Ideas for surplus bases

valderalv · **Joined:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:57 pm **Posts:** 26

I've only been collecting figures for a few months, but I already have a mountain of surplus 25 mm bases and I'm sure you good people are in the same situation. The only thing I can think of is to use them as markers for various scenario specific things, like hidden troops, traps etc etc etc.

What do you use surplus bases for? Discuss!

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:31 pm

Give them to me :wink:

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:36 pm

I just keep them in a box. Sometimes if I buy or trade models through eBay or forums the minis I'm receiving are missing bases so I just use them on those.

Telchar · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 6:28 pm

DMS and Red Corsairs, you are so unimaginative.

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I use them as unit fillers, and also, as you suggested for markers. You could also save them for when you want to sculpt your own models, or base other companies' minies that don't come with 25mm bases. Oh, and you could sculpt spider broodlings on them. The possiblities are endless, well no, not really, but you get the picture.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 6:34 pm

unimaginative lol :rofl:

markers are a good easy idea, I did a Rohan one

theyre supposed to be horses lol

IsleStaggerholm · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 6:59 pm

Anteater Men of the Plains.

Necromancer7 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:42 am

I use them as bases for the GW trees. They fall over all the time otherwise, which is really annoying in the middle of a battle.

theOneRider · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:40 pm

Very nice objective marker, DMS! :yay:

One that I made for Numenore:

(sorry the picture's so big, I don't know how to link the thumbnail version)

I've included one more marker pic of mine in this post, but I'll leave it to you to figure out where & what it is. :wink:

Sticky Fingersss · **Joined:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:20 am **Posts:** 1776

Both the Rohan and Numenorean one look great! Bases are good for objective markers and for special scenarios. I will definetly keep them. If one day you decide to expand to a new miniature range, they may not be accompanied with decent bases so in comes in your surplus! I got into WW2 and i wanted them to have bases and now i have a shortage!

garmenhord · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:29 pm

U can use them for traps and pitfalls - u can find it on the GW site.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:20 pm

IsleStaggerholm wrote:

Anteater Men of the Plains.

Don't know how i missed this lol

Telchar · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:16 pm

theOneRider wrote:

Very nice objective marker, DMS! :yay:

One that I made for Numenore:

(sorry the picture's so big, I don't know how to link the thumbnail version)

I've included one more marker pic of mine in this post, but I'll leave it to you to figure out where & what it is. :wink:

It's your profile picture, but what it is beats me :wink:

theOneRider · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:01 am

Well, if you can see it, there's this little, tiny round thing in the middle of the base. I didn't figure it so at the time, but it leaves me perfectly positioned for the upcoming Hobbit movie.

It's an OM of the One Ring. What have you got in your pocketses?

valderalv · **Joined:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:57 pm **Posts:** 26

Sorry to necromance this thread, but I figured I'd show you guys what I ended up doing.

A study of bases!

I decided to not have one kind of base for each fig, but make their bases represent where they come from. This really helped, and was a lot of fun to do as well!

garmenhord · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:29 am

very nice a study like this! nice amount of variation.

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:19 am

to make an invisible frodo base?

garmenhord · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:24 am

" their bases represent where they come from."

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:37 am

@garmenhorde: i meant in answer to valderalv's first question of what to do with spare bases

garmenhord · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:42 am

ah ok sorry :-)

valderalv · **Joined:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:57 pm **Posts:** 26

SidTheSloth wrote:

to make an invisible frodo base?

I was tempted to do this, but once a sculpting tool gets involved I am utterly incapable.

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