Flying Bases and Cardboard Aircraft

The base has been been painted using Humbrol Satin 131 Green and Matt 89 for the counter edging and the pole. The base the counter is on has a hole on the underside and is not fixed in place

There is enough room to have two dice frames along the rear edge if required - these are the 7mm versions from Warbases

The view from the rear. The dice frame will be used to indicate the altitude.

Whilst waiting for some paintwork to dry with the ironclads I took the opportunity to revisit the idea I had for flying bases for cardboard counters. The pictures above are very much in the experimental stage but I really think that there is a lot of mileage with this idea!

The next step will be to stick all the Dawn Patrol counters to the 1” square bases I have with the central hole. The counters are very slightly larger than the Warbases 1” counters so a degree of careful trimming is needed to make sure that the sides are flush.

I am undecided about the final finish for the base as the plain green looks, well, plain and green - perhaps some light texturing may help. All the paint needs a further coat and varnishing but his far I am pretty happy with the concept. As mentioned previously I need to get a ‘sea’ set of flying bases and am now also thinking about a ‘desert’ set.

Dead chuffed with these and they are dead simple to make!