweet ideas. I hadn't thought of that.
I had heard that some people use white wax crayons. I don't have a clue on how to make that work. I don't come from a miniatures background with painting in it.
Jacob
Paint is really the best bet. Get some white and paint it in there. Since the tokens are not masked (they can come with masking on, which makes painting a lot easier), you can just paint the whole face of the token and use a tooth pick or something to scrape away the paint on the face of the token, but not the engraved area.
Sweet ideas. I hadn't thought of that.
I had heard that some people use white wax crayons. I don't have a clue on how to make that work. I don't come from a miniatures background with painting in it.
Jacob
This works as well... Just rub the crayon over the spots - Don't worry about staying in the lines, the crayon will rub right off and the bits you want covered will stay.
Acrylic paint works the same way.
Sweet ideas. I hadn't thought of that.
I had heard that some people use white wax crayons. I don't have a clue on how to make that work. I don't come from a miniatures background with painting in it.
Jacob
This works as well... Just rub the crayon over the spots - Don't worry about staying in the lines, the crayon will rub right off and the bits you want covered will stay.
Acrylic paint works the same way.
Yep, that's an old trick I used to do with my RPG dice years ago. Crayons are awesome (and cheap). If it ever disappears, you can just rub it over the acrylic again. Another advantage is that you can easily change out the colors any time you want..