Do you base your Mexican Old West Adobe buildings?

[Smokeyrone]

And, if so, do you put them on wooden plank decks, like you would normal wooden western buildings?


Christian has inspired me to build a 15mm Old Mexico village, and I'm wondering what to do with basing or not.
(you ought to see his, it is coming along nicely)

Thanks, me droogs!

 

Smokey

[hohlinger]

Sometimes my wooden buildings have wooden plank decks like the buildings in the following picture when they are part of a town:


When they are standing alone or are part of a lumberyard or something they do not have any planks like on this picture:


All my adobe buildings do not have any plank decks because they were built directly on the earth like on the next two pics:




All my houses are based on so called ABS-plates (german word for white plastic boards) approx. 1 - 2 mm thick (it is a matter of how big the building is which is standing on it) so that you can add details as crates, barrels, stones etc.  to it. I think it is a kind of personal taste and there are not any rules for this decision ... hope this helps 

[Christian]

I'm flattered  Anyway, yes I base all of mine. If it isn't on thick cardboard, I use some compressed craft "wood" squares. They just make the whole thing sturdier. I can punch that two-storey building I built on the holidays and it even puts up a fight! 

[workerBee]

So far,    for my Northern Mexico pueblo I have not considered basing because the buildings in "Real Life" often were built from the ground up.   

Now that I have two story multiple part buildings (Gracias, Old Glory!) I must admit I wonder if that wouldn't be better for transportation  - although I don't expect to move them off the table in the basement in the foreseeable future.   

Gracias,

Glenn