"Bases - do you prefer flat or platform bases?" Topic

Hi Gents,

A quick question to sate my curiosity. Do you prefer flat basing for your figures or the GW style 'pedestal' bases? This would be for ancients.

I used to be a fan of the tall GW bases but recently I've been seduced by MDF and the plastic flat bases you can buy. I genuinely think the figures look better on flatter bases.

What do you think? If you like Pedestal bases, persuade me!

Cheers,

Guy

Depends on a lot of things. I use both.

For 15mm I like an elevated base so you can pick up the base without touching the figs.

This is less of an issue with 25mm+

That said, I like the Warhammer style bases for 25mm+ when attaching magnets to the bottom of the base -- it's hard to beat the flexibility you can attain by basing individually with the potential to snap the figs on a metal base of what ever size you want.

mjc

I generally use magnetic tape on mine. As they are thin, the additional 'height' given by the strip is negligible. Interesting comments mjc, thanks!

(Again? *Sigh!*)

Flat bases, naturally. I want my minis on the table, in the terrain, not above it.

And metal – to give it weight and stability, and to make it stick to magnetic carrying boxes.

(I make exceptions if the figure is not for gaming.)

Flat.

Flat. I don't like the "bowling trophy" look.
I like bases to blend in with the terrain.
I don't like bases that try to be a work of art.

Flat.

Dave

For ancients, as flat as possible. I use the thinnest Litko bases. I should make my own movement trays out of tile, as Allen Curtis has described in the past. Lacking much of a workshop space here, though, I'm using Litko's trays, which are too thick for my tastes at the moment.

Flat, no question. A figure on a pedestal needs a taller door (and everything) or you lose the "willing suspension of disbelief". For example, in 1/60th scale a one inch wall is five feet high--chest height, though, for a guy on a thick base. It just looks weird.

Flat, metal. Plinths are for statues of dead heroes.

Allen

For all figures, no matter what the game or period, flat.

I've never liked that slotta-base look.

Platform bases are the gateway to hell…

Flat, though not so flat that I must pick up the base by the figures. To my mind, whether it's DBA in 6mm or WAB in 28mm, one of the purposes of the base is to allow someone to pick up the figures without having to handle the figures.
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Tim

Flat

I guess I am the heretic. I like and have most of my guys on the round lipped display type bases. I just like them but I guess if I were an avid gamer not painter I might like the flat ones for the reasons stated above.

Flat bases. What's the big deal about handling the figs?

They're not models, girls…

As flat as possible. Two dimensional: width and length only, if you can.

I like a base thick enough that I can pick it up with my big fat fingers. Artists mounting board with magnabase on the bottom is generally thick enough.

Flat

flat

Flat.

Most of mine are on flat bases except for the ones that come with platform bases included in the package.

Flat.

I use steel that's a slither under 1mm thick so I don't need to add magnetic material. My figures are well varnished so I'm not bothered about handling them.

Never understood why you'd go to the bother of making nice looking terrain let alone do nice paint jobs only to have your figures on great slabs of bases. Totally ruins the visual for me anyway.

I don't play ancients currently so take this with a grain of salt, but I would say for compatibility, pedestal / slot bases.

I'm dealing with this now, as my D&D group has splintered and I'm now the player with figures, again. So I've gotten out my 100+ painted D&D figures from the 80s. However we are using modern figures as well. The older figures are true 25mm and look smaller, but that is not insurmountable -- real people are different sizes after all, and fantasy races are all different heights and builds.

But that 25mm on a flat base standing 26mm or so next to the 28mm on a pedestal base standing 31mm, that is too big a difference. So … I'm going to remount my 25s on slot bases.

Flat,Flat, Flat! as "waffer" thin as possible.
Pedestal/slotta bases are a threat to humanity, and the work of Satan,they are to Wargaming what global warming is to the wider world (except there is definite proof of their existence).