SoapDoDger's Aristeia!

Now that’s everything is painted I need to create more work for myself.

I looked at a lot of bases, I liked elements from all of them. No base I found had the complete package.

They needed to be able to take team colours, Gameboard inspired and cheap as I have earmarked all of my funds to the Defiance Kickstarter.

I seen some small hex ones but the bases seemed very 2D and they were painted black with acrylic inserts I didn’t think they fitted in with the gameboard to much. I also seen some round cinematic ones but felt the same way. See some on @joshtogo ‘s Aristeia project hit everything but didn’t sit well on the game board for my tastes.

This left me with two options rebasing them on their bad plastic bases or designing my own.  I opted to design my own.

I took the scoring zones from the game board and modelled them in Fusion 360 Tried to make them 3D as opposed to being flat. This proved to be more difficult than I imagined more due to my stupidity than anything else.

When you draw a hexagon in Fusion 360 using the tool I did it takes the measurement from the centre to the flat of the hex. This made them almost double the size they should be. Great thing about fusion is you can scale the original sketch before making it 3D. Issue is it also scales all the gaps. Though it would get away with it. Sadly not the gaps filled in so are just hairlines on the base.

A redraw later (which was faster than the first time) and I am now printing new toppers now.

The toppers have a holder underneath for a magnet to fit in. The coloured team bases will be laser cut out of light gathering acrylic and a magnet put in place of them as well meaning I can change the team bases whenever I chose.

The reason that I think I need team bases so much is that when drinking and playing games the models may get a bit blurry but I hope to still be able to distinguish between yellow and green.

I hope to get one final print out tonight of the first 4 bases and the Acrylic bases cut out tomorrow along with the final 4 bases.

If I am lucky I should be able to get the start of the project complete tomorrow night and back to painting some infinity. I have my first game planned for the end of the month and that will decide if I continue onto making Blocked tiles, obstacles and possibly a board.

I think it might just end in that!