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Hi everyone,

I hope I'm asking in the right place but I'm after some suggestions about the best way to display my collection for Armies on Parade. I know it's a long way off but I like to be organised.

Since retaking up the hobby a year ago, I have decided to focus on 'big and cool' models rather than a singular focussed army as I find painting smaller models a bit tedious. I'm much more focussed on unique pieces. As such, all the stuff I'd like to display have different base designs and colous schemes. I'm not the most advanced painter, with a style that is very focussed on clean lines, minimal or no weathering and a rule of simplicty leads to effectiveness.

My potential display list is as follows:
Tau Riptide (Dark red / white / gold accents) and Ghostkeel (WIP - dark blue / light orange / white + gold accents) are both based in quake cannon craters, whereas my Ta'unar Supremacy has more of a simple grey cork rock style to it - I'm most likely going to display these 3 as a trio to really give some impact to the display.
An Imperial Knight with a lava base with mainly black crusted over lava with the colour coming up from underneath, of which the base has no real height to it so as not to detract from the Hawkshroud (bright yellow if you're wondering) colour scheme.
A Wraithknight and a Crimson Hunter (both in Beil-tan deep green with red / white complimentary colours), both based on a simple dusty / low lying rocky planes base in a tone similar to zandari dust.

The only suggestions I've had (unhelpfully) so far is to 'rebase everything' which I don't want to do since each base's colour scheme has been designed to compliment the colours of the model, e.g. dark model, light base.

An idea I have been toying with is to create floating 'islands' of rock out of blue foam, that each model will sit upon, as though they're floating just above the board in a sort of ehtereal display.

Any ideas / suggestions would be great!

Thanks for your time.