Hi,
painting up a miniature and holding it on its delivered small base can be very annouying in most of the time, you touch the painted base parts, chip of some paint, the base slips out of your hand and crashes down to the floor with the miniature being broken ... etc. ... there is help!
Here are some of my versions i am praciticing while painting...
Material
After opening a good bottle of wine and before you instinctively ran to the trash to throw away the cork - STOP! ! Collecting them - Why you may ask? Take a cork, a magnet, super glue and some metal:
Composition
Personally, I stick the minis and the magnet with tiny drops of superglue to the cork. Others do it with clay or pattafix. Some others makes the base work as a seperated project and the miniature got drilled down into both of the feet with a pin in it and the pin is brought into the cork with ultimate power of your arm, sure you can also drill there too - here is an example to the last mentioned method - i do this with bigger seized or detailed miniatures - here instead of cork a piece of wood:
Personally, I stick the minis and the magnet with tiny drops of superglue to the cork. Others do it with clay or pattafix. Some others makes the base work as a seperated project and the miniature got drilled down into both of the feet with a pin in it and the pin is brought into the cork with ultimate power of your arm, sure you can also drill there too - here is an example to the last mentioned method - i do this with bigger seized or detailed miniatures - here instead of cork a piece of wood:
Since I usually paint the entire miniature as a complete unit with the base, commonly mostly 28 mm scaled miniatures , here are my version of the fortification with the cork:
Why Magnets?
After collecting some experience on falling miniatures even on a corks and misfortune in constant balancing, which might be up to myself - I got the idea to me to order a big bag full of cheaper magnets and attach them at the bottom. My drawing table has changed by now also become a paradise for the magnetized corks standing Minis. But see for yourself - it is a bit older, and my workbench also changes, but i guess this could be inspirational to some of you:
Lately i am working mostly with miniatures already on top of their bases, so i just grab the wood of the base instead of cork, smaller miniatures still are set on a cork or an old colour can...bigger miniatures like the barbarian guy above are worked with like shown above... it is just up to your imagination - there can be used a lot, thrust me... just get into this McGyvering and let your experimental urge release with full force and have fun without miniatures falling out of your hands... makes you way more cooler while painting!
Added to the Tutorial section :)
Keep on happy painting!
Regards
Roman
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Nice tip for using the magnets. I've re-used my wine corks for years, but never thought of that!
ReplyDeleteYou could also drill a hole in them and pin them on thicker round wood. There are a lot of options you can do this... this is simply mine, but i often use the corks without the magnets, because of lazyness, haha. After the miniatures fell aside i am always remembered about this article, haha...
ReplyDeleteWow, the magnet idea is fantastic. Ima pilfer that right quick! I am just starting to get back to some painting after months of sculpting, some of your articles here are doing a great job of getting me back into the mindset. Fanx!!
ReplyDeleteHey Roman, just wanted to say thanks for all the great resources here! I'm doing a painting workshop series and will be using a lot of your tutorials as a stepping stone...anyways back to this topic...
ReplyDeleteheres another idea for you! i personally use blue-tac or poster putty...an adhesive putty that you can reuse...and put a blob of it on a used GW paint pot and then stick my mini with the base on top of that...works great and the paint pot tends to be more stable than a wine cork
Love the magnet idea, great stuff. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI always glue a coin to the underside of my corks, those magnets are probably stronger, but I can even spend the 5-cents afterwards too :P
ReplyDeleteBut I've recently switched to bottles, I take a 0,33L plastic soda bottle and pin a mini to the cap. a little water in the bottle gives it some weight and liquid greenstuff keeps the cap watertight.
@Mourner
ReplyDeleteThat sounds pretty cool too - thanks for sharing your experience in the jungle!
The 5 Cent thing is ... well, a damn good thought! :D
Walmart has these cheap kid's craft paint sets, whose bottles are great for batch-painting 20+ models at the same time. I use white glue to glue the model to the screw cap, then cut off the miniature with a hobby knife when finally painted. The bottles, of course, don't fall over like cork stoppers can.
ReplyDeleteNice! Thumbs up!
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