My Favorite Trench Crusade Bases

The Marbled Covers Update

It’s been about 48 hours and our book covers are all dry from hanging. You can see how curled up they are—I’ve got to take all these down and stack them in my press with a little jig that evenly disperses the pressure. I’ll leave them sitting in that for a couple of days.

I also finished the actual layout of the book in InDesign for my wife. That’s where most of my time went.

The Base Situation

When I was going to put the Trench Crusade stuff away, I realized what a pain it was going to be without bases. So I pushed them all towards one end of the table.

Then I remembered—when I printed bases for the Trench Pilgrims, I printed four different plates full just because I knew I’d need more eventually. Found them!

Why Legends Games Bases

All my bases are from Legends Games. They have ones with more detail, but I think these are called the plain ones—and you’ve seen how they look on my Trench Pilgrims. In my opinion, they have just enough detail to actually add to the model, but not enough that it takes forever to paint. That’s where I want to be.

I also really like the magnet style. I just think it looks cool.

Printing Tips

The only thing you should know: they don’t come pre-supported. What you do is pop them on the build plate and rotate them 45 degrees so they look like this. Then I just use Lychee auto supports.

I didn’t have any misprints. I printed all the 32mm, the 25mm, 40s, 50s, 60s—nothing failed at 45-degree angle with auto supports.

The Magnetizing Process

I stuck my finger in my old paint water cup and splashed some water on the magnets. The reason? Superglue works better with moisture—it serves as an accelerant.

I have a glove on because for the first time in months I don’t have superglue on my fingers. Just trying to keep it that way a little longer. Honestly at this point it feels weird to not have superglue all over my fingers.

The Metal Tray Secret

When ACR went out of business, I literally bought every one of these metal trays they had for a couple bucks each. They’ve all been used up over the years. My wife always gets mad because I never let her use them for baking—I’ve always used them for moving armies because they’re very ferrous. These things stick way more than even a Magnarack does.

One More Tip

With this much superglue drying and hardening, it’s going to make a lot of that white dust residue. I’m going to put this inside a cardboard box and close it so I don’t get white dust all over.

The Week Ahead

Getting kind of low on magnets, so I’m only doing these tonight. Tomorrow I actually glue the figures to the bases.

Then Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday is all about painting just two models—Silena and my objective for the painting competition on Sunday. Wish me luck!

Transcript

It’s been like 48 hours and our covers are all dry now from hanging. But you can see how curled up they are. So, I got to take all these down and I’m going to stack them. And then I’m I have a an actual press. So, uh I have a little kind of jig thing that I made that’ll evenly disperse [clears throat] the pressure from the press from the press out across all of them.

So, I’ll leave them sitting in that for a couple of days. Uh I finished I also finished the actual layout of the book in in design for my wife. So, that’s pretty cool. That’s where most of my time went. But then I was when I was going to put the trench crusade stuff away uh when I realized how much of a pain in the ass it was going to be uh to put them away without bases.

So I just kind of pushed them all towards one end of the table. But now I was I realized that when I printed bases for the trench pilgrims that I just printed like four different plates full of just bases cuz I knew I was going to need more eventually. So I found them. Uh I’ve got a bunch of these bases. I need to magnetize them and then glue all my dudes to them.

So, that’s going to be my hobby for today. And then after tonight, the rest of the week is just painting Silena and my objective because I got to have that ready for Sunday. My my arm is not going to be painted, but at least I’m hoping I’ll have that one character for the the painting competition of characters. And first, I got to magnetize them real quick. Uh so, I just have a smaller one of these trays.

I have the bigger one over there that I use for the the marbling. When ACR went out of business, I literally bought like every one of these kind of trays they had for like a couple bucks each. And uh they’ve all been like used up over the years. But I don’t My wife always gets mad cuz I never let her let her use them for baking. I’ve always used them for uh moving my armies cuz they’re they’re very ferris.

Like these things stick. They stick way more than even like a Magnarack does. So I’m going to magnetize these real quick and see how many I got. All my bases are from Legends Games and they have ones that have more detail. I think these are called the plain ones and you’ve seen how they look on my trench pilgrim.

And here they are painted up. You know, in my opinion, they have just enough detail that it makes the base actually like add to the model, but not enough that it takes a ton of time to paint, which is where I want to be. I also really like the magnet style. Um, I don’t know. I just think it looks cool.

So, I put I’ll put a bunch of these up. And also, uh, the only, and it’s not really a complaint, uh, just something you should know, they don’t come pre-supported, but what you do, they they pop on the build plate like this. You rotate them 45° or actually 45°. So, they kind of look like this. And then I just use Lyche auto supports.

And I didn’t have any misprints. So, I printed all the 32 mm. I painted the 25 mm. I painted 40s, 50s, 60s. Nothing failed at again 45° angle and auto.

So, all right, let me get a bunch of >> So, I uh I just stuck my finger in my old paint water cup and splashed some water on them. And the reason I do that is just because it it uh serves as an accelerant for the superglue. Superglue works better if it has moisture. And I have a glove on because for the first time in months I don’t have super glue on my fingers. So I was just trying to keep it that way for a little bit longer.

And that one didn’t pop in there. So I just got to push it down to correct it. Don’t have anything in frame. Uh, and the benefit of doing it this way is I can be, especially with the glove on, is I can slam all these in and then I’ll go back over and push the super glue that’s smooshed up over the magnet on top of it to just help make a better seal. Whoa, getting crazy over here.

First batch good to go. And even with the glove on this hand, I got super glue on the glove that’s holding or I got super glue on the hand that’s holding my phone. So, it’s just uh I just honestly at this point it feels weird to not have super glue all over my fingers. One more tip. With this much superglue uh drying and hardening, it’s going to make a lot of that white dust, that residue, whatever that is.

So, I’m going to actually go put this inside the cardboard box and close the cardboard box so I don’t get white dust all over. >> Getting kind of low on magnets, so I think I’m only going to do those tonight and wait and see just how many I’ll actually end up needing tomorrow. But I have I’ve got another I have a lot of bases. I did not realize I got another 12 32 millimeters and another five uh little guys, but I don’t think I’m I think I think I’m good. So, I’m going to hold up.

I only have a little bit of magnets left and I don’t want to have to buy more since I’m so close to being done building everything. Uh so, going to just make sure I’m good before I do anymore. Going to go get some rest. Wake up tomorrow. And tomorrow I actually glue the figures to the bases.

But then tomorrow’s Wednesday. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday is all about just painting two models. Two models the rest of the week. It’s all I got to do. Wish me luck.