Comments on: Cheap RPG Minis Are A Snap With Clix

By: John Price

John Price — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:32:14 +0000

Sounds like a good technique to try. Thanks for sharing!

By: John Price

John Price — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:31:39 +0000

Cool idea! I didn’t even know there WAS an AvP series. Veerry interesting…

By: John Price

John Price — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:30:31 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Sean. Man, back when I was playing 40k the fanboys would have blown a fuse if I wanted to use Clix guys as proxies. I guess things have loosened up a bit, eh? Using them in vehicles and the like does sound like a good way to minimize the scale problems.

By: Bandit86

Bandit86 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:04:46 +0000

I had used a method that I had read on one of the site on removing the clixy type figure from the bases. This method will remove the figure without damaging the feet (as clippers just won’t do the job sometimes). Pop the figure you want to remove from the base into your freezer wait an hour or so and snap the base off. The glue used will break before the figure will for the most part. You still need to be careful though. I tried it and it worked like a charm.

By: apeekaboo

apeekaboo — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:07:42 +0000

I’ve collected some of Wizkids AVP Alien series + an Alien Queen. I repainted the scenery on the queen base, because it was a poor paint job with childish colors. Can’t have alien eggs looking like roses… Eventually I will have some pictures of this on my homepage, but it’s gonna take me a while to redo the site. The alien drones are excellent to use in Space Hulk environment. I’m planning to rebase them, but right now I’ve gotta paint the real Space hulk minis and a bunch of other minis.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:34:39 +0000

Your idea is a great one…and you’re not the only one repurposing Clix figurines. Up until recently, my local comic/game store had a “Clix bin”, worth anything from a quarter for a common street punk to $3 for a more powerful hero, and I’d regularly grub through it. (I’d also sometimes find boxes of Mage Knight and bags of preowned Clix at second-hand and liquidation/overstock stores.) Over time, I collected castoffs to be modded for Warhammer 40K. Bandanna-wearing thugs make decent Imperial Guard Catachans (especially when glued into vehicles where their bigger scale isn’t as noticable), anything with a police or Special Ops uniform fit as Commissars and Stormtroopers, mystical robed heroes and villains become Sanctioned Psykers, big hulking guys/gals can serve as Ogryn(ettes)s, and exotic heroines in flowing action poses double as Daemonettes, just to name a few. Really though, with a bit of imagination and some clippers, glue, putty, and paint, all kinds of Clix/Mage Knight/Mechwarrior figs can become just the thing you need for the game you play, and stretch your gaming dollar as well. Mod away!