Square Base Adaptors

 Finally! I managed to find some cheap adaptors to extend the square bases on some of my finished Warhammer miniatures. Most of my old WFB miniatures are on either 20mm or 25mm bases respectively. And since The Old World launched last year (2024) a good portion of the older Warhammer miniatures have had their bases increased by one stage. Part of the reason I have started new armies (Dwarfs, Beastmen and Vampire Counts) is because I did not have the heart to rebase my Orc, High Elf and Empire miniatures. Or the time to do it even if I wanted to. 

The adaptors arrive. These are the 25mm ones.

Back when Warhammer 40k extended the round Space Marine bases from 25mm to 32mm,  it seemed that 3rd parties were quick to make adaptors or extenders for them. The first ones  I bought were made from resign and some of the later ones were plastic. But when The Old World did it's big base refresh it seemed to take a bit longer for these cheap and simple adaptors to show up.  In the interim I found some plastic ones but they were over priced for what they were. Or the cheap ones I found were MDF,  and that's a material I'm skeptical about using for this purpose. Recently, I found a seller on eBay that sells both 20mm-25mm square adaptors and 25mm-30mm square adaptors. They're plastic (a major plus!) and fairly priced. 

On the day they arrived in my mailbox I was eager to try them out.  I wanted to update one of my older miniatures so I went with a wizard who was the last model I had painted for my High Elves back in the WFB days.

Elven Wizard on 20mm base. 

It wasn't too difficult working the adaptor into place, and once I was satisfied with the dry fitting, I applied some superglue to make the bond permanent. 

Elven wizard, now with a 25mm base.

Then I added some grit and painted it to match the existing base. I followed that up with a grass tufts and a few fallen leaves. 

Flocked and painted. 

And yes, I chose to stick with a Goblin Green base. My old High Elves have Goblin Green bases, and even though this project could be a good opportunity to depart from that tradition, I just feel that the Goblin Green just works well with the High Elves. 

Anyway,  I'm pleased with this product so far and I am very likely to get more!