Here you see one of the bases I will be using for the mass-battle portion of my Tékumel stuff. On the right is a 60mm square of 3mm thick plywood, from Litko. On the left is a piece of magnet, also from Litko. The magnet is self-adhesive - one peels off the wrap from the magnet and it sticks to the bottom of the base.
And, the first test subjects (apologies for the quick and poorly-lit pics!):
Ah, my long-suffering First Legion of Ever Present Glory troops! I popped them off their washers in order to glue them to the 60mm square.
The first rank of troops, glued down to the base. With the front rank being ones with leveled spears, I took some care to get this rank far enough back on the base so that the leveled spears will be mostly on the base, mostly...
And this is as far as I got today. Two issues popped up at the same time as I looked at this. One, the miniatures are going to be tightly packed onto these bases - a good thing in my opinion but there is a catch: it would be difficult to terrain the base if I glued all of them onto the base at the same time. So, I will need to start the groundwork and then glue down the front rank, then finish off the base.
Second is a quirk that has lingered in the back of my mind for a while now, and it is the shields. I do not remember where I saw the paint scheme - maybe the official Eureka painted miniatures or another pic on the 'Net, but I painted the trim on the shields red. Now, in the 'canon' army guide to the Tsolyánu forces, it clearly states that the shield trim should be black! Now, my rivet-counting and bricole-gathering days are pretty much over, but I think that the black trim might be better looking, and I am going to go with it. It will not take too long to re-paint each unit as it comes up for rebasing.
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