"IDing ships" Topic
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| fullmetal2015 | 07 Nov 2016 6:07 a.m. PST |
Hello Just got a large collection of 1/6000th WW2 ships. now they all come with bases, my question is. How do you all ID them for gaming purposes? On the base there is a small tab but you aren't putting much on it unless yot all know a way that I don't. Does anyone use different bases for the ships? thanks fullmetal |
| NCC1717 | 07 Nov 2016 6:35 a.m. PST |
I don't use the bases supplied. Here is an explanation of the individual ship basing: link Magnets imbedded in the styrene bases allow them to stick to steel division bases:
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| fullmetal2015 | 07 Nov 2016 11:37 a.m. PST |
Nice question do you have the magnets on the base or on the ship? An for DD's that are molded into the bases they come on what do you do for those? just mount them on the base with their base also? fullmetal |
| NCC1717 | 07 Nov 2016 11:46 a.m. PST |
The magnet is a thin disk glued into a hole drilled in the sheet styrene base. For recent models I have used magnets the same thickness as the styrene. The DDs are glued to a rectangle of styrene and the space around their metal bases is filled in with acrylic gel (Liquitex gloss super heavy gel). I try to disguise the edges of the DD bases. I use the same gel to texture the larger ship bases. In the photo below you can see the magnet disk on the starboard quarter of the Fearless, and you can see some of the edges of the DD bases.
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 Yellow Admiral  | 07 Nov 2016 2:49 p.m. PST |
My technique was similar to NCC1717. I mounted the original Figurehead bases on 1/2" wide pre-cut steel bases like these, blended in the Figurehead base with modeling paste (texturing it into waves), and left a flat spot down the port side to write the vessel name on. You can see a few examples of the end result on this webpage. The reason I glued down the original bases was to have an un-textured flat area the right shape and size for the ship to glue to after the base and ship were painted separately. My labels are hand-written with white acrylic ink via nib-and-handle calligraphy pen. If I had to do it over again, I'd use printed labels like NCC1717, but at the time I had no way to do that. The flat strip the labels are in is a piece of strip styrene (0.125" x 0.30", if I remember) glued to the metal base before texturing. Since the bottoms are bare steel, the ships stick to sheet magnet (in storage) but not to each other. - Ix
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