ROUND BASE 32MM X10 UNITS

Round bases 32 mm, a pack of ten pieces

These are blank, undecorated circular bases 32 millimeters in diameter. They are not desk mats and not cutting mats but bases on which a figure or a small model stands. A diameter of 32 mm is among the usual sizes for infantry figures and for slightly larger ones; a pack of ten matches the way figures are usually worked with, that is in groups rather than one at a time.

Use

• Standing a figure up and steadying it, so that it can be held without touching the painted surface
• Unifying the look of a whole collection, since the same diameter and the same edge treatment turn individual figures into a set
• A base for terrain work: sand, grit, texture paste, static grass
• A replacement for a damaged or missing base on older figures

How to work with them

The surface of a base is smooth, so it pays to roughen it with abrasive paper before applying sand or paste, as the material then holds considerably better. It is safer to join a figure to a base with a wire pin: a hole is drilled in the foot and in the base and a piece of wire is glued in. Glue alone, on the small area of the feet, will give way in time. The edge of a base is traditionally finished in a single color, most often black or dark brown; do that at the very end, with the sharp edge of a brush, otherwise you will mess the edge up with terrain color. Loose materials are fixed with thinned PVA glue dropped on with a pipette, so that the surface is not crushed.

Who they are for

For players of tabletop games and collectors of figures who need to stock up on bases, unify an older collection or prepare a few bases in advance and build terrain on them before the figures go on.

The package holds the bases on their own. Figures, glue, paints and terrain materials are not part of it, unless stated otherwise.