Recently I've started basing most of my miniatures on wooden bases instead of metal or plastic ones. Wooden bases take glue and paint very well so my bases don't get chipped. I've had a lot of problems in the past with the edges of my bases chipping even when I sand the sides to get the metal and plastic bases more grit. I've also had sand and even flocking and static grass chip off the tops of minis from time to time when the glue chips off the plastic bases.
For standard 28mm minis I've been buying these 1 inch wooden bases from Woodpile at Hobby Lobby. They come 12 to a package for $2.00 a package. I really like the finished rounded edges. They are about as thick as a Games Workshop round base although not quite so these Reaper Miniatures figures don't gain too much height on them compared to the other miniatures in my collection. The wood grain edges even look kind of nice. I like having some texture to the sides of my bases but I usually don't like to have a lot of texture overlapping onto the sides so these give me a nice amount of texture which as I said earlier also helps hold the paint. I've found them to be far superior in every way to plastic bases.
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