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MPHILLIPS · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:44 pm Post subject: MDF Bases

I'm in need of pre-cut MDF bases, around 150mmx60mm...sadly, most suppliers only go up to 100mm, due to the cutters they have. Any ideas please?
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msk · Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 44 Location: Wiltshire, UK

Does it have to be MDF? Litko can do custom sizes in plywood:

http://www.litkoaero.com/

MPHILLIPS · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:51 pm Post subject:

Looks like just the job! Thanks.
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Giles · Captain Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 794 Location: London

Peeler, Tony at ERM makes bases in any size you like. He's happy to go above the 100mm threshold, so long as you accept that anything over that size may be "the odd millimetre" out!

http://www.eastridingminiatures.co.uk/

MPHILLIPS · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:03 pm Post subject:

Cheers Giles.
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Timmo · Fusilier Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 298 Location: UK

Peeler

As on TMP I'd be carful going this big with MDF as it might warp. Probably worth varnishing both sides before applying anything wet to it like base texture or filler.

MPHILLIPS · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:35 pm Post subject:

Thankyou Timmo, I appreciate the point..I'll have to think on that, though I was going to magnabase them anyway, and hold 'em down an a metal box whilst drying. I'll see hows I go..by way, is that the same Timmo as was/is on WD?
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Cornet · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:00 pm Post subject:

I am new to miniatures and will need a basing solution shortly. I have looked at a variety of base materials -- MDF, plywood, metal, plastic, mounting cardboard -- and I have no idea which is most suitable. I'm tending toward the thin (0.8mm) plywood offered by Litko at the link above, but wonder about the strength of this thin wafer. I would hate to have it snap after I've invested all that time into filling, painting, and flocking.

This is a new 15mm AWI army, so the dimensions of the bases will conform to the BG! recommendations for that scale. Minimizing the profile of the base is attractive, but not if it will snap easily. Has anyone had any experience with these thin plywood bases? Alternatively, what do you use and why?

Also, is it idiotic for me to consider milling down the figures' metal bases to further reduce the basing profile? What unintended consequence to I introduce therewith?

Cacadores · Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 75

Cornet · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:02 pm Post subject:

Belisarius has tipped me off to a similar post he had started on another forum a day earlier than mine. That thread is quite thorough, so I'll withdraw my question here.

Cacadores, thank you for your recommendation. "Dries like concrete, is light and lasts forever" are definitely qualities I'm looking for. Your formula will be part of my calculus.

Belisarius · Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 60 Location: Newcastle uponTyne

Ordnanceboard · Joined: 26 Sep 2008 Posts: 61 Location: Salisbury, Wilshire

I have a similar issue to Belisarius. My French opponent has based his artillery on the smallest bases suggested in the rules, I for aesthetic reasons, had gone for the larger, but that has placed me at a disadvantage both in terms of manoeuvre and ebing able to mass fire. But chiselling the figures off their card, glue and sand bases is a real pain Exclamation

MPHILLIPS · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:46 pm Post subject:

No one said this hobby was easy! But try telling that to all those non-wargamers out there and they just don't want to listen!
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Milt Koger · Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Louisville, KY

Cornett,

I have used the Litko 0.8mm to base a good part of my 15mm Napoleonic figures (GdB base sizes) and have had no problems. I am now adding the thin magnetic adhesive bases from Litko to these. I have also used the thin magnetic Fox bases.

I do a fill with white glue and then top with sand to base level. After that dries, I paint and when dry paint on a diluted white glue and add static grass.
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captain chook · Fusilier Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 203

Milt,
Do you have a contact for Litko and Fox?
Currently using artists card, 2mm and planning to paint the underside with magnetic paint. This will allow the bases to stand on thin sheets of magnetic rubber to allow me to move a battalion all at once. This sounds time consuming and your Litko bases may be simpler.

Thanks,

Ants