Philosophical question of the day: basing

[ochoin]

Why is it, that after spending many hours, carefully painting etc a figure & gluing it to a bare base, it is profoundly improved by the relatively simple process of "terraining" the base?

Please submit your responses on foolscap sheets, no less than 3 000 words in the best King's English.

donald

[grizzlymc]

Snot. I base on magnet and paint bases Humbrol grass green, along with the steel unit trays.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

..... no less than 3 000 words in the best King's English.

Does the word count include the stammering?

[levied troop]

..........., no less than 3 000 words in the best King's English.

donald

The Queen’s dead? I missed that on the news. Still, Charles must be happy.

[Essex Boy]

In my humble opinion, at wargaming distances the only features that really matter are the bases and the flags.

[grizzlymc]

Are you suggesting that the regimental number on the buttons of 25mm Wellingtonics is not visible?

[Essex Boy]

Might be.

[grizzlymc]

Nah, I was reading on PMT about a chap who painted the wrong number on the buttons of 25mm. Revolver, library, chap knows what to do.

[ochoin]

. Revolver, library, chap knows what to do.

What if one doesn't have a library or a revolver?

Is the Broom Closet with a butter knife any real substitution?

donald

[ochoin]

In my humble opinion, at wargaming distances the only features that really matter are the bases and the flags.

An opinion with some merit, I think.

Seeing I stuck some photos up in the gallery of my foray into the SYW reminds me of a conversion I did. There are no Prussian cuirassiers in "my" scale, so a fairly complex series of modifications of existing figures was needed. The pièce de résistance was the making & gluing of pig tails to the short-haired original figures. Very fiddly work. And not a single sod ever noticed.

Yes, flags & bases, Iain.

donald