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Alien jungle base opinions wanted	8	29 Nov 2025 4:56 a.m. PST
Time to put an end to sabot bases?	20	25 Nov 2025 7:16 a.m. PST
Talk to me about 20mm x 25mm infantry bases	11	21 Nov 2025 8:19 p.m. PST
Flight Stands For Small Models	2	11 Nov 2025 3:25 p.m. PST
How to Rebase a Miniature	1	07 Nov 2025 1:05 p.m. PST
Makin' Basin' - Ost Front 1/600th scale	11	01 Nov 2025 1:08 p.m. PST
North Nova Scotia Highlanders	13	23 Sep 2025 2:03 p.m. PST
Magnetic bases and water	9	03 Sep 2025 8:08 p.m. PST
Cold War '85 - ready for gamin'	29	01 Sep 2025 5:45 a.m. PST
All About 'Dat Base	4	17 Aug 2025 6:49 p.m. PST
ACW Grand-Tactical: 10s to Warlord Epics	9	17 Aug 2025 12:03 p.m. PST
Basing for 28mm Napoleonics? 1" Round!	2	30 Jul 2025 2:57 p.m. PST
Basing with sand and plaster?	9	20 Jul 2025 12:52 p.m. PST
Best glue for basing plastic figures	21	16 Jul 2025 9:58 a.m. PST
Speed Basing to add flock?	10	18 May 2025 6:59 p.m. PST
Need help identifying a type of flocking material	9	13 May 2025 1:28 p.m. PST
Irregularly shaped MDF	7	08 May 2025 9:27 a.m. PST
Magnetic mounts rotating	4	07 May 2025 1:52 a.m. PST
17th April and nothing	10	18 Apr 2025 1:03 p.m. PST
Off Table Artillery Trays	11	10 Apr 2025 3:02 p.m. PST
Sabot Skirmish Bases	6	08 Apr 2025 8:55 a.m. PST
Square or Round Bases for Skirmish Games?	40	07 Apr 2025 1:13 p.m. PST
An Eastern Front Op.....preparing the troops....	10	30 Mar 2025 10:43 a.m. PST
Check Your 6 - Another Basing Solution	1	27 Mar 2025 4:51 a.m. PST
new basing techneque	2	24 Mar 2025 6:45 p.m. PST
Covert Sabots for Old-School Basing	4	23 Mar 2025 11:30 a.m. PST
Converting from Wings of Glory to Check Your 6	5	09 Mar 2025 3:25 p.m. PST
Looking for Warhammer or similar bases	19	04 Mar 2025 4:53 p.m. PST
Annoying Mantic basing	4	07 Feb 2025 11:38 a.m. PST
OCD Outbreaks and Basing	14	03 Feb 2025 11:32 p.m. PST
German Winter Grenadier bases	12	02 Feb 2025 7:49 a.m. PST
Alternate basing for Crossfire in 15mm	4	25 Jan 2025 8:12 a.m. PST
Check Your 6! - A Different Basing Solution	2	13 Jan 2025 7:28 a.m. PST
18mm individual bases?	14	03 Jan 2025 12:55 a.m. PST
Smallest scale you would base individually? 15mm	4	26 Dec 2024 5:53 p.m. PST
Storage Systems Using Really Useful Boxes	10	19 Dec 2024 11:48 p.m. PST
Basing on (US) Pennies	23	06 Dec 2024 6:38 a.m. PST
Removing excess glue and static grass from a figure	12	05 Dec 2024 11:09 a.m. PST
Jeff Lista has Died	19	01 Nov 2024 9:58 p.m. PST
GF9 green static grass is repackaged what?	9	28 Oct 2024 7:00 p.m. PST
To Base or Not To Base; is that a Question?	2	16 Oct 2024 8:02 p.m. PST
Movement Trays	7	12 Oct 2024 2:49 p.m. PST
Cutters for custom size bases?	9	01 Oct 2024 3:49 p.m. PST
sander filer tool	3	29 Sep 2024 12:52 p.m. PST
'O' Group Combat Patrol Markers	8	04 Aug 2024 12:07 p.m. PST
Do you seal your plywood bases?	11	29 Jul 2024 1:41 p.m. PST
Using Magnets to Overcome Beveled Stands	6	23 Jul 2024 3:48 a.m. PST
Rules & Basing for 28mm Napoleonics?	17	02 Jul 2024 8:20 p.m. PST
Making Ground Texture for Basing	5	02 Jul 2024 1:16 p.m. PST
Basing 3d resin printed miniatures	13	25 Jun 2024 3:11 p.m. PST
Cyberpunk Chicks with Fancy Bases	3	11 Jun 2024 8:11 p.m. PST
Scale and Basing--Minimums	25	08 Jun 2024 1:16 a.m. PST
This is what you do with left-over figures	3	07 Jun 2024 7:22 a.m. PST
You are making waves!	4	06 Jun 2024 3:58 p.m. PST
28mm Max Figures on Bases	1	04 Jun 2024 5:36 a.m. PST
Platoon bases for a new game project	5	18 May 2024 7:13 a.m. PST
Do you paint your bases before textures/flocking?	32	13 May 2024 8:33 p.m. PST
More Hailstones from the Sky	6	04 May 2024 2:58 p.m. PST
CLS Basing, but not CLS?	12	16 Apr 2024 10:35 p.m. PST
How I make magnetic counters for Optio	5	16 Apr 2024 12:47 a.m. PST
Round or square, why one or the other?	18	29 Mar 2024 8:23 p.m. PST
UK mdf basing NOT warbases	12	29 Mar 2024 8:18 p.m. PST
ACW Basing of 54mm Figures	5	25 Mar 2024 6:00 a.m. PST
Ready-made fantasy flag staff......'hanging stuff'	5	20 Mar 2024 3:23 a.m. PST
Small Improvements - for those 3mm stands	15	17 Mar 2024 3:52 a.m. PST
Jungle effect for 15mm figures	13	10 Mar 2024 1:19 p.m. PST
My Battle Masters Revival - or Orc Skool Gamin'	31	13 Feb 2024 5:11 p.m. PST
Basing	2	31 Jan 2024 1:58 p.m. PST
Round Bases for Skirmish Gaming!	2	20 Jan 2024 2:32 a.m. PST
Weighting plastic figures on slotta-bases	21	17 Jan 2024 1:42 p.m. PST
28mm ACW/Napoleonic Plastic Artillery	6	05 Jan 2024 2:37 a.m. PST
clear bases with blood splatter	2	28 Dec 2023 9:27 a.m. PST
Coffee Grounds	23	27 Dec 2023 9:52 a.m. PST
Why put a building on a base?	19	26 Dec 2023 1:39 p.m. PST
basewidths and basing? Is it still a thing?	75	19 Dec 2023 6:39 a.m. PST
You don't collect tea leaves	4	07 Dec 2023 12:28 p.m. PST
Flocked Steel Sabot Bases?	10	04 Dec 2023 2:32 a.m. PST
Bases in a Box?	7	03 Dec 2023 10:28 p.m. PST
Stirland Battle Mud - Vallejo equivalent	3	29 Nov 2023 10:41 a.m. PST
DBA Bases.	12	26 Nov 2023 9:57 p.m. PST
6mm Spanish for Ilipa	6	22 Nov 2023 7:24 p.m. PST
Tutorial: Speedpaint Generic 2mm Ancients Army	2	19 Nov 2023 9:32 a.m. PST
Tufts recommendation for Battle Masters game trays?	10	08 Nov 2023 2:03 p.m. PST
Is Renaissance Ink Still in Business?	28	02 Nov 2023 5:06 p.m. PST
Steel paper?	31	18 Oct 2023 1:20 p.m. PST
Suggestions on Basing Perry WotR	8	04 Oct 2023 4:04 a.m. PST
Who sells MDF bases in USA?	19	13 Sep 2023 2:22 a.m. PST
Waves on Naval Bases	17	17 Aug 2023 2:10 p.m. PST
Scale and Basing--Maximums	10	11 Aug 2023 4:03 a.m. PST
Found a New Source for Bases	6	08 Aug 2023 2:43 p.m. PST
Square washers for bases?	9	03 Aug 2023 4:19 p.m. PST
Does anyone make magnetic bases?	11	03 Aug 2023 4:14 p.m. PST
15mm Singular Figure Basing	15	03 Aug 2023 4:07 p.m. PST
My (Semi) Historical 19th Century Indian Army (Part 2)	6	08 Jul 2023 4:19 p.m. PST
round lipped stands the INTERIOR dimensions is 1 inch	1	18 May 2023 12:43 p.m. PST
Unit Size and Scale - My Peninsular Plans	4	27 Apr 2023 8:24 p.m. PST
15mm German Grandamas Based	4	27 Apr 2023 10:46 a.m. PST
UK supermarket battlemats for £9.99 or less	12	15 Apr 2023 2:32 a.m. PST
Thin steel bases, preferably in the EU?	9	01 Apr 2023 9:36 a.m. PST
LAZY BASING question...	15	29 Mar 2023 10:50 p.m. PST