"Unbased Figures " Topic
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 Flashman14  | 15 Mar 2016 5:00 a.m. PST |
Trigger warnings: sarcasm ahead – read at your peril. Im using the term "unbased" to mean unfinished here. Now on with the query: I've done it on numerous occasions, but should folks resist the urge to share pics of a "finished" figure or unit that doesn't have the base completed (unflocked, unlandscaped, unpainted)? Not those looking for advice, but the finished ones. What do I care? I don't particularly, but I do feel a flash of disappointment when I see it. Above all, the way you share your gaming product should protect my feelings, right? |
| Mute Bystander | 15 Mar 2016 5:11 a.m. PST |
I only recently started using anything other than simple painted bases. TMP has no "safe spaces" and neither should it.  Better on the game table in a simple state than on the paint table in unfinished but pristine art major appearance. |
| Winston Smith | 15 Mar 2016 5:15 a.m. PST |
If it would take you one more day to finish the bases before you post pictures of it, why not take the time? |
| Green Tiger | 15 Mar 2016 5:24 a.m. PST |
If you are just looking at the figure what does it matter if the base is just painted ? |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 15 Mar 2016 5:45 a.m. PST |
Aren't some of the posted figures painted for friends or clients who base them themselves? |
| Yesthatphil | 15 Mar 2016 6:13 a.m. PST |
People can show what they like … Me? Well unless it makes some point about the figure or the painting convention or basing or whatever, I have little interest in unfinished soldiers … But people can post whatever they like, of course … Phil |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 15 Mar 2016 7:54 a.m. PST |
My bases consist of a dyed textured base in a single colour. They are wargames figures. |
| Martin Rapier | 15 Mar 2016 8:32 a.m. PST |
I have to say this is not something I have ever even thought or worried about. |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 15 Mar 2016 8:58 a.m. PST |
Of course, photographing against a plain background would make them easier to see. |
 etotheipi  | 15 Mar 2016 1:59 p.m. PST |
I pretty much only use flat black bases. Are mine all finished or unfinished? |
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experiments with using recessed bases for figures with cast-on bases.
