Creative wound counters

[xtztxtxz]

Here's a little project I started last year.

This is a bunch of Rippers glued onto disc magnets:


And this is a base with piece of magnetic paper glued to it:


Stick them together and you end up with a fairly cool way to keep track of wounds on your larger Tyranid beasties. I've spent the last few weeks sorting out 67 Rippers onto much stronger magnets and making sure (nearly) all of my multi-wound bugs have either magnetic paper on the base, or tiny carefully hidden magnets. I also re-based my old Zoans and Hive Guard onto 50mm because apparently I'm really good as procrastinating over the huge pile of stuff I still have to paint.

After tidying up the base to hide the edges of the magnetic strip, this is what you end up with:

[drewski]

I was thinking of doing the same thing. I also have some of the FW flying rippers for my Flyrants!

[danb]

Nice! I'm working on a spinning baby capillary tower with some roman numerals scratched onto the stones around it for my hierodule, but your technique makes remaining wounds a lot more obvious.

[xtztxtxz]

Jul 21, 2015 1:12:58 GMT drewski said:

I was thinking of doing the same thing. I also have some of the FW flying rippers for my Flyrants!

Heh I'm currently doing precisely the same thing for my Harridan. That'll be my next thread once I'm done painting it all.

[drakiskier]

my tyrannocyte has 5 spore mines magnetized to the base.. my crone has rippers on magnets... my fexes are fully magnetized, so i just pull off an arm...

[Xenothios]

I've used devouror heads to hold die onto particularly large bases and add some extra detail to make it look like some kind of 'nid infestation rupturing out of the ground. This is what I've got going on for my two 'fexes and my flyrant, forgive the unpainted-ness of it. Currently trying to find something else for my Tyrannofex since it takes up too much of the base to put this on, might look into the ripper thing!

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[Imasho]

That's such an elegant idea well done.

[Kwodd]

Oct 12, 2015 9:10:55 GMT Xenothios said:

I've used devouror heads to hold die onto particularly large bases and add some extra detail to make it look like some kind of 'nid infestation rupturing out of the ground. This is what I've got going on for my two 'fexes and my flyrant, forgive the unpainted-ness of it. Currently trying to find something else for my Tyrannofex since it takes up too much of the base to put this on, might look into the ripper thing!

Awesome, so doing this.

[WestRider]

I've been meaning to do something like this for ages. Not just for my Nids, but also for my Chaos Spawn and Flesh Hounds, who often end up carrying more Wounds between them than I have Wound Counters for.

[dwez]

Or, if you need some markers quick and don't mind a bit of gluing and sticking my free to print ones are still available, alongside psyker powers and other various markers, they're here:

40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/p/free-downloads.html