NOTE: I have now reorganized my customs categorically, instead of temporally. Please note that I display every card I've created in this thread, including my first few, some of which were pretty bad. Most of them are much better than that
Dungeons and Dragons minis
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Around one snowy Christmas I took all my old D & D minis (not many) and made Heroscape cards for them. that's how it started. But I have plenty of extra figs now, and use 'em all. Here they are, I figured somebody here might like 'em.
Mad Slasher
This is a card for the D&D mini.. Mad Slasher! I didn't come up with a new name, I just represented the same creature. This is the first custom I ever made, as you can tell from the sidebar. And the image is actually a scan of a printed card on cardstock, since I lost the original file. Yeah, it's probably many points overpriced. However, you could use those new "Fyorlag Spiders" as figures for this. Yeah, that would work pretty good. And this guys even a comman hero, so you could print out three if you had them. I don't. Oh well, maybe the game shop still has Ticalla Jungle... I finally got this guy's cost settled at 35.
The Chimera
No, it is not "the" Chimera. It's just a beastie that Vydar genetically engineered for his army. Geez. I made it for the D&D figure "Wyvern".
Lifelink Kin
I always wanted to make a squad with 2 life. Always. In play, I could try putting the wound counters on the figure base, or just on the figure's picture on the card. The race thing is weird, yes. Obviously, they are not biological brothers. You can say that the top two are Anubian, and you can figure out the rest, or you could just say that all figures count as all three types by close association. I think I'll use the former. The figures were D&D's "Mountain Orc" "Gnoll" "Gnoll Skeleton" and "Aasimar Favored Soul". That's what I used, anyway. Brothers-In-Arms is not like Carry, where you have this big quadraped carrying someone, it's more like a battered marine dragging his comrade out of a trench. I now have them priced at 75 points; that's with plenty of testing.
Pygmy Onix Viper
I KNOW Onix Vipers don't have legs. This guy is already a pygmy. He has three chromatids in chromosome #155. Yeah. That's the story I'm going wiht. That's also where the psychic powers come from. Maybe something like the Ghost program from Starcraft.
That Psi ability is not something I'm most proud of. Brothers-in-Arms was an afterthought to fill the text box. I really liked that. This ability was also an afterthought, and I wish I could erase it. It's an aura, so it's less than original, it promotes defense, and draws out games, and thirdly it wouldn't even work well with Elite Onix Vipers, the only other one in the game! Besides, this figure was begging to be a squad, but I only had one, so it gets to be a common hero. The figure I used for it, and the one in the window, is D&D Yuan-Ti halfblood.
The Yeti
Yes, this one is "The" Yeti. I used the D&D "Taer" figure for this, even though he's small. Actually, it might be BETTER to have a different, bigger figure for Yeti. Ah, well. This card I like. There's nothing to complain about design-wise, and visually it is the best I'd done up to that point. I even put those little snowflakes in because I thought Einar's card didn't look wintry enough. I like this guy, even though I have no snow. Well, maybe Mouse Games still has some Thaelnek Tundra...
NOTE: For copy of The Yeti with an updated point value of 135, scroll down.
BTW, all the figs above came from the "Aberrations" set of D&D minis. In case it matters.
RE-PAINTS
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Meet Rusty, the robot reject from Utgar's science facilities. After being exiled and wandering the fringes of the Volcarren Wasteland for a few years, watching the battle of Halla from a distance, Aquialla, in desperate need of soldiers, stumbled onto him one day and took him in. Aquilla could now study the Deathwalker technology to fight her former master, and she souped up X-42 to make him fully combat ready.
This guy is a Deathwalker 9000 repaint, with a brown wash and some blue over the eye thingy and wrist where you see.
*Have you seen the ghost of John?
Long white hair and the rest all gone,
OOOOOOoooooooOOoooooH,
Wouldn't it be chilly with no skin on?*
Johnny "Shotgun" Sullivan, after years of taking out some of Utgar's best squadrons, finally fell in battle. But after meeting Death, he was put to use as an assistant of the Grim Reaper, collecting souls when Death had decided their time had come. So Johnny walked again on Valhalla, with added powers granted him by the Reaper. When Utgar found out, he thought it the ultimate revenge to use this hero against Jandar, so he got a part-time leasing contract with Death. Johnny is back, more powerful than before... and fighting with the bad guys.
This card is just stupendous. I can't get over how much I like it. And I'd like to thank bmaczero for making the gorgeous card blanks he did, I've used two or three of them now. So this was just a whitewash of Johnny. I probably should've put red stripes on his cape or something, but I'm really not that good at painting figures. What you see in the picture isn't a photo of the repainted figure, it's an edited photo of the original figure.
Here's the last repaint unit:
They're brothers.. they're Kyries... they'rs Ullar's... what else do you want to know? It's probably obvious they're just repaints of Concan and Saylind. This is the first time I've changed the background. Plus, I've finally mastered the leg-fading. I tried to fade out Deathwalker X-42's legs- you can't even tell. My younger brother got attatched to these guys, so he came up with these stats and abilities, and then I made the card. He did good (but I priced them).
This is the second, secret model of the Deathwalker 9000. I would've given it a different number, but I didn't want to lose the awesome number stamp on his shoulder. Just took the figure and started painting olive green and brown and several other colors over a lot of things, like you see in the picture. I haven't playtested it yet, so I can't be 100 percent sure about the point rating. The target area and sight point buisness is original; hope it doesn't confuse anybody. Those are front and back images for the target area. Remember; you can only reposition your figure on its turn!
Oh, yeah, this one. My friend bugged me until I took one of our duplicate Izumi Samurai and painted the red sash black, and also turned his feet into sandels. Viola. Samurai Jack. Actually a pretty BA use for a repaint, actually. This guy has simply worked out perfectly in play. Even non-Jack fans love him.
STAR WARS
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I always wanted the soulborgs/droids to be a real army with some cohesiveness. Another thing I wanted was for stone, grass, and sand terrain to actually affect some figures. Still don't have a Sand elemental figure-type thing to work with, but when I get one, watch out. This guy's old, but he has valuable communication technology. This figure is the stars wars 'Guard Droid' a common I believe. His shackles can strike a critical blow in certain situations...such as when you get rid of the worst ability in Heroscape, Thanos' resurrection, purely for the sake of game-mechanical justice. Good times.
Warrior-Caste Vong:
I made this card entirely by Googling the Yuzhan Vong, mostly in Wookipedia. I made the card roughly in the style of GreyOwl's Vong, because I use several of his cards. THUD BUG! It's soooooo fun to say. That's why you'll enjoy these guys.
This is another instance of cheating--I had eight random-as-hayseed Star Wars figures that sat in my box for the longest time, until we got Judge 'Joe' Dredd and used his card from CV3. Well, for those of you who don't know 'Criminals roll 1 less defense die against him.' One of my players fell in love with Joe and asked me to make some criminals for him to kill. I took the opportunity to finally create a mine-laying squad so we can get some serious minefields going in this game. I made a mine-laying Deathwalker a long time ago, but it never laid down a significant number of mines. The mechanic was really cool, and I thought it deserved a chance to shine.
Oh, yeah. And I found some random papercraft crates online for another weird mechanic, too. Any papercraft crate will do, really.
DESCENT: JOURNEYS IN THE DARK
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I am embarking on a quest to paint all my Decent: Journeys in the Dark Second Edition minis. I'm not done yet, as you'll see below, but slow and steady. I will try to upload them all. I've also switched to Magic Set Editor to speed up card creation, so there are less custom graphics on cards and more---cards. They also look much cleaner, with all matching fonts.
These figures are just sooo good. I'm talking about the sculpting--when I performed a shadow-wash on the 'air' portion of the Elemental, it suddenly became about 5 times cooler. The card must reflect this awesomeness.
Ohoh, this guy is so dangerous. One of the coolest figures in Descent, and now equally BA in heroscape. Iron Man is currently the biggest name on his list of drowning victims. The figure's only 60 pts though, partially because his Descent base is actually very large--still single-space, but too large to fit in a single-space river. Therefore, he can only drown people in lakes. It's also harder to pull off than it looks.
The 'Smell of Dragon blood' hasn't broken any games yet, even with six Venoc Vipers on the table, waiting to GET MAD. It's another of those things that could be amazing but is difficult to pull off. I like that in a monster.
Oh, yeah, and sorry that Inferno Cone is almost impossible to decipher. I've had to explain it to everyone in person by pointing at the table--I was too lazy to include a diagram, which would have been the right thing to do.
The problem with Descent is that it came with many '5-ofs'. For the spiders, this was fine, because I just added them to my existing collection of Fyorlag spiders. At other times, I wanted to utilize all figures. Introducing the 5-squad. It actually doesn't cause any game breaking, so long as you keep it in mind when pricing.
These have been played once, and they made a small child MAD. Why? Because I played them exactly as you're supposed to. A 500-point game on a tourney-sized map. 1 Khosumet, 2 Wolves of Badru, 2 Anubian Wolves, and Hades Pack. Send out everyone else to die first. Then, in the final leg of the battle, Hades Pack howls from over the horizon! --Killing a Deathwalker, Grimnak, Realin, and the Mad Slasher. FTW.
The name of this big ugly brute comes from paint colors originally mixed to try and bring life to his putrid flesh.
Plays rather well, thematically speaking. Tunnel Vision helps to balance out Double Turn in a nice way, and now we have a choice for Taskmaster Bonding besides the default DnD 'Scape Ogre.
YU-GI-OH
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We're big Duel Monsters fans here. As you can tell, the Buster Blader's thing is fighting dragons.
Ah, the great Dark Magician! Oh wait--you were probably waiting for THIS too:
Originally I didn't have him flying, but my friend convinced him that I ought to give it to him since he levitates around all the time in the show. Also gave him a power from Capsule Monsters, since that was a minis version of the game, so it made perfect sense to me.
Nothing really special about this guy, except that, oddly enough, I couldn't find any images of the Twin Swordsman online. Yugioh fans will recognize that the picture is actually one of the Mystic Swordsman Lvl 5.
This guy's not one of my favorites, honestly. I couldn't come up with anything terribly unique for him. But he's there I guess.
OK, I can explain. I swear. My friend HAS an Exodia mini. Therefore he wouldn't be HAPPY unless he made one. We also use it with the Papercraft Obelisks from this website, that you can see I made a descructible object card for in 'Other'. If anyone actually ever manages to summon him, we'll ban him immediately after. With any luck, the magic will stay sealed away and that day will never come.
Companion to Dark Magician. She might leave him for Sonlen, though--those two would work WELL together if he wasn't a stupid 'Archmage'.
So, you probably saw this coming with me flinging Duel Spirits all over the place. Duel Spirit tribal! Sort of.
In other news, Seto Kyba makes everything he touches look cool.
This guy's resurrection ability is kind of clever.
Do you find it odd that Yugi/Yami is the one Duelist we DON'T have? Yes, so do I. I think we lost that mini. Poor guy.
SLIGHTLY LATER: Hey, guess what! We found the Yugi figure!
So...having two cards is just a touch over-gimmicky, perhaps silly. But it was just the right time to take the opportunity.
HEROCLIX
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This guy...is stupid. We got a Heroclix figure of him in a grab bag, and I looked him up on Wikipedia. Didn't like him. Possibly, someone will actually play with him someday. My apologies to all Elongated Man otaku whom I have offended.
Cheating here--made from a smattering of Heroclix figures I didn't know what else to do with. Also fun fact: these Triads are 100% historically inaccurate or your money back.
I had two more wannabe Triads, but they didn't have guns. Problem? I think not. It let me try out poison immunity--a power I'd wanted to give someone for a while.
Everyone who's looked at this card has already commented how bad the pun is, so don't bother. The figure is Angelus from Heroclix.
Got a Heroclix named Tomoe, had no idea who she was--so off to Wikipedia! And what do I find? She was an awesome, and real, feudal samurai! Perfect for HS! But I did take an anime picture instead of an ancient monocolor print because it looked color.
This was another Heroclix I had to Wiki. Some people have made HS cards for Johnny, but they were 200 pts +. I'm not a big enough fan of Johnny Alpha for that. So I took some of his more interesting-looking powers and made a Johnny Alpha that lived up to Relenzo standards of jankeddyness.
FREIND: *takes one look at card* 'the Earth's rotation....Rleeeeen!'
ME: "What? All you have to do is bring a compass and figure out which way east is! It's not that hard!"
POKEMON
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Ah, Venosaur. One of the slightly more elegant designs. Generally not very powerful--too slow for a tourney map. But we play on HS maps that span continents. There's one of our players who has won kill-'em-all games by clever hiding units in nooks on the battlefield, in little tiny caves, and letting everyone forget about them until the end. If you sit there for a lot of turns and charge up Solarbeam...someday, it's going to happen.
I should point out that I have exactly 150 favorite Pokemon. This whatever-it-is, while not ugly, is not among them.
A note on Pokemon Power level. They are not suited for pitched warefare in general. The show's on a lower power level then real violent entertainment. However, when you have evo-3 pokemon like Venosaur and Blastoise--these are some of the most powerful Pokemon, and thus on a level to compete with real soldiers in my opinion.
This guy's more like a 'normal' Pokemon. His attack is only three because the internet said he had the 'highest attack of any non-legendary basic pokemon'.
You didn't think we had only one Duelist, did you? Yes, there's a Yugioh Abridged joke there. We needed a name for the ability that represented his recklessness.
NOTE: This guy could become EVIL used in conjunction with Joey. Beware. And try it if possible...
Okay, this is one of my favorite cards. In fact, it might not be a stretch to say that, now that I FINALLY HAVE A PIKACHU MINI!!!---he is my favorite HS hero in the entire game.
I've wanted one for so long. And this card is some of my finest work. It looks great, and it also captures Pikachu so well--conveying so much complexity in only a few abilities by making them interact in interesting ways! He doesn't immediately die, but doesn't have more health or defense than a yellow mouse should have. I love this card to death.
I moved Blastoise's attack up to four after one of my players pointed out that, according to some physics study, Blastoise's Hydro Pump should in theory be able to sheer through steel based on the water pressure required for that visual effect.
OTHER
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This is a great dragon figure. We still have no idea where it come from--can't find it on the net anywhere--but it's a beautiful mini and fits neatly onto 4 HS spaces. His absurdly complicated firebreath actually creates some interesting strategy for those of you into the statistics side of 'Scape.
The realm of Mirrodin has joined the battle of all time. The Planeswalkers (Magic: The Gathering) have joined the Valhalla fray. Why? Because I feel like it! I am frankly SHOCKED that nobody else has mentioned how PERFECT these Byakugan figures are for Heroscape customs. People! They are quality figures, cheap, just the right size, and you can even get squads of figures! This custom is made from a Byakugan figure of a guy called Seige. I went to buy a Byakugan figure and said to myself, "This guy looks kinda like the Lunar Avenger from my favorite card game." So here we go. The text you see is a big throwback to the card (heck, Heroscape doesn't really have templating yet, so why not?) I originally planned for him to have seven life to match up with the original card, but nine makes his ability more exciting. I don't actually know anything about the guy flavorwise, but the idea of him being this viligante who goes traipsing around the world strikes me as appealing (Lunar Avenger... awaaaaaay!) After lots of play, I've changed his cost to 160.
Of course, in original wording there were no limits on how many times you could sack health, which was game breaking...this was one of my earlier customs. I think our current version of the card has errata permanent-markered all over it, but I'm not motivated enough to re-write this card digitally for the 7th time.
And here's a destructible object card I did for the papercraft obelisks that can be found in the downloads section of this website:
Last edited by Relenzo2; June 5th, 2014 at 07:46 PM.
Reason: Because. Just because.
Very good, very flavorful cards. I like them! The Lifelink Kin are my only problem. Yes, I see where you tried to go with them, but the wording on "Challenge the Champions" and "Brothers-in-arms" is a bit confusing. Plus, all that moving around of Wound Markers would just be annoying in-game. Otherwise, they're all very good!
ron3090 is 'Shotgun' Sullivan...
in the ECRU CAVE...
I know Brothers-In-Arms is less than optimally expressed. In fact, right now it's downright incorrect. I realized that I should have said "instead of moving" you may move a figure adjacent, yadda-yah. As for the wound markers, we'll just have to see. My printer cartridge has no yellow left, you see, and....
AAAAAAAAH! I never assigned a point value to The Yeti!
*whacks self*
*whacks self*
*WHACK*
Well, then... any suggestions as to value? I'm ballparking at a hundred at the moment.
Ooh. I put up 105, but maybe you're right. I'll have to take another look, but for now, here he is with at least A cost.
EDIT: Changed to 135. I'm looking at Mimring with full flying and 5 life, 150, and Dund, with Gaze, 5 move and 4 life, 110. Where does 170 come from?
Last edited by Relenzo2; January 1st, 2009 at 12:47 AM.
Reason: Because.
Around Christmas I took all my old D & D minis (not many) and made Heroscape cards for them. Here they are, I figured somebody here might like 'em.
Mad Slasher
This is a card for the mini.. Mad Slasher! I didn't come up with a new name, I just represented the same creature. This is the first custom I ever made, as you can tell from the sidebar. And the image is actually a scan of a printed card on cardstock, since I lost the original file. Yeah, it's probably 20 points overpriced. However, you could use those new "Fyorlag Spiders" as figures for this. Yeah, that would work pretty good. And this guys even a comman hero, so you could print out three if you had them. I don't. Oh well, maybe the game shop still has Ticalla Jungle...
The Chimera
No, it is not "the" Chimera. It's just a beastie that Vydar genetically engineered for his army. Geez. I made it for the D&D figure "Wyvern".
Lifelink Kin
I always wanted to make a squad with 2 life. Always. In play, I could try putting the wound counters on the figure base, or just on the figure's picture on the card. The race thing is weird, yes. Obviously, they are not biological brothers. You can say that the top two are Anubian, and you can figure out the rest, or you could just say that all figures count as all three types by close association. I think I'll use the former. The figures were "Mountain Orc" "Gnoll" "Gnoll Skeleton" and "Aasimar Favored Soul". Brothers-In-Arms is not like Carry, where you have this big quadraped carrying someone, it's more like a battered marine dragging his comrade out of a trench.
Pygmy Onix Viper
I KNOW Onix Vipers don't have legs. This guy is already a pygmy. He has three chromatids in chromosome #155. Yeah. That's the story I'm going wiht. That's also where the psychic powers come from. Maybe something like the Ghost program from Starcraft.
That Psi ability is not something I'm most proud of. Brothers-in-Arms was an afterthought to fill the text box. I really liked that. This ability was also an afterthought, and I wish I could erase it. It's an aura, so it's less than original, it promotes defense, and draws out games, and thirdly it wouldn't even work well with Elite Onix Vipers, the only other one in the game! Besides, this figure was begging to be a squad, but I only had one, so it gets to be a common hero.
The Yeti
Yes, this one is "The" Yeti. I used the "Taer" figure for this, even though he's small. Actually, it might be BETTER to have a different, bigger figure for Yeti. Ah, well. This card I like. There's nothing to complain about design-wise, and visually it is the best I've done so far. I even put those little snowflakes in because I thought Einar's card didn't look wintry enough. Even though I have no snow. Well, maybe Mouse Games still has some Thaelnek Tundra...
NOTE: For copy of The Yeti with point value, scroll down.
BTW, all the figs came from the "Aberrations" set of D&D minis. In case it matters.
all please anser but i wanted to know how to make custom figures and cards.please help.
Helloooooooooo! Realize I may be resurrecting a dead thread, but I am back in buisness! And this time with repaints! Check out this guy:
Meet Rusty, the robot reject from Utgar's science facilities. After being exiled and wandering the fringes of the Volcarren Wasteland for a few years, watching the battle of Halla from a distance, Aquialla, in desperate need of soldiers, stumbled onto him one day and took him in. Aquilla could now study the Deathwalker technology to fight her former master, and she souped up X-42 to make him fully combat ready.
This guy is a Deathwalker 9000 repaint, with a brown wash and some blue over the eye thingy and wrist where you see. Don't worry, I'll get an upgrade counter on here soon.