""I'm Never Rebasing Again.....Again"" Topic

I have pulled out my 6mm napoleonics armies that I swore I would never rebase again. This will be the fourth time…and the last time (whatever). Does anyone else have this stupidity going on?

Allen

HAH! ….

I only did this once a long time ago. I started Nap's with Empire basing. Quite along with this I was playing with a group and had their own basing 1-20. started changing and adding figures but having stopped changed everything back to 60-1. With lots of unneeded figures to spread around.

I frequently rebase things… that is usually as close as I get to actually playing a game…

I'm pretty relaxed about rebasing (currently got a desk load of old DBM stuff for reworking as Basic Impetus*)

A lot of my rebasing is also ditching older warped card bases in favour of neat reliable MDF … and my basing now is probably better than it was a decade or two back.

Good luck (you know it makes sense really),

Phil
*yes I know you can use DB wit BI … and I do – just I want to take full advantage of how much more I can give with BI …

Hah. I thought so too.
Suddenly, I have a need to have a bunch of regiments based on washers for TSATF, and ultimately Flames of Liberty.

So, I am attacking the half painted regiments already based on my normal bases and popping them off.
Since they were on basswood with the grain running the long way, it's relatively easy. No bloodshed so far.

@RampantLion

Have you considered placing your existing bases onto a sabot base?

I will be getting a bunch of magnetic bases into normal element sizes so they can swing both ways.

I had the advantage of seeing rebasing threads on TMP so I settled on universal basing standards whenI first started.

The only time I do it is when I buy painted minis and have to get them into conformity. That said, I usually leave them as is and use movement trays until I have free time.

If you use small steel bases and sheet magnet you'l never ever ever need to rebase again.

only to replace a plastic base with steel

Doing it right now. Took a break while glue drying. Saw this thread and began to wail. Pulling out some old Nappys for a game this weekend. Decide to clean up and replace some of the 25 year old balsa bases that warped. Replacing them with Litko 3mm ply that I switched to about 10 years ago. Will never rebase again……………I hope.

I'll probably wind up rebasing half of my armies when I retire later this year.

I don't play games that have required base sizes, so no, I don't have "this stupidity going on".

Never say never!

At least I did wise up on my 28mm figs. They are all on individual bases and I made some sabot bases for them as well. I could have put the 6mm figs on movement trays, but in that scale I think that little dioramas on the bases looks great, so I had to do it.

How do you guys rebase stuff and not end up having to redo the paint jobs?

I put the figures needing to be re-based in a tub of water about ankle deep. Leave overnight and they pop off very easily.

Never do it. Just too dangerous.

I base everything on matboard, so that when I rebase, because I eventually will, they come off with no effort at all.

Re-basing is the work of the Devil! :-)

Did it once, 35 years ago, never again!

It is my 6mm stuff which gets rebased the most. Some of my Napoleonic figures have endured this three times.

Something I normally try to avoid though.

Doing it now :(

"How do you guys rebase stuff and not end up having to redo the paint jobs?"

I just pop them off their current bases with a craft knife, having dug around in the basing material a bit.

Other peoples bases are worse, I once had the misfortune to rebase some second hand figures which had been glued with huge dollops of two part epoxy to marine plywood. I had to resort to a razor and physically cut the bases off. Those figures were due a repaint anyway.

I don't really rebase things any more.

Any basing will work with any ruleset with minor modifications and when playing with reasonable people.

Only ever re-based the same figs twice

I have done it for my 6mm Napoleonics and 28mm SYW and Ancients

Have done it many times but never again.

25mm ECW army was based for WRG on ply, rebased it for Forlorn Hope on card that warped. Rebased for FH on steel, didn't like the look after five years so rebased the pike, command and cavalry back to WRG frontages that I'm happy to use for any rule set I might play.

15/18mm Napoleonics. Based on card for 1:20. Then rebased on card for 1:60, then rebased on steel for LFS.

No more rebasing for me. Hateful task.

I have been moving to mounting on magnetic bases by "Shogun Miniatures" then using the excellent metal flanged movement trays he sells to rebase back and forth for different rule sets.