Andy succumbs to the wargamer’s bane, rebasing…
Some time ago I bought a bag of 2 dozen trees from a model railway shop, they were of various heights from about 2.5” (65mm) to 4.5” (115mm) the largest with a diameter of 2” (50mm).
I originally based these on either 1p, 2p coins or some 25mm diameter mdf bases, depending on the height of the tree.
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Unfortunately, these bases were generally too small, the slightest knock on the top of the tree and over it went. They needed bigger bases.
A few weeks ago, while browsing in The Works, I saw a pack of various sized wooden discs, of 20mm, 30mm and 40mm diameter, each 2mm thick. The pack cost £2.00 and had just under 40 of each size, so about 2p each.
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My original plan was to make some explosion markers similar to those Jeremey made, using the discs for the bases and some foam sheets for the explosions.
But then a thought stuck me, I could use the 40mm diameter discs to rebase the trees!
I decided not to remove the original bases, I just used Bostick general purpose glue to stick the original base to the 40mm diameter disc.
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Once the glue had dried I used Polyfilla to build up the exposed outer ring of the new base, and then applied a layer of green basetex to finish off the base.
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Overall this project took me a couple of hours (excluding drying time) and I now have a much more stable wood!
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