Hey, I just found this thread on BGG and was blown away.

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1059879/hand-crafted-gate-stands/page/2

Those are just so amazingly cool.

Inspired by this I sat down with my kids and made some gatestands of my own brilliant design...

Or so I thought.

The result was actually more like this in comparison: http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/hilarious-pinterest-fails-21.jpg

Well enough fun for today, here are the pictures:

Album: https://flic.kr/s/aHskvP5bvY

Custom charming (but basic) Eldritch tokens/gatestands + purple tentacle doom counter. by Even Stokke Halvorsen , on Flickr

Custom charming (but basic) Eldritch tokens/gatestands + purple tentacle doom counter. by Even Stokke Halvorsen , on Flickr

Custom charming (but basic) Eldritch tokens/gatestands + purple tentacle doom counter. by Even Stokke Halvorsen , on Flickr

These are awesome!!!

Thank you kind sir! First playtest tonight!

Edit:

Some of them are working, some send the gates spinning..

The purple tentacle works like a charm!

Congrats! What material did you use for the gate stands? They look so fuzzy and fluffy and cute. Also, the doom counter looks like something from an adventure game from my youth. Day of the Tentacle it was called if i recall correctly. Nice memories!

Yeah, the doom counter is inspired by Purple Tentacle - main antagonist in Maniac Mansion 2 "Day of the tentacle". It would have been easy to make it with a green base, and darker green inside the rings. I just made it from memory, and got the colours about right..

More here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tentacle

The type of clay I used is called FIMO. It is baked at 110 degrees C for about half an hour.

I bougth this set for my kids: http://www.staedtler.com/en/products/products-for-modelling-and-crafting/fimo-soft/fimo-soft-8023-material-pack/

Great job!!!

Hehe, I imagine I can do better - first improvement will be to use plastic gloves (or something like that) to eliminate fingerprints