Flames of War - Pak40 - Base Comparison

I wanted to show the different look between the standard base you get with the Pak40 and the one I did with Herbs and Pepper.

The picture above shows the gun on the base as you would assemble it normally.

Below is the gun on the thin plastic base with Pepper and Herbs. It is my intention to base my force on these type of bases.

Which do you prefer?

The other item of note here is that I did a press mold of the metal ammunition box and shells to use on my new base. I will show that on the next post.

Vitor

Flames of War - Bases with Plastic Card and Herbs

When I was almost onto the painting stage of my paper card bases I saw, sitting on my desk, a file with a hard plastic cover. I had a second look and discovered it might be perfect, it was sturdy and very thin.

I cut out two sections and followed the same procedure as with the paper bases, namely paint white glue on both sides allow to dry then apply sand on one side. I painted up my sand with a base of Scorched Brown, drybrush with Bestial Brown followed by a drybrush of Bubonic Brown and finally Bleached Bone.

When you compare the two bases side by side you can see that the plastic card base with the sand is as high as the official base without any sand added, that makes the base about 1.5mm lower overall, a big difference in 15mm scale miniatures.

As Flames of War is historical I wanted to make the base look realistic so I decided to experiment with adding herbs to the base. I used a mix of Oregano and Thyme with some Scenic Grass.

I think the end result came out very well and I will be using this method for the rest of my army.

Vitor