tallghost

O.K. I've ben won over, and decided that it would be best to spice up the base for my competition mini. I think it's going to look pretty cool. But I have a question. I see a lot of refrences to "Static grass" for basing, but when I went to get some, the only grass stuff I could find was reaaly long (it looks kind of like a patch of FunFur in a baggie.) I also picked up a couple of baggies of something just called "turf". This is all from a company called "Woodland Scenics". My question is, has anyone here ever used this turf stuff for grass before? does it do the job?

O.K. so if I understand what you are all telling me, I should never evr base things because cool looking bases are a waste of time, and no one cares about them....:bounce: Seriously, thaks for your input. I'm definitely going to try and figure out some kind of base now for my entry in the gencon contest. I have no hopes of placing, but I don't want anyone to say "Wyrd minis...yeah that guy with the lame unbased entry used one of those..." I may not be a good player, but I am a team player. plus, I think I may at least flock a unit of my army, and see how they look in play. The stuff you all do is relly nice (wiccanpony' pillar and callumrice's defeated destryer struck me as being really cool looking when I was votting for TT) but too elaborate for me on the table-top. but maybe I could find a middle ground with just some light flocking or gravel or something.

Looking around at the various message boards and web site and contests, I see a lot of people oohing and awing over bases and I admit, some of them are downright impressive. But my question is this...how important is a decorated base to you, personally? How much did the bases influence your voting in the recent Total Testosterone contest? Most of the minis that I paint are going to be used in tabletop combat at some point, and I just can't bring myself to base them. For some reason, when you decorate the base, I see it as adding just a bit more to the static pose of the mini..kind of locking it in place and time, and when you move it across the terrain, it will always be stuck there, as if your army or warband or whatever were dragging a statue with them. For some reason, soldiers standing on black circular plinths don't give me this wierd feeling. Or are at least generic enough to be overlooked. I realize that this is my hang-up, and the obvious solution for me is to: 1) keep my game minis un-based, because it makes me happy. 2) buy and paint some minis for display only, so I can frolic in the world of crafting bases. But I'm just wondering if I'm alone in my way of thinking, so I thought I would bring it up here, and see if anyone has any thoughts.

This is a very nice looking site. I really can't do more than echo the compliments you've gotten already. And possibly add that now that I have a decent digital camera, seeing your site has inspired me to get some space somewhere on the web to show off my own stuff, even if it isn't up to the levels of most of the folk I've seen here, it is fun to show off and maybe get feedback.