It’s a Kickstarter for stamps to create textured bases; just mix up your putty of choice, press it into the stamp, let it set, and viola, you have a modelled base for your minis or even dungeon tiles. From what I can see each stamp is 7"x7" and you cut it up to suit what bases you need; presumably you could even use it to make a textured gaming table by ‘casting’ up loads of 7x7 tiles and super gluing them to a board.
That seems like a brilliant idea. I think I might ending up making a pledge. With a planed Marienburg DoW army and by some point a 40k army this might be a great deal.
Only found out about it because someone posted a link on the Mantic Kickstarter. Really like what I’m seeing here and considering holding off basing my CDs with GW texture paint as I planned and getting some of these instead; I also like the idea of being able to make dungeon tiles with these as I would like to have a fully 3D dungeon one day and these would save a lot of money over buying Ainsty or one of the other dungeon tile manufacturers (may still have to buy walls from a manufacturer, but I think it shouldn’t be too hard to use the stamps and plasticard to convert some up )
Those are really good. A little pricey maybe (or maybe not?) but the sheer variety is excellent. I could make a huge dungeon out of those for a fraction of the cost and weight of Hirst molds.
Those are really good. A little pricey maybe (or maybe not?) but the sheer variety is excellent. I could make a huge dungeon out of those for a fraction of the cost and weight of Hirst molds.
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No idea how durable they are but they're probably not that pricey considering they're reusable; £25 plus P&P for a double sided stamp probably isn't too bad - the thing to keep in mind is that cost is spread out over each base you cast. For example if you only ever used it to base a unit of 50 hobgoblins, then it'd work out as having cost you 50p a base, plus the cost of putty, and presumably you'd use it for more than just 50 bases, so cost per base goes down the more you use it. I think it helps to think of it as an investment rather than a one time purchase.
Just had a look on Firestorm Games and they have 20x20mm textured bases from Model Display Products as £4 for 10, so for the price of one stamp from the Kickstarter you can get 60 textured bases (and £1 to spare). I’m fairly sure the stamps can last longer than casting 60 bases, so even with the cost of putty and P&P factored in, in the long run it’ll work out cheaper than buying premade textured bases.
Another thing to keep in mind is you can also get more variety from the stamps; using the above example, with the premade bases you’d get 60 bases but only 10 different designs (assuming there are no duplicates in the set of ten) compared to being able to have 60 unique designs with the stamps.
I gotta say looking over it first it was all “man why would I…” but the more I looked through it the better it seemed.
The variety is really where it’s at, and you can make terrain stuff and not just bases. I guess my only problem is I don’t know what all of those are going to be.
I’ll be curious to see what their dwarf and steampunk tiles are like. It’s a great idea this, but only worth it if you’re starting a whole new army or I’d have to rebase everything else.
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