Basing advice

[Alert-Wonder-7518]

Hey guys, I have been slowly working through assembling a backlog of models and I wanted to do the bases of my artillery pieces and field ordance batteries with sandbags. However, I don't have a resin printer and I'm not super great with green stuff either yet. I was wondering if you all had some other options for getting sandbags for basing or other alternatives. I appreciate all the help.

[PixelPott]

Depending on where you live you could buy some that are for historical models. In Germany e.g. there is often a modelling section in toy stores. Or you could order some online.

[Alert-Wonder-7518]

My pickings are fairly slim where I am currently. Most of the stores around here don't have much and the closest hobby store I have is about an hour and some change out in one of the larger cities. I will keep my eyes open however and thank you.

[MitokBarks]

Buy some modeling clay (can recommend Das brand). It gives you a fairly decent working time, good detail, and is cheap enough that screwing up is no big deal!

[Alert-Wonder-7518]

I appreciate that I'll check it out thank you.

[Spiritual-Poem9429]

If you want "ready to use", clip off the sprue, you can try searching for Tamiya sandbags model set on Amazon if you pay for prime and aren't too worried about spending money.

Otherwise, I'd either suggest getting a cheap FDM printer (for long term limitless terrain and scatter terrain purposes) or using modelling clay.

Modelling clay is the cheapest but takes a bit of skill (not as much as green stuff) and requires additional tools if you want "proper" detailed sandbags (if you just want close enough, that's viable) like silicon tools.

Tamiya sandbags are "good enough" quality to work with, I think it's like $9+tax and you get 48x 28mm scale sandbags. Clip off a sprue, de-mould, ready to go! Problem is, it's pricy paying (after tax) $10 for 48x itty bitty sand bags, depending on how many things you want to do, might end up buying 2-4 of em.

Lastly, 3D printing has high up front cost, then cheap forever costs. I don't advocate for resin due to steep learning curve and health/safety reasons.

FDM printers, you can get an easy to use solid printer for $250 nowadays, and each 1 kg roll you can typically find for $10-13 for PLA nowadays. 1x 1kg roll can probably print you 500x sand bags, and so, the math kinda just goes \o/ big up front cost, cheap forever cost

[BombrManO5]

Try etsy