Fast and Cheap Ship Base
Since I built the Shapeways Niagra, I wanted to create a base for it that looked like the SOG bases instead of having to "borrow" a base from one of my other ships when I wanted to sail her. So, I looked around for ship bases that were 2" x 3" rectangular plastic bases for miniatures. There aren't any. But there are 50mm x 75mm bases, and they're pretty cheap.
I found these on eBay: WARHAMMER BITS - WARRIORS OF CHAOS SKULLCRUSHERS - BASES 3x (50mm x 75mm) for about $7.50 shipped
These are the right size but they taper inward to the top so that the top is the exact same size as the plastic window and ship card. So, what I did was flip one over and the bottom of the base actually perfectly fits the window and ship card, once you cut off the two circular bits in the middle. They also were nice enough to put an indention smack dab in the middle so I could drill a hole just big enough to fit the peg on the bottom of the ships.
Now, this base is about half the height of the SOG bases, so what I did was glue two of the bases back to back and drilled a hole through the middle of them. This pic shows the two bases together.
This pic shows where the two circular bits I cut off with an X-Acto. the two support strips running left and right are recessed just enough to accommodate a clear window and ship card.
The next thing to do was find a piece of clear plastic I could cut to size using a cutting board. The clear plastic covering every piece of crap hanging from a hook in Walmart works perfect, and you can cut it with scissors if you don't have a cutting board.
Put them all together and violá:
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