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ochoin wrote: ↑Sat Jun 04, 2022 11:40 pm Your SYW stuff just always looks the thing.

BTW can I ask about your unit labels - what are they made of, how you write on them & what connects them to the figure base?

donald

Cheers! I just do them as a table on MS Word, with black as the 'fill' colour and white as the text and border colour. About seven columns per page usually works when using size 11 text. Do two carriage-returns in the top row and then every other odd-numbered row going down the table; that gives you a tab at the top of every label to slip under the base. Fill in the even-numbered rows with your labels (centre-justify the whole table to keep the text central on the labels).

There are some I did earlier at the bottom of this page: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2019/02/14/ ... d-edition/

To stick them to the bases, I used a small tab of giftwrap-sellotape, as it's 'soft-tack' and peels off again easily without ripping the base or leaving stickiness. A sellotape dispenses makes this MUCH easier than finding the end of the roll and then cutting each piece of tape with scissors (that was usually a two-man job)!

I used to fold the labels, so that they stuck up vertically at the back (tab therefore at the bottom of the label), but that means that you can see the white paper back of the labels everywhere. I now prefer the 'Fire & Fury Method', where the label lies flat on the floor and largely disappears. I could use green as the fill-colour, but black printer-toner is a lot cheaper and it's a lot easier to read white-on-black labels.

Thanks for that, Mark.

To date, I've only ever glued labels to the bottoms of bases. TBH, I think that works for my SYW stuff but for other periods where units can differ markedly from other units (eg WaC Late Antiquity), visible labels might be very useful.

donald

Well done, Mark. I look forward to the AAR.

ochoin wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 12:07 am Thanks for that, Mark.

To date, I've only ever glued labels to the bottoms of bases. TBH, I think that works for my SYW stuff but for other periods where units can differ markedly from other units (eg WaC Late Antiquity), visible labels might be very useful.

donald

These days I tend to paint the regimental name under the base (on the magnetic vinyl underside), though they're frequently representing other regiments for historical refights, so the labels go on for a game and are then whipped off again afterwards. The investment in a sellotape-dispenser was money well-spent!

Spanner wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 3:01 am Well done, Mark. I look forward to the AAR.

Cheers! It might be a couple of weeks, sorry, as I'm working this week and on holiday all next week.

Fantastic display of wonderful SYW eye candy.


Willz.

RMD wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 6:13 am It might be a couple of weeks, sorry, as I'm working this week and on holiday all next week.

The difference being that you get fewer figures painted on holiday, presumably?

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:49 pm

RMD wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 6:13 am It might be a couple of weeks, sorry, as I'm working this week and on holiday all next week.

The difference being that you get fewer figures painted on holiday, presumably?

I get precisely none painted when I'm not in work...

Willz the Wargamer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 12:49 pm Fantastic display of wonderful SYW eye candy.


Willz.

Thanks Willz!

RMD wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 9:07 pm I get precisely none painted when I'm not in work...

You realise what that makes you, don't you? You're a.....

.....PRO-PAINTER!!!

(Actually, having seen your work close up, that's not far off the truth.)