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So with the advent of the rules changes, It looks like I need to change the bases my old metal terminators are one to the new 40mm bases. Going from the old slotta base to a flat 40mm seems like a big task. How do you guys accomplish this? Do you slice up the base to make room for the metal tabs? Do you slice off the metal tabs and glue the metal feet to the base?

I'm considering slicing off the tabs and epoxying the feet to the base. Super glue just doesn't seem to hold the bulky model very well without gobbing it on.

Yes 40MM.

You are note technically forced to change them to new bases BUT if you want to be current, I could remove them from the previous base and remove the tab. Then glue the feet to the new base. It would be quite dangerous to cut out a new slot and likely to ruin the base.

Give the base a light sanding. Cut off the metal tabs, and give the feet a proper sanding as well with a suitable metal file (any small hobby metal file will work).

Gel super-glue will work fine (Loctite is suggested), but epoxy won't hurt if you're wanting to do that. Extremely simple to do - but in your case, painting/detailing the base without getting paint on your terminators would be the only issue.

Metal figures stick fine to plastic if you make sure to sand/file flat the parts you're joining.



Metal terminators on 30mm plastic Renedra bases - superglued.

PS: Unless you're attending tournaments, you do not have to upgrade your bases. It doesn't make much difference.

I add a brass rod as well, drill up from the bottom of the new base up into the foot (just one side) to add some strength.

Hope that helps,

CB

My plastic termies are staying on the 25mm slottas, the feet stick over the edge and they look naff but trying to split poly cement will most likely result with snapped ankles

Thanks guys!

Also yes, I attended tournaments kind of regularly. I don't always use my terms but I'd like the option to.

Alternative, glue the small base onto a 32 mm base and then that onto a 40mm base. Paint the 3 levels bluish bright colours that converge into a white spiny in the middle. Now you have terminators on their teleportarium platforms ready to beam into combat.

Base adaptors!

Dwro1234 wrote:
Alternative, glue the small base onto a 32 mm base and then that onto a 40mm base. Paint the 3 levels bluish bright colours that converge into a white spiny in the middle. Now you have terminators on their teleportarium platforms ready to beam into combat.

That is a most excellent idea, failing that base adapters could work

For my old termies I just broke off the old bases. Ones that were difficult I just used clippers to remove them.

I’d then clip off the slotta part and file the feet flat. I pinned each leg and put them onto the base with the pins.

For the plastic termies I cut away the base rim with a dremel tool cut off disc. Then filed the bottom flat and glued it to a 40mm and added basic stuff to cover up the old base.

Dwro1234 wrote:
Alternative, glue the small base onto a 32 mm base and then that onto a 40mm base. Paint the 3 levels bluish bright colours that converge into a white spiny in the middle. Now you have terminators on their teleportarium platforms ready to beam into combat.

Excellent idea.

Personally, I wouldn't give anyone issues for not rebasing old models. I'd still play them without complaint.
However, if we were more acquainted, I might give you flak about it in jest. But, eventually I might offer to rebase them myself as it would probably get to my OCD.

Even just slapping them onto a 40mm base without removing the 25mm is better than leaving them on the 25mm. And it takes zero skill to do, thus zero excuse.

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The old Terminators may be smaller than the new ones, but even they were bulging over those 25mm bases.
They do look much better on 40mm.


Interestingly, these 40mm bases I got off ebay have a stamped out area to put in slot-models. Are these not the default bases?


Just cut lightly along that prepared line and you can easily fit in the Terminator's slot.
As the Terminator models are wider than the slot (their feet cover more area on both sides), you don't have to be precise.

They're not GW bases, and GW bases don't have such a slot. I have some of those pictured bases and they are well designed.

Yep, all GW bases have GW and a year on the bottom - and nont have that kind of structure that I've seen. Those look better.

Looks like Kromlech and a few other companies sell 40mm with slots. I might just have to get those. Especially since my dudes are already painted and based. The less I have to handle them the better.

Captain Brown wrote:
I add a brass rod as well, drill up from the bottom of the new base up into the foot (just one side) to add some strength.

Hope that helps,

CB

I've based plenty of metal Space Marines with the slotta tab removed, and none of them have ever needed pinning. Plastic bases are so thin anyway that there's nothing really for the pin to engage with.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:

Captain Brown wrote:
I add a brass rod as well, drill up from the bottom of the new base up into the foot (just one side) to add some strength.

Hope that helps,

CB

I've based plenty of metal Space Marines with the slotta tab removed, and none of them have ever needed pinning. Plastic bases are so thin anyway that there's nothing really for the pin to engage with.

I was going to say the same. If you file the feet flat, there's plenty for the glue to adhere to. This is exactly what I did with my metal termies and they haven't budged from the bases since I did it.