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Nickels are good, I use them on my biker bases.

Im sure one day GW will release their own line of base weights which will retail in packs of 10 for 4.99 and if you show up to a tourny with pennies, nickles or heaven forbid washers youll be ousted like an Ork at a picnic!

Maxstreel wrote:Magnets can attract the washers. So if you use the GW modular movement trays, the washer-based units won't fall out when you move them.

Yes, I wanted to do this, but do you know of any way to magnetize the modular movement tray? I haven't thought of a way at all.

How about weighting models with small magnets then cutting a piece of sheet metal to fit the movement tray and sticking it on?

fleewits wrote:How about weighting models with small magnets then cutting a piece of sheet metal to fit the movement tray and sticking it on?

I do this; glue/putty small magnets into the bases, then they stay hard and fast in a tin tool box (and get the extra weight on the table).

Cheap army case!

I'm worried that one day I'll come up against some metal terrain.

lol..... Magnatized bases + metal terrain = Difficult terrain! lol I Kill Me!

Mountain climbing Dwarfs? Makes sense really haha

Karon wrote:

Maxstreel wrote:Magnets can attract the washers. So if you use the GW modular movement trays, the washer-based units won't fall out when you move them.

Yes, I wanted to do this, but do you know of any way to magnetize the modular movement tray? I haven't thought of a way at all.

Have you tried Magnetic Sheets?

I did the magnet thing on my plastic bugs as well. The hormagaunts kept tipping forward, so I needed something small and fairly heavy for it's size since it's a slotted base. The magnets were just the trick AND led me to a cute tourney tray that allows them to run along the walls. Now all my stealers have magnets too, and I've even put them on my MCs and multi wound models and I have actual wound counters (magnetic!) instead of dice.

But pennies work too. But I'd have to charge extra on my trades/sells if I did that. LOL

Those seem like a much more convenient alternative method, Platuan4th, ill have to give them a go some time

Platuan4th wrote:Have you tried Magnetic Sheets?

Once.... since then I've quit wasting magnets on my Taco Bell...

I only weight unbalanced models, which are generally metal or really dynamic (e.g., stormboyz or something along those lines). Lately, I've been putting magnets on the bottom of the bases to make them convenient for transport. Slap 'em a cookie sheet and your GTG.

Wow, good to know so many people do similar things.

I might try out nickels, seems like everybody's giving 'em a go (Though I'm loathe to go up in a 4 cent increase, lol) Or at least pick up some washers.

Definitely interested in those magnetic sheets though. Anybody got a tutorial up?

also serves to drive up inflation as you are removing currency from circulation.

T'other way round
All things being equal, printing money is inflationary

Klawz wrote:By the way, clearly some people don't know what inflation is. It's when a government prints more money, driving down the value of an individal item. Destroying currency lowers inflation.

doh >.< I wasn't paying enough attention to what I was typing, good catch.

But really I have to ask, aren't the models expensive enough without ya'll investing an additional 1-5 cents per model in them? I mean, really?

chaos0xomega wrote:aren't the models expensive enough without ya'll investing an additional 1-5 cents per model in them?

At retail, a Space Marine is $3.50, so adding another penny really doesn't change things.

I'm with John on this one. What's 1 cent more? I mean, even for 100 models, that's only a dollar.

I use split-shot lead sinkers for the bases with the slots. Take thin needle nose and lay the nose of the plier inside the split, squeeze down to spread the split apart, turn pliers 180 degrees to be perpendicular to the split and squeeze it flat. Sometimes you might have to squeeze it thinner too to get it to fit into the base. 2 sinkers weighs as much as a penny but will cost about 8 cents(US currency of course) so not as cheap as nickels but have the advantage in slotted bases. Bag of 40 is $1.60 at Walmart.

Caution has to be practiced. They are lead so obviously wash your hands after handling them or wear gloves (but i'd still wash anyway to be safe). Last thing you want is to become slowed 10 years down the road from ingesting lead shavings.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Technically (in the US), gluing pennies/nickles to your miniatures is illegal, as it is destroying legal tender, it also serves to drive up inflation as you are removing currency from circulation.

It isn't destroying it. Nothing stopping you from pulling them off again.

Mattlov wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Technically (in the US), gluing pennies/nickles to your miniatures is illegal, as it is destroying legal tender, it also serves to drive up inflation as you are removing currency from circulation.

It isn't destroying it. Nothing stopping you from pulling them off again.

This one. Also, if it's illegal, why do so many national parks and government protected touristy places offer those "imprint a penny" machines for you to mangle your currency with? Finally, if the US economy, which trades trillions of dollars on imaginary property called "equity" every day, is tenuous enough to where a set of pennies worth 1 USD makes or breaks it, then frankly, it deserves what's coming to it.

Defacement of currency is a violation of Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code, however according to this page, a Penny press machine is not illegal because its intent is not to defraud someone.

http://www.parkpennies.com/pressed-penny/penny-pressing-legal.htm

It's from Wikianswers, so enjoy your grain of salt, but there you go.

I used to use 2c pieces (which were bronze coins that fit perfectly under the non-slotta bases) but they withdrew them from circulation and scrapped them (they were worth more per gram as scrap than the face value).

Now I use washers. Cost me the same, but they stick to magnetic sheeting soo much easier.

chaos0xomega wrote:I have to ask... why use coins when you can drive to the home improvement store and purchase a bag of several hundred washers for only a few bucks? If you're going to throw money away, at least allow it to recirculate back into the economy.

Technically (in the US), gluing pennies/nickles to your miniatures is illegal, as it is destroying legal tender, it also serves to drive up inflation as you are removing currency from circulation.

If a bag of 200 washers is $3 then pennies are cheaper.

In the UK it's legal as long as the queen's face is still visible.

As for inflation, do you know how much currency is lost every year? The amounts are staggering.

@Scott: In the US, washers of any decent size will typically run 3 cents each, or more. Last time I checked, pennies were the cheapest.

Aduro wrote:I prefer nickles. Sure, it's 5x more expensive, but it's also heavier and a Perfect fit. Though it's also why I hate the new bases that don't have a slot cut in them, but still have the slot support on the underside.

Same here, nickels all the way.

chaos0xomega wrote:
But really I have to ask, aren't the models expensive enough without ya'll investing an additional 1-5 cents per model in them? I mean, really?

5 cents is worth:

Not having models fall over when the difference between an assault/rapidfire/melta range is ~1 inch

Not scratching paintjobs that take longer to do then 5cents worth of labor.

Not having smaller delicate bits fall off your model making you reglue in some situations (see #2)

Having models you don't have to lift with nano-technology robot hands to effectively move your models to prevent the above from happening.

Curious as to why it bugs you so much that other people are placing loose change under their models (in essence actually putting it to good use). I am sure more change is lost in wells, ponds, and just on the street then what is used in peoples warhammer models, and I am sure that figure is dramatically one sided. (If I were to throw a figure in the air, I would say about 350$ worth of change is lost/thrown in ponds/wells to every penny used in a warhammer model <350000:1> , and seeing how in 2009 it was reported that 110 million GBPs worth of Full cups of tea are thrown away yearly <In the UK alone>, I don't think this figure is too far off).

This following post was brought to you in part by: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pickles-Nickels/169248142634 I use nickles for my Dark Eldar, you should use them too!

By the way, clearly some people don't know what inflation is. It's when a government prints more money, driving down the value of an individal item.

A tongue in cheek comment, yes? Rather than an invitation to argue the finer points of economic theory, money supply and macro economic policy..........


Anyway back on topic, I used to weight my bases with 1p and 2p coins. On the one hand it makes them more stable on the table but I also found it made my minis more vulnerable to damage if dropped or knocked over so I don't tend to do it much anymore. It can be worth it though on particularly unbalanced models

cheapest/best way IMO:

Tub of polyfiller from the hardware store: 3 bucks

Has enough filler to do probably 10 armies. Its a white crack filling compound that you fill in any spaces in your base, and scrape off the excess with a butter knife.

With coins, I find without putting a bit of putty, super glue only holds on to the rims of the coin or the raised parts on the face, so its not a good hold. With washers, I find it just weighs TOO much (when doing large units), and I don't like the fact that it raises the bases up more than other models.

My hormagaunts weighed a metric ton in my figure case, and it was causing me to doubt the structural integrity of my case handle of my old GW fabric case.

A friend of mine showed me his GK termies done with Polyfill, and I was amazed. Fills in ANY crack, no matter the base size, or shape, or whether it has any slottas. I also like that it fills the entire underside of the base, so while it doesn't weigh as much as say lead or even Greenstuff, the fact that it uses up every iota of space makes up for a lot, plus it doesnt add TOO MUCH weight. I love it.

Know what's even cheaper? Sand. Mix sand and glue (elmers) and apply to the bottom of the base. Cheap and effective.

1-UP wrote:I use nickels on mine, but it's a "When I think of it" project, so only some of the squads have been done.

I've used washers before, but I think I figured out they were actually costing me more than the coins. Yes, they're a bit better fit, but I have nickels laying around everywhere and washers are a bit of a premium.

i've used both. while nickels may technically be more expensive, i actually have to drive to walmart to get the washers... for the nickels, i just have to walk over to the change jar. yay for sloth!

I got a quote for 60 tungsten washers for my vets. Tungsten is several times heavier than steel and I figured that would make the feel nice and stable with the metal melta guns.

The price was £4.92 (approx $7).



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