rvandusen | 02 May 2015 7:11 a.m. PST |
Hi all, I recently received some plastic cycad plants to use for prehistoric adventures, but the cycad models lack an integral base. A brass wire emerges from the bottom of each plant. What's a good method for basing these? I would like them to be individual or small group bases.
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PaulCollins | 02 May 2015 7:24 a.m. PST |
I use washers, fill the hole with hot glue and insert the stem at the bottom of the tree. |
dBerczerk | 02 May 2015 7:54 a.m. PST |
Craft stores like Michaels and JoAnne's Fabrics sell bags of wooden circular disks. Drill a small hole in each base with a pin vise and glue your plastic plants with carpenter's glue. |
James Wright | 02 May 2015 7:55 a.m. PST |
On a different note, those look awesome. Where did you get them if you don't mind me asking? |
rvandusen | 02 May 2015 8:20 a.m. PST |
I found them on eBay. Ignore the "Z Scale" in the description. The set I have has ten trees varying in size. The mix well with 15mm-28mm figures no problem. |
rvandusen | 02 May 2015 8:28 a.m. PST |
auction Here are the larger 2" models. I laugh at "Z Scale" since at 1/200 these would be about 50 feet tall or more.
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Talisman | 02 May 2015 8:36 a.m. PST |
I would make polymer clay (Sculpy) bases. Then they can be made to size and textured as you like. Minimal skill required, which works well with my resume. |
War In 15MM | 02 May 2015 8:49 a.m. PST |
I used washers covered with Milliput for the small plants (not trees) in my Darkest Africa Gallery. You can see how it looks at link |
Rrobbyrobot | 02 May 2015 12:57 p.m. PST |
For clusters of trees I use canning lid inserts. Put a hole for each tree you wish to affix to the base. I use the old hammer and nail method. Stick the tree's stem through the hole and glue it to the base. Add a washer or two, if you wish, for stability. Then texture and flock… |
Smokey Roan | 02 May 2015 5:56 p.m. PST |
Use Sculpey. you can smash down a irregular, more natural base, and it tapes off around the sides so there is no step level thing. I coat a baking pan with VERY light coat of pam. Squash down sculpey like making cookies. If they are tall trees and I want baalast, I place a washer or a coin on the pan, and squash the scuple over it. Neat thing, since the edges taper down to flush with the table, you can even make larger bases, designed so troops can move through and over the base. (Made some 3x4 inch bases like that for palmettos, with a thin trail through eeach base, so my Seminoles could slip through. I'm telling you!
Ask Strosspupen. I sent him one of my 15mm palm trees on sculpey base.
Easy peazy and looks better than perfectly round washer bases.
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WeeWars | 03 May 2015 5:00 p.m. PST |
This is what I did: link
Cheers, Michael
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