Basing the Showgirls?

[Ivellis]

My showgirls box just came in the mail (With Rising Powers and a Puppet Deck, both amazing BTW) and I want to give the crew suitable bases, any ideas to make a kind of theater platform base like the official models?

[The Madman]

Litko wood base/inserts

score(to look like wood flooring), paint/stain and gloss coat

or

order custom wood flooring bases

[Melnibonean]

Try these. Look here...

[TimeLapse]

If you want to do something more intresting, try adding setting like a chair or steps. You might even have some at the edge of the stage.

I would really try to mix it up since wooden boards will get borring quick. Also You can easly make wood plank bases without buying them if you want i used balsa wood for a pirate army i made once.

This is also a magic show so you might want to paint playing cards on the ground, or some of the magic equitment.

Just some ideas.

[Q'iq'el]

Personally I want a dancing hall floor for mine.

While I imagine the Showgirls appear on the stage regularly, I do not think it is the area where they battle the most. In fluff the two fights that come to mind are in the Sewers (smuggling operations) and in a cart racing through the city.

I imagine they could arrange to be invited for a governor's Ball only to have a couple of "admirers" dealt with quietly.

[Koali]

I based my showgirs on a ruind Street...

Located them in a very rough and rundown Area of malifaux (that also, why i panited them.. quite filthy)... so the Streets are broken and so on...

On the balefield the look great with these Bases...

[The Madman]

If you want to do something more intresting, try adding setting like a chair or steps. You might even have some at the edge of the stage.

I would really try to mix it up since wooden boards will get borring quick. Also You can easly make wood plank bases without buying them if you want i used balsa wood for a pirate army i made once.

This is also a magic show so you might want to paint playing cards on the ground, or some of the magic equitment.

Just some ideas.

Those are really great Ideas!

Myself, I've tried to stray away from "Diorama" bases...

but

something like a segment of Brass tube(Pole dance?)

or a simple wooden chair, a small bundle of roses or a Wooden chest like the old vaudville acts had would make the "showgirl" theme pop!

[Deathjester]

I have started to design my bases for the showgirls as wooden flooring, with as previously suggested - chairs, magic equipment etc.. just 30mm bases bit small for whole stage and curtain display i fancied doing !!

[thaehl]

There are some really good ideas here Im really excited to see where all this goes, Im hoping to see you post them after they are based.

[IronChief]

My showgirls box just came in the mail (With Rising Powers and a Puppet Deck, both amazing BTW) and I want to give the crew suitable bases, any ideas to make a kind of theater platform base like the official models?

I used MicroArts bases for mine. I wanted something arcane. Here is a link to one of my models on this forum.

http://http://www.wyrd-games.net/forum/showthread.php?t=15360

[krak_kirby]

In the late 1800's and early 1900's stages often had lamps, gaslights or electric lights in fixtures along the front edge of the stage. The lights were shaded facing the audience, and set up to illuminate the performers. I'm going to paint some showgirls with low lighting. I think this will look a little sinister and very much fit the dual nature of this crew.

[Lya]

you could order in some wood bases, but I've seen some modelers use small popsicle sticks, cut them to size, and then paint them. or you could green stuff it?

[Chev Chelios]

I used balsa wood strips of varied sizes.Its thin enough to cut with scissors.

[AvatarForm]

Try these. Look here...

+1, I used form of the FF Victorian Streets on my Seamus crew... hookers walking the streets, who would have thought?

[Seventeen]

Wife wanted her girls to be dancing on tables. Here's the link to her first fig: http://s1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd492/achieve_more/Malifaux/The%20Showgirls/?action=view&current=4869aeef.jpg#!oZZ1QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2Fs1222.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fdd492%2Fachieve_more%2FMalifaux%2FThe%2520Showgirls%2F%3Faction%3Dview%26current%3D4869aeef.jpg%26

As cutting sticks then rounding them out to smoothly fit the bases was clearly beyond my modeling skills, I simply took a disc of balsa and scored the lines in.

Just another idea...

[AvatarForm]

Table dancing! I like... "Don't do 'off' nights"

[JoeB]

I used sheet plastic which had parallel lines cut into it the right width for floor boards. I cut this to fit the bases and then cut a few cross lines to represent the ends of boards and voila a wooden floor. I also cut some brass tubing and added footlights to their bases.

[AvatarForm]

I used sheet plastic which had parallel lines cut into it the right width for floor boards. I cut this to fit the bases and then cut a few cross lines to represent the ends of boards and voila a wooden floor. I also cut some brass tubing and added footlights to their bases.

Yes 'Evergreen' is a popular brand for this. They do these in various styles for train modellers mainly. However, I use the Sidewalk, Tiles, and variour styles of rod in my hobby also.

Im particularly fond of the H and I rod for girders and interiors of buildings... especially on broken city bases.

[stephengroy]

I used a wood circle that fit the base insert, hit it with a Guardsman Wood Stain touch up marker (dark, in this case) then applied Vallejo gloss varnish. very nice.

Edited September 26, 2010 by stephengroy

[maxvon_d]

In the late 1800's and early 1900's stages often had lamps, gaslights or electric lights in fixtures along the front edge of the stage. The lights were shaded facing the audience, and set up to illuminate the performers. I'm going to paint some showgirls with low lighting. I think this will look a little sinister and very much fit the dual nature of this crew.

I was thinking something along these lines myself

[bencoxalpha]

how did you make the table for the showgirl i fancy making one for my colette

[shadowbeast]

$8 or so, got me a pack of Back2Base-ix planked deck bases at the same place I got my Collette boxed set. I figured that would be most appropriate as the girls wouldn't hang out non-planked places so much, the clues on the back of the box as to Collettes business suggests things like warehouses, showboats, trains, theaters, saloons, and other places where you can imagine wood decks.

Otherwise you could glue coloured fuzzy stuff down for carpet?