Using models for both 40k and fantasy

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**L0adt0ad**

I am looking to use my Demons for both games. Any advice on bases to put them on for dual usage?

**Wyrmalla**

I don't know how they work in Fantasy-are you talking Skirimishers or blocks?-, but I'd say go for the round bases. If your using them as skirimishers the round bases are just good sence, and if you need to stick them into block, get a movement tray, and a sheet of thickish plasticard, trace out how the minis rank up on the plasticard, then cut the circles out, sticking the plasticard to the regiment base and adding flock etc to the gaps between where the models slot in. The square bases however don't really work for 40k as they're really made for ranking up minis, which just isn't something that happens all that much in the game. =P

**caledoneus**

What you might could look into doing is magnetizing the round bas on the top of the square base. I think it would fit inside of it without overlap, and that way if you are doing fantasy, you got a square base, and if 40crack then you can just pop the round base off of the square one... just an idea

**Strelka**

See, I would recommend the opposite. Since skirmishers now kind of rank up anyway (just with space in between), the square bases are still useful. Off the top of my head, I don't know of any 40K rules that REQUIRE round bases (but I could be wrong), whereas the frontage and facing of fantasy is pretty central to the game mechanics.

**Iandroid**

Magnetizing them would be real easy. You can get sheets of metal at any craft store like michaels or whatever and put that under your bases, then if you have a drill, it's super easy to put a little magnet in the foot or whatever.

**MechaEmperor7000**

most legal way is to magnetize them. However there is no actual 40k rule prohibiting the use of square bases on models. However some Tourneys and most GW shops will have issue with this.

**powerslave84**

LotR movement trays?

**sluggaslugga**

powerslave84 wrote:WotR movement trays?

Fix'd

**AG.**

The rules state that you should 'mount the models on the base supplied with them'

Put them on square bases, and you should be set to use the models in both systems.

As for GW stores that might be fussy - my local one isn't, we have a couple of daemon players who use their models for both games and have them mounted on square bases.

**Leigen_Zero**

AG. wrote:
As for GW stores that might be fussy - my local one isn't, we have a couple of daemon players who use their models for both games and have them mounted on square bases.

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Iandroid wrote:Magnetizing them would be real easy. You can get sheets of metal at any craft store like michaels or whatever and put that under your bases, then if you have a drill, it's super easy to put a little magnet in the foot or whatever.

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