I’ve been thinking that I will rebase my Chaos Dwarf army. When GW get round to redoing them if they look good I will have an awesome looking army if I am prepared.
So I’ve been thinking ahead, and trying to decide what sort of bases I would like.
I’ve narrowed it down to these three.
So which one do you prefer and why? Ignore the painting on these. Whichever one I do the ‘sand’ on them would be painted as hot ashes and the rest as grey rock.
Bear in mind as well that I’ll be damned if I’m paying £1 per base (more or less) for a whole army, so I’ll be resin casting any of these if I buy them. Another important thing to note is that number 2 is actually 25mm bases, so I would be trying to sculpt something myself as close as I could to that for casting (or buy some and cut them down).
I like #1 because it will be nice and flat, so the models will sit easily with no work. Same for #3. #2 has quite a nice chaos theme to it, and if I went with that I could try and make it easier for models to stand on. #3 has a cool mystical temple feel to it.
Wow why are there so many votes for number 2? It just doesnt make sense to use them. They would be an absolute nightmare to rank up probably and i dont think the models would look good on them at all and thats not what i imagine the dark lands to look like. If they were that rugged i doubt even chaos dwarfs would live there. Number 3 would be good for character models like Sorcerors because it kind of looks like its in some kind of shrine surrounded by the skulls of sacrifices.
I think that No. 2 would be best for display bases only - as ranking those puppies up would be a nightmare - not to mention the pain in the tonsils that it would be to stick a units worth of troops to them and the difficulty of matching this for Bull Centaurs, monsters and warmachines.
No.1 would look suitable for any dwarfs - especially for our western kin.
No. 3 gets my vote as the chaos symbols emphasize the different nature of this army
I agree though that they would be harder to rank if I am scaling them down to 20mm. I’ve found out they are solid resin, so that would not be easy at all.
I really like no.2 but this seems better suited for a daemon army. I voted 3 because you can’t go wrong with skulls and broken tiles in the plains of zharr.
It would be a lot of work to saw/file them down to 20mm and still look ok even if I am recasting, so it’s something I would need to really think about.
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