"Do you base your 6mm vehicles? " Topic

I am torn on whether or not I should base my 6mm vehicles or if I should keep them loose.

Thoughts?

I personally consider 6mm vehicles too small, fiddly and fragile to use unbased. I also like to enforce some spacing between vehicles, have consistent frontages, magnetize the bottoms for secure storage, and have someplace to hide a label out of sight (I don't like labels showing).

But I am also only interested in large unit tactics. If you're playing a skirmishy 1:1 game, you may have to leave them unbased for micro-tactical purposes.

- Ix

Yes, base them. Mainly for handling, diorama effect, sometimes writing information.

I also use unbased, but not in the same circumstances, mostly for micro-tactical.

Yes, the whole lot are based. Just the same as my 2mm and 15mm.

Back in the mid 1970s I didn't base them, but times change.

Go see the TMP thread:-

TMP link

LOts of resons ideas on why and what. I have only ever dabbled in 6mm, I would never consider basing normal AFV's. I dont base my 10mm Wiesel which are a tad smallet than a Sherman in 6mm. But I have never got on wiith "Big" games all vehicels are at 1:1.

Nothing worse personally than a tank on a lawn going down a road. I have to do it with infantry but it still looks daft.

Clear bases always reflect too much. I need a nearly invisible clear base material.

no.
I base the guns which I have crew for.
I bought mine in the 1970s and haven't done much with em since.

I base mine. In my case the rules require them to be based. However, in my view the basing improves the look of the models.

I use small tin tabs to base on

Some. A kettenrad is a vehicle, after all. Everything is based at 2mm.

I have thousands, none of them based. I don't find them fiddly, and I think any base detracts from the vehicle, and the overall 'look' of the game. I don't even base 15mm vehicles.
In addition, once your vehicle is based then you're limited to which theatre you can use it in, or you have to have multiples of vehicles with basing for sand, steppe, European etc. Nothing looks worse than green bases on sand terrain.

No, I don't base my 6mm, 3mm, or 2mm vehicles.

10mm and smaller I base, as do all the others in the club I'm in. 15mm and above I only base infantry, crew served weapons and things such as motorbikes that wouldn't stand up otherwise.

No

No

Yes.

Yes for 6mm because the infantry are based and I don't like the 3mm height the base adds next to an unbased vehicle.

No only smaller vehicles like bikes, etc., and pretty much all FA/mortars, etc., types …

And all Infantry of course, 3-6 on a base, generally …

Nope – have thought about it, but not so far

Yes. link and link

Jim

No to vehicles. Yes to infantry, support weapons, artillery and AT guns.

Yes

Yes to all, whatever scale, for all the reasons above.

No, but then I don't have to transport them. I did at one time put them on stiff paper bases, but for ID purposes (so I could indicate not only what kind of vehicle it is but what organization it belongs to), but decided I didn't like the look.

Infantry at that scale, of course, have to be based.

No

Yes

Nope to vehicles in 6mm. Yes to my 3mm vehicles.

No. I think they look better, fit around terrain better, and take less space when stored.

No.

I don't base any vehicles, regardless of scale. They just look better without bases.

They look better on the gaming surface without bases, but to protect the models I always base mine. There is nothing worse than to have a friend mishandle your models and bend or break the mgs, barrels on nice miniatures. So in the interest of friendship, most of my gaming friends are hopelessly hamfisted, they get a base.

no

No

I don't base "6mm" vehicles, and use unobtrusive, thin plastic sheet infantry and gun bases. IMHO, it just looks better from a distance. For the same reason, I don't base ships.

MH

what about transparent bases then?

I only use clear bases for aircraft … most of the time.

NO. I do not base, except if I want a tractor-trailer, command group, etc. I have thousands and thousands.

Well, some rules require you to base them.

For rules which absolutely rely on a base, i use a card square and blu tak blob.
My micro stuff is very old cheap stuff with thick gloss varnish.

Generally no.

I've never based tanks.

Sometimes in the past I have based vehicles with trailers when it was a combination that would necessarily travel together, like the caisson regularly towed, along with the AT gun, by the French Chenillette. Or occasionally I have based a trailer with a jeep or truck or halftrack, as I have many such vehicles, and the vehicle-with-trailer adds a little variety to the motorpool.

More recently I base trailers, with an extension on the base that I can put the towing vehicle on, to make a combo.

In these cases the bases have been quite narrow … just enough to get under the wheels / tracks of the vehicles / trailers in question.

-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)