One, two, three, four, five... wonder what bad lizards will settle there...
Another not-really-a-review review of some bases from Micro Art Studio. Yesterday we already had a 60mm Dreadnought base, but the lot I acquired also included five 25mm Jungle Bases. Again I can’t really say anything about the way they are usually delivered (in blisters, I think, and 5 at a time), but then one has to take what one gets on eBay…
They tell me the jungles of Lustria are wild... still they can be carried around in 25x25 mm pieces...
Corresponding with the “jungle”-theme, those bases are overcrowded with all kind of roots, plants and some stone fragments of ancient “jungle” civilizations. Actually this will make placing a miniature on them quite hard, at least in some believable way. I guess I will have to actually cut down some of the decoration to have the feet of my miniatures sink into the vegetation – and to have a stable connection between base and miniature, too.
But this is not meant to sound as a critique – I think the sculpting of those bases is splendid, they do have a lot of character and details. I really like them.
Yes, that's possibly the only miscast on those bases... but, you know, it might just have been some hungry resin-devouring creature...
Again, the quality of the casting is superb. I found only one air bubble on the visible surface. It has cut a small hole on one of the leaves of this base. It can be seen if you point it out (it’s on the second leaf on the bottom rim of this base), but I think after painting it up, it will be barely visible – after all, it could just have been some snail who had some early dinner on this leaf…
Apart from that there were no mold lines, no miscasts, no air bubbles. You can really use those (almost) right out of the blister…
No problem with air bubbles, though... they are all on the bottom, and who ever looks there? Makes no sense to try peeping under some Lizardman's skirt...
As is customary with Micro Art, the back of the bases are smoothed flat. There are some minor bubbles here, but as nobody can see them, who cares?
There is one problem I have with such Micro Art Bases on a general level, though – you cannot choose which ones you get. As you can see, there are 12 different designs, but they are sold randomly. Of course in my case, it was some eBay bargain anyway, but even if I order directly from Micro Art, there is no guarantee, I would get the bases that I think would look best and that’s sad…
As for using them, I guess I will put two of those bases beneath my old (and recently de-painted) pewter Saurus Oldbloods and use up the other two for some different Saurus miniatures. I might even end up buying some more – not to outfit whole regiments (I think that would be too expensive and too dull with all the iterations of the same designs… besides I DO like decorating bases), but to make some command groups or special characters stand apart from the crowd…
Next time I will present you the last three bases I bought that time – that time we’ll stay in Poland, but change from Gdynia to Elblag, since those are from Scibor… see you there!
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