14 1/72 figures I had mounted on washers.
My son base coated five skeletons, three Orcs and seven Dwarves. I think he'll need to go back and touch them up to ensure coverage, but it was a very productive day.
I even videoed myself doing my basing process, but I'm not happy with the footage. I can't find the charger for my old camcorder and my Nikon can take video but I had a really hard time figure out how to get it to focus. So I have several minutes of blurry footage that is mostly the back of my hand as I talk at you. But it is in full 1080 HD. I think I'll spare you guys until I can do it right.
While I was digging around in the 28mm box I found this guy.
Anybody recognize him? I want to say he came with an issue of White Dwarf. I really don't remember where he came from. As you can see he is plastic and I believe the 1991 base came with him.
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Good Job with the basing, that figure is a Citadel Black Orc, came out around 94/95 if I remember right :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Chico. I think my brother may have given it to me after I had stopped really doing much hobby stuff. Need to finish him off.
ReplyDeletegood job looking forward to them all finished
ReplyDeleteThanks Vinnie, we'll try to get them done soon.
DeleteAll good progress, I hate basing up figures, you're lucky to have help !
ReplyDeleteThanks Zabadak. I'm pretty good about basing, it's finishing a model I have problems with.
DeleteAre you brushing on your base coats? I know that there are mixed opinions on this, but I find spraying to be much quicker and easier (also it's more likely to get complete coverage, if done in stages and at different angles).
ReplyDeleteHi Hugh, yeah we brush on here. I don't know if it was just growing up in New York City and spray paint was hard to get or what, but I've never been able to get comfortable with the spray can. I tried it with the IMEX and Zvezda 1/72 vikings and knocked them over with the force of the spray. I also got very worried that I was drowning the detail. The coverage was another issue. I haven't really made the decision to not spray so much as I feel I have the control I want with the brush and I don't have to worry about inhaling any paint or varnish. We had a good time working away.
DeleteHello, sorry by post too latte. Did you used 30mm bases for the caesar´s nubians. Nice Blog.
ReplyDeleteHi Diego, thanks. For all of my "man sized" 1/72 (20mm) figures I base them on 3/4" fender washers. They are approximately 19mm in diameter. I bought many boxes of them online years ago. You could use a normal washer from the hardware store, but fender washers have a smaller hole so it's easier to cover up. Never to late to comment. If I see it I'll reply.
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