RE: Miniture Basing

For large ships, I have been mounting them on two conventional plastic
stands that are then glued to a rectangular piece of Matte Board with
appropriate arcs painted on.

Michael Wikan, Game Designer
Accolade, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Imre A. Szabo [SMTP:ias@sprintmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 8:20 AM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	Miniture Basing
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I'm probably more disgusted then most of you with AOG's miniture
> bases. 
> I've resorted to the extreme method of building my own bases out of
> washers, nails, and bass wood.  Basically I follow the methhod
> suggested
> on the Game Master web page for their Supperior figs and then take it
> one step further.  I glue a thin piece of bass wood to the bottom of
> the
> washers.  The size of the bass wood base is determined by the size of
> the fig.  This results in a miniture VERY tip over resistant.  I also
> don't have to worry about a plastic stand breaking in the fig and
> having
> to drill it out (This invariable happens after I've finished painting
> a
> ship...).  Hope somebody out this finds theses ideas useful.
> 
> IAS