Quote from: pawsplay;354579This is nonsense. Certain molds will not work with certain materials, but most molds will work with more than one material.

Of course you can pour just about anything into any mold and get some sort of result. Whether you get a satisfying result or not is another thing. I've never completely excluded the possibility.

Except most plastics will burn before they melt to a pourable consistancy.  Plastics are generally softened up and then rammed into a metal mould with hydraulics.  Of course I'm talking about polystyrene and poly ethalene, not the various catalized and heat set resins.  Also, it's possible to make different moulds from a single master.  However the traditional mould making method for metal figures destroys the master.  Many companies make resin copies of the master in RTV silicon moulds and then make their production moulds using the copies.

Pedantry Point: a "mould" is a shaped receptacle for a substance.  "Mold" is a common fungus.

Quote from: Hairfoot;354646Pedantry Point: a "mould" is a shaped receptacle for a substance.  "Mold" is a common fungus.

Only on your side of the pond.  We only put the 'u' in 'mould' if we're talking about moulding on a wall (as in, carved out of wood etc).

That Drow might be be the latter instead of the D&D Mini mold.

Most Heroscape figures (and I have LOTS of them.  Nearly 1 of every main expansion since its arrival in the US.  I think I am missing a couple exclusives, and 1 box set...) are 28-32mm scale while D&D Minis are 25mms pretty much.

I guess they could use the D&D minis and not care how odd they would look up against a normal Heroscape mini, but it seems a bad choice if true.

These days most minis are done on the computer so just upping the size of the model and just making a new master wouldn't be THAT hard, though probably more work than WotC would do.

The thing is the paint apps on Heroscape have gone WAAAAY downhill since WotC took over from Hasbro, and releases have gone from 2-4 a year to 1 a year or so.  (The Marvel expansions still aren't out from what I can tell.)

Most likely if they are just gonna use Heroscape for D&D minis now, it will be the same barely any release malarkey they did to that game.

(Also odd that D&D can't be made into a sellable brand.  Given in AD&D 2nd's timeframe SSI pumped out D&D electronic RPGs like CONSTANTLY, and had games on every major electronic platform at the time other than the portables.  BRING BACK POOL OF RADIANCE 1 DAMMIT.)

Quote from: Captain Rufus;354653(Also odd that D&D can't be made into a sellable brand.  Given in AD&D 2nd's timeframe SSI pumped out D&D electronic RPGs like CONSTANTLY, and had games on every major electronic platform at the time other than the portables.  BRING BACK POOL OF RADIANCE 1 DAMMIT.)

Here, here...where the *HECK* are the DnD4.0 CRPGs, already. Anyone know if there's some licensing mess keeping it from happening?

Quote from: VectorSigma;354650Only on your side of the pond.  We only put the 'u' in 'mould' if we're talking about moulding on a wall (as in, carved out of wood etc).

Bah, up north here too yank!

This side of the pond indeed!

HARUMPH I say HARUMPH

Quote from: David Johansen;354667Bah, up north here too yank!

Sorry, I keep forgetting you're there.

Quote from: VectorSigma;354650Only on your side of the pond.  We only put the 'u' in 'mould' if we're talking about moulding on a wall (as in, carved out of wood etc).

Disagreement over cultural spelling discrepancies!  I flame thee!

Incidentally, and completely off topic, have you read John Wyndham's "The Chrysalids"?

Quote from: Hairfoot;354679Disagreement over cultural spelling discrepancies!  I flame thee!

Incidentally, and completely off topic, have you read John Wyndham's "The Chrysalids"?

It sounded familiar, but I wiki'd it - nope, hadn't heard of it specifically, although I read Midwich Cuckoos ages ago.  Apropros of nothing? Or are you perhaps suggesting that Yanks and Brits are two divergent species who must inevitably conflict?

Chrysalids was on my highschool English curriculum.

*Spoiler alert*
 
It's a pretty good post-apocalyptic tale (cf. Day of the Triffids), in which the developed world has fallen into Biblical fundamentalist ruin, and the protagonist "mutants" are rescued by high-tech psychic superhumans from...New Zealand.

Translation is in order.  For Americans, it's like a compelling adventure book which ends with the main characters being liberated by superior [depending on your politics, deep-south conservatives, or Canadians].

Quote from: Hairfoot;354646Pedantry Point: a "mould" is a shaped receptacle for a substance.  "Mold" is a common fungus.

I assert the opposite.

Quote from: VectorSigma;354670Sorry, I keep forgetting you're there.

Just how we like it

So I had a chance to see Heroscape D&D minis up close and they look like they're made from the same material as D&D 4e minis. They're D&D 4e minis glued on Heroscape bases. I didn't check if they were the same scale, though.

As a matter of fact, my memory played tricks on me because it looks like non D&D Heroscape minis are made from the same material as D&D 4e minis. My memory of Heroscape minis being made of different material comes from the Heroscape game tiles, which are made from a much harder plastic.

So, now that that's out of the way, I'm still curious to see where WoTC is going with their D&D minis line. No offical DDM minis release until Fall 2010 seems like a long wait.

However this situation works itself out (or doesn't) there WILL likely be miniatures to use with D&D and other Role Playing games in the future.

Even if plastic and metal minis get too cost-prohibitive to make, there will stuff like Cardboard Heroes from SJG  and cardboard counters.
Hell, If I remember right, someone on here offers to make custom cardboard characters in 25-28mm scale all the time.


- Ed C.