Basing Question

By chrisdove, in Descent: Journeys in the Dark

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Hi

Having worked my way through several Monster groups, I am now starting to base them. I wont be using pre-bought bases as I am not skilled enough to remove the mini', drill them and mount them.

I was thinking of using grit, dry brushing up to a stone grey then add touches of grass/shubs etc.

My thinking is that this generic style basing will work with the majority of the map tiles.

Any thoughts will be appreciated, thanks.

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Hi. That's what I do. I'd love to do some of the painted bases others do, that look like cobbles, etc..., but I'm not up to it. Here's a bad phone picture of my reanimate proxy. No flock on this one as the base was quite small. http://imgur.com/wVVitBd

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What game is the reanimate from please? I hate the tokens for the familiars.

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It's Reaper Bones Arrius: http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/77158/sku-down/77158 It's a little large, but then nothing says the reanimate has to be human, right? :).I did chop the original base up a bit to fit into a base I 3D printed, an octagon to match the token. The sand/grit actually helped to fill in the gaps.

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Both look loads better than the tokens, I have found a link in one of the other threads for a 3D printer that creates the Summoning Stones as well. The wolf and ravens are tricky ones though, hard to find models that take up just 1 space.

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I just can't find a wolf model I like to replace the tokens.

I got super excited about the Fenris from Warhamer 40k, then realized its a 40mm base.

https://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/skeleton/latest/77240 also works great for the reanimate.

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Try looking through old Mage Knight figures on a miniatures website like trollandtoad or miniature market. I use a wolf from an old Mage Knight box I had around. I use a standard skeleton with a sword I believe I got from a Pathfinder box and then when he upgrades, typically around act II, we switch him out for an armor wearing skeleton from said mage Knight box. Not perfect but they look good and online they're less than a buck.

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It's Reaper Bones Arrius: http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/77158/sku-down/77158 It's a little large, but then nothing says the reanimate has to be human, right? :).I did chop the original base up a bit to fit into a base I 3D printed, an octagon to match the token. The sand/grit actually helped to fill in the gaps.

That's funny--I use the exact same Reaper mini as my reanimate!

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1971785/descent-journeys-dark-second-edition?size=large

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It's Reaper Bones Arrius: http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/77158/sku-down/77158 It's a little large, but then nothing says the reanimate has to be human, right? :).I did chop the original base up a bit to fit into a base I 3D printed, an octagon to match the token. The sand/grit actually helped to fill in the gaps.

That's funny--I use the exact same Reaper mini as my reanimate!

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1971785/descent-journeys-dark-second-edition?size=large

I think you might be where I got the idea from then :)