{"id":12307,"date":"2021-08-17T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=12307"},"modified":"2021-08-19T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T10:06:43","slug":"bases-are-back-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/08\/bases-are-back-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Bases Are Back – At Last!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As you’re doubtless aware if you have more than a passing acquaintance with this blog, we’ve been completely out of flying stands for some time. Our normal supplier’s mould had failed, and injection moulds are expensive, specialist items to repair or replace. So we were stuck…<\/p>\n

However, after much searching we’ve finally been able to locate an alternative source of plastic flying bases. They are of a different design, with a circular base rather than a hexagonal one. The post is of a similar height, although fatter, and the peg at the top is of a slightly larger diameter (which means that you will have to open out the cast-in mounting holes at the bottom of our models with a 2mm drill). The plastic they’re made from seems to be a little softer, so they should be less brittle. We’ve already used them to base up a batch of new models and had no problems – in fact the wider post seems to make it a bit easier to balance the model on top while the glue sets. There is a downside – they are more expensive, costing us around twice as much. But at least we finally – finally<\/em> – have something to base your flying models. Our stock arrived on Friday and we’ve wasted no time in getting them on the website.<\/p>\n

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Comparison between the new (left) and old bases.<\/p><\/div>\n

Because they’re dearer, we’ve decided against putting them in fleet packs, as we’d have to recalculate the price of all the packs.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, we also received a restock of one or two codes of dice that had been out of stock, particularly the small (7mm) dice that are so handy as markers, along with a new colour (orange).<\/p>\n

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ACC-025<\/a> – Clear round-base flying stand (x10) – \u00a34.00
\nACC-003O<\/a> – Small six-sided dice – orange (x10) – \u00a31.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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