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Blogger Andrew Brentna said...

Yup, minus the pennies (skinflint!), that is how I do it!

22 July 2019 at 18:58

Blogger Daniel Moreno said...

This is what i do as well.

22 July 2019 at 19:03

Blogger Drew Jarman said...

I just use non-sterile surgical scalpels and slide the blade under the edge of the figures and prise them off. Once they are off I usually clean off the old basing material from the castings if its particularly nasty and rebase from a standing start as if they were new figures.

22 July 2019 at 19:44

Blogger 3rd95th said...

The pennies are a wizard wheeze!

22 July 2019 at 22:02

Blogger caveadsum1471 said...

I am destined for a particular corner of hell then as I super glue my figures to pennies! However in my defense the super glue is not particularly super being the four for £1 pack from the pound shop,on MDF bases I use PVA and rebasing is much easier!
Best Iain

22 July 2019 at 22:36

Blogger Bill Hupp said...

I have a similar method. The pennies I'll have to try. I sometimes scratch off some of the paint around the base of the mniatures to speed the process. My only caveat is to watch them closely, because figures may fall into the 'drink' if the glue/base completely gives way.

23 July 2019 at 01:52

Blogger Carlo said...

Excellent and very comforting to see that we mass "re-basers" are all typically scathing on araldite and superglue users!

23 July 2019 at 03:59

Blogger Chasseur said...

Me too minus the pennies! :)

23 July 2019 at 04:13

Blogger David said...

Use boiling water, it softens UHU in a few minutes and figures peel away easily.

23 July 2019 at 07:59

Blogger Rob Young said...

My own basing system doesn't employ glue at all! I use ready-to-use filler. As it's designed to stick to walls and things, I've always assumed it would work equally well sticking figures to bases - it does.

My system is to colour the filler pot with paint - originally, the idea was that any chips wouldn't be white - then the filler is smeared over the base. I then push the figures into the filler and carefully(ish) smooth the filler over the base of the figure (the base of the figure I have tried to paint same colour as the filler!)

Originally I had intended to then add detail to thebase as the coloured filler was purely to stop chipslooking white. However, with too many figures to base, I finally just started leaving them as is.

23 July 2019 at 12:07

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Boiling water; that's an interesting tip! I'll try that. Cautiously. :-)


I use wood glue on pennies and when gluing minis to plastic. One wouldn't think it would work, but it does!

23 July 2019 at 17:10

Blogger Der Alte Fritz said...

Thanks for the tip. I will give it a try. I use the freezing method for super glue debasing and found that it works for everything except metal to MDF bases, darn it. Now you give me new hope that I can debond metal to wood.

23 August 2019 at 00:12

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