When did wargamers start to...

[Fenton]

I am starting to use Mike Salweys homemade bastex method which is sand ( builders sand which has been cooked to remove fungi etc),PVA and brown paint. I like it as you can create a thin enough mix to almost flw round the smaller bases that 6 and 10mm figures tend to have

[John Cook]

Early 90s I think, when I had an extension built and a bag of ready-mix cement was left by the builder.  I use PVA glue and dip the stands in the ready-mix cement.  It is wet enough to make the cement cure.   

[paulr]

And we thought we had it tough when rebasing

[Leman]

Broke my scalpel last night whilst rebasing - and that was only Vallejo pumice paste.

[FierceKitty]

Broke my scalpel last night whilst rebasing - and that was only Vallejo pumice paste.

We should start assigning aboriginal American-style names to members here. Broken Scalpel isn't a bad one to start with. We could add Drills Own Finger, Hates Southerners, Won't use little houses, Coat in the Teeth....

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Mad Kitty may be ?

[d_Guy]

Man-who-fights-woman
Glued-face-to-palm
Dabbles-with-hexes
Stuck-in-tanks
Bent-arm-off
Runs-with-brushes

I gave Leon the dream quest name, Owl-who-never-sleeps some time ago

[Raider4]

We should start assigning aboriginal American-style names to members here. Broken Scalpel isn't a bad one to start with.

Or, code words as per the US military. If Broken Arrow is a lost nuke, what could Broken Scalpel possibly mean . . . ?

Or Bent Spear, Chipped Paint and Wobbly Base?

[Leman]

Broken scalpel - him who press too hard
Bent Spear - him who uses not for intended purpose
Chipped paint - she who put make-up on in train
Wobbly base - man who play with toy soldiers who eat and drink much of tribes supplies.

[fsn]

I think I'd have to be "Does much, achieves little" ... sorry GENERAL Does Much, Achieve Little.

[Westmarcher]

Wobbly base - man who play with toy soldiers who eat and drink much of tribes supplies.

Yes, when in America last week, I was warned about him by their Chief Brewer, Dances With Drunks .......   

[John Cook]

And we thought we had it tough when rebasing

Rebasing?  Why would you want to?  Get it right first time

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Unfortunately we all occasionally buy other peoples figures which are based wrong. Or the other thing is that the bloody rules writers change the base sizes......QED

IanS

[Raider4]

Or the other thing is that the bloody rules writers change the base sizes......QED

Or, more likely, we base for one game, play a bit, then move on to another ruleset. And then another. And them another. And somewhere along this chain we find that the current game works better with a different base size. And then we re-base.

And then there's a flurry of nostalgia and the original game we started with all those years ago comes back into fashion . . .

Cheers, M.
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