RE: Basing GZG 25mm Figures

I use 3/4" steel fender washers.  This allows easier storage since I
just line a toolbox with adhesive magnetic sheet and stick the figures
to the sheet.

The added weight to the bottom help keep the figures upright, and the
extra width also helps.

I attach the figures with epoxy, using wax paper on the bottom since a
lot runs out the hole in the middle.  I either use epoxy putty, wall
spackling or more liquid epoxy to fill the height difference between the
figure base and the washer.

This is a bit more expensive than using pennies (6 cents per base rather
than 1) but the added utility of having a steel washer that sticks to
magnets is worth the extra cost to me.

I have seen some people use the thick magnetic strips cut into circular
bases.	This means you can stick the figure directly on to metal
surfaces.  Might be useful for car games - you make a map on some thin
steel or thin sheet magnet and your figs will stay in place during
travel.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Johnson [mailto:adrian.johnson@sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 12:53 PM
> To: gzg-l@scotch.csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: Basing GZG 25mm Figures
> 
> 
> >    Greetings All,
> >    I recently bought the GZG April Fools Stargrunt deal, so 
> I'm sitting 
> >on 48 25mm figures.	I know in the rules they recommend 1 inch wide 
> >bases, and there are occasions where that inch can be 
> important, but I'm 
> >not particularly eager to stick such small figures on such a 
> large base 
> >- - it seems out of proportion to me.  I notice on some 
> webpages and even 
> >in the rule book figures are occasionally used with just the 
> molded on 
> >base, and I'm thinking of going that route.	Has anyone had 
> any serious 
> >problems with that strategy?  My major concern is with the figures 
> >standing up actually.  All my terrain is in another city, so I can't 
> >take them for a "test stand" on my hills and so forth.
> >
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> I don't know where you're located, but if you have access to 
> North American
> pennies (either US or Canadian - they're the same size), you could try
> using those.
> 
> I find that the moulded-in bases that come with the SG 
> figures are just too
> small - the figs don't stand up well on their own.  All of my figs are
> based on pennies, and they work really well - a good 
> combination of big
> enough to help with tipping but not so big that the bases 
> become obtrusive
> or prevent the figures from bunching up when you need them to...
> 
> And, of course, they're... inexpensive.
> 
> The only issue with pennies (well, with any other type of 
> base really) is
> that you then have a gap around the bottom of figure - 
> between the old base
> and the new base.  I use 2-part 5-minute epoxy to glue the figs to the
> pennies, and if you use the right quantity of glue, you can get it to
> "squish out" around the edges of the existing base and go 
> quite far toward
> filling that gap.  After the glue is dry, I use a quick 
> drying modeling
> putty to fill in the remaining gap.
> 
> It works well, looks seemless once the figures are completed (and I've
> flocked the bases), and it certainly improves their stability.
> 
> If you'd like to take a peek at this method on a finished 
> figure, check out:
> 
> http://www.stargrunt.ca/gallery_modeling/sg2_gal_gurkhas/sg2_g
al_gurkhas_8.htm

-Adrian

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Adrian Johnson
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