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Oddzial Osmy's 3mm ACW stuff is awesome.



Really gives the massed soldiers effect. Each strip of infantry is 8 soldiers and 20mm across so they work well without cutting on most basing schemes.

If I ever do ACW, I'm totally going with 3mm.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Have you thought about 6mm or even 3mm?

Oh, I have - Baccus's stuff in 6mm and Ozzy's in 3mm are great looking and, of course, cheaper. But a lot of the guys I know that do ACW have 15mm figures.

Yeah, it's best to go with the majority, unless you want to go to the trouble of making two matched armies by yourself.

Tonight I begin "The Great Rebasing".

All of my ACW must be cut off their old 30mm x 10mm stands and transferred on to F&F compatible 1 inch x 7/8th inch stands. I got a huge load of these ready cut by laser from 2mm MDF.

The old bases are heavy card with the figures superglued on and then disguised with sand. The new bases are only 5mm narrower but it is surprisingly hard to get the models to fit nicely, although there is more depth.

I am gluing them on the new bases with PVA. When that is dry I shall blob on some epoxy and dip them in sand. Finish with green and dry brush pale green/yellow.

An easy way to base smaller figures, if they're already painted prior to basing, I've found, is using woodfiller.

First you score the base (mainly if it's shiny plastic, gives filler some grip), cover base in the right coloured filler (I use lightish brown).

Once base is covered, take the figures you wish to put on the base, and just push them in to the filler till the models base hits the basing (in my case, the 30x30mm square plastic).

Then, using an old brush, gently push the filler that's been pushed aside and upwards, over the lip of the models base.

Wait for it to dry (mine takes about 3 hours or so), then wash it with a brown wash (I use army painter soft tone). Once dry, drybrush that with a bone colour.

It's easy for mass basing, relatively quick (other than waiting to dry!), looks nice and has the added bonus of if you need to rebase the models in future, they're not superglued down at all. The filler will easily hold them securely for play and whatnot, but taking them off wont be overly difficult.

Here's some terrible pictures of some troops I tried it out with:

http://imgur.com/a/s17rs

And here it is with no tufts:

http://imgur.com/a/FG6lZ

The filler turned out great. I'll have to grab some the next time I'm in a hardware store and give it a try.

 MrDwhitey wrote:
An easy way to base smaller figures, if they're already painted prior to basing, I've found, is using woodfiller.

First you score the base (mainly if it's shiny plastic, gives filler some grip), cover base in the right coloured filler (I use lightish brown).

Once base is covered, take the figures you wish to put on the base, and just push them in to the filler till the models base hits the basing (in my case, the 30x30mm square plastic).

Then, using an old brush, gently push the filler that's been pushed aside and upwards, over the lip of the models base.

Wait for it to dry (mine takes about 3 hours or so), then wash it with a brown wash (I use army painter soft tone). Once dry, drybrush that with a bone colour.

It's easy for mass basing, relatively quick (other than waiting to dry!), looks nice and has the added bonus of if you need to rebase the models in future, they're not superglued down at all. The filler will easily hold them securely for play and whatnot, but taking them off wont be overly difficult.

Here's some terrible pictures of some troops I tried it out with:

http://imgur.com/a/s17rs

And here it is with no tufts:

http://imgur.com/a/FG6lZ

I love the spring flowers in your tufts!

I was looking at wood filler in Robert Y Dyas today, but I decided to research it on the internet first.

I've had some bad experiences with filler and polyfilla in the past, though in those days -- many years ago -- we all used cardboard bases. The modern MDF bases are a lot more rigid.

Based on your recommendation I will give it a go.