Without wanting to sound like a Mantic Fanboy (whenever someone says that, it usually means "Brace for Fanboy") but I recently bought and painted some Mantic Skeletons. Now I'm not going to show off or brag about my painting of them because frankly it's mediocre. However something I've yet to see on the internet is an awesome idea for making movement trays; because the edges of the Mantic Bases are straight they can be glued together, like so:
As you can see the way the models come pre-mounted on their own little bases, because of this we can create blocks of the 20mm bases and still be able to remove the models when they (inevitably) die. You'll also be able to see that I've colour coded/numbered the bases but this is only because I'm really bad at posing things well enough to make them fit into a unit.
Basing is easy too! Simply paint the damn thing brown, fill the holes with Blu-Tac and glue that thing to kingdom come, then pour sand over it, paint it, take the Blu-Tac out and Voila! Movement tray that doesn't look awful.
It's also best to attach your bases to a little bit of plasticard for that extra bit of stability.
And finally some pictures of the finished things, not too shabby I don't think.
That's it folks, a simple (and probably unnecessary) guide on making movement trays out of Mantic Bases with just a little bit of plasticard, sand and glue.
