"How to Base Ships: A Tutorial" Topic

"ften it seems like there's nothing new in the world of wargaming, but I've never been satisfied with the 'standard' ways of basing ships for miniature wargaming, and so came up with my own method; I've never seen this done anywhere else, but if it has I'd love to know about it.

The old way of basing ships is to glue them to rectangles of card and build up a textured sea surface with filler, painted in an approximation of water. This tends to stick out like a sore thumb if the sea surface doesn't match your painting exactly, and even when it does the opaque filler is a bit unconvincing…"

Tutorial here

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Armand

Good article

That's a great technique, but getting the acrylic laser cut would have stumped. If I could I would be tempted to make the front more of a rounded ‘V' shape and try a thinner sheet, although that might not be robust enough.

I did try to post this on site at the link but got a ‘publishing failure' message.

Good technique. But I have hundreds of 1/4800 scale ships and use opaque bases that allow me to have a label with the ship name and class on the underside.

Happy you like it boys…

Armand

Nicely done and very effective.

Very nice technique indeed.

Same problems I have with most bases. I like many of them and you have to have them, but they are all too clunky looking in the end.

Glad you enjoyed it too…

Armand