Fulfilling BASIUS 4 - COMMUNITY

[SamuraiJack]

 

About this project

Because the best bits of your miniature collection are the bits you sculpt yourself

We want to put a special BASIUS COMMUNITY pad in the hands of every tabletop gaming club in the world

Since launching our first BASIUS Kickstarter project (now known as BASIUS ONE), thousands of gamers have used BASIUS to aid & develop their sculpting skills as well as customise & awesomify* their miniature collections. During this time we have had to move BASIUS out of the garage and into the Industrial Estate!  The BASIUS team has grown since then, and now includes the same family of four sculpting gamers that created BASIUS all those years ago and the family of experienced casters at History Craft.

We now have ten complete collections of 12 themed 50mm square BASIUS pads prototyped. Some are favourites from previous Kickstarter projects, some have been altered and updated, and the rest are brand new. We need your help to fund their creation on an industrial scale!

COMMUNITY

Community is important - in gaming, just like in the rest of life.

We love gaming with our friends in our local geek-hobby store and we initially met many of our friends purely because of that community. Friendly gaming clubs and hobby stores that go out of their way to host gaming communities are awesome, and we want to help to increase that community awesomeness.

Kevin Jackson, from the online community, sent us this photo showing how he based his miniatures using BASIUS

It stands to reason that if a person wants to do something positive for others in life then it's best to do something they are actually good at, and feedback from all four of our previous BASIUS projects has shown us that we have become rather good at BASIUS-ing**.

OUR GOAL

With this focus of community being central to what BASIUS has become, our goal for this latest Kickstarter is quite a big one... Alongside the release of our 10 themed BASIUS collections, we want to provide every tabletop gaming club in the world with a special BASIUS COMMUNITY pad, so that all gamers can use it and help each other to use it, to develop their own and each other's sculpting.

 

WE NEED YOU

It would be awesome if every gamer & hobbyist reading this... in every town worldwide, could pledge to get hold of a pad or two in this kickstarter, make some bases with them, show their sculpting to their gaming club and ask their club chairperson to contact us to get a BASIUS COMMUNITY pad for their club.

Tyler, from the online community, kindly sent us this photo. These base textures are made using just BASIUS, 'Green-Stuff' and paint - thats it.

[Gadgetman!]

I'm in. 

It's going to be difficult to pick which ones I want...

[vutpakdi]

I'm very happy with my pads from the earlier projects, but I have enough of them, so I'm going to pass this time.

 

Probably.

 

Maybe.  

 

Ron

[ced1106]

Bad timing! 

 

Since I mostly paint to advanced tabletop, for most basing, I'm fine with either playground sand, or fine craft sand with ground cork. However, miniatures like indoor wild west and generic fantasy taverns don't work with sand, so I'm thinking Rotting Walkway would work. I guess the four base set is a good price when you consider shipping to the US. So I'm thinking three more bases. I have a wide variety of miniatures, and some do not have an integrated base. I figure these I'd use the base stamps first for. Suggestions appreciated! Also, if you have found interesting uses for the base pads, post!

 

BTW, Anyone know if or why this is a different creator than previous Basius KS? I've send them a PM asking this, so will post when I find out.

EDIT: Read the Basius 3 KS comments and updates. Looks like a company new to KS, although one with experience.

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Warhammer 40K and Sedition Wars : Cork for outdoors, but interested in indoors.

Warhammer Quest: Halls of Tzeenth : May end up basing on pieces of turquoise from Michael's

Edited August 1, 2017 by ced1106

[Talae]

This is a big maybe for me. They are awesome, but I am not sure I need more.

[aku-chan]

I was actually looking to buy some more of their pads a few months ago, sadly none of these contain the treasure pile texture I was looking for

[Auberon]

I picked up a few of these in the previous KS.  They are nice but I barely use what I have, making it difficult to justify purchasing more.

[Gadgetman!]

You're just not using them because you don't have the right textures... yet... 

 

[Findariel]

50mm moulds .. a bit too small for my Arcadia Quest project (65-70mm squares), a pity these are a lot smaller than the previous ones!

 

Are there any plays to add some forest grounds or tree trunks like models? 

[Gadgetman!]

They plan to bring back the large moulds next, according to comments on KS. 

[vutpakdi]

15 hours ago, ced1106 said:

Bad timing! 

 

Since I mostly paint to advanced tabletop, for most basing, I'm fine with either playground sand, or fine craft sand with ground cork. However, miniatures like indoor wild west and generic fantasy taverns don't work with sand, so I'm thinking Rotting Walkway would work. I guess the four base set is a good price when you consider shipping to the US. So I'm thinking three more bases. I have a wide variety of miniatures, and some do not have an integrated base. I figure these I'd use the base stamps first for. Suggestions appreciated! Also, if you have found interesting uses for the base pads, post!

 

BTW, Anyone know if or why this is a different creator than previous Basius KS? I've send them a PM asking this, so will post when I find out.

EDIT: Read the Basius 3 KS comments and updates. Looks like a company new to KS, although one with experience.

 

It might help to look at the threads for the previous Basius projects: quite a few recommendations there.  

 

Based on your description, maybe Watchtower, a dungeon setting one like More Endless Halls, one from Industria, and a brick one from Renasence)?

 

My reading of the description is that the new company is the one that produced the previous project molds (and will produce the current ones) so the original creators are just going to be the lead designer with the new company handling actual production and distribution.

 

Ron

[Ronald X]

I'm looking at "The Stage", which looks like (finally) a nice, flat wooden plank surface.  I've already backed two other Basius campaigns so I have pretty much everything I want at this point. 

 

They're a very nice product, heavy duty.  Takes a little bit of practice, but once you get used to it you will get insanely high quality impressions.  I highly recommend the Endless Halls and similar pads.

 

The ones with extremely fine detail can be tricky, it's difficult to prevent little bits of GS/ProCreate/Etc. from getting caught in the pad  I had some issues with my "Damaged Runes" pad with epoxy getting stuck in the lettering, and sometimes in the moss, even using a release agent.  Bit of a pain to get that out afterwards.  The flagstone-y ones are the easiest to use and work the best.

Edited August 2, 2017 by Ronald X
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[JoeGKushner]

Interesting timing with Gen Con and Bones IV going on.

[Wren]

I would find it very helpful if they would indicate which ones are new, or at least new to the smaller purple format.

[Talae]

Interesting that this one hasn't gotten any updates.

 

Also, I looked over things in more detail. Nothing jumped out at me as needed compared to what I already have. I must have looked too quickly...