My Basing Idea....

For some time now I have been chewing over the idea of how best to base my troops for transporting.  After my 20th trip in the car to our games club and the unloading ritual of reorganising my tray of troops I decided that enough is enough.

Previously I would base my 6mm and 28mm with Picture frame backing card and use an adhesive flex magnet fixed to the bottom.  This works well to keep the majority in place but one sudden break in the car or a sharp turn and the fringe troops would start to move about the tray.

The magnet was just not cutting it.

So I contacted a local Aussie MDF shape laser cutter, ordered myself 100 bases cut 20mm squares with a 3mm diameter hole in the centre.

Once I had these I would place a 2mm high x 2.5mm diameter Rare Earth Magnet in the hole and scrap some liquid nails in over the top of the base to hold it in place.

This had a few advantages, firstly magnetism was dramatically improved.  My bases have now become more precise in measure with each base being identical in size and finally the MDF is more durable than the card which would warp during the flocking process if too much moisture was present.

Some finished units on the left and centre (unflocked), the right is the old card base.