black cavalier asked:
Nicely based BTW. I was planning on doing something similar. How did you do them?
I use pennies. I find them available, cheap, and tough. Available matters, as I just hate coming up one or two items short from finishing a full TOE, and to run out of bases would frustrate me past the boiling point. But I always have a few extra pennies lying around...
Prime first. Then spray-paint a neutral earth tone (in this case Testor Model Master SAC Bomber Tan).
Infantry are fully pre-painted before basing.
Large glob of white glue (I use regular old Elmer's) to cover the whole top of the penny to the depth of the top of the little rectangular base molded to the fig. Plop the figs down into the glue with some care, squishing them around a bit to make sure they aren't floating on the glue. Leave to dry, checking back occasionally to see none of the figs fall-over during the drying process (the glue shrinks, and so pulls a bit as it dries).
Once dry, brush the glue with similar toned paint (Polly-S Sahara Sand is about the same as Testor SAC Bomber Tan). Try not to paint over the nice job you've already done on the figs! (One advantage of Elmer's glue is that it is largely colorless when dry, so you don't have to ensure absolute complete coverage with the paint.)
When dry, brush the stand with another thin coate of white glue (1/2 diluted with water to make it easier to brush around), using care not to get much onto the figures. Then bury the stand in flocking (I haven't tried static grass yet, like others here use). Leave under the flocking for about 20 minutes, then remove and use an old dry paint brush to brush off any flocking on the figures (try not to brush any off of stand).
When dry, spray with Testors Dullcote, let dry, then spray again.
That's how I do it. I don't think my results are quite as nice as the bases others here do, but my infantry winds up being very robust. So far at least, I have not taken any "casualities" wargaming with my GHQ infantry based this way.
