Moving the Bases/Movement Stand Projects Forward

Earlier this year I talked a little about the new 2mm tall textured bases and a movement stand idea Rob Macfarlane and I had been working on. You can read the article here. 

Since then, we've moved ahead with tooling on the 50mm square stand (which fits 4 25mm round bases) so that we could see it in "real" plastic and play around with it. 

So far so good! Rob designed the tessellated edges so that they interlock both side to side and front to back so no matter what size unit you're trying to build it all fits together tightly and looks more professional. 

As you can see even with the bases in the movement stand the overall height is about the same as a standard round bevel-edged base. I for one hate when movement trays are so tall that they look like giant blocks moving around the battlefield. We want the models to merge with the tabletop so that your games are like moving dioramas. 

The magnet system also makes sure that when you move the stand you don't have figures wobbling and falling all over the place. Another pet peeve of mine when it comes to regular movement trays. 

The next step is to add other sizes. We have a 12 base and a 6 base stand designed but eventually will have lots of different iterations. After that we'll convert some of these for cavalry pill bases too. 

The other thing I'm still experimenting with is the best way to insert the 3mm x 1mm magnets into the bases and stands. And we're looking at a number of storage and transport cases that can leverage this whole magnet/base/movement stand "system". 

As you can see the dual-use bases fit perfectly into these as well so that you can accommodate puddle-base figures. This will let you go quickly from skirmish sized single-figure games to mass battle ranked games using the same figures in your armies. Can our first mass battle games for 28mm be in the works? Hmmmm....

Thanks for reading and Happy Wargaming! 

Tony

(The reason for the two different shades of plastic is that the movement stands came straight from the tool testing press whereas the 2mm tall bases were injected in the UK - in case you were wondering!)