{"id":4233,"date":"2021-07-31T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2021-07-30T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T17:35:08","slug":"when-you-cant-see-the-wood-for-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2021\/07\/31\/when-you-cant-see-the-wood-for-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"When you can\u2019t see the wood for the trees."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andy succumbs to the wargamer’s bane, rebasing…<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201d (65mm) to 4.5\u201d (115mm) the largest with a diameter of 2\u201d (50mm).<\/p>\n

I originally based these on either 1p, 2p coins or some 25mm diameter mdf bases, depending on the height of the tree.<\/p>\n

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The trees on their original bases<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unfortunately, these bases were generally too small, the slightest knock on the top of the tree and over it went. They needed bigger bases.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, while browsing in The Works, I saw a pack of various sized wooden discs<\/a>, of 20mm, 30mm and 40mm diameter, each 2mm thick. The pack cost \u00a32.00 and had just under 40 of each size, so about 2p each.<\/p>\n

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Examples of the bases from The Works<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My original plan was to make some explosion markers similar to those Jeremey made<\/a>, using the discs for the bases and some foam sheets for the explosions.<\/p>\n

But then a thought stuck me, I could use the 40mm diameter discs to rebase the trees!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Trees rebased.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Three of the finished trees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Overall this project took me a couple of hours (excluding drying time) and I now have a much more stable wood!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u201d (65mm) to 4.5\u201d (115mm) the largest with a diameter of 2\u201d (50mm). I originally based these on either 1p, 2p coins or some 25mm … Continue reading “When you can\u2019t see the wood for the trees.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modelling-and-painting-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/The-forest-e1627073088632.jpg?fit=800%2C634&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A5LG-16h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4248,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions\/4248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}