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I still have a tin of ½ps when they were discontinued for potential basing but I still haven't found a use for them Showing my age now
I agree, figures can come off coins as bases, but it saves me a separate stage of adding magnetised or steel paper to plastic ones.
The article clearly states that there are no plans to discontinue either coin.The decline in general use of currency simply means that no more need be made at present as there are enough in circulation to meet demand.
I take especial pleasure in super-gluing bases onto the head of the sovereign. I don't believe that gluing things on counts as defacing though.
I always glue figures to the reverse of the penny - apart from my 28mm New Model Army, whose boots are squarely on the face of the monarch!
Most of the time plain old 2-part epoxy is more than strong enough.
Horrible stuff. Only use in utter desperation. Stinks, sets off my asthma and is generally just rubbish to work with.Not the sort of thing I want to be doing on 20+ miniatures!!
Bit of a pain sometimes, yes, but far stronger than anything else, so I live with the annoyances of it. Superglue just doesn't do for metals in my experience.
Guess I'm not much of a anarchist but veering dangerously close to politics, so I will leave it there.