This is possibly a silly question: I'm using sabot bases for the first time for some 20mm Nappy figures (for Sharp Practice) - the figures bases are really quite snug (read "tight") in the shapely round holes and I'm a trifle fearful that once I have spray-varnished the based figures and the sabot bases (separately) that they might not fit together anymore. 

Am I being daft?  I almost want to put them into the sabot bases and spray them in situ and then take them out before they dry (and become immovable) as that seems safer...  any reassurance/advice welcome!

Mike H

QuoteThis is possibly a silly question: I'm using sabot bases for the first time for some 20mm Nappy figures (for Sharp Practice) - the figures bases are really quite snug (read "tight") in the shapely round holes and I'm a trifle fearful that once I have spray-varnished the based figures and the sabot bases (separately) that they might not fit together anymore. 

Am I being daft?  I almost want to put them into the sabot bases and spray them in situ and then take them out before they dry (and become immovable) as that seems safer...  any reassurance/advice welcome!

Mike H

It very much depends on the tolerance between the hole and the figure base - and it sounds with these there isn't much, which is great to stop the figures rattling around, but as you say can be a bit tight. 

I'm not sure a coat of spray varnish is going to have that much thickness to it. But on the other hand I can't really see any downside to what you are suggesting, and if you have textured/flocked the sabot bases then the spray varnish will seal everything nicely. 

Mine were fine, if a tad snug

QuoteMine were fine, if a tad snug

Are we still on sabot bases?? 

Don't we have an Orcs to do smutty thread derailment?

I gently file mine until the black of laser cut is gone, this seems to negate any issues.

Quote from: Orcs on 19 February 2025, 03:53:25 AMI gently file mine until the black of laser cut is gone, this seems to negate any issues.

...and the sabot bases!?

Quote from: Last Hussar on 18 February 2025, 11:12:02 PMDon't we have an Orcs to do smutty thread derailment?

Id love to say that I hadn't expected this particularly manly thread to disappear into such a predictable hole, but I'd be lying   

Fingers crossed, and file at the ready....

Talking of Filing, I remember seeing mainstream TV documentary a long while ago about Dominatrix's (I think that's the plural of Dominatrix - perhaps FK can correct me.)

They were interviewing one of her customers and one of the things he liked was for her to gently rub his member with a grater....  

Eeek!!!


s. dominatrix/pl. dominatrices (like appendix and appendices), although you would probably be slapped for saying it in public as it sounds terribly pretentious (not 'appendices' - I use that all the time and haven't been slapped once yet - well, not for that...)

QuoteId love to say that I hadn't expected this particularly manly thread to disappear into such a predictable hole, but I'd be lying 

Fingers crossed, and file at the ready....

Just remeber to use short, gentle strokes: you don't want to take too much off...

Quote from: Orcs on 19 February 2025, 10:49:25 AMThey were interviewing one of her customers and one of the things he liked was for her to gently rub his member with a {NO}

JUST NO, SHUT UP, LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU.

Dominatrices

I've just used one of His Majesty's computers to look that up.

Wonder if I'll get any awkward questions.

In the late 1990's we shared our floor of the building with BT internal network security team. they spent most of their days checking peoples internet histories to see  if anyone had accessed dubious porn sites or had been blocked from a suitable site, as the filters were not particularly  good. eg they blocked the Peter Pig figure site. Most of the security team were Hackers in their spare time and we got lots of free software often before the official release. We all got on very well together as we all worked long shifts out of hours.

One of the guys at the Wargames club served at the local RAF Halton site. He was telling us about a site that had the fire arcs of all the Army Bases in Northern Ireland on it.  It also had a book called the "the Big, Bad book of Fun - AKA The terrorists Handbook., that told you how to make skeleton keys, use a "bump" key, how to make a garrote, how to make a pipe bomb using none safety matches etc.
One afternoon I was bored so I downloaded the "Big,Bad Book of Fun". Before it had downloaded I had two of my Colleagues from security stood by the desk - It had raised all sorts of alarms and they had quickly traced it to my PC. 
The severity of the alarms meant a full report had to go into senior management. Fortunately the security manager was a contractor who I got on really well with. Senior management were told the download was "an exercise to check the robustness of the network security, adjustments have been made to ensure this site is blocked and all traces have been removed from the network.
What it did not say is that before removing the download they had burnt several CD copies for themselves. I think I
still have mine somewhere.

One of the women I worked with in IT had the job of setting up new laptops and checking that the security package (among others) was properly installed. She had a list of sites she was to try to access, if any of the attempts succeeded the package install had failed to load properly.

As a result pretty much every laptop on the estate had made at least one attempt to access hot hunks dot com.

New head of the PC (as in laptops and deshtops not political correctness) Team runs a couple of scripts and wonders what sort of organisation he's just joined!