Aircraft stand

Aircraft stand made by Daniel Mitchell and flocked by me.

Whats on the Workbench?

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 After discovering 1mm height 15mm washers, I decided to rebase all my civilians on 15mm bases. All military figures will remain on 18mm washers. Here is a group shot of 6 civilians from different manufacturers.

Two identical Laserburn civilians and sheep herder from Irregular Miniatures.

Soviet nurse from Plastic Soldier Company, GZG female colonist and Laserburn female civilian.

15mm dogs rebased

Just rebased two dogs on my newly bought 15mm washers! These are 15mm "Irregular Miniatures" Labrador and Alsatian dogs from this range.

Here is size comparison between Alsatian dog and 15mm Laserburn range figure. I painted this dog as Dogmeat from Fallout 3.

New 15mm washer!!!!!!

I've been basing my models on 18mm in diameter and 1,2mm height washers from Bunnings Warehouse. But I found that for some models  want to use smaller washers. I found 15mm washers and based some of my animals on them, but I wasn't satisfied with final result, because these 15mm washers are very thin, about 0.3mm in height.

But recently I found some new washers Bunnings Warehouse. These washers were sold not in packs but individually and have diameter of 15mm  and height of 1mm. So I rebased my Eytaran on new washer.

Now have a look at infantry and cavalry model based on 18mm washer with Eytaran on new 15mm washer! At last they all have same style. If you interested why Rebel Minis marine and Ottoman general have bronze base sides and Eytaran base side painted with Kommando Khaki, here is the answer: I paint  base sides of ordinary models with same colour as their bases sand, Unit leaders have blue base sides, squad attachments have red coloured base sides and army commanders have bronze base sides.

For big models I use 31mm washers.

P.S. Yes, I changed flock on Rebel Minis commander, so dont be confused why this model have different base on first and second photo.

How to fight with size difference in 15mm

If you are 15mm gamer and have miniatures from different manufacturers, you may know about size difference in this scale. The matter is some manufacturers made true 15mm figures, and other 16mm, 17mm and even 18mm figs. Peter Pig is one of my favorite manufacturer, but his true 15mm figures looks a bit small in comparison to Blue Moon and Irregular Miniatures figs.

Here is size comparison shot of "Blue Moon" Wild West range civilian, "Peter Pig" Sudan range British soldier and "Irregular Miniatures" Colonial range Sepoy. As you can see true 15mm Peter Pig guy is on the smaller side.

But I found a solution how to deal with this size difference!!!!

You just need to use greenstuff or other material to uplift your true 15mm miniature from its base. When basing your bigger 15mm miniatures, try to cut their base to minimum and place figure inside the washer hole to make miniature look smaller. If you don't use washers but coins, just try to make your uplifted smaller figure heads to be on same lever as bigger 15mm guys.

Here is photo of uplifted Peter Pig figure, true 15mm Wild West figure with sanded base (sorry I haven't finished painting this guy) and bigger Blue Moon figure (with cutted base) placed in the washers hole.

Hope this article will be useful for you :)

And if you wondering about Wild West guy at the middle of the last photo, I'll tell you that you can find this figure on 15mm.co.uk or Battleline Miniatures sites here http://15mm.co.uk/A16.htm or here http://www.battleline-miniatures.co.nz/detail.asp?ProductCriterion=15mm%20American%20Civil&SubProductCriterion=American%20Civil%20war&quicksearch=&NAV=3&ItemNumber=27366

Newly found miniature basing secret!

Long time ago I made small tutorial about basing 15mm miniatureshttp://15mmworld.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/basing-tutorial.html where I used Citadel paint called Desert Yellow (Tallarn Sand in new Citadel paints range) to paint base sides.

Several mouths ago I found that if you use natural sand and Kommando Khaki (Karak Stone) paint for base sides and also you will have much better results!

Here is comparison photo of 4 miniatures based on 20mm washers. First figure is 80% painted Bornu from Irregular Miniatures with base sides painted with Desert Yellow, second figure is Peter Pig Egyptian Speaman with sand on its base and base sides painted with Desert Yellow, third figure is Irregular Miniatures Maasai Warrior with sanded base and base sides painted with Kommando Khaki, and fourth figure is Irregular Miniatures Settler from American Indian range with base sides painted with Kommando Khaki. As you can see figure bases on the left side look much better. Now I am going to repaint all my Desert Yellow base sides with Kommando Khaki

Basing tutorial

Basing tutorial. I'll use Irregular Miniatures 15mm Ashanti figure

Glue your painted figure to base (I use 20mm washers)

Then you need sand with different sized grains.

Close shot of sand.

Cover base with PVA glue.

Place big sand grains first.

Then cover base with small sized sand grains.

Wait 1 or 2 hours and remove remove the base from sand pile.

Place small amount of PVA where you want to add grass.

Cover base with flock. For this tutorial I used Woodland Scenics Light Green Coarse Turf (T-62)

After 1 or 2 hours remove mini from flock pile. Now you have one more recruit in your army :)

My first bases from greenstuff

This is my first sculpted base ever. Assasin on wooden floor. Figure from 15mm Tabletop Fantasy range ( http://15mm.co.uk/506F.htm )

My second sculpted base ever. This is Thief on brick road. I also added some vegetation. Thief also from 15mm Tabletop Fantasy range ( http://15mm.co.uk/MDA38F.htm )

Assasin and Thief :)

PS. I used these photo of ancient brick road for inspiration.