Help for a newcomer!!!!!

[FierceKitty]

I seem to be alone on this one, but I don't like flocked bases unless the playing surface is textured to match. It just looks silly to have troops standing on little grassy rectangles on a bare surface.

Not to deny that it looks super on a flocked-finish cloth, if you go to the trouble of getting one.

(Oh, and welcome aboard. Where are my manners? I think I put them down somewhere around here....)

[Orcs]

Basing I use 40 x20 bases for warmaster

I vary the number of figures on a base to help tell the troops apart so:-

Roman legionaries - 2 ranks of 5
Roman Auxilaries - 2 ranks of 4
Light cavalry 2 figures
Cavalry 3 figures
Heavy cavalry 4 figures
Light infantry / skirmishers 3-5 randomly placed figures
Warband 7 randomly placed figures
Bowmen 4 in front rank 3 iin rear rank

As for the diarama type bases i am really impressed by some of the forium members, but I don't have time to do that so they just get some rocks, tuft of grass or a bush if they are lucky

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I put whatever feels right on my bases, and with 10mm they all can make mini dioramas so easily. For instance my Later Romans get a solid rank, then a few extras doing stuff in front!

[fsn]

I think Mr Hammer, you're finding that within this Forum a number of different opinions, and everyone is right. Fierce Kitty doesn't like flocked bases - I hate diorama, cluttered bases - especially those with magic walls that move with the troops. 

The lesson here is experiment and find your own style.

[Ithoriel]

I hate diorama, cluttered bases - especially those with magic walls that move with the troops.  

A wall, sir! Here we go, sir. One Wall, portable, Mark III, infantry and observers for the use of, sir!! <sigh> Please try and bring it back in one piece this time, sir!

[fsn]

Does this one have a door in it? Or at least a window!

[Ithoriel]

I was going for the "distressed" garden wall look with that one.

[fred.]

You'd not be keen on these then?

Or these?


They are meant for BUA fighting - so the rest got grass

[fsn]

Sorry, not to my taste. They look good as vignettes, but I just imagine the poor sods having to lug Vickers gun, ammo, water and a wall around with them.

[FierceKitty]

They'd look good with Pinkerton's agents behind them.

[Hertsblue]

Sorry, not to my taste. They look good as vignettes, but I just imagine the poor sods having to lug Vickers gun, ammo, water and a wall around with them.

Aren't all basings vignettes, to a greater or lesser extent? Even adding texturing could be construed as over-elaboration. I don't suppose anyone would want a return to the green-painted cardboard of the seventies. 

[Techno]

Fair point, Ray.
Cheers - Phil

[Fenton]

Fair point, Ray.
Cheers - Phil

But I still have 40 gallons of Britains Green and a 1000 cornflake packets waiting to be cut up

[fsn]

Oooh! Could I swap you a CCOC for some Britain's Green?

[Orcs]

Oooh! Could I swap you a CCOC for some Britain's Green?

Don't you have any use for you COCC any more FSN

I Know you are divorced, but that should mean for getting more use out of your COCC, with different models if your lucky.

Hot Tip:-  Get your daughter to bring lots of female freinds home from uni to visit this summer - one of them is bound to take pity on be interested in a father figure. .  If this happens you need the BLUE pills

At worst you get lets of part dressed totty walking round the house.