I'm currently clearing my miniature backlog. In fact I've almost cleared it. My last remaining project is three Battletech starter boxes that have unpainted miniatures.
I'll be doing one set as a Sword of Light Regiment, two as 12th Vegan Rangers - Alpha and Beta.
Now onto my issue. The miniatures themselves are OK after a bit of work with a knife, files and putty and I think they'll come out great with a decent paint job. The bases however are nasty. No problem I thought - I'll just cut the bases off and put the mini on a nice hex base which I'll then dress. This would also bring them into line with all my other battletech minis. So I spent a few days cutting the old bases off (and nearly my thumb) with a Stanley knife.
I then went onto Amazon to order my hex bases and couldn't find any. There was an IWM base pack on sale for £40 with a £30 pound shipping charge on top. Not a good price for four bases when I need seventy-two.
No problem I thought. I'll try all my usual gaming sites. One is sure to have hex bases - but they didn't. I can't find BT size hex bases anywhere in Europe. Even in the US such bases seem to be very hard to come by with eye-watering prices and mad shipping costs - if they ship to Europe at all.
Iron wind Metals themselves have the metal 4 hex base pack on their site for $6.95 not including shipping which is not practical with 72 minis to base.
Can anyone point me to a site that produces or sells Battletech sized hex bases at a reasonable price that ship to Europe?