Puddle Pity Party

I notice a lot of folks borrowing trouble over puddle bases.

Some people really get their girdles in a twist over them, going to all sorts of complicated lengths to hide them. 

• Plastic wood
• Spackle 
• Modge Podge 
• Glue and sand
• Miliput or Green Stuff (!$$)
• Sprue Goo (which I gather is plastic sprue dissolved in plastic cement, can you say "hazardous material"?)
• Clipping them off

Yeah, some old miniatures had pretty hefty bases on them, which required a bit of work to hide the cliff face. 

These 15mm 3d printed figures all have rather thick bases. But I think I hide most of them fairly well. 

Nowadays companies put pretty thin puddle bases on their figures. 

So why do the extra step? It seems to me to be a lot of fuss and bother for minimal return. 

And remember, I'm a proponent of "good basing really helps set the figures off."

Unless I'm going for a sandy base, in which case I'll use glue and sand. Otherwise, I just paint brown and use white glue and flock. Of course I like a coarse, multi-coloured flocking mix, because it's more natural. Tactical positioning of tufts or bits of lichen can hide any remaining edges. 

Glue, sand, paint

Extra faff with sand and flock. Is it worth it? 

I guess I'm just getting an unexpected dividend from my elaborate witch's brew of a flocking mixture?

Sure, sometimes you can still detect an edge. But most of the time? If you're staring that hard to see the puddle base, then the game isn't engaging enough.