 Extra Crispy  | 20 Mar 2014 9:23 p.m. PST |
<RANT> Okay from now on if your mini has a plinth (the blob of metal the feet rest on) the size and shape of an altoid I don't buy them. Just based some VC for my Vietnam game. They actually are TALLER than my Marines because they have a 2.5mm thick plinth. The bases (I use washers) look ridiculous. 60 black pajama dudes all on their own personal pitcher's mounds. Which they carry with them. In the jungle. Sure I could sand them off. Yeah, right, 60 figs. That won't take FOREVER. Or I could buy a house with a garage, buy a workbench and a sander and grind them off. No danger of injury there I'm sure. Or manufacturers could copy me, Old Glory, Rebel, QRF and dozens of others and keep the plinths thin and discreet. </RANT> |
| Grelber | 20 Mar 2014 9:37 p.m. PST |
I find this frustrating, too, and I have never discovered a good way to trim the bases down to something thinner. Even when I buy just one or two Reaper characters to go with my historical armies, the filing thing is just too, too time consuming. My Dremel doesn't do a particularly effective job, either. Grelber |
| Mako11 | 20 Mar 2014 10:09 p.m. PST |
Who is the manufacturer I may wish to avoid? |
| Bashytubits | 20 Mar 2014 11:18 p.m. PST |
I hate thick plinths too. I use a large metal file to thin them out. |
| Tonysilvey | 21 Mar 2014 3:08 a.m. PST |
Some stuff I got from Warlord recently came on a thin base, much better! Saves on metal as well. |
| Porthos | 21 Mar 2014 3:23 a.m. PST |
2,5mm plinth ?! Really sad… How about carefully saw off the plinth (lose a piece of the feet) and base them in grass and such ? With a very thin saw it should be much easier than trying to file them off, and the grass will hide the loss of a part of the feet. |
| Randall | 21 Mar 2014 4:52 a.m. PST |
I absolutely agree! Whether one loves or hates slot/tab-style basing, at least the tabs are easily removed from a miniature's feet. Why not give your customers more basing choices rather than fewer? If miniatures have tabs and you like them on plinths, fine. If you don't like them, they're easily removed. Mounded bases stink. |
| Extra Crispy | 21 Mar 2014 6:29 a.m. PST |
In my case the figs are 15mm so I don't like my chances with a saw. These are BattleFront by they are by no means alone in this… |
| DS6151 | 21 Mar 2014 6:54 a.m. PST |
Jeweler's Saw. It makes this sort of this much easier, and less dusty.
link I would never give up mine, I can tell you that. |
| Zargon | 21 Mar 2014 9:02 a.m. PST |
Isn't this because BF want you to buy their special plastic bases with the recess for the figures base? It part of their marketing on the product line isn't it? Its very EE/GW if that's the case. |
| Ivan DBA | 21 Mar 2014 6:02 p.m. PST |
Fill in around the edge with glue and fine ballast, it helps conceal the size and shape of the plinth. |
| GeoffQRF | 22 Mar 2014 4:15 p.m. PST |
Thicker bases make the figures easier to cast, especially for mass production. |
