I'm using the hand-made
ULTRA-INVISO™ 20MM BASES that Wolf Girl, aka Mila Phipps, creates for the Phipps Cartel, aka Pulp Alley, game, store, lifestyle, cult, or obsession, whichever you prefer.
http://store.pulpalley.com/product-p/1320.htm Or I'm rolling mine own with the handy dandy rusty trusty punch stolen from the leather shop, or a mech one I purchased from Michael's.
Mind you these are purely for individual figures in Pulp Alley skirmish games using multifarious environments.
The very thin-ness of Mila's ULTRA-INVISO™ bases is what sold me, over other offerings out there.
To me they look & "feel" better with un-based vehicles, aircraft, buildings & scenery, whether next to or
ON 'em.
I haven't even considered them for unit based wargames, which I doubt I'll ever buy/build/paint for again.
I'm a returning gamer, after 3 decades of absence & an
almost complete lead pile divestiture, plus a dearth of local opponents.
Thus skirmish, suited so to solo as tis, seems the way to go, & my present path.
"
Curse you Bob Murch & Mike Demana too"
I'm looking backwards from
Pulp Ally & The Volstead Act to
Song of Drums and Tomahawks with the stalwart Swedes on the Delaware.
I plan to ULTRA-INVISO™ base those Minquas & Squareheads I paint to blend with forest, field, fort, rock, redoubt, ship, shore or snow.
Again though, skirmish games with individual figures, not units.
& while we're in the confessional I might as well add "
curse you too Matthew Beauchamp"
For forcing me to allow
HER to tip me over the edge into ordering sample Hydra Valkeeri...
As a marketing ploy she worked splendidly, at least on
this susceptible old man.
Mathew's Galactic Glamazons will lead a future Retro Space Pulp alien invasion league for Pulp Alley.
Did I mention that lovely as they are the Valkeeri will doubtless require Murchification?
In the form of a Radon Zombie gang for Earth Askaris furthering their interplanetary nefarious schemes?
Yeah focus is fruitless on my Pulp Planet....
Bottom line(s):
I quite like the way the thin discrete ULTRA-INVISO™ bases make my figures look standing on
ANYTHING.
The thicker Litko ones I've got may see use for critters or plot points, or or weapons, or simple scenery pieces.
& it's actually much easier, & far less labour intensive or materiel hungry than traditional scenic-ed bases.
Valerik
...As someone with no personal intrinsic originality (a simple thief of my betters)...
Lysander 2/7/14