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MortiS-the-Lost on
Sep 09, 2013; 11:54pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/A-Wood-Elf-and-a-Shadow-tp7580286p7580288.html
Sjeng wrote
You[r] pictures are a bit grainy
Yea the furniture at my house was moved around in the last few weeks, so I've lost the 'sweet spot' of lighting I'd normally take my photos in, still not so bad.
Sjeng wrote
I also made a card for these ghosts for HQ once
Come to think of it, I believe I may have HQ style rules for all the monsters from the D&D boardgame written down somewhere - I'll see about digging them out for you all
Sjeng wrote
Don't you get annoyed with having so many different bases though? I only use square bases, and that annoys me as they aren't all the same shape. But round too?

Personally I think miniatures look best on round bases but I've got so many different makes of miniatures it's not always possible have them on the same style bases due to all kinds of issues (hard to remove integral bases, unusual size or shaped miniatures and so on ), so over all I just put miniatures on whatever base they fit best on and try to keep some consistency between creatures of the same type whenever possible.
Most miniatures I will mount on a round base with a layer of textured plasticard added to the surface for a little detail. If there turns out to be a large empty space I sometimes add a skull, discarded weapon, loose stone or other small detail piece to the base to aesthetically balance it, but nothing too distracting from the miniature.
However if a miniature has an integral base I will mount it on top of a plastic base and then use Green-Stuff and/or other materials to extend the details of the integral base outwards the meet the edge of the plastic base.
Or in some special cases (when it's easy) I will put the effort in to remove the integral base and do a complete re-basing
Spell Casters I nearly always base on Hexagonal Bases, although I'm not sure the reason behind it, it feels right and looks good.
In the case of the Shadow (The Shadow? -
The Shadow - The Shadow!) above it was pretty much just laziness on my part, normally I'd have gone to the effort of re-basing the miniature or at the very least detailing the integral base in some way, but I just left it as is … ah well - maybe next time
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~The ravings of a single mad Goblin is bad enough, but such a power-hungry, malice-filled creature as Mortis can never hope to be understood~