Dark Elf wooden base - a blood bowl story
The Wooden base - a lesson in not being so nice
First the shots of the finished article, with paint and one with edge highlights and a couple of layers of varnish, got to try looking a little shiny – it’s a ship after all ?
I made the mistake halfway through painting the test miniature of asking what base – then listing them all and for some reason I remembered the team board as a ship and offered wood as well (hoping they just went the usual grass route) instant response back was wood – d’oh! As I wasn’t getting paid a lot I had to think of a way of doing this simply and cheaply so I rummaged in my daughter’s craft box (as you do) and hello lollipop sticks!
Wood bases for miniatures come in thin planks and for my purposes that was not going to work (I did a test and wasn’t happy with the result, this is a ship not laminate flooring!) So looking at references etc. It looked like one lollipop stick was about the right width for a ship plank, a standard blood bowl base takes 3 widths so time to do a test!
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