Heirophant base

[kabelguy]

I am nearing the completion of my Heirophant. I want to build or buy a base for him. What companies make nice bases that are large enough for this model? Those who have built their own bases, what have you made them out of and how big please ?

[rpricew]

I don't know about companies that make bases for one, but I just took a piece of particle board and cut it to be slightly larger than the legs of the Hierophant. It's in the shape of a soft capital letter "I" to allow me to move him in and out of terrain easier. We play with a lot of terrain and having him on a base that is perfectly square or oval seems to hurt moving him around.

Arts and craft stores have medallions that you could use as award plaques that are about the right size. They are unfinished wood with beveled edges that you can paint and model up to represent a nice base. They are about 1.25 cm thick.

OTOH, having a square or oval base, allows him to make base contact with more enemy troops, which is how you determine who he can hit in CC or if he wants to do a stomp attack.

I would post up pics, but it's unfinished and I recently pulled my off the base to redo it, and just have him sitting on a piece of 2x4 lumber (with a rod)

[swarm492]

I buit my own, everything I needed I got from ebay. The base was just to add support not add a physical representation of what would count as a hit from a marker. I used a 120mm base and a clear acrilic rod mounted in the base and the hierophants underbelly. I did this becasue even pinned I wanted 0 strain on the minis legs, the rod raises the hierophant so the tips of its legs hover about a third of an inch off the ground. I have used her a few times and noone has had a problem with the slight height difference or my base.

[Elof Valantor]

I've never got around to actually even planning a base for my 'phant, but I always liked the idea of getting one of those GW ruins and hacking (or green-stuffing) the top of it so that it fits snug into the 'phants underbelly. Then decorate the base with foliage, alien growths, gaunts, dead or dying marines, that sort of thing.

Would be incredible... if only I could be bothered (and had the skill!).

[scootare]

I have three. Wierdly enough the best base I have found from them is a.....
Wooden unpainted trophy plaque from Michaels. They have all sorts of sizes and they are think and sturdy....Wrong Shaped base but no one has every complained about my square base on my phants.....

[scootare]

Ohh also about the wooden trpohy bases...derp.
They are think enough to put a copper rod into and shove up her arse.
Which is absolutley mandatory for that model. Its about 3 inches think wood.

[jarog]

Kabelguy maybe try MicroArt studio?? They have quite high prices but maybe they would build you a base for your Hierophant.


microartstudio.com/index.php

If you want, try to contact them for commision work

[ferro]

IIRC, you can choose to either use a physical base, or a counts-as base using the four feet to make a square base. I chose to make a smaller round base out of plywood, because (as others have mentioned above) if you actually have a full size base under that guy you will have a LOT of difficulty moving him around the table. The base is more for support than anything else, I still choose to use the virtual base of the square defined by his feet.

The most challenging and unnerving part of basing a heirophant is drilling into the underbelly to insert a rod. Good luck, and steady hands!

[kabelguy]

thanks all! I Will check out Michael's and see what fits. I do not want to permanently attach him to the wood base - i will probably just dig out some holes for his toes to stick in. This will support him and keep in from sliding around on the base. I mi hgt do the rod thing too to keep all the weight off the legs. I used The glue "Beast of War" John had suggested since he claims it is actually stronger than the reason the model is made out of. Hopefully this will work.