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Another way of creating simple metal bases:


Just instead plasticard, I used an old telephone card. These plastic cards can be found in SIM card packging, old debet cards, etc.


Computer flat cable from spare parts used as underground wires.


Left base:
- Cut circle from plastic card.
- Scribe straight lines (or separate by cuts) into 3 or 4 parts.
- Drill little holes (not trough) at tile corners.
- Glue plastic card pieces to original plastic base (you can leave little gaps between pieces if you want).

Right base:
- Cut circle from plastic card.
- Make rectangular opening, starting by little holes along edges. Make rectangular opening also on original plastic base, just a little bigger (1mm).
- Glue plastic card to original black base.
- Glue piece of flat wire at the bottom.


Flat wire glued at the bottom of base.


Left base:
- Make metal flooring as in Simple metal basing 1 tutorial: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/425625.page
- Cover rectangular opening with transparent plastic card piece (found transparent SIM card package card to do this).
- Cut frame from electrical stick tape and cover the gap. Paint wires before placing transparent piece

Right base:
Prime with black and drybrush with boltgun metal by Citadel. You can make some painting improvements here, but this is the simple metal basing, right?

This is really clever.

Thanks for post.

Cool! Makes for some interesting techy looking bases.

Really, really effective! Nice work!

I like it. May have to use this at some point

That's actually kind of nice and I can see it working easily enough for other types of basing too.