When you can’t see the wood for the trees.

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.

The trees on their original bases

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.

Examples of the bases from The Works

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.

Trees rebased.

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.

Three of the finished trees

Overall this project took me a couple of hours (excluding drying time) and I now have a much more stable wood!