| Odins Warrior | 19 Sep 2015 9:10 a.m. PST |
I have a large 15mm SYW collection which I am adding to. All of my figures are based on Renaissance Ink bases. To my horror, it looks like RI is now out of business. The bases I used were described as thin plastic with a magnetic bottom. Does anyone know where I can get more of this kind of base? Thanks in advance! |
| JimDuncanUK | 19 Sep 2015 11:07 a.m. PST |
Make your own! Plasticard, magnetic tape, Stanley knife, scissors. |
 Extra Crispy  | 19 Sep 2015 11:28 a.m. PST |
Litko make a them in plywood. 0.8mm and 1.5mm thick. But you have to buy the magnet separately and put them together (the magnet is self adhesive). One of the thicknesses should be close enough for your needs…. |
 McLaddie  | 19 Sep 2015 1:35 p.m. PST |
You can get plastic/styrene sheets scored to 1/4 or 1/8 inch. You can buy the magnetic sheets and glue them together… |
 McKinstry  | 19 Sep 2015 5:11 p.m. PST |
I think Litko is now selling 3mm and 6mm thick bases. One of those should be very close to RI. |
| ACWBill | 19 Sep 2015 5:26 p.m. PST |
Good Ground B Company based aready magnetized and priced right. crackerlineminis.com Only a small portion are shown on the site. We can make pretty much any size square or rectangle, metric or imperial! |
| YogiBearMinis | 19 Sep 2015 5:30 p.m. PST |
Kallistra makes plastic bases in various sizes, at 1.8mm thick. |
| TiberiusAugustus | 19 Sep 2015 5:36 p.m. PST |
ACWBill I have some of your bases and love them and wanted to reorder but the shipping costs 1/2 to 1/3 of my total order. |
| Kevin C | 19 Sep 2015 6:17 p.m. PST |
I had the same moment of panic until I found Shogun miniatures. Please check out this site and you will not be disappointed: shogunminiatures.com
Kevin
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| B6GOBOS | 20 Sep 2015 2:43 a.m. PST |
Renaissance Ink is no longer in businesses news? |
| VVV reply | 20 Sep 2015 6:03 a.m. PST |
Veni Vidi Vici has some of the old stock left. Please contact us with what you are after. |
| Odins Warrior | 20 Sep 2015 2:51 p.m. PST |
Thank you all for the great suggestions.
Ken |
| ACWBill | 20 Sep 2015 4:49 p.m. PST |
That sounds off. Send me email and tell me what it is you wanted Tiberious. ACWBill@aol.com |
 Yellow Admiral | 21 Sep 2015 3:33 p.m. PST |
A warning about Litko: the magnetic material they sell for their basing material is very thin, and not very magnetic. I bought a pile of 1"x1/2" bases with matching magnetic stick-ons, and after a big project assembling them, discovered they don't hold my miniatures down well enough. For that much effort, I can do it cheaper and better myself. - Ix |
| YogiBearMinis | 26 Sep 2015 12:58 p.m. PST |
Litko does sell 6mm thick bases, like the RI ones, but the trick is that you may need to look for them under their "custom bases" option on the website. I just looked and you can get (for example) 60mmx30mm laser-cut wood bases, 6mm thick, for about 50 cents US each. Y |
| VVV reply | 07 Oct 2015 4:11 a.m. PST |
RI bases supplied. Only the thin RI bases left. Bits of various sizes remaining. |
| Mute Bystander | 07 Oct 2015 7:21 a.m. PST |
Litko also has thicker magnetized basing available – I have no problem with the thinner 'standard' stuff for anything other than behemoth type units. |
| Yellow Admiral | 11 Mar 2016 1:16 p.m. PST |
Just a follow-up after a few months spent exploring alternatives to Renaissance Ink. I've now ordered several hundred Good Ground B Company bases from link Line Minis because they are almost identical to what I used to order from RI: pre-bonded magnet and hardboard, cut to size, about 3.5mm thick. The Good Ground bases are textured on top, which I personally don't like (the texture doesn't hold glue as well), but I still prefer these to Litko bases because they're ready for basing right out of the bag (if you want to magnetize Litko bases, you have to spend a lot of time applying and trimming the magnets). - Ix |
