James Wappel Miniature Painting: Pieces and parts, plastic and wood.

And those items... in the correct combination, can make bases!

Here's a bit of fun with some left over "punch outs" from Burn in Designs terrain.

When I have to bring the studio "on the road", as I had to this week, the only things I can do effectively are prepping (the 1 inch high pile of metal, resin and plastic shavings can attest to that!) and basing.

Unfortunately, I forgot the plastic bases I was supposed to bring! So I had to resort to using the round punch outs from the paint organizers. They are slightly bigger than the bases I will be attaching them to, but I would normally be using a sculpey chunk for this part anyway!

It was worth a try to see what would happen.

After creating several possible designs, I broke out my "Sci-Fi/Steampunk" basing kit.

Yes, I now must have one, or even two, containers for each type of basing project!

This is a look at most of what's inside. Plastic gears, my home made rivets, plasticard texture, and even some Happy Seppuku moulds!

Here's a closer look at those textures, including the brass etched sheets. Those are usually save for bases that I am casting, so I can get an incredible amount of use from one very expensive sheet.

This is my collection of polystyrene tubes. Half rounds, squares, flats, and much more. I have a number of other basing articles that show how to use these materials.

At this point, I started to glue a number of the polystyrene tubings to the wooden bases.

I added some "conduits" to the cutout area, which always looks neat!

I then trimmed the upper edges with some flat polystyrene, and added my sculpey rivets.

Shifting to the rest of the bases, I gave them a similar treatment. There were no specific miniatures in mind, as these were more experimental than anything else.