"Cork for Miniature bases" Topic

I believe this has been covered here before on the site but thought it might be helpful to see how I make them. Here's a short guide to making cork miniature bases on my blog Intention Geek.

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Interesting idea, but I must admit I struggle with the image of a guy lugging his own rock around with him so he can stand on it!

Agreed. I love the LoTR figures, but I hate slotta bases. I prefer washers, the thinner the better. This makes it look like every figure is standing on a little pillar….

But the idea would be very useful for easy and great looking terrain and such.

I've seen cork used a lot lately. Another very effective use was to make multi-level islands for naval games.

DM

It looks very nice as a display piece – don't get me wrong – but I wouldn't personally fancy wargaming with it: it looks like it makes a 25mm dwarf the best part of 30mm from the ground to the top of his head.

I'm with extra crispy: while I like a scenic base, the thin-ness of the basic substrate is quite important to me – especially on a 'small' figure (ie proper 25mm figures and even 15mm ones). And adding to an already big slotta base is just agravating the problem.

How on earth do you create scenery for a game that scales right to the eye when all of the figures in the game are carrying with them what (in the real world) is a three foot slab to stand on?

Kudos on the modelling and moulding and indeed the painting and – if I had them in my painted treasures cabinet (that never really come out to play and that I just look at) – they'd be great. Or if I was playing with an LotR chess set.

But – if possible – I'd want to wargame with something a lot thinner.

John T