Yup.
These veterans have been on various bases from individual washers to various multi-figure bases, often more than once. Having shaken the 60mm wide base habit, this arrangement of four 40mm infantry on a 2" sq. base worked well in the last game, gives a better impression of a long thin line, and lets me deploy 1/2 of a battalion or even a single stand.
Its going to be a busy weekend,
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal 7 decades ago. Began playing with toy soldiers at 5 years. Started painting & converting at about 12 yrs and wargaming about 15 yrs. Never really stopped.
5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of litle Italian Greyhounds and a cat. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 170 yr old farmhouse and just living.
Visually speaking, I think you are on to something here..
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland
Looks and 'feels' better to me.
DeleteAh ! the joys of re-basing
ReplyDeleteCheaper and easier than buying and painting new ones. :)
DeleteLong thin lines are, visually speaking, key to the "look of the thing." Speaking of which, Ross, how in the past did you remove figures from bases? I have a lovely unit of Holger Eriksson cavalry (purchased eight or nine years ago) that I have never been able to remove from old bases. Even after soaking them in hot water. I think LocTite or some similar epoxy was used. It won't budge. Given the delicate nature of the figures, I haven't attempted to remove them more forcefully. Any suggestions?
ReplyDeleteKind Regards,
Stokes
Good to hear from you.
DeleteI agree on the lines, I used to do it by fielding Brigades of several 15and then scrape off the glue until I was able to POP! the up by working a knife blade inbetween glue and metal. mm battalions on a table with double the sq footage. The 40s are a bit bigger and my table smaller so I tried to scrunch them up to a proper shoulder to shoulder but had no room to increase the battalion width. Just didn't look right.
Loosening epoxy without damaging figures is tricky (as experience has taught ). I presume the bases are a hard wood? I'd be leery of chemicals doing damage. In the past I have taken a sharp hobby knife or razor saw, I try to whittle the wood bases until I could work a sturdy knife or thin screwdriver under the figure's base and POP! the figures off.
It's a tricky business though and too much enthusiasm can result in a damaged figure, hopefully fixable but....
It's a bit like cavalry charging an entrenched battery...
If it is superglue then you could try popping a base in the freezer. Low temperatures make superglue brittle so you may be able to pop them of the base. This doesn't work with expoxy and I can't think of anything that you could do that won't ruin the figures if it is epoxy.
DeleteWorth a try!
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