Wound markers for 40mm (terminator) bases.

[thade]

So, I'm very likely going to order myself four boxes of GK terminators and dremel/chisel/magnet/paint up myself a full compliment of would allocation Paladins (in the same style that da Nobz do it), which means 40mm bases all decorated up with terrain, grass flock, the works. What I need is to mark whether or not they've taken a wound in some clear way on the bases themselves.

 

A demon-player that I met once would make his larger demon bases have craters in them, one of which perfect shaped with green stuff to seat a single small dice, which he used to show how many wounds the beastie had remaining (or had taken, I can't recall which). Those were the Dreadnought-sized bases though; I could do something identical on 40mm bases, but I fear that 1. they may not fit, 2. if they do fit, they'll make for too many identical-looking "craters", 3. they'll take up a lot of real estate on the base, 4. I don't really need a dice as they only have two wounds a piece.

 

This may be as much a brainstorming session as a "What have you done?" session; I'm coming up dry on ideas. Maybe I can find some consistent bit that I can pin (or magnet, but that might get annoying at that size) and not-glue to the base, just stick it in there, pulling it out when the model has taken a wound. Something easy to replace as losing such tiny things seems almost an inevitability.

 

Thoughts?

[Whitefireinferno]

those coloured round balled top pins just make a hole in the base I just heated one and melted it through the base and then cut down the pin itself it leaves a rather unnoticeable hole and can be removed when taken a wound. I would post a Photo but them not being Marines It is not allowed.

[thade]

I would post a Photo but them not being Marines It is not allowed.

 

EDIT: Actually, I take it back. This seems a pretty good idea to me. Cut down the pins to nubs, could easily stick them into appropriately pin viced holes.

 

Awesome, thank you. (I'm still open to other ideas.)

[ShinyRhino]

Another idea is to glue a single rare-earth magnet underneath each base. Then either use your cut-down pin idea, or insert small lengths of paperclip into small skull counters (Chessex makes them, as do several other companies). Take a wound, drop a skull on the base, and it'll stick due to the magnet underneath.

[Whitefireinferno]

I will post a Photo or 2 in a couple of hours once I can get my camera because I realised one of them is removable from its base IMO they work Great due to being highly visible and you do not have to worry about Dice Falling off and getting mixed up with what your rolling and when you loose them they are cheap to replace.

 

Heh I also just remembered I did this with my old Pedro Sternguard list but not for wounds but for when I had used my combi weapons everyone with one starts with a pin and looses it when it used it But I no longer have photo's of that army either silly earthquakes.

[verpine]

Here's the dice idea on a 40mm termie base...

 

http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/showthread.php?t=18195

[hushrong]

I made some wound markers awhile back using helmets.

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc198/rongboy/P1010515.jpg.

 

The idea being that, the more damage my guys take (wounds), their trophies would fall off their armor. So when my termies take damage, i would place one of these things in contact with their base.

 

I am sure the same idea can be applied to the GK using relics and what not.

[barry_hhh]

for GK's how about severed deamon heads , or magnestsed spawn tentacles comin outta the ground , more wounds more tentacles?

[Firedrake Cordova]

for GK's how about severed deamon heads , or magnestsed spawn tentacles comin outta the ground , more wounds more tentacles?

Hmm ... I was going to suggest looking to see if you could get a mini-daemon model to put on the base. GW used to make a familiar that was a naked nymph/daemonette (complete with arrowhead tail), which wouldn't take up much space ...

[chromedog]

I use skull beads. Got them from a bead store (crafts, beadwork).

I put a small post on the base (3mm, fits into one of the base mount holes) and put the skull shaped bead onto it. When it takes a wound, the skull is added to the post. When it takes a second, I remove the model.

[Whitefireinferno]

Sorry about the Wait but I had Earthquake Dramas but not being one to let that stop me here are the Photos of my wound markers

 

http://i991.photobucket.com/albums/af31/Litany_of_hate/40k%20other/th_DSCF9362.jpg

http://i991.photobucket.com/albums/af31/Litany_of_hate/40k%20other/th_DSCF9363.jpg

http://i991.photobucket.com/albums/af31/Litany_of_hate/40k%20other/th_DSCF9364.jpg

http://i991.photobucket.com/albums/af31/Litany_of_hate/40k%20other/th_DSCF9365.jpg

 

All I did was get a ball top pin *no Idea what the proper name for them are* Heat it up using a Lighter and Push it through the tiny ridge between the sloped area and the textured area as for the Pin I just cut it to length and filed the tip so it was not squished from the cutting and yeah it works Sweet and does not interfere with bases in base contact.

 

Hope it helps they have served me well for ages.

 

Reason for edit Photobucket drama

[barry_hhh]

oh man , i didnt realise you were in CHCH , im in wellington , hope all is well down there.

keep up the hobby to keep your mind off things .

hope you and all your family are safe..

[thade]

Sorry about the Wait but I had Earthquake Dramas but not being one to let that stop me here are the Photos of my wound markers.... Hope it helps they have served me well for ages.

First of all, no need to apologize; I'm glad that you are alright.

 

These pictures are brilliant. They're a cheap and clean solution; also I like how you angle them on the side/"corner" of the base instead of on the top (as I was envisioning). I think I'll go with this solution.

 

Thank you everybody for the suggestions, every one of them was really good. I admit that "colored head pins" will run me cheaper and easier to get en masse than "demon parts" or "little mini demonettes" (though the latter was particularly cool, like they'd have an entourage or something) so that is likely my path. :P

[Firedrake Cordova]

These pictures are brilliant. They're a cheap and clean solution; also I like how you angle them on the side/"corner" of the base instead of on the top (as I was envisioning). I think I'll go with this solution.

They do look good, don't they? Quite a simple and elegant idea (wish it were mine!). ;)

 

I admit that "colored head pins" will run me cheaper and easier to get en masse than "demon parts" or "little mini demonettes" (though the latter was particularly cool, like they'd have an entourage or something) so that is likely my path. ;)

Yeah, the bitz method could get expensive. ;) Was more thinking a representation of the Daemons ready to emerge from the warp and claim them, rather than groupies. ;)

[Whitefireinferno]

Heh Firedrake I will take that as a compliment :( but yeah these are on a majority of My Tau forces due to being sick and tired of having Dice on their bases that WILL fall off and get confused with the dice I am rolling. But yeah I did try both other placements and the Top got annoying if I did any form of basing ala the base pictured and on the Side * the sloped bit* but then they got in the way if things needed to be in base to base and would catch and pull out then the Idea sprung up "Angle them!" and then everything worked better than expected ;). And even if on a board for the likes of Armies on Parade the tiny pin sized holes are almost unnoticeable.

 

All in all its the best Idea I have seen for dirt cheap because its nit like pins are expensive.

[Zincite]

Hmm ... I was going to suggest looking to see if you could get a mini-daemon model to put on the base. GW used to make a familiar that was a naked nymph/daemonette (complete with arrowhead tail), which wouldn't take up much space ...

Tiny demon here, at the middle bottom. And more here . :)

[Firedrake Cordova]

Heh Firedrake I will take that as a compliment :)

Hehe ... was meant as one! :)

 

Tiny demon here, at the middle bottom. And more here . :P

Yup - that was the one I was thinking of (thought it was OOP).

[Slider Da Feral]

Not trying to necropost, but that was a pretty good tip. And the best part is, you can co-opt it for other non-40K games instead of trying to shuffle Little Cardboard Chits. I plan to use this for my Uncharted Seas fleet, with red hull points down the port side and green crew points down the starboard to approximate navigational running lamps. :)