DannyDevtio :
Greetings, does anyone know of any companies that make decent looking movement trays for fantasy? I’m currently using the GW ones and they are kinda boring looking.
Bloodbeard:
What do you want from your movement trays? They should be as small as possible while containing your miniatures. Paint, flock and grass them up.
Can’t see what else there is to achieve. So I’m curios!
snowblizz:
Quite a few do. OTTOMH http://www.base-x-of-war.com/html/movement_trays.html
But it also depends on what you want from them
Eg Shogun miniatures do a minimalist steel ones good for magnetizing basing. http://shogunminiatures.com/
Or you know, you sand and flock the GW ones.
Wolf :
These guys are really good from back2base-xi, however I have few from both base-x-of-war, which are pretty cool as well.
Movement Tray Assembly - YouTube
http://www.back2base-ix.com
DannyDevtio :
Quite a few do. OTTOMH http://www.base-x-of-war.com/html/movement_trays.htmlThose look great! I'm just looking for something to help make my army stand out a bit more on the table.
But it also depends on what you want from them
Eg Shogun miniatures do a minimalist steel ones good for magnetizing basing. http://shogunminiatures.com/
Or you know, you sand and flock the GW ones.
snowblizz
Can't be a dwarf without a little bit of showmen ship, right? :cheers
Abecedar:
Who’s a dwarf?
I make my own trays and try to blend them to the models base scheme. If you want the unit to scream “look at me”, then maybe add an eye catching unit filler in to draw the attention.
TheHoodedMan:
Take a look at some of the army blogs if you didnt do this til now. There are great movement trays to see there. <br>For the simple ones I I used thin wood rests (low cost) and cut them a little bigger than the unit size with a small saw. Than glued wooden meat sticks from the supermarket to the rims. PVA glue at the rims only, sand, basecoat, done. You can paint and flock them like bases. Some people make stone stairs or fences on the rims. Looks great. <br>Not so great looking but best for game purposes are stiff and flat metal sheets slightly smaller than the unit size. Works only with magnetized bases of course. Advantage is there can be no issues because of measured distance in competitive games. Ideally you dont even see the trays :-).
TheHoodedMan:
Normally there arent if all people use common sense ;).<br>But you cant move fighting models in the correct position because bases can`t touch because of the movement trays. So trays that are not bigger than the model bases are simply better for that (for example because of templates etc.).