So someone posted about painting the edges of their monster tokens,
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/603344/monster-token-protect...
, they looked really sharp, and I had gone this far already.. Might as well paint all 160 of these monster tokens ... Not sure if I'd do it again!
One box for regular monsters, one box for Mask and Spawn monsters
The painted edges are superb! They came out a little sticky even after drying on racks for a few days. I shook them in a bag with talcum powder and rubbed the excess off. Took away any trace of sticky. the talcum got in some of the rough edges of the cardboard, but it's not too bad.
I messed a few of them up, that's in another post.
The varnish isn't all that noticeable. It went on a little wet (I put it on fairly thick). I let it dry under the living room fan over a few days, then talc'd them up. They feel more protected, kind of plasticky clicky. They'll surely hold up to light scratches and protect that long paint job.
Had to mix paints to try and match the shades for green orange blue and purple. Also, some expansion monsters have different hues of color than the base game monsters, so I aimed for a color tone in between. It took about 5 minutes for one coat on one token. Some colors took many coats. Do the math if you dare. I know it's crazy, the madness of arkham overtook me, sanity check failed.
Once the edge paint was dry, I put them on screen racks (wide spacing on screen, maybe 2-3cm) and spray painted krylon kamar varnish. Three coats on each side, spraying the edges making sure they got plenty. Some tokens stuck to the screen racks and ripped tiny nicks on some edges. meh
I will probably give the investigator tokens the same treatment. Make the edge a dark brown, and maybe add red or blue to distinguish the sanity strong characters from the stamina strong characters. Just a little, enough to distinguish their strengths at a glance on the board.
Then.. maybe .. all those little tokens.... but probably not! heh
Following this thread of all-in crafting, I had to make a velour monster bag.
There's no way I was putting these trick'd out monster tokens in the shredder base clips that come with the game.
Used a dremel to take out the shredder nubs (very quick and easy, wear eye protection!), then superglued a strip of felt across the bottom, using the punchboard to wedge it in. It's just right to hold the tokens, but not all of them turned out good (some monsters hang crooked or are hard to get in).
The toughness is partially obscured, but not enough to not be able to read it.
This post inspired the base felting:
http://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/652...
Next in Part 5: on-board token 'cups'