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Base weights that are made to fit in the recess of the standard GW bases?

Let's face it, plastic models are great, but they lack the weight to sometimes stay in their place on the tabletop. Another issue is off balance models like Hormagaunts. Every Tyranid player who uses them struggles with them falling over. Most people find their own solutions to weighing down a model; clipped metal bits glued in place, attach a metal washer or coin... While they may work, these methods are crude and using a coin is just wasteful. So I ask all you 40K and/or WFB players... Would you be interested in purchasing specially made base weights that fit nicely into the recess of the standard GW base and how much would you be willing to pay for said product? (Example: Pack of 10 weights for round, slotted, 28mm basses = $7.50 USD)

I use nickels. Unless you can get me a pack of ten for less than 50c, I don't see why I would buy them.

oni wrote:Base weights that are made to fit in the recess of the standard GW bases?

Let's face it, plastic models are great, but they lack the weight to sometimes stay in their place on the tabletop. Another issue is off balance models like Hormagaunts. Every Tyranid player who uses them struggles with them falling over. Most people find their own solutions to weighing down a model; clipped metal bits glued in place, attach a metal washer or coin... While they may work, these methods are crude and using a coin is just wasteful. So I ask all you 40K and/or WFB players... Would you be interested in purchasing specially made base weights that fit nicely into the recess of the standard GW base and how much would you be willing to pay for said product? (Example: Pack of 10 weights for round, slotted, 28mm basses = $7.50 USD)

Well, I would be interested in them, except for the fact that 10 weights @ $7.50 = .75 each, while two pennies and 5 seconds of exacto knife work to recess the plastic slot = two pennies. Sounds to me like additional weights are more wasteful in most ways than using a couple pennies. Now, if you made those weights magnetic, possibly for the same or less cost, then I might consider it.

Just my .02 (pun intended)

My mother is a jewlery maker and gives me her scrap metal.

Now, if you made solid bases with, and without, the slots...I might consider it buying those..

Weights for slotta bases might have a market except that most minis in a slotta will be metal.

Weights for non-slotta bases would have to be very heavy or magnetic since a 1pence coin fits perfectly and it sounds like other countries have similarly convenient coinage.

Indeed, the american nickel solves many a weight problem

ProtoClone wrote:Now, if you made solid bases with, and without, the slots...I might consider it buying those..

And with this the proverbial nail head has been struck.

Put weights in resin bases. You can then sell them for something more than it takes to make them and your weighting system will provide you a differentiation.

Nurglitch wrote:I use nickels. Unless you can get me a pack of ten for less than 50c, I don't see why I would buy them.

+1

I'd like to blame the miniature gamers of the world for our current economic recession. By using monetary coins as weights you are taking that currency out of circulation (which is illegal, at least in the US), thereby causing inflation.

chaos0xomega wrote:I'd like to blame the miniature gamers of the world for our current economic recession. By using monetary coins as weights you are taking that currency out of circulation (which is illegal, at least in the US), thereby causing inflation.

Yes wargamers are the cause of the worlds economic problems.

When the fat cat CEO's and sleasy traders give back their bailout money and fat pensions that they earn for doing absolutely nothign but wrecking the economy and profiting at the expense of others I'll start to feel bad that i used ten dollars worth of nickels on my shoota boyz...

I don't know about you, but if I could get a leverage on my armies then I'd damn well sit down and write one!

chaos0xomega wrote:I'd like to blame the miniature gamers of the world for our current economic recession. By using monetary coins as weights you are taking that currency out of circulation (which is illegal, at least in the US), thereby causing inflation.

Actually, I believe that the removal of money from the economy would increase the value, not the other way around.

daedalus wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:I'd like to blame the miniature gamers of the world for our current economic recession. By using monetary coins as weights you are taking that currency out of circulation (which is illegal, at least in the US), thereby causing inflation.

Actually, I believe that the removal of money from the economy would increase the value, not the other way around.

Governmental removal of money, yes.

Actually, if you get the small round fishing weights, you may be able to make them to look like skulls with a little green stuff. Just work them into your base as part of the terrain.

chaos0xomega wrote:I'd like to blame the miniature gamers of the world for our current economic recession. By using monetary coins as weights you are taking that currency out of circulation (which is illegal, at least in the US), thereby causing inflation.

Waitaminute... taking money out of circulation is illegal?

So how you you put money in a 401(k) then?

And how the feth do corportations get away with moving jobs out of the country? That removes billions of $ from circulation....

EDIT: If anyone wishes to respond to this, we might want to start a thread in OT rather than hijack this one...

chaos0xomega wrote:I'd like to blame the miniature gamers of the world for our current economic recession. By using monetary coins as weights you are taking that currency out of circulation (which is illegal, at least in the US), thereby causing inflation.

Let's check the "troll-o-meter"

1/10 - pathetic effort.

Young sir, kindly turn your internet in to the proper authorities, you don't deserve it.

I use the odd 2c (out of circulation and no longer legal tender) coins we used to have or washers for mine (when I have the time, I also use the punched 3mm aluminium discs I got off a brother in-law - they need to be drilled for pinning to models).

Resin bases I use don't need extra weights.

I use PVA Glue and small ball bearings. This way, I don't waste $20 more on my army, but only a nice little $5 for the weight.

I'd probably buy some, depending on how heavy they are. I sometimes find coins aren't really heavy enough, especially if I've converted a miniature and it's severely off-balance (because it's got metal arms sticking out from a plastic body for example). Not sure how heavy a piece of metal that size could be , but if you can make them hefty, and maybe make weights for slotta bases, you'll have a good product there.

I agree about weights, but weights abound. Simple 1in flat washers from the local hardware store are dirt cheap, fit well, and easy to glue.

Has anyone added texture to the bottom of their bases for grip? I always have to lay my models on their side, when they are at any sort of angle on slippery surfaces.

I am going to guess that texturizing terrain may make more sense? That still wouldn't help on other peoples terrain though... hmmm.

Vulcan wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:I'd like to blame the miniature gamers of the world for our current economic recession. By using monetary coins as weights you are taking that currency out of circulation (which is illegal, at least in the US), thereby causing inflation.

Waitaminute... taking money out of circulation is illegal?

So how you you put money in a 401(k) then?

And how the feth do corportations get away with moving jobs out of the country? That removes billions of $ from circulation....

EDIT: If anyone wishes to respond to this, we might want to start a thread in OT rather than hijack this one...

Outsourcing and spending on products overseas does not remove currency from circulation in a bad way. I've got a table on this from Economics if I can ever find it again, but it's one of the few better ways of doing it. The other two main ones are saving and I can't remember the last. But, all that goes back into the circulation at some point. The illegal way would be to remove it perminately such as destroying the money. So technically using them as weights isn't illegal as at some point you will spend those pennies on more plasticrack

Unless you cut them instead of adjusting the slot base for some reason.

Now you don't need to make a topic about it

How would you texture the bottom?

If you fill the base with some kind of liquid rubber maybe? That would add weight, and you could coat it in something gritty to add a bit of extra grip.

That is pretty much my only idea right now, not sure if it would work though. It just bugs the hell out of me when half of my army keeps sliding down hills and stuff.

Actually that would work.
Weight the base then put a thin layer over the weight.

I will mess around a bit with some of my proxy models, maybe rubber cement would work well? Luckily I don't have to worry about working with too many slot bases.

Wrexasaur wrote:If you fill the base with some kind of liquid rubber maybe? That would add weight, and you could coat it in something gritty to add a bit of extra grip.

That is pretty much my only idea right now, not sure if it would work though. It just bugs the hell out of me when half of my army keeps sliding down hills and stuff.

Yes that is a major issue.

I agree that a lot of models really do need weights to keep them from getting destroyed by falling down the table, but pennies are cheap, and I forsee the market on something like base weights only working in two ways. The first would be namely newer gamers since well often they buy everything. The second and heres the big problem is newer gamers tend to buy what GW (for exp) tells them or ENCOURAGES them too. So short of being in cahoots with white dwarf to get your product out there it's a hard sell.

Frazzled wrote:I agree about weights, but weights abound. Simple 1in flat washers from the local hardware store are dirt cheap, fit well, and easy to glue.

I actually did this but they do need extra work with slotted basses. I just used the clipper and snipped away at the bottom.

I've seen base weights available on feebay. While I didn't bite, it did encourage me to smash fishing sinkers with a hammer and glue them to the underside of my more wobbly models.

A moulded weight would probably work better, but not if the the expense outweighs (forgive the pun) the convenience.