Why are 40k bases round?

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**BairdEC**

My old 2nd ed. ogryn also came with square bases, and the kneeling missile launcher IG models had the rectangular cavalry bases.

**BairdEC**

The older bikes did not come with bases. They were wide enough to stand on their own for the most part, like every other (ground) vehicle made back then except the Eldar stuff.
http://www.solegends.com/citcat1992/c92394marinebikes-01.htm
http://www.solegends.com/citcat19911/c2045impguardbikes-01.htm
http://www.solegends.com/citcat19911/c2056squatsbikers-01.htm
http://www.solegends.com/citcat1995-6/cat19956p100-02.htm
http://www.solegends.com/citcat1997/1997p059-01.htm

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Locrian, was that box you received shrink wrapped when you received it?

**BairdEC**

I'd be surprised at the older metal bikes having bases. None of my old two-wheel Squat bikes had bases.

**BairdEC**

Rumbleguts wrote:
BairdEC wrote:
I'd be surprised at the older metal bikes having bases. None of my old two-wheel Squat bikes had bases.

I could be wrong. I don't recall ever having purchased rectangular bases for the bikes I bought. And they certainly don't look like they would stay upright very well, the wheels are narrow and the models (especially with the marine on it) are not well balanced. But I did buy these well over .... 15..... years ago ... damned.
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I could be wrong, too. As you said, it's been better than 15 years. The mind tends to go foggy on minutiae over that time span. I'm fairly certain my bikes didn't have bases, but it's possible they got mixed in with the bases for the 50 or so gobbo wolfriders I never got around to assembling.