This week I've taken a few hours to do some mass sand and gritting, ink washing, dry brushing and flocking. In a few more hours the job will be done. I really do hate basing!
Firstly, at the rear of each 'flag base' (or 'command base' where a flag isn't present) I have put a small disc with the unit number. In the case of the Russians I used the first three letters of the units name. I have kept the label small on a natural background colour to keep things unobtrusive, neat and tidy.
The disc was made out of thin light brown card with a hole punch.
The panel pin, BTW, is for holding two coloured pony beads one above the other. One (the bottom one) denotes unit quality. The other (the top one) is a 'first fire' marker. The latter is removed after first fire.
These give a list of inhabers (regiment 'owners') and battle honours. These labels were printed onto self-adhesive paper.
The labels rarely serve any purpose, but they finish things off nicely.
6 comments:
I hate basing, too.
Have you considered adding your name and the date they were competed to the label on the bottom of the command stands?
I do like the idea of printing a bit more info about the rgt on the bottom of the base, I do a bit with my figures but not quite to this extent. I thnk it gives a bit of 'personality' to the unit and we thereby tend to take more notice of it's exploits during a game rather than treat it as expendible.
Dave.
I like those, James!
I sometimes inscribe the unit name in greenstuff on the back of a base.
I agree basing just no fun to do and I'm never completely satisfied with it, but it is a necessary evil. The only thing I dislike more is prep work and cleaning and don't even get me started on plastic assembly which is why most my figures are metal.
I do really like the small blended in number on the command base as I personally detest obvious paper labels on bases as it ruins the whole impression.
As to the figures they look great as always.
Christopher
I do like the idea of using the numbered hole punch.
I now tacke my basing as I go along, I find it less daunting. If there is anything I loathe more then basing though, it is rebasing!
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