There are many figures that are very unstable and fall easily. For me this is a much annoying situation. When I try to put Timpo figures on the shelf they had the tendency to play dead. Britains in their Deetail series addressed this problem using metal bases for plastic figures. In some cases it is possible to glue the figures on a hood or cardboard base. However there are some figures that I didn’t want to use that method because original bases are engraved. In this post I show a method I used to make bases were figures are inserted and easily removed.
The first thing to do is to cut squares of cardboard. The size of these squares depends on the figures bases. For Timpo figures I used 3.5×3.5cm squares. After that we need two more squares 2x2cm that are cut in two triangles that are glued together. Two of these triangles are glued on opposite sides of the base square. On these triangles we glue another triangle cut from a square 2.8×2.8cm (See photo).
In this photo I show how the figures are inserted in the bases.
These bases were made for the Jean Hofler horses. In these cases I used rectangles in the place of triangles.
Base in the drying process. After that we can paint.
An example of a knight inserted in the cardboard base.