"15mm Singular Figure Basing" Topic

Experiences with basing individual 15mm figures on either 15mm or 1/2" square bases?

Are the 1/2" easily tipped, or are they wide enough keep the figure standing under usual play?

Enough room on a 1/2" base for an useable unit label?

I find the .5" bases to be stable for 15mm figures.

I use United States Pennies, which are about 3/4" circular bases.

Yup. Half inch squares work in the vast majority of cases.

I too use US Pennies. You mentioned unit labels. If your thinking words, pennies are out. But mine are grouped with a color band on the back edges…

And they are cheap and very available….

Dave

US Pennies. I also use colored edges to differentiate units.

UK pennies are good too. If you are in the UK of course.

I use bingo chips for individual figures, fit perfectly although my MIL is rolling in her grave I'm sure!

In days of old, I had many 15mm based on small rectangles of card-stock.

It worked out just fine, with the exceptions of flag bearers and troops on firing pose when they needed to be brought back into close (base-to-base contact). Then the guns in the heads of the rank in front was a problem.

All that said, a heavier base is always nice. Consider that sheet magnet material or sheet metal. Either can give you a more stable result and allow you to use the magnetism to help secure them in transport.

But a 1/2" square should be quite ample even if just card.

Some very old photos:

I use 3/4" square bases from Litko for individual 15mm figures to depict skirmishers. You can get the plywood bases as 3mm thick, 1.5mm think, or 0.8mm thick. I use the 1.5mm thick ones as I place a Litko stickum magnet on the bottom. This has worked well for my use.

Mine are on 1p coins so I'd imagine half inch bases would be fine. I haven't used square bases for single figures for at least 20 years though.

I've used 10mm square bases on flocked terrain boards for years. However there's no room for labels.

"US Pennies"

Pre-1983 (mostly copper) are heavier than 1983 & on (Zincolns) ;-)

Thanks for the input. 1/2" bases ordered.

WHat I do with my 15mm fantasy is use primarily fender washers. they are more expensive then pennies, but you can use sheet magnets for making movement trays, or use something like movement trays from Warbases as another magnetized option ( they will make them for US washer sizes at no extra cost the last time I ordered)

II put most of my foot infantry type on 5/8" fender washers but use either 3/4 on up for bigger miniatures if needed ( fantasy monsters come in all sizes. I do put a few on size 10 washers, but they have the problem of having large holes, so unless the base on the miniature itself is quite large, they dont work, I mostly just use them for things like goblins and such, or if I want something that would always fight in a closed formation, ie tighter then the spacing of the 5/8 inch washer.

Doing such gives you lots of options, including skirmish to large formations if using magnetic movement trays.

For most of my calvary type units, I use some rectangular bases from Wargames Accessories with most of them going on 1"2 by 1 1/8 " bases which works good for me.

I 3d print, and some of the models dont have the small base on the feet, so with them, I fill in the hole with 3d resin then afterwords just put a drop of resin on the feet and glue the miniature on using the photo cured resin. Not the best, but it works.

One of the nice things about washers is that they are magnetic, which pennies are not ( unless your British).

Pennies are cheap, but fender washers are MUCH better!