"Best base for houses?" Topic
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klepley | 05 May 2016 4:12 p.m. PST |
I made a bunch of wood houses and was trying to decide best way to base them, or to base them at all? Any comments appreciated. |
nnascati | 05 May 2016 4:20 p.m. PST |
Depends on the size. AC Moore and Michaels sell 8 x 10 inch wooden boards, I have used them to mount single, large buildings. |
Yellow Admiral | 05 May 2016 4:41 p.m. PST |
I would expect large scale buildings with removable roofs to have a floor built in. I have come to prefer buildings to look unbased, and any base to be hidden by the things that are attached to the building or adjacent to it – porches, bushes, sheds, perhaps a walled/fenced garden, a sidewalk or walkway, etc. If there's a base around the building with flocking or grass or some other type of modeled vegetation that doesn't match the surrounding terrain it erodes the illusion. It also prevents you from doing special custom terrain setups, like a wall that extends all the way to the corner of that one building, or a shed placed right against a building, or crowding together a group of buildings in side by side contact. - Ix |
Brian Smaller | 05 May 2016 5:00 p.m. PST |
As much as I like fixed terrain, I based all my Western skirmish buildings on bases. This is my China Town for example. link
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MajorB | 06 May 2016 2:00 a.m. PST |
I generally don't base houses. Bases are a necessary eveil for figure – they would not stand up without them, but houses do not have that problem, so don't need bases. |
klepley | 06 May 2016 9:12 a.m. PST |
I have the same feeling as Yellow Admiral but like the look of MajorB's stuff. Decisions, decisions…. Thanks folks! |
Dye4minis | 06 May 2016 1:40 p.m. PST |
Most buildings are built on foundations that are raised, for drainage reasons. Based model buildings can better protect themselves from damage. Even in the desert, something will grow next to a structue. One last observation with regards to basing model buiildings: the world is NOT flat! There are many buildings that have been built on a rise in the topography. I have started to retro-base mine rather than leave them unbased. Have yet to see a castle built on flat land! All I have seen are built on hilltops and not one would I have felt would be an easy assult--near verticle cliffs! My opinion. YMMV.(Nice western buildings, Brian!) v/r Tom |
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