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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: gamer Mac on April 03, 2014, 10:34:24 AM
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I am looking for ideas for reload counters for LOTHS. After playing a recent game we ended up with counters everywhere. What do other peole use to mark that a gun needs to be reloaded before it can fire again?
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A Lead Ball?
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I have used a small puff of cotton wool before to mark weapons that need to be reloaded (to represent the smoke from the shot)
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I have used a small puff of cotton wool before to mark weapons that need to be reloaded (to represent the smoke from the shot)
Yep cotton wool works a treat. :)
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Was this a naval game or a land game?
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Land
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I use expended .22 shells in my western games. if you go to a local gun range, you will find tons of them.
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I think you might BE our local gun range(at 4931 miles away!!!). We don't really have any gun ranges here!!
What about using washers and (my favourite stuff right now! ::)) green stuff? The washer would just be a base, cover it in GS, make it look like stone and imprint the word 'Reload' in it.
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That sounds like a lot of work. We would be better buying something.
Does anybody have a suggestion for a company that sells these sort of thing.
Possibility someone that is at salute next week.
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Not taken with the cotton wool idea?
It looks ok with little puffs of smoke in front of the figure that has fired. simply remove it when they reload.
Otherwise what about a small barrel of gunpowder or a musket lying on a base?
You should be able to pick up packets of either at Salute?
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I like the cotton wool idea, myself.
Alternatively, how about a plain base with some of the smallest ball rearings that you can find glued to it...?
Musket balls, ya know.
;)
Simplest thing I can think of, except for the cotton wool.
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I like the cotton wool idea, myself.
Alternatively, how about a plain base with some of the smallest ball rearings that you can find glued to it...?
Musket balls, ya know.
;)
Simplest thing I can think of, except for the cotton wool.
Ball bearings, that woudl work as well. :)
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Ball bearings, that woudl work as well. :)
In fact, I would dispense with the need for a seperate base entirely and just drop a ball bearing on the base of the figure that is 'reloading'.
Simples!
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Any use brother?
(http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a605/andymac2105/D5322A82-7825-45A3-8795-AE26FD90258C_zpsttk7scur.jpg) (http://s1286.photobucket.com/user/andymac2105/media/D5322A82-7825-45A3-8795-AE26FD90258C_zpsttk7scur.jpg.html)
It's supposed to look like the stone paving you have on your board Colin.
Do you have any silicon left? If not we could always try a Greenstuff mould and we could knock as many as we need.
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Freebooter Miniatures have musket and pistol reload counters:
http://www.freebooterminiatures.de/en/catalog/1466
http://www.freebooterminiatures.de/en/catalog/1464
I made mine from their loose pistols and rifles glued to their decking bases (they didn't make reload counters at the time).
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How many would be easy to make?
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Those paddle-like sticks that are used to "stuff" the cannon barrel could be stuck next to the cannon in need of reloading somehow.
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Will be very expensive, but:
http://www.magistermilitum.com/type/replica/replica-musket-ball-0-69-inch.html
;D ;D
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How many would be easy to make?
Technically speaking we can make as many as we need. The GS mould should be good for a while! I'll try it today now that its cured! Do you have silicon?
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Not used it for ages. Not sure if it is still good to use.
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Not used it for ages. Not sure if it is still good to use.
Might be worth trying anyway! ....or maybe just the stuff you pour into the moulds?(resin?). The GS mould made the sharp edges a bit....dull!
The GS mould....
(http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a605/andymac2105/876589A4-CC0F-469D-8567-3B56326FDAE8_zpsjvwdsclk.jpg) (http://s1286.photobucket.com/user/andymac2105/media/876589A4-CC0F-469D-8567-3B56326FDAE8_zpsjvwdsclk.jpg.html)
The copy beside the original....
(http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a605/andymac2105/6B4F261B-40FB-439C-B08F-B95C7FB9614B_zpslrkqlxg6.jpg) (http://s1286.photobucket.com/user/andymac2105/media/6B4F261B-40FB-439C-B08F-B95C7FB9614B_zpslrkqlxg6.jpg.html)
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I use ammo boxes mounted on 1p coins to indicate units or men low on ammunition or reloading - readily available from Redoubt, Warlord, Empress etc.
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I bought some plastic counters from Warbases who will inscribe anything on them for you. I used some for my Dead man's Chest Pirate rules. I had Courage, Flee, Stunned etc in different colours. I will post a pic later if you want.
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Irregular Miniatures do neat, stacked piles of cannon balls (already on a small base) in their Pirates figures range - any use ?
Regards
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Well we went with making a mould out of green stuff and also silicone mould.
We ended up with these
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/17/1912_24_04_14_11_28_19_3.jpg)
Green stuff of my brothers
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/17/1912_24_04_14_11_28_18_0.jpg)
The bottom two rows are mine from plaster
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I see a gap in the market with those :D
They look the biz 8) 8)
cheers
James
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Brilliant :-*
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very nice - much better than the black plastic counters I use...but probably a great deal more expensive ! :D
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He pays me in mugs of coffee Giles, so they ain't that expensive! ;)
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In my pirate games I use 20mm round plywood bases (from Fenris) with printed bullets glued on them as ammo counters.
I like to declare loaded weapons, by the way, so that you must spend an ammo counter as opposed to marking required reload actions. I like how that symbolizes spending your bullets.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmJYvDbCAAAp0Xf.jpg)
(http://www.dogsahoy.ciantygames.com/resources/ammo.png)