IT'S A TRAP!!!
Totally random project I have been working on to waste some time before painting something harder - Trap counters!
These took just a couple of evenings work to complete and I think they look pretty smart, certainly a lot more fun to play with than bits of paper or coins.
These are predominantly used in GW's old Scouring of the Shire sourcebook and feature in a few of the smaller scenarios involving the Hobbit resistance vs the invading ruffians. The idea is that you have 'blank' tokens scattered round the board and when an enemy moves close to them you flip it to see what trap is revealed, not all have traps, so its a bit of a guessing game.
I bought a bunch of 25mm bases on ebay and roughly primed them black so that I could finish the rims nicely later.
I superglued the bases topside and bottom to grass matting whcih I had spare from building my gaming board.
I then carefully cut around the bases using scissors touching up any loose matting as I went with superglue.
I then used little bits of string to make the Tripwire and Snare traps. I just used superglue to strongly fix them in place. I used some Agrax Earthdade to create the impression of a path on the Tripwires too.
Half of the bases are left blank to keep you opponent guessing where traps are.
The Pitfalls were a bit trickier, I had to carve out some of the underside plastic first and then used a blob of green stuff to create a dish. Then i cut a hole in the grass matt before overlaying it... Trial and error to get it all to line up.
And here they all are completed, 4 of each trap and 12 blanks. I added some patches of static grass and painted the rims a nice coat of black to cover up the superglue marks, finally giving them a quick varnish to protect it all.
Simple, effective, super fun to make and hopefully they will be really fun to play with, I'll let you know!