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so i picked up a devestator box and 10 of the bigger bases for some marines. I have a bunch of heavy weapons guys now thanks to an astartes strikeforce (which came with the smaller bases) and I'm looking at all my older marines and I really want them on the new base size. It all brings up an issue: what do i do with the bases?

I've never been particularly good at basing my minis and this time I want to try and change that. I have a (as yet unpainted) Salamanders army and a bunch painted as ultramarines (and some badly painted randoms from trades) that i will be stripping and repainting and I want a nice looking base to tie all my stuff together.

I don't want to go with lava bases, because I'm not a big fan of it and I would want to do OSL techniques from it and I don't have the skill yet. I was thinking maybe some ruins and gravel looking, but I sounds pretty dull. Is there something that really compliments Salamanders without being lava? Any advice would be great, and pictures of bases you think would be cool would be appreciated. I really want to make people say "hey that's neat" when they see my bases.

The best low effort high quality base I have seen is cork plate rubble

https://youtu.be/repX5lKQQpU

wow, that's pretty great. any idea on how he gets the model securely bolted down via pinning? I'd like to give it a go, I think.

He drills into their feet and puts paperclip lengths in there while painting - those same pins get drilled through the base and bent over underneath. Odd he doesn't show that clearly in the video, but it does work.

Generally you don't even need to glue them if you do it like that.

As for your size differential problem, there are a ton of base extenders available that can make the old bases the same size as the new ones - if you are going to be cork plating them, that is a possible solution as well