Coins as bases

[twrchtrwyth]

Yeah sorry ...the cost is double the 1p charge. So will be two pence per 2p.

You live in Wales. Am I correct?

You are correct. 

[Centaur_Seducer]

Hmmm now you tell me! I went in both silvan and xl byg were they were roughly 1kr a piece. Still we've not Got a bauhaus near here.
Duncan

In the great land of the free, you can buy washers by the kilo at byggmax, I haven't used them for serious stuff like basing, just as weights. I can't make it to Horizont due to vindictive-wife syndrome, but if you're really interested we can probably sort something out I think the washers were something like 50 kronor per kilo.

[Ramshackle_Curtis]

My mate sold a "lucky penny" on ebay for £5 to an american.

[Lowtardog]

My mate sold a "lucky penny" on ebay for £5 to an american.

 

[carlos marighela]

Is there a market to export 1p coins?  I think it could be cheaper for some countires and I like the idea of Brazilian figs on British coinage. We conquer by underbase means....

Your first task would be to find some Brazilian figures. Apart from some lead toy soldier types and a couple of chaps making some sci fi in Rio, who seem to have disappeared,I can't think of any. Conquest has already taken place by other means. Purchase a plastic kit in Brazil and look at paying 3-5 times the RRP you would in the UK, Europe and even Australia. Seventy percent import tax and a tiny domestic market will do that for you.

Technically speaking, toys are a prohibited item to mail to Brazil so you need to be creative when labelling the items. Whatever you do don't try and pass them off as jewellrey, as apart fromn the fact that it's also a prohibited item to post, the chance of it being robbed by the postal service will multiply by a factor of ten.

[Alfrik]

Hhmmmm perhaps have them labled as fishing weights.... 

[YPU]

History education appliances?

[Dan]

I just remembered that our new coins (NZ) can be stuck to magnets. I'm going to use some ten cent coins as bases for my Britannia Sailors, they measure 20mm across. I'd use the 50 coins to base my WW2 figures but I think that would work out more expensive than washers.

[driller]

I'm doing some re-basing (from lipped bases to hungarian 10 forint coins - those are like the 1p coins). Didn't do any kind of preparation last night, just glued the figures on the coins, PVAd some sand on them, painted the sand, drybrushed it -- and today the sand is already coming off and the coin's surface shines through.

So I'm doing it all over again, but this time before I glue the figure on (don't want to pin a coin), I put primer on the coins, than a black basecoat, THAN I glue the figure on, pva the coin, put sand on, and paint the sand.

[Legion1963]

Untill recently i used to base my miniatures on the wellknown slotted bases. I still have a whole plastic full of them from the time when you used to get several of them in a blister with one miniatures. However, while basing my TAG in country miniatures i have started making my own bases using sturdy cardboard drenched in polyurethane (varnish) and covering it with DAS pronto. Works quite well for me.

[Mason]

I always base my two pence pieces with a miniature whenever possible.....

[twrchtrwyth]

I always base my two pence pieces with a miniature whenever possible.....

Sorry, but I have to ask, especially with the ....... at the end. When is it not possible?

[Mason]

Sorry, but I have to ask, especially with the ....... at the end. When is it not possible?

When some idiot uses the two pence pieces as currency!

[Silent Invader]

My first minis were pre-warlord Bolt Action and their website suggested mounting them on pennies, adding some sand, then painting and flocking, all fixed with superglue, which is what I've been doing ever since......

[zizi666]

Truely, twrchtrwyth, you didn't think he would run out of miniatures, did you