"Mixing flats and 3d: just an aesthetic question" Topic

I don't believe there is such a thing as right or wrong in aesthetics (as long as we're not talking prurient stuff) but I think there are things that work and things that don't.

That said, I'm curious what other think about Litko's flat, unpainted plastic mounts for 3d painted miniatures from an aesthetic perspective.

I'll keep my thoughts to myself for the moment.

Thanks.

Title does not match with text.
Answer to title is "no." Pure 2D you can work with, but the first 3D ruins the effect.
Answer to text is that I'd have been very tempted by them, especially for 28mm skirmish, had matching castings been available. But for me, they came out 30 years too late. At the height of the slottabase era, or today with 3D printing, maybe.

Don't understand what doesn't match?

Do you have a picture of 'Litko's flat, unpainted plastic mount'?

For those who don't know what these are. link

Neat idea, functional for a small fantasy game maybe but not really my thing.

Short answer, no.

Definitely no

Definitely not – paint up a mounted & dismounted version.

Looks odd to me. A friend of mine just put a poker chip under a figure to designate that it was mounted.

Gorgrat, both flats and bases are 2D. To "mix flats and 3D" you have to introduce something three-dimensional to the mix.

I bought some, glued them together (poorly). They did not work out for me, so I no longer use them. For aesthetics, I could not care less. If they had not fallen apart on me, I would use them as they are functional, for my RPG sessions. Function wins out, in my RPG sessions.

I will clarify that I would only use them for my RPG sessions. I would never use them in my 2e BattleSystem games. For the 2e BS games, I would only use a proper mount and rider figure combo. YMMV. Cheers!

Clearly the market needs this concept. Ages ago I painted perhaps a dozen D&D adventurers in both foot and mounted versions, and we used them all the time, as well as the single mounted models.

More recently I wanted something easier to transport and I made this exact sort of thing: cutting up a plastic toy horse with a dowel section in the middle for a figure to stand on. Mine worked fine but in play were too fiddly – I made them in front and back halves so another figure could be inserted in the middle to ride tandem. A feature needed so rarely it can be proxied when needed. Need to revisit the concept using single bases.

Having made such that look better, I especially balk at the Litko prices. If they were $20 USD for a pack of 10, I might pick up at the hobby store just to have them, but not at $5 USD per single.