mini holders.

[Hawkins]

try these ideas for holding your minis:

2 kinds of wooden dowlings with blue tack and ceramicoat (or Delta coat) paint bottles





an old playdoo can for my friends termies im painting. (i tack it to the other side, this was just a spare can i had to show you.



delta coat bottles that were used with the goblins

[Perv]

I dont like to base mine until I know what base they will go on so I need a sort of bulldog clip on the end of something....

Havent found anything suitable so will have to make one at some point

[cheddarmonger]

I generally cobble off any integrated base, slotta tab, whatever and cement a piece of wire to a foot of the mini, then stick it in an old paintbrush handle.  I made a handy block for holding these.

Here's my tutorial (gotta add pics at some point!!)

http://www.cheddarmongers.org/prod/tutorials/pewterpops

I use old Reaper ProPaint bottles filled with sand for miniatures with integrated bases, with the mini blue-tacked to the top.

[Caerban]

Empty Miniature Paints bottles for me and a bit of blue tack if I'm painting a mini on a standard base. The bottles are glass and weighty enough that they aren't top heavy with a mini on them. Filling them with water or clean sand helps too. Bigger stuff gets blue tacked or PVA glued to a cork sanding block. If I'm removing the base entirely I drill into the foot of the mini and glue a wire in then mount it into a cork for storage when I'm not painting and hold it in a pin vice when I am. I've got an old display pen holder that I was given free by my local stationers which holds the pin vices upright when not in use.

[Perv]

Drilling holes and cutting off tabs Cheddar?  I came out in a cold sweat just reading a few lines of that page !!!  I couldnt mutilate my figs in that way, thats blasphemy  :icon_w00t:  Conversions are the work of the devil in my opinion  :icon_w00t:

A vice would be ideal as it goes, just a hand held one which I'm sure they sell somewhere.  If not, a paintbrush handle with a small bulldog clip superglued on the end may do the job nicely  :icon_wink: