Alternatives to crappy GW plastic bases?

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Sauce Devil

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They\'re fine for minis painted to a normal tabletop gaming standard but they look very lackluster for minis painted to display standard or a high tabletop standard and I\'m wondering what I might use instead.

I\'m not sure what sizes they come in but the only thing I can think of so far is glass mosaic tiles; any other ideas?
 
green stuff

green stuff

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Maybe you should look at what the higher ranking painters here do (http://www.coolminiornot.com/topartists) and then show us what you\'d like to go for.

As is, I\'m not quite sure if you\'re going for a tabletop++ effect or for a contest level base.

Concerning the glass mosaic tiles, I wouldn\'t use them :

*) tabletop : some tournaments might be picky and refuse them;
*) contest : I\'m not sure they\'d be of the best effect;
*) general reason : wouldn\'t they be a pain to pin/glue/... ?
 
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Sauce Devil

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I want to try selling some painted minis on eBay (I\'ve been buying them very cheap from eBay and from car-boot sales) for profit; they will probably be painted to \"high tabletop standard\" and I want them to stand out from the crowd as semi-display quality while still being usable as tabletop minis.

I could get around the pinning problem on glass my using a little milliput on the base and spiraling a piece of wire into it (embedding it) to give it strength, but like you said, a lot of people won\'t like glass bases and they would be no good for serious Tournament players.
 
freakinacage

freakinacage

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dragonforge\'s stuff is great, but if you are looking for plain, try the warmachine style ones. you can do your own basing but they look a little nicer than the gw stuff
 
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DaN

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Bear in mind - if you\'re selling to \"high tabletop\" standrard, then the majority of your buyers will be wanting to use the figures for gaming - and as I understand it, GW don\'t allow their figures to be entered into official tournaments and the like with non-standard bases.

I\'m sure this won\'t be much of a problem anyway, but if you\'re selling, I\'d give an option for GW or non-GW basing.
 
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Sauce Devil

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I\'ve got a couple of Hasslefree bases and they look quite nice so I might buy a few more.

Another idea I have is to make the miniature removable so that the pin can be pulled out of it\'s display base and plugged into a gaming base but it\'s probably more complicated to do than it sounds.
 
lahatiel

lahatiel

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Originally posted by Sauce Devil
I\'ve got a couple of Hasslefree bases and they look quite nice so I might buy a few more.

Another idea I have is to make the miniature removable so that the pin can be pulled out of it\'s display base and plugged into a gaming base but it\'s probably more complicated to do than it sounds.
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Rather than being able to remove a figure from one base to be placed on another base, it\'s probably easier to put the miniature on a (nicely detailed) gaming base that then integrates itself into a larger display base while being detachable. Look up some old Golden Demon winners, especially in the unit categories, as many of them do this -- to get the best presentation and still meet the GW rule that the figures entered need to be playable.

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Here\'s the type of thing I\'m talking about, which angus147258 did to sell just the gaming/display base combo itself:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/145671

A gallery search for \"display base\" should also turn up a bunch of example results.
 
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Undave

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Just build an elevated base with walls round the mini and a little hole for him to poke his gun out of. Mobile 4+ cover save lol
 
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