The Wolves of Caliban

I expect to come across a number of problems as I work through this project, so problem number 1 – bases.  Note that this is about bases and not basing.

So I reached one lovely marine out of the case to use as a test miniature for painting and realised that the old figures were on 25mm bases and not the 32mm bases needed in the current version of 40k.  Now I probably could have ignored this, but some of the other miniatures I am incorporating are on the correct bases.  So I needed to come up with a solution for this issue and 3 ideas came to mind:

1) Get some 32mm bases and just glue the figures on – this seemed like a simple solution, but I would have to prise the figures off their bases – not an easy task.  Once I’d done that I would need 150ish 32mm bases at about £17 per 100.

2) Get some washer, or cut some disk at 32mm to stick onto the bottoms.  I have access to a lasercutter at work so I could cut these out of HDF or perspex.  This didn’t appeal to me as it would leave quite a step between the outer base and the original one.

3) 3D print an extension ring for the base, again I have access to 3D printers (both resin and filament) at work.  A quick hunt on thingiverse led me to a base adaptor that I liked the look of (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3470636).  I decided to print one of these off today at work to see what it looked like.

The red colour is the PLA that was on the printer and I couldn’t be bothered to change it to something else.  The adapter fitted the base well, however I have noted that it stands slightly taller than the original base.  I’m hoping that some basing will cover that up at the moment.

Now I only need to print another 149 of them.